Re: Why need Debian?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:07:11PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: A few times I have statements in the ubuntu website that there can't be Ubuntu if there's no Debian. This statement seems to me like it's only relevant to Warty No, it was very much still true for Hoary and Breezy, and will be for Dapper as well. , but why should they continue taking debian sources, especially considering that Ubuntu's main is normally ahead of Debian's sid? Is it the avoidance of effort duplication or is a matter of maintaining compatibility or...? In the instances where Ubuntu main is ahead, it's because we start with Debian as a base and then update specific packages to meet our goals, not because we duplicate Debian's efforts (or are able to). -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla - the forgotten package?
Why are you moving this thread to debian-user-german? I'm not subscribed to that list. -- - mdz -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: How do I use dpkg without superuser privileges?
(this is debian-user; please read the descriptions of the various lists) On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0800, Debs Spammagnet wrote: I've been trying to de-deb a .deb file without root permission. I just want to unwrap the file like a tar file. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL IT. I just want to UNPACK it like i might a TAR file. Unfortunately, dpkg --unpack complains about root access just as --install does. BOO! man dpkg, search for 'extract'. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#127502: Anyone packaging this yet?
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:10:34AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:07:37PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: If noone is packaging davfs yet, then I might consider it. I am talking to the author to see if it is still maintained, then I will give it a go. You didn't really look hard, it's in main. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show devfsd _dav_fs. The one discussed in #127502. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble getting uml networking going.
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 07:35:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: execvp of '/usr/lib/uml/uml_net' failed - errno = 13 tuntap_open_tramp failed - errno = 22 execvp of '/usr/lib/uml/uml_net' failed - errno = 13 tuntap_open_tramp failed - errno = 22 What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug in uml_net? uml-utilities installs uml-net setuid root and only executable by a privileged group. If you want to use preconfigured tap, you can dpkg-statoverride it to be not setuid and executable by everyone. Now that persistent tap devices are becoming more common, perhaps I should reconsider this default. Feedback is welcome. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating Release{.gpg} files, how to do it...for a local cache
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:04:58PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: I have succeeded in getting one to work by changing the Origin to something other than Debian and then using /etc/apt/preferences to bump up the PIN priority so that my packages are on par with the rest of debian stable. There must be a way that this can be done without adding stuff to preferences [...] If I change Origin to 'UWaterloo' for example AND add This is _exactly_ what the Origin field is for in the first place, and you _should_ change it. What is it that you are trying to do? If your packages are different from those in Debian stable, they should have higher version numbers, and they will automatically be preferred. If they have the same version numbers, then what are you trying to accomplish? If you just want a local cache of packages, simply list your local source first in sources.list, or avoid the archive method altogether and use a caching proxy. It would really be nice to know exactly how apt uses the Release file to setup Pin values or more precisely how it chooses packages to download. man 5 apt_preferences ps. apt is not very well documented or at least it seems it could be betterand the apt developers should be the ones to write it since they know how the program works. See above. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SUGGESTION for Debian FAQ
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:01:35PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: Thus, I have sent the suggestion to all related parties who could increase that FAQ visibility. May I know how to notify them all otherwise? I believe that there should be sufficient hints for finding the FAQ and HOWTO documents: during installing the first time (boot), in /etc/motd, and related the window environments help buttons. The solution was, ironically, found in the FAQ itself, in section 15.2 Feedback. You should have contacted the FAQ authors with your suggestion, instead of spamming all of the lists that you thought were applicable. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help
(this mailing list is for development of the installation system, not for support of it. moving to debian-user) On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:33:29AM -0500, GARY P LARGESS wrote: Then VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER This is where I'm stuck. I have not been able to figure out how to make the root FD. And believe me I have spent many many many hours trying to figure it out on the Debian main page. This is my last hope before giving up, and using RH. Do the same thing that you did to make the boot floppy, but use images-1.44/root.bin instead of images-1.44/rescue.bin. That's all there is to it. The documentation that you were looking for is in http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html under 5.4 Description of Installation System Files. Specifically, 5.4.2 Files for the Initial System Boot has a list of all of the root images, with URLs no less. There is similar information in /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/README.txt on your CD. Can you tell me how to make a root FD, that is appropriate for this machine and kernel- image-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1? And if I need another floppy after the root... please tell me how to make that also. Or how to force the machine to boot from CD, or how to install Debain... after booting in RH... or any other method that would allow me to install Debian on this machine. Booting from a CD would be the easiest method, but some older machines are not capable of this at all. The stock floppies will almost certainly work, though. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SUGGESTION for Debian FAQ
Please do not cross-post to so many lists with general comments. Following up to debian-user. On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:54:37PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: BTW, I tried to find out (in FHS and Debian Policy) the differences between /usr/doc/ and /usr/share/doc as well as why some documents are symbolic linked and why some are not. May I know why? You looked in exactly the right places. FHS says (4.11.1): quote The /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only architecture independent data files. /quote Which is clearly where documentation should go. The symlinks are a transition mechanism, described in the Debian Policy Manual: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s13.4 -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT dependency feature
