Re: Permission denied -- Say what?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied what are the options for the partition that it is on[in fstab]? Does it have 'noexec' set? Remember that 'user' implies noexec. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Status of Testing
Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). The glibc issue is resolved, if you upgrade now than you will probably upgrade on the order of 100-200 packages depending on how many were already the unstable version and how many you have installed. It is doubtful that that will fix the mozilla issue though... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting rid of flash
Hans Wilmer wrote: Hi! How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete It would suffice if I could tell Mozilla to just ignore 'flashes' instead of popping up a message, and not to download them. delete libnullplugin.so in the mozilla plugin directory[ie /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GnuPG on stable?
Peter Lavender wrote: The problem is that gnupg is at version 1.0.6, but there are more recent versions available. Just how does one go about updating something like gpg to a newer version with out breaking the package management system? http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/ has 1.2.1-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I 'tar' a huge file?
Roberto Sanchez wrote: This actually worked in that I was able to store the whole file into seperate archives. But, when I tried to untar, it failed on the first file, saying it encountered an unexpected EOF. Am I missing something here? or can this simply not be done? -Roberto Sanchez Did you pass the same -L number option to tar for the untar as you did for the tar? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla Baynesian Filters
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 05:08:27PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: Klaus Imgrund wrote: On a related topic, anybody ever got the mozilla spamfilter to do some actual filtering? I hear it's great but it doesn't do anything for me. I haven't. Part of my problem is that I don't get enough spam[that gets past spamassassin] to train it on. I think the trick is for the ham and spam to be the same order of magnitude. I used my entire Inbox as ham and now Mozilla never tags anything as spam. You don't save spamassassin's output? You've never got a false positive? Well, I guess you wouldn't know anyway :-) Spamassassin's output is redirected via procmail to stay on the mail server. I then check it once a week and flush it. It would be non-trivial and consume bandwidth[defeating the purpose of filtering the spam] to download it somewhere where mozilla can see it. And no, I've never gotten a false positive that I care about. But I am not really complaining, I am perfectly happy with the current state of my spam filtering. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Magic SysRq
Michael Naumann wrote: According to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/sysrq.txt I have to set CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ when configuring the kernel to enable this feature. Yet, I do not find this key in .config nor under make menuconfig. Any hint what I'm missing here? TIA, Michael It's under Kernel Hacking. You may need to say yes to Prompt for Development stuff in the Code Maturity part. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Detecting default browser?
Ralf Treinen wrote: Salut Xavier, On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:04:10AM +0100, Xavier Roche wrote: Is there a clean way to detect the default (installed) browser on Debian? The idea would be to avoid if possible scripts like: for i in mozilla galeon konqueror ..; do if test -x /usr/bin/$i; then /usr/bin/$i $@ exit $? fi done Alternatives are made for that. /usr/sbin/www-browser points, through a chain of symlinks, to some browser. See update-alternatives(8) Cheers -Ralf. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display www-browser www-browser - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/lynx /usr/bin/lynx - priority 50 slave www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/lynx.1.gz Current `best' version is /usr/bin/lynx. Considering I have both mozilla and konqueror installed, I think that www-browser always points to lynx[or at least a console browser] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Detecting default browser?
oops, my bad, wrong list... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla Baynesian Filters
Klaus Imgrund wrote: On a related topic, anybody ever got the mozilla spamfilter to do some actual filtering? I hear it's great but it doesn't do anything for me. Klaus I haven't. Part of my problem is that I don't get enough spam[that gets past spamassassin] to train it on. I think the trick is for the ham and spam to be the same order of magnitude. I used my entire Inbox as ham and now Mozilla never tags anything as spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No File - Save in gimp
Dave Sherohman wrote: image window (as is the case with GIMP, which only has a menu on the toolbox window), then saving the focused window makes no sense. Dumb-founded that no one has pointed this out yet, I thought I may as well mention it before this thread ends. GIMP[at least the version in testing] does have a menu on the image window: it is the triangle in the upper left hand corner. Left-clicking it will open a drop-down menu equivalent to the context menu you get when right clicking the image. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apt: Searching for Provides: ...
Thomas Guettler wrote: Hi! I want to search for all packages which provide xserver. apt-cache search 'Provides.*xserver.*' This should find xserver-s3, but it doesn't. Any hints? 'grep-available -FProvides xserver -s Package -d' grep-available is in the grep-dctrl package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making nvidia drivers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. The light *finally* dawns. There's no way to build the glx with make-kpkg, since nvidia-kernel must be *installed* before glx will build. And THAT'S why nvidia-glx doesn't get copied into /usr/src/modules. /me slaps forehead So I guess I've gone as far as I can. There is no way to build glx with make-kpkg because the glx package has nothing to do with the kernel: it is an xfree86 module. When you upgrade your kernel, you don't need to reinstall nvidia-glx, you just need to install a version of nvidia-kernel for the new kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -L nvidia-glx /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.3123 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.3123 /usr/share /usr/share/lintian /usr/share/lintian/overrides /usr/share/lintian/overrides/nvidia-glx /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.DE.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/copyright /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/examples /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/examples/XF86Config.sample.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/NVIDIA_Changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/license.txt.gz /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11R6/lib/modules /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.3123 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.a /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.3123 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 package diverts others to: /usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions/libGL.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: matrix uniq
Youichi Mano wrote: Hi all, I want to uniq by comparing the specified column for matrix data. I want to realize this operation by command line programs , not any script file. Is there any idea? Umm, use 'uniq'...? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uniq -W1 EOF 1 eagle 197 1 bird 387 2 camera 91 2 dog 62 3 apple 89 EOF 1 eagle 197 2 camera 91 3 apple 89 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: message from cron
John F. wrote: I am getting about 60 or so messages a day from the cron daemon. I would like to stop them coming, but I don't know how. I would think if I disabled the netnews server, but it doesn't show up as being enabled with ksysv, so I don't know what to do. A complete copy of one of the messages is below: Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] test -x /usr/bin/rnews rnews -U X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/lib/news/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/var/spool/news X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=news Hostname does not resolve or 'domain' in inn.conf is missing Thanks If you don't want any output sent to you, pipe the cron job output somewhere. 'test -x /usr/bin/rnews rnews -U' would become '(test -x /usr/bin/rnews rnews -U) [somewhere] 21'. [somewhere] can be /dev/null or something like /var/log/rnews-cron. The cron script that needs to be edited is probably in /etc/cron.d/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List of base-system debs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find a list of the packages included in the basic installation of Woody? Kevin 'grep-available -FPriority required -s Package' and/or 'grep-available -FPriority standard -s Package'. Standard priority packages are installed if dselect is run, even if you don't select anything, required priority packages are always installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strace conflicts php4 ?
Xavier Barnabe-Theriault wrote: hi On testing, I get this for strace: And just to be sure it's not my fault for some corruption that might have happened, I tried to apt-get another package and it went peacefully. Any idea to get strace ?? Xavier The new libc6 conflicts with php4. If you want, you can grab libc6 from http://www.techhouse.org/~pretzalz/libc6_2.3.1-14_i386.deb. It is the same deb as the official one except I edited the control file to remove the conflict with php4. Along with libc6-dev and locales from the official archive, dpkg -i all three of them and then you should be able to install strace. The deb src 'deb http://www.techhouse.org/~pretzalz/ ./' in /etc/apt/source.list should also work to get the modified libc6, but is untested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing migration
Jim McCloskey wrote: I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. Hardly anything, though. I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down. Are there any brave souls who went ahead and upgraded and have the time to do a quick report of how it went? Jim The only problem I ran into was http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=184036. I had to manually restart gdm[ie '/etc/init.d/gdm restart'] before it would let me log in. Luckily, the first thing I usually try when something doesn't work is to restart it. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why people use `find ... |env -i xargs rm -f' instead of `find...| xargs rm -f'?
Michael Wardle wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 14:45, Dai Yuwen wrote: Why people want to clean the environment variables before rm files? Some systems have an alias for rm that invokes rm -i. It's possible that running with env -i ensures that the true, unaliased command is run. 'rm -i -f' is equivalent to 'rm -f'... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: some doubts - [newbie]
Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote:
4) why a simple hello word program in java, that works fine on windows,
return this error on linux (java.lang.NoDefFoundError)
bash$cat test.java
public class test {
public test() {}
public static void main(String[] argc) {
System.out.print(Hello World\n);
}
}
bash$javac test.java
bash$java test
Hello World
bash$
Works fine here, could you elaborate...
