, in the hope that it's useful, here it is.
Daniel Burrows
PS - I just read the Weekly Newsletter and noticed discussion of distributing
WindowMaker, E, etc themes as Debian packages. I suppose that this is somewhat
relevant to that. Personally, I think that I'd rather preview the themes
on the Web
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:34:19PM +, George Richard Russell was heard to
say:
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote:
I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time
figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK
libaraires are the base
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 12:15:39PM -0500, The Doctor What was heard to say:
I mean unstable as in Debian version unstable. Gnome is the phase 2 stuff
from a debian`ers website on master.debian someplace (I don't have the URL
handy).
The debian menu appears empty under Gnome (and hence under
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:04:00AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:04:48AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:03:20AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Michael Pobega
Adding an explicit example is a good idea -- I realize not everyone
who looks at the documentation speaks English natively. :)
Daniel
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:25:20PM +0200, Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I can bet. I suppose it makes a difference how many users are on the
machine. For me it's just me, so if I screw something else I get to
yell at myself, but if I had 200 users yelling at me for doing
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:43:47AM -0700, David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:08:06 +0200
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You really should be specific to which version you're running. If
you're running Sarge, you won't be getting many updates, if
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:16:14AM +0200, Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Now, as for getting your apps back. They *should* all be in the apt's
cache. You just need to reinstall them. If you can't figure out which
ones to reinstall, then maybe aptitude was right and you didn't
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:05:18AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Doesn't aptitude have an undo command? ctl-u or something like that.
Yes, but it doesn't work across sessions.
Daniel
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:09:21AM -0400, Ninenineone Efx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I think I made a big mistake.
I executed the following command to install a font package.
aptitude install ttf-unfonts
After it installed the font package, it began to remove packages.
I did
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:02:45PM -0800, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:43:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:09:21AM -0400, Ninenineone Efx [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
I think I made a big mistake.
I
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 11:00:05PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into several
issues.
I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a
running Debian system for that.
Hi,
To
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:59:09PM +0200, Misko [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
All the sudden aptitude refuse to start.
When I try to start it show little box saying Loading cache
and then exit with:
Uncaught exception: vs_progress.cc:38: virtual void vs_progress::paint(const
style):
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:45:34PM +0200, Mauro Sacchetto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
But aptitude install -f kde/unstable gives me this output:
==
debian:~# aptitude install -f kde/unstable
.
.
.
The following packages were blocked:
k3b
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:10:55AM -0400, Jan Sneep [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I'm a total newbie ... downloaded and successfully installed my very first
Debian OS a month of so ago and thought I should try and make sure I have
all the latest updates ... my preference is for using a
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:45:51AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
Yes, aptitude is the tool to use. However, if you read all the recent
threads on aptitude you'll see that the _first_ time you use it, you
need to get your options set (e.g. not including
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:34:21AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Does this mean that apt-cache reads the local database + the server
repositories rather than the just the server repositories? I tend to
see that as a bug, not a feature, as it leads people, such
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:02:24PM +0100, somethin2cool [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Joe Hart wrote:
So the single line answer would be use aptitude exclusively and it's
awesome. The thing is I've started with apt now :-(
You can switch to aptitude -- it just will assume that none
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:26:38AM +0100, somethin2cool [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Given that aptitude is awesome and that all the stuff I want is missing
from all the repositories, is there anyway for me to use .deb files and
dpkg in conjunction with aptitude. I'm sure they have
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:33:27AM +, Andy Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Anyone got any ideas? Is this something broken my end, or a broken package?
It's an aptitude bug.
Daniel
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:50:37AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
Greetings;
Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove
150+ unused packages, including Gnome. Doesn't
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:12:20PM +0200, Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Tom Grove wrote:
Hello all...I am new to this Debian thing :-) I used it in the Woody
days but moved over to the FreeBSD world for the last few years. I
Does anyone have a package installation command that will reproduce
this on up-to-date unstable? I think I may have a fix, but through
various stupidities I lost my test case and can't confirm it.
