Re: adding modules to kernel

2005-08-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Adam Hardy wrote: Hi I compile and install the kernel using the debian package process make xconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd kernel-image dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.12.5. and because I didn't get it right first time, I want to add just one module to the kernel and reboot, e.g. i2

packages necessary for dist-upgrade

2005-08-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
When I do apt-get --download dist-upgrade, it downloads some packages which are new in the repository and are necessary to do the dist-upgrade. How can I get the list of these packages without actually downloading them? I tried sudo apt-get --download-only -s dist-upgrade But that does not giv

Re: Portmap trouble

2005-08-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Andrew Diakin wrote: I don't want remove portmap, sometimes i need it for nfs and this is not best decision to install portmap every time I need it. Where I must look for startup scripts for portmap, in rc2.d/ no link to init.d/portmap Instead of completely removing the link, did you try cd

Re: firefox update causes segmentation fault

2005-08-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
gnat wrote: hi all, i installed mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge2) with aptitude, as recommended by the security list, and now when i try to launch firefox it causes a Segmentation fault. i am running sarge with the stock (straight from apt) 2.6 k7 kernel. i tried reinstalling the package to n

Re: xdvi is giving warnings due to hyperref

2005-08-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
post. raju On 8/20/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all I have attached the reduced .tex file and its .dvi file in this email. To reproduce the problem download the test.tex. $latex test.tex This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extende

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:51:25PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Bill Marcum wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:01:24AM -0500, Ian wrote: I installed Sarge on my machine a while back, and since I'm not extremely familiar with my hardware spec

Re: When should I consider installing suggested packages?

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Elmer E. Dow wrote: Greetings: When should I consider installing suggested packages? During my limited experience using aptitude in Sarge I've always installed depends and recommended packages, never suggested. Do most users just ignore suggested packages, only installing them if something d

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Bill Marcum wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:01:24AM -0500, Ian wrote: I installed Sarge on my machine a while back, and since I'm not extremely familiar with my hardware specs and what not I used genkernel (gasp) to build my kernel. For some reason though it installed a 2.4 kernel instead

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ian wrote: Would that image be the same as if I built the kernel with genkernel? Keep replies on the list. For instructions on posting to debian-user please see http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html 1) What is genkernel? 2) Why do you want to compile the kernel? 3) If you

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ian wrote: I installed Sarge on my machine a while back, and since I'm not extremely familiar with my hardware specs and what not I used genkernel (gasp) to build my kernel. For some reason though it installed a 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6. How can I upgrade my kernel with out reinstalling or c

Re: Touchpad problem after upgrading to 2.6.12

2005-08-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: ctrlER wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with double tap on my touchpad since i upgraded from 2.6.8 to 2.6.12. I'n 2.6.8 i could double tap and i could single tap just fine, now, if I single tap in something, it opens two apps, so I'm figuring that

Re: x window

2005-08-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
qee wrote: hi thanx for the reply i chcked it, i have XF86Config-4 file there. so what do i do next Become root and run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell University http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: x window

2005-08-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
qee wrote: how do i know whether i am using xorg or xfree86 wood Go to /etc/X11 and see if you have xorg.conf or XF86Config. If you have xorg.conf, then you are definitely using xorg otherwise you might be using XF86Config. For a more definitive answer try $dpkg -l xserver\* If yo

Re: x window

2005-08-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
qee wrote: hi i am new to linux, but i decided go ahead with linux installtion, i did network install, so only basic things were installed , then i tried to install x window by apt-get first and then 'apt-get install x-window-system' but i think while setting up for my laptop monitor(

xdvi is giving warnings due to hyperref

2005-08-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi all I have attached the reduced .tex file and its .dvi file in this email. To reproduce the problem download the test.tex. $latex test.tex This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./test.tex LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for american,

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-08-15 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I see a large potential for wiki.debian.net in the future as the Debian base grows continuously. But having a cursory look through the wiki, I could not figure out how much stuff it currently holds. I think it would be a good idea to display atleast the following

Re: Touchpad problem after upgrading to 2.6.12

2005-08-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
ctrlER wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with double tap on my touchpad since i upgraded from 2.6.8 to 2.6.12. I'n 2.6.8 i could double tap and i could single tap just fine, now, if I single tap in something, it opens two apps, so I'm figuring that it's assuming double tapping when I'm just si

Re: dpkg: error processing... for quite some days now?