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Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your DebianKernel
Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: # make sure you've got the bzip2 package; the comment in the # article confusing 'tar' and 'gzip' also confused me, BTW... apt-get install bzip2 not necessary since kernel-source depends on bzip2 it will be brought it automatically when you install the kernel source # Get the make-kpkg program and friends... apt-get install kernel-package # get the kernel source... apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.20 From this point on you shouldn't be root, add yourself to the group 'src' instead.['adduser yourself src' as root, you'll have to restart your shell for this to take effect, the easiest way is to just start a new subshell with 'bash' or similar.] # go to the source... cd /usr/src # unpack it; note that the 'j' flag un-bzips it... tar -xjvf kernel-source-2.4.20.tar.bz2 # into the unzip'ed, un-tar'ed source... cd kernel-source-2.4.20 make-kpkg kernel_image You need to use fakeroot for this step since you shouldn't be doing this as root. I typically use 'fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version blah --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image'. The append-to-version option makes it possible to install two kernels from the same tree simultaneously. (Note that the above requires that root has access to your X display, because it uses 'xconfig'. Now, this is probably going to show you how clue-less I am, but one simple way I do this on occasion is by 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]' to become root for the above; go ahead, tell me it's silly--I know : ). It is not a silly way to become root, it is just silly to become root. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patched sendmail? testing?
stan wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: sigh Someone else running testing in a production environment. And my choices are? As I see them. 2. Run stable and have 1970's versions of software/ woody has the exact same versions[except with security updates] of software that testing had 8 months ago. 8 months ago you were running testing and were happy. Have your needs changed since then? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to use many(6) button mouse devices
Brad Sawatzky wrote: I've got myself a Kensington ExpertMouse USB trackball. The thing has 6 special buttons (ie. intended for exe launching, etc) 4 regular buttons 1 wheel This gives me three usable regular buttons (ie. right, left, middle), and a working wheel. In 'xev' the remaining regular button generates a button3 event, and none of the special buttons register at all. The Buttons option doesn't seem to do much at all... I am just extrapolating from my seven button mouse, but try something like: In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice [...] Option Buttons 12 Option ZAxisMapping 11 12 EndSection In ~/.xmodmap: pointer = 1 2 3 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Then you have to source ~/.xmodmap somewhere with the command 'xmodmap ~/.xmodmap'. I do this in my .bashrc, but this is more a kludge than anything.[I have the following in my .bashrc: if [ $TERM == xterm ]; then xmodmap ~/.xmodmap-Pretzalz fi ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About user nobody
Satish Iyer wrote: Hi, I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop system. At times I notice a process with high disk activity running under user name nobody. How can I figure out which program is responsible for this and what exactly is it upto? The user doesn't appear in the linuxconf interface. Regards, Satish. It is probably updatedb, it runs every night to build an index for 'locate'. You could mv /etc/cron.daily/find to /etc/cron.weekly or get rid of it completely if you don't use locate though I do find it useful or you could change what time it runs by editing /etc/crontab... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/cache/apt/archives is big
Alan Chandler wrote: My /var/cache/apt/archives directory seems to have nearly a gig of .deb files. I notice there is more than one version of each (it looks like its always 2). Is there a command to shrink it? 'apt-get autoclean' will get rid of the duplicate ones[or more precisely all debs that don't correspond to the candidate version of a package]. 'apt-get clean' will get rid of the entire directory. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kept back packages because of libfam0c102
Francois Chenais wrote: Hello, I have many kept back packages because there upgrade needs libfam0c102 to be installed implying e17 efsd libfam0 to be removed !!! But I don't want removing e17 !:-| Must I have to do this ?? e17 and efsd aren't in the main archives, where are you getting them from? They need to make the gcc-3.2 transition. You might want to let whoever mantains the archive for e17 and efsd aware of this, though I would be incredulous if they weren't already cognizant of this. If it is a 'stable' archive than they probably have no plans to make the transition and you will have to look for another archive. Of course, there is no reason that you *have* to upgrade, your current software works, doesn't it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning
Jonathan Matthews wrote: Having just installed the Gnome 2.2 backport, I'm trying to drop kde from my box totally. Never liked the underline the desktop icons thing anyway[1] :-) I thought I'd got it all out, but witness the following: bigdaddy:/home/jaycee# apt-get dist-upgrade -u [snip] The following NEW packages will be installed: kdelibs-data The following packages have been kept back gnu-smalltalk imagemagick libcurl2 liblcms1 liblcms1-dev libmng-dev libmng1 libpng12-0 libpng12-0-dev libpng3 libwmf0.2-7 mpeglib tetrinetx 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded. I'm not asking anyone to tell me why my particular mix of sources is doing this, I'm wondering more if there's a grep-available or grep-dctrl invocation that might tell me which *installed* packages *depend* on kdelibs-data. Yes, I know kdelibs kdelibs4, but neither of them is installed. The more likely cause of this behavior is the Replaces field of kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on dist-upgrade any package that claims to replace an installed package. Check out: for i in `grep-available -PX kdelibs-data -n -s Replaces | sed -e 's/([^(]*)//g' -e 's/,//g'`; do grep-status -PX $i | grep-dctrl -FStatus 'install ok installed' -s Package; done though it would probably be easier to just check each package in the Replaces field by hand than figure out that expression. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: The more likely cause of this behavior is the Replaces field of kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on dist-upgrade any package that claims to replace an installed package. I really hope not. That would be a misinterpretation of Replaces, which on its own simply means that some files from the named package(s) have moved to the package containing the Replaces field. Replaces in combination with Conflicts or maybe Provides, possibly ... Well, the 'Replaces' theory sounds much more reasonable to me than the 'Depends' theory. No packages were being upgraded on OP's dist-upgrade so the depends of every other package on his system must remain constant. In order for a depends to cause a new package to be installed, it follows that there was a package that somehow got installed with an unsatisfied 'Depends'. I don't know how this could happen without the OP knowing what was going on[ie he had been using dpkg --force-depends]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dummy
Kent West wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: Kent West wrote: But natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format (although it can in many cases with the alien package). Thanks a lot, Kent. A friend of mine told me Debian takes Red Hat drivers and to install it as simply as: rpm -ivh package_name. This must be news for you, so maybe I, through my friend, am contributing something. :o) Wow! You're right; I didn't know about the rpm command being on Debian. But sure enough, it's on my box, and the man page says indicates that it'll install rpms. The man page is lying. rpm is there to be used by alien and to build rpms, it can't install packages because the rpm package database doesn't exist. If you try to create an rpm package database in order to get it to work, don't expect your system to stay unbroken for long. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to play custom sound on mail alert in Moz Mail?
Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: Anyone know how to configure Mozilla Mail on Debian to play a custom sound when new mail arrives? Yes. First off don't try to do it with Mozilla. Do it with procmail as the mail is processed on your machine. Procmail will put it in your mailbox to be read by Mozilla. I am guessing, but I would guess that the OP has it setup so that Mozilla is retrieving his mail directly from a remote mail server. The mail is never processed on his machine until Mozilla processes it. The reason that I am guessing this is that Mozilla's MoveMail implementation for retrieving mail from /var/mail/username doesn't automatically check for mail[at least for me], it only retrieves mail when you tell it to. As for configuring it to play a custom sound: Recent versions of mozilla let you do this in the UI Preferences-MailNewsgroups-Notifications. Older versions supposedly let you set a custom sound by putting: user_pref(mail.biff.sound_file, /usr/share/sounds/email.wav); user_pref(mail.biff.use_default_sound, false); in either ~/.mozilla/profilename/random.slt/user.js or /etc/mozilla/prefs.js. I never did get this to work though[before I started using fetchmail]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vim: first letter of last word on line ???
