Re: pdf editor ?

-aladdin in unstable (or any Ghostscript 6.0). If you run Potato (like me), you can always download the sources and compile it yourself. Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.

Re: Wvdial - How do you surf without being root?

to certain commands with root privileges. Once set up, you can issue the command sudo wvdial ... and you'll be up and running without worrying about setuid problems and device file permissions. Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.

Re: VMware work on Debian

. It suffices for what I do with it. Good luck, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Aren't these one-line witticisms pretentious?

Re: Compiling KDE apps, headers fails

, too, depending on what your app requires. Generally, if the app requires package libfoo, you'll need to have libfoo-dev (although check the Debian package list (unstable) for the exact name, the correspondence is not always 1:1). Good luck, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Why do

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

when I tried to do a full restore, I had some problems. My impression from poking around the code a bit symlinks are not supported. Good luck, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

Re: Regenerating /etc/alternatives

/bash cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives for j in * do update-alternatives --auto $j done Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Regenerating /etc/alternatives

)? If I have to reinstall all the packages (similar to upgrading with Red Hat), is there a way to do *that*? Thanks, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

apt-get tricks

/archives on another machine) so I don't have to download the same set of packages twice for each machine. Thanks, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron If you cannot convince them, confuse them.