2005-08-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Tom wrote: Hey ho, As the subject says: since about a week, I have quite a lot of packages (about three a day) that end, when apt-get upgrading, in dpkg errors. All of them seem to be GTK-related (i.e. depend on it), but that might just be a coincidence. Today looks like this: Setting up cap

kernel-image or kernel_image?

2005-08-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi all When compiling kernels using make-kpkg, Is there any difference between 'fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image' and 'fakeroot make-kpkg kernel-image'? I read the manual of make-kpkg, but could not find the difference. Some online documentation is using kernel-image while some other websites a

How to download just a single file of a package?

2005-08-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
In the package description of kernel-patch-suspend2 http://packages.debian.org/experimental/devel/kernel-patch-suspend2 it asks to see /usr/share/doc/kernel-patch-suspend2/README.Debian if other kernels are supported. I want to know whether 2.6.12-1-686-smp is supported or not. Is there any wa

Re: Smart version of mv ?

2005-08-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: with MSDOS mv (or move, i don't remember the name) you can do mv *.c *.cpp that is a quite smart thing, i think :) with Unix mv... you can't. You have to use find and sed (at least so i know) Is there a nice program that can do things like: TheSmartMove "*.c" "*.cpp" Thn

Re: oocalc does not directly import .dat files

2005-08-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:41:54PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: have you RTFM to make sure you can not fiddle with gnuplot to do this or maybe ask on a gnuplot ML? cheers, Kev Of course yes. Gnuplot cannot do that. Hans-Bernhard Broeker himself told so. http

oocalc does not directly import .dat files

2005-08-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi all My problem could be that I am using wrong software to do this. So I will explain the problem and tell how I am currently doing it. If there are better alternatives (read as less keystrokes) I would like to use it. Let's say I print three arrays of data using a fortran 90 program (or

Re: no user home directory

2005-08-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I am trying to add a user directory but when ever I create a new user it does not create a home directory for that user and so thus you can't log in. Why is this not working for me?anybody suggest a way to fix this? Cheers Did you try adduser instead of user

Re: firefox crash

2005-08-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: James Burke wrote: On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:00:26 +1000 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, Can somebody please confirm the following crash in Debian Firefox 1.0.4-2: Load www.nbntv.com.au then open the forum (botton of the page in the middle)

Re: why?

2005-08-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
corass wrote: my email had been removed from debian-user mailing list but i can recived mail now. May be you have subscribed using another address and forwarding its email to the above ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) address. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell University h

Re: Installing a new kernel on Debian.

2005-08-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:35:51PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: Is there a place I can download the debs for a 2.6 kernel on the i386 architecture? What files do I need? Packages.debian.org, search for "kernel-image", pick one, read the dependencies on that page.

Re: How to download/install a harddrive file

2005-08-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
pinecone wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-08 at 11:39 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi pinecone Could you explain what a "harddrive file" is? There are various ways to get a file from other computers (connected through lan or internet). The choices that come to mind are http, ssh,

Re: could not find the spam button

2005-08-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[KS] wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On the recent DWN, the following was mentioned Report Mail as Spam. From now on there is another possibility for the normal user to help the Debian project. A button has been added to all mail pages of the [31]mailing list archive to report this mail

could not find the spam button

2005-08-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On the recent DWN, the following was mentioned Report Mail as Spam. From now on there is another possibility for the normal user to help the Debian project. A button has been added to all mail pages of the [31]mailing list archive to report this mail as spam. Everybody who finds a spam message ca

Re: mozilla-thunderbird is not starting

2005-08-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I upgraded my unstable box yesterday and mozilla-thunderbird has stopped working. The thunderbird window does not come up. It used to work fine before upgrading. Just wondering 1) if any one is having the same problem? 2) Know a way to fix this? Here is the strace

Re: How to download/install a harddrive file

2005-08-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
pinecone wrote: I have been struggling with this for days with mixed results. Can anyone suggest the steps for doing this in a simple way? I would be operating from a /home directory. The gui's supplied with gnome don't seem to offer this easily. I have been working with Synaptic and Ark. Take

mozilla-thunderbird is not starting

2005-08-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I upgraded my unstable box yesterday and mozilla-thunderbird has stopped working. The thunderbird window does not come up. It used to work fine before upgrading. Just wondering 1) if any one is having the same problem? 2) Know a way to fix this? Here is the strace output. I do not know what othe