Michael D. Schleif wrote: It seems that I'm always in vim trying to goto the first letter of the last word on a line. Is there already a key binding to do that? The closest I've found is Esc A Esc B ; but, that is really (3+) keystrokes ; What do you think? Well, you can replace 'A Esc' with '$' and the first Esc doesn't really count since you generally have to leave insert mode to do a command... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql v4.0
Joyce, Matthew wrote: Does anyone know of a apt-source to update my mysql server ? there are some features in v4 which are not in the v3.23. thanks Matt deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main Quality of stuff in experimental isn't guaranteed[fresh install is probably fine, assume that an upgrade will break horribly]... Use 'apt-get -t experimental -u install ...' to install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin - three basic questions
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:11:00AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-02-21T13:29:45Z, Sandip P Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. how to i tell spamassassin *not to* process some messages? for instance, debain mailing list, i understand, is already processed for spam. no use spamming it again Maybe not necessary, but, unless your mailserver is horribly slow, it'll be done so quick that it's not going to hurt anything anyhow. 'not necessary' is debateable. For whatever reason, half the spam that spamassassin catches for me is directed to debian lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where does dpkg -l reads package info?
David Z Maze wrote: Yildiz, Murat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and run apt-setup and let read all 8 cd's but it seems it doesn't write available and status files again. The canonical way to do this is to run 'apt-get update', hit 'u' in aptitude, or select update from dselect's main menu. What problem are you really having? 'apt-get update' won't update /var/lib/dpkg/available. As far as I know only 'dselect update' does. Since random programs such as grep-available rely on /var/lib/dpkg/available being kept up to date, it is generally a good idea to always use 'dselect update' instead of 'apt-get update'. Why the two aren't equivalent is beyond me... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dynamic MMap ran out of room.. no apt.conf file?
Adam Robson wrote: While trying to download using apt-get or dselect or tasksel, i get the error message E: dynamic MMap ran out of room I've read the solution is to change the /etc/apt/apt.conf file with APT::Cache-Limit 1000 or some big number, but this file doesn't appear in that directory. Is there some other way to fix the problem, using apt-config or something? Do 'touch /etc/apt/apt.conf' as root and look again... ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...
Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system. The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude cannot find a package of that name. Where might I find it? A small point but Lyx suggests rather than recommends sgml-tools. I'm unfamiliar with aptitude but it is a little surprising it does not give a similar output to `dpkg -l sgml-tools', `apt-cache search sgml-tools' or a package search on Debian's web page. bash-2.05b$ apt-cache search sgml-tools linuxdoc-tools - SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only. sgml-tools - Replaced by linuxdoc-tools (dummy package for upgrade) pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ apt-cache search sgml-tools linuxdoc-tools - SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only. What distro are you using, I can't find the dummy package in either testing or unstable so presumably it no longer exists. It is probably a bug against lyx that it suggests a package that doesn't exist. @OP: You want to install linuxdoc-tools in lieu of sgml-tools, though I am sure you already figured that out. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dcgui problems
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:09:01AM +0100, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: Hi my dcgui hangs when it conncts to a hub, regardless of which hub. Dies with the message dcgui: relocation error: dcgui: undefined symbol: __fixunsdfdi Does anyone know whats wrong? Im running unstable on P4 2.4 ghz 512mb ram That's a bug in libc6 - see its bug list. Regards, The glibc mantainers are claiming that it is not libc6's fault. The workaround is to do 'LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libgcc_s.so.1' before running dcgui. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More ardour build requiremnets questions
stan wrote: I'm trying to build Ardour from CVS, which appears to be the only way to get it. I have installed the unstable version of gettext, which it needs, and now it wants automake 1.5 or greater. I tried to apt-get automake from unstable, hoping it would be a later version, but there does not seem to be a version of automake in unstable. Has anyone succeeded in building this package on debian? It looks very useful, so if anyone has, I could use a pointer or 2. Thanks. There are seperate packages for automake1.5, automake1.6, and automake1.7 which apparently aren't completely compatible. Pick one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shuttle disaster
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:57, Gary Turner wrote: [snip] eg. Actually, all goods and services come from the government...Try producing your own goods and services. Maybe I'm missing something, but what are you talking about. People and corporations produce their own goods and services every day. People and corporations produce their own money every day as well; have you ever written a check? Try coming up with a difference between checks, iou's, deeds, stock certificates, bonds, etc. and government produced money that isn't circular, ie the first set isn't money because it is not government backed Have you ever gone to a fair or arcade where you have to buy 'tokens' to pay for the games/rides? What are the tokens if they aren't money? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spaces in filenames
Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a script where I can get the names of files in a directory. Normally this is easy, like this: for doc in `ls /var/www/htlml/files` do echo $i done However, some of the files have spaces in the names, like My File.html How do I get $doc to have the correct file name? Thanks Sheldon. for doc in /var/www/htlml/files/*; do echo $doc done -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)
Colin Watson wrote: That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not themselves bound by the terms of the licence, Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the licence? As copyright holders they are perfectly able to distribute under whatever other license they want, but if they decide to release under a license than it seems like they should be just as obligated to fullfill all the parts of the license as anyone else. This is why 'commercial' 'open' source licenses such as the NPL make pains to explicitly exclude themselves from license obligations. The GPL doesn't include any such exemptions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)
Craig Dickson wrote: Travis Crump wrote: Colin Watson wrote: That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not themselves bound by the terms of the licence, Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the licence? Because they did not receive it under the license, obviously. As copyright holders they are perfectly able to distribute under whatever other license they want, but if they decide to release under a license than it seems like they should be just as obligated to fullfill all the parts of the license as anyone else. No, because they are the authority that grants the license, not a member of the set of people to whom the license is granted. By that logic, what is to stop some company from releasing their product under the 'GPL' and then never releasing the source and requiring per-seat 'royalties' for the use of their patented IP? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
perl 5.6.1-8.2 in testing?
Not that I am complaining because security updates are always good, but how exactly did perl 5.6.1-8.2 make it into testing sometime in the last couple of days? It didn't come from unstable, because unstable moved to perl 5.8.0 a while ago, and I didn't know that there /was/ any other way for updated software to make its way into testing. It appears to have originally been a stable security update from the end of November. For it to just now make it to testing implies that someone made a special effort to upload it, but noone cares about security updates for testing, right? This is just an abject curiosity question to see if anyone can explain the mystery... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT Help with Mozilla
bob parker wrote: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 05:48, Travis Crump wrote: bob parker wrote: I'm in the middle of using ncftp to download Knoppix iso - 700meg. As a consequence Moz keeps timing out while I attempt to access other site I regularly use. Is it possible to increase the time out delay in Mozilla? How? Thanks Bob It looks like you want to adjust the prefernces network.http.request.timeout and/or network.http.connect.timeout. If you have a new enough version of mozilla(I am not sure exactly what is 'new' enough since I follow cvs and this is the first I've seen this feature), you can edit the values by going to the url about:config and scrolling down to the preference and right clicking the preference and choosing Modify. The old standby is to add the preference to user.js(manually created in the same directory as prefs.js for your profile) in the form: user_pref(network.http.request.timeout, time in seconds); and then restart mozilla. Thanks for that. I'm using Moz 1.0 and 1. There is a line '715 network.http.request.timeout default int 120' in about:config, but right click does nothing in this version. 2. I added the user-pref line to my user.js and restarted to no effect. ( I have other lines in user.js that also have no effect ) So I guess the next question is what must I do to install a later version? Thanks Bob I don't think you need a new version just for this. I have no idea why it doesn't work, when you go into about:config after doing it does it say user set instead of default? Also, network.http.connect.timeout might be more important? If the pref doesn't claim to be user set/changed you could try adding the pref to /etc/mozilla/prefs.js which is the global equivalent of user.js. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gcc not working
