helix gnome vs sid (apt problem)

I seem to have screwed up my system by changing apt-lines from helix-gnome to sid, and partially de-installing gnome. Now, whenever I try to apt-get install anything, I get the following. Can anyone help? aurelius:/home/ocorrain# apt-get install kppp Reading Package Lists... Done Building

Re: Gnome: short question

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:26:31PM +0100, William Leese wrote: A shamefully stupid question: how do i change the text background (and foreground) colors of gtk apps? I found the .gtkrc file but had no clue how to change the colors (if it does that) because of the odd way of defining

RPC: Program not registered

Hello all, I'm trying to run a nfs system, mounting two remote partitions on each computer at boot time. Every computer except one is working perfectly. The offender prints mount: RPC: Program not registered when I try to mount the filesystem. This sounds like something really trivial, but I

Re: Extra keys on keyboard

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:33:54PM -0800, Matheson Cameron wrote: I reconfigured X so that it's using the Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard map-thing, but the buttons at the top aren't doing anything. I was wondering how I assign them to different programs, etc (I figure I probably use

Re: kernel compile error

OK, then when I go to copy the bzImage file to /boot/, it's not there. In fact, I the reran bzImage step and in fact it cuts out with an error messageI doesn't compile the source codeAnybody know what I'm doing wrong? I am migrating from RedHat and maybe I'm assuming things I

Re: rpcinfo problems

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:58:44PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:43:22PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install debian on a small box using PLIP. The HOWTO was treating me fine until I encountered the following... aurelius:~#

Re: Install problems: X and virtual consoles

I selected xdm on install but loaded the gnome packages on install. I want to run Gnome so how do I get gdm and remove xdm? apt-get install gdm? Precisely. It should remove xdm and substitude gdm seamlessly... Cheers Tiarnan

Re: Install problems: X and virtual consoles

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:26:04PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I don't know if this is because of a laptop keyboard or what but since my X setup doesn't work I can't do anything after boot. I try the ctrl-alt-bs to kill the x server and that doesn't work. I also try ctrl-alt-f2 etc to

rpcinfo problems

Hello all, I'm trying to install debian on a small box using PLIP. The HOWTO was treating me fine until I encountered the following... aurelius:~# rpcinfo -p rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused Any ideas? Cheers Tiarnan

Re: True Type fonts

Here's the equivalent section from my XF86Config (using X4) Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPathunix/:7101 FontPathunix/:7100 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc EndSection It seems to work fine: 7101 are TT fonts, 7100 the standard fonts,

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

When you run your script, do you need to preface the command with ./ eg ./myscript took me ages to find out that one! Or else add '.' to your PATH, but I think there are security reasons for not doing this. Cheers T

kernel 2.4 woes

Dear All, Having successfully compiled 2.4 for my desktop PC (a Compaq Deskpro w/ 500 mhz Penium), I decided to do the same for my laptop (compaq armada with 233 mhz mmx). Everything seemed to be going happily until I tried to boot (after editing lilo.conf and running lilo -v), whereupon the

postfix installation broken

Hey all-- I tried to replace slink exim with potato postfix using apt-get install postfix. The installer downloads the relevant debs, then breaks down with: -- Setting up postfix (0.0.19991231pl05-2) ... dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc! dpkg: error