Re: sources.list to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-11-06 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:09:46AM -0700, Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm trying to upgrade my slink to potato with the three cd-set > of binaries, but I don't know what my sources.list should look > like to include all three cd's. If someone could please send

sources.list to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-11-04 Thread Matheson
Hey,   I'm trying to upgrade my slink to potato with the three cd-set of binaries, but I don't know what my sources.list should look like to include all three cd's.  If someone could please send me an example file, I would appreciate it.   Thanks, Cameron Matheson  

Upgrade Slink to Potato

2000-08-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
Just completed the upgrade Slink to Potato using CDs. Everything went perfectly; a really excellent operation. Congratulations and thanks to the Debian developers! Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell

Re: from slink to potato -> 'wd' ethernet card?

2000-07-17 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:19, virtanen wrote: > I'm thinking that it might be nice to upgrade for potato now when I've got > slink working more or less well. > > My problem with installing directly potato did not work, because the wd > module needed for my old ethernet card did not work with th

from slink to potato -> 'wd' ethernet card?

2000-07-17 Thread virtanen
Hi, I'm thinking that it might be nice to upgrade for potato now when I've got slink working more or less well. My problem with installing directly potato did not work, because the wd module needed for my old ethernet card did not work with the kernel. It was pointed out by 'Nathan' on this l

Re: slink to potato ssh failed

2000-07-10 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 18:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I recently upgraded my slink box to potato with apt. Everything works > well but the new ssh: > > neptun:/home/papt# dpkg --configure ssh > Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ... ^ I think this was fixed around -7, an

slink to potato ssh failed

2000-07-10 Thread papt
Hi! I recently upgraded my slink box to potato with apt. Everything works well but the new ssh: neptun:/home/papt# dpkg --configure ssh Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ... dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered

Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato

2000-06-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
"voy1d" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that the commands are different, for example bitchx instead > of > BitchX and everything I foudn was out of date. > voy1d Have you used Debian? Storm *is* Debian with a few extras. Someone who is used to Debian could use a Storm system and not be aware

Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato

2000-06-19 Thread voy1d
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:38 PM Subject: Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato > "voy1d" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was using Storm for a while, and I just got so pissed off with the > > fact > > the packages were all wrong that I gave up and went back

Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato

2000-06-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone done this yet? Could you give details including > sources.list > lines used? I want to run potato due to increased apps support. I > might > just wait for Storm to release a new distro based on potato. No problem. My /etc/apt/sources.list fo

Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato

2000-06-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
"voy1d" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was using Storm for a while, and I just got so pissed off with the > fact > the packages were all wrong that I gave up and went back to Debian. > But > yeah, they don't really look after the updates etc, so I wouldn't > bother > with it. Huh? Which packages

Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato

2000-06-18 Thread voy1d
9, 2000 11:40 AM Subject: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato > Has anyone done this yet? Could you give details including sources.list > lines used? I want to run potato due to increased apps support. I might > just wait for Storm to release a new distro based on potato. > &

Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato

2000-06-18 Thread Paul McHale
Has anyone done this yet? Could you give details including sources.list lines used? I want to run potato due to increased apps support. I might just wait for Storm to release a new distro based on potato. Thanks in advance, Paul -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Soluti

Upgrade from slink to potato, IPX

2000-05-16 Thread David E. Young
Greetings. Thanks to all who offered assistance on my upgrade from Debian 2.1 to "frozen potato". The process went fairly well, apart from a circular dependency that was resolved by re-installing 2.1 with the 2.2 kernel. However, there seems to be an intermittent problem with the dynamic linker (ld

Re: How to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-04-14 Thread SCOTT FENTON
If you hav a cable, DSL, or T* connection, wait for potato to stablize, then run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade Alex Kwan wrote: > > Hi! > > Because I am afraid the upgrade will loss my > nstalled application and user's information. > What is the safe way to

Re: How to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-04-14 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! Because I am afraid the upgrade will loss my nstalled application and user's information. What is the safe way to upgrade slink to potato? Thanks

Re: Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-27 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Taupter wrote: > > I was poking update-alternatives, but didn't find a way to point my > default window manager to /usr/local/bin/gnome-session. > Yes I did read the man 8 update-alternatives, but it was a bit confusing > to me (as I think it is a bit confusing to anyone but the man writer aka > I

Re: Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:11:19AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > I compiled gnome, wmaker and a large bunch of X-related software, and I > was using a file in the /etc/X11/ (I can't remember its name, since it > was deleted during the upgrade) to set my default window manager to > /usr/local/bin/gnome-se

Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-27 Thread Taupter
Hello! First, I'm proud of Debian! I upgraded my Debian system to Potato this weekend, and everything went really fine! Enven my glibc 2.0.7 programs ran (almost all)! Thank you all developers! Go ahead! Make the world better! Second, I'm a bit confused about one point: I compiled gnome, wmak

Re: glibc-compat and upgrading from Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP method.