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:55:47PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: OK, I've looked at the docs but I am hoping I'm missing something. I've got a problem with the hurd port. My hurd install has a broken dependency that I would like to ignore. libstdc++3-dev: Depends: libc6-dev (= 2.2.3-1) Unfortunately, libc6-dev doesn't exist on the hurd. They use libc0.3 and libc0.3-dev. The libstdc++ package needs to be changed, but I was hoping that apt could ignore this error and keep going, at least for now. [this list is for Quality Assurance, not Questions Answers. Following up to debian-user] The easiest thing to do would be to install the equivs package and use it to create a dummy package to satisfy the dependency. That way, you don't have to worry about trying to convince apt of anything. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: building mutt SSL deb package (configure error)
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:26:41AM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: The README.Debian does _not_ contain this information. The only mention is: To enable SSL support you need to install the libgcrypt1 and gnutls0 packages. NOW i can see what that means, but it would be nice if it was a bit clearer: How much clearer could it get? To enable SSL support, you need to install packages. If you install packages, SSL support is enabled. Maintainer CC'd. I _assumed_ that when it said you need those packages it was reffering to them needing to be installed to compile mutt. (Since this is what you used to have to do to get SSL support in mutt). Of course now I see the mistake, it might avoid confusion of others who are used to the old way of doing this with mutt. To that end, it could include a note reading Unlike previous versions of mutt, you do not need to rebuild the package to enable SSL. Also, in woody, the default mutt (1.3.27?) although is supposed to support SSL and is linked against gnutls0 does not work. It gets an error trying to access some X509 method in the library at runtime with you add the ssl stuff in your muttrc I can't speak to this; perhaps the maintainer can address it if you give more details about the error. -- - mdz
Re: building mutt SSL deb package (configure error)
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:09:03PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: FYI - Please CC me in reponse, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks. Please don't crosspost to multiple mailing lists unnecessarily. Follow-up to debian-user. I am running woody (testing) and trying to get together a mutt-ssl package. I have read the README.Debian concerning this in the mutt package. I downloaded the source: # apt-get source mutt Uncommented the appropriate like in the debian/rules file for SSL. Then, ran # dpkg-buildpackage -b [EMAIL PROTECTED] The current mutt in testing, 1.3.27-2 (unstable/non-US/main) already includes SSL support by default. You don't need to recompile any packages. Just install gnutls0. This is documented in README.Debian. -- - mdz
Re: apt-get kernel?
(please reply to debian-user only) On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 11:14:24PM -0500, Benjamin Lowe wrote: Is there an apt-get kernel for the kernel upgrades. I have tried to upgrade prior to my current version and destroyed my setup. Is there some documentation that you can point me to or how can upgrade my kernel from 2.2.19 to the 2.4.x kernel. You install a kernel just like any other package, with apt-get install. If you are running potato, you cannot upgrade to a 2.4.x kernel unless you upgrade many of your system utilities, as they are too old to support 2.4.x. -- - mdz
Re: your mail
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:50:47AM -, Radulovity Emil wrote: I want to know where can I get Debian Woody ISO images. I want to update my Potato system, I have slow connection and can`t use Internet for this. I looked for ISO images, but didn't find one. Woody is not yet released. Once it is released, ISO images will be made available, and CD vendors will sell CDs. -- - mdz
Re: bash: /dev/lp0: no such device
debian-qa is for Quality Assurance, not Questions/Answers. Please followup to debian-user. On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:07:13AM -0400, John Kittel wrote: more /etc/debian_version returns 2.2 lptest 36 7 returns 7 rows of 36 characters to the crt why does: lptest 36 7 /dev/lp0 lptest 36 7 /dev/lp1 and lptest 36 7 /dev/lp2 all return bash: /dev/lp0: no such device and bash: /dev/lp1: no such device and bash: /dev/lp2: no such device? questions and help are appreciated This means that the kernel printer driver isn't loaded. Try 'modprobe lp'. -- - mdz
Bug#101827: xmms-flac
Package: xmms-flac Version: 0.10-1 Severity: grave On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:17:36PM +0200, Sergio da Silva wrote: Hi, I encounter following problem when I try to use xmms with xmms-flac installed: I am not able to play back audio files encoded with flac and I get following message: /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so: undefined symbol: FLAC__file_decoder_finish I am using unstable and also tried to compile the deb sources but had no luck so far. I can reproduce the problem here. I'll get back to you soon. -- - mdz
Re: xmms-flac
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:17:36PM +0200, Sergio da Silva wrote: I encounter following problem when I try to use xmms with xmms-flac installed: I am not able to play back audio files encoded with flac and I get following message: /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so: undefined symbol: FLAC__file_decoder_finish I am using unstable and also tried to compile the deb sources but had no luck so far. A fixed package is now in Incoming. -- - mdz
Re: Installing Debian Potato with ReiserFS on a laptop (take 1)
Do these really need to go to -devel? -user only seems more appropriate. -- - mdz
Re: Broken mime handling in netscape
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:05:21AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Has anybody worked out a way to get netscape's mime handling to work reliably and consistently? I'm getting sick of the following problem, and I'm sure I can't be alone. Currently, every time I click on a link to a plain text file, netscape downloads the text file and then seems to throw the result away. From what I've worked out in the past, this seems to be caused by the text/plain entries in /etc/mailcap - at least, if I go and delete those entries things start to work again. This is annoying, as things seem to work fine most of the time and I'm not sure it's deterministic - I haven't run an upgrade on this machine in a while, but as far as I can tell it's _just_ started happening again. I suppose my question is - where is the bug? Is it netscape, mime-support, or the packages using mime-support. And, more importantly, how can I work around this so I don't have to do it again!?! This is a question for debian-user (followups there please). Netscape should have an entry under Navigator*Applications like so: Description: Plain Text MIMEType: text/plain Suffixes: txt,text Handled by: Navigator Sounds like maybe it got removed. -- - mdz
