Ação

1999-05-15 Thread Marcus Vincius Santana Brito
com todo respeito, vcs falam demais!! Ta na hora de vcs decidirem se vao ficar ai metendo o pau ou vao mesmo arregassar as mangas e fazer algo diferente. Esta lenga-lenga de meter o pau nos outros nao leva a nada !!! Se eles estao no topo deve ser por competencia! Facam o mesmo !!!

Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi Thiago, Quoting Thiago Jung Bauermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:34:58PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Essa traducao vai aparecer nos discos de instalacao da batata? :-) Vai sim. Ja mandamos para o Zanardi Existe um grupo de pessoas

Re: Debian em Portugues

1999-05-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi Benfati, de vez em quando eu leio suas colunas na Info. :) Eu sei que você gosta mais da Debian também. O que você acha da idéia de uma distribuição com a qualidade da Debian em português? Abraços,PH Quoting Jose Carlos Benfati ([EMAIL

Re: Debian em português

1999-05-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi Clovis, estamos trabalhando. :) Já traduzimos a instalação da Debian e já está no cvs dos boot-floppies. Fique tranquilo, não estamos falando sem agir. Abraços,PH Quoting Clovis Sena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Srs, com todo respeito, vcs

Re: Ação

1999-05-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi Marcus, Quoting Marcus Vincius Santana Brito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): com todo respeito, vcs falam demais!! Ta na hora de vcs decidirem se vao ficar ai metendo o pau ou vao mesmo arregassar as mangas e fazer algo diferente. Esta lenga-lenga de meter o pau nos outros nao leva a nada

Estou preparando uma Revista - Manual de Instalação

1999-05-15 Thread gleydson
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Por enquanto traduzimos os potfiles da instalação da Debian e mandamos para o Zanardi. Queremos traduzir os manuais de instalação e usuário também. Queremos traduzir os info's e man's e a descrição dos pacotes. Ola Paulo, Eu sou um Debian Developer e

Where is libXpm.so.4?

1999-05-15 Thread J Horacio MG
I need that library for running WP8, but I haven't been able to find it in Slink. Where could I find it or what provides it, please? TIA Horacio

RE: Where is libXpm.so.4?

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
On 14-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote: I need that library for running WP8, but I haven't been able to find it in Slink. Where could I find it or what provides it, please? xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4.10 xpm4g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.10

Compiling mozilla

1999-05-15 Thread weim0404
While compiling the mozilla_19981008 with dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc I encountered an error which the following error is placed in one of the detect files. Could not find Xm/Xm.h anywhere on your system. What package is Xm.h located? I have an Xmu/Xmu.h but that is all. Thanks, doug

RE: Compiling mozilla

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
On 14-May-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xm.h usr/X11R6/include/Xm/Xm.h devel/lesstifg-dev usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/X11/Xm/Xm.h oldlibs/lesstif-altdev I found this info by going to the package search page on Debian's website and using the search

Re: TNT server for slink?

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SK == Stephen Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SK Has anybody got a TNT working under slink. Perhaps its just a case SK of compiling the potato xfress86 package? You can download the packages from http://www.netgod.net/x or add a line to sources.list and use apt. deb http://www.netgod.net x/

Please, help me on getting libc6 to work

1999-05-15 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'd installed the lastest unstable package of libc6 (2.1) on my linux box, meanwhile I tried to downgrade (reason: get java development to work on it) it for a stable package. Has it was being quite difficult (dpkg don't let it do very well) I did: dpkg -x libc6-x.deb / Conclusion:

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-15 Thread Adam Shand
It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is either ~/.menu/ or /etc/menu and running update-menus as a user or root causes the menu item to appear properly. Hope this helps. Right!! I found this out at 2 AM this morning! Two kudos tho, it works here in only

e2fsck LARGE_FILE flag error?

