Hi!
This question is to the dpkg team. Is there plans to add a verification
feature to dpkg like the one that is found in RPM? This is very handy,
especially for new users, who might accidentally or incidentally delete
files. If a problem crops up later that seems to involve certain packages,
we
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) writes:
Guy Maor writes:
See the Programmer's Manual, section 8.2.
I don't have anything identifying itself as the Programmer's Manual. Where
is it found?
Look on the Web site, under Documentation. For a direct URL, try
Are you sure gs dumps core or do you merely get regular gs error
messages (which usually almost look like a core dump) ?
I (think I) heard somewhere that problems with gs giving
errors (illegal operations and so forth) are due to a bug in gcc
when gs is compiled with certain optimisations, and
Redhat. So I sought for a way to install RedHat packages under Debian and
debianized the Red Hat Package manager rpm. I was able to install gated
Installing this package means that you have two competing package managers
that know nothing about each other on your system!
Since Redhat now has
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:
Almost every kernel that have looked in (including 2.0.x) looks in
/usr/include.
This is wrong.
Anytime a file needs an include file it it referenced lise this:
#include linux/whatever.h
This is /usr/include/linux/whatever.h. It is
Hi,
I have a problem with X, which I tried to solve on private e-mail exchange.
However, I could not solve the problem so I'm looking for a broader audience;
I will also check the relevant x-news group.
I had X up and running on Debian Linux 1.1.4. The configuration I had was:
- ASUS
I have gotten a bad block on my linux partition, and I need some help
in getting the system back on its feet.
The system is able to boot, but comes up with the root filesystem
(there is only 3 partitions on the system, one DOS, one swap and the
linux root filesystem) as readonly. Perhaps due to
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hello,
I'm looking for a program to translate french texts to english.
does someone know a such free software which could compile
under linux, or at least another way to do such translation (other
OS or web server) ?
Richard.
Thanks to all who responded to my recent posting. And thanks to those who
pointed xring for Internet Callback. It seems this is the thing to use. I
haven't had time to try it out but it looks promising.
Luis.
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Joe Emenaker wrote:
But as it is currently, maintaining a Debian system by using
deselect is a real pain ...
Actually, it's really nice for me. It automatically notes new packages that
have been updated and lets me download and install them with less than 10
or so
Hi,
is there a installer package for
netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
and if yes where can i find it?
--jan
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Jan Camenisch writes:
Hi,
is there a installer package for
netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
and if yes where can i find it?
--jan
oops,
it is in contrib sorry for traffic..
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The debmake package has now added functionality to install Red Hat and
Slackware packages using dpkg and thus entering information about those
packages into the debian packaging system.
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
moffatt Redhat. So I sought for a way to install RedHat packages
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote:
Just to let everyone know, I'm finishing up Debian packages for
hylafax-server and hylafax-client. They should be ready within 7-10
days.
does it work with mgetty?
hylafax and mgetty both have apps
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Randy Gobbel wrote:
Yes, I would say it's a bug in the Debian version of libc 5.4.7. Some
functions have been moved from the C library to the compiler, and
applications compiled with older versions of gcc need help to work with
libc 5.4.7. I stumbled across a fix for the
Randy Gobbel writes:
Yes, I would say it's a bug in the Debian version of libc 5.4.7. Some
functions have been moved from the C library to the compiler, and applications
compiled with older versions of gcc need help to work with libc 5.4.7. I
stumbled across a fix for the problem at
Are you
I'm trying to send faxes via either efax or mgetty's sendfax with no
success.
I started by using efax's efix to generate some group-3 files. Once upon
a time efax would try to send them... now it isn't even able to dial.
You don't need to call efix. The fax script will do it for you.
Try:
I have found three things broken using libc5.4.7 (before
I downgraded to 5.2.x!):
gimp: dies in attempting to call xlib.
xpaint: dies in attempting to call xlib.
octave: core dumps with a segmentation fault on
invocation.
Tristan McCann writes:
I was just wondering if this was acceptable:
binaries created with Libc5.4.7 are not compatable with libc5.2.18
I was wondering if it was acceptable if I make debian packages to put in the
re=
quires box
that it requires libc5.4.7 in the unstable section.
This is
Paul Barrett writes:
I'm trying to build Python 1.4 on my Debian box to test the alpha
release of the Numerical module. The 'configure' script fails when I
include the option '--with-readline' because it cannot find the
termcap library. Is this library included in the 'libreadline'
library?
how do I configure the system so that it can do dial up networking? When
I installed debian linux onto my 486, it did not recognize my modem and
other devices like my cdrom and sound blaster compatible sound card.
- -\|/ ||=
|-| |-|
Johannes Plass:
and xdvi (why actually does xdvi depend on ghostscript ?)
Xdvi can show Postscript graphics included in a TeX document. It
needs ghostscript to do so. Recommends: ghostscript might
be too strong for xdvi; Suggests: ghostscript would be much
better, since xdvi works well
Christian Lynbech:
- How do I get rid of the bad block?
There are some instructions in the Linux System Administrators' Guide,
version 0.4, available at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/sag/. Sorry
I can't quote it at the moment; I had to clean out all unnecessary
cruft to be able to make a backup (I
I know I have adduser
I haven't seen useradd for at least a year. I think that useradd was
phased out. The release that I last remember seeing it on was a 1.2.9
useradd along with usermod, userdel, groupadd, groupmod, and groupdel were
all incorporated into the shadow password utility
Hello,
I have recently installed Debian onto our department's new server and we
would like to install Debian onto the another server purchased by our
department.
