Anyone watching NASA Select TV for the first pictures of Mars?
The desktop they're using looks hauntingly familiar...
fvwm2 is there, and xv too...
:-)
Cheers,
- Jim
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I'm trying to install the Debian Xwindows package for the
first time on my computer. I installed Xbase first, then installed
Xserver-SVGA in a separate dselect session. When Xwindows starts I get
a Xwindow screen with the default xterm window. In attempting to trace
the Xwindow initialization
Need Your Help:
I was downloading some packages from stable so that
I could try to build a custom kernel. While I was
downloading and installing (with dpkg), I got bored
and wanted to play maelstrom - but mealstrom refused
to start, same for xtetris. Then dpkg reported it was
having problems
Hello Phil! :)
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
I've got a postscript initialization file to feed gs to correct colors
for Stylus-500. Just in case you're interested :-)
Thanks! :) A while after I wrote that message, I read Andree
Leidenfrost's message about Stylus, and decided
On 4 Jul 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
I just recently got my new printer. It was easy to set up the
magicfilter so that I can print anything I want. But the highest
resolution I got was 360x180. Like this:
/usr/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r360x180 -sDEVICE=epsonc
Check out
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
I was thinking about two ideas that may help Debian and general linux
systems:
1) How about a simple tutorial that comes up after installing debian.
Something that would offer 3 steps: 1. a general linux tutor for those
people who are
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
Hi Lindsay!
Too bad you didn't reply via debian-user! Please be so kind and post a
followup containing the solution so that others learn it too.
Point taken.
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
On /debian/bo/binary-i386/admin/acct_6.2-4.deb
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
My /usr/local mounted read-only when I install emacs. The package keep
complaining about /usr/local is mounted read-only.
packages are not allowed to store files into /usr/local. However, the
emacs package is installing only directories:
On Jul 4, Jaakko Niemi wrote
[...] It would be though nice to have debianized
packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let's say) unstable-pentium
Wouldn't that be binary-pentium? (As well as there are binary-i386, etc)
[]s,
|alo
Ok. I'm experimenting with moving from 1 huge disk partition to a few
smaller ones, particarly /, /var, /usr, and /home.
The thing is: the root systems's suppsed tobe in /, so the system can
boot if anything else's screwed up. but mine won't boot unless I also
mount /var ...somthing about
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Lalo Martins wrote:
On Jul 4, Jaakko Niemi wrote
[...] It would be though nice to have debianized
packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let's say) unstable-pentium
Wouldn't that be binary-pentium? (As well as there are binary-i386, etc)
Or binary-i586, but the real
what needs a review are the outstanding inconsistencies between dpkg
and the policy guide. (The guide should of course win :-) I
understand Klee has put some effort into this though probably hasn't
gotten around to this particular one; the simple approach is for the
installer to tell dpkg
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
Ok. I'm experimenting with moving from 1 huge disk partition to a few
smaller ones, particarly /, /var, /usr, and /home.
The thing is: the root systems's suppsed tobe in /, so the system can
boot if anything else's screwed up. but mine won't boot
Hi,
I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 410CS laptop. I am having
problems creating a XF86Config file which will work. It complains that
there is no mode 800x600 or something like that. But in the setup
I specified this as one of the modes. Any ideas?
The second problem is that the
I see a lot of packages appearing in unstable that depend on
ncurses3.4. But no packages providing it is available (only
ncurses3.0).
Can anyone tell me where I can get ncurses3.4?
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Peter Mutsaers wrote:
I see a lot of packages appearing in unstable that depend on
ncurses3.4. But no packages providing it is available (only
ncurses3.0).
Can anyone tell me where I can get ncurses3.4?
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On 5 Jul 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
what needs a review are the outstanding inconsistencies between dpkg
and the policy guide. (The guide should of course win :-) I
understand Klee has put some effort into this though probably hasn't
gotten around to this particular one; the simple approach
I am trying to install netscape-3.01-4 package, but I need a copy of the
original netscape distribution. I tried finding it via the netscape
web page but couldn't find a mention of linux anywhere.
