Whither CERNLIB (, Paw, Geant3.21) in Debian? RFA / future plans

2008-09-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-science that PAW and friends are slated for doom. In the meantime, prospective maintainers may want to take a look at my CERNLIB on Debian pages at http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/cernlib/ and also at the source packages (prepare to be horrified). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
has Ruby bindings but I'm not familiar with that language. If Christian Holm (the package maintainer) is around on this mailing list, he might have more to say about ROOT. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-07 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, from which you can then create an istringstream. You can read numbers from an istringstream the same way as from cin with operators, so the amount of parsing should be minimal (as long as the file is not corrupt). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org

Re: how th generate like oficial site from packages (or CD's)

2008-04-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
] instead near the top of that page. [1] http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286 best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian website broken ???

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the pages for stable that are broken. Is it possible this is just a temporary state while p.d.o is in the process of being updated? I think it gets updated every 24 hours but I don't know the exact times at which this happens. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http

Re: /etc/ld.so.conf for dpkg-buildpackage issue

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, since IIRC fakeroot doesn't work there and they actually build things using sudo. Hope this helps, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: Changelogs on packages.debian.org

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
? I verified the problem, and submitted it as a bug [1] against the www.debian.org pseudopackage [2], so hopefully soon. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/399236 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/www.debian.org regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
team or file a severity grave bug in the Debian BTS! best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: tremendous size for .xsession-errors

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Heads up - mplayer now in Sid!

2006-10-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
: http://wiki.debian.org/MPlayer http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00915.html (n.b. I have absolutely nothing to do with mplayer in any way, I just thought this would be interesting news for debian-user) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty

Re: apt bug 388708

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, this should be a direct link to the .deb file you need: http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/07/28/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.6.45_i386.deb Hoping this helps. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University

Re: modern Gnucash still needs libglib1.2?

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
or indirectly) against two different ABI versions of libglib? Or does glib use symbol versioning to prevent that? -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
know how well things will work.) ... and then uninstalling all the xserver-xorg-* packages except the ones appropriate to his system. Note, I haven't at all tested this suggestion, so caveat emptor. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

RE: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
! And if you change your hardware in the future, remember that you may need to install new -video-something and/or -input-something packages to suit. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public

Re: apt bug 388708

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
uploaded to experimental with this bug fixed, and you may want to test that version of the package. I hope this bugfix can make it into Etch! regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
things ^^ ITYM recommends being downloaded. So checkout the aptitude options to turn this off and it will install less things. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID

Re: aptitude update and pdiff files

2006-09-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
if it doesn't already exist) to turn off pdiffs: Acquire::PDiffs false; I guess you can put it in a separate file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ instead if that directory exists on your system. Not sure why this isn't in the apt.conf(5) man page; maybe because it was just added recently. regards, -- Kevin B

Re: How to list all the non-free packages installed

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, or `experimental'? This one can't be done by grep-status et al because information about the distribution from which the package came isn't provided in dpkg's status file. But apt-show-versions can help. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

Re: xlibs in etch

2006-08-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to build the vlc source package from Sid on your Etch machine, and (if successful) install the resulting binary debs. Probably (b), if it works, or (c) if not, is the best idea since you already have everything else working well. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics

Re: Problem with: #include X11/Xlib.h

2006-08-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
installed' -s Package,Version regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Problem with: #include X11/Xlib.h

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
if these suggestions don't help. It might also be helpful if you posted the problematic file cube.cpp. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: Problem with: #include X11/Xlib.h

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
gustavo halperin wrote: Kevin B. McCarty wrote: The _X_SENTINEL macro is defined in /usr/include/X11/Xfuncproto.h -- try installing the latest version of the x11proto-core-dev package that supplies this file. (Should be version 7.0.4-3 in Sid or Etch.) OK, I'm using Debian Sarge version

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
software! I am looking software which is around it, not necessary having all that properies. thanks for help best regards Maybe try asking on the debian-science list? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: apt-get install: unmet dependencies