1999-05-15 Thread Dan DeMond
Hello all, I was doing an e2fsck on my disk when I got this kinda scary error. Filesystem contains large files, but lacks LARGE_FILE flag in superblock. Fixy? How large are large files? Will this waste data on my drive if I say yes? Where is the large file flag normally set, or why

Re: Wierd PPP Problems

1999-05-15 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: It will no doubt startle you to learn that some of us have only one phone line (and only one local ISP as well). Jonathan Guthrie writes: It will? THAT assertion certainly startles me! How do you know what I expect unless I tell you? You wrote that if he can't call the dial-in

Re: TNT server for slink?

1999-05-15 Thread Cliff W. Draper
As anyone started looking at XFree86 drivers for the TNT2? I know they're suppose to be very similar to the TNT, but I heard there were slight differences. -Cliff

Re: installing word perfect 8 - can't open libXt.so.6

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 01:43:52PM -0700, Micha Feigin wrote: I tried to install word perfect for linux on my system. first time around i installed as root and when i tried to open the program i got a message: can't open libXt.so.6 second time i installed as a regular user and i got a message:

Re: PPP woes

1999-05-15 Thread John Hasler
William R Pentney writes: I have not yet recompiled my Debian kernel. (no lectures, please ...) No lectures. If the default kernel works for you, use it. Is PPP built into the default kernel? Yes, though pppd may try to tell you otherwise. I am having problems getting chat to speak to my

Kernel compile in potato

1999-05-15 Thread Matthew Guenther
I've got some questions about compiling a kernel on a (partially) potato system. Most of my packages are still slink, however I have upgraded gcc to the egcs version. I'm curious: a) Is it possible to compile a kernel (2.2.8) using the egcs compiler? b) If not, how do I make the kernel using

Kbiff (KDE)

1999-05-15 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
hello, I've kbiff running on startup. Everything is is going well. Except for one thing. Every time i start kde, the kbiff setup screen pops up. And i have to click OK to dock kbiff into my panel How can i solve this problem. So that i don't get the kbiff setup screen. cuno

Re: Kernel compile in potato

1999-05-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:54:30PM -0700, Matthew Guenther wrote: I've got some questions about compiling a kernel on a (partially) potato system. Most of my packages are still slink, however I have upgraded gcc to the egcs version. I'm curious: a) Is it possible to compile a kernel (2.2.8)

Base 64

1999-05-15 Thread genesrus
Boy, I am way in over my head, I'm really lost. I am looking for an application called, I think, Base64. Somehow I've been directed to this page, but I really don't now know how or why. I don't see anything like this listed on all the pages I've looked through, but maybe I am missing something.

dselect and the unstable branch

1999-05-15 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Please help with these dselect questions: I just installed Slink yesterday. Today I wanted to grab some stuff off of the unstable branch (latest WindowMaker, etc.). I set dselect to update from the unstable branch. When I went to select packages, I also chose the latest GNOME. This caused a

Re: Upgrading to Potato over dial-up connection

1999-05-15 Thread zephyr1
i love potato :)

Re: missing files: 'no' and library panel

1999-05-15 Thread zephyr1
i wish i knew. i'm having the same problem and i can't find out what it is, either. if you find out please let me know!

dpkg problem

1999-05-15 Thread Brian Schramm
I have a package that has the following code in dselect: RI-- Package name et 80b2-8 I cannot install or remove this package. It is stoping me from using apt-get to update some files for me. I have tried everything that I can think of to install or remove this package. I have used dpkg,

ESS1868

1999-05-15 Thread budi w
i have ESS 1868 soundcard but slink can't detect it . i've tried to recompile my kernel sound modules installed and it still didn' work then i use oss but it's not free :( any one can help me pl? regards budi wibowo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ESS1868

1999-05-15 Thread add|ct|on
i have the same sound card and i never could make my sound work properly until i upgraded to a 2.2.x kernel. they have great support for ESS cards. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into

apt saves the day :)

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
I started downloading potato this morning, with apt. A while ago, when I had 1 hour or so of downloading left, KDE locks up, but the download continues for a while. I had to reboot the machine from my laptop and started the entire process again and I get a very pleasant surprise. Apt-get does

Re: ESS1868

1999-05-15 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 15 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote: i have the same sound card and i never could make my sound work properly until i upgraded to a 2.2.x kernel. they have great support for ESS cards. Same sound card, works fine for me since 2.0.30. I use isapnp after using windows, (only for those short

Re: Error in kernel compile

1999-05-15 Thread wcurry
I had identical problems compiling the same kernel on my potato system. I was only successful after I reinstalled gcc2.7.2.3 and made sure /etc/alternatives pointed cc at it (dont forget to go into the top level Makefile to change the compiler to cc). Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?

