On 30-Nov-2001 Charles Baker wrote:
I just found this neat little doc app for windowmaker
called wmfortune. I tried to compile it, but it can't
find these include files: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h . What
packages do I need to install to get these include
files and presumably their implementations?
On 30-Nov-2001 David Wright wrote:
I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this...
debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscripts
On 30-Nov-2001 Oki DZ wrote:
Hi,
We can have update-rc.d -f daemon-name remove to remove the daemon from
the init script. Why can't we have update-rc.d -l daemon-name to list
the init levels in which the daemon will be started.
because debian by default does not mess with run levels.
On 07-Dec-2001 Andrew Perrin wrote:
I have a stupid problem and would appreciate any help.
My canonical e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] But since incoming
address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], pine and exim don't like to send mail
out as From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Generally I don't care. But
On 07-Dec-2001 Dave Sherohman wrote:
How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian
kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does
debian do any patching or just distribute the official source
unmodified?
for the most part we are in sync with the kernel.org
On 08-Dec-2001 scott worley wrote:
Hi,
I've been reading the man pages on dpkg dpkg-deb to find out if it's
possible to covert the deb source directory:
foo-x.y.z.orig
debian-dir with all the patches
upstream-source-dir
to a source tar ball with all patches applied?
On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
| Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get
| as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my
| system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three
On 08-Dec-2001 Bob Hilliard wrote:
Until recently, I could right-click on a URL in a mail message,
and my running copy of Netscape would access that URL. For some time
now this has failed to work. I'm sure the path to my Netscape must be
shown in some configuratiOn File, but I can't
On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:23:03AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
...
| deborphan combined with cruft (another package) can lead to a very clean
| system.
Is cruft useful for you? When I tried it on my system, it listed much
of the system as probable cruft
On 08-Dec-2001 Shawn Lamson wrote:
this is still happening on every boot and telinit
runlevel change... also shutdown -r 0 doesnt work...
i tried the debug=echo in /etc/init.d/rc and all that
does is echo the correct start messages to the
screen...
i checked and rechecked inittab... maybe
On 09-Dec-2001 Imre Vida wrote:
Hi,
since i upgraded syslog-ng (in testing)
the following message gets logged to the active console
whenever the netcard module is load/unloaded:
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0b.1
On 12-Dec-2001 Stephen J. Thompson wrote:
Hello All,
I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is the
following:
ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package firebird-classic needs to be
On 13-Dec-2001 nate wrote:
quote who=Stephen J. Thompson
Hello All,
I have tried installing the package but it is Fd. Can anyone
help me on removing it?
if apt-get can't remove it and dpkg can't..id say fuckit and
edit the /var/lib/dpkg/status file and remove it from there,
then
What would be the best route to take with what I want?
1. Installing potato and then using apt-cdrom to add the sid cdrom list to
souces.list ( I
presume then removing potato cdroms from the list), then doing an:
apt-get update apt-get -u dist-upgrade
safe
2. Installing sid without
On 13-Dec-2001 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
I have a Compaq Armada laptop with some goofy Trident CyberBlade i1 AGP
card that I cannot get working with X for the life of me. Anyone have any
ideas?
there is also debian-laptop for laptop specific issues. Perhaps people there
have the same
would it be exactually as i said above:
1. Install_potato_and_then_using_apt-cdrom_to_add_the_sid_cdrom_list_to
souces.list_
2. Removing_potato_cdroms_from_the_sources.list
3. run: apt-get update
4. then run: apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Would this keep the old potato packages in hte
On 13-Dec-2001 Robert Kerr wrote:
Hi all,
My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers,
but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We
would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them
up and provide patches and such.
On 13-Dec-2001 Mark Cooke wrote:
On the ftp mirror sites for the sid iso images, there are 8 iso images.
I know only iso 1 is required to install sid or upgarde potato to sid.