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:17:58 -0300, Albert Knox wrote: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-14.3) but 2.3.1-9 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages I'm using testing. No you're not. At least, your /etc/apt/sources.list has entries for sid (unstable) in it... 2.3.1-9 is a sid version of libc6 that never made it to testing. Comment out the sid entries in /etc/apt/sources.list, run apt-get update and try apt-get install libc6-dev again. HTH, Ray That's not going to accomplish anything productive. You are probably better off at this point leaving your sources.list as it is and trying apt-get install -t unstable libc6-dev. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT Help with Mozilla
bob parker wrote: I'm in the middle of using ncftp to download Knoppix iso - 700meg. As a consequence Moz keeps timing out while I attempt to access other site I regularly use. Is it possible to increase the time out delay in Mozilla? How? Thanks Bob It looks like you want to adjust the prefernces network.http.request.timeout and/or network.http.connect.timeout. If you have a new enough version of mozilla(I am not sure exactly what is 'new' enough since I follow cvs and this is the first I've seen this feature), you can edit the values by going to the url about:config and scrolling down to the preference and right clicking the preference and choosing Modify. The old standby is to add the preference to user.js(manually created in the same directory as prefs.js for your profile) in the form: user_pref(network.http.request.timeout, time in seconds); and then restart mozilla. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starcraft on wine
Andrei Smirnov wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:57:40PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: a black screen and i didint found any solutions on winehq and such Here the situation: Debian 3.0 with 4.1.0 X craft runs under wine with sound but without graphics (with a black screen) ... i tried to change bpp, resolutions ... on bpp 8 640x480 it not work at all on the other hand, heroes4 runs completely with graphics and even some demos That's funny, it's doing the same thing to be and I almost positive that it used to work[I haven't tried to play in a while and upgraded wine since the last time I played]. Strike that, it did that the first time I tried it when I didn't mount my cd first, all subsequent attempts have succeeded[though it is pretty crappy performance for the quality of the box...] bpp 15 640x480 seems to work best. You might want to look at http://koti.mbnet.fi/~hoppq/sc-howto.html i saw it before ... and can you say what videocard you have ? as far as i understood you can run sc on a current stable woody right? I have a 'crappy' GeForce4 with the proprietary drivers and a 1600 XP athlon, and the performance is worse than it was on my 166 running Win95 with onboard video. I run testing, but when testing == Woody it worked as far as I can remember. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [NEWBIE]: HP DeskJet 710c - installation problems
ketil V. wrote: I am trying Debian for the first time, and can not find any support for my printer. In RedHat the printer is supported by the pnm2ppa - system, along with the 712, 720, 810 and 1000 - series, but I do not find this package in my Woody CD-set. Does anybody know where I can find the name of the Debian packaces supporting my printer, and the configuration program(s) ??? pnm2ppa is a package in testing and unstable, I have no idea why it wouldn't be in Woody. You can just grap it from testing at http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pnm2ppa/pnm2ppa_1.04-4_i386.deb, it doesn't have any troublesome dependencies to worry about so you can install it with dpkg -i. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starcraft on wine
Andrei Smirnov wrote: a black screen and i didint found any solutions on winehq and such Here the situation: Debian 3.0 with 4.1.0 X craft runs under wine with sound but without graphics (with a black screen) ... i tried to change bpp, resolutions ... on bpp 8 640x480 it not work at all on the other hand, heroes4 runs completely with graphics and even some demos do please help.. That's funny, it's doing the same thing to be and I almost positive that it used to work[I haven't tried to play in a while and upgraded wine since the last time I played]. Strike that, it did that the first time I tried it when I didn't mount my cd first, all subsequent attempts have succeeded[though it is pretty crappy performance for the quality of the box...] bpp 15 640x480 seems to work best. You might want to look at http://koti.mbnet.fi/~hoppq/sc-howto.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to build Phoenix
David P James wrote: I've been trying to build Phoenix from source and have run into a bit of a snag. I want to build it with QT support, which is fine, as there is an option to do this. Just because there is an option doesn't mean it will work... http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178987 Though apparent;y the brokenness should be more insidious than what you are seeing so I don't know what to tell you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories
Levi Waldron wrote: I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each input file, the output file should have the same name except ending in .txt, and the output files should be put a common directory. ie, java ImageInfo dir1/pic1.jpg commondir/pic1.txt etc, repeated over a bunch or directories and jpg files. The subdirectories only go one deep. If this is difficult I could copy all the jpg files into a single directory first with only a little bit of tedium. Thank you, Levi for i in `find . -name *.jpg`; do java ImageInfo $i `echo $i | sed -e 's~^.*/~commondir/~' -e 's/jpg$/txt/'`; done all on one line. You probably want to look over http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html and/or http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ for guides on how to write simple scripts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var still counts /var/cache
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I made a new partition for /var/cache since that's where all my data is. Unfortunately /var is still counting the contents of /var/cache and thinks that /var is full. I'm not sure how to tell /var that it doesn't hold /var/cache anymore. FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 464M 28M 412M 7% / /dev/hda3 4.6G 2.1G 2.4G 47% /home /dev/hda5 2.3G 1.3G 901M 60% /usr /dev/hda6 464M 439M 1.1M 100% /var /dev/hda7 2.8G 46M 2.6G 2% /usr/local /dev/hda9 46M 60K 44M 1% /tmp /dev/hda102.3G 333M 1.9G 15% /var/cache /var/cache has all the files it's supposed to, but /var thinks that it has them too. Thanks for all your great suggestions. I'm collecting mail a few messages at a time until I can figure out how to fix this. :/ emma umount /var/cache and do 'rm -rf /var/cache/*' and then remount /var/cache. Though I would probably double check first that /dev/hda10 has everything that it should. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get
Barry Pollock wrote: You wil have to create a Packages file and a Release file and a Package file. You can simply download the package and do a dpkg -i p`fullpagagename' . The Release file and Package file are optional. A minimally functional Packages file can be created by running 'dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null | gzip -c - Packages.gz' in the directory with the debs and then you can add it to your sources by adding to your sources.list: deb file:///path/to/deb/directory ./ and running apt-get update or some variant thereof. That being said, dpkg -i is easier if there are no dependencies and as Emma pointed out most people who distribute debs bother to create a Packages.gz so that you can just add the http address to your source.list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning
Lloyd Zusman wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] but the point is that pinning is not very good because you either bring a number of important packages from unstable (libc6, perl etc) or you simply cannot use it. reading of the manual page and checking the apt-listchanges does not solve the problem. i.e. you recommend pinning, person reads the manpage, tries pinning and finds out that it was pretty much pointless excercise because it would upgrade large part of the system to unstable. or yet another wording: Adrian Bunk wasn't complaining about system actually upgrading packages but about system trying to upgrade packages. erik I want to be sure that I understand the significance of this. Are you saying that pinning a certain package, say randompackage, to unstable in /etc/apt/preferences is worse than doing this the first time that randompackage is installed? ... apt-get -t unstable install randompackage Or do these two methods have equally undesirable effects? Pinning is roughly equivalent to 'apt-get install randompackage/unstable'. Neither will try to pull in unstable dependencies, but will instead just fail if the package can't be installed with testing dependencies. 'apt-get -t unstable install randompackage' is probably the worst command to use since it will pull unstable dependencies for uninstalled packages even for unversioned dependencies. Pinning has essentially been useless for the past 2 months, but for the 10 months before that I thought that pinning *was* useful so it seems disingenuous to claim that it is always useless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail relay ???
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account forwarded to another mail address. how is this done? martin echo forwarding address ~/.forward If that doesn't work you are going to have to give more info or ask whoever administers your system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vsound issue - a return
Vaughan, Curtis wrote: Whereas vsound would not record RealAudio on a PowerBook, I am now trying it on an i686-based computer. After issuing the command: vsound -f test.wav realplay http://128.208.34.102:8080/ramgen/RadioIntersection/20021203intersection.rm RealPlayer is launched, connects and begins to stream and immediate crashes with the following output: /usr/bin/vsound: line 163: 4787 Aborted LD_PRELOAD=$pkglibdir/libvsound.so $@ Any ideas how to this problem? Curtis Vaughan You have to use the '-t' option for internet streams. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling gnucash 1.7.7 for Woody?
