Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

On 15 Nov 1996, Andy Guy wrote: Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: X11 bashing

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote: 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

Re: g77 failure

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, David Gaudine wrote: 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

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

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

Re: xv requires libtiff3

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? Did you have a look

xrdb under xfree86 3.2

xrdb doesn't seem to work on a 486 which i recently upgraded to xfree86 3.2. when i run it i get this: /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POS IX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DHOST=rosalind -DSERVERHOST=r osalind -DSRVR_rosalind

PPP-connection slowing down. Please help!

When I use the Linux box, my ppp-connection is becoming so slow that I have difficulty in handling a few email messages. I cannot think of ftp or other internet services. Ping produces the following results (only while using Linux. On winsock {windows 3.1} the average is about 232ms with no

Re: X11 bashing

Martin Konold writes: -!! There is a solution up and coming !! - - Have look at the kde project. [ Stuff snipped ] I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for noncommercial

Re: X11 bashing

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: - Have look at the kde project. [ Stuff snipped ] I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote: However, the way I recommend is NOT to use lilo, but loadlin. Create a small (a few meg) DOS partition as the first partition, and have the AUTOEXEC.BAT simply run loadlin. Hmm, just try 'linear and

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Is this 1024 cylinders only an issue if you don't have LBA mode? Yes it is. It is a problem on old PC BIOSes which did not support more than 1024 Cyl. It is also a problem of DOS Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen,

Re: ldconfig warning : inconsistent soname??

On 14 Nov 1996 00:36:38 CST Guy Maor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1b1 has inconsistent soname (libtix.so.4.1), skipping That's a bug in whatever package provides /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1.b1. File a bug report.

Re: X11 bashing

I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will keep the GNU

Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

Hello to all users, I have a problem with debian1.1.4 lpd+lpr. I had previously debian0.93 and a 9pin dot matrix printer. I write my printcap, used ghostscript in a filter and used lpr to print files. Then I sold my 9pin printer and I bought an epson stylus color pro. I also upgraded 0.93 to

Re: Corrupt kernel-source package?

Guy Maor's message dated: 14 Nov 1996 00:56:11 CST Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb today and found that dselect/dpkg wa s unable to install it. I tried to extract the copy on the master site, and it's fine. Maybe your download got corrupted?