Re: Problem with apt and kdemultimedia-dev
This is usually a bug (but check the bug list before reporting as the problem my be a result of changes to the packaging system that were made after your initial installation). You probably can do a force-overwrite using dpkg but be aware that doing so might break something. On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:38:41PM -0400, Robert Tilley wrote: > The following error messages arose during a recent use of apt and I need a > way to correct the situation. Any information is most appreciated. > [snip] > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-dev_4%3a2.2.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libmpeg.so', which is also in package > libmpeg-dev > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-dev_4%3a2.2.1-1_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > tillarium:/home/tilleyrw# -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!" See! They do get some things right!
Re: Problem with apt and kdemultimedia-dev
On Saturday 22 September 2001 05:38 pm, Robert Tilley wrote: > The following error messages arose during a recent use of apt and I need a > way to correct the situation. Any information is most appreciated. > Well, I had that happen when I upgrade kdebase and libkonq or something. I ran a dpkg --reconfigure --pending and then a apt-get -f install And it seemed to sort itself out. No errors while upgrading packages or any other odd issues. Maybe that'll fix you up too. > > Again, any information leading to the unraveling of this tangled web is > most appreciated. Thank you.
Re: Strange delays - new to this Please Help! Thanks
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Problem with apt and kdemultimedia-dev
The following error messages arose during a recent use of apt and I need a way to correct the situation. Any information is most appreciated. tillarium:/home/tilleyrw# apt-get -f install kdemultimedia-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: kdemultimedia-dev 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/100kB of archives. After unpacking 1450kB will be used. (Reading database ... 84575 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kdemultimedia-dev (from .../kdemultimedia-dev_4%3a2.2.1-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-dev_4%3a2.2.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libmpeg.so', which is also in package libmpeg-dev Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-dev_4%3a2.2.1-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) tillarium:/home/tilleyrw# Again, any information leading to the unraveling of this tangled web is most appreciated. Thank you. -- Robert Tilley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange delays - new to this Please Help! Thanks
On Saturday Sep 22 14:12 todd mansill wrote: > ** Sorry about the multiple To: but I'm new to this and I don't know what > ** category this falls into: My PC is running KDE2 and I put a program called > ** cnet (network layer simulator) which requires tcl/tk to run it's windows > on > ** and for some reason the program takes 3 minutes before the windows are > ** displayed. When I run this at Uni it is instant. What is cnet? I don't have this tool in my /var/lib/dpkg/available. I have running Woody. This cnet is not a part of Woody. Is it a part of Potato (Debian2.2) or Sid? However. It sounds like a missconfigured cnet. read man cnet to find out how to configure. > ** Also, I just tried to set up my 56K modem and I ran a program called > ppp-up > ** and followed to instructions to the tee. For some reason once I ran this > ** program, my modem connected but Netscape didn't seem to think so. After my first Debian installation, it was the Potato system, i had the same trouble. Till i heared about the file /etc/resolv.conf. This file is needed to get access to your ISP. And i had to create this file, cause it was there after installing Debian. For example take a look at my /etc/resolv.conf: domain http://www.msn.de nameserver 193.101.111.20 > ** Starting system log daemon : syslogd > ** > ** and then also for about another minute when loading the window manager. It > ** now takes aboout 5-7 minutes for KDE to load up. Please can someone help > me > ** with these problems. Don't know what happens. Also a problem, cause your cnet is busy with his bad configuration? Or is your hard disk going to nirvana? Timo -- Nothing is impossible! You only need to know the way. :-) END
Re: PLESE help me with my kppp connection PLEASE
On Saturday 22 September 2001 08:31, todd mansill wrote: > My kppp connection fails giving the following message: > > The remote server is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't --^^^--^ > find any suitanle secret(password) for it to use to do so. You try to force your isp to authenticate against you. While this ... short, they're bigger, you loose. The relevant config script (don't know what kppp produces, usually there are some of them hanging around) you have to define: noauth Please ask questions about using debian on the debian-user mailing list. greetings, martin
Re: Strange delays - new to this Please Help! Thanks
Hi, Todd! You should first mail to debian-user for questions like this. d-anounce is definitely the wrong place. I left the other list adresses in for this mail, so that people know that there was an answer to your request. When you reply, please consider to remove some more. I can only guess that you hosed your network setup. Although networking is well structured, it may well look confusing to a newbie at first. The reason for most delays are network packets send to unknown or unreachable hosts. Timeouts then are the only indication for the local host that sth. is wrong and they may take a while (you wouldn't want to loose your packets to mars because of timeouts). The most important network inside your linux box is the unix network. Everything else is for most installations TCP/IP networking. Some files in the /etc directory (where all the configuration for your machine is stored) store the basic networking configuration: hosts - your local 'DNS'. Hostnames to IP-Numbers table. Only used when host.conf - contains 'order host,...', see? The file resolv.conf - at last stores adresses of name servers. If any of your programs calls for a host by its name, this has to be translated (looked up) into the corresponding IP number, as the network itself doesn't know anything about names. If this lookup process is misconfigured, the resulting timeouts make up already for quite a delay. Now all your packets have to find their way through the network. This is known as 'routing'. See the 'route' and 'ping' commands. Most networking commands have an option like '-n', that makes them output (N)umbers instead of names. Trying one and the same command that hangs without -n once again with -n and it works, shows you clearly that you have a problem looking up names. KDE is communicating a lot, fix your network and retry. You found out that networking is very important these days. Try to read up on how this is handled with linux and the tools. You won't have to install obscure tools then, to try to make it, hm, work, as it did under this other non-free os ... There are a lot of good readings on the internet. For a fine catalog with well defined topics you might want to look at 'dmoz.org'. This one is FREE! Have fun! martin