1999-05-15 Thread Krzysztof Ogrodnik
Dnia Fri, 14 May 1999 14:18:32 -0700, napisałeś: On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 06:52:39PM -0500, André Bell wrote: ...now if I can only figure out which of the hundreds of files is the executable... Use ls -l and look for the executable bit (x) or use ls --color and look for the green ones. -- Ray

info

1999-05-15 Thread Charles Demers
Hi, maybe you can help me. I am a new linux user, and bought debian 2.1. But each time i try to install it, my computer locks up, and i have to cold boot to restart. Each and every time, it locks up after sdb: cdrom atapi (or somethimg like that). Hopefully, you can tell me ow to fix this

Re: automatic load of modules ?

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: automatic load of modules ? Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 11:05:39PM +0200 In reply to:R.Feenstra Quoting R.Feenstra([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hello I finally got my SB AWE32 pnp soundcard running on my slink system loading the module with modprobe. Is there a way to load

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2 Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:53:16PM -0800 In reply to:Adam Shand Quoting Adam Shand([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is either ~/.menu/ or /etc/menu and running

Re: clock

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: clock Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 10:43:23PM +0100 In reply to:Patrick Kirk Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What is the man page for info on setting the clock to salmon.maths.tcd.ie which is a time server near a lovely pub in Dublin? Patrick man

Re: Kernel 2.2.1

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Kernel 2.2.1 Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 11:07:11PM +0200 In reply to:R.Feenstra Quoting R.Feenstra([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello again :) Is kernel 2.2.1 still regarded as Slink ? Hope not! Kernel 2.2.1 had problems and AFAIR wasn't included with slink. The kernel is

Re: Debian 2.0 Install

1999-05-15 Thread Kirk Noonan
You probably want to use the multiple cd option. Your CD-Rom is most likely /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdb for ATAPI or /dev/scd0 for SCSI. I would recommend the KDE desktop manager, as you will probably find it very familiar and there is alot of good documentation built in to it. I'm not sure if it

FW: Kernel 2.2.7 and Sound

1999-05-15 Thread Ralf Comtesse
Hello, I have just upgraded to Kernel 2.2.7 and compiled sound support as a module. When I try to play a sound file, I get sth like splay: Failed to open sound device. /dev/dsp[1] and /dev/audio[1] exsist. The logfile shows: May 15 11:18:34 socrates modprobe: can't locate module

Re: Display issues

1999-05-15 Thread deblists
On 13 May, Pollywog wrote: On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession. To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession. I dislike having xdm start when I start

Hardware working with Linux

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning fans, I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer. However, there is a new service which has been opened

Re: unzip

1999-05-15 Thread David B.Teague
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Is there a version of unzip which supports encryption? Shao You should find zip-crypt and unzip-crypt in non-US. On my system, I find: $/var/local/debian/debian-non-US/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386[1]$ls*zip* bzip_0.21-3.1.deb

Re: missing files: 'no' and library panel

1999-05-15 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
-Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] when trying to compile a few programs writen for gtk (to run under gnome) i got mesages that /bin/sh: couldn't find no ... Hm. That sounds like a mistake in the configuration scripts. It seems like it couldn't find a program but then tries to run it (with the

Re: What happened to the list?

1999-05-15 Thread David B.Teague
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Matthew Wade Roberts wrote: I was getting list mail for about a week and then it abruptly stopped. Did something happen? Please respond to me since a response to the list will obviously not get through! Matt Did something happen to make your system reject mail for a

Re: PPP woes

1999-05-15 Thread David B.Teague
On Fri, 14 May 1999, William R Pentney wrote: A couple of questions. 1) I have not yet recompiled my Debian kernel. (no lectures, please ...) Is PPP built into the default kernel? 2) I am having problems getting chat to speak to my modem. It simply isn't recognizing it. Is there some

Re: automatic load of modules ?

