On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 08:36:18PM -0300, Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez wrote:
I am having problems with the ld.so and/or with the libc6. I released my
bo linux to hamm 2 week ago. I used the cd-autoup.sh program.
The upgrading was fine and without big problems. However the myself
compiled
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 04:04:54PM +0200, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote:
Why can't I save my pictures as GIF in the gimp?
Thanks to the joy of software patents?
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html
You could perhaps consider using gimp-nonfree in non-free/graphics .
HTH,
Ray
--
Obsig:
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:14:12PM +, D.L.WHITELEY wrote:
I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean
way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also
installing stuff of the extra CDs.
The way I'd do this would be
- dpkg --clear-available
- for
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:14:12PM +, D.L.WHITELEY wrote:
I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean
way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also
installing stuff of the extra CDs.
Another option might be the dpkg-multicd method written by
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Manuel wrote:
Da kommt dann die Fehlermeldung, No acces methos is selected/
configured. Dann habe ich ausprobiert, Acces. Wenn ich dann das Laufwerk
auswaehle (weil ich ja von CD-ROM installiere). Dann kommt diese Meldung,
Insert the CD-ROM and enter
You don't provide enough information.
The backspace/delete behaviour is only correct when you use the XKB (X
Keyboard) extension. Are you using it? (check that there's no XkbDisable
in your /etc/X11/XF86Config)
What terminal emulators (xterm, rxvt, xvt, kvt, ...) have problems? What
applications
[Paulo, please limit your lines to less than 80 characters]
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 10:15:17AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
wrote:
I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz,
compile, put into /etc/pam_ncp.conf the Novell Server and the README tells
about
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote:
Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than
rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they
have 10434 packages listed.
AFAIK, this count include different versions, ports to
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 07:55:38AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Infomagic labelled Debian 2.0 containing 1.3.1]
Hum. Wonder what they had in mind? I thought I purchased the 2.0
release, but it is clearly an error.
It is. This is the umpteenth mistake wrt Debian Infomagic have made with
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 11:53:16AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
libdb2 is in main, so it is DFSG-free. So you have no restrictions in
using it.
A library can be DFSG-free, but have restrictions that may make it unusable
for some development tasks.
For example, some libraries (e.g.
[Robert, this could be the basis for a FAQ entry: How do I resize a Linux
partition?]
On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 04:42:33AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
Hans wrote:
Guesss it's time for me to install debian, anyone know an easy way to
resize an ext2 partition so I can add another one??
You
[Note: mailing list change]
On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:02:18PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
After upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0 my system decided to ignore -- in an
xterm, netscape, but work on the console, emacs, etc.
Do you have Xkb enabled? The implementation of the keyboard policy for X
only
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 12:13:19PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having problems using some software downloaded from the net (netscape,
StarOffice etc etc).
Apperantly you didn't use the installer packages provided for these.
I'll use the setup for StarOffice as an example of the
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:28:32AM +0200, Remo Badii wrote:
I have just installed pcmcia-source with dselect and run
make menuconfig
make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image modules_image
dpkg -i ../kernelx.xx.deb
You also should also
dpkg -i ../pcmcia-modules-x.x.xx_x.x.x...deb
HTH,
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:23:30AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
ftp://ftp.stardivision.com/pub/so4/linux/sp3/01/README.01:
Note that this version of StarOffice 4.0 is a x86-compatible version,
which requires a current LINUX distribution. That means you need at
least a LibC - Rel.
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:32:38AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
I seem to remember that there is a Linux port for MIPS anyone know
anything about it?
See http://lena.fnet.fr/
Debian doesn't apear to have a MIPS dist (yet :) - we seem to have almost
everything else).
From
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 01:14:30AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Why do the system libraries not have symbols?
