My new installation (1.2.1) no longer compiles via gcc. The system error
message is:
'gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No such file or directory'
Any clues/hints?
Try running the gcc command line with -v. This should tell you what
program it cannot find.
I now have my printer (Canon BJC-4100) working under Debian. It was
really easy; only one tricky part.
We're running an HP-850C as a network printer using the cdj550
driver of ghostscript. Works great!
Brian
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I think it would score a lot of PR points for Debian to place, or win.
Debian is a Linux distribution. Our win is Linux's win. Our win is the
FSF's win. Our win is even, to some degree, RedHat's and Slackware's win,
because they serve a similar market with a similar product. Microsoft
From: John T. Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harvey Mudd should be producing somewhere between 3 and 4 M kps by
tomarrow. Right now, most of us are running under [EMAIL PROTECTED],
but we can change that if Bruce still disagrees with our possition.
I asked the people at Zero to lump our
Also, NetScape takes about 5 minutes to start if you have
mime-support installed. It seems to run /bin/sh for every entry
in /etc/mailcap and it doesn't like what it finds in there at all.
Eventually after spewing a bunch of error messages, it settles down and
runs. I've had to temporarily
I Loaded something like
netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
I got the exec-ready-to-use file
I ran it .. and it said: Floating point exception (core dumped).
Haa. It was too simple to work so easily ! What is wrong ?
Is there a better release without any problem for linux
It seems the tifftopnm and pnmtotiff programs are missing from
the latest netpbm. What happened to them?
Brian
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Has anyone used Zyxel(?) it is in the unstable directory and looks a lot like
mgetty (v,and the fax stuff). Has anyone used vgetty and had it work
*with out problems*. I asked earlier about using my linux box as an aswering
machine and got tons of messages telling me to use vgetty and now
I am a newbie, but i would like to install perl on my
debian system, can anyone tell me where it is located
and how much space will it take.
Try debian/bo/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.003.07-8.deb
It will take about 5MB installed.
Brian
Yep, it's 2056. In fact I set plug-gw up on www.debian.org and assigned
it a new IP address so it could be canonical, only to find that the
protocol is changing to an undocumented UDP-based system for no good
reason. See http://zero.genx.net.
Anyone have ideas about what how to handle
I get the following message when I install packages
like xanim, imagemagic, etc:
Error: '/etc/mailcap' is not in required format
What is wrong?
In order for mime-support to work, it requires a specific format of
the mailcap file. I suggest you re-install mime-support and make sure
the
I upgraded to fvwm2 today and ran into a few problems. Some of these may be
worthy of bug reports, but I thought I'd mention them here first.
- The postinst of fvwm2 fails if you ask it to convert fvwm1 rc files to the
new format and gawk is not present. fvwm2 should either depend on gawk
I looked on my CD for a netscape...deb file, but didn't find one, so
just downloaded a copy of netscape from netscape and loaded it.
You can find the netscape installer packages in the contrib section.
Brian
( [EMAIL
I don't understand you fuc**ng ppl!
Okay, let's all just take it easy. Yes, the original mail was a little
overbearing but this doesn't help calm the situation.
It's really easy to take what is said in email more seriously, more
condesending, and more rudely than the author intended (with
I'm not sure if this was announced before, so...
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
Bo has now been officially frozen! If you'd like to start upgrading
to the packages in that distribution, please do. We can use all the
testing we can get. People who
is Bo frozen already? When Rex got frozen I received a message from
Debian-Announce saying so. I also read in www.debian.org that Rex
was frozen. I think I have heard that Bo is frozen but I have not
checked the FTP sites yet.
Yes, it is. It was announced to debian-user, but not
Here's mine...
:0
* (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian
* !^TObcwhite
{
:0:
* (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)(board|debian-board)
Filtered/debian-board
:0:
* (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian.*-announce
$DEFAULT
:0:
*
As part of the facelift for Debian 2.0, I'd like to offer an improved
interface as an alternative for dselect.
To this end, I'm going to be putting together a team of people to produce
such a product.
If you would like to work on this, please let me know and tell me what
resources you have
It is my pleasure to announce the formation of the dselect replacement project,
code-named deity. The project will be made up of the following 7 people:
Project Leader: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- General organization, dispute resolution, final say on capabilities
Chief
Those are all points that have been brought up before and will be addressed.
