Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Simone Soldateschi
On 6/14/06, Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave,On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: * Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]: Try: apt-get remove --purge X11-common apt-get dist-upgradeI had a similar problem two days ago

checkinstall

2006-06-02 Thread Simone Soldateschi
Is there a way to inform checkinstall that the package I'm building from sources, and going to install, it's a library which can be used to resolve dependencies?I've compiled sdl 1.2.10 from sources but obviously it's not seen by apt like a substitute of lbsdl-1.2.10Thanks in advance.// SS-- In

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Simone Soldateschi
There are several editors that has syntax highlighting. When I'm stuckon non-Unix-like systems I usually turn to SciTE (Debian package: scite).SciTE is a very nice code editor, highly customizable and it's available under different OSI've used Jext writing Matlab, LaTeX and php codes for my

Gnu video card driver

2006-04-22 Thread Simone Soldateschi
Hi, I've configured 'nvidia' driver in my sarge thank to 'Andrew's Debian-nVidia HOWTO' ( http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html). Now everything works fine but on the first 'modprobe nvidia' I received a message like the system has been tainted by a non-free module. This is

Re: Gnu video card driver

2006-04-22 Thread Simone Soldateschi
On 4/22/06, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simone Soldateschi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the thread started with this message:http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg02027.htmlIt's still active and should have lots of info interesting for you. Andrei--If you can't explain