Re: md5sum from sources -linux-.

2000-09-03 Thread A.R.
After your previous message I did dpkg -S and I got the same as you said. Then I realized that for some reason /usr/bin was not in the path for root (who I was to use cdrecord). It was the cause for not getting anything. Now, compare [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s md5sum Package `md5sum' is not

helix-code

2000-09-04 Thread A.R.
I have installed helix-code-gnome on a potato, so far seems to be working very good. I still have the downloaded files in my apt/archives directory. The point is: I want to store all that in a cd to be able to install it in another computer, used in conjunction with the official cds. I suppose

QT, KDE and GPL

2000-09-04 Thread A.R.
In the site http://slashdot.org/ , front page today, there is an article about QT going GPL, which would eliminate the main block for KDE to be included into Debian. Any word about plans for this yet?

Re: QT, KDE and GPL

2000-09-04 Thread A.R.
More exactly, the link is http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/2269/1/ A.R. wrote: In the site http://slashdot.org/ , front page today, there is an article about QT going GPL, which would eliminate the main block for KDE to be included into Debian. Any word about plans

pgp?

1997-03-09 Thread A.R.\(Tom\)Peters
? -- Dr A.R. (Tom) Peters Wittgensteinlaan 149tel.020-4080204 NL-1062 KD Amsterdam e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pgp!

1997-03-09 Thread A.R.\(Tom\)Peters
Oops... apparently that is a FAQ. Sorry; I just couldn't find it in the Packages lists (neither can dselect). -- Dr A.R. (Tom) Peters Wittgensteinlaan 149tel.020-4080204 NL-1062 KD Amsterdam e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

uucp still a.out ?!

1997-04-25 Thread Dr A.R. \[Tom\] Peters
I found out that the Debian uucp package I have still uses a.out format: $ file /usr/sbin/uucico /usr/sbin/uucico: setuid setgid Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped $ ldd /usr/sbin/uucico libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.6pl27) = /lib/libc.so.4 As far as I know, I'm up-to date

uucp still a.out?

1997-04-28 Thread Dr A.R. \[Tom\] Peters
I noticed that my uucico etc. from the uucp package (1.06.1-2) is still a.out and using libc.so.4 . I seem to be up-to date. Is this normal? Is an ELF pre-compiled package coming, since the latest version of ld will not support a.out any more? -- #!$!%(@^%#%*(([EMAIL

Re: Groups

2002-12-19 Thread A.R. (Tom) Peters
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Kevin wrote: FW: GroupsI have a problem with groups can any help please I get this error when I type groups: id: cannot find name for group ID 0 0 I can not add a user to a group. Has something happened to your /etc/group file? It should exist, and be world-readable.

Re: Groups

2002-12-19 Thread A.R. (Tom) Peters
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Kevin wrote: No still does not work. More info please: - as which user are you doing this? - what are the ownership and access rights of /etc/group (use `ls -l`)? - what is the content of the file /etc/group ? - which `groups` command doe you actually use (type `which

How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

2001-09-17 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
Can anybody tell me exactly when and how a particular desktop (Gnome or KDE) is started on a Debian system? After a `startx` all kinds of scripts and programs get run using all kind of config files and I loose track where Gnome comes in. The situation is, that now both KDE and Gnome start. To

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

2001-09-17 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Mike Alborn wrote: My best guess is that gnome is being loaded from your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession files. Perhaps setting up X to load a different config file depending on the disk you currently have booted. Accoring to the xinit manpage, the environment variable

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

2001-09-17 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Mike Alborn wrote: I found that /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager - /usr/bin/gnome-session ; apparently at a recent package upgrade Gnome overwrote whatever used to be there. Which begs the question why KDE is still on my screen. It appears that gnome could

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-19 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Julio Merino wrote: Hi all, SOORY, this is completly offtopic... Well, I've to write a large, large document. I've think to use LaTeX, but I don't think it will be a good choice, because it's html output is really poor (am I wrong?). I'm looking for some language

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, David Roundy wrote: Probably if you don't want to typeset any math, though, you're better off using docbook... but I can't vouch for that. Right: support for math is poor in DocBook: if you need to write many formulae, use LaTeX. In that case, consider LyX for an easy GUI

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Julio Merino wrote: First, I think I'll go and learn SGML Docbook. I'm very familiar with HTML, tought. I don't think it will be very difficult. As you say, latex2html provides a good output, but ugly... What I want is to be able to customize that output as much as I

Using mouse in console and X?

