What software packages are available for Desktop Publishing on Linux?
(similar to Pagemaker) Preferably FOSS, of course.
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Rick Friedman wrote:
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
OK, I'll be the first to admit that the problem is with me. Where are
these packages as far as apt is concerned?
I tried apt-get update; apt-get install openoffice.org; It reports that
I already have the latest
Ron Johnson wrote:
| On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 01:03 -0400, j j wrote:
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|Where are the .debs? Oo developers encouraged one to use alien to
|convert rpms to deb.
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|
| http://openoffice.debian.net/
| 2005-10-22: 2.0 uploaded to unstable
| It's done! openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 was just uploaded
I'd been running MySQL 4.0 on Debian, but need to upgrade to 4.1. What
procedure would you recommend? What about supporting PHP / Python / ???
packages
The 4.1 packages appear to be broken as the command
apt-get install mysql-server-4.1 mysql-client-4.1 mysql-common-4.1
Fails with
Some
I know some people here are running KDE 3.4. What method did you use to
install it.
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Without thinking, I closed the project portion of the K3b window.
Opening it again wasn't a problem, but I can't find any way to redock
the project window with the main window. There has got to be a way to
put the two windows back together.
Can anyone suggest a way to do this. All help will
Dennis Stosberg wrote:
| Am 23.05.2005 um 06:53 schrieb Michael Satterwhite:
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|Without thinking, I closed the project portion of the K3b window.
|Opening it again wasn't a problem, but I can't find any way to redock
|the project window with the main window. There has got to be a way to
|put
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Michael Satterwhite wrote:
| Under Sid
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| I'm having a problem with the GD module in PHP4 with Apache. phpinfo()
| doesn't show it as present. I've installed php4-gd (even tried removing
| it and reinstalling it), but GD doesn't show as present. I
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Under Sid
I'm having a problem with the GD module in PHP4 with Apache. phpinfo()
doesn't show it as present. I've installed php4-gd (even tried removing
it and reinstalling it), but GD doesn't show as present. I found the bug
~ showing that the php4-gd
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Somehow, I closed the project window that was part of the main K3b
window. I can still open the project window, but I can't find a way to
re-dock it with the main window. Can anyone help me with this? If need
be, I'm even willing to edit the file
Earlier this week I posted that I'd lost Sound from KDE and the ability to
print from KDE after doing an upgrade on Sid (it was carelessness on my
part).
I've now found that I can no longer run apt-get either. I run apt-get update,
apt-get upgrade (I'm hoping the packages that took away
On Saturday 08 January 2005 08:47 am, Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/fr/man1/cups-config.1.gz', which is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287609
*sigh*
The problem you referenced is stated as being
I found a bit more on the sound problem I picked up from my carelessness
earlier this week. KDE can play .wav files, it simply can't play .ogg files.
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On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:03 am, Kent West wrote:
Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/fr/man1/cups-config.1.gz', which is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287609
*sigh*
Thomas, I can understand
On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:14 am, Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem you referenced is stated as being closed on 12/29/2004. It's
occurring *NOW*.
Have you done:
apt-get update
several times
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On Thursday 06 January 2005 08:02 pm, Adam Aube wrote:
Michael Satterwhite wrote:
That said, after it finished the upgrade, I found myself with two
problems. First, KDE programs (KMail, KEdit, etc) no longer see my CUPS
printers. To KDE, it's as if no printers were attached to my computer
OK, I was in a hurry this morning and did something stupid. Debian Sid; I did
an apt-get upgrade to look at what was available for upgrade. I usually
answer No on continue, but wasn't paying attention and told it to do the
upgrade. I'm admitting carelessness and falling on the mercy of the
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:11 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
Maybe the equalizer volume is muted? That's happened to me before.
That's completely possible - but now I'm moving from carelessness to
stupidity. I see the mixer at the bottom of my screen (and it's volumes look
good). Where is the
On Thursday 06 January 2005 03:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:43 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:11 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
Maybe the equalizer volume is muted? That's happened to me before.
