Re: LaTeX and 8bit input
In a previous version of debian (believe it was 1.1 beta), it worked to include the style `t1enc', but doing this under 1.1-fixed, tries to generate some fonts such as dcr1000m, but this process fails rather quickly. And that is the thing where it goes wrong. You need to install the proper fonts which are packaged in the mfdcfnt package which is because of copyright restrictions in the non-free part of the distribution (probably not on a cd). Erick
Re: dvips top margin
I installed Debian 1.1 and found that my tex files were no longer leaving a margin at the top of the page. I traced it to /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps where a4size was set instead of letter. I don't recall any questions from the installation of the dvipsk about the paper size. dvips should probably use libpaper and/or /etc/papersize but dvips doesn't support this yet, is someone working on this? I don't know whether this is a common problem or something weird that I did but I thought I would just drop a note to the net in case anyone else is having the same problem. One might say that this is a common problem. Erick
Re: Runq missing from cron package ?
a small question: after a successful install of Debian by FTP, the cron process generates a lot of output along the lines of runq: command not found. I could not find it either. Is this a bug or a feature ? :-) What kind of mail-transport agent are you using. On my system runq is part of the smail package and takes care of the outgoing mail. Erick
Re: X11 and LaTeX minimal install
If people are pulling the packages over a phone line there is an advantage to limitting the size of individual packages. That way they can hang up the phone periodically. Also, if a bug shows up that needs to be fixed they only have to download the package that is broken. There is a plan to split all packages in parts of 460k if they are 460k or bigger. However the installation tools aren't supporting this yet. Erick
Re: latex
However, with longer documents which I used to be able to compile cleanly under Slackware things are not that rosy. Previewing dvi files, I get misaligned page numbers in table of contents, screwed up tables and documents look a mess. You have to run latex two, three and sometimes even four times with complicated long documents. Debian does not provide any other latex slackware. However, are you using the compatibility mode? Do your latex documents start with \documentstyle? Erick
Re: A few stupid(?) questions...
BTW only unasked questions are stupid. 3. How would I specify to use -o (--colors) as a default option for color-ls? (I also wish to use color-ls when I use the 'ls' command. So, I would assume I would do an mv /bin/ls /usr/lib ln -sf /usr/bin/color-ls /usr/bin/ls ln -sf /usr/lib/ls /usr/bin/old-ls to replace ls with color-ls?) install fileutils 3.13-3 and look in /usr/doc/fileutils/color-ls.gz Erick
Re: Tex won't install
The distribution is from the middle of July, an i-connect CD. The problem stated by dpgk/dselect has something to do with texbin installation postinst script not being able to find what its looking for, I get an errormessage, and the remaining packages (latex, etc) remain unconfigured If more information is required, it will be included in the next post. This is a known bug, try the tex packages from unstable/binary-i386/tex.
Re: dselect ftp went bye bye
This is becoming a FAQ - why is this happening? I presume that a lot of people are installing some cdrom version or the released version of Debian. The changes were in the unstable version. How many weeks to go for the next release? Erick
Re: File systems
I'm brand new to Linux and was looking for recommendations for a choice of file systems local filesystem? : ext2fs Erick
Re: help with debian perl installation
1. Have you installed the wg-locale (or something like that) package? You need to if you want to use locales. Perhaps this package needs higher priority. 2. Even then, I doubt 'de' is a valid locale name. Try 'de_DE' (or any other one of the de_* locales that come with wg15-locale.deb de should be valid. Erick
Re: LyX
I can't find the default format file! What am I missing? I've played with TeX a little in the past (went through the online TeXBook), but I've never used LaTeX before. LaTeX package was broken. Is fixed in version 2e-7. You need mflib 1.0-8 as well. Erick
Re: Xarchie package somewhere?
I'm looking for a xarchie package. Does someone have one out there? I might create one, if not. xarchie is in non-free part of the archive. Not on cdrom. Erick
Re: help getting X and openwin to work?
So I went back and fixed that, and everything configured fine except the X server setup. After fixing a problem with the mouse in XF86Config, I got X up and running fairly well. I think it is giving me fvwm as the default window manager, and the middle mouse button doesn't work right ( the menu flashes a lot and I cannot select anything on that menu). In /etc/X11 there are a few files and dirs which you might want to modify a bit. I really prefer running openwin, so I created the directory /usr/openwin and copied all the stuff from my Slackware system over to there (bin, lib, etc.) I can get openwin to start, display the Linux openwin logo, but before the screen turns blue, the X-server exits with the message lwm: can't find library 'libolg.so.3' That library exists in the openwin/lib hierarchy, so I think there must be a link missing somewhere, possibly between /usr/X11/lib and somewhere. Do you know anything about this, or can I give you any more information to help me solve this? This is a shared library and for libraries to be found you have to run ldconfig as root after moving or installing libraries. Erick
logging in takes ages
Hi all, Some dos oriented machines can acces my Debian box via a wd network card connected via coax. For some time this went pretty well, the login prompt showed up in 1 or 2 seconds. This isn't the case anymore, it takes approx 15 to 30 seconds before the login prompt shows up. any body having a clue why this is taking so long? Erick
Re: printing in debian/unix is hard...
Re: Tex and metafont
Dale Scheetz writes: I have been playing with lyx lately, so I thought it would be a good idea to install latex (lyx uses it). Well latex needs tex which among other things declares a dependance on metafont. I can find no metafont package. I assume it is a virtual package? Which *real* packages provide metafont? Perhaps a few rearrangements should be made on these packages. Perhaps no dependencies should be made by the tightly connected tex and mf packages, it might be better that they depend on the real name package - names: mfbin mflib texbin texlib etc. Erick
Root login is waiting
I have a problem with root login again. All other logins are fine, but root login is waiting after I typed the password. Even su isn't working anymore. I updtated some packages, including a few from Incoming this morning, after reboot, this behaviour is present. Sound familiar, a solution? -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142 Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
Re: find question (and xargs)
Hi users,
I found the solution (with help from Steve Preston, Kenvin Dalley,
Ray Dassen and Jan Wender).
now I use the following:
find /home/ftp/pub/debian -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'| \
xargs -l -i sh -c dpkg --info {} /dev/null dpkg-split -s {} rm {}
This gives a lot of evil messages about packages not being a debian
archive because they are the splitted archives of a previous run and
not all splitted archives are exactly 459976 or smaller (unfortunately).
I use the dpkg --info command to test whether it is a package.
Erick
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Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
find question (and xargs)
Hi all,
this might be a more unix oriented question but I'll ask it anyway
because it is very debian related too:
I would like to find packages bigger than 459976 bytes and split them
with dpkg-split, if splitting is succesfull I'll remove the package.
I have come at the following but it doesn't work (and can't figger
out why not from the manpages).
find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\
xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} rm {}
I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's
not the case. Anyone know how to solve this?
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Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
Re: Mirrors et al.
More info on dpkg / dselect install jobs can be found in /var/lib/dpkg or by adding --debug filename as an option. please check dselect --help and / or dpkg --help Perhaps more sofisticated ways to log exist but I don't know about them. -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142 Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