2000-03-24 Thread Taupter
Hello all I'm near from upgrading my Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP, but I'm afraid if it can drive my system _really_ bad (broken). I tried it six months ago, and the result was a reinstalling Slink from CDs. Did anyone try this way? Worked fine? Taupter

RE: Upgrading libc6 from slink to potato (no network!)

2000-02-29 Thread Moore, Paul
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moore, Paul) wrote: > >Aargh. In order to run dhcpcd on 2.2.14, I need the version from > >unstable (frozen, I guess). But that depends on the unstable version > >of libc6, which depends on the unstable version of debianutils

Re: Upgrading libc6 from slink to potato (no network!)

2000-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moore, Paul) wrote: >Aargh. In order to run dhcpcd on 2.2.14, I need the version from >unstable (frozen, I guess). But that depends on the unstable version >of libc6, which depends on the unstable version of debianutils, which >depends on the unstable version of libc6 > >If I

Upgrading libc6 from slink to potato (no network!)

2000-02-28 Thread Moore, Paul
Apologies if people have seen this before. I initially sent it via the news gateway at our site as I was having trouble getting subscribed, but I'm not convinced that the gateway is making it to the full mailing list (other messages I've sent that way are not in the archives). Now that I've got mys

upgrading slink to potato

2000-02-23 Thread Joseph Lunderville
um, is it possible to upgrade to potato from slink yet? when I try, I get problems with recursive pre-dependencies between libc6, ldso, and debianutils. I think I broke my system (I sort of expected to) by forcing things, but once things are fixed, I will want to upgrade again. please CC repli

Urgent: Can't upgrade from slink to Potato/Frozen!!

2000-01-29 Thread S. Salman Ahmed
Ok, this problem has me totally stumped. I have upgraded from slink -> potato twice in the past without any problems. But on this new installation of slink, after I changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to look like: # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror conta

Dare I dist-upgrade a server from slink to potato right now?

2000-01-26 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
We're running into a problem with the version of glibc that's on our news server, which is running slink. I've dist-upgraded a firewall machine at home a few weeks ago without a hitch but the machine at the office is a news server that handles over 4 gig of alt.binaries newsgroups a day (we handle

Re: slink to potato?

2000-01-16 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:01:51PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > Hi all- > > I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to > potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this > recently? Any issues? I did the upgrade last friday o

Re: slink to potato?

2000-01-15 Thread Mike Werner
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:56:51PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to > potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this > recently? Any issues? Also would just like to say thanks to everyone that &

slink to potato?

2000-01-15 Thread Michael Perry
Hi all- I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this recently? Any issues? Also would just like to say thanks to everyone that develops for Debian and to the mailing list for all the great advice

Upgrading from slink to potato

2000-01-03 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
- Please reply to debian-user@lists.debian.org or directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hello, I want to upgrade my Debian Linux Box from slink to potato. I have got a 4-CD copy of the potato

RE: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: : thanks for the info on Potato. if i do decide to go to Potato is there : something i should be wary of. it appears from the other distro that the : 2.2 kernel is working fine. does Potato have any specific issues with the : 2.2 kernel i.e is so

Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-31 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 31 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about "RE: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato" > thanks for the info on Potato. if i do decide to go to Potato is there > something i should be wary of. it appears from the other distro that the > 2.2 kernel is working fine. does Potato have

RE: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-31 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
under kernel 2.2? Thanks -Original Message- From: Brian Servis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 12/30/99 3:15 PM Subject: Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato *- On 30 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about "Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato" > hi > &

Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about "Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato" > hi > > i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is > pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this. potato should run just

Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Dec-1999 Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Alternatively you could install the kernel source and create your own > package. > > apt-get install kernel-package kernel-source- > cd /usr/src > tar xIf kernel-source-.tar.bz2 > cd kernel-source- > make config # or make menuconfig or make x

Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: : hi : : i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is : pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this. : If is give the commands : root> apt-get update : root> apt-get dist-upg

Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-30 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this. If is give the commands root> apt-get update root> apt-get dist-upgrade with the sources.list pointing to unstable. will this

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-28 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Dec-1999 Mark Brown wrote: > No, no reinstall should be required - for me, one of the great things > about Debian is that it supports in-place upgrades on running systems > (you don't have to boot an installer or anything). Just pointing apt or > dselect at a source of potato packages and u

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 11:00:52PM -, Pollywog wrote: > I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my laptop from > Slink to Potato. If I understand correctly, you had to install a whole new > Potato system from scratch. That is exactly what I want to avoid;

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Dec-1999 Mark Brown wrote: > > PCMCIA support depends upon some kernel modules which are provided in a > seperate package to the kernel. When you install a new kernel you also > need to install a version of these modules that matches your new kernel. > I did that, but still lost pcmcia.