That's completely possible - but now I'm
KMail is so bad about locking things while retrieving mail that I'd like to
try some of the alternatives such as Thunderbird. Unfortunately, mdir isn't
that well supported in other packages. Does anyone know of a tool to convert
from mdir to mbox format? I've done searches and found tools to go
Over my time on debian, I've been getting better at using these great tools,
but I have a couple of questions for the experts here:
(1) What is the best way to determine exactly which packages / versions are
currently installed on my system?
(2) Procedure question: I currently have Python 2.3
I have a Logitech wireless mouse attached to my computer. It works fine under
Debian, but the battery monitoring software is windows only (of course). Does
anyone know of an equivalent piece of software that runs under Linux?
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I've installed Apache2 on my Debian box. While it works, if I direct my
browser to
http://myserver
It gets changed to
http://myserver/apache2-default
I can't find the reference to apache2-default anywhere in the configuration.
Where is this coming from? I've grep'ed everything I can think
On Sunday 24 October 2004 04:18 pm, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 the mental interface of
Michael Satterwhite told:
Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering play file from
the command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't
installed
I didn't see this message come through, so I think I had a glitch on my mail
server. If someone does see it twice, I apologize.
Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering play file from the
command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't installed
by default,
Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering play file from the
command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't installed
by default, and there are hundreds of hits if I enter apt-cache search
play.
Would someone be so kind as to suggest a command line tool for
I have a new installation of Debian Sid with Apache2 / PHP 4. PHP seems to be
working fine - except that include() and require() are failing. The script
that I'm trying to include is in the same directory as the page that is
executing. When it hits the include statement, I get the error
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:23 am, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (12/10/04 08:36), Michael Satterwhite wrote:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:36:37 -0500
Subject: Help! Lost keyboard.
I'm running Sid. Everything was working fine
In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting
document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really
need is to take a document and append it to another.
Does anyone know of a Linux tool for this.
tia
---Michael
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I'm running Debian Sid and have a SoundBlaster Live card.
When I first boot-up and start, sound is running. I know this because I hear
the KDE startup sound (KDE 3.3). I then lose the ability to play sounds. No
sound notifications of any type are played. I checked, and the user is a
member of
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 07:30 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
On Tuesday October 12 2004 13:24, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
When I first boot-up and start, sound is running. I know this because I
hear the KDE startup sound (KDE 3.3). I then lose the ability to play
sounds. No sound notifications
I'm running Sid. Everything was working fine. I did *NOT* run any apt command
or (knowingly) make any changes - other than a sound level change in kmix.
Regardless, things were working perfectly up to the point of a reboot.
I'm using KDE / KDM. I rebooted my system to Windows for a test, then
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I'm trying to get Debian up on my Dell Dimension system, but I can't get my
network configured. I was going to try again last week, but then real work
intruded on me.
My network card is a 3C905C-TX. It's well supported by Linux - and a reply
from
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On Sunday 03 October 2004 16:12, Kent West wrote:
Last week, one of you gave me the suggestion to manually insmod the
driver. Sounds like a great idea, and I'm *SURE* I'm missing something
obvious, but ... I'm running from the installer CD. Where
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Last week I tried to use the Debian Installer to bring up Sarge on a Dell
Dimension. The installer fails to recognize the network card, and nothing in
the installer documentation indicates how to correct this manually (the card
is well supported in
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On Saturday 25 September 2004 08:58, Wim De Smet wrote:
I have read a couple of questions on this mailing list from people who
ended up finding out they had downloaded a much older build than the
current one. You could try to find a newer build. Oh
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I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested, so now
I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE.
Where are the configuration parameters / startup scripts located to instruct
KDM on what to start? Someone else here
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On Friday 24 September 2004 09:38, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested, so
now I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE.
Where are the configuration parameters / startup
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A lot of websites with streaming audio use the Windows Media Format for their
streams. How can these be listened to (live) from Linux. Surely *SOMEONE* has
solved this.
tia
- ---Michael
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On Friday 17 September 2004 12:25, Silvan wrote:
A lot of websites with streaming audio use the Windows Media Format for
their streams. How can these be listened to (live) from Linux. Surely
*SOMEONE* has solved this.
