Re: [R] How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:04:50PM -0500, Dan Davison wrote: I would like to install the latest version of R (the statistical computing software). This is package r-base version 2.2.0 and is in the debian 'unstable' repository. Otherwise my system has 'sarge' packages, including r-base 2.1.0. What is the best way to do this? If I don't want to upgrade to unstable, must I compile R myself, or is there some way to install this as a debian package? http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Are-there-Unix-binaries-for-R_003f I haven't build 2.2.0 yet, but I will probably do it next weekend. R 2.1.1 is available and you should be able to install it without too many problems (you might have to remove a lot of r-cran packages which I all put into the r-recommended package for the backport, I'll try to fix that for the next version). Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
remote attack?
Hi, seems my machine was subject to an remote attack. I saw these in the logs: Dec 16 05:10:03 ap031 rpc.statd[21964]: gethostbyname error for ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 [...] How can I find out where the attack came from? Plus I hope that a woody machine is not vulnerable? Christian
ITP gemdropx, madbomber, defendguin, ...
Id like to package all the games http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/x/ which I can get working. All games are (gemdropx will be made) GPL. As nobody reacted to my call on debian-devel-games, it seems I'll have to package them myself. Most of these games use SDL (available as libsdl* in debian) for sound output, some also for grafics. As our libsdl is not current (a wishlist bug has allready been filed) I think I'll have to build them without sound at the moment. Christian PS Do I have to retract ITPs also? I then retract my ITP for xgfe. The author did not answer and I could not build the package on a potato system, only on slink. As it would be contrib or non-free (qt1) anyway, Ill drop it again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
framemaker
Hi, is anyone else trying to use framemaker with debian/slink? Yesterday I got a mail from adobe: (1) C library incompatibiliy with some distributions of Linux, including Red Hat 5.2 and Debian 2.1. Users will typically see the following message in this case: ./maker: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info The FrameMaker executable is incompatible with certain releases of version 2.0.7 of the GNU C Library, which are included with some distributions noted above. FrameMaker will not run on systems with this incompatibility, unless access to a different version of the C Library is provided. Is there another option for me than upgrading to glibc2.1 (potato)? I remember seeing this error before, and I think it was fixed, but maybe that was only an m68k incompatibility at that time. Christian
meta key for xemacs
Hi, How can I define new Meta keys for Xemacs? I have two slink/i386 installations, on one I can use the windows key as Meta key, on the other I can't, most of the time. I had the impression it worked for a short time while editing a shell script, but then, I couldn't... My .emacs and .xemacs-options files are identical on both machines, so I guess its somewhere hidden in /etc/xemacs, or maybe the X-keyboard setting? How can I make both machines use the windows keys as meta key and where can I find this in the docs? I'd prefer a setting for .emacs, then I can never loose it again... Ciao, Christian.
Japanese debian?
Hi, we have a japanese guest scientist and he would like to read his japanese email here. I bet it is possible to do this with debian, debian-jp. Can somebody please tell me what packages to install to allow reading japanese mail with debian? (and maybe send a mail in japanese for testing?) Thanks, Christian. PS please CC me, I am not subscribed to debian-user.
fetchmail over ssh, how?
Hi, I am trying to run fetchmail over ssh but I seem to be too dumb to get it going. Ive read the (debian) docs, a webpage dedicated to this problem (http://yosh.gimp.org/Secure-POP-SSH.html) but still I cant get it going. I hope somebody here can help me. The setup, two debian/slink boxes ap031 and ap058. I am on ap031, ssh-agent, ssh-askpass(?) are running, so that I can log into the other machine simply with ssh (seems not to apply here...). I want to get mail from ap058. ssh is installed on both machines, username both times cts, authorized_keys entries are ok. My entry in .fetchmailrc; poll ap058 port 0 via localhost with protocol pop3: preconnect ssh -C -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L 0:ap058:110 sleep 5 # password foobar; When I run the preconnect command alone I can telnet localhost 0 and get a connections Is password needed? If I enter something there I am not asked for a password, but I am unsure _which_ password I have to give (and why). Is it really the password on ap058 or the pgp passphrase on ap031? Or vice versa? All four paswords differ... I think I have tried them all. Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 4.6.4 querying ap058 (protocol POP3) at Tue Jun 8 16:35:32 1999 fwd connect from localhost to local port sshdfwd-0 fetchmail: socket error while fetching from ap058 fetchmail: Query status=2 fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 No mail is fetched, but even if none would be fetched I should get a no mail message like I get without ssh? What does the socket error mean? Another try: Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 4.6.4 querying ap058 (protocol POP3) at Tue Jun 8 16:37:54 1999 Local: bind: Address already in use fetchmail: pre-connection command failed with status 65280 fetchmail: Query status=5 fetchmail: normal termination, status 5 This means that the port address I want to use is allready in use? How can I reuse that port again? I changed the preconnect to preconnect ssh-agent ssh -f -L 0:ap058:110 ap058 sleep 20 /dev/null /dev/null; so that I have to enter my local passphrase and if I enter a wrong one, I have to enter the remote password, good. But still I get the socket error message. What am I doing wrong? Ciao, Christian. -- http://www.kieler-woche.de/
Re: setting up a HP 880C/850C
Hi, On Tue, 11 May 1999, David Wright wrote: I have an 895c and use the hpdj driver in gs-aladdin, which uses a lot less ink than hp550c which I believe is the traditional deskjet driver. Gonna try that (have to update the notebook from hamm to slink...) Use the extra switch -M A4dj to tell a2ps leave an extra margin. I don't know how to integrate this into /etc/papersize, but then I always use a2ps through wrapper functions in .bashrc as there are far too many switches to remember my preferences. Thanks for the hint! I should have read the a2ps docs... Put in your ~/.a2psrc # Default medium Options: --medium=A4dj Or change it in /etc/a2ps.cfg (standard is A4) Ciao, Christian.
