Re: Archive, out of date web pages, Navigator 3.0, etc
Jeff Blaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 6. Naming packages '-dev' and putting them in the 'stable' area is really confusing. I specifically avoided downloading anything with Nay, nay, '-dev' means a package that has files you need to _compile_ with a certain set of libraries, as opposed to the runtime files. I ran the packaged Mosaic, I needed zlib, libjpeg, libpng, etc. I wanted to build the Mosaic alpha sources, I had to get zlib-dev libjpeg-dev, libpng-dev (well, names approximated). libc5 and the many other runtime packages just have object files; libc5-dev and the rest are where the C header files (among other things) go. It's late and I'm not explaining this well, but you probably knew what I mean immediately. If not, someone else'll do better. Oh, yeah, info-browser is provided by emacs, which you probably already do or don't like, or the lowly 'info', which many admit is not so hot a way to see them, if you don't use emacs or xemacs. Hope this is of some use, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Archive, out of date web pages, Navigator 3.0, etc
2. My X server is not recognizing Backspace in Motif programs such as Netscape Navigator 3.0. I grabbed the XKeysymDB from the Netscape tar.gz file on ftp.netscape.com and diff'd it with the one in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and there appear to be no relevant differences. The problem is Netscape. It does not know where those files are located. If you use the debian Netscape package, this will work okay. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Debian GNU/Linux! Search it at http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/simple -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Archive, out of date web pages, Navigator 3.0, etc
Jeff Blaine writes: - I'm running a fresh copy of Debian 1.1.9 - - So, a few questions and some comments: - - 1. Where is the secret stash of user-packaged packages? I'm looking - for SSH, NcFTP, and a few other things. I've looked in - ftp.debian.org:/debian/contrib/binary, but there are only a - handful of things there. There's a fair amount of stuff in non-free. Non-free doesn't mean you have to pay for it, it just means that there are extra restrictions on it's distribution and/or use, usally of the form Free for non-commercial use. I know ncftp falls in this category. I don't know if a debian version of ssh exists yet... - 2. My X server is not recognizing Backspace in Motif programs such as - Netscape Navigator 3.0. I grabbed the XKeysymDB from the Netscape - tar.gz file on ftp.netscape.com and diff'd it with the one in - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and there appear to be no relevant differences. This is because the default setup makes both the backspace and delete keys do Delete. Use either xmodmap or xkeycaps to change this. I use xmodmap .xmodmap, where .xmodmap contains the line keycode 0x6B = BackSpace This makes the Delete key send a backspace (It's more compatible with my key usage :). Don't know what the keycode is for backspace, offhand. - 3. As user 'jblaine', I was unable to run X due to the X server needing - to put a file in /var/run. I had to chmod u+s my X server for the - time being, which I'm not all too thrilled about. Any advice? How are you starting X? My setup works OK. /usr/bin/X11/X is a suid program which runs the approptriate Xserver. -Larry -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ Hare's Law: Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Archive, out of date web pages, Navigator 3.0, etc
I'm trying to help myself. Really. But, the Debian web pages only list mailing list archives up to June 1996, My scripts that made the archives then were lost in a disk crash; I've recently recreated them, and the FTP archive (/debian/debian-lists) are up to date. As for the webserver, it has very recently moved to a new machine. Right now, there is no /FTP/, no list archives etc. We're working on them. Hopefully, sometime in the not too distant future, www.debian.org will function properly (or even improved). 10. Things seem to have just fallen off the face of the earth after June 1996. What's going on? There are dead links on the arguably most important document on the Debian WWW site: The Installation Instructions. None of the links to the base14*, root.bin, and boot1440.bin disks work. Whoops... the announcement was written when ftp.i-connect.net was more up to date then ftp.debian.org. I've fixed the links in the master copy which is mirrored to www.debian.org. Thanks, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
