Anders Lennartsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Short update: just now I tested with a vanilla kernel-source-2.4.21 from
a kernel.org mirror and it worked, the kernel-image, modules-image and
kernel-headers processed fine.
So something in the debian kernel-source seems to break compilation of
Zhao YouBing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know if I don't use dpkg, the depence may be broken,
many programs such as j2sdk, u can't get the deb package( I want to
use the latest and don't want to use blackdown's)
How should I do??
Install it under /usr/local; the packaging system won't touch
Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. I'm now getting a choose networking interface option at
bootup. How can I disable this?
You must have installed a package that provides this; you might look
through the list of installed packages in something like aptitude.
Looking through the links in
Zhao YouBing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
for install programs?
In Debian, I'd always use /usr/local and never /opt.
There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access
and /opt can be made globally sharable,
...huh? /usr/local is just as globally sharable as any other
Paladin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In X, is it possible to switch between two programs being one in
full screen?
Almost every window manager out there (not twm) supports a concept
of workspaces or virtual desktops. My current setup uses openbox,
but I've previously used sawfish and fvwm2. I
Vesselin Kostadinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had to mess around with few packages, one of them being devfs. It
looked easy:
apt-get devfs
So apt downloaded and configured it. I thought I was done with it
and I can concentrate on the other (more important to me)
packages. Not so. After
Robin Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(I prefer Gtk because it is free, wehreas Qt ?
Got over their licensing issues a long time ago. Looking in
/usr/share/doc/kdebase-bin/copyright, the various bits of KDE are
under differing DFSG-free licenses.
And, when I used Mandrake with an old
nori heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i want to ssh to a remote machine (firewall), and then immediately
upon success, ssh to another remote machine. i don't want to put this
in my .login, because i don't want it to always happen -- i want to be
able to *just* ssh to the first box, too,
Robin Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
menuconfig works fine with kernel 2.5.xxx, but xconfig needs Qt.
From curiosity, what package I must install, in order that xconfig
works fine ? (libqt2 or libqt3 are not suitable) Why to use Qt
rather Gtk ?
My impression from this list is that the 2.5
Stephan Sauerburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a for loop which runs through all files, as in:
for file in `ls`
do
#stuff
done
ITYM 'for file in *'...
...will do just a fine job, so long as none of the file names have any
spaces in them.
because it gets around this. In general,
Tod Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
apt-get remove a whole bunch of packages
...
Is there a way to purge the conf files that's quicker than
reinstalling and then purging the packages?
Just running 'dpkg --purge packagename' should DTRT, no need to
reinstall. You should be able to find
Robert Soricone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was wndering if someone could tell me where I could find the file
that contains all of the possible window managers under gdm. I
looked under /etc/X11, and couldn't find it. I'm running woody,
with kernel 2.4.21.
gdm tends to leave its
Thomas Gies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put
APT::Default-Release testing;
in my apt.conf?
Because dselect isn't terribly cognizant of APT; dselect was written
first, and doesn't really understand why one would have multiple
available
Morten Eriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the correct manner of changing a symlink file belonging to a
Debian package? Is it sufficient to just rm and re-link, or should I
use any of the package-handling tools?
You can't. (Well, you can, but the next time you upgrade the package,
your
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) Dual head text console. A keystroke combination switches the focus
of the keyboard from one monitor to the other; the usual Alt-Fn then
switches between VTs on that monitor.
2) Dual head, text console and X. The PCI card is used for the text
console and
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then I tried to compile a module for that kernel:
make-kpkg --append-to-version
-diamond-grsec-1.9.10+freeswan-ext-1.99+preempt-20030617-2
--rootcmd fakeroot --added-modules nvidia modules_image
Kernel modules' support for 'make-kpkg --rootcmd
Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:23:32AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sid
isnt 3.1 [or 3.0r1 possibly?] woody?
3.0 and 3.0r1 are woody. There is no such thing as Debian 3.1; I
don't think sarge (current testing) has even been given a
Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What does 'echo $DISPLAY' say on okidz when you start?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh bdg2
Linux bdg 2.4.18-evms-lkcd #1 Thu Dec 19 10:03:08 WIT 2002 i686 unknown
unknown GNU/Linux
...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm
Danilo Raineri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to get to work i2c and lm-sensors on my Debian testing/unstable.
I downloaded and installed i2c-source and lm-sensors-source; then extracted
them, and proceeded to build the modules like I did with ALSA and nvidia,
with a line like this:
David selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David Z Maze wrote:
Both KDM and GDM offer the concept of sessions; you want to make
sure that you're using the Debian session, not one that goes
straight into GNOME or KDE without reading other dotfiles.
