For 3 or 4 days, I've had CGI-modules marked for upgrade in dselect:
*** Opt net CGI-modules 2.75-4 2.75-5 modules for perl5, for us
And yet dpkg-ftp doesn't even try to upgrade it:
Processing status file...
Processing Package files...
non-free...
contrib...
unstable...
I think there are definitely two threads that should be pulled out of here:
1) Hints and tips on using dselect
2) Improvements for dselect
Personally I had few problems getting to grips with dselect, but as far as
intuitive, user friendly interfaces are concerned its a pigs orphan.
I know that
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:
On 12 Nov 1996, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
That's only with resent LILO's, version 19 and over (I think 19, could
be earlyer, but 19 is definatly ok). If you try to use a LILO that dosn't
have bzImage (and initrd) fetures added, you'll not
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libhistory.so.2.0.1 has inconsistent soname
(libreadline.so.2.0), skipping
That's a bug in libreadline2. I'll upload a fixed one tomorrow.
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1b1 has inconsistent soname
Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm curious how much problems you had using just libc 5.4.7. I started
netscape without the PRELOAD line and it worked fine.
Practically any java code will crash it. Try http://www.gamelan.com/
I have since restarted it as you list above (well,
Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I downloaded kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb today and found that dselect/dpkg was
unable to install it.
I tried to extract the copy on the master site, and it's fine. Maybe
your download got corrupted? md5sum is:
fee75e4ed7841c6b4b18d1e13d97859b
Hi there,
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Is there still a debian-talk list?
I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
still such a completely inconsistent and painful user
The way I read the dselect discussion my feelings are that most people
are happy with what dselect does (even if they don't know it, cf.
standard machine configs), but are perhaps not too enamoured of the
programme's interface...
Simon == Simon Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Simon and a
For 3 or 4 days, I've had CGI-modules marked for upgrade in dselect:
*** Opt net CGI-modules 2.75-4 2.75-5 modules for perl5, for
us
And yet dpkg-ftp doesn't even try to upgrade it:
Is this a bug in dpkg-ftp? Or is this a case problem? The file on the
ftp site is
On 14 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend is trying to convert to Debian from Slakware. He's using
buzz-fixed off an Info Magic cdrom, and can't get the installation
boot disk to recognize his cdu31a.
At the lilo prompt, he's type
linux cdu31a=0x230,0
This lilo parameter
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Alec Clews (S) wrote:
'hdb irq timeout : status = 0x58
hdb ATAPI reset complete'
It still seems to be able to install some/all? packages, but I don't know
how reliable it is and it does take a long time.
Has any one seen this before please?
I have a Goldstar
Hi,
I tried running nm on the libc5 and it said that no symbols found. Can
anyone explain to me why?
Regards. Paul
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affect future development of debian at the user interface level.
Regardless, my followup is to debian-user only.
There is no inter-application communication or awareness to speak of.
# This can be handelt via
Paul Chau writes:
I tried running nm on the libc5 and it said that no symbols found. Can
anyone explain to me why?
You have to use -D to see the dynamic symbols. All of the regular
symbols were stripped out.
David
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996 22:53:14 PST Kevin Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
With Slackware or Red Hat there are some files that don't appear in my
setup, has something been missed??? These files are rc.inet1 and rc.inet2 as
well as rc.serial. Is my system different or am I looking for
On 14 Nov 1996 00:36:38 CST Guy Maor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libhistory.so.2.0.1 has inconsistent soname
(libreadline.so.2.0), skipping
That's a bug in libreadline2. I'll upload a fixed one tomorrow.
ldconfig:
Philippe Troin wrote:
On 14 Nov 1996 00:36:38 CST Guy Maor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libhistory.so.2.0.1 has inconsistent soname
(libreadline.so.2.0), skipping
That's a bug in libreadline2. I'll upload a fixed
I am new to Debian and I would like to thank evryone for your previous
responses when I had a problem with installing Debian. I now would like
to use my sound card. auplay can use it but I cannot do something like cat
somefile /dev/dsp. It always complain about being busy. The irq is at
10.
I
Back when I was running slackware I had a program that used svgalib to view
graphics, it was zgv... I got it off of sunsite... and now that I run debian
it doesn't want to work... and I grabed the source and tryed to recompile it...
and it didn't compile... so I was wondering if there was a
Bill Bumgarner writes:
1) XF86Setup doesn't provide for resolutions beyond 1280x1024 [though it
does a nice job of ensuring that the server chooses the HIGHEST available
resolution].
Resolutions beyond 1280x1024 are not yet a common case. I suspect that
most people using higher resolutions
[no-longer CCed to debian-devel because this isn't a developer issue
really]
Bill Bumgarner writes:
I have to vent.
I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface.
Ah. The X Window System is
Your kernel must be compiled with support for your specific
soundcard. You will probably need to know its specific hardware
settings to do the compile successfully.