setting up a HP 880C/850C
Hi, I got an HP 880C yesterday which works in principle. Now I have two or three questions: Ive seen there is an (experimental?) gs driver for newer HPs, available as a patch. Are there plans to integrate it into gs or is it not worth it? When printing with a2ps the first two columns of the let page (2 pages on one paper standard setting) are missing. Same on a HP 850C, which is also configured to use the dj550c driver (magicfilter). I am printing on A4 paper, I have /etc/papersize to a4 (at least on the machine with the 850C). How to I tell a2p or gs or whomever that the HP can not print on the last ~10mm of the page as written in the manual? Last question: printers in the network. How do I set up this, havent found this in a howto yet. I have two machines on the network, one has a printer, one not (or an old Fujitsu DL1100C printer). Now my Debian/m68k box wants to print on the Debian/i386 printer. Can I configure that with magicfilter? Thanks, Christian.
Re: fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Christian T. Steigies wrote: I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with From in the text, procmail sorts everything before From in the correct folder, everything after From (the line with From is lost) ends up in my bulk folder. First thanks for the hints I have received. Reading the fetchmail-FAQ I found this: X3. Messages containing From at start of line are being split. [...] If you can't replace the offending program, take a look at your sendmail.cf file. There will likely be a line something like Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMShP, S=10, R=20/40, A=procmail -Y -d $u describing your local delivery agent. Try inserting the `E' option in the flags part (the F= string). This will make sendmail turn each dangerous start-of-line From into a From, preventing programs further downstream from acting up. Now I wonder where I have my sendmail.cf file, I am using (the Debian standard) smail. Can't see nothing about procmail in /etc/smail, I wonder how my system knows that it should deliver mail with procmail. If I could add this option, I guess my problem would be solved. Ciao, Christian.
Re: fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:36:35 +0100 (CET) Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with From in the text, procmail sorts everything before From in the correct folder, everything after From (the line with From is lost) ends up in my bulk folder. This is due to a bug in early email implementations or caused by an attempt to expand a digest. No digest, dosemu-digest is coming through unharmed. Is this a bug or a feature? Is there an easy solution to fix this, some commandline switch or config change for fetchmail or procmail? Unless the mail(s) in question were close to the minimal digest format, I'd say it is a bug. Those buggy old email implementations shouldn't be around anymore :-) What is a buggy old email implemantation? Are you talking about fetchmail/procmail or the mail programm the sender is using? Most of the mails which are torn apart are on the various debian lists, just because of the high volume I guess. I have seen sometimes that a mail containing a From line is changed to From, who should change the mail ike this? fetchmail? procmail? Or the sun where the mail is delivered originally? When I read the mail on the sun (Im no longer filtering there) everything is ok, its only torn on the way from the sun to my debian machine. Ciao, Christian.
fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart
Hi, I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with From in the text, procmail sorts everything before From in the correct folder, everything after From (the line with From is lost) ends up in my bulk folder. Is this a bug or a feature? Is there an easy solution to fix this, some commandline switch or config change for fetchmail or procmail? Ciao, Christian.
NFS install
Hi, Im just setting up debian system on a new PentiumII. Got no Debian CD. I want to install the basesystem with NFS, can anybody recommend me a NFS server preferably in Germany/Northern Europe? Ciao, Christian.