Does anyone know where I can download it from?
Thanks.
I am trying to install netscape-3.01-4 package, but I need a copy of the
original netscape distribution. I tried finding it via the netscape
web page but couldn't find a mention of linux anywhere.
Does anyone know where I can download it from?
Thanks.
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
I am trying to install netscape-3.01-4 package, but I need a copy of the
original netscape distribution. I tried finding it via the netscape
web page but couldn't find a mention of linux anywhere.
Does anyone know where I can download it from?
After upgrading to Xfree86 3.3 today, X does not complete startup, and
exits with the error:
failed to set default font path
'/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/AcceleratedX/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not
Hi,
Someone just pointed out to me that the version of libc5 in stable is
5.4.33-3 while the version in unstable is 5.4.23-4. Does anyone know why
this might be? Thanks...
J. Goldman
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Hi,
This happened to me too once. Try running mkfontdir in the affected
directories. If it's the same problem I had, that will fix it.
J. Goldman
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On Jul 4, Jaakko Niemi wrote
[...] It would be though nice to have debianized
packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let's say) unstable-pentium
Wouldn't that be binary-pentium? (As well as there are binary-i386, etc)
Ahh! Yes! That's the kind of error that can only happen at 4 AM.
Thanks for the blazing fast response. :) Tried that to no avail (using
accelx 3.1 and the SVGA server from 3.2 - just noticed I had that package
on hold as I was using accelx).. after downloading the SVGA server from
xfree86 3.3, things are working again.
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Jesse Goldman
Hi Jesse,
I think the reason for this might be that the 'real' C library in
unstable is glibc-2, aka libc-6. It's the latest GNU C library with many
new things I don't have the slightest idea of ;-)
Fun,
Andree
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Kevin M. Bealer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Also, installing this packages causes dselect to get really excited
about dependencies, since everything wants the old libreadline, and
the new one doesn't want to coexist. What is the solution to this
sort of thing? For now, I have left the
On 4 Jul 1997, Linh Dang wrote:
1.2.8 and 1.3 exhitbit the same behaviour!!!
My /usr/local mounted read-only when I install emacs. The package keep
complaining about /usr/local is mounted read-only.
This is a bug, so please file a bug report against emacs.
The policy concerning /usr/local
Hi,
I have an old bubble jet BJ-10SX cannon printer.
I have just set up lprng and magicfilter. I can print but only text .
I am not very sure as to how to incorporate the filter in /etc/printcap
I have triad the if statement and it didn't work.
( :if=\usr\sbin\magicfilter:\ ) I would be
1. How do I add an extended module, written in C, to Python using the
Debian-version of Python? (e.g. pg95 - Pygres95 for interfacing
Postgres95).
2. Are there any debian-users using python as an interface to a PostgreSQL
or Postgres95?
3. Is there a possibility that PostgreSQL 6.1 will be
Lalo Martins wrote:
On Jul 4, Jaakko Niemi wrote
[...] It would be though nice to have debianized
packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let's say)
unstable-pentium
Wouldn't that be binary-pentium? (As well as there are binary-i386,
etc)
nah, 'unstable-pentium' is about as true as you
On 5 Jul, John Foster wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#!/bin/sh
cat __EOF__
No telnet login allowed.
** Insert the motd here **
__EOF__
sleep 5
exit 0
And if the remote user managed to interrupt it would they get
/bin/sh?, with EUID 0?
And what if the
On Sat, Jul 05, 1997 at 07:44:02AM +1000, John Foster wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#!/bin/sh
cat __EOF__
No telnet login allowed.
** Insert the motd here **
__EOF__
sleep 5
exit 0
And if the remote user managed to interrupt it would they get
Well, true, but it was linked against Motif 1.2 which make it useless
for most of us who has Motif 2.0 :(
Works with lesstif too? ;)
I have seen several posts which claimed this couldn't be done. What
steps would one need to take to get this working?