Syrus.
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On
Stephen Early [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One of the good things, in my opinion, about Debian is that it
provides packages that are set up sensibly with 'normal' defaults. I
don't want to start doing anything fancy just to look pretty; other
distributions have tried this, and it occasionally
Lord Of The CLUTZ's writes:
- Back when I was running slackware I had a program that used svgalib
- to view graphics, it was zgv... I got it off of sunsite... and now
- that I run debian it doesn't want to work... and I grabed the
- source and tryed to recompile it ... and it didn't compile... so
Daniel J. Mashao writes:
-
- I am new to Debian and I would like to thank evryone for your previous
- responses when I had a problem with installing Debian. I now would like
- to use my sound card. auplay can use it but I cannot do something like cat
- somefile /dev/dsp. It always complain
Daniel == Daniel J Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Daniel ...complain about being busy.
You are probably running the au server (since auplay works). This
daemon grabs the sound device and this is why you are getting busy
errors when trying to use via other tools.
Try stopping the au daemon by
If you try to get a copy of the debian archive (say devel) with
ncftp's get -R command, you'll mostly get a directory full of
symlinks. Using get devel.tar does the same thing.
Is there an easy way to get the actual files, following the links?
Thanks
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From dselect, when I select
0. [A]ccess Choose the access method to use.
and then
ftpInstall using ftp.
I get the following errors:
syntax error at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 112, near print
Execution of /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup aborted due to compilation
Hello,
since updating to rex I've got some problems with C++.
When I compile this code:
--8---8-8---8--8---
#include iostream.h
int
main()
{
double z = 2.00;
cout z ^2 = z * z endl;
return 0;
}
Hello,
since updating to rex I've got some problems with C++.
When I compile this code:
--8---8-8---8--8---
#include iostream.h
int
main()
{
double z = 2.00;
cout z ^2 = z * z endl;
return 0;
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonas Rathert) writes:
since updating to rex I've got some problems with C++.
libg++27: 2.7.1-3
You need to update to libg++27 2.7.2.1, which right now is only in
unstable, or bo. But I will move it to frozen, or rex right now, so
it'll be in mirrors in
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Martin Konold wrote:
There is a nice screenshot of an already working kde (kool desktop
environment)
http://fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de/kde/demos/kdescreenshot1.jpg.gz
This link doesn't seem to exist. What should it be?
Sorry! This URL
Hello all:
I'm having trouble with the latest samba from unstable (samba_1.9.16p9.deb).
Since I installed it, I've been seeing messsages like these at the console:
Nov 14 10:54:55 naoma nmbd[300]: connect from calera.uniandes.edu.co
Nov 14 10:54:55 naoma inetd[212]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status
There appear to be two AX25-related packages in the current Debian
distribution -- ax25-util and ax25-kernel-source. Whenever I try to install
either of these, however, dselect claims that both depend on 'source', and
that 'source' does not appear to be available.
Now, I've installed the
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Lord Of The CLUTZ's wrote:
Back when I was running slackware I had a program that used svgalib to view
graphics, it was zgv... I got it off of sunsite... and now that I run debian
it doesn't want to work... and I grabed the source and tryed to recompile
it... and it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Brown) writes:
What I want is really very simple, I wan to be able to access all
exported filesystems on all machines on the local network as
/net/(machine_name)
Any help would be greatly appreciated
I can not verify your problems, it works for me (as it
Hi,
Anyone know of a tool/library that allows linux to use freebsd passwords?
If I'm not mistaken, linux uses DES encryption and freebsd uses an MD5
encryption, right?
Is there a way that linux can make use of the freebsd passwords or maybe
the other way around?
Thanks!
Ricardo
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Paul Seelig wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Alec Clews (S) wrote:
'hdb irq timeout : status = 0x58
hdb ATAPI reset complete'
[snip]
I have a Goldstar 8-speed CD-ROM drive giving me the same messages but i
don't know how to handle/evaluate/change this. Any hints
Hi,
I was just reinstalling my debian system. Anyway I had on the
old system pgp version 2.6.2i and now I installed pgp version 2.63i.
The problem is now that every time I try to decrypt a message/file or
verify signature of a message/file I always get the error:
Invalid ASCII armor
Hi Lars,
What should I put in my .mailcap to make pgp handle
your application/pgp-signature as text. I use mailcrypt so I don't
want rmime invoke anything for pgp stuffs.
Thank you
L.D.
PS. I post it here because it seems that Lars' mail-fitler blocks
anymail with unknown 'From' field.
I have been using linux for a couple of years, but I have
always used machines with new bios and big drives, and I
have never had any problem with lilo.
I am in the process of building a debian machine for my office
from surplus parts. I have a five year old Dell 486 that I is
the base for the
In your email to me, Stephen Fuqua, you wrote:
I have been using linux for a couple of years, but I have
always used machines with new bios and big drives, and I
have never had any problem with lilo.