Re: Dist-Upgrading

2005-07-28 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Steven Pasternak wrote: Hi! I have been using linux for a few years now, and I just downloaded and installed the 2 sarge DVDs. I have been using RPM-based linux (SuSE,Fedora,Mandrake) until now, and I want to know how to use apt-get dist-upgrade. I tried it, but it didn't install anything. Do

Re: [OT] Attn. All GMAIL users

2005-07-27 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ali Milis wrote: Hi, The default of gmail.com's "Reply-To: " is yourself. If you do not like that, you need to click "Settings" and fill "Reply-To: " with "< >". Do not forget that there is a space between "<" and ">". regards, Could you please explain the advantage of setting it to "< >"

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2005-07-27 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paul Smith wrote: I have an extremely annoying problem I hope someone can help me with, or at least make some suggestion. The environment is complex, unfortunately, but... I work remotely from home. I'm running Debian "sarge" on both the local and work systems. I do a lot of work in Emacs,

Re: trying to install debian with no luck

2005-07-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Jack Farley wrote: Hello all, I am currently trying to install debian on my HP pavilion ze4523ap laptop with no luck. I have tried downloading both the internet install cd and the full cd and using them for the installation with the same problem. The problem is when it gets to the select l

Re: Tomboy and Beagle

2005-07-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rajiv Vyas wrote: This is what I got: debian:/home/rajiv# apt-cache search tomboy debian:/home/rajiv# apt-get install tomboy Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package tomboy Oh. I am running unstable. Sorry, I should have checked if it is there in

Re: Tomboy and Beagle

2005-07-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rajiv Vyas wrote: Newbie here. Is there a simple way to install Tomboy and Beagle? Rajiv $apt-cache search tomboy tomboy - desktop note taking program using Wiki style links $apt-get install tomboy Dont know about beagle. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell Unive

Re: gdb not able to display the contents of source code

2005-07-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:00:18 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (gdb) list 1 ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S: No such file or directory. in ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S (gdb) I get the same output you do on a different smal

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
s. keeling wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html Not bad but it ne

Re: Debian package containing header files?

2005-07-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ishwar Rattan wrote: Which package (from ftp.debian.org) might contain the /usr/C11R6/include/X11/*.h header files? It is needed to compile some code that needs those header files.. -ishwar To find out which package provides a file called stdio.h you can use wajig whichpkg stdio.h So, yo

gdb not able to display the contents of source code

2005-07-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
$cat helloworld.f90 PROGRAM helloworld IMPLICIT NONE PRINT *, "Just for testing purposes" END PROGRAM helloworld $gfortran -g -Wall helloworld.f90 $./a.out Just for testing purposes $gdb ./a.out GNU gdb 6.3-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, cover

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html This looks useful. If you are int

Re: Double postings?

2005-07-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:42:14 +0200 Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Some funny activity on list..like..I send one postng but receive 2. Some members probably send one but 2 is on list? Is it only me? Thanks Not from everybody, but from a few people. Yes

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Filipus Klutiero wrote: http://wiki.debian.net/?TeluguMusic Well, that page doesn't seem particularly appropriate. What particular relation is there between Telugu music and Debian? If you want to explain how to explain to your music on Debian, do it on your site. It's not because it's not

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Jonathan Kaye wrote: En/La kamaraju kusumanchi ha escrit, a 21/07/05 06:59: Hi I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html I have ind

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html Looks real good as a start. Thanks.

guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html I have indicated the areas where I need help by comments similar to "Explain why this should be so", "pr

Re: apt-get to remove all files

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Clive Menzies wrote: On (20/07/05 23:04), Johan wrote: I did the following.. apt-get install clamav now I want to get rid of it and I mean all files connected to it. apt-get remove clamav.. does remove clamav but there is about another 20 files refering lying around. Kindly please is ther

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: The way I am currently using the wiki is as follows: Let's say I solved a small problem by posting a question on debian-user or IRC. I will write a brief description of problem and solution on the wiki so that the users need not read whole threads when they

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
The way I am currently using the wiki is as follows: Let's say I solved a small problem by posting a question on debian-user or IRC. I will write a brief description of problem and solution on the wiki so that the users need not read whole threads when they face the same problem. If every us

Re: printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi users of 'unstable' Debian: The included messages was posted to the debian-devel mailing list. It outlines some of the issues with the upcomming transition from gimpprint to gutenprint. I want to know if this kind of messages would be useful to other users of 'unstable' for

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 18 July 2005 10:27 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: People do things like that because they have the illusion they can control others. It's a nasty habit, and it says more negative about the person doing it than the person they are jumping on.