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
use modconf too if your card's driver is in module.

Re: Mouse installation

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
use : XF86Setup

Re: 2 network cards revisited

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
use : dmesg and look for info about eth0, eth1 or the name of your card

Glibc 2.1 Applixware problem solved

1999-05-15 Thread Phillip Deackes
Those of you who use Applixware and have had problems when you have glibc 2.1 on your system might like to know that the fix is as follows: Add this line to your ~/axhome/ax_prof (mine is ax_prof4) file: axGFSName:tcp/host:7001 Replace 'host' with your machine's hostname. The fix makes the

making linux look bad

1999-05-15 Thread tf
Hey everybody I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2 years and have never had it running well enough to use. So. can someone give me a strategy to follow? I'm obviously going about this the wrong way. I think it would help if I got ppp working-both pon and wvdail

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-15 Thread David B.Teague
On Sat, 15 May 1999, tf wrote: Hey everybody I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2 years and have never had it running well enough to use. So. can someone give me a strategy to follow? I'm obviously going about this the wrong way. I think it would help

Umm... slink and potato bug?

1999-05-15 Thread Jim B
The version of lsof that I see in the slink and potato dists is only usable on kernels up to 2.0.35. Yet slink is a 2.0.36 kernel, and potato is a 2.2.x kernel... which means the lsof included with the distro is unusable. Is this a distro bug or am I just missing something?

Re: dselect and the unstable branch

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
try to see if you can change some files here or get the old dselect setting : /var/lib/dpkg

PPP problems.

1999-05-15 Thread Daniel Sladic
Up until now I have been using a Redhat 5.2 system and haven't had problems running PPP over a modem. I want to switch over to a Debian system but I can't get PPP to run for some strange reason. Here's some info. Hopefully someone can help. The Redhat system is using kernel 2.2.5 and pppd

netscape

1999-05-15 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello World! When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 it says :Can't open display !! What can I do ? Please Help me Andrea

netscape

1999-05-15 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello World! When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 it says :Can't open display !! What can I do ? Please Help me Andrea

netscape

1999-05-15 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello World! When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 it says :Can't open display !! What can I do ? Please Help me Andrea

Emacs and suidunregister

1999-05-15 Thread sgore
I'm getting this from cron: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: File /usr/lib/emacs/20.3/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail registered but not installed File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed I read the man page for suidregister, and it seems to me that when

Re: netscape

1999-05-15 Thread Petru Paler
Hello World! When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 it says :Can't open display !! What can I do ? Please Help me just start netscape *AFTER* your start X Windows.

netscape help

1999-05-15 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello World! When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 it says :Can't open display !! What can I do ? Please Help me

VIM questions

1999-05-15 Thread Dave Swegen
I have a few questions regarding VIM that have been nagging at me for a while, and I'm hoping someone can help me out... 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I invoked from mutt it waits for me

Re: VIM questions

1999-05-15 Thread shaleh
I have a few questions regarding VIM that have been nagging at me for a while, and I'm hoping someone can help me out... 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I invoked from mutt it waits

Re: PPP woes

1999-05-15 Thread John Hasler
David Teague writes: ppp has not been in default kernels I use. Only if you did not select it as a module when you installed. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP problems.

1999-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Sladic writes: Anyone know offhand what is causing this problem or what I can do to figure out what is the problem? Did you run pppconfig? If so, post your /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of the 'plog' command. If not, put the options file back the

Re: disabling sshd and gpm

1999-05-15 Thread Rune Linding Raun
i dont understand the removal at all its sounds crazy ssh is THE way of remote login and gpm is very essential in handling a virtual term On 14-May-99 Michael Procario wrote: You only need to remove it from /etc/rc?.d. That way if you want to turn it back on at some later time the actual script

Re: What to do with a tape drive?

