Re: Lynx and patches

Scott wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:07:33PM -0500, rblythe wrote: Whenever I use Lynx to download a patch, I do the following: 1) select the patch 2) right arrow - (this will show the patch in text format) 3) press p (for print) 4) select save to a local file 5) at the bottom

Re: Lynx and patches

wrong back then, but I was also getting 'corrupted' files. I hope this helps rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: hal and users mounting sticks

an easy way to find the device from the command line or GUI file manager 4) A device that will auto-unmount once it is not in use or unplugged I hope this helps you get your device working and handled like you want. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http

Re: AutoFS not working (will not create mount points for card reader usb) [SOLVED]

rblythe wrote: I am having some trouble with autofs that isn't making much sense to me. Current Situation: Kernel = 2.6.23.9 LFS Version = SVN-20071223 BLFS Version = SVN-20071217 (not sure how this is earlier than LFS) AutoFS Version = 4.1.4 (this was the version at the time of my build

AutoFS not working (will not create mount points for card reader usb)

provide would be greatly appreciated. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Trouble building OpenOffice-2.3.1 [SUCCESS]

DJ Lucas wrote: ( snipped by rblythe) Is odd. Only thing I can see is that ln uses -s and not -sf, but the link is removed two lines above! :-/ I suspect that the previou build failure was in this directory as well. In OOo build, is the easiest to remove the sub-project delivery

Trouble building OpenOffice-2.3.1

understand why I would get an Operation not permitted error on something that is part of a build procedure. Any and all help on solving this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs

Question about compiling gcc (f77 in particular)

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Re: Question about compiling gcc (f77 in particular)

Randy McMurchy wrote: rblythe wrote: I am going to be installing f77 based on the information from the blfs wiki on compiling gcc-3.4.6 with c and f77 compilers only. My questions are: 1) Is it possible to only install f77 (--enable-languages=f77) ? If I remember correctly

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

/copy-paste-blfs-book-commands.txt (shameless plug, I know ;-)) It might get you started. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: directfb

in your kernel? I am not a BLFS developer, but I have found that giving everyone on the list more information may just get you the answers you need to build successfully. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

Re: read blfs on a lfs system

also wrote the hint. It may help you. Good Luck! rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: domainname - proper for NSS-3.11.3 and for /etc/issue

also was a factor in my success. HTH rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: OpenOffice-2.0.3 configure errors

the optimizations are really necessary. Third, try again following the instructions on optimizations and configuring. Good luck! rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem to configue my dhcpcd.

, then technically eth0 no longer exists and the new name of your interface does. You would then need to change your information accordingly when setting up dhcpcd in BLFS. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe

What happened to my /usr/bin/run-mozilla.sh ?

am baffled (and thankful) that my system just works. Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: What happened to my /usr/bin/run-mozilla.sh ?

Ken Moffat wrote: snip Firefox does it by running the 'firefox' script (resolving the symlinks). You seem to have something missing from your find command, for me it prints out every file on the system followed by an error message for the second parameter. I'd use find / -xdev -name

Re: Starting hplip before CUPS Server? (An update)

DJ Lucas wrote: rblythe wrote: I have managed to install hplip and it's dependencies and I set the printer up with CUPS and printed a test page. Kernel = 2.6.12.5 Build = BLFS-SVN (20060411) when I started CUPS is installed and functioning (used BLFS bootscript) HPLIP-0.9.10 with dependencies

Re: I need some help with Thunderbird please [SOLVED!!]

Randy McMurchy wrote: rblythe wrote these words on 07/02/06 20:49 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: Dedicate some time to *learning*, this is how you will solve your problems. Cool. I will do it. That attitude alone is enough. You will succeed. You will find the issue

Re: I need some help with Thunderbird please

Dan Nicholson wrote: On 7/2/06, rblythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I googled around a bit and found where someone had posted that doing this kind of thing as a root user will make the Thunderbird package from the system I attempted this on (not BLFS specific, just in general) would be inoperable

Re: I need some help with Thunderbird please

Dan Nicholson wrote: On 7/2/06, rblythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try this, I get a message when I restart Thunderbird that says an instance of Thunderbird is already running and that I should close that one and try again. I then completely reboot the system and try again but I get

MPlayer woes

above. Is it possible that these conflict in some way? All help here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

I am confused about udev, xmms, and playing cd's

other media players yet. How do I tell XMMS that /dev/cdrom-hdc actually contains the playlist (audio cd)? What do I need to fix in my udev rules to get this working correctly? I am stumped on this one. Thanks for the help. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support