BTS
Hi, I have sent a bug report to the BTS. Now I see this on the www: Your message specified a Severity: in the psuedo-header, but the severity value 'normal ' was not recognised. The default severity 'normal' is being used instead. The recognised values are: critical grave important normal wishlist. Oups, there was an additional space after severity? I should remove that next time. But shouldn't psuedo-header be written as pseudo-header? Is this a bug of the BTS? Ciao, Christian. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
less with lesspipe reports: bash option -c requires an argument
Hi, since some time less (or lesspipe) when displaying compress texts reports: /bin/bash: option -c requires an argument when I Quit displaying a text. The text (or deb, nice script manoj :-) is displayed correctly, its only a little annoying to get this message everytime I quit less. I dont remember to have seen this when I started using lesspipe, but I cant say which package might have caused this feature. This happens on i386 as well as on m68k. I am running the latest hamm on all machines. Ciao, Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mutt, xlock, xautolock problems
Hi, I have installed mutt (0.91.1-4) on i386 and have experienced some strange colors, which make most of the mails (citations) unreadable. I know how it looked before and have seen the same with the new version I built for m68k. Is mutt supposed to look like this now? Do I have to configure it to make it readable? Shall I upload the m68k version? xlockmore (4.09-3)/xautolock(pl11-2): I have put this into my init-hook (fvwm2) xautolock -time 1 -locker xlock -mode random -corners -cornerdelay 1 which is supposed to lock my display. It does so, but very often it unlocks spontaneously (doing nothing to the computer, just watching the screen. Perhaps the mouse has moved a bit, but nothing more). I can not say if this problem has been removed with a recent upgrade, because it doesnt happen when I want it to. But I am sure that it was still there with the software I installed in the middle of march. Ciao, Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with deinstalling emacs20
Hi, I can not (completely) deinstall emacs20. I have removed all emacs* packages, including emacs, emacs19, but I do not get rid of emacs20. This is not WinExploder in disguise, is it? ;-) I want to remove it because I had the impression it did not install properly. How do I get rid of it (without installing the whole system again)? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~dpkg -l emacs* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- pn emacs none (no description available) pn emacs-czech none (no description available) pn emacs-elnone (no description available) pn emacs-lisp-intr none (no description available) un emacs19 none (no description available) pF emacs20 20.2-2 The GNU Emacs editor. pn emacs20-el none (no description available) un emacsen none (no description available) pn emacsen-common none (no description available) pn emacspeak none (no description available) pn emacspeak-dtnone (no description available) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~dpkg --purge emacs20 (Reading database ... 24882 files and directories currently installed.) Removing emacs20 ... Checking available versions of ctags, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Discarding obsolete slave link ctags.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz). Last package providing ctags (/usr/bin/ctags) removed, deleting it. Checking available versions of etags, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Discarding obsolete slave link etags.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/etags.1.gz). Last package providing etags (/usr/bin/etags) removed, deleting it. Checking available versions of b2m, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Last package providing b2m (/usr/bin/b2m) removed, deleting it. Checking available versions of emacsclient, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Last package providing emacsclient (/usr/bin/emacsclient) removed, deleting it. Checking available versions of rcs-checkin, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Last package providing rcs-checkin (/usr/bin/rcs-checkin) removed, deleting it. Checking available versions of emacs, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Discarding obsolete slave link emacs.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/emacs.1.gz). Last package providing emacs (/usr/bin/emacs) removed, deleting it. /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs20.prerm: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Checking available versions of ctags, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Updating ctags (/usr/bin/ctags) to point to /usr/bin/ctags.emacs20. Updating ctags.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz) to point to /usr/man/man1/ctags.1emacs20.gz. Checking available versions of etags, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Updating etags (/usr/bin/etags) to point to /usr/bin/etags.emacs20. Updating etags.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/etags.1.gz) to point to /usr/man/man1/etags.1emacs20.gz. Checking available versions of b2m, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Updating b2m (/usr/bin/b2m) to point to /usr/bin/b2m.emacs20. Checking available versions of emacsclient, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Updating emacsclient (/usr/bin/emacsclient) to point to /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs20. Checking available versions of rcs-checkin, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Updating rcs-checkin (/usr/bin/rcs-checkin) to point to /usr/bin/rcs-checkin.emacs20. Checking available versions of emacs, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see an ln'.) Updating emacs (/usr/bin/emacs) to point to /usr/bin/emacs-20.2. Updating emacs.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/emacs.1.gz) to point to /usr/man/man1/emacs.1emacs20.gz. Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs20.postinst:
Re: Problem with deinstalling emacs20
Hi, On 27 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: Somehow you managed to remove the emacsen-common package without removing emacs20. Since emacs20 depends on emacsen-common, this means you must have forced dpkg to ignore dependencies. This is a bad thing. To fix the problem, reinstall emacsen-common, then remove emacs20, then remove emacsen-common. Yup, this did the trick! Thank you very much, I really like Debian (support) Ciao, Christian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