Michael D. Crawford wrote: I would like to try out the new GnuCash 1.7.7. It has some small business features I'd find helpful, and is supposed to have an easier way to handle foreign currency exchange, among many other new features. I want to install it on a PowerPC woody system, a Mac 8500. GnuCash 1.7.7 is available in unstable. I know how I can use apt pinning to install an unstable package in a stable system. However, I'm concerned because GnuCash has many dependencies. Trying to install the unstable 1.7.7 in my woody system might clobber it because so many dependencies from unstable will get installed. So what I think I would like to do is download the 1.7.7 debian sources, and compile it on my woody system. I would need to make sure I had all the dependencies, but I would be getting stable dependencies. I've managed to compile debian packages before but I've only done it a couple times. GnuCash is supposed to be rather daunting to compile yourself, because it has so many dependencies. Would this have the desired effect? Can anyone tell me if GnuCash 1.7.7 requires dependencies, or versions of them, that aren't available at all in Woody? It requires two build dependencies not available in Sarge[there may be additional dependencies that Woody doesn't have]: libofx-dev and a newer version of libgwrapguile-dev. Presumably you can backport these in the same manner as you are going to backport gnucash. Since presumably you are going to be compiling with 2.95, you should probably remove the c102 from the package name of libofx0c102 to avoid possible pain down the road and fix the attendant problems that arise, but since libofx0 never existed this is also likely to cause problems down the road, so you just have to remember to deal with these problems at the appropriate time whichever route you choose. The best choice might be to leave it as libofx0c102, but decrement the version number to ensure that it is upgraded to the gcc 3.2 version at the appropriate time. As for using apt-get build-dep: this is not much of a suggestion since apt-get is not what you would call verbose if it fails on an apt-get build-dep. A better tool is: cat /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources | grep-dctrl -FBinary,Package gnucash -s Package,Build-Depends and then manually checking the build dependencies[of course if apt-get build-dep works than you are clear sailing...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems when starting the install of Debian Woody Linux
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:10:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, the reason I write this is that I have also been faced up to another type of problem, namely a problem with installation of the new system. I attach the dbg_log.tgz file to ease the resolution of my problem. File: hda.fdisk-dumpCol 0 491 bytes100% Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 790 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 382 3068383+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 774 790136552+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 383 773 3140707+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 383 574 1542208+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 575 773 1598436 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order ^ This is your problem. Eh? Why is that a problem? My partitions are even more out of order and I have never noticed any problems resulting from it. My problem-free partitioning: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2035 163461067 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 5296 7476 17518882+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda3 2036 5295 26185950 83 Linux /dev/hda5 6120 7352 9904041 83 Linux /dev/hda6 5296 5298 24034+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 5299 5385698796b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda8 5386 6119 5895823+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 7353 7476995998+ 82 Linux swap Partition table entries are not in disk order -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recovering /var (package status only)
Karsten M. Self wrote:
Here is a good article about recovering a Debian system without having a
backup of /var/lib/dpkg...
http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0113.petreley.html
Funny, I walked someone through that on irc.debian.org:#debian last
week. This can be somewhat simplified from Nick's procedure. Rather
than manually re-selecting packages in dselect, you would take advantage
of the fact that Debian policy requires all packages to create an entry
in /usr/share/doc, with the name of the package.
# Generate list of installed packages to Re-register previously
# installed packages as installed, using /usr/share/doc as a
# fallback package registry.
dpkg --get-selections $(
ls /usr/share/doc | grep -v [A-Z] | awk '{print $1 install}'
)
Don't you mean 'dpkg --set-selections ...'?
Question about false positives(/usr/share/doc/ directories that don't
correspond to a package): Are they a bug or is there nothing wrong with
them? On my system I have the following false positives:
debian-reference-en, debian-reference-common: /usr/share/doc/Debian
doc-linux-text: /usr/share/doc/FAQ
doc-linux-text: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO
doc-debian: /usr/share/doc/debian
libecasound7: /usr/share/doc/ecasound
emu-tools: /usr/share/doc/emu-tools-0.9.4
kpilot, kdebase-doc, korganizer, kdelibs3: /usr/share/doc/kde
kdebase-doc: /usr/share/doc/kdebase
e2fsprogs: /usr/share/doc/libcomerr2
e2fsprogs: /usr/share/doc/libss2
svgalibg1: /usr/share/doc/svgalib
tetex-base, tetex-doc: /usr/share/doc/texmf
libxine-dev: /usr/share/doc/xine
The only one that would cause 'problems' would be 'kde' which would
cause a lot of new stuff to be installed, but no real harm would be done
especially since I couldn't find any false negatives. The first four
and kde and kdebase and texmf appear intentional, but the others seem to
be cruft left over from when packages changed names. Should they have
been removed by package scripts at some point or were they left there on
purpose?
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Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?
nate wrote: Ross Boylan said: I am looking for a way to get hardware accelerated 3d performance out of my video card. For reasons detailed below, this seems to come down to the need to start X in a lower resolution and depth than I customarily use. I am looking for a good way to do that, or the encouraging news that some other approach is possible. put the mode you wish to use on startup as the first mode. e.g. for my system I use 1600x1200 as my primary modeline, and my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 has: Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device Nvidia Geforce3 Monitor Viewsonic PF790 DefaultDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1024x768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 EndSubsection EndSection you should be able to start multiple X servers by doing something like this on the command line startx -- :1 though, last time I tried I couldn't figure out a good way to specify a resolution to be used along with color depth on the command line if I wanted it in a different resolution, What I do is just make up a second Section Screen in the same XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I just do: startx -- :1 -screen itsidentifier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.20-k7
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * jrn [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 12:48:34AM]: Hello, I'm currently using Sarge with 2.4.18-k7 kernel for my Athlon XP and the kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7. I've seen that 2.4.20-k7 kernel was available for the testing version but the problem is that there's no kernel-headers-2.4.20-k7 yet but only a package called kernel-headers-2.4.20. Is it okay to install the 2.4.20-k7 kernel-image with the kernel-headers-2.4.20 or should I wait for a kernel-headers-2.4.20-k7 to appear before upgrading? Thanks for your help. Try apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.20-k7 ;) Gruss/Regards, Eduard. pretzalz@Pretzalz:/usr/src$ du -sh /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.19-k7/ 40M /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.19-k7 pretzalz@Pretzalz:/usr/src$ apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.20-k7 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting kernel-build-2.4.20 instead of kernel-headers-2.4.20-k7 The following extra packages will be installed: kernel-build-2.4.20 kernel-headers-2.4.20 The following NEW packages will be installed: kernel-build-2.4.20 kernel-headers-2.4.20 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded. Need to get 5865kB of archives. After unpacking 147MB will be used. So the kernel headers for the 2.4.20 images take up 100MB more space than the kernel headers for 2.4.19? 100MB is not insignificant. It doesn't even make sense, how does 5865kB unpack to 147MB? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to analyze a server crash?
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:01:53AM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: panic. I've had that happen when X crashed, too, and that wasn't really even a driver bug (it was combination of wine and font servers). This one's resolvable if you have the Magic System Request key enabled (not sure if it is by default). It's sysrq-k to kill everything in your current console. If you use gdm or xdm on the console you're killing, then it should restart automatically and give you a new login. If you use kdm and you have Automatically log in after X server crash enabled, then it will automagically restart your session where it was last saved; otherwise it'll behave the same as gdm or xdm. Maybe it is just me[I use the nvidia driver], but this has never worked for me. sysrq-k will successfully kill everything in the current console after an X hang, but then the screen just turns to gibberish and I still can't get control of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Window Manager doesn't start
Colin Watson wrote: To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one point? man startx: [...] Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in .xsession instead; this permits the same X environment to be presented whether startx, xdm, or xinit is used to start the X session. All discussion of the .xinitrc file in the xinit(1) manual page applies equally well to .xsession. Keep in mind that .xinitrc is used only by xinit(1) and completely ignored by xdm(1). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 15:57:04 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: If you want a particular version not to be installed, then give it a Pin lower than 100 and it will never be installed if there is another installable version in your sources. This is what the manual says, but this doesn't work. The relavent part of the man page is: Each package may be pinned to a specific version and each Packages file has a priority for every package inside. The *highest* priority assigned to a package is the one that is used. So if your default rule pins everything in testing to 900 even if you pin a specific version to a low number, low number 900 so 900 is used for the pin-priority for the package/version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what can be done with broken packages
Roland Wegmann wrote: Hi I installed aptitude and therefore find out that I have some broken packages on my debian powerpc box (testing). cpp-2.95, perl, perl-base, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.10 What does a broken package mean? And how can I made a package 'unbroken'? Kind regards, Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] I doubt that they are really 'broken'. Unless you have been playing around with 'dpkg --force-depends', the frontends, eg apt and dselect and aptitude, are well designed to ensure that all the packages never get into a 'broken' state so the current state of your installation is perfectly fine. More likely, aptitude is trying to upgrade/install something that would result in packages becoming 'broken' because it thinks that you would want it to this. Obviously aptitude is delusional since you would never want packages to be broken. You have several options: a) Remove all the 'broken' packages. Since perl and cpp-2.95 are fairly important packages this is probably a bad idea. b) Manually resolve the dependencies. Go into the packages and select the dependencies for install by hitting '+' over them or if this isn't possible hold the packages at a non-broken version by '='ing it. c) If you aren't installing new packages, the easiest solution would probably be to try to make what aptitude wants to do consistent with what apt-get dist-upgrade wants to do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get --print-uris: why filenames sometimes different?
