Is it possible to automatically generate the 'Packages' file for a
directory containing (local) Debian packages ?
Thanks for your help,
Johannes Plass
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Lawrence Chim writes:
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said
bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again.
Lawrence reported this to me earlier. I had not seen any problems at
that time but am now. Is anyone else having problems with libc 5.4.7
and/or
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:28:35 +1000 (EST), Lawrence Chim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said
bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again.
Is it a bug?
Yes, I would say it's a bug in the Debian version of libc 5.4.7. Some
We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. I was
looking for a master installation script to run the installation
process automatically from a nfs mounted directory or via ftp. Are
there any solutions for that.
We maintain a small network of Debian machines here, but
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said
bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again.
Is it a bug?
Yes, but it is a bug with netscape. You should report this directly
to netscape and tell them to compile against a later version of libc.
You can do
Hi all! Just joined this list, just finished installing Debian 1.1 for the
first time last night. And already I have some questions:
1) The thing works. It's amazing. But I can't do too much since I installed
off of the floppy disk 1.4 set. So I need to install things like, oh,
editors and such.
I sure am. I have known a couple of friends that have 16bit cards and when
they upgraded them both to a PCI (I can't remember what it was now) they
went from 250kb/sec on their lan to around 600kb/sec. I think that's a
substantial increase IMO.
Let me just say that I've clocked cheap
To get color ls, use the command
alias ls=ls --color=auto
That's for sh and bash. If you use csh or tcsh use
alias ls ls --color=auto
- Bruce
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From: Dirk Luetjens dirk%plus
We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network.
Well, I hope you get this via the list, Dirk.
Please fix your mailer, it's not placing
your domain name in your messages.
I was looking for a master installation script to run the installation
I was just wondering if this was acceptable:
binaries created with Libc5.4.7 are not compatable with libc5.2.18
I was wondering if it was acceptable if I make debian packages to put in the
requires box
that it requires libc5.4.7 in the unstable section.
I am using libc5.4.7 because it is
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said
bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again.
I have netscape 3.01b1 which works with libc5 5.4.7-1 without a
problem. Maybe 3.0 doesn't run with it?
Guy
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Hi,
I'm trying to build Python 1.4 on my Debian box to test the alpha
release of the Numerical module. The 'configure' script fails when I
include the option '--with-readline' because it cannot find the
termcap library. Is this library included in the 'libreadline'
library? Readline appears
How to avoid messages:
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
which appear at boot process.
Supposed, you know what these modules do, you could alias them
out in /etc/conf.modules. You have to know what their non-aliased
Bruce answered this a while back. It stands for Deborah and Ian, the people
who started off Debian.
Over to you Bruce
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Old software engineers never die, they just fail to boot
Any Trademarks used in this document are recognized as Registered
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Excerpts from mail: 24-Oct-96 Samba and LyX by Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. I use NT as a network here(choke). So I need the Samba routiens
running. Although on Slackware I had some other problems with it
(probably the version levels I was using), On this one I cannot see long
filenames.
Hello all,
I seem to be unable to get ypxfr to receive
hosts.{byaddr,byname} from the main NIS host. My secondary server
(slave for purists) complains about a DBM error:
ypxfr: Local dbm operation failed
similarly the scripts ypxfr_1perhour, etc. because, of course,
they run
On 25 Oct 1996, Bill Vinson wrote:
1) Does anyone know if an Axel ISA 8/16 bit Combination Ethernet card is
any good?
It is supposedly NE2000 compliant... It supposedly free w/ any purchase
Datacom Mall mail-order.
If it's NE2000 compliant, it should work with linux. NE2000 aren't
I have made gcc 2.7.2.1 with objc multithreading support (snapshot 960906)
available via:
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.net/pub/debian/gcc_2.7.2.1-2_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.net/pub/debian/
It is a debianized package; ie-- it is designed to be installed under Debian
linux. The '-2' is simply
Yes, you can make a packages file by running dpkg-scanpackages.
Check out its man page on your Debian system.