Thanks for the input!
Brian
( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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the difference
Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
It takes forever because they both read the entire file and run every
single test condition they encounter.
The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally
The odds that Mr Iannarelli is starting this thread just to
concentrate the flammage, flak and junk into one thread which he can
easilly killfile is astronomical =) This is especially probable given his
insistence on exact spelling in the subject...
Excuse me, but this is completely uncalled
The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally without forking
an external process.
Where is 2.12 available. I can only find 2.11 on my nearest Debian
mirror.
It was stuck in incoming until this morning. As
Has wine been pkged for deb? If so where can I find it?
Have a good one.
You can find a really old version of wine in project/experimental.
I have a newer version compiled on my machine and will be uploading
a new package before the release of 1.3.
Since Wine isn't really useful as a tool,
I was downloading bo from frozen on master. It should have taken about 4 - 5
hours. I reduced my terminal and did other things. about 18 pkgs were
recv'd when, evidently, the entire Debian directory tree disappeared.
I just checked...
master:8 - ~/Debian/frozen/binary find . -type f | wc
I just checked again. It's not there. I get all the other directories but
nothing under Debian.
I just got a msg from Christian saying it may be an ftpd error.
What did you use to check this?
I logged on to master directly and checked.
Brian
A previous version of at started its at-jobs with a nice of 2 and its
batch-jobs with a nice of 4. The latest doesn't nice at-jobs at all and
only has a nice of 1 on batch-jobs. I quite liked having these jobs
put somewhat in the background. Could this be reinstated?
Also, batch jobs are now
What's the current status of dftp and dpkg-ftp? Are either of them official
debain tools? I'm looking for easier ways to upgrade my system than by
mirroring the whole debian tree. (I just tried dftp-1.4 and had some trouble
with the 'select' function -- the file produced for editing had a
The latest version of dftp should be appearing shortly in the
distribution as /debian/contrib/tools/dftp-1.5.
What's new in version v1.5
** Added architecture setting to select between several available in the
Debian distribution.
** Support for downloading
Any ideas on how to enable DIR for anonymous ftp users?
Here is what I have in my directories. This was setup automatically when
I installed wu-ftpd, I believe.
gatekeeper:~ftp# dir bin
gzip* ls*tar* zip*
gatekeeper:~ftp# dir lib
ld.so* libc.so.4@
Can dftp be used instead? I'd hate to have to download the whole
bloody 1.1 hierarchy across my 14.4 modem...
Yes, it can. However, because of the large number of dependancies involved
in such a huge upgrade, you might find dselect with dpkg-ftp a better
solution in this case. Dselect
Any hints on where I would find dftp
I have just mirrored the unstable 1.1 release and want
to now use dftp, but can't find the correct one...
It is under /debian/contrib/tools. The latest version is 1.5, though
I'm not sure if that version has made it from incoming, yet. If you
have a
I need to re-configure the network for my debian machine. Is there a way to
automate this process or do I have to do it by hand?
You might want to look into cfengine. It's a tool for tracking all of
you network configurations so they can all be changed at once.
It won't do the work you're
The subject says it: none of these keys work with Motif apps on a
fresh installation. I'm sure some xmodmap commands (though I'm not
sure which ones, if you can help) would do the trick, but I wonder
what neither of them is usable by default?
I did a ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/X386
in order
Looks OK (we can include a mouse interface). But what is required more then
a new look is the ability to list only the 'installed' packages, or select a
singe package to be installed/removed, and a method of seeing which package
(installed) is older than its archive version (and will therefore
find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\
xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} rm {}
I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's
not the case. Anyone know how to solve this?
Find only replaces {} with the filename under -exec. You have piped
the output of the
I remember seeing a *long* time ago that dftp 1.5 had been uploaded to
the Debian FTP site. Yet, I still only see 1.4. What happened to 1.5?
I was just wondering the same thing myself. It seems to have been put
on HOLD for some reason. Could the archive maintainer please move this
into:
When I dpkg -iGBE netsc*.deb, I get the message that Netscape wants to
see the archive netscape*.tar.gz in /tmp. Nothing further seems to
happen. The obvious thing to try was to cd /tmp, then run dpkg, but
alas, no joy:-(
What's the story?
Because Netscape will not allow redistribution
I don't want anyone to risk anything, I just don't believe that the
problem is so serious because nobody else seems to care about it.