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to include the same file without taking special measures. The bug would be in either sendmail-bin or fastforward. I can't find fastforward listed in the Debian package database -- is it an unofficial package? -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

Re: Stupid shell script question about read [SOLVED]

2006-03-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the above! (N.B. every method above still needs the -r flag to read if the input might contain backslashes.) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton

Re: printing problem

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-03-01, 12:54:20 (-0500) skrifaði Kevin B. McCarty: Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Hi again, after trying a few stuff out I think that when I try to print using lp -dojs (or lpr -Pojs, where ojs is the name of the printer queue I set up for the printer

Stupid shell script question about read

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
and dash behave like bash in this respect, so I guess that this is not a bug, and that what zsh does is actually an extension. So, what is the correct POSIX-compatible way to get read to work as I want? Thanks in advance, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http

Re: printing problem

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/cupsys restart) ? /usr/bin/lpr is the version of lpr in the cupsys-bsd package, right? (Run dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr to check) Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: bug with the mailing list archive

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
#00372 regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Sometimes nothing happens when printing to network printers

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
.lpoptions. Maybe this will help you? Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
together the clues correctly, setting this macro is equivalent to the -std=c99 option. See the comment at the top of /usr/include/features.h (after the copyright blurb) for more information. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty

Re: Inverse and Forward Search : This is not what I expected in TeTeX

2006-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
compiled version from upstream, probably you should send the bug report directly to the upstream TeTeX authors. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton

Re: install krita. Broken pipe. Do I need a plumber?

2006-02-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
experimental, it's probably the one at fault. Please file a bug against it. In the meantime, to work around the problem, you can run dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/krita_*.deb to tell dpkg that you want it to overwrite the common file instead of griping about it. regards, -- Kevin B

Re: gnome firefox thunderbird

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
( ) the most recent tab/window Sounds like you want the first of these options. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. On the other hand, aptitude doesn't have the functionality of (for instance) apt-get source or apt-get build-dep. I think you can continue using apt-cache policy without any worry that it will go away soon. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
package should I file the bug report? I'd file it against x-window-system-core (with severity minor or wishlist, since nothing is really broken by the existing situation). The xfonts-*dpi descriptions are true enough, you only need one of the sets of fonts installed. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty

Re: Where are GTK devel packages?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
can install mplayer-586 or mplayer-k6 instead of mplayer-386 to get a version more optimized for your system, depending on your CPU.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
checking into this, I found that the reportbug in sid actually crashes when one runs reportbug x-window-system-core. Just filed as #345699. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
into Debian, but instead would create a geant4-data-installer package in contrib that downloaded them from CERN's web site - let CERN pay for the bandwidth! Happy Holidays to all, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University

Re: illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the entry ALL, all other hosts will be rejected. The man page for hosts_access(5) has more information. By the way, you can replace the daemon name sshd with ALL in both config files, to make this behavior occur for all daemons on the server that use tcpwrappers. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty

Warning: Ending maintenance of my Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird backports to Sarge

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, run this command: aptitude update apt-show-versions -i I have already made my backported packages inaccessible, so you will now be on track to install additional security updates from Debian down the road. My apologies for the inconvenience. regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xserver-xfree86 and xserver-xorg problem

2005-09-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
James Vahn wrote: Kevin B. McCarty wrote: For now is right. This is probably not such a good idea in the long run. If you are running etch or sid (which I assume you are, otherwise you wouldn't need snapshot.debian.net to get XFree86) then you won't get any security fixes for XFree86. Better

Re: Downgrading a system to a particular distribution

2005-09-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-- it's probably easier. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: how to add java support to mozilla in woody

2005-09-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is true the other way around. I don't have any better suggestions, though, so he may as well try it. Maybe he can find a sufficiently old JRE? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID

Re: how to add java support to mozilla in woody

2005-09-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
via java-package. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: xserver-xfree86 and xserver-xorg problem

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the following to sources.list instead: deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free This way your XFree86 packages will at least get security fixes for the lifetime of Sarge. There was one just a week ago: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-816 regards, -- Kevin B

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Bob Proulx wrote: Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink It would be a lot easier to use the -L option and do it in one command

Request: Anyone able to test printing with CUPS on *woody*?