When you say Debian session do you mean boot
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently downloaded, and using make-kpkg buildpackage, built a
complete new kernel headers...etc. from a tarball( linux-2.4.21)
downloaded from www.kernel.org. It installed with no problems,
including running lilo. I rebooted and crapped out at the
Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
anyone know if it's possible to pass the value of variables assigned
within a bash script back out to the executing shell?
No, unless you run the child script using the '.' builtin.
I've written a tiny script to figure out the IP address of my
David selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I run fluxbox and KDE. where can I put setup files ie xhost setup,
Most google searches suggest .Xclients, .xinitrc or .xsessions,
ITYM .xsession (singular).
On debian, when booting via a graphical login manager (I use KDM)
these do not appear to be
David selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can enable other users to log into my x server with xhost +, I need
to do this because I want ro run a program via user web crontab which
uses xmessage.
Uh, there's no better solution at all? With the default Debian
settings, the X server doesn't
Kevin McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200
cr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
grub setup (hd0)
Checking if /boot/grub/Stage1 exists ... no
Checking if /grub/Stage1 exists ... no
Error 15: File not found
/boot/boot/grub/Stage1 does exist, though. (And df
Rich Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can't log on through kdm_greet. All I see is a momentary loss of
video signal then the login screen comes back.
That symptom sounds very much like you're successfully logging in,
whatever your X session is runs to completion, and you automatically
matt zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
what wireless access points (wap) are linux users using?
I happen to have a D-Link DWL-900AP 802.11b access point. It works
fine, except that I forgot the administrative password and now can't
reconfigure it at all.
obviously cost, administration
dhobner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have configured and built a new kernal under debian. I want to
clone the kernal and install it on many identical machines.
Take the .deb file that 'make-kpkg' produced, copy it around your
network, and install it on each machine. Setting up a network
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Even though the kernel apparently cannot be built with 3.x, I tried
it as you suggested. It got further than before, but now it can't
build the (debian stock) lm-sensors-source modules:
...
That's a multi-line string which is a C extension no longer
Bruno Diniz de Paula [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm writting a program that deals with some kernel structures (defined
on the kernel source includes), as well as with some definitions from
libc6-dev under asm/... and linux/... The problem is that some of the
symbols are duplicated and, what is
Andrej Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to be able to call a script with multiple keys in a way
that it would know how it was called.
So use command-line arguments, or write a separate script for each
key. They're cheap. :-)
The main reason I want to do this is to gain more
Benjamin Swatek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm running debian testing on a apple powerbook and try to configure
kmldonkey and kxine, both complain about a wrong prefix and that they
don't find KDE headers, where are mine?
I seem to have some headers in /usr/include/qt3, though I've never
alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For example, I use an alias ' win+ ' to get into my Windows 98SE
From Debian
alias win+='mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/da1; cd /mnt/da1;
ls'
alias win-='cd; umount /mnt/da1' (to unmount)
(I created da1/ in /mnt/
I have multiple Linux
lists1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here's my partition scheme. Opinion?
IMHO it's way too complicated. :-) My laptop has two partitions, for
/ and /home, and I'm quite happy with that. Having /home separate is
useful since if you reinstall you can do it without nuking all of your
personal
Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for the help.
I've installed the pcmcia-modules-2.2.20.
During boot, I see no errors now related to PCMCIA.
Do you see non-errors? My laptop spews a fair bit of information
about PCMCIA chipsets and what not...
But when I plug in a lan card, or
Ben Kal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One more tip for dealing with Debian packages of custom kernels and
other home-brewn 'Debianized' software: it is possible to maintain a
local archive of Debian packages, on your hard disk, from which you
can install packages with apt-get just like from a cd
Emma Jane Hogbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a way to boot into a safe-mode instead of having xdm start? I
didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless
screen of junk. I need a way to boot the computer to the prompt instead of
having xdm start. Is it
john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The modem is an external one made by (?for) Microcomputer
Research UK Ltd, uses a serial port
It's almost certainly compatible. (Serial modems are decades-old
technology now, and don't depend at all on what's inside the box.)
The big compatibility issue
David CABATON [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi, i install a woody and after u install gnome with a apt-get
install gnome but it's a meta package so this line install ALL
gnome as gnumeric, gnome-games, abi, etc.
I want to install the minimum of gnome, just the administrator,
systems
(Please don't top-post; it makes it harder to follow what's going on
in the thread.)