If it is - better move the distribution outside the US now, it only
gets worse. Not only something that was in the public domain may be
patented, you can also
Is there a Debian-ized package of this kernel or are Debian testers
expected to grab the raw source?
There is indeed a Debian-ized version of the kernel. The package is called
kernel-image.
But is there a self-compiled-kernel-image? At least the new diald (in
Incoming) depends on
As I understand dselect, it looks at the Packages file to determine
the list of packages, their dependencies, and whatever else.
Suppose I want to upgrade a single package. I grab the .deb file.
But now what? The Packages file doesn't know about the new package.
I know I could install
There is indeed a Debian-ized version of the kernel. The package is
called kernel-image.
You could also grab the raw source and use kernel-package
package to generate your new image package. This is the recommended
method for generating custom kernel images.
Could you point me to
I am wondering how I should set the permissions for /var/spool/mail
if I want to use Netscape Mail. The debian base system has it set to
drwxrwsr-t (user=root group=mail). However, this does not work with
Netscape Mail. Netscape suggests setting it to mode 01777 ie drwxrwxrwt.
What is the
Does this imply that dftp (or the functionality thereof) has been
merged into dselect? That would be good.
No. 'dpkg-ftp' is a method for dselect to read from an FTP site in much
the same way that it would read from an NFS mount or CD-ROM.
This seems only fair since 'dftp' has added the
I am getting lots of messages about the key symbols
not being right. I remember from BSDI that you had
to have the nls directory set up in a special place.
Tried to hack this but still not getting the desired
result (i.e. no more messages about missing keysyms).
The docs say that a
I tried to use dpkg to install Netscape the _right_ way, and it expects
a netscape 3.0b4 file to be in /tmp; here is what dpkg says when I try
dpkg -i using the 1.1 cdrom:
You'll need to pick up the 3.0b6 version from ftp.debian.org.
Anyway, I looked on the Netscape ftp archive last night
I've set up a test PC with Debian 1.1 and want to
administer it remotely but am refused a telnet connection
as root ... is there a way around this ? Do I have to give
root privs. to a named user or can I enable telnet
connections as root ?
Generally, it is better for people to login with
Actually, cracking a unix passwd file is quite easy, even for those
with minimal computer knowledge. With widely available programs like Crack
(UNIX), Crakerjack (DOS), and root_crack(DOS) anybody with a CPU 386 can
crack the DES encryption with a bit of time.
My understanding of
How does one make slight modifications to a debian package? What is
a debian package? Is it really just a gzipped, tarred file? What are
the important components?
You can grab the package source and edit it from there. Please DON'T do
this, though. I try to keep up and a short note to me
Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message.
Actually, there is a Good Times virus and it does come by email.
The announcement itself _is_ the virus and it spreads _exteremely_
quickly!
For more information, check out the following FAQ:
Goodtimes isn't real. And Clinton is not sincere.
Guys, please take it elsewhere!
(Note that I just broke my rule. Sorry again.)
Then why did you do it?
Brian
( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
However, given the amount of problems seen recently on the list about
Netscape,
and matching the right debian Netscape package with the right Netscape tar
file, let me tell you how I do it for myself without netscape.deb package.
There are no problems. People just have to be a little
Background: Got and installed motifnls_2.1-1.deb and
netscape_3.0-beta6-1.deb. Got the right tar.gz file off of Netscape's
Well, you need libXpm. Which you can get in the xpm4.7 package.
netscape should probably be fixed to depend on this package.
Consider it done.
I am reluctant to bring this up again, since I saw it just a few
months ago on this list, and didn't pay attention at the time. So,
at the risk of rehashing this problem (if that is what it is), I am
submitting it again since I am now having the same difficulty myself.
I am using the
XKEYSYMDB='/usr/local/lib/netscape/XKeysymDB'; export XKEYSYMDB
XNLSPATH='/usr/local/lib/netscape/nls'; export XNLSPATH
Do those XKeysymDB and XNLSPATH really provide something useful or have
you used them only because they are provided ?
The following info has been in the Netscape
/tmp
Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. I have a 30MB /
partition, and only about 10MB space free on /tmp. This didn't work very
well while trying to restore a 50MB file from taper. (I've now mounted
100MB on /tmp to avoid the problem.)