Thanks
Bruce
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Anyway, I
try to install what the FAQ/DOCS call 'packages', but all I can find is
.deb files.
Those are the packages. You can install them manually using
dpkg -i FILENAME
They may complain that you need to install something else first.
If you want to use dselect (and you should),
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, David Engel wrote:
Lawrence Chim writes:
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said
bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again.
Lawrence reported this to me earlier. I had not seen any problems at
that time but am now. Is
Chris,
I created a setuid script that attempted to mount my cdrom. Running it
as a user, the only error I got was that it couldn't modify mtab. So,
I guess you were right and a script only runs semi-setuid. But, because
pppd can be run by users, all you have to do is make /etc/ppp/options
Bill,
You can use a linux machine with a modem as a bridge to the net with
IP forwarding. I think that you would configure the other machines to
use the Linux box as a gateway. Does anyone know if the standard Debian
kernels have IP forwarding compiled in?
As for your other question, the
Raja,
If I understand your question correctly, its When will there be an
update to the Debian XFree86 Package? I am on the XFree86 developers
team as an alpha-tester for the MGA Millenium driver. We are putting
the finishing touches on XFree86 3.2 and should have it out very, very
soon. After
Stephen,
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Johannes Plass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it possible to automatically generate the 'Packages' file for a
directory containing (local) Debian packages ?
Yes, dpkg-scanpackages(8) is the command to create Packages files. It
has a thorough man page. You may need to install dpkg and dpkg-dev
Trying to use install via deselect in Debian-1.1.12 fails
with the error message
Running dpkg -iGROEB /mnt/debian/stable/binary-i386
find: /mnt/debian/stable/binary-i386/base/modules_2.0.0-11.deb:
No such file or directory
dpkg: subprocess find returned error exit status 1
The error
running netscape with libc 5.4.7-1 causes a core dump. just tried it
with 5.4.7.-2 with the same results. the problem is with java, i have
no problem viewing our home page which is blissfully ignorant of java.
if i disable java the problem goes away. don't know the fix though.
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Jason,
Use dpkg to directly install package files. The command dpkg -i *.deb;
dpkg --pending --configure run in the directory with your packages
will install all of the .deb files and then resolve most of the dependancy
problems the second time around that resulted from the packages not being
Tristan,
The official word on the 2.1.x kernels is that they are not supported
under Debian and that the Debian people will wait until 2.2 to upgrade
all neccessary stuff. 2.1.x won't even compile out of the box on Debian
1.1.x (or so I've heard), so its risky to put out a binary that requires
it.
Debian's realization of package dependencies is, in my opinion,
too tight.
Two (out of many possible) examples may illustrate my point:
- A user doesn't want to install Debian's ghostscript since
he is a ghostscript beta tester and has a newer version
than Debian provides.
Has any installed a Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B on a 2.x kernel? I
installed Debian 1.1 and tried to get eepro100.c working.
How about other 100Mb cards?
Thanks,
Neal
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Stephen Pitts wrote:
I created a setuid script that attempted to mount my cdrom. Running
it as a user, the only error I got was that it couldn't modify
mtab. So, I guess you were right and a script only runs
semi-setuid.
You might want to use the super utility to run scripts that set uid
for
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Jason Gerry wrote:
1) The thing works. It's amazing. But I can't do too much since I installed
off of the floppy disk 1.4 set. So I need to install things like, oh,
editors and such. I have practically no support for anything yet. Anyway, I
try to install what the
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
You can just put:
eval `dircolors`
in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc, .login or whatever... it sets
the color-ls environment appropriately for whatever shell you use.
Are you sure, or am I doing something wrong? Dircolors doesn't
From: Jason K. Keimig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can just put:
eval `dircolors`
in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc, .login or whatever... it sets
the color-ls environment appropriately for whatever shell you use.