Tommy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I ran the debianized clean and make
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
and the kernel header files are
ii kernel-headers 2.4.20-8 Header files
Piero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe I have, after many pains, istalled the network. But I have
not installed X window. How can I test if it works?
ping? Apply DNS using 'host'? Look at a Web page using lynx or w3m?
FTP? Connect to an arbitrary TCP port using 'nc' from the netcat
Sara Gil Casanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of problems
with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape instead I
had a chance to see them a little better. Do you think it could be so, or
would they look
Kevin Griffis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I use PuTTY on a Win98 machine to connect to my home machine behind a
router, tunnelling VNC over SSH. Is it possible to tunnel through a router
using Cygwin/SSH and get an X desktop?
I bet you don't mean router, but rather NAT box. Regardless,
Abdul Latip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a shell, it is easy to change the environment by using
export. E.g. switching the PRINTER env.
(Correct terminology would be setting an environment variable; in
Bourne-style shells, this happens to be done via the 'export' command.)
Is there a way to
Jan C. Nordholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've compiled the kernel myself, using kernel-source-2.4.20, and
compiled the additional modules I needed (nvidia etc.) using
kernel-headers-2.4.20.
Oh. In that case, you should ignore the kernel-headers package; it's
just a subset of what's already
Jan C. Nordholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
can someone point me to a source of information where it is
explained why there is only one kernel-source package (2.4.20) and
ATM two kernel-headers package sets (2.4.20-1, 2.4.20-3)? Trying to
manually compile a module for my 2.4.20 kernel with the
Josh Guffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi, is there a way to list only the packages with no dependencies?
Or, some other useful way to find packages that got installed because
of other packages that aren't there anymore?
If you install packages with aptitude, it will keep track of this for
(Please set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters!)
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough
information in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a
graphical environment (i.e. X) so that I can install the
Mike Dresser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How are you supposed to install the lm-sensors-source when you compile
your own kernels. the resulting file from make-kpkg modules_install
depends on kernel-image-2.4.20. I just --force-depends'd it in, I assume
that's not the proper way.
This works
Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to build some (scientific) package with gcc-3.2 in
order to take advantages of my Mobile Pentium 4. But, before to
do it, I would like to know if it will not distord my Debian
testing/unstable box: in other words, can we use packages that
Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:33:16PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
The Debian build of xcircuit doesn't use the Tcl wrapper, but it does
use the Python wrapper. If neither of these mean anything to you, you
probably don't need either.
Yes
Søren Boll Overgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been looking into buying hardware to build a wlan at home, to avoid
all the annoying cables. However, determining which cards are supported
(and reasonably easy to get running) with a stock Debian GNU/Linux
(Unstable) install has proven
Kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just to clarify if the file I download is a .deb file then in order to
follow the steps listed in the link provided I would have to dpkg --install
kernel-PCMCIA-modules-2.4.18-586tsc_2.4.18-5_all.deb
Uh, yes, that is how you would install a package with dpkg...
Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to compile the latest version of xcircuit as the version in
the unstable is also a bit dated.
Yeah, sorry. :-/ (I'm having some issues with the autoconfiscation,
which aren't hard to work around, I just haven't had the time. I
should stop
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've never looked at Emacs (actually I have, but the guide I was looking
at was rather poor). Is it easy to re-program control keys?
Yes (albeit in Lisp); my .emacs file has, for example
(global-set-key \C-xf 'fixup-whitespace)
to change what happens
Kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I seem to be having a problem rebuilding my kernel with PCMCIA. The only
source I could find for PCMCIA were PCMCIA-cs_3.1.33-6_i386.deb
...which is the userspace code; you need this, but on it's own it's
not enough...
and
Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is it adventurous to build a package-dev with the gcc-3.2 compiler
when you still plan to use mainly the gcc-2.95 compiler ?
Most packages are maintained under Debian unstable, which uses
gcc-3.2, as does the current testing distribution. Practically,
Terry Milnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
(Please set your mail reader to only send plain-text mail, and write
lines at 72 columns!)
I can no longer use XFree86 as the fonts are rendered as long non
readable fonts.
Where are you getting your
Roman Joost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried to install grub to boot my linux or windows partition.
Unfortunatly it won't work.
Now, grub boots the grub shell, but nothing more. I've to tell him where
the configfile is
configfile /grub/menu.lst
My menu appears and i can boot
Muralikrishnan B [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can get I dpkg-buildpackage to install the source package i'm
compiling in a different path (just like ./configure
--prefix=/custom/path) ?
You'd need to edit the debian/rules script to configure the package
appropriately. But why do you want
Francis Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/usr/bin/ld: Please report this bug.
Can anyone please advise me on how to report the bug? I went on the
Debian BTS and tried to search for it, but it requires a bug by number
(which i don't have) or package name (which i don't know how to find).
'dpkg
David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is Acrobat Reader _free_? Or can you download it free of charge. To me,
that is a bit of a difference. Call me anything you like, but I like
_free_ software.
It's free-to-download, which is much different from DFSG-free.
But, since I'm not afraid of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Today I get Permission denied to execute a file I own, in a directory
I own and have write and execute permissions.
What's up with that?
bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ls -al
-r-xr-xr-x1 roninusers 134072 Dec 12 2000 setiathome
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've got all of the linux drivers installed and everything works fine
from the OS point of view (thanks to the joystick package).
There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get the
joystick to work under X.
Can anyone point me to some docs on how
Glen Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2. Can anyone strongly recommend another latex package (Prosper?)
supplied by debian that would allow me to insert a bunch of EPS figures
and math formulas, and produce an electronic presentation that can run
on Acrobat Reader.
I taught a short Java
Francisco Castellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
(Plain-text mail only, please!)
I just finished installing my first Debian system and I seem to not be
able to log on to Windows X using the root account, I can easily log in
with any other
Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. Is the algorithm for creating lines for sources.list defined
somewhere?
sources.list(5) has most of the information you need; you can also
poke around with a Web browser to look for things.
2. Is this line correct?
deb
Stephen J. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to find documentation to create modules with
make-kpkg. I am trying to find out how I unpack a tar file and
manipulate it so that I can issue a make-kpkg module_image ...
Like, a tar file in /usr/src that a *-source package installed?
Jeetu Golani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For sometime, I've been feeling that there's a memory leak in one of
the apps because after quite a few days of use KDE becomes
slow. Apps I typically use are KMail,Konqueror,KMerlin,Konsole,K3B.
I've noticed that memory seems to be consumed at an
GBV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone knows the best web reference to
source to download the newest kernel
compile a new kernel, in debian with dpkg
configure lilo
booting, and restoring if a sinister occurs..
managing several kernel versions
I don't know of a Web reference (somebody else
Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am a newbie using debian unstable. A volatile combination, no doubt.
Whenever I 'apt-get install foo' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade', the
procedure works but prints lots of GTK and debconf/Gnome warning
messages as follows:
Setting up toshset (1.58-3)
hina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://okki666.nerim.net ./ xchat-common 2.0.2.CVS20030317-1
[320kB]
You might read the description for xchat-common; on my system, it says
that it is useless without certain other packages installed. Even
better, use a
David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It does seem odd that a -dev package is needed to get a program to run.
Surely -dev packages are for compile time things, not run time.
This suggests that there are two bugs, one in the depency list for
gnucash and the other in the packaging of
Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a very naive question:
Can Debian tune the GNU C Compiler ?
[e.g., put `-cpu=pentium' automaticly on Pentium box]
There's a pentium-builder package that tries to do this, or you can
try to set CFLAGS for the program in question. With a limited
nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have downloaded the source file of an application (apt-get source appl).
Along with the .tar.gz file, I got and diff.gz file which I don't know how
to apply it to the .tar.gz file (after the extract of cource).
last i checked apt-get source automatically
dave selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Debian has a lot of fonts what is the difference between
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,
I cant find any .. can someone enlighten me ? Do I need both ?
If I ask for
Remo Inverardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a lightweight xlock alternative? Actually, I just want to
lock my X session, so I don't have to logoff when I leave my office to
get coffee. Xlock with the -lock blank parameter is about what I'm
looking for, but it's *way* to big.
In what
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Something else people like to change are the bindings of the function
keys. Suppose that you want to make F12 produce the string emacs .
Now I want to know how to the same thing in a xterm inside XWindow.
How can
Dai Yuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm running xdm + fvwm. And my shell is /bin/bash. I find any
variable I set in ~/.bash_profile doesn't take effect after I've login
X.
Well, sure: nothing in the logging in via X sequence runs bash as a
login shell (shell scripts might get run via
I have a current sid machine. If I open a GNOME 2 application with a
font selector, looking for Helvetica fails. As an exercise, for
example, one might open Gnumeric, and type some text into a cell. I
can change the font to Arial since I copied a bunch of fonts from
the Windows side of my
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK I'm partway here, but I'm still having troubles. I ran videogen and got
a modeline as close to 1152x900 as it would generate
Modeline 1152x896 94.21 1152 1184 1440 1472 896 898 941 943
I then put this line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Here is the
Pavlos Parissis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am looking for the file that I have to modify in order to have static route
enabled.