They do have some symbols in them. Try e.g.
nm --dynamic --defined-only /lib/libc.so.6
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be
SSL-telnet:
+ free
- not employed in many places
- authentication is host-based only
- only remote shell (there's SSL-ftp(d), but they're not packaged)
+- supports unencrypted connections by default (if you want all connections
to use encryption, add -z secure to the telnetd line in
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 11:40:40PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
A few years back there was a guy (in the US) active on some of the Linux
lists who was developing linux applications for the disabled.
He set up his own list, as I recall, and disappeared from general view.
The Linux Access HOWTO
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 03:46:51PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote:
$ Scilab: warning, error event receieved:
X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request:
[Courtesy copy of Usenet posting]
Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone herd or seen a thing called Encrypted File system on any
Debian or Linux distribution??? I am told it's lurking around, but this
source is not all that reliable.
I am interested in this, as I am sure everyone else
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 12:54:23PM +0200, Hans wrote:
Guesss it's time for me to install debian, anyone know an easy way to
resize an ext2 partition so I can add another one??
There's an ext2 resizer available for Partition Magic. Currently, there's no
free version/alternative. The resizer was
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 05:22:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to install both (Lib5 / Lib6) so that they can work together?
Yes. If you upgrade your system to 2.0 (follow the upgrade instructions
provided on the website), you'll get a system that is libc6 based, but
which can
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 09:44:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well the subject says it all. Why does Debian use ncurses-1.9.9g and not
the 4.x series which has been out since Dec 96?
Part of the answer is that our ncurses maintainer has been away for several
months. I'm not sure about
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:46:56AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
[home and end behaviour reversed when editing command lines in xterm]
This problem has been fixed in xbase 3.3.2.2-2 and newer (including the
version in stable), by an update of the conffile /etc/X11/Xresources
which now has
! Make
I'm not the expert on Debian's finances, but here's my understanding.
Nils, please correct me where I'm wrong.
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:14:45PM -0700, ... wrote:
I was about to place an order for the 3 CD set of Debian 2.0 from
Linux Central and noticed that you can donate $5 of your
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 04:21:00PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote:
I need an egcs-1.1b c++ development - so I've to go for slink.
The current packages are actually egcs-1.1a (b only fixes one typo :-).
So which do I need for development with an egcs-1.1b release and the Stl?
You need
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 10:54:54PM +1200, Andrew wrote:
when I try to run mutt I get:
Need to be running setgid 0 to lock mailbox!
- ensure the mutt binary has the proper permissions: -rwxr-sr-x and
ownership: user root, group mail
- ensure /var/spool/mail has the proper permissions:
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 11:36:35AM -0500, Kathy Miles wrote:
Hi, hopeing someone can help me. I'm adjusting to using debian linux and
still finding things a challenge. I'm running X and have been using
various windows managers like fvwm95, icewm, and window maker. The problem
is my display is
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:16:00AM -0700, Albert Hurd wrote:
Could anyone tell me where to find the following shared libraries (not
just site location, but specific tar files). I need them to hopefully
get Communicator 4.06-4.5 working (they are suggested in release notes)
Any particular
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 06:39:19AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
Couple of questions concerning Debian Linux:
1. How can I install .deb packages in RehHat?
The same way you install RPMs in Debian: using Alien
(http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/).
2. Can PPP be initiated by a user
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:14:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions
| Yes. If the user is part of the group which owns the dial out devices
| (with Debian, that's group dialout).
Actually it is the dip group. All the ppp and
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 05:07:51PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
Please can someone explain to me the difference between EGCS compilers and
non-EGCS ones?
See the README included in the various egcs packages (e.g. g++), and
question 1 of the egcs FAQ at http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html .
HTH,
Ray
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 11:55:49AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote:
Any idea when EGCS 1.1 will be packaged?
It is packaged. Currently it's available only on my harddisk. I'll upload it
tomorrow morning CET.
HTH,
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 02:06:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is debian-user archived somewhere publically accessible?