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Lorenzo Taylor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Sher's comments on Re: Ubunto vs. Debian were as follows: # > Please use the same thread. Please do not open different threads for the # > same topic that is still active. Your reply could as well go into the # > threa

Re: a kernel compilation question

2005-07-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Doofus wrote: Is there any reason not to combine the two methods, ie download the latest 2.4 from kernel.org (which I want), but use "make-kpkg clean" and "make-kpkg kernel_image" (which I like)? I do not have an answer to your question. But may I ask why you are trying to compile 1) lates

Re: Installing Nvidia on Debian 3.1 "Sarge"

2005-07-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
philip wrote: I can not install it at the moment until I disable GDM as Xfree86 is always running and the installer keeps saying exit X before installing the driver. You can always stop a service if you like to. Take gdm for example. /etc/init.d/gdm stop will stop the gdm service. Other

Re: kdelibs3.3 and kdelibs3.4

2005-07-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I upgraded Debian from Sarge to Etch several days ago. I then did a full upgrade (apt-get upgrade). ALL of my sources in sources.list are labeled ETCH. No stable and no unstable. Just etch. So, there shouldn't be any incompatibility issue. But I noticed in

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:05:48AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I see a large potential for wiki.debian.net in the future as the Debian base grows continuously. Hi Raju, I was confused at your posting this here (as opposed to a more techincal list as most of

size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I see a large potential for wiki.debian.net in the future as the Debian base grows continuously. But having a cursory look through the wiki, I could not figure out how much stuff it currently holds. I think it would be a good idea to display atleast the following statistics. How many pages are

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: To the person who asked about Ubunto vs. Debian: Please use the same thread. Please do not open different threads for the same topic that is still active. Your reply could as well go into the thread titled "Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma". raju -- Kamaraju

Re: KDE 3.4 in unstable

2005-07-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Roby wrote: Hamster wrote: Does anyone know of an ETA for KDE 34 in unstable? Even if I could get an indication of if it's weeks or months away. I realise in previous months the delay was due to the impending release of a new stable, but that's been out for a while now. Thanks. I d

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:22 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: As a user, I cannot obviously dictate how the spam filters are setup in Debian related mailing lists. At the same time, I am not proficient enough to create spam filters of my own. The following method is what

to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
As a user, I cannot obviously dictate how the spam filters are setup in Debian related mailing lists. At the same time, I am not proficient enough to create spam filters of my own. The following method is what I used to have a spam-free emails from Debian related MLs. 1) Create a separate gmai

Re: failing to upgrade udev

2005-07-15 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Lorenzo Taylor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kamaraju kusumanchi's comments on Re: failing to upgrade udev were as follows: # In such a case, you should use stable distribution. Unstable is not for # everyone. It is useless to complain about instability of unstable. #

Re: failing to upgrade udev

2005-07-15 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Lorenzo Taylor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 # Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 # (using .../archives/udev_0.062-4_i386.deb) ... # udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. This is a classic example of probably the only thing I dislike about Debian. In su

Re: Setting permissions, changing the owner...

2005-07-15 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Dom wrote: Dear Debian friends, I'm a new Debian user and a newbie to Linux as well. And I need your help. I searched on the net for this but couldn't find anything... Bare with me as English is not my mother language so I'm not sure if I'm going to explain this right. Hope you understand wha

Re: Sarge vs. Stable in /etc/apt/sources.list

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
please keep the replies on the list. Dear raju: So far so good. Appreciate the explanation. And yes, of course, I changed the name as Root. But, how does apt-get/Synaptic determine whether a "stable" source is indeed Sarge or Woody? Does it check the database or is the word enough? sor

Re: Sarge vs. Stable in /etc/apt/sources.list

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I've noticed that some debian sources use the term "stable", others use the term "sarge". I was advised by some members of our list that I should change "stable" to "sarge" to assure continuity. But when I did that, Synaptic complained of errors. Withou

do I need to have ide-scsi loaded for 2.6 kernels?