Thanks,
Daniel
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On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:02:20AM +, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On 2007-05-13, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like aptitude and have it installed too but it doesn't show packages
which apt-cache search readily does and shows longer lists than
aptitude at
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +, Tim Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared
to configure properly - software installation from mirror
went without a problem
The problem (sort of) goes like this:
I can boot the
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:09:44AM +, Tim Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Hi Daniel:
I ran `apt-get remove network-manager' and rebooted, but the problem
persists. Any other ideas?
thanks
tim
No more ideas about specific things that could be wrong.
I would
I've uploaded a version of aptitude to experimental that should fix
this problem. I'd appreciate it if people who are hitting this bug
could download it and let me know whether it works for them.
Thanks,
Daniel
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package.
This
might mean you need to manually fix this package.
E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
What do apt-cache
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To me, ideally, nothing would be written to the flash at all until
either sync or umount. Yes, I wait.
Yes, I also wait. Because KDE
I've been pretty happy with the desktop system I bought from system76.
(that's http://www.system76.com) Their computers come with Ubuntu
installed, but Debian runs just fine too. The only sticking points are
that hibernation doesn't work, and it uses an NVidia card (which I'm
ambivalent about;
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:08:35AM +0200, Mauro Sacchetto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
Could you quote what aptitude actually output?
debian:~# aptitude install -f kde/unstable
Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso... Fatto
Generazione dell'albero delle
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:44:09PM +0100, Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
In response to Andrew, not certain if resolv.conf is getting updated. Once
again not certain how to check.
Type cat /etc/resolv.conf.
Ping was by IP address.
Can you ping by hostname? e.g., ping
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:50:38AM -0700, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To me, ideally, nothing
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:03:47AM +0200, Dan H [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
I can't get my head around the (as of etch) newfangled aptitude
dependency handling procedure. As an example, I'm trying to install
texlive. As soon as I hit '+', I see this cryptic message in the bottom
line:
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:34:05PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
3.install aptitude-doc and read it.
Just to forestall any problems: there is no aptitude-doc. He means
aptitude-doc-en (assuming English is your native language). :-)
Daniel
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On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:21:10PM +0200, dcorking [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Since Etch became stable on April 8, is it possible that aptitude
updated many packages from Sarge to Etch for Jan?
It's possible.
The first time I read /usr/share/doc/packages/aptitude/README, I
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot figure out what:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep unstable
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
$ sudo apt-get
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:03:06PM +, Robert Cates [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I've just decided to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, which the process
itself seemed to go very smoothly, but now after rebooting it does not
bring up my eth0 and eth1, nor can I input any on the
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 02:17:48PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I've been getting the following error when i try to:
aptitude upgrade
E: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.5-9_all.deb:
MD5Sum mismatch
I get the
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:58:01AM +0200, jochen kaechelin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
ich hab hier eine Etch am Laufen und habe nurn folgendes
Problem:
Ich habe apt-listchanges so konfiguriert:
[apt]
frontend=mail
email_address=root
confirm=0
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:58:55AM +, Robert Cates [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
this is going to be my new server, so there's no GUI, only text mode, and
it gets all the way to the login prompt, but the machine will not take
keyboard (USB, which is what I always used) input. As I
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:16:54PM +, Robert Cates [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:58:55AM +, Robert Cates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
this is going to be my new server, so there's no GUI, only text mode,
and
it gets all the way to the login
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:08:09AM +, Manon Metten [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Hi,
On Etch, after having successfully removed OOo 2.0 and installed OOo 2.2.0,
after an aptitude update/upgrade aptitude complains:
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:57:24AM +, Manon Metten [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Still two question remains in my mind. First: What good is Alien for?
Alien is very useful if all you have is an .rpm. It can't solve all
possible problems, but it's generally better than using rpm
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
as of today i get the following error when running aptitude update,
which is _not_ fixed by multiple runs of aptitude update and
quite irritating.
Could somebody please shed some light on the
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:49:57AM +0100, Jaime Ventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Hello,
Is there any way to force aptitude to ask for confirmation when
install or remove package.
I'm guessing you're running installs from the command line? You
want to pass -P or set the
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:03:59AM -0500, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On 06/13/2007 03:17 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 21:34:28 -0500, Mumia W wrote:
I've tried that many times. Those 'Ign' messages will
disappear after I've removed the CDROM references,
Note that it may be a few days before a new aptitude is uploaded: the
new apt interacts badly with aptitude and I need to track down why.