2001-09-20 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
I installed Progeny, which features XF86v4 . It didn't install gpm, so I did that; I used the same gpm.conf that I had, which works fine now: type=ps2 device=/dev/psaux repeat_type=ms3 However, in X the mouse runs berserk. Progeny's XF86Config-4 has: Option

mortals may not run X?

2001-09-20 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
I installed Progeny, and got rid of that obnoxious gdm. However, when as a mortal I do startx I am told that the user is not allowed to run the X server. Says who? /usr/bin/X11/X is world-executable. Where is this configured? -- #!$!%(@^%#%*(([EMAIL

Re: mortals may not run X?

2001-09-21 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:26:50AM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I installed Progeny, and got rid of that obnoxious gdm. However, when as a mortal I do startx I am told that the user is not allowed to run the X server

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.9 support it. Reiser warns to avoid 2.4.9, put recent .10-pre patches work fine. I am using .10-pre9 that seems to work well thusfar. I

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Rino Mardo wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:43:49PM +0200 or thereabouts, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: Reiser warns to avoid 2.4.9, put recent .10-pre patches work fine. I am using .10-pre9 that seems to work well thusfar. I did not need to use additional patches

Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

2001-09-27 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On 27 Sep 2001, Jeremy Whetzel wrote: I'm in the process of writing up a script that I need to be able to randomly switch around the lines in a text file. (ala a random mp3 playlist) Would anyone have any suggestions? I was originally thinking of using a random number generator for it, but

/bin/sh broken - now what?

2001-11-24 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
I tried to install the G77 compiler, and got the latest stuff from testing. It required a newer version of libc6 (2.2.4-5), which got installed first. Then all subsequent packages failed. I cannot open a shell anymore: /bin/sh: relocation error: /bin/sh: undefined symbol: history_max_entries

serious package management problem

2001-11-25 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
Consider this scenario: Program P1V1 depends on P2V1; both are installed and work fine. Now you install P3V2: it depends on a newer version of P2: P2V2; this gets automatically replaced. But P2V2 no longer works with P1V1. What is supposed to happen in this case? I think this is what

Re: /bin/sh broken - now what?

2001-11-25 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:22:13AM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I tried to install the G77 compiler, and got the latest stuff from testing. It required a newer version of libc6 (2.2.4-5), which got installed first

Re: serious package management problem

2001-11-25 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:22:57PM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: I think this is what happenend to my system. I tried to install whatever was the current g77 compiler. It required libc6-2.2.4-5; I had a lower version, which got replaced

bash from testing broken?

2001-11-27 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
I have had incompatibility problems with bash from testing. $ dpkg -s bash Package: bash ... Status: install ok installed Installed-Size: 630 Version: 2.05a-2 Depends: base-files (= 2.1.12) Pre-Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (= 5.2.20010310-1), libreadline4 (= 4.2a) ... $ ls -l

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote: Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware controlling the disk. I once left out support for my IDE controller. It didn't work out too well :-). hrm, i don't think so and i just doubled checked. i copied my .config from my

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote: It is perfectly possible to say m to all types of disks and all filesystems. But then your kernel will not be able to access the disk. Your boot disk must be built into your kernel. i thought initrd solved that problem by allowing modules to be

nedit menu text messed up

2001-09-29 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
Nedit is my favourite GUI editor. I installed the nedit 1:5.1.1-5 package (from testing). When I run it, it appears with all menu text characters displayed as small dashed squares, so it is unusable. I tried removing my .nedit file, and adding an nedit*font -... line to my .Xresources: but

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-30 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:28:12PM -0400, Stephen Ball wrote: I just caught hold of this thread so sorry if this fix has been mentioned but has anyone suggested the Multi_Key? You can setup Xmodmap to configure a key as the multi_key,

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-03 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: I am rebuilding a box. I have the woody floppies, I've gotten to the point of initializing the root filesystem. Interestingly there is a mkreiserfs available and it can make the filesystem, but doesn't seem to be able to mount it. I've tried to

The old story - backspace in xterms

2001-10-21 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
For some reason neither the Delete key nor the Backspace key work in my terminal windows (xterm, Konsole). I have to use ^H on the command line. The keys work however as expected in editors like vim, pine (in these very terminal windows), as well as in nedit. There is nothing about the keys in

Re: Help Please, reinstalling grub boot blocks

2001-10-21 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I'm in the process of tyring to to recover from a failed root disk. I have managed to get all the files copied over to the new drive sucesfully (I believe). The root disk consists of 2 filesystem partitons. / and /boot which are /dev/hde4 and