On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
David,
Well, there were no .gimp directories to be found, only gimp directories
(/usr/lib/gimp, /usr/doc/gimp). I deleted the .gimprc files as mattyt and
as root and got this error both ways:
gimp fatal error: .gimprc file not found
so i
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In any case, does anyone know of some way to trick dpkg into
thinking that I have emacs 19.34 installed?
Get the 'equivs' package and configure it as desired. Check out
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig/equivs.html; for more information.
I'm trying to start the network after cardmgr starts, but cardmgr takes
too long and network dies because it can't find eth0.
Is there a way to execute /etc/init.d/network ONLY after cardmgr completes ?
This way I don't have to be around during a reboot !
Thanks,
Matthew
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wish to use Debian Linux 1.3 on my Intel 486 machine and I am unable to boot.
I am unclear on where to go for help in booting debian linux. I have created a
boot disc from the raw image resc1440.bin. I have attempted to boot many times
always with the same result.
I assume mailing to this
Hi,
I doubt it's sendmail problem (I mean, nothing that a recompile will
solve). It looks like a configuration problem.
Can you send more information to the list? Your hosts names,
your sendmail.mc file, where are you trying to send mail to, etc.
See ya.
E.-
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On 14-Oct-97 Matthew Tebbens wrote:
I'm trying to start the network after cardmgr starts, but cardmgr takes
too long and network dies because it can't find eth0.
Is there a way to execute /etc/init.d/network ONLY after cardmgr completes ?
It's a disgusting hack, but you could put
Sorry, I missed the original post. I think you are looking for mformat,
available in the mtools package. This may only work on floppies (not
sure). I personally prefer superformat which is on the rescue image, but
not part of the base installation (and no where else that I know of, so I
stole
What I actually did was almost the same ! :)
I added a 'sleep 3' right after cardmgr to give it some time to start.
CardMgr debian package DOES try to start './network start eth0' but its
not working for some reason, probably in the wrong dir or something.
Anyways, I was not gonna re-compile and
Hi fellows,
Does anyone know why Matlab5 (5.1.0.421) is unhappy with
libstdc++.so.27.2.1 ( can't resolve symbol '__register_exceptions' ),
but works fine with the older version libstdc++.so.27.1.4?
Other than switching to the older version, is there any way around this
problem?
Regards,
ok, che, here we go,
i *finally* got everything installed, after countless --force-depends and
--force-conflicts commands, but now there's one little problem: I can't
start *any* xterms! every single program i try to start (netscape, emacs,
pine) requires an xterm (of course) but everything
Hi Matt,
On 14-Oct-97 Matt Thompson wrote:
ok, che, here we go,
i *finally* got everything installed, after countless --force-depends and
--force-conflicts commands, but now there's one little problem: I can't
start *any* xterms! every single program i try to start
On 13-Oct-97 Matt Thompson wrote:
David,
Well, there were no .gimp directories to be found, only gimp directories
(/usr/lib/gimp, /usr/doc/gimp). I deleted the .gimprc files as mattyt
and
as root and got this error both ways:
gimp fatal error:
On 14-Oct-97 David Puryear wrote:
On 13-Oct-97 Matt Thompson wrote:
David,
Well, there were no .gimp directories to be found, only gimp
directories
(/usr/lib/gimp, /usr/doc/gimp). I deleted the .gimprc files as
mattyt
Hi,
what's the easiest way to upgrade packages, specially if there have been
some security updates and we're not sure of what should be upgraded?
For example, from a baseline 1.2 install, how can I retrieve updated
packages and install them without having to know exactly which ones are
I have recently subscribe to this list and I would like to have some
preliminary advice before I install debian 1.3.1
My knowlegde of Unix and Linux is scant: some user experience with HP-UX.
At present I am running W95 and appplications on a 486, 16 MB. I have a dial-up
connection to the ISP
Hi,
I installed the berolist package. In the Package description (debian
website) it says there is a web interface for berolist...
Where is it? I can't find any cgi or html files that apply to berolist...