Dan Jacobson wrote:
$ man apt-get
--print-uris Instead of fetching the files to install their
URIs are printed. Each URI will have the path, the
destination file name, ... Note that the file name to
write to will not always match the file name on the
remote site!...
Indeed, why are some of those names different? The difference I found
was that sometimes an [0-9]%3a is inserted:
$ apt-get -qq --print-uris dist-upgrade|sed s=.*/==;s/'//;s/.%3a//|\
awk '$1!=$2{print $1,$2}' #eliminated the differences with
But why the need to be different? I'm following
/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html/ch3.html .
The difference is the epoch. %3a is the escape code for :. When the
upstream versioning becomes screwy for whatever reason, an epoch[a
number followed by a colon] is prepended to the debian version[or the
epoch is bumped up a notch] so that it sorts correctly[newer versions
need to sort before older versions]. It isn't possible to get the uri
to match the filename conservatively cause both % and/or : would
need to be escaped/would be escaped by wget so this is how it was
decided it would be done since it was also decided that the filename
would include the full version.
Also, I don't understand why are you are trying to eliminate the
differences, they are there for a reason[apt will look for the filenames
with the %3a in /var/cache/apt/archives/ not the filenames corresponding
to the uri's.
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Re: make CD of only newest 3 months of sid
Dan Jacobson wrote: F get those packages with wget -i file and put the on a cd or laptop apparently figuring out by hand how much to put on each cd... [PS, what happens one day when debian has one package so big that it wont fit on one cd :-)] I would be surprised if you managed to fill up one CD. A dist-upgrade from testing to unstable for me affects over 600 packages[more than half my system] but only needs 432 MB. This is one of the reasons that net-installs are encouraged over downloading cd images. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt_preferences setting
Tom Allison wrote: I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install. But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing. I originally started with preferences levels of Stable: 600 Testing: 601 but packages like junior-programming are slated for removal. I was running dist-upgrade if it makes a difference. I would like to not remove anything if possible. Is junior-programming being replaced by another package? I know it is just an example, but junior-programming is a metapackage which doesn't actually include anything and is just there to have dependencies like the 'kde' or 'gnome' packages. It's removal is meaningless, and by itself nothing to worry about. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd playback problems and questions
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: I discovered that Xine worked with the Xshm video mode, but it, too, was choppy. I had trouble getting ogle to work in gui mode, so I compiled and installed by hand, and that worked. The video is still choppy, but less so than when I used the debian package (wierd). I've found XV video mode to work best, you might want to try that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdevelop - unmet dependencies
Kevin Coyner wrote: I'm running testing and would like to install kdevelop, but when I run apt-get install kdevelop I get the following: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kdevelop: Depends: kdelibs3 (= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdebase-libs but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Is this truly a broken package, or is there something I need to fix on my end? I.e. install the unstable version of kdelibs3 and kdebase-libs? I'm concerned, however, that if I do this, that other apps will get messed up. Thanks Kevin It doesn't appear broken here. Try doing apt-get install kdelibs3 kdebase-libs to figure out why apt-get doesn't want to install them[the testing versions are fine[kdebase-libs has identical versions in testing and unstable and kdelibs3 is pretty close to identical[1 packaging version]]. The usual reason would be that something would need to be removed, but nothing in debian conflicts with kdelibs3or kdebase-libs... Do you have any non-Debian sources that might be the culprit? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else
Denzil Kelly wrote: I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount shows that the / partition is the one actually decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone know why this might be happening? I have a 2 drives in this box and they are patitioned as indicated below. How are you downloading it? If you left click an iso link in mozilla than mozilla will download it to /tmp and move it to the final location when it is done so that it can start downloading before you select the destination. You need to right click and save target as if you want to download directly to the destination. Other programs may do something similar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burning divx to play on dvd player
John Griffiths wrote: hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that i'd like to play on a dvd player. my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a windows cd bruner and figure it shouldn't me too hard. does anyone know if i can just make an iso of the file and burn it down as usual? or is there mroe magic required? TIA, John, Convert the divx to an mpeg with mencoder[get it at http://marillat.free.fr/] and then use vcdtools or vcdimager to create a bin image which you can burn to a cd using cdrdao. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lm-sensors
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 19:58, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Most people lose on step two, it appears. If you built modules using 'make-kpkg modules-image', did you install the resulting package? If you're using sid, 'sudo debian/rules modules-nokpkg' should Just Work if you're allergic to kernel-package. make-kpkg modules_image. The Kernel was built also with make-kpkg. Uh-oh, you're saying that if I've got any modules, then I have to run make-kpkg modules_image ...? Uhm, all I know about kernel-compilation on Debian, I've got from the installation guide, where make-kpkg modules_image is only used if you need PCMCIA, I don't so I skipped that section... I guess there may be a reason why I can't get power-off do work correctly, if this is the case... :-) Anywhere this is described in more detail? Yours Confusedly, Kjetil If you've got any modules in /usr/src/modules than you need to do make-kpkg modules_image. If you only have the modules including in the kernel tree than you don't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default fonts for applications?
Lloyd Zusman wrote: Perhaps I didn't make my original question clear. Many X apps, including mozilla (which is NOT a gtk app) Mozilla has its own widget layer[xul] to allow for easy cross-platform development, but the xul widgets themselves are implemented with gtk for the default X builds[there used to be a qt and a lower level X implementation, but I am not sure if they are still functional] so at its core mozilla is a gtk app. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: imap with fetchmail-ssl?
Nori Heikkinen wrote: all of a sudden i need to be using secure fetchmail, which i should have been to begin with, but didn't really realize i wasn't. i apt-got fetchmail-ssl, and changed the POP3 line to IMAP in my .fetchmailrc but can't retrieve mail from my server at all. any tips or places on where the FM is to R? thanks, /nori Whether or not you use secure fetchmail is independent of whether you use IMAP or POP3... I use secure POP3 with fetchmail which I set up with fetchmailconf, and my stanza is: poll techhouse.org with proto POP3 user 'pretzalz' there with password '***' is 'pretzalz' here ssl Maybe you just need to add the ssl at the end? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie trying to install mod_ssl
Jokke Heikkilä wrote: lainaus kuka=Nathan E Norman Or, just 'apt-get install libapache-mod-ssl' ... mod_ssl will be added to your Apache config and you will be able to tweak it to your heart's content. This would be ideal, but I can't find mod_ssl package under dselect and 'apt-get install libapache-mod-ssl' produces this: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package libapache-mod-ssl has no available version, but exists in the database.This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package libapache-mod-ssl has no installation candidate Should I add some other source for apt-get? Yes, non-US[ie deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian
Jon wrote: Hi Andy. On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:17, Andy wrote: Kind of a newbie question here. I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest version. 4 questions please: The version of Mozilla in stable and testing is 1.0.0, but in unstable (sid) it's 1.2.1. You should get the package from there if you want to try it out. See here (section 3.8) for details on how to get a package from a different release (it's easy!): http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html Actually, that may not be the best idea as the version in unstable probably depends on libc6 2.3.1 which is having issues right now and could possibly break your system(then again it may work perfectly...). As for when a stable version will be available, it will as others have said never be in Woody, but Adrian Bunk backports packages including mozilla to Woody at http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/. Though he only has 1.1 right now, it is possible that in the next couple weeks he will update to 1.2.1 though I am only guessing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian
Andy wrote: Kind of a newbie question here. I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest version. 4 questions please: Should I just download and compile Mozilla 1.2 on my own? I would like to stick with the Debian way but I have no choice here since I need 1.2 What are the implications of doing my own install? If something is wrong with the newest mozilla how do I go back to the original debian Mozilla 1.0.0 package? How long will it take for Mozilla 1.2 to become a stable debian package so one can use apt-get? Thanks, Andy My personal recommendation would be to just download the tarball directly from mozilla.org, untar it in your home directory[check where it untars to with tar tzf first, it may want to untar to bin in which case you may want to untar it in ~/mozilla or something], and then run the included mozilla script directly with an alias or symlink from ~/bin if you include that in your path. Installing xpi's into a package-managed mozilla can be tricky anyway so you will be killing two birds with one stone. If you want to go back to 1.0.0 all you have to do is delete the directory you created and/or reverse whatever you did to call the mozilla script by default since with this method you never actually uninstalled 1.0.0. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian
Andy wrote: Your recommendation seemed to be the safest and easiest so I tried it and got the following error as I was not doing any symlinking and just running from within the directory: steelhead:/home/andy/mozilla# ./mozilla ./mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Do I need to install a shared library? Wierd, I guess so, the library you need is probably libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 which is in woody. Now usually one has to do the ./configure, make, make install routine for compiling new programs. Why don't you have to do that with Mozilla? Because you're not compiling it, you are just running the binary which is fairly self-contained. If you want to compile it just follow everyone else's suggestion. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla spell checker
Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:41:53PM +0100, Olivier Esser wrote: ** nsNativeComponentLoader: SelfRegisterDll(/usr/lib/mozilla/components/libspellchecker.so) Load FAILED with error: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ** See the filename search engine on packages.debian.org. Cheers, Out of curiosity(cause I use mozilla's spellchecker), I determined that the package in question is libstdc++2.10, and from further curiosity I checked to see if it was installed: pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ apt-cache policy libstdc++2.10 libstdc++2.10: Installed: 1:2.95.2-14 Candidate: 1:2.95.2-14 Version Table: *** 1:2.95.2-14 0 700 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:2.95.2-13 0 70 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages And now the reason for my post. What could have caused testing to have a newer version of a package than unstable. From my limited understanding this doesn't seem possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla mail reader
Bruce Park wrote: Hello debian users, I am currently using Mozilla 1.0.0 and I noticed a strange effect in the mail reader. The mail reader has fields such as subject, date, etc. In the date field, I get the time when the mail was sent or received instead of the date. Is this field configurable? I already e-mailed the admin and asked. He told me that it was working well for others and himself. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. bp It shows just the time of all mails sent today because it assumes that you know what day it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla mail reader
Bruce Park wrote: From: Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED] It shows just the time of all mails sent today because it assumes that you know what day it is. OK... but wouldn't it make more sense to list the date? I can understand TODAY's things not being dated. With that being said, will the date field change tomorrow? If it didn't, you'd have no way of when the mail was received. Yes the date field will change tomorrow to some format determined by your locale which includes the date. Whenever I 'find' a 'bug' like this, I think to myself, Would the programmers really have made this big of an error and not noticed it? The answer is usually no and I figure out my misunderstanding or what I am doing wrong/unusual. Especially in this instance where Netscape uses the Mozilla code base for its mail client and has been in this business for a while. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What satisfies this dependancy?
Phil Edwards wrote: Here's a simple question, I'm sure: We all know how packages can provide meta-virtual-package-dependancy thingies, e.g., the mailx package requires a mail-transport-agent package, and a bunch of packages all provide mail-transport-agent, so take your pick. How do I discover what installed package is currently providing/satisfying one of those kinds of dependancies? Continuing the above example, how do I find out which of the many possible packages is providing mail-transport-agent on an installed system? (The actual problems at hand are with libraries, but the solution should be the same, or similar enough.) Thanks, Phil Install grep-dctrl and then you can use grep-available -F Provides -s Package mail-transport-agent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla profiles....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With woody I use mozilla as my pet browser with two alternative profiles under the same user: One, for PPP internet dialup connections; the other one for network connections at office via eth0 and a proxy. Now it happens that when I start the first profile (PPP) the Java support works fine whilst starting the other profile when connected to the network Java support doesn't work. How's that possible and how can I deal with it? Thanks Vittorio Preferences-Advanced, make sure that Enable Java is checked is the only thing that I can think of. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package conflicts
Kovacs Istvan wrote: Hi, I would like to install the Zorp firewall (http://www.balabit.hu/en/news/) on Woody. The packages provided by the manufacturer require libglib1.3 and python-base, which are not available on woody. Instead of libglib1.3, we have libglib2.0-data (replacing libglib1.3) and python1.5 or python replacing pyhon-base. I tried to create a package using equivs that requires the packages python and libglib2.0-data and provides python-base and libglib1.3. However, I'm not able to install that package, as it requires python and provides python-base, and python conflicts with python-base. I have never used equivs before, I just read about it as a way to resolve dependency problems. I gave it a try, but I see that the reported conflict is reasonable. Previously, I installed Zorp using dpkg --force-depends, but that resulted in apt complaints whenever I tried to use apt-get, so I had to uninstall it. Please let me know what the cleanest way to resolve the dependency problem is. Of course I could build Zorp from source, but it would be nice to take a more Debian road :-) TIA, Kofa unar the deb[ar xvf zope.deb], untar the control.tar.gz, edit the control file removing the depends line(or /fix/), re-tar/gzip the control tar, re-ar the deb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A winmodem problem
Barry Cugley wrote: Hello I hope someone here can help me. The system is Debian version 3 and kernel 2.4.18 The modem is described as: LM (AusTel: 018-05600618) L56DM+S InModem IN5699 (OEM pack), Model IN5692, Lucent 1646T00/1034AH-J (Mars-2) chipset, Requires Lucent Linmodem driver Yes No PCI Warwick Rendell, Rick Harris The computer is a 200Mhz Pentium II (a 586 chip). From the Linux Drivers for Lucent/Agere Winmodems - download page (www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/) I have found two drivers, either of which might be the one I need. These are named: ltmodem-2.4.18-386 8.00a3 i386.deb and ltmodem-2.4.18-586tsc 8.00a3 i386.deb I have no experience in setting up any modem with Linux and the data above means very little to me. Questions are: 1. which driver should I try? and 2. how do I remove a package if I install the wrong one? Regards Barry If you are using a stock debian kernel, you want the one that is ltmodem-`uname -r` 8.00a3 i386.deb.[but this is the directions on the page so I don't understand where you are going wrong] If you have compiled your own kernel, then you need to compile the ltmodem driver yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help configuring old mozilla compile
Oki DZ wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:24:11AM +, Pigeon wrote: But I've got this infuriating circular problem. It wants to link with the libraries libjs.a and libjsj.a. What source package are these provided by? Mozilla. Can I figure out how to get it to build them before it wants to link with them? No. The docs that came with the package? It's more or less a case of 'what docs?' Looks like a lot of questions to me... What about setting your sources.list into unstable, and then apt-getting the mozilla-snapshot? I've been using it for a while; I don't think that I have encountered the problems you had. Oki I am guessing, but since libjs.a and libjsj.a aren't in the current compiled mozilla tree[there is libjsj.so, but nothing ~close~ to libjs.a], I think he is trying to compile the slink version of mozilla, a snapshot from 10/1998. This is pretty much guaranteed to be a piece of crap no matter how you compile it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins
Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:23:02PM +, Tom Badran wrote: Flash and realplayer are already in debian, and you can get java debs from blackdown. My understanding is that realplayer may be removed from future Debians if the zlib dependancy isn't fixed. But that's why there's mplayer. But of course mplayer isn't in Debian currently either so I don't see how you can point to that as a solution... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cfdisk revisited
Bruce Park wrote: Hello all, First, thanks for all those to that replied with the original question. OK, I have more question regarding cfdisk. I've successfully created the boot, swap, and root partition. Here are some questions that still linger in my head. 1. Should I make the /boot bootable? I'm dual booting with Windows2000 and the bootable flag is defaulted to /dev/hda1(w2k). I've been using redhat linux before with grub. Still it seems like I should make /boot bootable. Should I? Also, what file system type should this be? It is defaulted at ext3 I have never been able to figure out what the point of the bootable flag is. I still have my w2k partition as the only partition set to bootable, but I have lilo installed in the mbr and booting linux by default so I don't think it matters. 2. The size of /boot is another question. From the previous installation of linux. it is at 49MB. I've read that this should be 10MB. I plan to install grub later when the installation is over. Which size is more desiarable? 10MB seems a little small. I currently have 5 kernels in my /boot directory/partition taking up 16MB. I don't have a good reason for two of them being there and if I got rid of them I could get just under 10MB, but it seems easier to just have a larger partition since it doesn't really hurt anything. Also, the default debian kernels use an initrd.img which takes up a good amount of room. It is possible that the source recommending 10MB didn't use initrd.img's and consequently didn't take this into account. My boot partition is about 22MB, but that was almost an arbitrary number(it is the size of 3 cylinders[there is one cylinder between the start and end point]). The real question is whether another partition having an extra 30 MB would make a difference. If you have a 40GB or up hard drive[or even 20GB and up], the answer is probably no, and the path of least resistance would be to stick with the size you have. I have also since discovered that there isn't a whole lot of point to having a separate /boot partition, but it doesn't hurt. 3. File system type for the root paritition; I would like to use ext3 but I cannot find the corresponding number for it. Does woody support ext3? I'm thinking the only thing that I can use it 83 which is just Liunx. 83 is the number of all my ext3 partitions. Since cleanly unmounted ext3 partitions can be mounted ext2, it makes sense that the two file systems would have the same id. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt after installation
