Re: Man -K
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
I wonder why debian have man without -K option (searching
through body of manpage, not only title), unlike RH or Suse
This functionality is given by the apropos(1) command. man man still
describes man -k though. I guess this counts as a bug...
P.S. sorry for my poor English
Be glad you don't have to suffer my even less polished Polish... ;-)
Cheers, P. *8^)
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Re: Man -K
On 2 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote: Paul Seelig writes: This functionality is given by the apropos(1) command. man man still describes man -k though. I guess this counts as a bug... Why? 'man -k' works fine. You are right, i had an alias man -P less for man which resulted in a not working man -k. Sorry for the confusion. Cheers, P. *8^)
Re: Image copy of a floppy, how?
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
But is not enough yet, since it is not clear how I put the contents of
the boot floppy into file.
Try to understand this here:
--- snip
#!/bin/sh
# diskcopy
echo diskcopy - physical copy of floppy disks
echo -n Insert source disk and hit ENTER
read eingabe
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/diskcopy_tmp$$
aktiv=1
while [ $aktiv -eq 1 ]; do
echo -n Insert destination disk and hit ENTER
read eingabe
dd if=/tmp/diskcopy_tmp$$ of=/dev/fd0
echo -n Ready. Another duplicate? [y/n]
read eingabe
if [ $eingabe != y ]; then
aktiv=0
fi
done
rm /tmp/diskcopy_tmp$$
--- snip
Cheers, P. *8^)
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Re: wmaker 0.62 deb package?
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Michael Perry wrote:
Anbyody made a deb package for windowmaker 0.62? I noticed its been out
awhile but the www.debian.org stuff does not show it whatsoever.
I've made some unofficial debs of the CVS version as of 2000-05-01. They
are in ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian/unofficial/potato/binary/; and
are based on the debification of the latest official Debian versions. This
is the entry for /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian unofficial/
I've actually made far more recent debs of the CVS tree from this weekend,
but have had no chance so far to transfer them to the above mentioned
site. You might as well want to check out the extensive list of unofficial
apt-sources at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/;.
Maybe someone else has already made available more current WMaker debs.
Cheers, P. *8^)
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Re: Getting debian installed on an off-line machine
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
I'm planning to install debian on my machine at home. Since potato is
not finished yet I thought that I'd install slink (2.1-r4 there are two
iso-images from December 1999 available).
But I need to have an up to date version of at least Ada (gnat),
Gtk+, GtkAda and vim packages and preferably more. So I thought, can I
install slink and then download say the frozen potato distribution and
put it on a couple of CDs and then somehow update all the packages
needed?
Installing anything else than the soon to be released Debian/potato is a
complete waste of time and effort IMHO. Other than not being released as
stable to the public, potato (with a few assorted packages from woody)
has proven to be just stable enough on various installations i did in the
last three months. IMHO it's even already time for potato and a half
instead of only releasing potato... ;-)
If i were you i *definitely* wouldn't bother with slink anymore at all and
go potato right from the start. Especially since you are installing on
your home machine which is offline.
Cheers, P. *8^)
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Re: Where can I download Potato?
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Menno Slaats wrote: Does anyone have the exactly URL of it? ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/;.
Re: Planning Upgrade.
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote:
Is there any way to make apt-get list the URL of the files it would like
to download?
From man apt-get(8):
--print-uris
Instead of fetching the files to install their URIs
are printed. Each URI will have the path, the des
tination file name, the size and the expected md5
hash. Note that the file name to write to will not
always match the file name on the remote site! This
also works with the source command. Configuration
Item: APT::Get::Print-URIs.
Cheers, P. *8^)
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Re: umount - URGENT
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Blazej Sawionek wrote: can not umount my CD-ROM - it is reported as beeing used. (...) I desperatly need this CD out _right_now_ so please if anybody knows the answer - give it ASAP. Try man fuser and learn how to find out which process is still blocking the device. Cheers, P. *8^) -- If not specific to HP please always reply to Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: split archives using tar
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, John Davis wrote: I have a zip disk which I would like to use for archive in Linux. Can I run tar so that it will take a 500 Meg archive and split it into 5 100 Meg tar files? If so, how do I do this? Have you already tried man tar? To write a tar archive over multiple media use tar cMf /dev/your_zipdrive 500Meg.archive Or use split(1) to split an already existing 500 Meg tar archive in parts and cat(1) to join them again later. Needless to say that this is documented in man split. Good luck, P. *8^) -- If not specific to HP please always reply to Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with upgrade error (fwd)
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, dinakar desai wrote: dpkg:error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/inputrc', which is also in package libreadlineg2 Same trouble here. I helped myself with dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb Cheers, P. *8^) -- If not specific to HP please always reply to Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