Are you sure, or am I doing something wrong? Dircolors doesn't turn on
At 2:40 PM -0500 10/25/96, Bruce Perens wrote:
To get color ls, use the command
alias ls=ls --color=auto
That's for sh and bash. If you use csh or tcsh use
alias ls ls --color=auto
- Bruce
I've been wondering how to do this, too... So I tried it, and it doesn't
work. It gives
At 02:03 PM 10/25/96 +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
Hi,
I know this is not terribly important but I was wondering where the name debian
came from. Maybe those that have been in the project long could share that with
those of us that joined when debian had been underway for a long time
I have a 1gig IDE hard drive in my Intel/Debian Linux machine. The machine
is up all the time, and up until now, I've had no problems with it.
Recently, the hard drive has starting making a weird ping noise that
I know I've never heard before. These ping's are very infrequent, but
usually come
First of all please let me thank all of you who responded to my newbie
questions...I really appreciate all of the help and I hope I am not hogging
the lists time...
I have installed minicom, ppp, cpp, etc. according to the dependencies
Debian told me about...
The PPP manual and several others
Ok!! Don't need help on this anymore!! It works.. finally...
BUT... does anyone know how to make it run a custom script that I have to
produce a html file that gets uploaded to my ISP? (The script works
already... just want diald to automatically do it when I get connected)
TIA
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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
To get color ls, use the command
alias ls=ls --color=auto
That's for sh and bash. If you use csh or tcsh use
alias ls ls --color=auto
You can just put:
eval `dircolors`
in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc, .login or
Could someone please tell me where errors in Debian Linux
(non-existing packages, wrong dependencies, etc.) should be
reported to ?
Perhaps there is a special mailing list for that ?
Thank you very much,
Johannes Plass
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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
To get color ls, use the command
alias ls=ls --color=auto
That's for sh and bash. If you use csh or tcsh use
alias ls ls --color=auto
- Bruce
Guess what.. when I do this, and then type ls, I get Segmentation Fault
(core dumped).
On 25 Oct 1996, Raja R Harinath wrote:
Hi,
The current status of X on Debian is (as I understand it)
- the version is XFree3.1.2
- XFree3.1.2G is the latest beta version, but can't be included in
Debian since the beta isn't distributed with source.
The official X11R6.1
Hi Guy
You wrote:
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said
bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again.
I have netscape 3.01b1 which works with libc5 5.4.7-1 without a
problem. Maybe 3.0 doesn't run with
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Marcelo Magallon wrote:
Hi,
I just installed the newest jed package, and it won't start under
X... it says terminal not powerful enough for Slang. Is there a way to
make jed and/or slsc under X?
-Marcelo
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mike horansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stephen Pitts wrote:
I created a setuid script that attempted to mount my cdrom.
You might want to use the super utility to run scripts that set uid
for you.
For the specific case of mount, you can just add a user parameter to
the options to let
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joe Emenaker wrote:
Why, after years and years of needing them, are the /dev/cua's suddenly,
seemingly, obsolete?
Rather than just saying RTFM, I've gathered it up for you.
[snip]
Maybe Debian should take the bold step of not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Pitts) writes:
The official word on the 2.1.x kernels is that they are not supported
under Debian and that the Debian people will wait until 2.2 to upgrade
all neccessary stuff. 2.1.x won't even compile out of the box on Debian
1.1.x (or so I've heard), so its risky
Those of you who have fileutils 3.13, read
/usr/doc/fileutils/color-ls.gz for the answers to all your questions.
Guy
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This is in regards to the discussion concerning 'fatal signal 11'
under GCC 2.7.2 on my machine.
Resetting the CPU type from 120Mhz to 100Mhz resolved the problem. I'm
not exactly sure why, but it worked.
Interesting. Did you use the same memory on
First, thanks to everyone for their recent help in getting my system up and
running. It's been great having a little help.
I've been having some serious intermittent lockups and freezes, generally
during bootup and when trying to replace/configure packages. It's been very
annoying, but since
On 26 Oct 1996, John Henders wrote:
Maybe Debian should take the bold step of not creating /dev/cua* and
making sure all Debian packages work correctly with /dev/ttyS*. This
would mean making mgetty the only serial line getty, but much as I used
to like uugetty, the fact that it has had no
Hi Johannes
You wrote:
Debian's realization of package dependencies is, in my opinion,
too tight.