But can anyone tell me roughly what are on the other 7?
as I don't fancy downloading all 8 when I don't really need
On 15-Dec-2001 csj wrote:
I see that there's no Conflicts line between the gcc and gcc-3.0
packages. Does this mean they can really coexist at build time? What
would happen (I obviously have only one of them installed) when I do
something like dpkg-buildpackage? Would the package be
On 15-Dec-2001 Dragón wrote:
What is the deb file that contains the binary httpd to be used in Apache
Server?
the apache package contains /usr/sbin/apache (rather than httpd). Also, look
into the package auto-apt, it is handy for answering this kind of question.
Also if you feel more
On 16-Dec-2001 Rudy Gevaert wrote:
Hello,
I aptgetted aspell from stable, but I cant seem to figure out how to get
the dutch word list working.
I looked at the aspell homepage and downloaded the dutch word list, but
./configure doesn't work because it needs pspell-config.
And of
On 17-Dec-2001 Lev Lvovsky wrote:
is there a way to get blackbox to expand aliases in the bash .rc files? I
am opening a wterm window with the same args every time, and I'd like not
to clutter up the menu files. i've tried the shopt expand_aliases
option, but I still get blackbox
Is there is a possibility for using the Debian
distribution for creating Linux routers?
- How low can anyone go?
- Has someone tried to use the debian distribution
for diskless linux routers ( 5 Mbytes).
- Any URL, documentation, or does this idea not
sound at all?
so let's look
On 02-Oct-2001 Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
hello,
i updated woody today and found that the new xlib package wanted to
install a file over the mixviews package.
Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-5 (using .../xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
dpkg: error
On 02-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
This is mixviews violating X policy. Check if there is a bug open and if not
file one.
Are you sure? It seems strange. app-defaults is a directory, not a file.
I would have thought that any X application's package could put
On 03-Oct-2001 Alexander Wallace wrote:
Hi there! I have a lapotp I want to install debian in, it has a nic that
needs a modifyed version of tulip To be able to use it I need to copy
the modifyed version and recompile the kernel to recompile the module...
The instalation cd I have for
On 05-Oct-2001 David Purton wrote:
at some point in the last day or so my .xsession-erros fil grew to an
enormous size and completely filled up my hard disk (like almost 1GB in
size).
it seemed to contain binary junk, but I've delete it now (needed to
download my mail :) )
what would
On 05-Oct-2001 Alexander Wallace wrote:
I have another debian system I'll try compiling the module today... But,
what is it that I need to copy? just the tulip.o? will there not be
dependencies and stuff like that? Can I put that tulip o in a floppy in
/lib/modules/net or something like that
On 06-Oct-2001 michael young wrote:
i know i know...but i still would like to use it. i have telnetd installed,
hosts.allow and deny dont have anything in them, /etc/inet.d shows telnet
running bec. telnet works when the hostname/eth0 ip is used but not with the
inet addr... I would like to
blackbox should give some form of message on the screen stating why it failed.
This sounds vaguely familiar. Give this list and the blackbox@trolltech.com
list a search.
Well, it turns out that there are 79 packages in the base dist,
but once you go in and out of dselect, you end up with 169 packages. It
takes up about 220M of space.
dselect tries to install packages from priority 'Standard' by default. This is
why there are more packages. That and
On 13-Oct-2001 Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
I have read the mini-HOWTO on www.linuxdoc.org and RTFM. Here is what
appears in /var/log/xdm.log
AUDIT: Fri Oct 12 20:02:22 2001: 359 X: client 3 rejected from local host
Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
Xlib: connection to :0.0
I know this happpens in Java using AWT or Swing - in the basic GUI Hello
World program you can make a window appear. Pressing the close button
closes the window but the program continues running, as the programmer did
not catch the window closing event and quit the application. Code has to
On 13-Oct-2001 Petre Daniel wrote:
so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i believe..
just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to check my fs ?
it says maximum mount count.. and it runs fsck..
Dani
after a certain number of successful mount a filesystem gets
On 14-Oct-2001 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
Dear All
I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux.
