Chris> 1. This question is more of a general bash question and if I Chris> shouldn't be posting it here someone let me know and I won't pester Chris> this group about it any more. All the following applies to the root Chris> account, I haven't checked it for an ordinary user yet.
[lots of stuff deleted] Read the man pages for bash and xterm (or rxvt) and try to understand what happens. You can have shells that are not login, they use ~/.bashrc. Every "normal" (ie non-login) xterm reads this file _unless_ you tell xterm to be start a login shell via the -ls option. Login shells read ~/.bash_profile. Chris> 2. I'm trying to add packages to my installation, among them lyx and Chris> mailcrypt and taper. Dselect complains that lyx needs the package Chris> xforms and mailcrypt needs pgp. However, I have downloaded both of Chris> these packages and told dselect about them. When it asks to When you tell dselect about the directories, it wants to find the Packages[.gz] file. You might have noticed the error message when that failed. If you only want to install three packages, why don't you just use dpkg -i ? Chris> 3. I can't find ftape anywhere. Does anyone know where to find this? Since around 1.3.72, it is in the kernel sources in the directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/ftape. Just recompile your kernel (use "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" instead of make config). Hope this helps, Dirk -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd