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Hello,
I want to upgrade my Debian Linux Box from slink to potato. I have got a
4-CD copy of the potato
Hello,
Can I know how much memory is available in my Debian linux box?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Manuel Arenaz
Hello,
I want to do a back-up of my system. Is there any tool to do it
automatically? Which are the parts of the Debian system that is
mandatory to back-up?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Manuel Arenaz
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
Hello,
The clock of my machine has gone crazy. When I set it up to the correct
time in the BIOS everything works fine for a while. But after some time,
the clock begins to accumulate more and more delay. When I reboot the
machine and enter in the BIOS setup
Hello,
The clock of my machine has gone crazy. When I set it up to the correct
time in the BIOS everything works fine for a while. But after some time,
the clock begins to accumulate more and more delay. When I reboot the
machine and enter in the BIOS setup, the hardware clock has been
changed.
Hello again,
A friend of mine is interested in buying a CD-Writer. He asked me to
recomend a model to him, but I have no idea. Can anyone help me to go
through this situation?
Thanks in advance,
Manuel Arenaz
Hello,
I use latex to prepare my presentations. Before installing Debian Slink
(default workstation setup), I had a latex class called seminar.cls
available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not
installed. Which package(s) do I have to install? Are there any other
latex recomended
I have installed the package acct but how is it used? In the man pages there
is no
information about how to account information.
Solution?
Thanks to everyone, I have solved the problem.
I succeeded by installing the package latex2html, which includes the file
html.sty.
NOTE THAT THE FILE html.sty LISTED IN A PREVIOUS MAIL IS NOT VALID BECAUSE I
GOT THE
FILE typehtml.sty FROM ANOTHER SYSTEM AND RENAMED IT TO html.sty TO CHECK
IF
I have downloaded the sources of the Debian linux documentation in the format
.tar.bz2. While compiling the .tex file using the default slink Latex2e, the
compiler
couldn't found the file html.sty. Where can I found this file? Do I have to
install any new package?
Thanks in advance,
I've tried some three times to get a book compressed in that bz2 format
uncomperessed to a readable version. But no LaTex, TeX or LyX ever could
read that stuff.
Is there something in general wrong with that bz2 format or are there
available some brand new TeX formats, which no Slink latex
I have solved the problem ofcompiling the Tex file by installing the package
latex2html in my box.
Thak you very much,
Manuel Arenaz
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
virtanen wrote:
In my linux box the
compiling process stops
In my slink box there are some packages (for example a2ps) whose man
pages are available only for the root user. The other users can execute
the commands (a2ps) but can not read their man pages (man a2ps fails).
What is the problem? Should these man pages be available as their are
related to
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 21:21:32 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
Where can I download the Latex/EPS source of this package from?
Same as with all source: do a dpkg --print-avail on the package so you have
the source package name, and download that from your
Where can I find a html to postscript converter for slink? I can perform
the conversion by using netscape-SaveAs, but this way I have to open
and SaveAs each file, which is very tedious and embarrasing.
Thanks in advance,
Manuel Arenaz
I have installed the package debian-guide from the unstable distribution
in slink and every has gone right.
Now I would like to build the postscript file by myself in order to
change some appearance features. Where can I download the Latex/EPS
source of this package from?
Thanks in advance,
What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they
decompressed?
Thaks in advance,
Manuel Arenaz
Hola,
He probado el script para ver ficheros .doc en netscape y funciona. El unico
problema es que la
aplicacion mswordview no reconoce muchos de los ficheros .doc. ¿Existe alguna
otra aplicacion
que interprete los ficheros .doc sin tantos fallos? Si existe, ¿es posible
generar ficheros
.html
Hello,
I am a beginner in Linux and I am interested in obtaining linux
documentation for free (at least for the moment). Following one of the
suggestions that appeared in the list, I have downloaded an online
Debian Linux book from the O'Reilly site:
wget -r --no-parent
Rob Reesor wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the intrusion. I noticed your exchange muc.lists.debian.user. I'm
having trouble posting, so thought I'd send email directly.
I've just ordered a Red Hat Linux system and am having a hard time finding
a printer. Seems that most of the printers listed on the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Manuel,
Hewlett-Packard, but avoid the Winprinters
Best value for my money would be the HP 970cxi. It's 12 ppm in BW
fast draft mode. It can do two-sided printing (!!!) and street prices
are under $350. I don't know of any other inexpensive printer that
will
Justin Settle wrote:
For an ink jet, however, I own and Epson and, IMHO, they make a better
product. They are a bit cheaper, but built just as well, have high res
and are pretty fast. You mention higher cost to maintain (what are you
referring to?) but I don't see that. I have a 440 and it
Jordi wrote:
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 02:50:40AM +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote:
On jue, oct 07, 1999 at 07:08:56 +0200, Agustín Martín Domingo wrote:
La SoundBlaster 64 PCI es realmente una Ensoniq 1371, no una
soundblaster. Ponle sus parámetros al kernel
Cuidado que puede
Hello,
I am interested in buying a printer, but I want to avoid as many
installation problems as posible. For this reason I would appreciate if
someone could advice me about a mark and a model.