Just tried running ' apt-get update apt-get upgrade' on my
Debain 2.2 r3 system. It updated itself and then it came up with an
error message..
E: The package kernel-image-2.4.9-586 needs
On 14-Oct-2001 John Foster wrote:
I am trying to solve a recent problem that has developed with my Apache
server installation. This happed with the last upgrade of testing. My
system is now giving me the message below; and a complete disk search
shows that there is NO file on the disk named
On 16-Oct-2001 Gerard Robin wrote:
hello,
In the package binutils there are :
as and ld.
I did man as, man ld, info as, info ld, but
I need a tutorial or a book which contain examples of programs...
(the programs write with tasm of borland don't works with as an ld)
Can someone give me
On 16-Oct-2001 joe golden wrote:
I am running the testing version of debian and have recently installed
povray, zed, circlepack and cooledit among others. None of these recently
installed programs appear on my desktop. I can call them from an xterm, but
can't get them directly from the
On 17-Oct-2001 Morbo wrote:
My motherboard has a built in speaker, which can be very annoying,
especially while I'm using my computers while others are sleeping.
Is it possible to stop the terminal windows from beeping every time I press
tab where there are multiple
matches etc.?
open
However, I noticed that in bsd style the indentation level seems to be 4.
I would like it to be 3.
If you decide you must do this, others have pointed the answer to you. I just
want to say beware the path you are taking.
Users of other editors will find editing your codce to be a royal
On 18-Oct-2001 tim haegele wrote:
hello all
topic says all...
I like to downgrade binutils from version 2.11.92.0.5-3 to 2.11.92.0.5-2 .
How can I do this? Can it be done using dselect?
you need to find the deb for the older version and install it with dpkg. Once
this is done
On 19-Oct-2001 Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
Hi,
I have bought me a new computer.
I i'm womndering how i can manage it to get ALL of the data from my Linux
partition to the new system WITHOUT LOOSING ANY PERMISSION AND FILE DATA. I
must be over the LAN. I can't change HDDs. I think that NFS
On 19-Oct-2001 Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=452
I like this concept...maybe an apt-src tool that's like apt-get but does
build-dep, makes everything and goes the extra mile to install the
resulting deb and optionally clean up source
On 20-Oct-2001 Aniartia wrote:
I can't see any mechanisum to get the all dev packages besided geting them
down by hand one at a time. Have I missed something fundmental here?
not at all. Most people only need a few -dev packages and when they do they
know what they want (GTK, X, image
On 20-Oct-2001 Lance Simmons wrote:
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:09:32AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 20-Oct-2001 Aniartia wrote:
I can't see any mechanisum to get the all dev packages besided geting them
down by hand one at a time. Have I missed something fundmental here
On 21-Oct-2001 Daniel Jones wrote:
Every so often, say once an hour or so, my Celeron 400
server runnng Debian unstable emits three short beeps. They
sound quite similar to the error beeps that occur on system
start-ups, although this system boots and seems to operate
just fine. I'm not
On 21-Oct-2001 Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone
MAILTO=
5 * * * * run program
not so sure about the MAILTO thing. If the run generates an error the admin
may still get a message I think. Why not just have it do:
program
On 21-Oct-2001 Theo Wribe wrote:
How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds?
Tried crontab -e
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * */bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1
/dev/null 2 /dev/null
That is every 10 minutes. It is also quite evil to have this in a crontab.
On 23-Oct-2001 Andrew Pritchard wrote:
I see in the debian package list a pppoe package, but no pppoatm package. Is
this likely to continue to be the case?
This package is needed for us in the UK who want ADSL from British Telecom.
Being British they decided to be different and use ppp
On 24-Oct-2001 Brian Nelson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) writes:
Please wrap your lines at ~72 columns.
I haven't been using Debian long enough to experience a full new
release.
Currently I'm running 2.2r3 and my apt-sources point to 'stable'.
When Woody is released as
On 24-Oct-2001 Kai Sterker wrote:
Hello everybody,
I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the
manuals; perhaps you can help me:
Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can
(a) download all of them in one go and
(b) reinstall exactly those
On 25-Oct-2001 Dave Sherohman wrote:
I've got a laptop with potato installed on it which has been
exhibiting a strange behaviour for a while now: After resuming from
a suspend-to-disk, it will frequently (I'd say somewhere around
2/3rds of the time) wake up with /dev/audio*, /dev/dsp*, and
On 25-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote:
I want to write a bash script that will run through my
/var/cache/apt/archives directory and determine which ones are obsolete
(either not the latest release, or no longer available at all from the
standard Debian package repository). How can I tell which
On 26-Oct-2001 Rohan Deshpande wrote:
Hi,
Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have
gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making?
i made a new, 300x300 pixel white background workspace, and in save-as
it is still grayed. What to do?
So, having done that, I'm curious: why does run-parts have such a narrow
view of a valid filename. It's there for a reason, else why write the
validation code?
I'm just curious, but it would be nice to know.
my guess is that Debian calls the directories to be run by run-parts foo.d so
On 26-Oct-2001 Mark Morshedi wrote:
using my Official CDROM as the source I tried to add packages using
APT-get. I issued the command but after initial set of instruction
and the rest of usuall text, the process comes back and tells me that
Dbconf is in web mode GOTO HTTP://localhost:8001.
On 30-Oct-2001 Meir Kriheli wrote:
Hi,
I'm setting up a computer as a multimedia center using Debian (Sid).
The machine is connected to the TV for display and to the receiver for sound.
I have a wireless keyboard/mouse to access it. It'll serve as DVD/CD/MP3/Ogg
player.
I have no
Does anyone know what the correlation is between text-based emacs and x?
(this is the emacs20 package from woody -- NOT xemacs21) Is this something
I can safely override (probably not) or work around and still use the debian
package system?
emacs is big enough already that people did
On 03-Nov-2001 Steve Kieu wrote:
Hi,
I need to tell dselect or dpkg... , that I have lynx
installed but not by debian packages, so it wont
complain dependancies with others, for example..; Is
there the best way to fake it? I know a package
somewhere but it is rather complicated to do
On 04-Nov-2001 Steve Kieu wrote:
--- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 03-Nov-2001 Steve Kieu wrote:
Faking the package system is rarely easy or safe.
I did it, thanks someone told me using equivs
yeah, I just don't trust it, hence the 'safe' part.
On 04-Nov-2001 Michael C. Alonzo wrote:
may i propose that the debian-RFC package should be divided by subject,
e.g, all RFC(standard) concerning mail should be in RFC/standard/mail/
subdirectory and
RFCs(best-current-practice) concerning TCP should be in
On 20-Dec-2001 Bill wrote:
Hi,
i've got a sad situation i don't understand: dpkg -l don't seems to be hiding
some packages from my view. this is disturbing since I use dpkg as my
information source on what software I can easily install on my systems
is there a way to sync those two?
On 20-Dec-2001 Timo --Blazko-- Boewing wrote:
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 23:03, Greg Wiley wrote:
You've probably checked, but is your default runlevel, indeed, 3?
Hello Greg,
it should be :-) Well, it is an x-less station and but to go shure i
also put the symlinks to runlevels 4,5 and 6
On 21-Dec-2001 a wrote:
i read manual of gcc, but can't find answer.
BTW what's memory requirement of gnome?
There is not a lot of difference between a simply $ gcc -O2 run versus one
where you specify the arch. Most apps, especially GUI ones are simply not
bound by the CPU. This is why
On 28-Dec-2001 Matt wrote:
Hello..
I remember reading somewhere (FHS maybe?) that permanent mounts should
now be put off the root.. I still keep cdrom, zip, floppy under /mnt, by
the way (a recent thread addressed this point already..)
...but say I have a public directory that holds
It might be worth having a look at the Euro-Char-Support mini-HOWTO
(/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/mini/Euro-Char-Support/index.html if you
have doc-linux-html installed, or somewhere on
http://www.linuxdoc.org/). I'm not sure if it's good enough either - it
was put together quite recently -
On 01-Jan-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Im still a little confused with some aspects of apt-get and would
like to see if someone could orient me a little, either pointing me to
some URLs , or answering briefly...
