Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> and now emacs is telling me that it doesn't recognize a -geom option.
> huh? so how do i get it to place itself automatically?
Are you using -geom or -geometry? I use the latter and it works.
--
Rob
> > [...] but it would be nicer if there was some system that could
> > disable/enable features in packages. [...]
> The latest revision of the python package splits off all the non-core
> features into dynamically loadable modules that are available as
> separate packages.
Well, that sounds a
> I ran into this problem again today; python requires tk40
> and tcl74, which is fine if you want to use tkinter, but
> I don't, at this point. I would try to appease it, but
> unfortunately I only have tk41 and tcl75.
>
> [...] but it would be nicer if there was some system that could
> disable
Paul Kautz:
> Some packages seem to 'require' things they shouldn't need. For
> example, gnuplot can run (believe it or not, I've used this)
> with a terminal of 'dumb,' outputting text graphs etc., but
> needs xlib. I solved this last time by just installing xlib,
> even though I wasn't running
The installation menu provides a prototype network number made from the
logical AND of your IP address and your netmask. If the user types in the
wrong netmask or overrides the prototype network number (which I think is
what happened here), they can get an incorrect value. I'll have to look at
this
> : NETWORK=129.186.31.38
>
> IPADDR as the same as the NETWORK address?? Strange, isn't it?
err, forgot about this in the message i just sent.
On these machines, i found that i had to use their own address as teh
network address, rather than the .0 address; otherwise they wouldn't
talk to anyt
Some packages seem to 'require' things they shouldn't need. For
example, gnuplot can run (believe it or not, I've used this)
with a terminal of 'dumb,' outputting text graphs etc., but
needs xlib. I solved this last time by just installing xlib,
even though I wasn't running X.
I ran into this pr
> The reason the last "route add -net ${NETWORK}" is not working is that it
> is expecting a network address (ending in .0) and it is getting a host
> address instead. In the above example, change the "NETWORK=129.186.31.38"
> line to "NETWORK=129.186.31.0" and things should work. If this is i
> Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
> > .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
>
> Is it's executable bit set? /etc/X11/Xsession checks this to decide
> whether or not to run the u
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> Under the beta releases with 1.3.9x, the following file is created:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add 127.0.0.1
> IPADDR=129.186.31.38
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=129.186.31.38
> BROADCAST=129.186.31.255
> GATEWAY=129.186.31.
Here's part of a msg. I've just sent to debian-bugs:
-
Finally, another weird problem. lpd is complaining about invalid
printer names, but the printcap is correct; also, the behaviour is
somewhat erratic. To debug this I inserted a fprintf in the routine
that gets the hole lines from /etc/
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Sven Rudolph writes:
> > 4. Packages that someone is working on
> >
> > Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian
> > packages, but someone is working on providing a package.
> > [...]
> > o Xemacs
>
> Has been releas
with all of these solutions running around, did we ask if he will still
have a dos partion? if he will, just get the files onto that, mount the
partion, and instaalll . . .
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can point setserial at a particular port, but can't seem to tell it to
> set the stop bits to two.
By the way, having 7 data bits and 2 stop bits should be equivalent to
having 8 data bits without parity generation and 1 stop bit. This is
becaus
A couple of people have given me pointers to some docs for troff/groff, so
let me say thanks to them.
Additionally, check this out:
::
groff.postinst
::
#! /bin/sh
rm -f /usr/bin/geqn /usr/bin/gtbl /usr/bin/gpic
ln -s eqn /usr/bin/geqn
ln -s tbl /usr/bin/gtbl
ln -s pic /us
Rob, I hope you don't mind. I'm forwarding this message to the list as
it seems relevant.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: 12 Jun 1996 13:12:23 -0500
From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: .xinitrc
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL P
Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
> one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
> .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
>
> rick
I ran into this. Reading /etc/X11/Xsession told me enough to
fix it.
Edit /etc/X11/config and add the following lines:
: > o GNAT (GNU Ada Translator)
: I believe this was released the other day, too.
Cool, I didn't even notice that it was on the wanted list when I
uploaded it. (I better put together -2, since -1 is missing a few
files...)
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
> .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
Here's an example of how I sometimes launch xdm:
xdm -config /home/syrus/.fvwmrc -session /home/syrus/.xinitrc
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
> .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
Is it's executable bit set? /etc/X11/Xsession checks this to decide
whether or not to run the user's script.
> > one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
> > .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
>
> Here's an example of how I sometimes launch xdm:
>
> xdm -config /home/syrus/.fvwmrc -session /home/syrus/.xinitrc\
> -resources /home/syrus/
> Andreas Kerzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > "Steve" == Steve Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
Steve> You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This
Steve> requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
Steve> this. If you created a (relatively min
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In a nutshell: this is normal. You don't have a problem.
I'm not sure if this is related, but there was one problem with the
*configuration* of the loopback interface that was fixed in the latest
package.
The original /etc/init.d/network read:
# C
I can't quite get nfs going for some reason. I had it going quickly
under the 1.2 kernel (i have 2 machines sitting here).