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Dec-1999 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > BTW, I didn't know about the debian-laptop list until today. That might be > the best place to discuss this. I did not know until now :) thanks -- Andrew

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 07:18:09PM -, Pollywog wrote: > I broke my pcmcia stuff and I am unable to fix it. I think it has to do with > trying to install a kernel the Debian way. I will trying reinstalling a small > slink system and then upgrade via ppp. If that does not work, I will have to

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 27-Dec-1999 Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > > > > One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink -> potato on an old > > ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for > > a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia e

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Dec-1999 Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > > One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink -> potato on an old > ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for > a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet, > mostly due to laziness). I broke my pc

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
thout serious problems. > > I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my laptop from > Slink to Potato. If I understand correctly, you had to install a whole new > Potato system from scratch. That is exactly what I want to avoid; I want to > upgrade the syst

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my > laptop from > Slink to Potato. If I understand correctly, you had to install a > whole new > Potato system from scratch. That is exactly what I want to avoid; I

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-26 Thread Pollywog
boot, and I > didn't manage to repair it using a rescue disk. The only sollution was to > install the whole system new from the scratch. :-( > > But I'd say that potato is stable enough to use it without serious problems. I am running potato on my other machine, but I w

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-26 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 07:42:37PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On 26-Dec-1999 kometboy wrote: [Updating to potato] > Thanks for your thoughts on the subject. I could be wrong, but it seems I saw > more than a few posts from people who had upgraded and had some not-so-minor > problems. Unless so

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-26 Thread Pollywog
On 26-Dec-1999 kometboy wrote: > I am a reformed Red Hat user. I've upgraded to potato on both my > machines, and have had no significant problems, other than the > occasional updated package that is broken. These are usually fixed in > a day or two, and info about them is always available on this

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-26 Thread kometboy
Pollywog wrote: > > I recall seeing many posts about systems being rendered unusable or broken > after upgrade from Slink to Potato. Is this still a problem? I do not want > to try it if I will just break my system. I am a reformed Red Hat user. I've upgraded to potato on

safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-26 Thread Pollywog
I recall seeing many posts about systems being rendered unusable or broken after upgrade from Slink to Potato. Is this still a problem? I do not want to try it if I will just break my system. thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*

Re: upgrade form slink to potato

1999-12-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > Could anyone tell me exactly how how to upgrade from slink to potato with apt? > Assuming you have suitable /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade

upgrade form slink to potato

1999-12-10 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, Could anyone tell me exactly how how to upgrade from slink to potato with apt? Thanks Rick Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debiandoc-sgml: slink-to-potato bug?

1999-12-07 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Fluch wrote: > There are some debian packages for that: bug and reportbug Please don't report another bug about that. Instead, read any of these bugs: #47363, #50286, #50540, #52052, #46270, #50286, #50540, or #52052 -- see shy jo

Re: debiandoc-sgml: slink-to-potato bug?

1999-12-03 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Svante Signell wrote: > Since I'm new to Debian I don't know where to report (possible) bugs > yet I'm posting it here. Please advise me to the correct list next > time. The lists subscribed to so far are: debian-announce, > debian-news, deb

Re: dpkg-dev: slink-to-potato bug?

1999-12-03 Thread Brian May
> "Svante" == Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Note: the potato version is unstable, and you are more likely to encounter problems with it rather then slink. However, if you are willing to submit bug reports, I am sure that most developers will be grateful. Svante> Hello, Since

dpkg-dev: slink-to-potato bug?

1999-12-03 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, Since I'm new to Debian I don't know where to report (possible) bugs yet I'm posting it here. Please advise me to the correct list next time. The lists subscribed to so far are: debian-announce, debian-news, debian-change, debian-user. Upgrading from slink emacs or xemacs resulted in an u

debiandoc-sgml: slink-to-potato bug?