Help! ;)
thanks
Ricardo
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Hello everyone,
Please forgive me for a question that has probably been asked
thousands of times. I've just been so busy lately that I haven't been
able to do the research I usually would.
Does anyone have any recommendations on a tape drive that would be
compatible with Linux? My problem is
Dirk Kievith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My purpose is to set up a small *intranet*, with about 2-3 machines
to start with, to offer email and web-browsing facilities to
multiple users. Which means multiple email accounts etc.
My main querry is how to go about it:
- which e-mail software,
On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
hello, all,
I tried to install the GIMP and xtar, and when trying to run both, I get
the same error message:
xtar: can't load library 'libXm.so.2' ...and: gimp: can't load library
'libXm.so.2'
???
libXm is Motif. You are trying to install
Thomas,
Thanks for your reply. I'm currently working on the later version of GIMP
right now (i've found that it's quite involved. thankfully 'Che-Fox' is
gracious enough to help me with that) but I will try the lesstif for xtar.
Thanks again,
matty
Matt Thompson
MZI, Inc.
Hi!
If this message does not match exactly the topic of this discussion list,
please forgive me, but I saw there similar discussion about
SoundBlaster...
I would like to know if someone has successfully configured Aztech's PnP
MM WaveRider Pro 32-3D under Debian Linux?
I have read on
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Is there a Debian package of Gimp 0.99.1x that are for Debian version 1.3
(libc5)?
Or do I have to upgrade to libc6 ? If so, can libc5 and libc6 co-exist?
Grateful for any answer
Robert
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I have a 2GB hd with the following partitions:
~ 700MB for /
~ 600MB for /home
~ 80MB for swap
I would like to do 2 new partitions on the remainning free
space. So I did an extended partition using the whole
Mike Lucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just loaded Linux for the 1st time. I would like to know how to create
an msdos file system. I think I need other files installed on my system
but have not been able to figure out what or how.
mformat
or
mkdosfs
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Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually, you can. It depends which versions you use. But I'm not sure if it
is possible with 1.3, ...
In bo, they conflict. If you do not mind, install both with force options.
They overlap in some exec utils like ctags, etc. Not a real trouble.
I tried to install the GIMP and xtar, and when trying to run both, I get
the same error message:
xtar: can't load library 'libXm.so.2' ...and: gimp: can't load library
'libXm.so.2'
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you'll find libXm.so.2
in the current release of Lesstif.
This greets me whenever I try to power up xdvi. From memory it's supposed
to spit out the usage blerb.
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/usr/X11R6/bin
Error: XsraSelFile: can't get font 9x15
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When I first ran xdvi with an argument, MakeTeXPK spat
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
Sorry, I missed the original post. I think you are looking for mformat,
available in the mtools package. This may only work on floppies (not
sure). I personally prefer superformat which is on the rescue image, but
not part of the base
Hi there, what I have done is use dftp it get the packages file then it
gets the packages that you select from the debian site. It is a good way
to do it. Let me know if you want more info.
Paul
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Debian List wrote:
Hi,
what's the easiest way to upgrade packages,
hi everyone I'm trying to use the latest debianized staroffice package but
the dependancies show that I need libc when i do a dpkg -l libc none
Depends: libc (= 5.4.4-0) where do i find this package?
Thanks. If there is more info that you need please ask.
Paul
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On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 08:34:33AM -0400, Paul wrote:
hi everyone I'm trying to use the latest debianized staroffice package but
the dependancies show that I need libc when i do a dpkg -l libc none
Depends: libc (= 5.4.4-0) where do i find this package?
I think this is a typo on Joey's part.
The documentation for cdrecord says it writes to /dev/scg*.
But I can't find anything about scg's in the kernel sources (or even
in a string search at Linux v2 Headquarters). So my questions are:
What is /dev/scg?
How can (or does?) one get a kernel driver?
How can one integrate this into
Is there a list explaining what each /dev file is used for? I was
looking to cut down on my inode use by trimming /dev down some. I am
using Debian as a home workstation so I figured some of it wsa
superfluous.
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Ok..this is driving me mad and my curiosity is piqued...