2005-09-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
PostScript files), please email me privately for further details. Thanks, - -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
David E. Fox wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:44:15 -0400 Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: benjo[1]:~% ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2005-09-09 10:05 /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz - /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz

Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
haven't modified the scripts in /etc/cron.daily. Running /etc/cron.daily/man-db directly (as root) produces no output. Please CC replies to me as I'm not subscribed. Thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University

Re: debconf error

2005-08-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
there is work on dpkg ongoing that will eventually fix this deficiency. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird...

2005-08-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, - -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

Re: x-windows-system package

2005-07-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
maintains the X system, or whatever)? You can file a bug (severity wishlist if it's a suggestion) against one of the X-related packages, or you could directly mail debian-x@lists.debian.org which is where all X-related bug reports go anyway. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help/Question: Can't get xlibs package to install all of it's files

2005-07-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
: dpkg --force-confmiss --install xlibs_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_all.deb regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: undefined reference to 'something'

2005-07-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
declare the functions. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: undefined reference to 'something'

2005-07-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
6.13 of this web page I found via Google looks like it might be helpful: http://www.dcsc.sdu.dk/docs/PGI/pgiws_ug/pgiug_07.htm#Heading97 The table of contents for the page is here: http://www.dcsc.sdu.dk/docs/PGI/pgiws_ug/pgiug_.htm Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Sarge: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html as aptitude is smarter about dependencies than apt-get. (It also has the nice feature of remembering which packages were installed only in order to fulfill dependencies.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

Re: Am I hacked?

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
been trojanned. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
of the library is no longer available for Debian and can't be installed. This is probably on the order of a few years. Hope this answers your question, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID

Re: Maple 9.5 interfaces on Debian box

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
command shows the latest kernel image metapackages and the one I posted doesn't. As usual in Linux there's more than one way to skin a cat. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
for which the package was compiled. Running grep-available -FProvides -sPackage kernel-image will give you a list of kernel packages known to APT on your architecture. (The grep-available command is in the grep-dctrl package.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
on x86 Linux, but there is CrossOver, a proprietary ($20?) version of Wine that allows you to run a lot of Windows plugins and programs seamlessly; maybe it supports a Shockwave plugin. Hope this helps, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

Odd eggdesktopentries.c messages when Gnome packages installed

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Odd eggdesktopentries.c messages when Gnome packages installed [solved]

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
that the contents aren't repeated. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

2004-11-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
://slashdot.org/yro/01/11/06/2028252.shtml ObDisclaimer: IANAL, and you might get better advice on debian-legal. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
support it due to the rarity and slowness of the machines. There are also hurd-i386 and bsd-i386 which are using kernels other than the Linux kernel, running on Intel 32-bit machines. These are sort of experimental at the moment. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/install.html I think he's waiting for people to test them some before making an upload to unstable. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: Problem with apt-get and circular dependencies

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg00096.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg00093.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/01/msg00140.html regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Re: printing from firefox

2004-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. I think you can also print to PostScript in Firefox without using Xprint -- in the Print dialog, change the Printer selection box to read PostScript/default, then in Properties you can set options for lpr to use. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http

Re: CD malfunction on Sarge testing install Sparc

2004-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
not install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. You probably want to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. If they're unable to help, try debian-boot. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

New vim-doc package in unstable is very broken; don't install!

2004-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
track the problem at bugs # 280824 and 280825 (be nice to the vim maintainers and don't submit any more duplicates; they are providing a fix as fast as possible). regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University

Re: New vim-doc package in unstable is very broken; don't install!

2004-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 11/11/2004 06:45 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: I was just bitten by a problem in the preinst of the latest version of the vim-doc package. If you are tracking unstable, put it on hold until version 1:6.3-031+2 becomes available; version 1:6.3-031+1 will delete any symlinks and regular

Re: apt-get 'search'?

2004-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
exactly how it will search. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: apt-get -f install question..

