Re: Chastity-list is not for Debian Etch

Hi! * Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061022 04:55]: > People, I'm using Debian Etch and I'm installing Squidguard with Squid > in order to filter web sites, and I want to use the chastity-list > package (it's a blacklist of web sites) I used with Debian Sarge...but > I've been at Debian web sit

Re: where can i find user-he for amd4

Hi! * Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061016 08:05]: > i need to get two packaes that are avalibale in regular stable (i386) for > amd64 : > user-he That's an arch:all package availabe in Debian's testing and unstable distribution. arch:all means it is architecture independend so you can use the

Re: How many DDs are there?

Hi! * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061015 15:46]: > I'm very curious to know how many Debian Developers are there today. > Is there anyone keeping record? Sarge had about 1,200 IIRC. That's not easy to answer, since many packages are maintained by a team (e.g. x.org is maintained by

Re: Professional Developer Wanted

Hi! * Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061001 23:46]: > Does anyone on these lists know of any REAL GOOD resources to look for > someone with HIGH caliper Debian Development skills? http://lists.debian.org/debian-jobs/ http://www.debian.org/consultants/ Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http:

Re: bash command timer

* Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060925 20:54]: > I am looking for a way to time scripts, how long they take to execute. time? Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Love

Hi! * Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060923 19:15]: > Since user-lists deal mostly with problems, one might get the feel that > problems are all that there is, here. This thread - which I endorse - is > one good idea. Someone considered posting it to debian-devel? It was mentioned twice on plan

Re: Dependency Injection

Hi! * Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060922 19:02]: > So basically is there a way to tell apt that a needed package is > already installed even though one already on the system blocks this > package ? Yes, a quick and dirty way would be to install the package with dpkg and "--force-depends".

Re: SSHD, why wouldn't it be part of the install.

* Chuck Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060911 21:14]: > When I got home I did a locate, which, and whereis and strange, I can see > ssh, but no sshd. So I did an apt-get install, and WOW! No package can be > found. So what am I do? ssh got split in two seperate package, openssh-client and openssh-s

Re: Installing from source a la Gentoo / BSD

Hi! * Rickardo Branco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060911 08:34]: > I'm a FreeBSD/NetBSD user wanting to run Linux using > the same sources that I'm using on these two systems. > I discarded Gentoo for being so unstable. > > Is it possible to use the tarballs I have for running > Debian ? > Thanks in ad

Re: where are the iso for new realease

Hi! * abdelkader belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060904 12:49]: > I read announcement for the third realease of sarge, but no where the Cds, > only the second relrese is available > check for example the main site http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/ > thanks for help Since r3 cames with upgraded

Re: What is the status of XGL on Debian

* Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060901 20:28]: > Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, > xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but I love > Debian and I don`t wanna switch to another distribution. See http://bugs.debian.org/3

Re: help

Hi! * rajesh rajesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060724 15:57]: >i have a problem in linux, > everytime i install linux , it starts in command prompt > how can i start linux in gui mode > my debian verson is sarge 3.1 During the installation you will get asked, which tasks to install.

Re: Newbie Notes

Hi! * Mike Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060616 14:34]: > All seems well, and I then used VIM to edit > /etc/sudoers and added my user to enable SUDO > commands. Your might want to use "visudo" instead of editing the sudoers file direclty. visudo will use your standard editor and perform some sanit

Re: Where is Debian 64-bit iso image?

Hi! * Nebodi Gatreba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060607 16:15]: > I've downloaded three Sarge ia64 images from three different locations, > burned them on CD and when booted I got CentOS-4 instead of familiar Debian > boot procedure. > Is this the way it should be or is something wrong? No, it isn't. P

Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge

Hi! * Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060507 20:25]: > That's the first place I looked, but they only have 2.3.3 for stable, > and i'm really looking for 2.4. Guess I'll have to wait a little > longer. Than you might try to create your own backported package by fetching the source package an

Re: How can I delete Evolution?