Glen
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Looks like the installation of libc5, an essential package failed. Download it
from debian/stable/binary-i386/libs and install with dpkg -i libc5*deb
Need Your Help:
I was downloading some packages from stable so that
I could try to build a custom kernel. While I was
downloading and
Well, true, but it was linked against Motif 1.2 which make it useless
for most of us who has Motif 2.0 :(
Works with lesstif too? ;)
I have seen several posts which claimed this couldn't be done. What
steps would one need to take to get this working?
What do you mean? Making Lesstif and
On 03-Jul-97 Will Lowe wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Alex Fan wrote:
Is Debian a Linux distribution, just like Slackware and Radhat?
Well, yes, it's a distribution. We'd like to think that it's somewhat
nicer than Slackware and Redhat, tho :) .
And IMHO
it is ;-)
DEBIAN the best LINUX
On Jul 5, Mark Phillips wrote
I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 410CS laptop. I am having
problems creating a XF86Config file which will work. It complains that
there is no mode 800x600 or something like that. But in the setup I
specified this as one of the modes. Any ideas?
How
Well here we go again
A little background so some of you remember.
I installed debain 1.3 (7) times. Have been having trouble getting
dselect to install files using the ftp access method. I keep getting
this can't map /lib/libc message.
Well someone sugested that I type this
ln
On Jul 4, Alex Fan wrote
Where can I find a Debian Distribution? Is it avilable on CDs or just
from download?
Both. Download: see ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors ;
CDs: http://www.debian.org/vendors.html .
HTH,
Ray
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Are there any examples available of making debian packages? I figured
there would/has been a lot of questions about it, and was hoping someone
has provided a brief example of a debian package being made.
Thanks,
Dennis
+
On Sat, 05 Jul 1997 12:13:06 EDT dpk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Are there any examples available of making debian packages? I figured
there would/has been a lot of questions about it, and was hoping someone
has provided a brief example of a debian package being made.
Look at the hello
PAI will be sending the 1.3.1 CD Monday. One of my machines is a 386DX40
PAwith 8 mb and a soundblaster 2x cd drive that is flaky under windows. I
PAhave a 540 mb IDE drive in it that I use just for testing and I have good
PAresults with it installing from my CD or from my network.
PAWhat date
IGDate: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 12:27:57 -0400
IGFrom: Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IGdid you type ldconfig (as root) after that? That might be the problem.
IGif that doesn't work, try reinstalling dpkg with dpkg -i (it includes dselec
IGHTH.
Yes I did. I did find dpkg-dev and installed that
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
Thanks to Paul, Dale, David and Dimitri for your help. I certainly
understand things better now and it seems that the problem is not in mc at
all. I just wiped every mc related file from my box and installed Paul's
mc_4.0-linux-1_i386.deb and it
PAIf that is 2 meg total you need more. If it's 2 meg used, OK. I usually
PAcreate a swap partition of 32mb or more. Often I create them at the max
PAusable 128mb because I tend to really hammer the system with a lot of
PAtasks.
PA The date on the floppy is 5-28-97 (looking at the rescue disk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dima) writes:
In your /etc/mc/mc.ext you should have these:
# deb
regex/\.deb$
Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
^^^
Thanks. Using '%f' is recommended, tho'.
It enables you to view
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Puryear) writes:
In your /etc/mc/mc.ext you should have these:
# deb
regex/\.deb$
Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
A while back, I reported this as bug, but I guess it was not fixed.
I'll report this to the MC upstream
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) writes:
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
On /debian/bo/binary-i386/admin/acct_6.2-4.deb I get :-
/.. 2048
/CONTENTS0
INFO
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Giuseppe Vacanti wrote:
I installed my custom kernel and went to run `depmod -a'. I get the
following error:
modprobe: error reading ELF header: no such file or directory
This may be your problem:
If you install a custom kernel made with an older version of
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
You can get it from ftp.i-connect.com, in Incoming, and info, et al
will run again.
That's ftp.i-connect.net I believe.
-douglas
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On 5 Jul, Paul Seelig wrote:
Not so fast. g When I hit Enter on /CONTENTS I get
/..0
and that's it.