Re: KDE 2.2.1 Dependencies
Actually, Progeny is based on Potato, with quite a bit of testing and a few new packages thrown in. Upgrading Progeny to KDE2.2 would be only slightly easier that upgrading Potato. I've had a look at what Progeny wants to upgrade to install KDE2.2 and I won't try it yet. I'm still waiting for the freeze to try KDE2.2. If you are that adventurous to try KDE2.2 then just upgrade to woody now and give it a go. Lots of people on this list seem to like it. I'm just not that brave. Cheers, John Gay
Re: xinerama
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ah, thank you. I didn't even stop to think that it would be on purpose :-) Well, as I said, I can wait until at least Monday... D.A.Bishop On Saturday 22 September 2001 01:26, Achim Bohnet wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 12:18:46AM -0600, David Bishop wrote: > > Speaking of 2.2.1, does xinerama work for anyone else after upgrading? > > It's not even an option in window behavior-> advanced, anymore. And > > judging by the behavior (bad, old, maximize across both screens) I would > > guess it isn't working. Did Ivan forget to compile --with-xinerama? > > Hrrm, well, I can wait until Monday for him to fix it > > I read in the changelogs that xinerama is disabled. Don't know why but > looks like it was no accident. > > Achim > P.S. Install apt-listchanges, really useful. > > > D.A.Bishop -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7rK9JKEJ4huP2XBERAnprAJ4q3ZECPFcj+482BDuL3J1dyfvGXgCgytGv OIpvo6XgSrUyk3Q7Tu5zveM= =uTup -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: 2.2.1
David Bishop wrote: > Sound agreeable? Jens or someone else, can you take "Überweisungen" (money transfers) from Germany to your bank account and send them to David somehow (via Paypal or whatever)? I neither have Paypal nor a credit card. Thanks, Yours Malte #8-)
Strange delays - new to this Please Help! Thanks
Hi All, Sorry about the multiple To: but I'm new to this and I don't know what category this falls into: My PC is running KDE2 and I put a program called cnet (network layer simulator) which requires tcl/tk to run it's windows on and for some reason the program takes 3 minutes before the windows are displayed. When I run this at Uni it is instant. Also, I just tried to set up my 56K modem and I ran a program called ppp-up and followed to instructions to the tee. For some reason once I ran this program, my modem connected but Netscape didn't seem to think so. Ever since this My KDE has thrown its toys. It now hangs on every window open (between 30secs - 1min). When my PC boots up it hangs for about a minute on the line: Starting system log daemon : syslogd and then also for about another minute when loading the window manager. It now takes aboout 5-7 minutes for KDE to load up. Please can someone help me with these problems. Thanks heaps Todd _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: KDE Control Center acting weird
On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:33, George Russell wrote: > On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:21 am, David Nielsen wrote: > > I just upgraded to SID in order to try out KDE 2.2.1, but now my Control > > Center is acting all weird, I get this error message when clicking on > > most of the topics: > > --- > > There was an error loading the module. > > The diagnostics is: > > Your kdecontrol panel is out of sync with its entries, such as desktop > preferences. Everything compiled with the same compiler from the same kde > version? > > I get that error with out of date entries hanging around. > > George Well, I got the debs from SID... soo you better ask Ivan.. - David
Re: KDE Control Center acting weird
On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:21 am, David Nielsen wrote: > I just upgraded to SID in order to try out KDE 2.2.1, but now my Control > Center is acting all weird, I get this error message when clicking on most > of the topics: > --- > There was an error loading the module. > The diagnostics is: Your kdecontrol panel is out of sync with its entries, such as desktop preferences. Everything compiled with the same compiler from the same kde version? I get that error with out of date entries hanging around. George
Re: PLESE help me with my kppp connection PLEASE
You need to put "noauth" (without the quotes) into your: /etc/ppp/peers/provider file. By default the /etc/ppp/options file has options set to require authorization. It could be a hugh security hole for many systems to "ship" with ppp allowing any caller to log into your system. Programs that set up your ppp/chat dialup configuration should place the "noauth" option into the provider file (provider is the default name but other names are possible). DO NOT change the entry in your /etc/ppp/options files as then your dial up ability will break anytime that pppd is upgraded. This is really not a KDE issue unless your dial up was configured using KDE tools and the tool failed to configure properly. On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 06:31:30AM +, todd mansill wrote: > > My kppp connection fails giving the following message: > > The remote server is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any > suitanle secret(password) for it to use to do so. > (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.) > > Have tried all the things I have found to fix this but no success - probably > due to the fact I know very little about it all really and need so help > PLEASE. > > Thanks heaps > Todd > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!" See! They do get some things right!