Hi! * Eugen Rahaian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060409 17:52]: > I have a package dependency problems when I want to delete Evolution. It > depends on gnome-desktop-environment which also depends on gnome package. > > So, if I delete Evolution, gnome-desktop-environment is broken. > > What can I do t

Re: deb src

Hi! * krot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060408 20:23]: > Good afternoon! Prompt where it is possible to find diff.gz for > assembly gcc 4.0.1, glibc 2.3.5, MySQL 5.0.12? There Is such resource > where are stored{kept} all diff.gz for all versions of source codes? Did you ever tried to read the answers y

Re: nvidia - what is preferred installation route

Hi! * michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060403 13:10]: > eg is http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.txt > still current/best or perhaps nVidia's own info > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8178.html Yes, the method using module- installer is prefered. Usin

Re: State of webmin (was: Webmin themes)

Hi! * Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060308 16:49]: [ webmin maintanance ] > There is a new team of maintainers forming up using an alioth group > (sorry, not web access right now, can't give you an exact URL, would > guess the project is called pkg-webmin). > &

Re: Debian DVD Cebit-Edition: What is the password for root ?

Hi! * Hans-J. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060316 09:31]: > I have got a Debian-DVD at the Cebit in Hannover. Installing went fine, but > it > does not ask, what password root should have. However, I saw that there > already a password for root exists. What is it ? Can you please tell me ? N

State of webmin (was: Webmin themes)

Hi! * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060308 02:10]: > the current webmin packages will not be included in the next stable > release 'etch' becuase the maintainer did not have time to work on them. > Someone here may help you solve your problem, but if you have interest, > you may be able to lend

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Re: localhost -- MARK -- ????????

Hi! * Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 06:41]: > Interesting. I have never had syslogd become bored with any other distro. And > now, I learn that Debian is boring. > > Sigh. It is. It's just working, no fun while hacking... can you imagine something more boring than a system which j

Re: localhost -- MARK -- ????????

Hi! * Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 04:41]: > Feb 8 15:14:11 localhost -- MARK -- [..] > Feb 8 19:34:12 localhost -- MARK -- > > There's nobody around this computer called Mark. ;-) > > What the heck are these messages? I can't say I have seen them before. That's just your syslogs

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

* Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060202 22:21]: [..] > No--the command apt-key doesn't exist in sarge. Quoting from Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: = > Where does Debian (or debmirror?) store the public key that debmirror > uses to validate Release files? Take a look at "man debmirror"

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

* Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060201 17:10]: > Where does Debian (or debmirror?) store the public key that debmirror > uses to validate Release files? Take a look at "man debmirror", it's listed in the files-section. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org

Re: sys/types.h etc.

* linux china <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060201 15:31]: > excellent, how does you find that? or Just you know it already, any common > way/command to find that? e.g. by using apt-file and searching for the file which was reported to be missing. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/

Re: remove a package entry that has "rc" in the begining on "dpkg -l"

* Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060201 08:47]: > I understand that the package below is not installed but the > confiruration files remain Yes, that's correct. > # dpkg -l |grep apache > rc libapache2-mod 4.3.10-16 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting languag > > How do I purge the co

Re: compiling xboard on debian # No such file or directory # error: `XtNdefaultDistance' undeclared here (not in a function)

Hi! * Morten Gulbrandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060129 22:41]: > I'd like to download compile and run xboard under debian. [..] > What can I do, Install the build-dependencies for xboard. man apt-get should show you how. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.cat

Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

* Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060118 13:49]: > but webmin is packaged for debian (package webmin) > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/webmin > > --at least for stable that I am using. Yes it is in stable, but webmin (as well as usermin) has been removed from unstable recent

Re: W: GPG error:

Hi! * Nikhil Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051222 14:36]: > After adding backports.org repository I'm getting following error: [..] > Fetched 190B in 3s (49B/s) > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org sarge-backports Release: The > following signatures couldn't b

Re: reinstalling config files

Hi! * Steve Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051220 19:01]: > I was having trouble getting php4/apache2 to play nice on Sarge, apt-get > removed then, which left the apche config files. stupidly I rm -rf'd > apache2 & can't install apache2's config files. apt-get install --reinstall > apche2 does n

Re: virtual machines

Hi! * Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051218 01:25]: > I have a test machine, on wich I use to package and test packages. > I package both for Fedora and for Debian. > For the moment, I use multiboot. > > But I am tired to reboot each time I want to switch distribution. > I intend t

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

Hi! * Albretch Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051107 03:10]: > Well, I noticed the site wasn't online to begin with ;-) > sh-3.00# ping http://non-us.debian.org > ping: unknown host http://non-us.debian.org > do they have such thing as mirrors? Please read http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386

Re: Why does browser want to open up perl script with editor?