I've got several machines
As a new Debian user who migrated from Slackware, one of the
few things I find a comparative disadvantage is being dropped
back to earlier releases of certain programs. I spend close
to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and
a WWW browser, and in both cases the current Debian
I spend close
to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and
a WWW browser, and in both cases the current Debian version
is several months out of date.
Which editor and browser are you talking about? Are you looking
at the stable or the development directory tree?
I
Whats wrong with the cron script to produce this error?
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily
cfengine:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:23: parse error
cfengine::23: Warning: actionsequence is empty
cfengine::Execution terminated after parsing due to errors in program
Doesn't anyone save that message they get when they subscribe?
Send a message to debian-user@lists.debian.org with the phrase
unsubscribe debian-user in the body of the message. (That should do it).
That should read [EMAIL PROTECTED].
Brian
I'm trying to set up majordomo on our server, but have run into the
following problem.
Any mail sent to the majordomo alias and gets piped into the majordomo
command via wrapper causes majordomo to just spin its wheels, chewing
cpu cycles and allocating more and more memory. If I run the command
This symptom with majordomo usually indicates a problem with access rights.
Yup. All the directories were owned by admin.qmail or something similar.
Removing and re-installing majordomo fixed all that.
Thanks!
can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable
system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap
on another disk? If I can't use it for much then it seems that I would
be better off going back to microstuffit- not all bad but
thanks 1allMike
I sure hope this is not a FAQ...
How is it possible to use the ftp access from within dselect to reach
through a fire-wall system? Alternatives?
I don't know about dpkg-ftp, but 'dftp' can run through a firewall. The
only firewall I ever tested it with was the Eagle Secure Gateway, but
I
What is the present status of WABI for Linux?
I've built wine package for debian and update it occasionally.
How well does it perform?
Pretty lousy. It's _very_ alpha. It runs most of the windows applets
okay, but no real apps that I know of.
You can find it in project/experimental.
REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.announce
moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.install
moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.nontech
moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.tech
moderated group
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system. At the time we did not have enough
You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries
mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file:
package=debian
site=ftp.caldera.com
remote_dir=/pub/mirrors/debian
local_dir=/usr3/people/nathan/src/debian
Found to my great surprise that netscape now doesn't default to ghostview'ing
a .ps file --- could you post me your /etc/mailcap file to overcome this?
It's a bug in Netscape that causes it not to poperly evaluate the test
condiditon. I have reported this bug to Netscape, so hopefully it will
(1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian
The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem?
I'm using TCSH shell
You need to tell Netscape how to find the XKeySymDB file. Try this:
setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
Or, use the Debian package.
My debian box doesn't seem to be able to boot with
16 megs ram!!
Dos and windows works fine, but Linux just hangs after
it does partition check. I boot with lilo, using both
kernels 2.0.17 18. The basic Debian boot disks crash
when mounting the ramdisk, dumping register values and
you might try adding an -L/usr/X11R6/lib to the CFLAGS line of the
Makeflag (or unlesss you don't use one on the gcc line.
I also had this sort of trouble a long time ago. Which compiler version
and binutils are you using?
It's better to run this command from /usr:
ln -s X11R6 X11
I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine
except for an annoying problem: ftp users can always see the files in the
ftp site even though there is no ls binary under the bin directory of
~ftp.
The chroot is only done for _anonymous_ ftp and thus only this login
THE DEBIAN WEB SITE HAS NOW BEEN INDEXED!!!
Since Verisim has been claiming on our web site to support Debian, we
thought the least we could do would be to index Debian as part of our
new InSite search service.
So, drop on by http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/simple and
give it a try.
There is a significant problem when installing ld.so and libc5 using
'dftp'.
Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if
libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will
install.
I'll fix this for dftp v2.1, but for now it would be wise to install
these
Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating
deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out
how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out),
but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after
Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating
deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out
how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out),
but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if
libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will
install.
I believe this just happened to me with dpkg
bcwhite Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on
creating
bcwhite deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually
figured out
bcwhite how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg
out),
bcwhite but how do I make dpkg run some
bcwhiteYou don't want to trace it. If you read the debian.rules (or
debian/rules)
bcwhitefile, you'll see how a package is built. Basically, you create a
directory
bcwhite(debian-tmp) and create a directory structure just like that of the
debian
bcwhitesystem and place your files in
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if
libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will
install.