Daniel
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:25:39PM +0100, Jaime Ventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Thank you all for you replies.
This was the answer I was look for since I prefer to use the command
line, although running aptitude from an unprivileged user(mentioned by
Johannes) was also a
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:04:56PM -0500, Mumia W [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
However, aptitude just won't forget about the original
CD-ROMs. This is my current sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list-
#
Security Updates
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:53:40PM +, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Larry Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So! If you want lprng... - after a fresh install of linux:
1) Stop the cups processes:
for i in /etc/init.d/cups*; do; $i stop; done
2) Edit the init scripts for
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:57:57PM -0300, Altamir Dias [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I got in troubles when I tried to update debian this week. I use dselect
to do that. When I used dselect install, it uninstall several gnome
packages.
Are you running stable, testing, or unstable?
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:20:15AM +0200, Gilles Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
that its for shure an acces denied, try creating a new user and do the same
and chek
if the problem persist, if it does, then this might be a bug.
I created a new user account and this one is
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:15:07PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
(I suspect it's more likely an environment
variable -- the packaging system shouldn't mess with permissions on these
directores -- but it would be nice to rule out any weirdness like that)
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:39:46AM +1000, CaT wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:09:31PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
One thing you could try would be something like this as root:
strace -o /tmp/ls.strace -f su - Broken -c ls
and then send ls.strace here.
# strace -o ls.strace -f su - eran -c ls
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:48:31PM +0200, tombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the fuse-utils package. This might mean
you need to manually fix this package.
E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
If you're using aptitude 0.4.4-4 (which you
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:23:32AM -0400, Michael Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there's an easy way, when using
`apt-get upgrade`, to get around the pop-up configuration screens that occur
with some updates. One example of this is with a
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:58:18AM -0500, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I am administering (or attempting to, anyway) a Debian install
on a machine a few years old. Debian is not recognizing the
sound card for some reason. I do hear a pop during boot, so
I suppose that
There are two possibilities:
(1) you still have a package installed that owns those files. This
is likely the case for the stuff under /usr/share/doc.
You can find out which packages have installed a file with
dpkg -S (filename).
(2) the package is buggy and doesn't
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Dirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
Is there any chance to find out in which package the start-stop-daemon
is w/o reinstalling the whole debian distribution and hopeing that it
will be installed automatically?
If I understand your question, you
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:46:58AM +0200, Torok Balint [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Thank you everyone for the help I received.
I have tried to install/purge the same applications with
aptitude on another computer and all went well. I conclude
that the problem came into existance
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK]
i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK]
I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and
files.
When I now run: apt-get install
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:55:19AM -0700, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
I understand how aptitude handles automatically installed packages.
Since I have always used aptitude on this box my question, I suppose, is
why is libneon26 still installed.
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:39:11AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Note that it may be a few days before a new aptitude is uploaded: the
new apt interacts badly with aptitude and I need to track down why.
Well, that was a long few days.
I've finally uploaded
When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove
these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off
upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved with newer
versions of packages):
dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1]
libssp0
Looks to me like
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:54:25PM -0400, Tony Heal [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Does anyone know what function/package does the prompting for replacing
configuration files during an upgrade? Any one
know how to automate the answers. Here is an example
These prompts are issued by
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:34:16PM -0400, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove
these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off
upgrading in the hope that the problem
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:55:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new
trick, the why/why-not command:
$ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins
i kde-extras Recommends digikam
p digikam
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Zach wrote:
I think you can mark them as hold as in aptitude hold texlive.
I still don't know why you want to do a dist-upgrade rather than a simple
upgrade as a matter of routine. Have you tried doing
Several people have reported that their problems go away if they
remove libc6-i686. I don't know why this should be, but I'd be
interested to know if you see the same behavior.
Daniel
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:05:06AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:28:33PM +, KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
Hello,
On my box, I use plain text to store my passwords but it isn't secure.
What cli and/or web software can I use to store
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:43:32AM -0700, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Next, grep supports what most would now call a subset of full regular
expression syntax. This does not include parenthesis or alternation. So
when you put a backslash in front of the pipe symbol,
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:31:28PM -0400, Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I actually keep wondering why apt-get and aptitude are not merged into one
(it looks like it good almost be done by just renaming aptitude to apt-get).
