Dear readers,
I think that I were not too smart when upgrading the held back package
sendmail for Debian testing. I got the following troubles:
1) The installation program tries to build databases e.g. /etc/mail/access.db.
For some reasons it tries to create a file access.new.db with
jack kinnon wrote:
So, 'stable' does support broadband. It could be the kernel then.
What's the link to the latest 'stable' kernel version?
apt-get install kernel-image
Grab the most recent 2.4 kernel for your architecture.
Adam
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Hi folks,
Thanks for the suggestions. And Kent, point taken. I'll be more explicit on every msg.
First, my current set-up. I have 'stable' with a 2..2.20 kernel. My broadband modemis a Prolink Hurricane 8000with a USB interface to the computer and a phone link to the wall phone socket. Under
Buenas!
What I used to do while running stable plus some packages from
testing was this:
1. I installed and _use_ aptitude as frontend. This makes it
simpler to follow dependencies.
2. In aptitude, I select Options Dependency Handling and change
Install suggested/recommended packages
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 12:29, Rolando Abarca wrote:
I just one to upgrade a few packages fron woody to testing, not all of
them, for instance, mysqlserver, apache and X...
What's the easiest way to do this without having to upgrade my entire
system to testing?
salud! (cheers!)
funkaster =
Thanks for the tip, but after thinking it twice, I decided to upgrade the
whole to testing :)
salud! (cheers!)
funkaster = (person *)malloc(sizeof(person)*curr_age+2);
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Edward Murrell wrote:
Add the testing lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get -t testing
I just one to upgrade a few packages fron woody to testing, not all of
them, for instance, mysqlserver, apache and X...
What's the easiest way to do this without having to upgrade my entire
system to testing?
salud! (cheers!)
funkaster = (person *)malloc(sizeof(person)*curr_age+2);
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:29:17PM -0300, Rolando Abarca wrote:
What's the easiest way to do this without having to upgrade my entire
system to testing?
http://www.backports.org/
Don't use packages from newer distros for this, things will break
oh... but they don't have PowerPC binaries... :( guess that I'll just have
to get the sources and compile myself... (don't have much time though...)
salud! (cheers!)
funkaster = (person *)malloc(sizeof(person)*curr_age+2);
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at
I am trying to use sarge.
To do so I followed these steps
1. Installed woody
2. apt-cdrom add (sarge cds)
3. apt-get update
4. apt-get upgrade
5. apt-get install x-window-system
Are these the best options?
Now I want to make gnome my desktop but I am not sure about what package
should I
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On Tuesday 16 September 2003 12:22 pm, Valter G. Nogueira Jr. wrote:
I am trying to use sarge.
To do so I followed these steps
1. Installed woody
2. apt-cdrom add (sarge cds)
delete Woody sources from sources.list.
3. apt-get update
I would
Valter G. Nogueira Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to use sarge.
...
2. apt-cdrom add (sarge cds)
...
Now I want to make gnome my desktop but I am not sure about what package
should I install.
In order to get it, I tried to install several packages but I get nothing
...
After
Hello,
The xserver problem is solved. I commented the memory size and the
framebufferdevice, typed startx and it was solved.
But I still don't have 3d acceleration, now I want to replace the geforce 2
with a card that supports Debian. What is a good card?
HTH,
Willem-Jan
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
Hello,
Last week I upgraded my debian system to testing/unstable. Then I turned off
my computer and didn't use it for two days. Today I wanted to use it again,
but now I only see a grey screen w/o the cross in the middle. The
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:36:16 +0100
Willem-Jan Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I still don't have 3d acceleration, now I want to replace the
geforce 2 with a card that supports Debian. What is a good card?
I have a geforce2, I have acceleration, and I'm running Debian.
If you want to
Hello,
Last week I upgraded my debian system to testing/unstable. Then I turned off
my computer and didn't use it for two days. Today I wanted to use it again,
but now I only see a grey screen w/o the cross in the middle. The screen
isn't equal grey, but with white spots on it. I'm using a
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:18:15 +0100
Willem-Jan Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
isn't equal grey, but with white spots on it. I'm using a geforce 2
with the nv driver, this mix worked well before. I know I actually
must use the nvidia-kernel driver, I tried several times befor. I can
build the
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
Hello,
Last week I upgraded my debian system to testing/unstable. Then I turned off
my computer and didn't use it for two days. Today I wanted to use it again,
but now I only see a grey screen w/o the cross in the middle. The
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:12:13PM -0500, AR wrote:
After upgrading to testing from woody, I am unable to hear the sound
track in mpg movies in xine,
What sound card do you have? Most can only support one stream at a
time, so if you're using GNOME or KDE then esd or artsd will have stolen
After upgrading to testing from woody, I am unable to hear the sound
track in mpg movies in xine, or hear any music in cdrom drive. GnomeCd
from gnome2 tells me drive error when I start it with a Cd in the
drive. However, I am a member of the cdrom and audio groups. I am kind
of clueless here
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:52:53PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 05:53:50AM -0600, Dave Bartmess wrote:
Removing libdb1-compat ...
dpkg - warning: while removing libdb1-compat, directory `/usr/share/doc'
not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing
I'm trying to upgrade my system to the testing distro. But I made the
mistake of going to unstable first, and had all kinds of errors trying
to install, because libc6 wouldn't install. So I decided to go back to
the testing dist. Now I run into NEW problems, as I can't remove the
unstable
My understanding of your problem is that you are trying to downgrade. I
believe somebody asked this question before and the answer was that the
doengrades are not supported (that is what I remember at least)...