We have lots of things to
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On Friday 17 September 2004 14:21, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
Like it or not, if we want to get people to consider using an OS other
than Windows, it's going to have to be possible for them to use tools
that are compatible with what they're used
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A friend has asked me to put Debian on his Sony Vaio. Things are going very
well except for the monitor setup. I'm using the Debian Installer
BusinessCard installer to put Sarge on (as it's about to become the stable
version, this seems right for
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For development purposes, I have Apache2 running on a local machine. MySQL is
running on one of my main machines. The development machine is running Debian
Sarge and PHP4. PHP4 is running fine; pages that don't use database work
perfectly.
I used
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On Friday 27 August 2004 08:25, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I'd like to blame Google, but that wouldn't be fair.
I kept going through the pages that referenced this error and found the
(obvious) that I hadn't enabled it in php.ini.
Sorry about
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I finally got back to trying to get Sun J2SE running on my Debian testing
system. It installs / runs fine on SuSE, so I was able to get some work done.
I do want to thank those who responded earlier with the links to how to
integrate Sun J2SE with
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On Friday 27 August 2004 14:27, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
Hi Kevin,
I'd like to thank you twice for your help with this. First, it solved my
problem. Secondly, (being new to Debian) I wasn't aware of apt-file. Great
tool.
- ---Michael
Hi Michael,
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On Monday 23 August 2004 06:47, Stef VK5HSX wrote:
Greetings..
For those who have found installing Debian difficult in the past, well I
recently downloaded the new Debian Installer (sarge-i366-businesscard.iso)
and used it today to install
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On Tuesday 24 August 2004 08:27, Stef VK5HSX wrote:
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 21:51, Michael Satterwhite shared with us the
following:
On Monday 23 August 2004 06:47, Stef VK5HSX wrote:
Greetings..
For those who have found installing
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Having just installed Sarge on my laptop, I tried downloading and installing
the Sun J2SE (from Sun - I didn't see it - or expect to see it! - in apt).
Unfortunately, it wouldn't install because of a missing library.
I *KNOW* there are many people
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On Tuesday 24 August 2004 19:42, Jeremy Brown wrote:
Michael Satterwhite wrote:
Having just installed Sarge on my laptop, I tried downloading and
installing the Sun J2SE (from Sun - I didn't see it - or expect to see
it! - in apt). Unfortunately
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On Monday 23 August 2004 14:22, belahcene abdelkader wrote:
I don't understand yet why debian doesn't use the
anaconda as
installer. It is very easy for installation !
I just tried the new version sarge, it is still
complicate for new user
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I note that when the Sarge installer created my sources.list file, it put a
line in as follows:
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
The documentation page implies that a similar location exists for all the
distributions,
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On Saturday 21 August 2004 10:32, Oliver Elphick wrote:
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 16:25, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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I note that when the Sarge installer created my sources.list file, it put
a line
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I've just installed Debian Sarge on a laptop. I have installed development
tools including gcc and g++. When I try to compile a program using gcc, I get
the error message that it can't execute cc1plus because there is no such
program. I thought
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On Friday 20 August 2004 06:57, John Summerfield wrote:
It might seem a little extreme, but insubscribing all gmail users with an
explanatory note would get gmail to sort it out fairly quickly: it would be
snowed under with complaints.
I don't
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I just received a direct reply to my (OK, I'll admit it: near desperate)
appeal for help with gcc. I want to thank Greg Folkert for trying to help me
with this.
The problem is that he tells me that 2 other people have responded, but I
haven't seen
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On Friday 20 August 2004 11:09, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:59:03AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite insinuated:
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I just received a direct reply to my (OK, I'll admit it: near
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On Thursday 19 August 2004 03:14, Johan Sch wrote:
Hi,
I am new to Debian.
In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be able
to use GUI applications.
Kindly please what would the same be in Debian.