Mainly because aptitude is not apt-get. I'm
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:16:45AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system) keeps
losing the keyboard. As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to the
terminal from which it was started. One
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 12:55:18PM -0400, Lic. Orestes leal [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
The only platform-specific parts are 1) getting a GL surface on the screen,
and 2) installing the libraries/headers. For (1) you just use GLUT or Qt
(or another cross-platform windowing API with
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:33:14PM -0400, Jesus Arocho [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a
combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there
a program available that will provide instant
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:12:05PM -0500, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On 07/29/2007 02:20 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling.
Can anyone point me to example of PDFs that have fillable forms? I just
want to
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:57:04PM -0500, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Mike McCarty wrote:
My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory
stick. Here's the setup...
CPU---HUB---Dazzle[--Stick
Ok, I realize that it mounts when connected directly, so there
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:14:54AM -0400, Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I'll second the suggestion of xfig. I used it extensively when I was
writing papers and slides in LaTeX. The commandline tools that go along
with it (particularly fig2dev and pstoedit) make it very
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:13:32AM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ #
aptitude install horde3
[...]
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
apache-common
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:19:34PM +, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:34:32PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne wrote:
So one of the recommends must be depending on or recommending
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I notice that aptitude isn't actually installing apache -- it looks
like something is dragging in libapache-mod-php4, which depends on
apache-common.
Just
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:44:28PM +, - Tong - [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive?
Holding the various tetex packages (tetex-bin, tetex-common,
tetex-extra, tetex-doc) should work -- but I wouldn't be surprised
if
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 04:16:49PM +, - Tong - [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:39:17 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive?
Holding the various tetex packages (tetex-bin, tetex-common,
tetex
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:04:14PM -0400, P Kapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
On 8/30/07, Masatran, R. Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager,
but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2) the
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:20:58PM +0100, Martin Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Any reason you were doing this through dselect rather than apt-get or
aptitude?
How do I get a list of packages installed/availbale through the apt
interface? If I can I will happily move on from
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:47:47AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Hi you all,
I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to
receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense.
thanx in advance
The Fujitsu P7120 works
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:23:16PM +0100, John K Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I am gradually implementing a mail system where I have a mail-server on
host1 running Postfix/Courier/Procmail/spamc which passes all except
whitelisted mail to spamd on another server - host2. host2
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:39:06PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
steef wrote:
- From his website:
Key people from Debian are paid for their work on Debian (see here)
and for this reason do no longer represent community interests but
the commercial
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:23:06PM -0400, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
Tod Detre wrote:
A less drastic approach, which would not risk breaking anything, would be
apt-get install --reinstall $pkg in place of the last two steps. I don't
know if it would accomplish the same
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:23:07AM -0600, Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I've also seen this enable encryption option on my wireless keyboard at
home.
I think the more important question for the original poster is really --
how far away do you think your keyboard can be
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:10:38PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Of course it's not meant for final users in the same sense as ubuntu is,
you may get some dependency problems from time to time, but nothing hard
to solve with a few 'apt-get install ...' (don't use
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:37:51AM +, Felix Karpfen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
But How do you use the key(s) listed in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg to
authenticate the individual installed packages.
Oh, dpkg automatically checks it for you when you use apt-get/aptitude
to install
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:37:12AM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
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What about:
sudo (command_1 | command_2)
Won't work -- the ()s are shell metacharacters, and sudo knows
nothing about them. What you would need to do this with just
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:44:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Doug is absolutely correct. Putting a 30MB file into the clipboard
is going to is a lot of resources.
It'll use a lot of resources -- but if I understood the OP correctly,
the resources weren't being
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
The problem with knoppix cd, and the debian installation/rescue cd, is
that they do NOT understand the specifics of my lvm over software raid
5. The specifics required probably all reside under /etc -- on a
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:39:05PM +0100, andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I will
have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you referring to? I
enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:36:54PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
If you can't pull the data with ftp or somethin, what about using lynx?
Text browsers don't have to render. Download the text and save it to a
file. Or if its already being viewed, 'Print' it to a
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