Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?

2007-07-22 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? Put tk in your USE line in make.conf and then

[gentoo-user] redirecting /dev/console

2007-07-16 Thread alain . didierjean
How can I redirect /dev/console to an actual tty (preferably tty6 or tty12) in order to have system info showing on it in real time ? I'd like to have a line like *.* /dev/console in syslog.conf. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] Kdevelop users

2007-06-10 Thread alain . didierjean
I wonder if it's worth using Kdevelop for small apps with graphic interface. Any Kdevelop users around ? How useful is it to you ? Is it hard to learn ? Did you give up using it ? Thanks for replying to this quick survey. -- ~adj~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] firefox pluggins

2007-05-18 Thread alain . didierjean
I have a whole mess of firefox, firefox-bin, pluggins that work or don't and the like. Is it feasible, on an amd64 to have a single firefox (preferably 64bits) that can play flash videos, execute java applets and is easy to configure ? What packages do I need ? Any tricks to make it work ? Thanks

[gentoo-user] Bug in bash ?

2007-04-21 Thread alain . didierjean
Can somebody explain why ls [A-Z]* works as ls * (or ls -R): It seems that [A-Z] is ignored by bash-3.1.17 on amd64. The expression works as expected with zsh... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 13 April 2007, kashani wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Looks like I'm coming in at the older end at 33. No danger of that - I'll be 70 this Christmas ;-) I'm 62. My first Unix box was an

[gentoo-user] which package?

2007-04-02 Thread alain . didierjean
Is there a command to provide me with the package name to which a given file belongs ? Man equery seems of little help -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? (Solved)

2007-02-19 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Peter Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Alain, On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6. When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any

[gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?

2007-02-17 Thread alain . didierjean
Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6. When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome. -- ~adj~ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Using gentoo for a sound project

2007-02-04 Thread alain . didierjean
Hi list, I have a project : transfer my old 33rpm records to CD. What I want : a clean and faithful copy, eventually removing a few scratches and bumps and, partly, background noise. I am quite well equiped on the hi-fi side but I have no experience regarding the computer side. Two questions: -

[gentoo-user] libosl ? where

2006-12-30 Thread alain . didierjean
Lots of ebuilds fail when preparing docs (esound, hal...) with the following message : Working on: /var/tmp/portage/esound-0.2.36-r2/work/esound-0.2.36/docs/./esound.sgml jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:20:43 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: In Argentina we do not say raton (spanish translation for mouse) As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-) I propose we rename that thread: Of mice (mouses ?)

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Hans de Hartog [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Philip Webb wrote: It would help if you listed the packages in question. Also thanks to Ryan and Steve to illustrate the situation in the not_so_common_packages scene. (BTW, how do I check for an overlay somewhere?) - freewheeling (dies in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: #!/bin/bash while read LINE do whois $LINE | grep 'abuse' /dev/null if [$? -ne 0]; then echo $LINE noabuse.txt fi done iplist Here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.maildir/.SPAM/cur $ ./process.sh ./process.sh: line 6:

[gentoo-user] LyX 1.4.3

2006-09-29 Thread alain . didierjean
I'd like to to test Lyx 1.4.3 on my gentoo amd 64 box. Any ebuild available anywhere yet (it's not in the portage tree) , Thanks -- ~adj~ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? None if you don't need Flash. On the other hand, I needed and used integers 32

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:57 +0200 Matteo Pillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. Pragmatic answer: because nobody implemented it for most

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 Stability?

2006-09-05 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using Gentoo (the AMD 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of ports in the portage tree? I've been running gentoo amd64 since february, a few ~amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-02 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:06:50 +0200 sdoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't know how ld your camera is . and I REALLY don't have clue why thi hick we nd for all and everything an super truper hyper speciaal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libquicktime woes

2006-08-20 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 19 August 2006 21:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to compile libquicktime on a amd 64. Here's what I get: ./configure: line 22102: syntax error near unexpected token `have_vorbis=true' ./configure: line 22102:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libquicktime woes : SOLVED

2006-08-20 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Selon Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 19 August 2006 21:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to compile libquicktime on a amd 64. Here's what I get: ./configure: line 22102: syntax error near unexpected token `have_vorbis=true'

[gentoo-user] libquicktime woes

2006-08-19 Thread alain . didierjean
Trying to compile libquicktime on a amd 64. Here's what I get: checking for fseeko... yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes ./configure: line 22102: syntax error near unexpected token `have_vorbis=true' ./configure: line 22102: `XIPH_PATH_VORBIS(have_vorbis=true)' !!! Please

RE: [gentoo-user] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC -- Palm Tungsten E, and Google Calendar

2006-07-12 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/07/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have followed the above Wiki article, and have hit a snag. Further down the same webpage it also gives instructions on creating a udev rule . . . Also, check the links at the

[gentoo-user] 4.1.1 fortran compiler ? Where ?

2006-06-04 Thread alain . didierjean
Just finished recompiling the whole world (emerge -eav world). One of the few packages that would fail (7 out of =- 720) is fftw. The reason is obvious : no fortran compiler installed. Problem : I couldn't find the proper package to emerge so I have a 4.1.1 fortran compiler for my amd64 computer.

[gentoo-user] amd64, gcc-4.1.1 kde-3.5

2006-06-01 Thread alain . didierjean
Hi list, I'm trying to compile KDE 3.5 with gcc-4.1.1 on my amd64 computer. KDE_multimedia can't link with the following error : /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libkhtml.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [juk] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Have portage lost its memory?

2006-03-23 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Toby 'qubit' Cubitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I used to give the shell prompts different colours on different machines to help avoid this. Or rather, the local one would always be the same colour, but shells under ssh sessions were colour-coded by machine. I've lost the script I wrote for

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 and dhcpcd

2006-03-11 Thread alain . didierjean
Since I switched to kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 (from r5), with an identical .config file, dhcpcd doesn't stay alive as a daemon: - it starts okay at boot time and eth1 gets its address from IAF, then it dies - when the lease time's over, I don't have internet access anymore until I rebbot. What gives

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