Bruce Park wrote: The first thing I thought was that maybe the package name was wrong. Is there a simple way to view all the packages say via a file? If there were such a file, then I could pipe the result to grep and get the package name rather easily. There is apt-cache which is included with apt[man apt-cache], and you can also check out the grep-dctrl package which does exactly what you are looking for in a much more refined way. For instance, in this case you could do 'grep-available -F Provides emacs -s Package' to find all packages that claim to provide emacs functionality in which case you would get lucky since the actual provides is emacsen. :) The file that grep-available uses is /var/lib/dpkg/available, you could probably grep it directly, but that probably wouldn't be as easy as using the tools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: you can add deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main to /etc/apt/sources.list and do # apt-get install mplayer I've never gotten this to work.. In my sources I have: deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main You can't reliably just make up a distribution, especially not for non-Debian sources. Try either 'stable' or 'unstable' instead of 'testing'. He appears to have fixed it now, but not that long ago, Christian had on his website that 'deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main' was the correct source.list line if you wanted testing packages even though their were no packages in that archive[or at least from what I could determine the only thing in the archive was w32codecs] so the poster wasn't necessarily just making up a distribution. Though as I said, the website no longer claims that a testing archive exists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins
Leo Spalteholz wrote: hmm.. dumb question perhaps but how do you get mplayer to display a GUI? Its working from the console and I did install some skins. leo edit /etc/mplayer.conf so that it contains gui=yes[and get rid of gui=no if it exists] or add gui=yes to ~/.mplayer/config in which case it doesn't matter what is in the /etc/mplayer.conf... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binary files
Robert L. Harris wrote: .bin? Isn't that a mac format generally? what does file whatever.bin say? Thus spake David and Dana Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I know now how to install a whatever.tar.gz file but how do I install a whatever.bin file? Sun distributes their java installer as a .bin. If it is like that, it is self-installing, just make it executable and run the file(ie. chmod a+x whatever.bin ./whatever.bin) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: load module on boot
Ernesto Marquina wrote: Hi there, debian newbie here, I just configured my nvidia geforce2 go to work on my laptop (debian woody), I had to download and compile the nvidia drivers, and now it works fine. But in order to load the new driver I always have to load the module called NVdriver first by doing modprobe NVdriver How can I tell debian to always load it at startup?, and not having to type that command every time I log in? Thank you Ernesto What exactly have you done to come to the conclusion that this is necessary? Do you have the driver set to nvidia in the Device section of your XF86Config-4? I just tested this by logging out of X, stopping gdm, rmmod-ing NVdriver, and then startx-ing by a normal user and X didn't have any problems inserting the driver on its own and starting up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-sources and apt-preferences
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:48:53AM +0100, fLokNo wrote: is somebody willing to post his/her two files (see in subject) with sources for cool packages and stuff? :) Sure, my sources.list is fairly complete for those using sid. It's based on the Hyper-Ultimate Mega Sources.List Deluxe, though it hasn't been updated recently. About the most maintenance I've done is comment out things I won't ever use, and comment out sites as they die. I can't seem to wake up the originator of it, and at some point I might take it over and package it... Just out of curiosity, how many megs is your apt-get update? I'd try it myself, but my much shorter sources.list already takes 20 minutes to update over my modem... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?
Wathen, Metherion wrote: well here's the weird thing, if i look at the files on my windows pc using filemanager the filenames are long, if i use mc on my debian machine the filenames are shortened with a tilde filling in the missing parts. so what ive been doing is umounting the cd, putting it in the windows box, writing the name on piece of paper, go back to the linux box, dpkg -i type in the long filename. its been an experience :) mw. Why can't you do 'dpkg -i first seven letterstab'? Or even just 'dpkg -i *.deb' if you are installing everything in the directory anyway. dpkg doesn't really care about filenames and doesn't use them for anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stripping EOL feeds...
will trillich wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:04:48AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need quicker... vim is really powerful once you get into the macro language (there's probably a way to program a prime number generator in there somewhere) but for the standard user interaction it's a LINE-ORIENTED beast. you can split a line here to make two lines, you can join two lines together to make one big one -- but for the most part you can't massage text across lines. vim is great, but it has its stumbling blocks... How to do this in vim: G remember what line number is the last line, call it N gg number N J In general, you can put a large number before most commands to do the command that many times...[For this command vim doesn't like it if you try to join more lines than exist] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where do I find the kernel headers? *solved*
Andy wrote: All I ended up needing was the kernel-headers package. That did the trick. Can you, or someone, tell me more about this? I am confused as hell right now. I am trying to get my Lucent Winmodem on my Thinkpad A21e working. In order to build the drivers I need kernel-headers. My kernel is Linux debian 2.4.19 i686 unknown and I compiled the kernel not to long ago using the Debian way. Now I try to do this: apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.19 but get this: E: Couldn't find package kernel-headers-2.4.19 What am I doing wrong? Where are my headers? As long as you haven't munged your source tree since compiling the kernel, you can ln -s the kernel source directory to /usr/src/linux and use that as your headers. Alternatively, you can make your kernel-headers package when you compile the kernel with 'fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_headers rest of command you normally use'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel panic booting woody 2.4.18 root=301
Tom Schutter wrote: I am having trouble setting up Debian woody on a IOpener. I am setting up the IDE drive on another machine, and then hooking it up to the IOpener and attempting to boot. When I attempt to boot with the drive in the IOpener, I get: VFS: Cannot open root device 301 or 03:01 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 I have tried to add root=/dev/hda1 to the boot prompt with no success. I can boot fine to the drive when it is hooked up to my desktop machine. uname -a gives: Linux newman 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown lilo.conf looks like this (with comments removed): lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map delay=20 prompt vga=ask default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only fdisk -l gives: Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 484 1951456+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 485 525165312 82 Linux swap lilo -q -v gives: LILO version 22.2, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 John Coffman Released 05-Feb-2002 and compiled at 20:57:26 on Apr 13 2002. MAX_IMAGES = 27 Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Global settings: Delay before booting: 2.0 seconds No command-line timeout Always enter boot prompt Boot-time BIOS data saved Non-RAID installation Serial line access is disabled No message for boot prompt No default boot command line Images: Linux * No password Boot command-line won't be locked No single-key activation VGA mode: ASK Kernel is loaded high, at 0x0010 No initial RAM disk No fallback Options: ro root=301 Interesting, there is where the root=301 comes from. But why is it there? What should I specify in lilo.conf? You need a line: initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.19-bf2.4 in the image section of your lilo.conf[assuming initrd.img-2.4.19-bf2.4 exists, it should or something very similarly named]. Also, it is my understanding that 2.4.19-bf2.4 is only supposed to be used for installation and you should install a 'real' kernel once you have your system up and running. apt-cache search kernel-image and apt-get install the one that looks appropriate for your system. This is not to say though that this kernel shouldn't work indefinately... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: konqueror(kde2.2)
Andy wrote: On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:59, Robert L. Harris wrote: Did you install kdebase-crypto I think it is? I have the same problem and tried to apt-get kdebase-crypto and kdelibs3-crypto. I get the following pretzalz@Pretzalz:~/src$ apt-cache policy kdelibs3-crypto kdelibs3-crypto: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4:2.2.2-6 Version Table: 4:2.2.2-6 0 700 http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages 70 http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages Do you have non-us in your sources.list? Though come to think of it, why is it still in non-us? mozilla-psm isn't... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