Yes. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
HTH,
Ray
--
Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages,
on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 03:49:32PM +0200, Jens Ritter forwarded:
[X fails with gcc 2.8.1 compiled 2.0.x kernel]
Linux 2.0.x kernels rely on knowledge of the compiler's method optimisation
that is only valid for gcc 2.7.x, so you should use only a 2.7.x version to
compile them; this is why Debian
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 05:38:42PM +0200, Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
obviously it is still possible to run (most) of the old libc5 binaries in
hamm. Somehow ld knows when it is necessary to use the libs from the
ld.so, not ld.
libc5-compat directory. How does this mechanism work?
ELF binaries
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 09:15:35PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
1. Since upgrading to Debian 2.0 my compose key (Control-. on a normal
screen and Control-Scroll-lock in X11) does not work anymore. In X11 I had
to run xkeycaps to restore it, but I do not know how to restore it in for
normal use.
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 07:18:16AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
am currently helping a friend install 2.0 and we came across something
I've noted before but bypassed (mainly work in english anyway), ls will
list non-us-ascii characters as '?' instead of the proper character like
å, ä, or ö
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 12:54:56PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
-
ldd /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/pgmodule.so
statically linked
Huh? Since when are dynamic libraries statically linked? Somehting's
wrong in this place.
Wayne suggested
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 01:15:31PM +0200, Valentín Ruano Rubio wrote:
I have a Debian distribution ( 1.3.? ) which works with libc5 package. I
can't install libc6 and the last debian packages (postgresql,jdk ...)
which work with this library. I didn't found version for libc5 for them on
your
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 07:54:24PM +0800, htyj wrote:
I've seen the term magic number in many documents, I wonder what it is,
and how to get it(calculate it?)? TIA.
Courtesy of dict:
: magic number /n./ [Unix/C] 1. In source code, some
: non-obvious constant whose value is significant to
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote:
Also do you think debian will continued to be developed?
Yes. The current developer count is 405.
I read somewhere that the head of the progect quite because he thought the
progress was not fast enough.
That's not a very accurate
On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 07:24:19PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Chuck Peters wrote:
I tried compiling sftp and the configure script did not finish. I thought
this was there as I have the following C++ libaries
ii libg++272.7.2.1-14.4 The GNU C++ libraries
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 02:59:14PM +0200, Kris Van Hulle wrote:
I installed libc5 - still not working. Here some more information:
You also need libc5 versions of the libraries netscape wants.
If you had used the appropriate `netscape[34]' installer package from
contrib, this would have been
On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 11:39:47PM +1000, Z.P. Dylejko wrote:
At 10:11 23/08/98 +0200, you wrote:
*-Z.P. Dylejko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Hmmm.. broken mail headers?]
configure:1305: checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works
configure:1319: g++ -o conftest -s conftest.C 15
/usr/bin/ld:
Hi Linus,
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 01:58:58AM +0200, Linus Nilsson wrote:
I'm using Debain Linux and do most of my work in console mode.
I use us keymap and i wonder what i have to do to be able to write
eight_bit characters. In X alt is bound to meta and that works just
fine, but in
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 07:27:57PM -0700, phillip Neumann wrote:
What means :
./DAP: can't load library 'libforms.so.0.88' ??
It means ./DAP is linked against the library libforms.so.0.88 which
cannot be found by the dynamic loader. Install the libforms0.88 package
from the non-free section
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 03:18:00PM +0800, jc wrote:
I find that my system clock in debian is 8 hours more than that in my
win98. I know that my time zone should be +08:00. How can I correct this??
- Make sure /etc/timezone is set correctly (Asia/Hong_Kong)
- Edit /etc/default/rcS and set GMT to
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 03:31:37AM -0500, Cristov Russell wrote:
I have edited /etc/fstab and mounted my Win95 partitions as vfat.
When I boot into Linux I get a message saying:
Unable to load NLS charset cp437...
Unable to load NLS charset ISO8859...