Am I right in assuming that this is an upgrade from 0.93 to 1.1
(a) Content-type: application/GNU Compr. Tar
(b) Content-type: text/plain
The question now is, who tells lynx to identify these files?
It's normal - look at lynx.cfg file and modify it - it should contain lot
of lines with first word SUFFIX (it tels how to transfer different
If you disagree with this, as many seem to, please propose a solution
whereby package maintainers can easily make sure that app-defaults
files are updated to reflect any changes introduced in the upstream
app-defaults file.
Well, couldn't the files in app-defaults be marked as config
Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html
output for my manual pages?
There's rman, in non-free.
or better still act as the front end of man?
I'm working on a WWW front end to all on-line documentation on a
Debian system, but it's not finished yet.
System is running fine, thank you! A question: Can I do ftp in passive
mode with dselect ? It does not seem to rely on .netrc, so I can't give
passive command there. I also tried dftp, but it seemed too complicated
(did not read .dftprc etc).
Well, I beg to differ with complicated. If you
Susan I'd agree that a search engine front end to the FAQ would be helpful.
Also, the debian-user archives would be a whole lot more useful if we had
both more up-to-date archives and a search engine.
There is a search engine for the Debian web site:
Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on
my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. The only
problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS prompt and have to
type quit to finish printing and eject the paper. Is there a way or
Are there mime and nslookup packages for debian?
MIME is a transmission standard for email. What MIME package are
you looking for?
I maintain 'mime-support' which is basically /etc/mime.types and
/etc/mailcap with a support program for installing new types into
mailcap.
2. My X server is not recognizing Backspace in Motif programs such as
Netscape Navigator 3.0. I grabbed the XKeysymDB from the Netscape
tar.gz file on ftp.netscape.com and diff'd it with the one in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and there appear to be no relevant differences.
The problem is
Last night, my aging micropolis 1.5 gig drive decided to scramble itself.
Self, I think, Just boot up off the boot and root disks, and fsck the
root partition back into order. A noble thought, but to my utter dismay,
I found out that the boot/root set doesn *not* have fsck on it! Does
anyone
When i select my packages, i do pine+netscape.
Pine (and I believe Netscape) are in the non-free section. Unless you have
downloaded this section from one of the mirrors, it is not likely to be on
any CDs. Plus, with netscape, you will only get an installation program.
You will need to
I selected netscape package in dselect and put netscape-v30tar.gz.
Where did you put the .tar.gz archive?
But it still doesn't work!!
What exactly did the Netscape package say when you tried to install it?
I decompressed manually but when i type netscape in the directory, it
does not
I installed the msql package and it tries to start itself from a script
called run-msqld in /usr/sbin. The script runs msqld, waits for
it to exit, mails a crash report to msql and then waits 15 seconds
before trying to spawn it again.
Well, ever since I installed it, it's been filling my
Well, I'm not sure that installing the most recent one is the right
answer. Take ghostscript for example. There's the GNU version in
.../text and the Aladdin version in .../non-free. Now the GNU version
should always be = the Aladdin version since GNU repackages the
Aladdin version
Is it common knowledge that the search engine isn't working on
www.debian.org?
You can search the Debian site at:
http://insite.verisim.com/search/Debian/simple
This does not include the archives, though.
I was wondering if I could use Linuxconf on a Debian system? If not,
please explain. I think as new user, it would be nice to have admin.
tool to control most of system config. in one setting.:-)
cfengine is nice if managing a network.
Hi, I noticed that the .deb in rex is for 3B4 Is that what people are
running today? Will that deb (which requires you to download netscape) work
with other releases?
The primary site has not netscape packages under rex. There is a package
for netscape-3.0 under contrib.
We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. I was
looking for a master installation script to run the installation
process automatically from a nfs mounted directory or via ftp. Are
there any solutions for that.
We maintain a small network of Debian machines here, but
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said
bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again.
Is it a bug?
Yes, but it is a bug with netscape. You should report this directly
to netscape and tell them to compile against a later version of libc.
You can do
I'm trying to send faxes via either efax or mgetty's sendfax with no
success.
I started by using efax's efix to generate some group-3 files. Once upon
a time efax would try to send them... now it isn't even able to dial.
You don't need to call efix. The fax script will do it for you.
Try:
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