Hi! * Fred OGrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051009 05:01]: > from: file:///usr/local/sql-ledger/index.html I click on "Logon" (a link to > file:///usr/local/sql-ledger/logon.pl). My Browser wants to open > logon.plwith my default text editor. I am sure I have the permissions > set to > execute. > > A

Re: Lost Labyrinth

Hi Markus! * Markus Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050830 23:06]: > I had a look at this page, but its for submitting bugs. > I don't understand what that has to to with each other. > > I need someone that helps me doing a Debian package and do not want to report > a bug. > > Confused [ 35 lin

Re: What is the point of sudo?

* Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050828 22:30]: > It's also easier to do root-type things while in X without having to log > into X as root or muck about with the Xauthority files. Well, you could use sux from the sux package for that, but yes, I prefer using sudo, too ;) Yours sincerely, Ale

Re: email clients with reply-to-list feature

* Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050829 06:52]: > Depends on whether you consider elm or elm-ME to be real elm, I suppose. > In less than a minute of Google-ing, I found freshmeat.net's page for > elm-ME with a release date of 14 July 2005, and the actual elm homepage > with a release in 2004. >

Re: support for nvidia nforce2?

* Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050827 20:58]: >I'm considering buying an abit with nforce2 chipset. How does Debian > play with it? Any experiences? Another option would be the kt600 > via-based boards. Is nforce2 worth the trouble, if any? I have here a shuttle.. uhm... SN-41G2 I think (

Re: Lost Labyrinth

Hi! * Markus Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050824 22:20]: > I fear I can't use this command, because I lack access to a debian machine > right now. No problem, you could use simple e-mail vor submitting bugs against the "wnpp" (work needing and prospective packages) package. Place "ITP" for "int

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

* Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050824 16:47]: > I vote the headers should direct a reply to the list. But they do: = List-Id: List-Post: [..] Precedence: list = Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/f

Re: Upgrading from X

* Aurelio Turco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050824 03:30]: > Whats the worse that can happen if a dist upgrade > is done from a local X session (started either > from xdm or startx)? Uhm... I could think of: xdm is replaced, asked to restart, some people say "yes, restart xdm", the upgrade dies right in

Re: monitor PC2000 F17 69T technical informations?

* Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050822 13:05]: > >Take a look at read-edid [1], which might find that information for you. [..] > But when you have 2 monitors, one on AGP and one on PCI, which one does > he get the edid info for? Uhm... I don't know... perhaps you can try it out? If it r

Re: Lost Labyrinth

Hi! * Markus Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050822 22:13]: > > Probaly if you change your license... currently you just state your game > > would be "freeware", which is not enough according to our Debian Free > > Software Guidelines [4] to be part of the main Debian archive. > Its gpl! That's good

Re: Lost Labyrinth

Hi! * Markus Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050822 07:13]: > I like your distribution a lot! Thanks, nice to hear. > A few days ago we finally released the first final version of our game "Lost > Labyrinth" for Linux. > The newest version at the moment is 1.0.1. Looks nice. > I also created a

Re: debconf

* David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050821 20:26]: > # dpkg-reconfigure debconf > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0 You became root by a simple "su"? So your root-user isn't allowed to connect to you

Re: monitor PC2000 F17 69T technical informations?

* Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050821 17:18]: > I have the monitor PC2000 F17 69T. > It was given to me yesterday, but without the manual. > I need the technical informations bellow to set up my X Window: [..] > Has anybody these informations? If so, please tell me! Thanks! Take a look at read

Re: Minimum specs

* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050820 04:33]: > The *absolute* minimum is a 386. Not any more. Support for real 386 processor has been dropped: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html#s-new-kernel IIRC the problem was, that a c library only supports

Re: debconf error

* L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050820 06:38]: > While configuring debconf I opted for kde. [..] > debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl [..] > >From where to get Qt.pm. I am running debian sarge in dell inspiron 600m. Well, you could either take a look at the output of

Re: File Permissions: Allow write, but not modify

* Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050818 06:01]: > Is it possible to set up a directory so that a user can add a new > file, but once the file is there the same user cannot modify, rename, > or delete the file? Not sure, but perhaps with "chattr +a "? Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://l

Re: Planet Penguin Racer problems

Hi Laura and Laura's dad! * Laura Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050812 00:18]: > I (David Bruce) am Laura's dad. We are having trouble with > PlanetPenguinRacer (the successor to TuxRacer). Upon starting a course, > the view perspective switches to looking back at the penguin instead of > lookin

Re: dpkg and apt

* Arthur B Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050619 14:01]: > Just installed debian 3.1 and i have a strange problem. I've had it > once before, but it dissapeared by it self. Sorry, but what exactly is your problem? > A dpkg -l shows only a list of installed packages. But i can use > apt-get install

Re: Downloading Sarge with Bittorrent

* Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050608 20:46]: > I have started to download the Sarge 3.1r0 i386 dvd, I already had > downloaded 3,9 GB of 4,4 GB. Then I made the failure to log out and > log in again. I restarted bittorrent and found out that the 3.1r0 > torrent has been replaced by the 3.1

Re: apt-get problems

* Jason G Skala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050608 21:00]: > I am running woody still and if I do any apt-get command from update to ^ > Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages ^^ You want to upgrade to sarge, do you? > Hit http://ftp.rutg

Re: ppracer much slower than tuxracer

Hi! [ adding the bug and it's submitter to CC, I'm to lazy to send out the nearly same mail twice ;) ] * Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050524 21:44]: > I am running Debian testing which has recently transitioned from tuxracer > to ppracer 0.3.1. > > The game has slowed by at least an order of mag

Re: Debian Prebuilt Kernels

Hi! * Øyvind Lode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050516 16:41]: > But kernel-image-2.4-686 and kernel-image-2.6-686 is very small... Why?? Take a look at the package description: They are just meta-packages, depending on the latest packages Kernel-Version of that Series. > Is kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 t

Re: zabbix

Hi! * debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050512 16:18]: > Does anyone know if zabbix will be available on debian via apt-get in > the future ? > www.zabbix.org > > I use it now for over a year and it's really a great program! There has been an ITP (intent to package) to create packages. See http://bu

Re: locatedb is world readable

* David Garamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050107 09:44]: > /var/cache/locate/locatedb is world readable. Is this the correct > default? Can it be made so only certain users have file-level access to > it? (In Redhat there's 'slocate' group and the locate command is setgid > to that group.) Wouldn't

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050107 19:46]: > Yes, a legend for the acronyms would be fine. Oh, I just saw, that your diagramm has a legend. I'm wondering, why I didn't noticed it the other day.. Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

Hi Kevin! * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050106 05:52]: > > What is the target group of your diagramm? > I wanted to visualize the deb lifecycle for my understanding of 'the > debian way'. So I was the 'target'. I asked for comments here and there > to fill in missing bits. And once I did it

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

Hi Kevin! * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050103 07:08]: > I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > appreciated! What is the target group of your diagramm? Since I don't think people without deeper knowledge of Debian will find your diagram easy to understan

Re: How to skip installing one package.

* Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050104 17:11]: > however one package I couldn't find as I needed it was > postfix, so I compiled it myself with virtual folders, sasl and mysql > support, then I setup courier-imap etc etc. .. > Anyway, onto my question, is there anyway to tell apt-get to skip tryin

Re: deleted /boot files

* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 17:47]: > >cat /etc/lilo.conf [..] > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > # restricted > # alias=1 > initrd=/initrd.img You need to symlink boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7 to /initrd.img signature.asc Descr

Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.