What do you prefer? An epson printer (highest resolution but expensive
to mantain), a HP printer (very
Hello,
In my work in have to use some machines where the bash shell is not
available. Normally, these machine have Solaris or IRIX installed. When
I connect to those machines I have to use other different shells which I
am not used to using. You can imagine how embarrasing is this
situation.
I
Hello,
I am interrested in filtering the incoming mail. On my opinion, my situation is
quite
different from the explained in this thread. I am the administrator of a PC K6-3
400MHz running Debian Linux. I use a mail server (mercurio.des.fi.udc.es) to
send and
receive mails.
Hello,
I have already solved my problem. My problem came from the fact that I
created the /etc/printcap properly (for example, using magicfilter)
but I didn't know that, in order to use the new configuration, I had to
make the lpd daemon re-read the printcap file. This can be done by
executing
Andreas Piesk wrote:
are you sure about the /dev/lp1 ? the first lpt is lp0.
what are the permissions of /etc/printcap ? readable by everyone ?
the printcap itself seems to be ok.
At first sight everything looks OK: the /dev files, the printcat file...
cambados:~# ls -lisa /dev/lp*
Wayne Topa wrote:
Subject: What does mountd is used for?
Date: Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:03:31PM +0200
In reply to:Manuel Arenaz Silva
Quoting Manuel Arenaz Silva([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I would like what is the usage of the mountd daemon.
man mountd
That man command is very
Hello,
I really want the telnet service installed. But, what is SSM? I have
never heard about it.
thanks
Jim McCloskey wrote:
Hello, Manuel:
[1] If you simply install the telnetd package, the daemon, I believe,
will start running. If you reboot, it certainly will. So install
it with:
dpkg --install
or:
apt-get install telnetd
and you should be fine.
[2] The
This is to inform that I have had succes.
Next, I intend to install ssh so as to improve the security of my
machine.
Thanks to everyone,
Manuel Arenaz
Hello,
Right now, when I want to read the contents of a CD or a floppy I have
to mount the corresponding directory (/cdrom in my machine) manually. I
would like the system to configure the mount point automatically when I
try to read or write the contents of that directory.
I have scanned the
Hello,
I want to install an Epson Stylus Color 850 printer directly attached to
my machine (local printer). I have been looking at the
Printing-HOWTO-6.html that comes with the default installation of Linux
Debian 2.1 (slink).
After reading the introduction, I have tried to print an ascii text
I would like what is the usage of the mountd daemon.
Hello,
I have checked the daemons that are installed in my system, and I have
noticed that inetd is working but there is no telnetd installed.
¿How can I make my system install telnetd on start-up? I don't know
where the daemons to be installed are specified. Is there any HOW-TO
available?
Hello,
I want to install an MP3 player. I want to download it from
www.freeamp.org, but I have to chose between to configurations:
* FreeAmp_1.3.1_for_Linux2.0.x_glic2.0_Intel_x86
* FreeAmp_1.3.1_for_Linux2.0.x_glic2.1_Intel_x86
How can I know which version must I download? I have installed
Hello,
Does anyone knows I there is an ftp client for Linux Debian with, more
or less, the same functionality as GoZilla for Windows?
Some of the more interesting caracteristics of GoZilla are:
* Restart donwload if connection fails
* Continue donwloading (without restart) if connection fails
*
Hello,
I have taken a look at the file /var/log/syslog, which registers the
same information every time a telnet conection is refused:
Sep 21 17:11:49 cambados in.telnetd[8102]: connect from 193.144.50.23
Sep 21 17:11:49 cambados in.telnetd[8102]: error: cannot execute
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd: No
Hello,
I have installed Debian on my computer. Surprinsingly, sometimes when I
try to stablish a telnet conection to my machine I obtain the following
message:
venus% telnet cambados.des.fi.udc.es
Trying 193.144.50.62...
Connected to cambados.des.fi.udc.es.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection
Thank you very much for the information about StarOffice (the dowload,
the license,...)
Regards,
Manuel Arenaz
Hello,
I keep on trying to know more about apt.
In a message sent to the list a few days ago, someone talked about
installing .deb packages from a CDROM via a command called apt-cdrom.
I have searched for this tool in my system but it isn't installed.
cambados:~# find / -name apt* -ls
30723
It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under
Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the
program wordview? What is the name of the corresponding package?
On the other hand, is there any program to edit and generate Microsoft
Word files under
Anthony Campbell wrote:
Thanks to all for replies. I've now found two apps that will do this:
word2x and mswordview. Both are available for slink; I found word2x to
be the more convenient.
Where can you install these aplications from? Via apt-get?
Kent West wrote:
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under
Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the
program wordview? What is the name of the corresponding package?
Your normal location for .deb
Hello,
Can someone tell me what entry must I add to my apt/sources.list in
order to install StarOffice?
Thanks.
Hello,
I would like to know what I have to do to configure a printer. I need to
configurations:
1) A local printer attached to a parallel port.
2) A remote printer that is accesed through a local area network.
¿Is there any tool to configure printers (as there is in RedHat)?
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
I would like to know where the default user enviroment is configured.
Thanks in advance.
Manuel Arenaz
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