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I googled around but there is not an affirmative answer. People seem to loading/unloading ide-scsi module by trial and error until their cdrom starts working. My question is, is it needed at all for 2.6 kernel? Running unstable. $uname -a Linux kusumanchi 2.6.9-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 03:48:29 EST

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Philipp Kern wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:53 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: section 8.1 of debian-policy states that [sic]The run-time library package should include the symbolic link that |ldconfig| would create for the shared libraries. [sic] Does not

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Philipp Kern wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:53 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: section 8.1 of debian-policy states that [sic]The run-time library package should include the symbolic link that |ldconfig| would create for the shared libraries. [sic] Does not this mean that ldconfig

Re: KMD start

2005-07-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Andrej Perdih wrote: I have tried starting X by typing # /ect/init.d/kmd start like I was adviced, however I got the replay bash /ect/init.d/kmd start no such file or directory. Any suggestions? Thanks. Andrej It is kdm not kmd ^^ ^^ It should be /etc and not /ect /etc/i

Re: New to Debian

2005-07-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Adam Siade wrote: Hello all I am also new to Debian. I have done some Google searches on LaTeX info and have found this mailing list with several messages pertaining to LaTeX. If I have the wrong list please let me know. If I have the right list, I am excited to be able to help and receive h

Re: X and KDE

2005-07-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Andrej Perdih wrote: I have downloaded the core debina 3.1 (2.4) and installed the desktop (this package) in the debian installer. The download was very fast however it was only 48MB (big surprise). Then the install procedure was over and when I exited and tried to run graphical interface wit

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: 1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and sound card. Where precisely are they listed? lspci -v or just lspci . man ls

Re: Etch vs. Sarge -- can't make up my mind

2005-07-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Based on what I have learned tonight about Debian, I am not certain yet which option I will choose: Etch or Sarge, testing or stable. Here is my choice: Choose Sarge (STABLE) which can only be updated with a few specialized apt-get sources such as apt.ge

Re: Which Debian Installer for Etch, please?

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: What I meant to ask about the packages was: are some programs not available as yet as debian packages? Most of the stuff should be available. Debian has the largest collection of software among all the Linux distributions. If you give us your requirements, then someone

Re: Help me Please: I've Gone and Done Some Thing Really Stupid.

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
David R. Litwin wrote: My Debian was being evil and wouldn't load due to some mouse troubles (which I really need to fix; but that comes later) and so I tried to apt-get my way out of the situation (It would but up and start X (KDE), but this resulted in no gui: only command line. So I apt-got f

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear kamaraju: Thank you again. One last question: If I install the stable sarge release, and someone issues a new debian package for some application, how do you decide whether to install it or not? Does apt-get take care of all that automatically? Thank you. Benjam

Re: Which Debian Installer for Etch, please?

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: rc3 is fine to install etch. Just remember to burn the cd as an iso image. Other wise you will not be able to boot with it. My question is: If I install Etch, what Debian packages will there be available for this distro? Try packages.debian.org to see what packages/vers

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Kamaraju: Thank you so much for the clear presentation. You can always update from sarge to Etch. But you cannot go from Etch to Sarge. raju That's a key point! So it makes sense to install Sarge and then update to Etch. One last question: Is this updat

Re: newbie KDE screen resolution?

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Roger Creasy wrote: I just installed sarge. The screen is very pixelated. How can I correct this? You need to configure X properly. Try running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 as root. If that does not solve the problem, please post information about 1) What your graphics card is? You ca

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: "Sarge" is now the STABLE release and "etch" is now the TESTING release. That is correct. I would like to download the testing release so I would get the latest possible versions of Debian packages. I imagine that if I installed the stable release, that I would have

Re: Browsers get stuck on some websites.