I am in the process of building a debian machine for my office
from surplus parts. I have
Paul Christenson writes:
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote:
My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have
been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp
install, and came up with 10 megs of updated packages. (Not bad at work,
but can be
Can someone kindly point me in the right direction
to solve a niggling problem,
When I do a `su' command bash comes up with
an error message,
bash: setenv : command not found
I have a man page for setenv which refers
to stdlib.h, this I have in,
`/usr/include/bsd/stdlib.h' and
This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am to
make a recommendation as to a complete system to handle Web pages,
E-Mail and networks for a small university, and If I can get their
ScanJet to work, I probably could sell them, They use Adobe
Photoshop, and I think the GIMP
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote:
Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I
make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be
pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy?
YOu got the point already!
Go for it.
I do make a small root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonas Rathert) writes:
since updating to rex I've got some problems with C++.
libg++27: 2.7.1-3
You need to update to libg++27 2.7.2.1, which right now is only in
unstable, or bo. But I will move it to frozen, or rex right now, so
it'll be in
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote:
Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I
make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be
Yes.
pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy?
Yes.
Unless there's some kind of crazy
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote:
I am in the process of building a debian machine for my office
from surplus parts.
Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I
make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be
pretty sure that I can at least boot the
I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface.
This is a true problem which last from the fact that X11 is seperated
from the stadart toolkit Motif (which is payware)
Well, you have to understand
GREENE == GREENE KENNETH ADAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GREENE This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am
GREENE to make a recommendation as to a complete system to handle Web
GREENE pages, E-Mail and networks for a small university, and If I
GREENE can get their ScanJet to work,
I'll repost this again now that the lists are back up. :-)
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Bill Bumgarner wrote:
I have to vent.
Vent on, dude.
I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface.
The STUPIDITY of the whole
[box on]
I have to vent.
OK,
I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface.
I think you forgot to include open, free, expandable, flexible, . . . .
The STUPIDITY of the whole thing is
Hi there,
I do get the following message from dpkg:
/tmp/debiandpkg --install --auto-deconfigure libc5-dev_5.4.7-6.deb
(Reading database ... 25826 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc5-dev 5.4.7-6 (using libc5-dev_5.4.7-6.deb) ...
Unpacking
Subject: failure notice
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
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Is there still a debian-talk list?
I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X
Hi there,
how to resolve
Processing status file...
Odd number of elements in hash list at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install
line 75, STATUS chunk 8174.
Processing Package files...
rex...
Odd number of elements in hash list at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install
line 124, PKGFILE chunk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: disks-i386
Version: 1996-07-14
A friend is trying to convert to Debian from Slakware. He's using
buzz-fixed off an Info Magic cdrom, and can't get the installation
boot disk to recognize his cdu31a.
At the lilo prompt, he's type
linux
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote:
It is like emacs to the novice. (cryptic, non-standard interface, funny
keyboard accel keys, no menues...)
Hmmm - I got on well with dselect from the beginning, without reading any
documentation about it, and I find it a convenient, useful tool.
I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface.
This is a true problem which last from the fact that X11 is seperated
from the stadart toolkit Motif (which is payware)
Well, you have to understand
Hi all,
I have installed the Debian linux system on my system but am now having
problems installing other packages. I can download these packages
from the internet from my windows '95 machine and then transfer them
to the Linux system using a diskette. When I try to run dpkg on
these files I
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ]
linh (l.) dang:
What should I put in my .mailcap to make pgp handle
your application/pgp-signature as text. I use mailcrypt so I don't
want rmime invoke anything for pgp stuffs.
I don't know understand .mailcap (I've never
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ]
I've saved these notes on using PGP with mail, and will be
adding a summary of them to a new version of the PGP packages
(but it won't happen until 1.3).
Thanks to everyone.
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On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote:
[snip]
Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I
make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be
pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy?
I'm pretty sure you can do either and it will work. Even
I am to blame for the shameful state of the ax25 packages. I would have
had more time to work on them, but I let myself become the Debian Project
Leader. I will spend some time on them after I build the 1.2 boot floppies.
Hopefully that will happen this weekend.
Thanks
Bruce
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On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote:
I have now installed:
gcc_2.7.2.1-2.deb
g77_0.5.18-2.deb
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `f771': No such file or
directory
As I understand it, f77 wants gcc 2.7.2 and not gcc 2.7.2.1
I don't know the correct solution, but I just made a
Has anyone debianized the shadow password suite?
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Hi!
I just upgraded to the most recent release of xv from the
non-free section and it is giving me the dependency problem
that it requires libtiff3. Yet, I can't find libtiff3.
Am I looking in the wrong place or something?
Richard..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Bartley) writes:
From dselect, when I select
0. [A]ccess Choose the access method to use.
and then
ftpInstall using ftp.
I get the following errors:
syntax error at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 112, near print
Execution of
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