A mate of mine (using RedHat) was hacked (probably from associating with
the wrong company on IRC, most likely) - cleaning up his system, we
found multiple backdoors, including the obvious series of SUID
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for so
long...
I just got an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer to try out, and
I could managed much resolution out of Debian 1.3's installed
ghostscript.
$ gs -h
Aladdin
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Marco Pistore wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for so
long...
I just got an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer to try out, and
I could managed much resolution out of Debian
Since Debian maintainers are being faced with this dilemma across the
board, users should probably do as has been described many times on this
list and install libc6 following the mini-howto. Or become friends
with alien, rpm, and RedHat's (and sunsite no doubt) contrib directory to
continue
Howdy!
There are a couple of places you can reference to learn more about the
devices:
man {devinfo,MAKEDEV,makedev.cfg} #Assuming you have installed
/usr/doc/makedev#the binary MAKEDEV package.
source-code
Is there a list explaining what
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
Please forgive me for a question that has probably been asked
thousands of times. I've just been so busy lately that I haven't been
able to do the research I usually would.
Does anyone have any recommendations on a tape drive
My sound device will only play when I am logged in as root. When I am
any other trys to use the sound card it says device is busy...sound
device cannot be opened. Is this just a permission mixup or something
deeper?
Ian
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Paul wrote:
hi everyone I'm trying to use the latest debianized staroffice package but
the dependancies show that I need libc when i do a dpkg -l libc none
Depends: libc (= 5.4.4-0) where do i find this package?
Thanks. If there is more info that you need please ask.
what are good clients for running .wav, .au, and .mid* files. Do not
have to be debian packages. Although if not I may make them one.
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
My sound device will only play when I am logged in as root. When I am
any other trys to use the sound card it says device is busy...sound
device cannot be opened. Is this just a permission mixup or something
deeper?
I noticed this also and
Dirk Kievith wrote:
My purpose is to set up a small *intranet*, with about 2-3 machines to start
with, to offer email and web-browsing facilities to multiple users.
My main querry is how to go about it:
- which e-mail software,
smail is the Debian preference and would probably be
hello, all,
OK, I'm reading the libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO from www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ.
It says, Install these packages in exactly the order listed. ...any
later versions should also be acceptable.
So, I installed ldso_1.9.5-1 using dpkg without incident. The next
package listed is libc6_2.0.4-1.
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote:
what are good clients for running
.wav --- use bplay (available as a .deb)
.au --- I just do cat file.au /dev/audio
.mid* --- use playmidi, again a .deb
Will
[EMAIL
Ian,
I've made myself a member of audio in /etc/group. Also, do you have nas
installed? If so, it will automatically start an 'au' process at
boot-time. I just removed nas from /etc/init.d since i'd never used nas
anyway. Do a ps ax to see if there is an 'au' process running.
cheers.
Matt
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
My sound device will only play when I am logged in as root. When I am
any other trys to use the sound card it says device is busy...sound
device cannot be opened. Is this just a permission mixup or something
deeper?
You need to add yourself to
Put libstdc++.so.27.1.4 inside matlab/sys/lnx86 and in the same directory,
create a symlink for libstdc++.so.27 - libstdc++.so.27.1.4
Then matlab will use that lib instead.
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Peyman Gohari wrote:
Hi fellows,
Does anyone know why Matlab5 (5.1.0.421) is unhappy with
Someone messed up with the libc5 in the latest stable. It conflicts with
libc6 for no reason, if you install libc6 with --force-conflicts it should
work fine. You could also install the latest libc5 from unstable instead
(better alternative if you intend to upgrade completely to unstable), but
Hey, it's 'the man' hisself! :) I guess I'm a little shy about using
'force' now because that's what broke my system and a couple of people
told me to never do that (including Ben G.). The last time I did a force
on libc6, it seems to me that the packages looking for libc6 still
couldn't find
Hi,
I'm trying to install debian in a umsdos partition (it's for my father,
which cannot repartition the hard-disk). This my plan:
1) install doslinux in /dev/hda1 (DOS partition);
2) go to my Linux system in /dev/hdc1;
3) mount -tumsdos /dev/hda1 /mnt;
4) rm -r /mnt/linux/*;
5) cd /mnt/linux;
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote:
what are good clients for running
.wav --- use bplay (available as a .deb)
.au --- I just do cat file.au /dev/audio
.mid* --- use playmidi, again a .deb
I find that timidity (which is in the standard Debian
Hi,
I'm trying to build Diffpack, and I'm having some troubles. I want
to build this thing using shared libraries. Reading the ELF-HOWTO and
patching the sources somewhat I've managed to produce the shared libraries
for the different parts, but now I cann't use them.