I uncommented everything in /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs. I added / to
exports. I added ALL: .iastate.edu to hosts.allow.
ANd the two machines give me different errors . . .
I'm using 0.93R6...
I can't find any docs for groff. No man pages, no texinfo pages, nada.
Sorta frustrating. I checked /var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.list, but no dice.
Just executables and fonts.
Am I doing something wrong? If not, where can I scavenge up some
documentation?
--
"If a man ate a
one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
.xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
rick
From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Is it true that dselect automatically updates to newer versions of
> packages (if a newer version appears in the directory structure and
> you run dselect)? What do you do if you want to reinstall
Hi,
>>"Bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bruce> Kernel-package seems to be in the project/experimental
Bruce> directory of the archive. I don't know why...
It's there because I wasn't sure that the user interface was
stable enough to let it on the wide public just as we
David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This does work. Since I don't know how to find the configuration
> programs for some package, I use dselect to remove the package and
> then to reinstall it. I assume there's a better way, but this does
> work.
There's nothing too terribly wrong with
I have friends visiting for a couple of weeks and I would like to help
them access their e-mail while here. They are accustomed to using
applications such as Eudora or Netscape under Windows to access a POP
server. I can provide them with the opportunity to connect the
Windows machine to a PPP ac
> Fritz Ilg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed
> on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install
> DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail-
> able with this Laptop whi
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it necessary to install lib5-dev in order to compile programs.
Yes
> I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel,
> it comes with its only kernel headers.
Install libc5-dev and read /usr/doc/libc5-dev/FAQ.gz.
> Also, if I in
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone have suggestions on
> a) does this seem like a reasonable approach?
> b) if so, what would be good tools for creating such a POP forwarder?
> I have some experience with sockets under perl if that seemed to be a
> good way or I could treat
OK, i've got it. but i think this means i've found a bug, or at least
something that needs fixing.
Under the beta releases with 1.3.9x, the following file is created:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add 127.0.0.1
IPADDR=129.186.31.38
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=129.186.31.38
BROAD
I have been trying to use dselect 1.2.3 on a partial 1.1beta
distribution tree obtained as an FTP mirror:
dpkg --clear-avail
dpkg-deb -AR binary-i386
[I did not want to point dselect at the packages file of the partial
tree, because that contains also those packages that I do not have.]
Wh
> Are you sure that, when you updated the xbase package you EITHER kept all
> the old config files OR installed all the new ones? A mix will probably
> not work.
hmm. i moved /etc/init.d/xdm to a safe place, rebooted, copied the new
kernel & modules from the other machine, rebooted & made minor
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Zachary DeAquila wrote:
> I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1
> system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to
> the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server?
> whatever) and then... it comes back
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
> I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing
> info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). "route" only shows the
> machine itself.
>
> If i manually add the missing router & gateway, it works fine, but i
> lose this on reboot.
I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel,
it comes with its only kernel headers. Is it necessary to install
lib5-dev in order to compile programs. Also, if I install libc5-dev,
can I still install a newer version of linux kernel whenever it is
available.
libc5-dev: The L
Hello all:
I have been helping out a colleague with a Linux installation on a Cyrix
5x86 system on a combination PCI/VLB motherboard. Everything works fine
except for X. We have tried running the ET4000/W32 server and the SVGA
server as per the README.W32. No Luck! Basically, the symptoms a
Evan Harris writes:
> reference to `_ctype'" messages on the link step, although my "hello,
> world" test program will compile and link (but nothing else will).
Please send the output from 'dpkg -l' and from compiling your program
with 'gcc -v'.
David
--
David EngelOptica
> I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel,
> it comes with its only kernel headers. Is it necessary to install
> lib5-dev in order to compile programs.
Yes. The kernel headers are not enough to compile even a normal "Hello, world!"
program. etc are libc headers, and ar
Sven Rudolph writes:
> 4. Packages that someone is working on
>
> Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian
> packages, but someone is working on providing a package.
> [...]
> o Xemacs
Has been released a while ago.
> o nn (newsreader)
Just released the othe
> > "Steve" == Steve Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Steve> You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This
> Steve> requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
> Steve> this. If you created a (relatively minimal) linux partition on
> Steve> your cdrom mac
Thanks for your reply.
As far as I know, I have the latest packages... I got them from the
mirror a few days ago.
The ones I have installed are:
libc5-5.2.18-6.deb dated May 1
libc5-dev-5.2.18-6.deb dated May 1
gcc-2.7.2-8.deb dated May 2
In fact, I have reinstalled them (and others, "just in
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
> I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing
> info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). "route" only shows the
> machine itself.
>
> If i manually add the missing router & gateway, it works fine, but i
> lose this on reboot.
Hi,
>>"Lawrence" == Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lawrence> I don't know why there is a libc5-dev.
This provides all kinds of libraries in /usr/lib/* and headers
in /usr/include; without which it is impossible to compile any
program.
