On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 10:26:53AM +0000, Kenneth F. Ryder III wrote: > As I said the HOWTO said something about using filters to fix this, and > that the magic filter (by B.A. McCawley) was available on the net. (This > filter seemed to cover many formats, which I would like to support.) Is > there a way I can get a Debian package and use dselect to install it that > will be magicfilter / do the same thing as magicfilter does? Or do I > already have one? I have the "Official" Debian 1.3.1 Binay and Source disks > from lsl.com, perhaps they contain magic filter in a Debian package?
They do indeed -- in the "text" section. Run dselect, locate this package ("/" to search, "\" to repeat the last search), and "+" to pick it. Then Install from the main menu. You might want to use ghostscript from non-free; you'll have to download that with FTP from one of the mirrors. The non-free version is newer than the free one (that's the way the ghostscript license works). > Also, I would like to recompile my kernel, I have done this with Slakware, > durring its install I told it to install the kernel source, once in the > system I changed to the soucre directroy and ran "make menuconfig", how do > I do this in Debian? Same way. The source should be in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32 or whichever version. You can run "make menuconfig" etc in there just as before. After doing that though, you might want to build the kernel using make-kpkg instead of "make zImage" etc; do make-kpkg kernel_image That will build a .deb file containing the kernel and all the modules. Then use "dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.32_1.00_i386.deb" (or whatever the filename produced is, in /usr/src) to install it. make-kpkg is in the package "kernel-package". Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]