I dont quite get it, lets say i apt-get install a package... so it
On 03-Jan-2002 Alec wrote:
Hi
I noticed that (on woody) searching for a file with auto-apt will sometimes
produce no results, while dpkg -L may list the file. E.g.
$ auto-apt search pa_sml
$ dpkg -L camlp4 | grep pa_sml
/usr/lib/camlp4/pa_sml.cmo
Why?
auto-apt, like apt needs to
On 09-Jan-2002 Drew Raines wrote:
Has anyone created TLS/SSL-friendly debs for libpam-ldap, libnss-ldap,
libldap2, et al?
I'd like to not reinvent the wheel if someone's already done this.
Have you looked on a non-US server?
On 09-Jan-2002 Coen De Roover wrote:
Hi,
Is there a program that's capable of playing continuous WMA audio streams
?
None I have seen, it is a proprietary microsoft api.
On 20-Jan-2002 Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!!
Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs
for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.)
I found this out the hard way.
On 20-Jan-2002 Stan Brown wrote:
I had high hopes of getting my wife's new woody machine deployed this
weekend, but I seem to have sliped inot a descending death spiral on that
machine :-(
Presently both printing and email are horibly broken on it.
So I fired up dselect, amde the mistake
On 21-Jan-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debian fans,
I have the following modest proposal :
Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever
downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for.
Then we can pay people to work on the not fun stuff
On 22-Jan-2002 Oki DZ wrote:
Hi,
Have you ever encountered a situation where you are about to upgrade the
kernel and then noticing that you can't just copy your
/usr/src/linux/.config due to the fact that the new kernel version has
some new module settings so that plain copying of .config
On 24-Jan-2002 Cheryl Homiak wrote:
I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and
convert it to an audio file on my computer.
Thanks.
As someone pointed out, gramofile is a good bet. It has an impressive filter
assortment to remove things like pops and other
Incidentally...where is the power off on shutdown option? On my desktop
boxes I just enable APM Bios Support, and it powers down, on the notebook I
have far more than that enabled.
in make menuconfig, it is one of the last options in the APM section.
Some modern laptops do not respond to
On 25-Jan-2002 ae roy wrote:
I suddenly noticed when I wanted to recompile my kernel, which lies in
/home/kernel/linux that I suddenly didn't have permissions in that directory
anymore, although root in the past had done a chown in that directory giving
it to the normal user. I used to
On 25-Jan-2002 Michael Jinks wrote:
One thing you can do: hold left shift during boot to get a prompt, and
at the LILO: prompt enter Linux init=/bin/sh (possibly replacing
Linux with another image name if your box doesn't have the default).
The root fs will come up read-only. To be able to
Wow, I kind of knew there were ways to gain root access or even find out
the root password quite easily, but that's really really easy...
On every standard Debian install, anybody can gain the root password
within minutes (given the attacker has phyiscal access to the box):
(warning
thanks for the response, matthew. yeah, i was reading it correctly. touch
does change the date but doesn't affect the inability to cat the file. cat
still claims that it doesn't exist even though ls sees it.
What is the file in question?
On 20-Feb-2002 Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to add a few extra shortcuts to my menus in KDE, but from my
previous experiences in using menu (from using it in MDK), any changes done
by the KMenuEdit will be removed the next time update-menus is run. Is there
any kind of GUI I can
On 20-Feb-2002 Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
I've asked in the past and never got an answer that worked. I'm at a
point again where I want to get my Gateway port replicator to work with
my laptop. I can use everything on it but the PCMCIA slots. How do I
tell linux to use the two slots that are in
It's complaining:
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/0b/00.0
lspci: Unable to read 64 bytes of configuration space.