The problem here is that the server has a SCSI hard drive and an IDE CDROM
(creative labs 6x). I am using special kernel 6 boot disk
I run a relatively busy Majordomo mailing list over a slow UUCP dialup link
(using Sendmail). I have always assumed that when sendmail sends a mail to
more than one address, it ques two files: the envelope containing the
recipients, and the message contents itself. The smarthost would take those
In your email to me, Chris Huddleston, you wrote:
Hello,
I have recently installed Debian onto our department's new server and we
would like to install Debian onto the another server purchased by our
department.
The problem here is that the server has a SCSI hard drive and an IDE CDROM
Are you sure gs dumps core or do you merely get regular gs error
messages (which usually almost look like a core dump) ?
I (think I) heard somewhere that problems with gs giving
errors (illegal operations and so forth) are due to a bug in gcc
when gs is compiled with certain
I got the same thing when trying to install from the iConnect CD mastered
on Oct 3. So much for dselect. I couldn't get by it and had to
use dpkg to install.
Not a good sign.
Jim.
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Trying to use install via deselect in Debian-1.1.12 fails
There recently has been a flurry of messages on netscape
problems with debian. Much of it was contradictory.
Becoming concerned, I tried installing netscape 3.0 and
3.01b1 with libc5 5.2.18 and received Bus error when
trying to run. This was with both a hand installation and
the debian package
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, James W. Lynch wrote:
Trying to use install via deselect in Debian-1.1.12 fails
with the error message
Running dpkg -iGROEB /mnt/debian/stable/binary-i386
find: /mnt/debian/stable/binary-i386/base/modules_2.0.0-11.deb:
No such file or directory
dpkg:
Hi Debian Users:
Is there any document on which package should be installed first?
I just got a development CD from I-connect and I seemed to have
a hard time to install the packages from the CDROM. There seemed to
be packages to have conflict with each other.
Also, when the Linux
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
There recently has been a flurry of messages on netscape
problems with debian. Much of it was contradictory.
Becoming concerned, I tried installing netscape 3.0 and
3.01b1 with libc5 5.2.18 and received Bus error when
trying to run. This
First of all, my debian machines are running terrifically well, so thanks to
all who have labored long and hard to produce such a quality product!!
I am helping my local school district in Maine establish networks and servers.
We are farthest along at the high school with about a 120 node
From: Johannes Plass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Annoying package dependence concept
Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes it does. You can hit Q to force dselect to accept things as you
have chosen.
Pressing Q causes dselect to momentarily forget about dependency
conflicts.
Before we decide to either standardize on some particular package or roll
our own package, please PLEASE PLEASE look at Netinfo.
Netinfo is amazing. I commonly work with a WAN that includes machines [all
running Netinfo] in 10 cities with a four level Netinfo hierarchy. I can
configure
There recently has been a flurry of messages on netscape
problems with debian. Much of it was contradictory.
Becoming concerned, I tried installing netscape 3.0 and
3.01b1 with libc5 5.2.18 and received Bus error when
trying to run. This was with both a hand installation and
the debian
Does anyone have multi-cast working under Debian linux? I tried building a
kernel with multicast enabled [including tunneling/routing] but subsequent
rebooting of the machine rendered the ethernet interface completely
inoperative.
I'm using an Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 card... but could
From: Daniel Miin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dial up networking
how do I configure the system so that it can do dial up networking? When
I installed debian linux onto my 486, it did not recognize my modem
Do you want to dial-up *from* your Linux box to an ISP, or do you want to
allow
My missfont.log-file contained the following lines:
MakeTeXPK cmbx12 1244 600 magstep\(4.0\) ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmbxti10 1493 600 magstep\(5.0\) ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmbx12 720 600 magstep\(1.0\) ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmsy10 600 600 1+0/600 ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmbx10 600 600 1+0/600 ljet4
MakeTeXPK cmr10 600 600
Bruce Perens wrote:
From: Christian Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is in regards to the discussion concerning 'fatal signal 11'
under GCC 2.7.2 on my machine.
Resetting the CPU type from 120Mhz to 100Mhz resolved the problem. I'm
not exactly sure why, but it worked.
Interesting. Did
Brian Skreeg Brian Skreeg wrote:
Hi Brian,
Hi clever peeps.
I'm quite new to debian and linux in general but have been doing
exectionally well for a first timer. Even managed to get X installed and
recompile and install a kernel with sound support. :) Clever eh?
Bill Vinson wrote:
First of all please let me thank all of you who responded to my newbie
questions...I really appreciate all of the help and I hope I am not hogging
the lists time...
I have installed minicom, ppp, cpp, etc. according to the dependencies
Debian told me about...
The PPP
Tim Sailer wrote:
In your email to me, Bill Vinson, you wrote:
I just decided to reinstall so I would have the chance to install modules
to work with the SN2000CT ethernet card. It says it is 100% NE2000
Ethernet compatible and when I opted to install the NE2000 module I got the
Does dircolors or the new ls --color=auto not support
the 'ORPHAN' or 'MISSING' tags, relative to symlinks? A fellow
linuxer pointed out that I was still using the old color-ls in
my /usr/local/bin and when I switched over, all my symlinks were
the wrong color. They actually ended up
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could help me to get LyX to print. The
program seems to work just fine otherwise, but when I try to print
(printing to printer lp) I get an error that says no configuration
file found for printer lp. I'm sure I just need to find out what I
need to put
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Obviously we need more 'oomph' in the server(s). The questions are simply:
. One server or more than one
. SCSI or IDE
I.e, given a few thousand bucks, how to get the most server bang!
If i were in your situation and had the funds to buy
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