Lawrence> If I install a new kernel, it
> Anyway, the intranet is a Window NT net and while goofing around I
> discovered that my machine has two IP addresses. One is the one
> assigned, 172.16.18.5 and the other is 127.0.0.1. I think I have gone
> through all the config files in /etc and I can't find out where this
> address is be
use a cable to transfer the files to the laptop from the machine with
the cdrom. Dont forget to use a proper cable setup...
It'll save your ass a ton-o-time. and you wont have to be splitting
files across floppies.
I use xtgold's "xtlink" which works great...
Hello,
I have recently installed the beta version of Debian on a Gateway that is
connected on an intranet at work. (The installation was flawless by the
way.)
I have recompiled the kernel and added all the network support and apache
as I will be running an intranet-based website with teaching
Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
:
: Hi,
: I have just had something strange happening to me. I tried to update some
: packages using dselect with the NFS option. When going into the install option
: I would get an error from find about not being able to find the directory. The
: strange thing thoug
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> I have been helping out a colleague with a Linux installation on a Cyrix
> 5x86 system on a combination PCI/VLB motherboard. Everything works fine
> except for X. We have tried running the ET4000/W32 server and the SVGA
> server as per the README.W
> "Steve" == Steve Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This
Steve> requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
Steve> this. If you created a (relatively minimal) linux partition on
Steve> your cdrom machine, then y
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> I can help with a this one:
Maybe one of these days I'll remember that English is my native language.
> It is left to the system administrator whether to enable color-ls as the
> system-wide default. I just put enable it from my personal .cshrc f
Paul Wade wrote:
:
: Before installing Debian Linux, I was able to log in
: as root over telnet. Now it is refused. I am simply
: using a Windows system as a Linux console over
: ethernet. How do I fix this?
Have a look into /etc/securetty:
# /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which ro
I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1
system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to
the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server?
whatever) and then... it comes back to the xdm prompt. I can log in
fine if I do a ctrl
> On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:36:42 -0400 (EDT), Dale Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
DM> It would appear that the boot disks for debian 1.1 beta don't have
DM> generic ncr-810 SCSI support - the .93 disks did. Are there
DM> alternative boot disks available with this support? I perused t
Zachary DeAquila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1
> system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to
> the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server?
> whatever) and then... it comes back
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
> I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing
> info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). "route" only shows the
> machine itself.
>
> If i manually add the missing router & gateway, it works fine, but i
> lose this on reboot.
Oz Dror wrote:
:
: Hi,
:
: I want to upgrade my debian 1.0 to 1.1.
: I have installed the new dpkg (1.2.3 elf)
: then followed the steps in dselect.
: then dselect failed in the Install step with the following error:
:
: Running dpkg -iGROEB /u2/debian/binary
: find: /u2/debian/binary/admin/tob-
[...]
> Anyway, the intranet is a Window NT net and while goofing around I
> discovered that my machine has two IP addresses. One is the one
> assigned, 172.16.18.5 and the other is 127.0.0.1. I think I have gone
> through all the config files in /etc and I can't find out where this
> address
> > * Is it true that dselect automatically updates to newer versions of
> > packages (if a newer version appears in the directory structure and
> > you run dselect)? What do you do if you want to reinstall the same
> > version of a package - can you do it? (for example you might want to
> > re -
It looks as if you aren't getting the definition of wchar_t.
To kluge around the problem put "typedef unsigned long wchar_t;" before
line 333 in stdio.h . The correct way to fix this is to get the latest
libc and libc-dev packages and install them. If the problem doesn't go
away, tell us.
Derek Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I saw some messages about kernel-package-1.01 in the debian-user list.
> Where is it? I cannot find it in tsx-11.mit.edu or master.debian.org
I think it's in debian/experimental. Don't know why.
--
Rob
I saw some messages about kernel-package-1.01 in the debian-user list.
Where is it? I cannot find it in tsx-11.mit.edu or master.debian.org
Derek
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have recently installed debian (1.1beta) for the first time, my
> previous system being Slackware 3.0. I have had a number of problems
> and would appreciate some help.
I can help with a this one:
> * I've installed color-ls but I still don't get co
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Not sure about all your problems, but...
> * Why do I automatically get an xterm coming up when I start X? It
> didn't happen with Slackware.
This is the default for debian when you don't have your own
~/.xsession. /etc/X11/Xsession is where this happe
OK... I've beat my head on this for long enough, maybe some of you can
help me out.
I upgraded my R6 system to 1.1beta last week, and after a few days (and
nights) of tweaking, I got everything setup to my liking... except
compiling. For some unknown reason, when I try to compile anything, I g
Hi,
I have recently installed debian (1.1beta) for the first time, my
previous system being Slackware 3.0. I have had a number of problems
and would appreciate some help.
* My machine name is "destiny" and when trying to rlogin from destiny
to destiny I get the following problem:
> rlogin desti
Fritz Ilg wrote:
>
> Hi Debian Linux users:
>
> I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed
> on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install
> DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail-
> able with this Laptop w
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