Two (out of many possible) examples may illustrate my point:
- A user doesn't want to install Debian's ghostscript since
he is a ghostscript beta tester and has a newer version
Hi Johannes
You wrote:
Could someone please tell me where errors in Debian Linux
(non-existing packages, wrong dependencies, etc.) should be
reported to ?
Perhaps there is a special mailing list for that ?
This is where:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/debian-bugs/
Make sure some
[Johannes complained about dselect not allowing you to override
dependencies]
But as it is currently, maintaining a Debian system by using
deselect is a real pain ...
'dselect' is aimed at normal users, and what you see as restrictions
in at, can also be seen as preventive measures.
If you
Nick Busigin writes:
On 26 Oct 1996, John Henders wrote:
Maybe Debian should take the bold step of not creating /dev/cua* and
making sure all Debian packages work correctly with /dev/ttyS*. This
would mean making mgetty the only serial line getty, but much as I used
to like uugetty,
Dirk Luetjens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 25 October 1996 13:10:
We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. I was
looking for a master installation script to run the installation
process automatically from a nfs mounted directory or via ftp. Are
there any solutions for
David Engel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 25 October 1996 13:45:
Lawrence Chim writes:
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said
bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again.
Lawrence reported this to me earlier. I had not seen any problems at
that
In your email to me, Matthew D Moss, you wrote:
Can anyone tell me what this might indicate? Hopefully it's not the drive
going bad, considering it's less that 6 months old. What would be the
best way to diagnose and repair this problem??? I really don't favor
getting another drive, since
[diald_0.14-4 doesn't seem to run]
+ is /etc/init.d/diald is executable? (in some revision it wasn't)
+ in response to a bug report suggesting that diald should not
activate itself unless instructed to do so, you must create the file
/etc/diald.options, otherwise nothing happens
Bill Bumgarner writes:
I have made gcc 2.7.2.1 with objc multithreading support (snapshot 960906) =
available via:
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.net/pub/debian/gcc_2.7.2.1-2_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.net/pub/debian/
It is a debianized package; ie-- it is designed to be installed under =
It is more than a year since i last used linux, and i'm now trying
to install debian 1.1.10 (from iConnect).
But i can't quit figure out how to use my cdrom on the 3. IDE-controller
(adress 0x1e8 int 11).
A few years ago i used a patch which allowed an IDE-controller on a nonstandard
address
I seem to be having a bit of a problem... DialD is keeping my connection
open at all times.
Is there any hints that you may give me to look at?
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Some time ago I have read that the teTex-version of LaTeX is a better
package than the debian one.
Can somebody tell me how to install it on a debian-system so that I
will be able to use it with emacs so that I retain the Auctex-capabilities?
I am convinced that the debian-version of LaTeX is
I want to try out imagemagic which is dependend on libtiff3-gif. When I try
dpkg -i libtiff3-gif_3.4beta035-1.deb I get the message libtiff3-gif depends
on libtiff3.
I have searched for a libtiff-package using web-browsers and archie without
success.
Can somebody help please?
Johann Spies.
My Latex works fine as long as I use dvilj4, but I have problems using dvips.
My missfont.log-file contained the following lines:
MakeTeXPK cmbx12 1244 600 magstep\(4.0\) ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmbxti10 1493 600 magstep\(5.0\) ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmbx12 720 600 magstep\(1.0\) ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmsy10 600
My Latex works fine as long as I use dvilj4, but I have problems using dvips.
My missfont.log-file contained the following lines:
MakeTeXPK cmbx12 1244 600 magstep\(4.0\) ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmbxti10 1493 600 magstep\(5.0\) ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmbx12 720 600 magstep\(1.0\) ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmsy10 600
libtiff3 is in unstable/binary-xxx/graphics.
