Debian LInux

I recently installed Debian Linux on my system and have a few questions about the distribution. When using dselect, do I have to download from the ftp site, packages or are they on the install disks ? The programs that I am interested in are the XFree86, Emacs and Latex including software to acces

socks and maple on debian/2.0.x (2 questions)

I am in the process of switching from "ancient" a.out/Linux 1.2.13 to debian/Linux 2.0.x Two questions (1) I have been using (under license through the university) maple on Linux. maple/xmaple for Linux has been running fine on my old a.out/Linux 1.2.13 distribution.

popclient, procmail, and elm

I seem to be having problems with using popclient, procmail and elm together. I've set up popclient and procmail correctly, filtering messages well. Elm can read folders produced locally by cron, etc.. However, folders created by popclient + procmail cannot be read by elm. I get "folder corrupt," a

Re: Two Packages Missing

On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > > I'm a fan of taper myself. I'll take over maintaining it, ok? Didn't > realize it was orphaned or I would have done that sooner. > Yea, I've been waiting for the 6.7.4 release (it fixes some problems us m68kers have). Thanks, Leland __ Y_ a_ m_ b_ o

Babel 3.6-4 (from ftp.lh.umu.se unstable section)

I've had problems concerning babel 3.6-4. When I try to install it through dselect, I get following problems with it: Setting up babel (3.6-4) ... Building new format(s) with babel support using install-fmt-base(8) Rebuilding `latex' format ... done Rebuilding `tex' format ... kpathsea: Running Ma

Re: Two Packages Missing

On Mon, 2 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Richard> I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that > Richard> includes it? I kind of liked it. > > It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. There have > been new upstream releases. :-) > > As for

latex

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Re: Cross posting per request

Glenn Bily writes: -> 1) Long awaited cleaning out of /usr/lib. In addition, categorizing -> what is left into subdirectories. This has a number of problems, namely: 1) Would require changes to binutils for linux that don't have to happen on other systems. Too much work for too little gain. 2

Re: Two Packages Missing

Richard> I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that Richard> includes it? I kind of liked it. It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. There have been new upstream releases. :-) As for tape backups, we have "tob" which most people who tried it s

Re: Two Packages Missing

On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Hubert Palme wrote: > > > 1. The package "taper" recommends ftape. No such package is available > > in debian. Is it needed? > > Both of these packages are obsolete. The ftape utility was integrated > into the kernel a long time ago. I

Re: Two Packages Missing

On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Hubert Palme wrote: > 1. The package "taper" recommends ftape. No such package is available > in debian. Is it needed? Both of these packages are obsolete. The ftape utility was integrated into the kernel a long time ago. > 2. A lot of packages (e.g. magicfilter) recommend p

xdm (fwd)

Forwarded message: >From mtorr Mon Sep 2 09:20:21 1996 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: mtorr (Miro Torrielli) Subject: xdm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:20:15 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Ty

need libbsd.so.1.0.0

The current implementation of postgres95 for Debian requires libbsd.so.1.0.0, but the libc5 package includes only libbsd.a. (How) can I make libbsd.so.1.0.0 from the .a file? (Sorry to be asking what I imagine is such a naive question.) Thanks in advance, Susan Kleinmann

Two Packages Missing

1. The package "taper" recommends ftape. No such package is available in debian. Is it needed? 2. A lot of packages (e.g. magicfilter) recommend pbmlus which isn't available as a debian package too. Doesn't it make sense to add those two packages to debian? ==

Re: Debian Color-ls Command?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Chris Westwood wrote: > >[SNIP] >> *** Excerpt from .bash_profile *** >> [SNIP SNIP] >Hi. If the above works on your system, then you are running fileutils-3.12 >and my color-ls package which is

help on configuring ether card (fwd)

Hi all I am trying to configure an ethernet card 3Com09 in a linux machine. I already set up the IP adress and so on... during boot I got the following error messages: SIOCSIFADDR: no such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: no such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: no such device route: netmask doesn't match route a

Re: Sendmail and Masquerading

Erik van der Meulen wrote : > And if I send mail from root using elm, the header comes out like: root and/or postmaster are TRUSTED users. So the masquerade doesn't apply to this users, and all users defined in the trusted-user file. In the sendmail.cf : # class L: names that should be delivered

RE: /dev/audio & /dev/dsp Device or resource busy ???

Ian Jackson wrote: > Stoyan Kenderov writes ("/dev/audio & /dev/dsp Device or resource busy ???"): > ... >> The sparing comments in the source point to an IRQ or DMA conflict when one >> gets constant "Device or Resource busy" mesages on each: >> >> cat blabla.au > /dev/audioor >> cat uuhuu.

Sendmail and Masquerading

Dear all, I have noticed a small oddity with my addressing in sendmail. All seemed to work really well with pop clients connecting to my Debian 1.1 box, but if I use elm or plain mail my From: line is not correct. I (think I) have set up sendmail to masquerade as avondel.xs4all.nl. My .mc file loo

Cross posting per request

Folks, These ideas are being posted here from net news per request. Response is desired (even if it's not Debian priority) 1) Long awaited cleaning out of /usr/lib. In addition, categorizing what is left into subdirectories. A reasonable setup would be: /usr/lib/elf -- elf shared libs /usr/li

Re: Gcc won't compile :-)

Hi Marcus -- You asked: > Thanks everybody I didn't have the crt*.o in my lib directory. It should > be in the libc-dev*.deb right? No, it should be in /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib. You can see what directory a file will be installed into by looking at the Contents file associated with the distribution

Make errors

Just a user problem I'm sure but when I go to use the make command I get: make: makeinfo: Command not found make: Error 127 What am I doing wrong? Using gcc-2.7.2 and make-3.74. Thanks James Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Experimental

Is there any way to incorporate the experimental's Packages file into DSelect (preferably through dpkg-ftp)? It keeps looking for experimental/binary-i386/Packages file, and I want it to look for experimetal/Packages file..is there a way? Thanks in advance, Tristan McCann [EMAIL PROTECTE