Re: xinerama
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 12:18:46AM -0600, David Bishop wrote: > > Speaking of 2.2.1, does xinerama work for anyone else after upgrading? It's > not even an option in window behavior-> advanced, anymore. And judging by > the behavior (bad, old, maximize across both screens) I would guess it isn't > working. Did Ivan forget to compile --with-xinerama? Hrrm, well, I can wait > until Monday for him to fix it I read in the changelogs that xinerama is disabled. Don't know why but looks like it was no accident. Achim P.S. Install apt-listchanges, really useful. > > D.A.Bishop >
Re: KDE 2.2.1 Dependencies
Progeny is based on Woody...therefore the new KDE will install properly perhaps with a few minor updates. Potato, could be a problem, although perhaps not. On 21-Sep-2001 Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote: > There's no way you will be able to install Woody or Sid KDE packages on > Potato. I even tried compiling the new packages on my Progeny machine and > they wouldn't build. > > In the short run, it seems the best way to get 2.2.1 on your Potato or > Progeny systems is to build from source. It's actually not that bad once > you have all the build dependiencies installed. > > Just setenv KDEDIR /usr/local/kde-2.2.1 (csh) and add > /usr/local/kde2.2.1/bin to your path. > > So far my build notes look like this: > kdelibs: ./configure --disable-cups > cups support doesn't like to build agnist the cups libs in > Progeny. Things work fine without. > kdebase: ./configure --without-gl > Some GL stuff doesn't want to build. No big loss, most > machines I'm bouilding this for have POS video anyway. > > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org > "We can learn much more from wise words, little > from wisecracks and less from wise guys." > --William Arthur Ward > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Arlen Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't look now, but there is a multi-legged creature on your shoulder. This message was sent by XFmail (Linux) -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the penguins are coming...
PLESE help me with my kppp connection PLEASE
My kppp connection fails giving the following message: The remote server is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any suitanle secret(password) for it to use to do so. (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.) Have tried all the things I have found to fix this but no success - probably due to the fact I know very little about it all really and need so help PLEASE. Thanks heaps Todd _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
xinerama
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Speaking of 2.2.1, does xinerama work for anyone else after upgrading? It's not even an option in window behavior-> advanced, anymore. And judging by the behavior (bad, old, maximize across both screens) I would guess it isn't working. Did Ivan forget to compile --with-xinerama? Hrrm, well, I can wait until Monday for him to fix it D.A.Bishop -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7rC1IKEJ4huP2XBERAqZiAKCeUPFGzbB0Ch8eUuXG3fQpQjtI2QCeNHDs lK9mRgBTX4s8zTJpMqirtiE= =R491 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: schmoozing for Ivan....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Crap. In fact, I'll repeat that. Crap, crap, crap. I forgot that paypal puts a limit on how much you can recieve into an account each month unless you "upgrade", the cap being $100. Well, due to the generousness of the people on this list, we are really close to that limit (I think we're at $90). That means I just had to upgrade to a "premier" account, which also means paypal starts dinging 2.9% + $.30 per "transaction". So out of $100, we lose $3.20 :-( Just thought I would mention this so that if anyone else had a better solution (i.e., fee-less online accounting) we could use that instead. Oh, and a heartfelf thanks to James Morton and David Kuntz for helping reach that $100 limit :-) 'Night, D.A.Bishop -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7rCUuKEJ4huP2XBERAksSAJ9sDYjeFE/efNYynq/KcnEJMsdfBQCeOxxo zdoDGldp3JFLbwwLRjQ8cBo= =eyj9 -END PGP SIGNATURE-