There are several
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I just reinstalled Debian on my laptop to test the wireless setup. To my
surprise (pleasant shock??), it set the wireless device up perfectly. If this
scanner / configurator were available to be called after installation to set
up subsequent
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I'm trying to set up a standard development environment in Debian and running
into some problems. It's no longer possible during installation to select a
development environment during installation with the installer, so I've got
to piece it
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I'm trying to set up a standard development environment in Debian and running
into some problems. It's no longer possible during installation to select a
development environment during installation with the installer, so I've got
to piece it together
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I'm bringing up a laptop on Debian sarge. I've created the hardwired network
profile and wanted to save it. The problem is that I can't find scpm
anywhere. It's not on my computer, and apt-cache search scpm returns
nothing.
Either it's done a
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If I've got to do this the old-fashioned way, it's OK, but...
When I was running the Debian installer, it recognized both my LAN cards (the
ethernet and the wireless). I brought it up with the ethernet active, but now
I want to create a profile
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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 13:26, NiL SpaaR wrote:
Hi all,
A Linux-newbie speaking here and am a bit frustrated by the fact i
cannot get a vfat mounted properly.
I've added this line to my /etc/fstab /dev/hdb1 /home/nil/redmond
vfat
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This message seems to have gone into the mailing list bit bucket, so I'm
resending it. All help appreciated.
I'm bringing up a laptop on Debian sarge. I've created the hardwired network
profile and wanted to save it. The problem is that I can't find
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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 14:53, Greg Folkert wrote:
Now, just a quick question here... why in the world would you expect
this to be in Debian?
Doh!
Because I stupidly didn't look at what the acronym stood for.
Coming from the SuSE world, I
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In the book Linux Unwired, it says that installing the wireless tools via
apt in Debian will make entries into the /etc/network/interfaces file. I've
installed the hostap-modules for the installed kernel and the wireless-tools.
I did apt-get
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After the very useful discussion on sarge vs sid, I downloaded the sid
installer and tried to set it up on a Dell desktop with a 3Com 3C905C-Tx
card.
When it tries to detect the network, I get the message Error while running
modprobe -v aic7xxx
I
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On Thursday 24 June 2004 15:23, Kent West wrote:
Michael Satterwhite wrote:
After the very useful discussion on sarge vs sid, I downloaded the sid
installer
Last I knew, the sid installer was very very broken. Most folks use the
Sarge installer
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On Thursday 24 June 2004 16:44, Ralph Katz wrote:
On 06/24/04 16:20, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
After the very useful discussion on sarge vs sid, I downloaded the sid
installer and tried to set it up on a Dell desktop with a 3Com 3C905C-Tx
card
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On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
If you're trying to
avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run stable and live with
the age of the packages.
Not exactly promoting Debian, are we? Especially in a Linux world where
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On Monday 21 June 2004 15:44, Chris Metcalf wrote:
If I remember correctly, unstable is called unstable because the
packages go through a large amount of turnover and you'll usually have
to upgrade a few times per week to keep your system in sync.
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I've been watching the various discussions on this, and note that most
experienced types think that the unstable distribution is better than the
testing distribution. This leads me to one more question / observation
A few weeks ago (I don't know
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On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in
unstable simply would not run ...
How does one recover from
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On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:25, Kent West wrote:
In the meantime, use something other than KDE, such as Gnome, icewm,
wmaker, fluxbox, ion, twm, sawfish, saffire, xfce, qvwm etc etc etc.
That works for KDE, but what about the reported problems where
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On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:40, David Fokkema wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11
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On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:47, Chris Metzler wrote:
You're right that this happened recently with KDE in unstable. What
you're not aware of is that something similar happened last year with
KDE in testing. More specifically, last year, KDE was
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On Sunday 20 June 2004 14:35, Kent West wrote:
I run stable on my important boxes, like servers, that need to be up
24x7, and I run unstable on my workstations. I have less pain on
unstable workstations with their occasional breakages than I do on
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On Sunday 20 June 2004 18:44, richard lyons wrote:
On Sunday 20 June 2004 16:10, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
[...]
Although I've had to use Windows at some client sites, my personal
machines have been essentially MS free for over a year. Some
I'm going to be loading Debian on some desktops that are going to be networked
with some machines running a different distribution. I'm noting that the
initial userid / groupid on the distributions differ. I need to have them
match the other machines for sharing purposes; I haven't been able to
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On Saturday 19 June 2004 13:05, Jacob S. wrote:
Why not simply copy/paste the relevant portion of /etc/group between
machines so that you know the gids are the same across all the machines?
This would also save you the time of having to create all
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I tried changing my default display manager to KDM, but it doesn't start. I
need to switch back to xdm.
Is there an easy way to do this? e.g. Is it possible to get the select default
display manager screen back that appeared when I apt'ed kdm?
tia
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I've read the DVD playback documentation on the debian site and tried
following it's instructions.
When I tried to run ogle, I get the error message Root not set, then it
crashes.
I continued to search and found a reference that said that ogle is
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On Tuesday 13 April 2004 11:31, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
- Does /dev/dvd exist ?
- Is it correct (i.e. a symlink to your dvd device) ?
- Are you a member of group disk, or do you have full read/write
permissions on /dev/dvd ?
OK, it doesn't look
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On Tuesday 13 April 2004 13:27, Sebastiaan wrote:
High,
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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On Tuesday 13 April 2004 11:31, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
- Does /dev/dvd exist
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I've been looking at the documentation for compiling the kernel, and something
seems missing to me.
There is ample documentation on configuring the kernel, but I don't see the
issue of the starting point addressed anywhere. It seems to be assumed
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On Sunday 04 April 2004 13:04, Sebastiaan wrote:
High,
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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I've been looking at the documentation for compiling the kernel, and
something seems
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On Sunday 04 April 2004 13:36, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
You _could_ do this, but I recommend very highly compiling the kernel the
Debian way. It takes care of all the little details missing any one of
which might leave you with a hosed system! I
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After installing sarge on a laptop, I get the error that not all packages were
setup correctly.
Looking at it closer, the error is that the kernel is configured with devfs,
but devfs is not mounted anywhere. As a result, noflushd cannot work. There
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I posted this yesterday, but I think it got lost in the traffic by my being
slow to respond to a question.
I was wanting to look at the source to kde-core and tried to install it using
apt (I'm running sarge) I went to the apt documentation at
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I was wanting to look at the source to kde-core and tried to install it using
apt. I went to the apt documentation at debian.org for the how-to.
Unfortunately, it's not the results I expected - and I don't see anything in
the doc explaining what
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On Tuesday 30 March 2004 11:34, Colin Watson wrote:
Native packages have just a .tar.gz and .dsc, not .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz
and .dsc like normal packages.
I do see some meta files, but these aren't mentioned in the .apt
documentation
Meta
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There seems to be more spam showing up in the debian lists than I've seen in
others. Does this list allow non-subscribers to post to it - or is it just
that the spammers are joining mailing lists?
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On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:29, Paul Johnson wrote:
Rance, Kate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We have a few CDs we have purchased from your company, but we no
longer have the cases. Do we need the serial numbers or license
numbers to install
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I noticed that the latest Debian Newsletter has an article on how to move from
Debian to SuSE Gnu/Linux. I'm finding this vaguely amusing ... right now I'm
considering going from SuSE to Debian.
Am I behind the curve as usual?
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I'm looking at the Apt How-To documentation on the Debian site. Under How
to Keep a Mixed System, it makes a reference to editing the file apt.conf
file in /etc/apt. The problem is that there is no file by that name in
/etc/apt. There is a
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On Friday 19 March 2004 18:17, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
I wasn't claiming that unstable is a better choice than stable for, er,
stability; I was claiming it was a better choice than testing.
I understood you, but I asked the original question. I
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I've been Distro hopping for the last few weeks and am very impressed with the
Debian system. It's probably going to become the distro on all my machines
very shortly.
I'm going to be running Woody on one machine and Sarge on another for testing
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
What sorts of testing would you want to do on your testing machine? The
testing distro is a little odd in that it's really intended for
developers, not users. It's the stuff they're
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:03, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
I do development on the machine running Sarge. The package list in the
stable list gets a bit dated for me. They, however, are perfect for
the machine that *HAS* to be up and stable. I
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