Uh oh! That's strange! :-(
So now we need to know all the hairy details: Do you have the latest
'dpkg' installed? I use version 1.4.0.8 and it
I am unable to get an old scsi disk recognized during installation, and
would appreciate help.
I am trying to install Debian on a rather old system with a Future Domain
TMC830 scsi controller. From information obtained from Adaptec's (they
bought Future Domain) web site, I have determined that
I don't know how the hell I did it, but I broke whatis. Whereis works.
But whatis always returns Nothing appropriate.
Whatis works on all my other machines. This machine is a clean 1.3.0
install, but I have installed quite a bit of extra junk.
Dale Scheetz wrote:
One posibility is that perl is somehow broken.
[Sorry, this is rather long-winded]
Ok, here's what happens (from MC_LIB/extfs/README):
... command should list the complete archive content in the following format
(a little modified ls -l listing):
AAA NNN
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My config:
paul's unofficial mc 4.0 package
ii perl5.004-1
ii libc6 2.0.3-4(don't know if it matters)
ii dpkg1.4.0.11
ii gzip1.2.4-14
ii tar 1.12-1
Responding to the message of Sat, 5 Jul 1997 10:49:36 -0600
from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well here we go again
A little background so some of you remember.
I installed debain 1.3 (7) times. Have been having trouble getting
dselect to install files using the ftp access method. I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) writes:
I certainly understand things better now and it seems that the
problem is not in mc at all. I just wiped every mc related file
from my box and installed Paul's mc_4.0-linux-1_i386.deb and it
behaves in exactly the same way. There is a lot of disk
Igor Grobman wrote:
Looks like the installation of libc5, an essential package failed. Download it
from debian/stable/binary-i386/libs and install with dpkg -i libc5*deb
yup, that's what i tried right after my original post -
and i tried it again after reading your reply - with
the same
Brandon Mitchell writes:
2) Is there a way to convert the following from my .procmailrc:
:0:
* .*(@mega.net|\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]|\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]|\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]|\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]|\
...
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
to search for one of these e-mail addresses in a file?
to make an 8 meg swap file called swap1 in the current directory:
dd if=/dev/zero of=swap1 bs=1024 count=8192
mkswap swap1 8192
sync
swapon swap1
But swap files are slower and can potentially cause problems, so swap
partitions are prefered. Just make the swap partition large enough that
you
On 5 Jul 1997, Michael Harnois wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) writes:
I certainly understand things better now and it seems that the
problem is not in mc at all. I just wiped every mc related file
from my box and installed Paul's mc_4.0-linux-1_i386.deb and it
behaves in
./binutils_2.8.1-2.deb: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `!arch'
./binutils_2.8.1-2.deb: line 1: `!arch'
This looks like dpkg problems.
Try downgrading to 1.4.0.8 (the 1.3 release version) and see if that fixes
it.
This is not the case on my system. No errors when entering a
On 5 Jul, Reto Andreas Bachmann wrote:
in particular though: Which package creates the file
/usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/libc5-compat ?
$ dpkg -S libc5-compat
libc5: /usr/lib/libc5-compat
libc5: /lib/libc5-compat
$ dpkg -l libc5
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
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Igor Grobman wrote:
Looks like the installation of libc5, an essential package failed. Download
it
from debian/stable/binary-i386/libs and install with dpkg -i libc5*deb
yup, that's what i tried right after my original post -
and i tried it again after reading your reply - with
That a mistake by the maintainer, and archive maintainer is on vacation, so
this problem never got corrected. It will be corrected with next release of
libc5, I assume.
Always with the same error:
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/libc5-compat
(No such file
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997 17:28:21 -0400 (EDT), Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This looks like dpkg problems.
Try downgrading to 1.4.0.8 (the 1.3 release version) and see if that
fixes it.
I really thought this was going to be the key ... nope.
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That a mistake by the maintainer, and archive maintainer is on vacation, so
this problem never got corrected. It will be corrected with next release
of
libc5, I assume.
Always with the same error:
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/libc5-compat
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