Hopefully somebody else can give a more complete explanation and even a
workaround
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:44:09AM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote:
Hello,
I have potato with XFree 4.1 installed. But
whenever I run dselect now, it insists on removing
XFree4.1 (which I need for my video card).
If i change my sources.list to point to testing
and do
apt-get
Hello,
I have potato with XFree 4.1 installed. But
whenever I run dselect now, it insists on removing
XFree4.1 (which I need for my video card).
If i change my sources.list to point to testing
and do
apt-get update --fix-broken
will that upgrade my system cleanly and let me
keep Xfree4.1?
Or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
| sawfish
| is a GNOME package and so depends on the entire world, so hang on a
| second while I unravel what's going on ...
but but but but .
Sawfish is indeed well-integrated (or integrable)
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:25:01AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
sawfish is more or less waiting on two things: gnome-libs, and
Erm. Why does it need to? gnome-libs is an option and not a need for it. I've
gotten it working fine without it and I'd really rather not need gnome
to run sawfish.
Will
CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:25:01AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
sawfish is more or less waiting on two things: gnome-libs, and
Erm. Why does it need to? gnome-libs is an option and not a need for it. I've
gotten it working fine without it and I'd really rather not need
Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
| sawfish
| is a GNOME package and so depends on the entire world, so hang on a
| second while I unravel what's going on ...
but but but but .
Sawfish is
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:11:50AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:25:01AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
sawfish is more or less waiting on two things: gnome-libs, and
Erm. Why does it need to? gnome-libs is an option and not a need for it.
What are the proper lines to put in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade
from stable to testing? I seem to recal someone on the list saying to
replace the lines for stable with:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:07:24AM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
What are the proper lines to put in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade
from stable to testing? I seem to recal someone on the list saying to
replace the lines for stable with:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
On Sun, 27 May 2001 06:07:24 EDT, Marc wrote:
What are the proper lines to put in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade
from stable to testing? I seem to recal someone on the list saying to
replace the lines for stable with:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the proper lines to put in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade
from stable to testing? I seem to recal someone on the list saying to
replace the lines for stable with:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
| testing started off as a copy of stable, but at various times I think
| things have got out of kilter in such a way as to leave certain packages
| in stable and unstable but not testing (but I may be misremembering
| there)
That seems to have been true
Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
| testing started off as a copy of stable, but at various times I think
| things have got out of kilter in such a way as to leave certain packages
| in stable and unstable but not testing (but I may be misremembering
|
Hi Debians!
After upgrading to testing I must setup lo manually after rebooting with
ifup lo.
I have this in my - not changed - interfaces-file:
| iface lo inet loopback
How can I fix it?
TIA
juh
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Do you have an auto entry in /etc/network/interfaces? Mine looks
something like:
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet blah blah
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:01:16AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
Hi Debians!
After upgrading to testing I must setup lo manually
Gregory T. Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you have an auto entry in /etc/network/interfaces? Mine looks
something like:
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet blah blah
That's it. Strange, in potato I did not need this auto entry.
Ciao!
juh
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Hi,
this is my other problem after upgrading to testing.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -V:d_setlocale
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = de_DE,
LC_ALL = de_DE,
LANG = de_DE
are supported and installed
JUH [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -V:d_setlocale
JUH perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
JUH perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
JUHLANGUAGE = de_DE,
JUHLC_ALL = de_DE,
JUHLANG = de_DE
JUH are supported and installed on your system.
JUH perl: warning: Falling back
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:02:39PM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
this is my other problem after upgrading to testing.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -V:d_setlocale
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = de_DE
Hi,
I solved some of the problems I've got after upgrading to testing.
I have no loopback interface
With ifconfig lo does not show up.
ifconfig -a gives
loLink encap:Local Loopback
LOOPBACK MTU:16192 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Hi Willi, Hi Ilya!
Try uncommenting the needed locales in /etc/locale.gen.
Then run 'locale-gen' as root. Hope that helps.
Thanks. That fixed it.
Ciao!
juh
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Jan Ulrich Hasecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have no loopback interface
Edit /etc/networking/interfaces to include a line:
iface lo inet loopback
(you'll probably just have to uncomment an existing line)
You'll need to bring the interfaces up again with ipup, I imagine,
Jim
Hallo Jim!
Am Don, 17 Mai 2001, schrieb Jim McCloskey:
Edit /etc/networking/interfaces to include a line:
iface lo inet loopback
I have this line there. Seems that on boot it is not automatically
configured.
You'll need to bring the interfaces up again with ipup, I imagine,
Mh, yes
James D. Freels writes:
1) bite the bullet and upgrade to 'testing' and install the kde 2.1
packages that have anti-aliasing capability compiled in, or
I came to the belief one debian release ago that the best place to be
was as close as possible to the majority of the developers. This
The main reason I am considering going with the unstable version is to
get the AA fonts in KDE 2.1. I did a apt-get -d install kde-base
after enabling the unstable tree and hitting an apt-get update.
What I found was most of the development packages as I expected like
libc, gcc, etc. However,
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:31:25PM -0500, James D. Freels wrote:
libc, gcc, etc. However, there also was the perl packages which have
been reported as very buggy. I can't deal with that. What is the
status of these packages now.
Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC
James D. Freels writes:
expected like libc, gcc, etc. However, there also was the perl
packages which have been reported as very buggy. I can't deal with
that. What is the status of these packages now.
I don't remember problems with perl. Please refresh my memory.
I can also say that
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:42:59PM -0500, Mark Hurley wrote:
Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I am not currently subscribing to the list(s). I
am looking for an honest opinion. I currently am a Debian 2.2.r2 (with
several extensions) user. Because of several circumstances among which are:
1) I manually installed Xfree86-4.0.2 over the stable version to get
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