I check the /proc/bus/pci directory, and there I find:
mobilemcp:~# ls -l /proc/bus/pci
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Feb 20 11:28 00
dr-xr-xr-x
On 20-Feb-2002 Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Hi Sean,
currently it must be done manually.
Thanks. That's not too bad, although it's ashame there isn't some type of
GUI. :-\
So write one (-:
On 22-Feb-2002 Carlton Ellis wrote:
I just did my first Debian install last evening. Compaq Armada 1520 (oldie).
I used debconf to add Xwindows (HTTP install). I have never been able to
get past the initial screen (after X-windows starts) with all the X's. The
X cursor does go to a
On 23-Feb-2002 timothy bauscher wrote:
I am planning on building a firewall
here. There is a lot of hype about
Freebsd being great for firewalls,
and books regarding Linux firewalls.
I love Linux, but I believe in
finding the best solution for a
problem. My question is not which OS
is
On 23-Feb-2002 Roland Mas wrote:
Adam Olsen (2002-02-23 15:11:41 +) :
So on one side you have plain source,
[...]
On the other side you could do it like C,
[...]
And in the middle you have the current method, which only suffers from
the minor issues of the .py[co] files not being
On 23-Feb-2002 Richard Cobbe wrote:
Hello, all.
I've done a fair amount of searching on this topic, but a search key of
-j confuses a lot of the search engines, so I've not been able to find a
conclusive answer here.
Is it possible to have make-kpkg supply the -j switch to make? I've
(Sorry for the english)
Look at /etc/locale.gen. Should have a line like:
it_IT ISO-8859-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15
if not, add them. Then as root run 'locale-gen'. You should then have access
to your locale.
There is also a debian-italian@lists.debian.org for Italian language support.
On 26-Feb-2002 Erik van der Meulen wrote:
Kind all - I seem to be missing some vital setting in my system. When I
start some application from the command line, I get these messages:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
On 26-Feb-2002 Balazs Javor wrote:
Hi,
Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from
inetd critical to the system?
I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine,
so I was wondering if anything would break if I'd commented them out.
You can actually
On 26-Feb-2002 Bill Moseley wrote:
I hate using up my kernel building help chips for this, but...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux$ make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libncurses.so
/lib/libncurses.so.5
/lib/libncurses.so.5.2
# apt-get install libncurses5-dev
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libncurses.so
/lib/libncurses.so.5
/lib/libncurses.so.5.2
/usr/lib/libncurses.so - /lib/libncurses.so.5
I have no special foreign language requirements and am a native
enlglish speaker. Do I need to select the english ones?
Everything will work fine for English speakers. If you want to add a locale
later look at /etc/locale.gen and related docs (it will point you to them).
On 28-Feb-2002 Harry Putnam wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have no special foreign language requirements and am a native
enlglish speaker. Do I need to select the english ones?
Everything will work fine for English speakers. If you want to add a locale
later
On 28-Feb-2002 Harry Putnam wrote:
Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0
Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with
snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them.
If you could send a more detailed explanation to me I will forward it on to the
other
On 01-Mar-2002 Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
Hi!
I'm using anacron on my router (just an old 486) and everytime anacron is
running a job, it's hard to do anything else with it (e.g. takes about 5
seconds or so just to get a login prompt and it takes a minute or more to get
a small
I suppose I could go back to the 75dpi fonts but how do I make that
the default for all applications, short of removing the 100dpi fonts?
Running testing with XFree86 4.1.0.1
The obvious answer is add -dpi 75 to however X gets started on your system --
either the XDM configs or
In my redhat dealings it was possible to set default to runlevel 5
which force boot to bring up X. setting runlevel 3 gave you a console
login.
Where is this choice made on debian?
runlevels do not affect Debian. We have a different philosohphy than RedHat.
In Debian, any installed
On 01-Mar-2002 Martin Hermanowski wrote:
Hi,
I got an unwanted logout after about 20 minutes of inactivity under X. I
am using Sawfish and the only programs I running are xterms. I am not
using idled or so.
I think this started just after the last upgrade of parts of xfree in
woody some
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