Setting
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote:
what are good clients for running .wav, .au, and .mid* files. Do not
have to be debian packages. Although if not I may make them one.
For .au, I just use 'cat filename.au /dev/audio'.
For .wav, I use bplay
For .mid, I recommend timidity, which actually
Hi
I'm kinda new to this Debian stuff, so... What is
the difference between bo and hamm and what do this names mean
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
Hey, it's 'the man' hisself! :) I guess I'm a little shy about using
I'm the man now? Cool. :)
'force' now because that's what broke my system and a couple of people
told me to never do that (including Ben G.). The last time I did a force
on
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
I'm kinda new to this Debian stuff, so... What is the difference
between bo and hamm and what do this names mean
Bo is the current release of Debian, version 1.3.1r4 (currently). Hamm is
the development release, still under constuction.
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 12:00:07PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
what are good clients for running .wav, .au, and .mid* files. Do not
have to be debian packages. Although if not I may make them one.
If you have a SB 32 or better, you can even use drvmidi, that uses the
advanced wavetable synthesis. be
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 06:06:37PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
Hi
I'm kinda new to this Debian stuff, so... What is the difference between
bo
and hamm and what do this names mean
Bo is the code name for the latest stable release 1.3, hamm ist the codename
for the unstable
Hi!
When I try to install Netscapem, I get the message that it can't get a free
page... thats because I haven't godt enugh memory, isn't it? I have 16 megs
and quite alot services started. I also have 20 megs swap space, but I
don't know if thats enugh. I have created a 50 mb partition, and set
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, m* wrote:
Dirk Kievith wrote:
My purpose is to set up a small *intranet*, with about 2-3 machines to
start with, to offer email and web-browsing facilities to multiple users.
My main querry is how to go about it:
- which e-mail software,
smail is the
I've been getting this error from netscape a lot, particularly when
launching plugins:
sh: error in loadingshared libraries
/usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5:undefined symbol: _default_morecore_init
Any clues?
Will
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about libpaperg? Last time I checked, it was not there (or stuck in
Incoming?)
Stuck in Incoming
Thanks,
Marco
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
Put libstdc++.so.27.1.4 inside matlab/sys/lnx86 and in the same directory,
create a symlink for libstdc++.so.27 - libstdc++.so.27.1.4
Then matlab will use that lib instead.
The problem is that I'm dealing with a read-only NFS mounted file system,
and
yeah, the Mini-HOWTO man! :)
so far, ldso_1.9.5-1 is the only unstable package i've installed. what i
really want is to install the GIMP and bash 2.01(-5 is the latest, if I'm
correct). bash to fix Netscape helpers and GIMP 'cuz it's *cool*.
:)
i guess i'm one release behind in libc5 (i have
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Michael Legart wrote:
Hi!
When I try to install Netscapem, I get the message that it can't get a free
page... thats because I haven't godt enugh memory, isn't it? I have 16 megs
and quite alot services started. I also have 20 megs swap space, but I
don't know if thats
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
I'm kinda new to this Debian stuff, so...
Everybody asks this :)
What is the difference between bo and hamm and what do this names mean
bo and hamm are codenames for Debian 1.3 and 2.0 respectively. The
names are taken from the movie
On Oct 12, Al Youngwerth wrote
I use a debian box running smail as our local and Internet mail server for
our lan. Is there an easy way I can setup smail to process mail that should
be delivered locally immediately but queue up mail bound for the Internet
and send it all out once every 30
On Oct 11, Julien Pham wrote
First : my xterm has no color. Or, no, it has colors (when I do a ls
--color in it, it works) but when I launch a text based appli (such as
deselect for example) in it, it in in B W... Why ?