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[KS] wrote: [KS] wrote: Hello all, I have been noticing some problems with web browsers last night. On a few websites the browser hangs while loading the page. Most of the time when Mozilla hangs, it shows in the status bar that it is waiting for some advertisement website. Konqureror tells

Re: Gnome 2.10 on Testing

2005-07-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Crean wrote: Hi I recently installed Debian testing. However, I wonder if there is a way to upgrade from Gnome 2.8 to Gnome 2.10 without have to dist-upgrade the whole shebang to unstable? I am fairly new to Debian and stability does matter to a degree - for example, I have spent ages sett

Re: creating symlinks with ldconfig

2005-07-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mr Mike wrote: On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 20:44:12 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Let's say I have a file called libfortranposix.so.0.0.0, whose soname is libfortranposix.so.0 . Now when I run 'sudo ldconfig', I should have 3 files namely, libfortranposix.so, libfortranposix.s

Re: dumb question - dvd creation

2005-07-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rodney D. Myers wrote: I was just handed an dvd r/w player in exchange for work I've done.. Not sure what I need to take a few mpg/avi movies, and create a dvd that would be viewable on the TV.. Where would I start looking? Thanks Hi Rodney I am also interested in knowing the solution f

creating symlinks with ldconfig

2005-07-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Let's say I have a file called libfortranposix.so.0.0.0, whose soname is libfortranposix.so.0 . Now when I run 'sudo ldconfig', I should have 3 files namely, libfortranposix.so, libfortranposix.so.0 which point to libfortranposix.so.0.0.0 according to http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Libra

Re: Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Elmer E. Dow wrote: After having used Red Hat 9 and Knoppix (hard disk install), I installed Sarge a while ago and plan to stick with it. Now I need to select a package manager to use that fits my needs. My laptop is used for office applications (creating documents, some graphics, presentatio

Re: [OT] linking table of contents in a dvi file

2005-07-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:00:02AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > I tried this but was not getting any clickable links. I am using xdvi as > my dvi viewer. > > $xdvi --version > xdvik version 22.40v > > This is the lat

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
roberto wrote: hello, i have the following question: in my MATLAB code i have a lot of "for...end" or "ifend" and most of them are nested one inside the other, do you know how to recognise whose "for" or "if" an "end" belongs to? i know some editors are able to do this (vim, kwite...).

Re: [OT] linking table of contents in a dvi file

2005-07-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> I searched the web and thought that hyperref might be capable of doing > this. However, the documentation of hyperref is so cryptic that I do not > know whether it is capable of doing this. > For me just having the declaration \usepackage{hyperref} is giving a dvi file which give 'cl

[OT] linking table of contents in a dvi file

2005-07-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Is it possible to have links in the "table of contents" of a dvi file? The dvi file is produced from latexing *.tex file. This is useful, for example, I can click on a chapter in the toc page and I can go to the required chapter. I searched the web and thought that hyperref might be capable of

Re: Newbie: What's the Best Window Manager?

2005-07-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Eduardo B. V. Pereira wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux and I would like to know which window manager do you think is the best one and why, to help choose the ones I'm going to try first. Thank you all, e. pereira Without giving the specifications of your computer (like how fast it is, available

Re: Detailed memory usage

2005-07-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Debian, maybe this is slightly OT, but i would like to know if there exists a program to show the real memory usage of every process that is running on a certain machine. Thanks, MC How about gnome-system-monitor? The "Process Listing" tab should tell you all th

Re: newbie can't install 3.1

2005-06-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Dylan Evans wrote: I don't know much, and figured the best way to learn linux is by having it. Unfortunately, the installation looked like it only half succeeded. The gui won't work, and it won't auto-config my network card (I'm often on a big lan, and windows works). Of that I am certain,

Re: possibility of debian "cannabilizing" other Linux distributions in 5-10 years time

2005-06-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Dominik Margraf wrote: Also, the possible release of Etch in Q4 of 2006 (Do you think this timeframe is likely?) will coincide with the release of the M*Shit Longhorn and how much share of the Windows market can be snatched by Linux? My personal opinion is that, as long as vendors ship their

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:57:07PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I have a large text file (humongous.txt) with the following structure date 1-1-2005 line1 line2 date 1-2-2005 line3 line4 date 1-3-2005 line5 line6 line7 line8 . Is there any tool which will split

[OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I have a large text file (humongous.txt) with the following structure date 1-1-2005 line1 line2 date 1-2-2005 line3 line4 date 1-3-2005 line5 line6 line7 line8 . Is there any tool which will split the above file and give me three smaller files 1-1-2005.txt, 1-2-2005.txt, 1-3-2005.txt etc.

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