1999-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
Carl Mummert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The easiest way to do incremental backups is to use a prewritten package. I used 'tob' for a while, and it worked fine, although you may have to spend an hour or two configuring it the first time. Also well worth investigating is amanda

Re: ssh @ pseudo ttys

1999-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed a new box but when I try to ssh in I recieve this error: Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty Thisonly happens with sshas I can telnet in and out with no problems. Anybody know where the problems is?

Re: Emacs and suidunregister

1999-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read the man page for suidregister, and it seems to me that when I purged Emacs19 and Emacs20 (and all related binaries), not everything was cleaned-up. It also seems to me that this might be a bug. Can anyone confirm, or suggest what I did wrong? (I don't

[off topic] Where have all the remailers gone

1999-05-15 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, Apologies for the slightly OT posting, but I was playing around with premail (which doesn't work), and decided to create myself another nym.alias.net address. Used to have one years ago, but it dies thru lack of maintentnce. I seem to have hit a snag tho... none of the finger addresses

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: making linux look bad Date: Sat, May 15, 1999 at 08:38:58AM -0400 In reply to:David B.Teague Quoting David B.Teague([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, 15 May 1999, tf wrote: Hey everybody I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2

Re: Minimal requirements for xwindows and slave hard disk installation

1999-05-15 Thread Michelle Maria Coelho
I installed these packages, and then ran XF86Setup. After that I ran startx, all I got was a checkered (very fine checks) screen..No menu bar, etc..Also, my mouse seems only to remain in row 1. What could be the problem. Also, I did the installation for the latest version odf Debian as of

timzones and libc6 in the unstable branch

1999-05-15 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I was trying to update some packages off of the unstable branch, and noticed that required package timezones was selected for removal. Upon setting it for installation, I was greeted with the conflicts/dependancy screen (in dselect) wich stated that timezones conflicted with libc6. However, libc6

Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-15 Thread Kris
Problem: PPP works fine under kernel 2.0.36; under 2.2.x it connects, but it seems like no packets go in or out. tcpdump only shows what looks like things trying to get out, but not getting anything back (really technical, huh?). I can ping myself (localhost local IP), but not _any_ remote IPs

lost keyboard config file

1999-05-15 Thread Monte Copeland
I actually have two problems. The first is that I have no backspace button. A previous debian-user email had a solution to get the ALT key to act as the META key in emacs. Well , unfortunately when I tried the solution, the only result was the deletion or misplacement of my X keyboard config

Re: apt sources line

1999-05-15 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: Then you need a sources.list line of deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ when apt-get tried to download them I got some error messages telling me that the files weren't plain files (or something to that effect). What does that

small problems after installing potato

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
I have had some small problems after installing potato. (I upgraded via the web from Slink). The worst problem is that whenever I try to configure the newly installed software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). If I

Wordperfect Display

1999-05-15 Thread Michael Laing
The characters are awfully ugly Is there any way to improve the on-screen display? Michael Laing

Re: dpkg problem

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
download the package : et and do : dpkg -i your_package_name.deb after what try to remove it with apt-get like you do before

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Kris writes: Problem: PPP works fine under kernel 2.0.36; under 2.2.x it connects, but it seems like no packets go in or out. Ppp is known to have problems with 2.2.X. ...not _any_ remote IPs (including my nameservers). How about the far end of the ppp link? -am and -vj make no difference.

Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Eric Bass
Stupid question of the day. :) Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it now. Any help would be appreciated. Eric

Re: Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Alec Smith
glibc2.1 is basically Potato -- Debian 2.2. Take a look in there, and beware... Things might break. On Sat, 15 May 1999, Eric Bass wrote: Stupid question of the day. :) Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it

Re: Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 02:00:29PM -0400, Eric Bass wrote: Stupid question of the day. :) Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it now. Any help would be appreciated. Get the libc6 package(s) in unstable. Bob --

Re: timzones and libc6 in the unstable branch

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 12:54:44PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: I was trying to update some packages off of the unstable branch, and noticed that required package timezones was selected for removal. Upon setting it for installation, I was greeted with the conflicts/dependancy screen (in

Re: Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Eric Bass wrote: Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it now. Any help would be appreciated. Have they said that they aren't putting out a glibc2 version like they did for all the betas? I sent

