Re: Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)?

2000-05-13 Thread Maury R. Merkin
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 12-May-2000 Bart Szyszka wrote: Any word yet on DEBs of Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)? When is something going to be done about the fact that there are always RPMs of something released before there are DEBs? most KDE people are not debian users or

using the source packages

2000-05-12 Thread Maury R. Merkin
As I've mentioned here before, I have used Linux since late 1994, but I'm new to Debian. In the past, whenever I've wanted to compile stuff I have just gone out and d/l'd a tar ball and stuck it in /usr/local, did my little incantations and probably include a 'make install' or whatever and that

Re: using the source packages

2000-05-12 Thread Maury R. Merkin
is listed in the FAQ also. Install the kernel-package and read the docs there. hth, kent Maury R. Merkin wrote: As I've mentioned here before, I have used Linux since late 1994, but I'm new to Debian. In the past, whenever I've wanted to compile stuff I have just gone out and d/l'd

Re: gif

2000-05-11 Thread Maury R. Merkin
Kreaped Ripping Reaper wrote: how do i make .gif in linux? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Not quite sure what you want to do. You want to create a new graphic in the GIF format? Try gimp. If you have a graphic file that you want to convert to a GIF

enabling printing

2000-05-11 Thread Maury R. Merkin
I now have a BJC-2010 printer. What do I have to do to get it to work? Tia, Maury

Re: GNOME Gripes

2000-05-02 Thread Maury R. Merkin
Ross Boylan wrote: I've been using GNOME for awhile in potato--my first encounter with it. It just doesn't seem ready. I know potato is pre-release, and we may not have the latest GNOME in it, and the GNOME folks are working hard. So I thought I'd gripe, check if this matches others

Re: list suggestion? [was Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user]

2000-05-01 Thread Maury R. Merkin
Well I, for one, sure would have appreciated such an addition to the message tag (or monthly notice) I've been using Linux since late 1994 so, if I'm not a guru [and I'm certainly not], I do have some fairly rich general skills/knowledge. But I started with Slackware and then, somewhere along

Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user

2000-04-29 Thread Maury R. Merkin
[How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? Tia, Maury

menus question

2000-04-29 Thread Maury R. Merkin
I finally (okay I'm slow but ...) figured out that the only apps which update-menus will find are those which have been installed using *.deb packages system. ('apt-get install' or 'dpkg -i' or however.) But I have several important (to me) apps which I've accumulated over time in /usr/local/bin

OT: Help! I need emacs html mode

2000-04-26 Thread Maury R. Merkin
I have almost everything important working now from my switch last week from RH to potato. While I can't say that it's been painless, I have learned some things, which, I s'pose is good for the soul, or something. So, one of my two major remaining problems is that I just need emacs' html mode

Re: Netscape

2000-04-25 Thread Maury R . Merkin
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:24:22 Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Try apt-get install navigator-smotif-472 netscape-java-472 \ navigator-nethelp-472 fortify as root. If your apt/sources.list is configured correct (frozen/potato or unstable/woody) you should after some time and some

Need a list of installed *.deb packages

2000-04-24 Thread Maury R . Merkin
Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently installed on my 'puter? Tia, Maury