I can view files in these partitions
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 11:52:05AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
I know we are going thru' compiler changes etc. I am trying to install any
C++ compiler whether egcs or gcc. I installed all relevant files as far as
I know and as far as the dpkg did not complain about missing packages. But
when I
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 10:14:17PM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this
was moved into its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right
place.
/usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.gz
HTH,
Ray
--
POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:40:22PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote:
[backspace problem in X]
Here is my setup:
Debian 1.3.1
Please consider upgrading to Debian 2.0 . In 2.0, consistent handling of
backspace and delete under X has been implemented.
HTH,
Ray
--
PATRIOTISM A great British writer
On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 05:58:27PM -0230, Greg Starkes wrote:
On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote:
The problem is that gcc is an ANSI C compiler, and you wanted to compile
a C++ program. I think that If you have just changed gcc to g++ ( the
GNU C++ compiler) everything would have
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 10:19:22PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I just installed Debian 2.0 on my Toshiba notebook on Friday, and
backspace doesn't work in xterm! Perhaps it is just the keyboard on the
thing [I chose standard 102 key keyboard in the setup]; I have to use C-h
though.
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 08:05:45AM +, Akop Pogosian wrote:
If someone know how to set up Cyrillic fonts on Linux, please let me know
how or at least point me to the right place on the internet. All I want is
to make Netscape Navigator and console IRC clients understand various
russian
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:12:34AM +0200, Thomas Adams wrote:
I use Debian 2.0 and am missing pine and tin. I ftped the binary-i386
image soonafter it was released and those programs aren't on it. After
having my network stuff up and running I checked the contrib area on
debian ftp servers but
On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 01:38:19AM -0700, Luiken, Arijan wrote:
i have a question, when i installed debian (2.0) and i want to install x
windows (or something else with dselect) i get the message that the
program has dependency problems with cpp.
anybody any idea's ?
Not really, because you
On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 02:32:55AM -0700, Bryon Bridges wrote:
I am trying to install Netscape Navigator on my system and it says it
requires a file called libc6. Yet when I go to dpkg this file, it says it
conflicts with libc5! I can't simply remove libc5 can I? Why would these
two files be
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:08:20PM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote:
12:02:43 mjnf neptuno# ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4001)
The dynamic loader tries to load it against a libc5 library,
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 04:05:24PM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote:
Well what package contains :
Xm/Xm.h
Xm/Text.h
Xm/List.h
Xm/ToggleB.h
lesstifg-dev .
HTH,
Ray
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On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 11:31:35AM +0200, Michael Taeschner wrote:
Wie ueberpruefe ich auf der Kommandozeile die Integritaet von
.deb-Paketen?
Die man-pages (uralt) sagen, dass es keine Checksumme gaebe...
That is correct: the packages themselves do not contain checksums.
Dann frage ich
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 09:35:51AM -0400, SEGV wrote:
What is the state of Standard C++ (as adopted by ISO/ANSI) on GNU/Linux?
Debian 2.0 will ship with the egcs C++ compiler (http://egcs.cygnus.com/)
version 1.0.3 .
For instance, browsing my system I see that c++ is gcc version 2.7.2.3. It
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 07:56:02AM -0400, Keith wrote:
I was wondering if there is a way to set up a .signature file or something
similar to that which PINE using in order to put a signature at the bottom
of every message I send using elm.
Yes. I haven't used elm in quite a while, but
On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 08:49:53PM +0800, Cheng Dien Yiu wrote:
I have just installl hamm in a new computer . However, when I try to
compile qt-1.33, I ran intot errors:
1) Why are you compiling it yourself? There's packages of qt in non-free.
2) Read the fine documentation about this in
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 09:49:39AM +1000, Chris wrote:
[finding usable fonts for terminals in X]
Sorry, I don't have time to write out a nice answer; here's a dump of my
notes:
!!
!
! Fixed width fonts
!
! Useful programs
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 05:25:23PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
[mutt-i_0.93i-1 key problem]
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:57:37AM +0200, Martin Schulze answered:
This has been reported as a bug yesterday. Seems somehow a keybinding
got lost.