-Larry
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I just decided to reinstall so I would have the chance to install modules
to work with the SN2000CT ethernet card. It says it is 100% NE2000
Ethernet compatible and when I opted to install the NE2000 module I got the
following error:
nc.c: module autoprobing not allowed. Append
In your email to me, Bill Vinson, you wrote:
I just decided to reinstall so I would have the chance to install modules
to work with the SN2000CT ethernet card. It says it is 100% NE2000
Ethernet compatible and when I opted to install the NE2000 module I got the
following error:
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Paul Barrett wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to build Python 1.4 on my Debian box to test the alpha
release of the Numerical module. The 'configure' script fails when I
include the option '--with-readline' because it cannot find the
termcap library. Is this library included
David Puryear writes:
Xdvi dose not depend on ghostscript but recommend it.
It *says* it recommends it. It behaves as though it requires it. I
perceive no functional difference between recommends and requires.
Here is where libpaper is:
I'd be happy to renumber it to whatever is acceptable to the community--
suggestions, anyone?
Does the gcc_2.7.2.1-2 package in incoming have the obj-c patches?
b.bum
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I have had no problems with Donald Beckers [sp.] eepro100.c driver built
against the 2.0.18 sources. As well, I have also used a couple of different
Tulip based cards; the Cogent EM960 (which, btw, causes the system to lock up
under heavy load) and the SMC 21041 based card.
If you would
Where do I
put commands that I want executed at startup? For example. I need to set my
hostname for my ppp dial-up stuff. Having a text file in /etc called
HOSTNAME containing my hostname isn't good enough. I need to run the
command hostname fishtech.u-net.com like so. What file to I
Hi. When I try to install the Debian ghostscript package, dselect
notes that it depends on another package which is not available.
It is available.
People seem to think that non-free is more stable than unstable.
This is AFAIK not the case (non-free doesn't have the sabilising
time
Are ChangeLogs for the packages available?
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Jason Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone else experience anything like this, or maybe have some suggestions
for me?
Set the machine to 66, go into the BIOS, and set all the L2 cache and
memory bus timings to their most conservative state. Verify that the
machine is stable. Then start
We use the following and it seems to work...
eval `dircolors -b`
either in the /etc/profile (global) or the
the individual user's profile works as well.
At 12:40 PM 10/25/96 PDT, you wrote:
To get color ls, use the command
alias ls=ls --color=auto
That's for sh and bash. If you use
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Giuseppe Vacanti wrote:
[diald_0.14-4 doesn't seem to run]
+ is /etc/init.d/diald is executable? (in some revision it wasn't)
+ in response to a bug report suggesting that diald should not
activate itself unless instructed to do so, you must create the file
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Johannes Plass wrote:
The basic problem is that deselect doesn't allow to override
any dependencies specified by package maintainers. This, however,
is necessary since package dependencies
- may already be satisfied by local software deselect doesn't
know about.
[FAQ]
Before fileutils 3.13, you need the color-ls package, and then
you just need eval `dircolors`.
After fileutils-3.13:
With the integration of color-ls directly into the fileutils
package, a few things have changed. dircolors no longer sets
up aliases or shell scripts to colorize ls, dir,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes:
People seem to think that non-free is more stable than unstable.
This is AFAIK not the case (non-free doesn't have the sabilising
time stable/buzz has), and therefore I don't know why people start
installing non-free
The ethernet solution seems to be working so far. I now have gotten to the
part of the installation that asks about the network you are on. I will
only have 2 computers (Linux and mac) on this network and the Linux box
will dial in to my ISP for its IP address, which the ISP selects, so it is
Has anybody summarized the differences b/w EFAX and Hylafax?
I've used Hylafax in the past and respect Sam's coding and knowledge
of faxing. and Hylfax fax has a very strong following. And I found it
relatively painless to setup but I've no experience with EFAX which appears
to be the only
After a kind pointer from Guy Maor, the gcc package is noow renumbered to
more closely follow the dpkg release policy for a third party maintainer.
I also compiled gdb_4.16 with the Objective-C support patches from NeXT.
As well, it appears that the _MIT_POSIX_THREADS included in debian work
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