Re: Glade for Slink

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PHBdO == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PHBdO But gnome-stage-slink (and now slink dist) doesnt have glade, PHBdO only potato. It does now. Ciao, Martin

Re: Gnome

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
RM == Richard Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: xterm -ls -geometry 80x24+0+63 xterm -ls -geometry 80x24+515+63 /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2 /usr/bin/panel RM I have a couple of questions concerning the .xsession script. RM Will calling gnome session load enlightenment, and whatever other RM

Packages.gz

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
Now that I upgraded to Potato, with apt-get, I am unable to use dselect to update packages. It wants Package.gz files but I am uncertain how to proceed. Can anyone suggest where I might find step-by-step information on this? Will I have to wait until a Potato CD is released or should I forget

Re: VIM questions

1999-05-15 Thread flip
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 10:45:48AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or

Apt-get (dselect) wants to remove everything, by default

1999-05-15 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Another stupid dselect question: I have upgraded my system to potato. Now, whenever I start up dselect, (using apt-get, and set to the unstable branch), nearly everything is set to remove by default. I'm talking about required stuff like bash and tar! I know I can go through by hand and fix

Mouse problems

1999-05-15 Thread Morgoth3
i'm trying to run X Windows, but it appears I never installed my mouse. Is there any way to do this once I'm past the initial setup? I really don't want to reinstall the entire thing, because I'm doing it off floppies. I have a 3 button Logitech Mouseman...does anyone know a way I can

x problem

1999-05-15 Thread Steve Kondik
i'm using slink, with xfree upgraded to 3.3.3.1, with a diamond viper 550 and a sony 100es monitor. in the console, the screen is perfectly centered, while in x at any resolution, the screen is moved (black gap) down and to the right about a half an inch. it looks like the screen is being drawn

printing broken

1999-05-15 Thread Sheehan
hi, I recently upgraded my system from 2.0 to 2.1. After the upgrade, ppp was broken. Because I had been using an old kernel (2.0.36) I decided to upgrade the kernel. I upgraded to 2.2.5, and everything eweny ok. I compiled parrallel port support and parallel printer as modules. Now when I

RE: Apt-get (dselect) wants to remove everything, by default

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-May-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote: Another stupid dselect question: I have upgraded my system to potato. Now, whenever I start up dselect, (using apt-get, and set to the unstable branch), nearly everything is set to remove by default. I'm talking about required stuff like bash and tar!

Re: x problem

1999-05-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
xvidtune could be the answer. At least this is how I deal with my monitor screen problems, when I start it up. Sounds exactly like your problem. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Get thee behind me emacs20!

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
I have never got the install of emacs20 (the deb package) right on this machine. Since it was cluttering up every use of apt, I decided to put emacs19 on the machine and remove emacs20. I can't remove it. A typescript of the remove attempt is provided. Here's what 'dpkg --list' shows for these

Re: printing broken

1999-05-15 Thread dyer
Sheehan wrote: hi, I recently upgraded my system from 2.0 to 2.1. After the upgrade, ppp was broken. Because I had been using an old kernel (2.0.36) I decided to upgrade the kernel. I upgraded to 2.2.5, and everything eweny ok. I compiled parrallel port support and parallel printer as

RE: Apt-get (dselect) wants to remove everything, by default

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-May-99 Pollywog wrote: Did you upgrade with 'dist-upgrade' or with some other command? Even I did not experience anything this bad. I have a few problems, but I think apt-get is great. I did have to manually install a few held back packages for which I did not have requisite

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
Linux is a very intense learning experience that forces you to ponder security, the right gui, the nature of your hardware and the applications you really need and to configure programs to implement ways of managing all these things. I am new to this in that I installed Debian for the first

Re: Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 15 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it now. Any help would be appreciated. That would be libc6.1 or glibc2.1 same thing. Yes, but it doesn't do a slink user much

Re: Mouse problems

1999-05-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:51:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm trying to run X Windows, but it appears I never installed my mouse. Is there any way to do this once I'm past the initial setup? I really don't want to reinstall the entire thing, because I'm doing it off floppies. I

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