Actually it turned out to be a change in the Muttrc
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:21:52AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Iam using Debian Linux 1.3.1r6:
1.When i ping from Win95 to Debian:
ping -l 65508 debian_machine
i get on the console message:
Oversized packet received from 193.59.184.153
but system looks OK.
Its happen when
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:13:50AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
For future reference, how would I access the non-maintainer upload? I see
0.93i-1 on the non-us ftp sites, and I can't find an Incoming
directory/mirror that has 0.93i-1.1.
ftp://non-US.debian.org/debian-non-US/Incoming .
HTH,
Ray
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:19:21PM -0400, Andrew Lewycky wrote:
(My apologies if this already known, and also for not submitting a
proper bug report, since I don't know how, and I don't want to risk
this being overlooked.)
I just submitted this as a bug report; you should receive a Cc of it.
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 12:12:28PM +0100, K.Y.Lo wrote:
I am novice linux. Backspace key doesnt working in X-windows proper
This is an issue that is being addressed in Debian 2.0, which is currrently
in beta test. If you are not using that version, you might want to upgrade
to it. If you are
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 03:19:25PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
What programs are needed by the *-src packages for sudo to give access to?
If I understand you correctly, you want to compile source packages using
sudo, and have the sudo rights restricted to only those programs that the
source
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 01:20:57AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
What is the purpose of the Mail-Followup-To header?
See ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/replyto.html
It appears to force the group reply function in mutt to reply to the list
only
Not precisely, but it can be used by
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 05:07:03PM -0700, The Gecko wrote:
What is a Free graphics/windowing/x library out there?
Check out http://www.theoffice.net/guitool ; it lists numerous GUI
libraries and includes licensing information.
HTH,
Ray
--
Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 03:01:43PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
Several documentation files on the 1.3.1 distribution contains text like
this from the Afterstep FAQ:
---
11.. GGeenneerraalliinnffoorrmmaattiioonn
This is
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 09:13:29AM -0500, Tim Buller wrote:
I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to
link in libtermcap.a, which is not a part of the termcap-compat package.
libtermcap is obsolete for about three years now. libncurses should be used
instead
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 12:27:38PM -0500, Ivan Trogranci wrote:
I tried to upgrade to HAMM, but it didn't work and now gcc can't find any
libraries (that's the only problem I noticed, but there may be others...)
As part of the upgrade to libc6, all old libc5 development packages should
be
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 07:47:41PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
How do I know what is the change from the last version (e.g. 2.0.33) to
the updated version (e.g. 2.0.34)?
The definite way is to read the diff of course. There is no official
changelog for the kernel that I'm aware of. You can find
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:14:23PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote:
There seem to be (at least) four files not installed in the
../include/g++ directory that is produced by egcs that _are_ part of the
GNU g++ includes, namely
Regex.h Pix.h String.h
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 09:44:50AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
is it possible to run Linux completely from CD.
Probably yes, if a system has sufficient RAM. One would have to combine some
things:
- The capability to boot directly from CD; the Debian CDs already do this.
Andreas Jellinghaus
Hi Micha,
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 04:37:12AM -0700, Micha Feigin wrote:
also How do I use fonts. Change the fonts deferent programs use
(especially xterm),
You can specify this through the X resources mechanism, e.g. by putting
XTerm*VT100*font: -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
in my
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 07:01:48PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote:
Hey... I'm not seeing libX11.a anywhere... It's needed to compile X client
bins,
No. It is only needed to compile _static_ X client binaries. Unless you have
special needs, the dynamic library (/usr/X11R6/libX11.so) suffices. Simply
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 11:21:45AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote:
I am exporting some ext2 filesystems from my Debian box to a Solaris
machine. While the export works, the Solaris automounter complains about
network locking not being available on my Debian box. Is network locking
supported in
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:54:52AM -0700, Ian Eure wrote:
ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [maube] Error 1
Phaktory# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 26 07:42
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
- libX11.so.6.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 11:41:08AM -0400, Tim Sailer wrote:
It seems like somewhere along the way, xterms stopped calling themselves
'xterm' but 'xterm-debian'. Nice.