I add the gateway manually with route add -net default gw 192.168.100.1
and I would like to find the config file.
You're almost certainly looking for
Julio Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can anyone recomend a good program to pkzip and pkunzip files in kde?
The 'unzip' package provides a program called 'unzip' which unzips
files. This is a command-line tool, no particular dependence or lack
thereof on KDE or any other desktop environment.
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've got a freshly installed Debian machien that I want to make function
basicly as an X terminal for a Solaris box. The Solaris X resolutin is
1152x900 abt 8 bit color depth.
How can I configure the Debian box to use this X setup?
Well, for the most part, X
Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There ought to be a list for debian wannabes. I've tried several times
to get woody going on a couple different boxen - most recently a Dell
Latitude laptop.
You said Latitude C500/600? Mine (a Latitude C600) has a very
nonstandard 1400x1050 display.
Abdul Latip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am just wondering where others put the local .debs
(e.g. the kernel-image). Or is it usual just to keep it
in /usr/src/ after dpkg -i kernel... ?
My desktop machine used to have a big pile of .debs in /usr/local/src,
and that was all fine. These days I
Sharninder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ifconfig eth0 my.ip.add.ress up
route add default gw my.gw.ip.address
put these two commands in a script under /etc/init.d and link it
Eew. Debian already provides perfectly good infrastructure for
providing network settings. Edit
Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ -e
s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/
I'm working on polishing my meagre shell scripting skills and would
appreciate some feedback on the line above, quoted from the kernel Makefile.
1. How
Sukrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. How do i decide which modules to load at boot time, which file is
to be edited?
/etc/modules
(i am thinking that i'll compile support for lots of devices -
cd-writer, different network cards - as modules that way i won't
have to recompile kernel when i
arief_mulya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font
become very ugly.
The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm
is there at all. (Not entirely sure why, though.) There are a few
bugs against the gdm package
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have just applied a debian .diff.gz to a newer upstream tar ball.
Although the patch succeeded, any comments or pointers for discussion
about this process would be appreciated. I do believe that my case was
easy because the newer upstream tar ball was
Bret Comstock Waldow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to get Debian going on my Thinkpad T21, and synchronize with
my Sony Clie PDA.
(This works fine for me, but I always build my own kernel. I've had
better luck using coldsync than pilot-link, and the first sync always
fails.)
I'm
Lukas Ruf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
last Friday, I run an update of debian sid.
Since then, the graphical fonts like used in mozilla or jpilot and
xclock changed.
FWIW, I've noticed something similar: my laptop, having been
relatively off the network for a week, spontaneously changed its
debian_newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do I change the number of times I can boot up before fsck does a
complete file system check? It does it on my Woody machine every 20
times.
Other people have already mentioned tune2fs(8).
Also, I'm using ext3 filesystem. isn't it a journalized fs?
Mike M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to restart my DocBook efforts. I have SGML source and want
to produce HTML and PDF docs
Should I start by installing these packages: docbook, docbook-dsssl?
That's probably a good start; you also need a DSSSL processor (jade
and jadetex seem to be
Yildiz, Murat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
where does dpkg -l or deselect|select reads package info?
/var/lib/dpkg/available or status? or both?
I tried to delete these two files
Ow. Don't do that; you've now caused dselect to forget that anything
at all is installed on your machine, including
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I installed unstable about a month ago and have had nothing but good
times. ... But, I'm curious to know how safe/dangerous it is to just
say 'apt-get upgrade' presently.
Presently? Both of my unstable machines work fine (though there is
that observation that
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I want to install Adobe Acrobat Reader. Is there any deb file for
it?
For reading and printing PDF files, I've almost always found xpdf
sufficient. It's DFSG-free (acroread really isn't); you can install
it with 'aptitude install xpdf', etc.
The only thing you really
Thaden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
if I give either stable or unstable as target release, it wants to
install gcc 3.2 (the following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-3.2-base libstdc++5 transcode).
Is it possible to install gcc 3.2 besides gcc 2.95 currently installed
on my system? or should
arief_mulya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And actually, what is going on with libc? why haven't it upload to
testing yet?
There's a concise explanation at http://packages.qa.debian.org/glibc;
essentially, it boils down to there being hard-to-fix release-critical
bugs.
(to my understanding, it's
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