1999-12-03 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, Since I'm new to Debian I don't know where to report (possible) bugs yet I'm posting it here. Please advise me to the correct list next time. The lists subscribed to so far are: debian-announce, debian-news, debian-change, debian-user. Output when installing debiandoc-sgml: Cannot find te

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-12-02 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
This is a very interesting message. Thanks to both of you. Unfortunately, this is still quite obscure for me, as I am definitely a newbie (forced to upgrade from slink to potato to make my laptop work). How can I install a library (by hand)? Bye Alessandro P.S. non-technical intriguing

slink to potato upgrade procedure

1999-12-01 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
I downloaded a week old potato snapshot binary-i386 and binary-all directories what should i do now ? i don't want to upgrade every package manually. Is there any rules how can i use apt-get across my LAN to upgrade distro automatically ? -- +-------------------

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Dan Christensen
Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I went that path also (dist-upgrade to get potato) and had some of the > same problems. > > The most serious for me was that my pcmcia modem card stopped working > somewhere along the way. I also have had this problem. One thing that makes my mode

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 10:24:03PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file > or directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Dan Christensen wrote: > o Does potato contain all of the Y2K upgrades in slink and a half? > And all current security updates? Yes. > - Throughout the upgrade I got the following message: > > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/Term/Re

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Graham Williams
Hi Dan, I went that path also (dist-upgrade to get potato) and had some of the same problems. The most serious for me was that my pcmcia modem card stopped working somewhere along the way. After recompiling kernels and pcmcia and different options etc I gave up. I reinstalled (slink) from scra

questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Dan Christensen
Last night I upgraded my fairly stock slink machine to potato using "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade". I have various questions. The last group of questions is about all the errors that occurred. o Does potato contain all of the Y2K upgrades in slink and a half? And all current security up

Re: Newbie: slink-to-potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 10:35:52PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote > Hello, > > I recently installed slink on a new SCSI disk for my dual oc 450 MHz > Celeron machine. (suse 6.2 is already on an IDE disk). > > Since I'm new to .deb-based systems I would like to ask a few questions: > > (I have been

Newbie: slink-to-potato upgrade

1999-11-27 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, I recently installed slink on a new SCSI disk for my dual oc 450 MHz Celeron machine. (suse 6.2 is already on an IDE disk). Since I'm new to .deb-based systems I would like to ask a few questions: (I have been running RedHat since 5.0 up to 6.1 and rawhide, mandrake 6.1 and suse 6.2 on di

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Oki DZ
Salman Ahmed wrote: ... > Although I don't advocate (re)compiling kernels your situation sounds > like one where it might help. Have you tried to compile a kernel from > sources ? Either the 2.0.36 or one of the 2.2.x ones. Another poster to > this thread mentioned this as well. You might want to

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Oki DZ
Ben Collins wrote: ... > Please stop trolling for comparisons here. Comparing how Debian works, to > how RedHat works, is like comparing Church and Government. They are two > different things, and have two different philosophies. Agree. If somebody wants to compare things, compare Linux with NT.

(getting closer) Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I'm having major problems upgrading from slink to potato (stable to > unstable apt sources). After one of the packages is being setup, I get > a whole list of stuff like this: > depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/SOMETHING.o is not owned by root OK, I think we're getting

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 06:54:54PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > RH's mailing lists have more people which means more people to > volunteer to answer questions. When I go to newsgroups, it's easy to > spot a good or bad one. In a bad one, you'll see a list of posts with RedHat has tech support _emp

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Another thing to consider, this is a volunteer list. People reply when > they can and when they have time. No one is *obliged* to reply to every > single post made to debian-user. Right, but it's a bit disheartening for me when I don't get help from the Debian community when I know I could easily

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-16 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to potato?? If so, did you install from sources or from a kernel image? I updated from slink to potato on my laptop at the weekend and had no real problems with the upgrade. However, I did make sure that I had all the packages I needed in

Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-16 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I'm having major problems upgrading from slink to potato (stable to unstable apt sources). After one of the packages is being setup, I get a whole list of stuff like this: depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root Then after something related to PCMCIA

slink to potato

1999-10-17 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
is it time for potato? If yes, how? apt-get? I am running debian 2.1r3. -gnana

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
Damir J. Naden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm asking this because when I install (by ignoring libc6 > =>2.1 dependancy) imagemagick or xfig from potato on a slink system > (along with whatever they depend on- the dpkg is installing them > cleanly), all I get is segfaults galore. That indicates t

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-10 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Greg Wooledge; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > If I want to > > check out something that is only in Potato, I go and use apt-get to grab > > and install it. If it uses glibc2.1, it'll get that, and any other libs > > that it depends on. > > Y

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I want to > check out something that is only in Potato, I go and use apt-get to grab > and install it. If it uses glibc2.1, it'll get that, and any other libs > that it depends on. Yup. > Being `binary compatible', does this mean that all the apps tha