ALSA - can only use as root - How do I fix this?

command safe to do? Will it allow me to use ALSA as a normal user? Is there another method to get the same results? Thanks for the help rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Trouble with Hplip

# this makes cups aware of hplip Printing an scanning then function as normal. Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Lost mouse after kernel re-build -- Not sure what I did wrong

Andrey Voropaev wrote: snipped by rblythe Looks like you are getting wrong driver for your mouse. Which device uses GPM to read mouse events? /dev/input/mice? or /dev/input/event0 ? What type of device GPM expects it to be (this should be in /etc/sysconfig/mouse I believe) I think using

Lost mouse after kernel re-build -- Not sure what I did wrong

here could help me out, I would appreciate it. Thanks, rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Starting hplip before CUPS Server?

but now that it is on the system I'll work with it. Thanks again, rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Starting hplip before CUPS Server?

many of them appear more than once and I just want to make sure of doing this correctly. Also, if I have and S for start to I also need a corresponding K for kill (stop)? Thanks, rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs

Re: Postfix, Thunderbird and separate shared e-mail partition

Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:42:10PM -0400, rblythe wrote: Anyway, I have not installed these two packages yet (working my way up to it), but I want to know if installing Postfix may wreck my current e-mail set-up. Undoubtedly it _may_ wreck your current mail setup

Postfix, Thunderbird and separate shared e-mail partition

, but this is completely new and unknown territory for me. I will also make a back-up of my current e-mail file(s) in case I botch the whole thing. Any insights you may have will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http

Questions about openLDAP Cyrus-SASL

anything else. Could someone give me a couple of examples of what a user like myself could use these packages for? Please also keep in mind that I don't think learning about these packages is a waste of time, I am just looking for some direction. Thanks, rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: Problem with tests in NSS-3.11

Dan Nicholson wrote: snip as a valid address. Although, I'm confused about how a domain name is registered on a LAN. I think that's configured in the DHCP server (the router). If you have net-tools installed, what is the output of `dnsdomainname'? -- Dan Dan, Yes I am behind a router.

Re: Problem with tests in NSS-3.11

rblythe wrote: rblythe wrote: I am trying to build NSS-3.11. The patch, configure, and make portions of the instruction work fine. When I attempt to perform the test (as unpriviledged user), I have had mixed results. When I have DOMSUF=blytheworks.com, I get 346 not 770. I removed

Re: Problem with tests in NSS-3.11

Dan Nicholson wrote: On 6/3/06, rblythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, could this have something to do with openSSL? It is installed per the BLFS instructions, but the version I installed was openSSL-0.97 (I think it wasi in early April when I installed it) not 0.98a or b. No, NSS

Re: General Topic: Trying to understand the ln (link) syntax

Peter B. Steiger wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 22:57 -0400, rblythe wrote: ln -s -v ../../path/to/target somename or directory Specifically what I don't understand is the ../../ portion. Well, do you understand the use of . and .. as directory names in *nix (and for that matter

General Topic: Trying to understand the ln (link) syntax

../../ which results in two - /my/file/one Can someone please explain what this syntax means. I have seen it in various places in the BLFS book and I just want to understand what this does. Thanks. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http

Re: Is it possible to change the text size in a non-gui environment?

all is well. Thanks again. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Building BLFS-SVN-? (started 20060411) - cannot install expect-5.43.0 - trouble with patch

for it to work properly and I noticed the line breaks were different when I viewed it with vi(m) as opposed to lynx. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. rblythe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

XFree86 - I can't get this to compile either - please help

I tried compiling Xfree86-4.4.0 after I couldn't get Xorg to compile. I downloaded the seven separate files. I checked them (md5sums) and everything looked fine. I completely deleted the old xc and xcbuild stuff generated by my previous failed Xorg attempts. I recreated the

Re: Can't compile X.org - missing float.h

On Saturday 10 September 2005 2:17 am, Peter B. Steiger wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 23:25 -0400, rblythe wrote: error messages I recieved (listed below) are resulting from the missing float.h header file. Oooh, I know that one - because it happened to me. When you built lfs, did you

Can't build/compile Xorg-6.8.2. Need help please

Thanks in advance for the help. Since copying this into my mail, I have found two typos. I will correct those, and try again, but in the meantime, if you can see anything that isn't right please let me know because once I get X, Fluxbox, Firefox, etc. installed and working on this machine, I