I think I have reported this as a bug against dselect?? Try using rxvt
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
Someone messed up with the libc5 in the latest stable. It conflicts with
libc6 for no reason, if you install libc6 with --force-conflicts it should
work fine.
This isn't strictly speaking true. Libc6 only conflicts with the libc5 in
bo. This is because
I have installed magicfilter, but it doesn't work and send strange files to
the printer...
And I have add me to the audio group as you said (what is it apb25) but it
doesn't work.
Thanks.
PS : other pbs : I have installed abuse, but when I enter the command abuse to
start the game, it says that
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
Someone messed up with the libc5 in the latest stable. It conflicts with
libc6 for no reason, if you install libc6 with --force-conflicts it should
work fine.
This isn't strictly speaking true. Libc6 only
Received this from debian-changes list - where can it be downloaded from?
Thanks, Joe.
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
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Version: 0.84-0
Hello. As I have mentioned on this list several times, I have
upgraded my machine to a fair amount of libc6 stuff. In general, it
seems to be working pretty well, but a lot of the NIS stuff is messed
up. It is my understanding that this is because the NIS stuff used to
be handle by a user level
Hi,
I just recently installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new system that has a PS/2
mouse. I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the
steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)?
Richard A. Guay
Network Administrator
ASIC International Inc.
http://www.asicint.com
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Julien Pham wrote:
And I have add me to the audio group as you said (what is it apb25) but it
doesn't work.
Undo whatever you did manually and use adduser -- see man adduser for
information about adding an existing user to an existing group.
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote:
Hi,
I just recently installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new system that has a PS/2
mouse. I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the
steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)?
Reload the OS? That's windows-world thinking. First,
Hello,
excuse me for my extreme dummy question, but I'm absolutely new to
unix/linux/debian.
Is there any step-by-step installation guide to install debian onto a
win nt/95 system, even if I have to repartition it, I must have them
after the debian installation.
I have a debian 1.3.1 CD from
Very simply, I'm trying to telnet to a site and get some data from a script.
In HPUX, I would do this:
echo Alinetobesent | telnet an.address.com 1234
And it would happily telnet to the machine and echo the command, getting me
the results I wanted. This doesn't seem to work under any of the
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
Put libstdc++.so.27.1.4 inside matlab/sys/lnx86 and in the same directory,
create a symlink for libstdc++.so.27 - libstdc++.so.27.1.4
Then matlab will use that lib instead.
The problem is that I'm dealing with a read-only NFS mounted file
Ok, here's the deal. We have a very large RAID array for a news spool.
However, I'm wondering what is/is not sane as far as size ... for
example, if I make a 50 gig partition will I be able to fsck it?? (fwiw,
BSDI won't fsck it - it says it can't allocate 1300 bytes for a
statemap ...)
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, ITom - WebIroda wrote:
Hello,
excuse me for my extreme dummy question, but I'm absolutely new to
unix/linux/debian.
Is there any step-by-step installation guide to install debian onto a
win nt/95 system, even if I have to repartition it, I must have them
after the
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote:
Hi,
I just recently installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new system that has a PS/2
mouse. I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the
steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)?
I just switched from a MS bus mouse to a serial mouse, so
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Julien Pham wrote:
And I have add me to the audio group as you said (what is it apb25) but it
doesn't work.
Undo whatever you did manually and use adduser -- see man adduser for
information about adding an existing user to an
Hi all,
this is dirving me nuts. I have a laptop and I'm changing subnet
frequently, and my machine has two names, ops, three:
- one on subnet A
- one on subnet B
- one when I'm connecting via phone.
The problem is that I have my mail server on the subnet A, and my
Hey.
I've been doing lots of programming lately and have noticed (how could I
not) that I am reliably able to cause my machine to lockup.
I'm running 1.3.1, and have reinstalled from CD twice, once going so far
as to wipe the entire boot partition first.
This is how I do it:
open a document in
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