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-10 Thread Damon Muller
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:21:18PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to state: > > > > That was supposed to be the point of my message -- In my experience, > > upgrading from glibc 2.0 to 2.1 is *trivial*, and needs no special > > consideration, migration guides, hand-holding sessions, or support

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > I have been in this thread way too long :-), but ... I have to agree > with Damon's post. And I have been told that glibc2.1 and glibc2.0 are > binary compatible. Glibc 2.1 is binary compatible with glibc 2.0. That me

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-06 Thread markzimm
> > That was supposed to be the point of my message -- In my experience, > upgrading from glibc 2.0 to 2.1 is *trivial*, and needs no special > consideration, migration guides, hand-holding sessions, or support > groups. > > Stop whining and just do it. > > -Miles > > p.s. The `stop whining' b

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-06 Thread Miles Bader
"Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been told that glibc2.1 and glibc2.0 are binary compatible. For most purposes, they are. Of course this is software, and software has bugs, so there are almost certainly odd cases where things don't work; but they appear to be quite the except

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-06 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Miles Bader; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Because of the developments such as glibc2.1, perl, and probably > > numerous other things, you can't take something out of Potato and put it > > on a Slink system and expect it to work. It's an all-o

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-06 Thread Miles Bader
Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because of the developments such as glibc2.1, perl, and probably > numerous other things, you can't take something out of Potato and put it > on a Slink system and expect it to work. It's an all-or-nothing > arrangement. They may both be `GNU/Linux', but t

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-05 Thread Damon Muller
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:38:05AM +0100, Mark Brown was heard to state: > > > The stable GNOME packages are actually produced by the Debian > > > maintainers - they're just distributed from the GNOME site. > > > So, why would they not be introduced into slink-proposed-updates? > > The only thing

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:02:55PM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi Mark Brown; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > That idea is intented to be closer to unstable than stable - at this > > point, there would probably be as much hassle updating to the in-between > > release as there is updatin

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Mark Brown; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Damir, are you sure mutt is using vim? If you have nvi installed and > haven't adjusted the alternatives vi will default to that and if you > normally use a shell alias to select your vi mutt won't pick that up. Yup, I'm positive. I am a contro

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Miles Bader; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There's a howto somewhere on the Debian site saying which packages have to > > be updated to use a 2.2 kernel with Slink. > > Do you have any idea where this would be? I've been searching the > debian site

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-04 Thread Miles Bader
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a howto somewhere on the Debian site saying which packages have to > be updated to use a 2.2 kernel with Slink. Do you have any idea where this would be? I've been searching the debian site for this kind of info with no luck. I did try a 2.2.10 kernel,

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-04 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I've been slowly upgrading my packages from slink to potato, and > > frankly, have never had a single problem. > > How are you doing this? Do you just go get the packages and 'dpkg -i' them > or do you use apt? There are a bun

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:55:22AM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > > Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > > Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better > > > though, it leaves room for replies. > > Ooops, sorry, I don't know h

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-03 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better > > though, it leaves room for replies. > > Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimr

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-03 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better > though, it leaves room for replies. Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimrc files specs 76 columns, maybe I need separate command in muttrc? > I'm not sure what

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:17:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wouldn't it be nice is this information was collated at one location so > that people could build on what's already been done and not have to try > everything new every time. That's what open source is about--sharing. > What I

RE: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, B. Szyszka wrote: > > As for the version, i'd go with the latest stable (2.2.12, unless they > > released 2.2.13 just today). There's even a brand new Debian package so > > you won't have to compile your own if you don't want. > > Where woul

RE: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread B. Szyszka
> As for the version, i'd go with the latest stable (2.2.12, unless they > released 2.2.13 just today). There's even a brand new Debian package so > you won't have to compile your own if you don't want. Where would I be able to find that package? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My real question is: To upgrade from slink to potato, should I go to a > 2.2 kernel under slink first? I know those issues are documented on > the Debian site. If so, what kernel version is most likely t

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better though, it leaves room for replies. On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > ---stuff snipped here-- > > > Depending on the particular p

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread markzimm
in the mailing list archives and found that a kernel upgrade should fix it. My real question is: To upgrade from slink to potato, should I go to a 2.2 kernel under slink first? I know those issues are documented on the Debian site. If so, what kernel version is most likely to prevent further

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: ---stuff snipped here-- > Depending on the particular package, recompiling for slink can be as > simple as "apt-get --compile source packagename" (with a new enough > version of apt, of course). The versioned Perl dependancies and such can > be fixed b

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