See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/22/22668.html
The rest of the world has no idea what a 'xterm-debian' is. What do I have
to
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:45:45PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
I remember a few months ago, a certain compiler and C++ libraries were
recommended. Since then there have been some changes. Confusingly, there
sre at least two compilers and more than one C++ library in the hamm
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 04:05:57PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote:
What's the difference between a standard xterm and a xterm-debian
terminfo/termcap entry?
It's easy enough to do a set term=xterm but I really don't want to keep
doing that. Why did Debian create their own terminfo/cap entry and
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:51:07AM +, Pavel Andreew wrote:
My program use the Form library from Ncurses. It worked OK with
ncurses 1.1.9g-8, but not with 1.1.9g-8.5.
I've done the non-maintainer releases 1.1.9g-8.1 through -8.5; I have no
idea what caused this.
I have archived your
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:39:46PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote:
Now, after upgrading to hamm (read that: reinitializing the hd and
installing hamm from scratch), attempts to compile Circlemud fail with
errors about undefined references to crypt function.
crypt() isn't in libc, but is in
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 12:44:07AM -0700, Mark Yobb wrote:
When I went to compile (gcc prog.C) I got the error message:
^^^
Please use the appropriate compiler driver (for bo it doesn't really matter,
for hamm it matters a lot). In the case of C++, that's `g++'. (For
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 06:39:11PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I have found some Vim settings that wrap messages on screen, they
don't seem to insert the CR (or LF/CR, or LF, or whatever it is these
days) at the end of the line...
Here's part of my muttrc; among other things, it
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 11:39:29AM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote:
I've been told that this is because i don't have libz installed or have two of
them but:
11:37:41$ dpkg -l | grep zlib
ii zlib1 1.0.4-7compression library - runtime
That's an old version of the library; it's
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 02:31:29PM +0200, Waldemar ¯urowski wrote:
I switched from Debian 1.3 to Debian 2.0 while I was writing a program for
my final exam of my study. I used in many places class String, and class
which implements regular expression. When I did upgrade, I didn't check if
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 05:46:37PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
I assume you are using hamm. Imake is in the xlib6g-dev package, as for
c/c++ headers, they are in libc6-dev (for c) and libg++272-dev (for c++).
I'm not sure about this last one, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.
The preferred
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:54:35PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote:
+++
linda:~/cprogs/priory$ ldd prdb
prdb: error in loading shared libraries
prdb: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
+++
(why did that not work, while the next
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 12:18:03PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
Any help how to get my emacs and fvwm2 to work.
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 11:49:01AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
On: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:18:03 +0200 (SAT) Daniel Mashao writes:
Any help how to get my emacs and fvwm2 to work.
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:04:19AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
Yes I have similar problem and no I have not solved them. Actually I have
no problem with soffice but I cannot run fvwm2 and emacs so far.
Old versions of fvwm2 (pre 2.0.46-BETA-1 I think) had a hardwired search
path for the X
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 08:32:10PM +0200, Christian Zander wrote:
I encounter the following problem when I try to run StarOffice 4.0, Adobe
Acrobat reader, etc. : the application exits with a segmentation fault and
dumps core.
Hmm. All of those are libc5 binaries. Did you install
On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 08:09:10AM +, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote:
[how to make A0 poster from A4 files]
At ftp://ftp.ics.ele.tue.nl/pub/poster/ you can find a nice little tool
that makes posters from (encapsulated) PostScript files.
Too bad there it doesn't mention copyright terms, so we
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 03:19:01PM -0400, dave oswald wrote:
need Libtermcap.so.2
Package: termcap-compat
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 565
Maintainer: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.1.1
Replaces: libtermcap
Depends: libc5 (= 5.4.0-0)
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