2004-09-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
also contains /usr/.../app-defaults; instead it probably should contain an /etc/X11/app-defaults directory and whatever files it needs under there. You should inform the people who provided the xnview package of the problem. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW

Re: Adding a kernel module - to get iptables to work.

2004-09-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
) are: ip_tables iptable_filter ip_conntrack ip_conntrack_ftp iptable_nat ip_nat_ftp ipt_limit ipt_multiport iptable_mangle ipt_state ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG but you may not need all of these, depending upon what you are doing. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW

Invisible fonts in Xpdf widgets

2004-09-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
family of free TrueType f ii ttf-freefont 20031008-1.1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.2-3The OpenSymbol TrueType font Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

Re: forms.c and forms.h

2004-09-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: mobility radeon driver

2004-09-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
entry, then run the bootloader installer (e.g. lilo) if necessary. * Reboot and start X -- good luck! Run glxgears to see if your video acceleration is working. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
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Re: cannot install xfree86-common via apt

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
# apt-get install xfree86-common # apt-get install t1-cyrillic This should work since /usr/lib/X11 is shipped as a symlink in xfree86-common and as a directory (the bug) in t1-cyrillic. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty

Re: file/dir rights management

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
snooping on the connection could steal them? I suggest SFTP as an alternative -- it unfortunately isn't as featureful as some FTP clients, but at least it will encrypt passwords. [If you are only using FTP on a closed trusted LAN, of course, I withdraw the comment.] -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

Re: gtk package

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
install libgtk2.0-dev in order to get the pkg-config file, .so symlinks, etc. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Sun Java - revisited

2004-08-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
: usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 So probably you want to apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2. (The apt-file tool is in a package of the same name, incidentally. You can also look up packages by filename at http://packages.debian.org/ .) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Trying to build agpgart.o with an rpm from Intel

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
not sure whether the XFree86 in woody is new enough to recognize current i810 boards, but maybe you can try sarge or sid. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
files in /etc don't meet either of these criteria, so the suggestion makes sense there. My understanding is that there is long-term work planned on dpkg to allow registering a list of related files on package installation, even if they aren't actually in the package. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

Re: Sarge not printing [WORKAROUND]

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 08/12/2004 05:03 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: For what it's worth, I started experiencing the same problem beginning perhaps a couple weeks ago. The weird thing is that my cluster is running woody except for a few backports! One of them was gs 7.07, so I downgraded back to the gs in woody

Re: Sarge not printing

2004-08-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. Someone filed a bug on this problem against gs, although who knows whether that is actually the culprit. The similarly afflicted or the morbidly curious can follow along at http://bugs.debian.org/258042 . regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http

Re: unresolved kernel symbols

2004-08-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
) and recompile. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
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Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
shell commands in the content of the current user. Sure, if you want that enable it again. Thanks and regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, and go through the apparently non-trivial task of getting it to work well. By the way, is PDF also Turing-complete with the accompanying security issues? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key

Please test Cernlib PAW on AMD64 and exotic arches (sample test included)

2004-06-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the existence and non-existence of that file affect the test results. thanks and regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Heads up: latest libcurl2 package broken

2004-06-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
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Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken

2004-06-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
file a bug against it for not giving a better error message), and what the permissions on /dev/pmu are supposed to be? Mine are currently rw---, owned by root.root thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Mozilla Thunderbird questions

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
writing a bug report, I want it to wrap paragraphs of text, but not the error messages I include inline. Is the context menu Paste Without Formatting what I'm looking for? Thanks in advance for any hints, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird questions [partly solved]

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Well, here's a partial answer to one of my questions. Posting it here in the hopes it helps others, too. Kevin B. McCarty wrote: 2) How can I force Thunderbird not to wrap specific long lines in an email? If for instance I'm writing a bug report, I want it to wrap paragraphs of text

kernel security update seems fixed now

2004-04-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Dear all, It seems that at least on ix86, the latest woody security updates for the kernel packages are completely broken. The kernel packages named kernel-image-2.4.18-1-subflavor with version 2.4.18-13 contain only one module. DO NOT upgrade to these packages or your

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