* Ivan Teliatnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041220 07:31]: > What is the best way to "apt-get update" a classroom full of debian > sarge machines. Assuming you test it on one machine first, ... > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -uy dist-upgrade > > Nevertheless I was asked some questions as

Re: ncurses for woody

* Gerald Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041212 22:29]: > Excuse me, but how do I install ncurses on a woody system. > I tried all the apt-get ?curses and libncurses, but no luck. > > Trying to run "make menuconfig" in the kernel-sources You need the -dev packages. Yours sincerely, Alexander si

Re: openoffice

* Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041209 14:56]: > Hi. I would like to state my disappointment with openoffice. > OpenOffice Impress does not import Microsoft Powerpoint > presentations correctly. Some bullets appear as a " , and it is very > difficult to manipulate diagra

Re: Firefox 1.0, mailto, and mutt

* Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041125 01:11]: > Very nice to have Firefox 1.0 in sarge now. > > But the mozex extension no longer works, it seems (and judging > from the web-site hasn't been updated since September 2003). > > I used mozex with earlier versions of Firefox to bring up m

Re: Mass bug reports for packages with GFDL documentation?

* Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041124 19:26]: > What about the practical implications? How can you have a GNU/Linux > distribution without gcc, make and especially coreutils? If it's not possible to write free documentaion for the package containing non-free docs, it is still possible to remov

Re: suplusing a disk, how to 'clean' up? Overwriting data?

* Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041124 20:02]: > Just wondering how one can accomplish cleaning > up the disk? I.e. I want to overwrite > the existing disk so that no information can > be recovered. I've heard that dd has it's uses? > Simply recreating file systems is not likely > to be suffici

Re: Upgrading to Sarge from Woody

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041124 17:36]: > # vi /etc/apt/sources.list > :%s/woody/sarge/g > :wq > # apt-get dist-upgrade That will not work. > Should I delete everything in this file and just use the above? Depends on the other sources you have in your sources.list. If you use t

Re: Subversion package for debian

* Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041124 10:38]: > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/source/subversion > > says that the subversion package is experimental and not stable. No, it tells you, that there exists subversion packages in the experimental branch of Debian. > Does anyone know an

Re: mounting on /mnt is failing

* nornagon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041122 09:19]: > $ sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 isofile.iso /mnt/point > mount: mount point /mnt/point does not exist Does /mnt/point exist? Yours sincerely, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

Hi there! * Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041112 00:02]: > I just had to reinstall Windows 98 on my Gateway 500 and wiped out > the LILO alteration to the MBR that lets me also boot into Debian > GNU/Linux. I have the Knoppix 3.4 CDROM that would let me get to both > hard drive

Re: how to debug a random freezing problem?

* Adam Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041110 11:21]: > Thanks for all the suggestions... in the end, I tried removing some of > my memory and it appears to have worked: I had 1x512 and 1x256 (which > should be possible, according to the manual), but now that I removed the > 256, the problem has disap

Re: howto close a Debian bug?

* Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:51]: > No, that way is deprecated. See: > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en-gb.html#closing Oh, I'm Sorry. Thanks for the hint! Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: howto close a Debian bug?

* Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 23:51]: > Following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I > filed a couple of bugs. Now one of them has been resolved, how can I > report this and therefore close the bug? > > I don't see the answer anywhere in the docume

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:42]: > * Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:05]: > > How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package > > is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen"

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

* Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:05]: > How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package > is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option > ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with 'dpkg'? The only way I know (got through the package localepur

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader

* Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041106 22:54]: > Forgive me if I am missing something obvious but why cant you just > apt-get the acroread package? Because it's not part of Debian, nor is it in the contrib or non-free section, since it's license doesn't allow it. > $apt-cache search

Re: Upgrade KDE?

* robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041021 02:43]: > >Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a > >ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux. Newho, what exactly do I need > >to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Woody box to the latest KDE? > Upgrade to Sarge or try http://www.ba

Re: downloading selected source packages automatically

* ROBERTOJIMENOCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041006 01:10]: > So I download the source package (dsc, diff.gz > & tar.gz), dpkg-source it, apply my patches, dpkg-buildpackage > -rfakeroot, install it and mark it for hold so when upgrading a newer > version isn't installed. [..] > Is there a command to do

Re: Nvidia + 2.6 kernel

* Noah Durell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041005 20:49]: > I was hoping to try out a 2.6 kernel. When I installed it (using > apt-get) I couldn't get the nvidia drivers to install (using > module-assisstant) nor by doing a manual install as per the > instructions of this webpage: > http://home.comcast.n

Re: CD-rom access

* Arnfinn Gjostol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041002 18:51]: > I have installed Debian for my very first time and want to install > packages from my CD-rom, > but I do not know how to get access to mu CD-rom from the root promt, or I > do not know which > command to type in addition to for example "ap

Re: @-Zeichen

Hi Stefan! Das ist eigentlich die englischsprachige Mailingliste. Wende dich das nächste mal doch bitte an [EMAIL PROTECTED] oder schreib in englisch. * Stefan Pachur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040916 10:29]: > Wir haben hier ein Debian Sarge System laufen, haben jedoch das Problem, das > Sonderzeich

Re: GMAIL Invites..!

* matt okeson-harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040912 21:42]: > for those bashing on google... have you actually READ the faq's re > privacy and security? Have those posting their invites acutally READ http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.en.html#ads ? Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc

Re: chroot bind9 issue

* saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040906 16:43]: [ Problem while chrooting bind9 ] > Can anybody please help me to solve my probs? If no one on this list knows the answer to your question, you might want to ask it on debian-security oder debian-isp. Yours sincerely, Alexander signa

Re: checking hda during while boot by knoppix BOX

* bing yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040906 16:21]: > I would like to have the knoppix Box check root file system less > frequently, say check once every another 100 booting. > > where can I get this job done? modify which config file? There is no configuration file for filesystem checks, but you can

Re: how to change owner of named ??

* Mitar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040901 17:29]: > > I want to change the owner of the process from root to a restricted user because > > of the > > security reasons stated at many sites on the internet. When I do the following, > > I'm getting > > the following error message : > You have to change

Re: Help upgrade

* John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040819 19:00]: > I have a Debian Unstable install that I'm trying to get up to date. Please, if you use unstable read manpages, read the BTS and search the listarchive of different lists. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get upgrade [..] > The following packages ha

Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

* Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040819 20:15]: > I am trying to find information on whether large external firewire > drives are effected by the various bios limitations on older hardware. > Google is not turning up much and I would be appreciative of any pointers > to docs and articles people m

Re: What is the current stable version

* Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040819 22:09]: > Well it seems that Sarge is _now_ the current stable release? No, it isn't. > When login into shell I see Debian Gnu/Linux 3.1. The package base-files contains the file /etc/debian_version. This content of this file is displayed on the lo

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

* Tong Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040811 05:04]: > Looking at the packages I installed, I know there > would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g., [..] > I don't want them, but I have to keep them. This to me > is a huge list. Why do you have to keep them? Yours sincerely, Alexander s

Re: Get list of all installed packages from Testing

* Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040803 18:33]: > How can I get a list of all installed packages from the Testing release > of Debian? dpkg --get-selections If you want a list of removed packages, too, add a \*. Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signat

Re: Source files

* nx13372 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040803 14:42]: > How can i dowload the source file: > #apt-get install man apt-get ; apt-get source XYZ Yours sincerely, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how can other users use X?

Moin! * Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040727 21:48]: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xhost +root > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: No protocol specified > > > > xhost: unable to open display ":0" > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > > > > Suggestions? > > As the user who

Re: newbie apt-get question

* Mark D. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040727 03:36]: > apt-get install samba=3.0.5 > > it tells me that "Version 3.0.5 for samba is not found" You forget the Debian-Packet Version. Try it with "apt-get install samba=3.0.5-1" and it sould work. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

Moin! * Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040725 11:44]: > AFAIK changes to groups should take effect immediately. Can anybody > tell me what else I should check? No, the group changes take effect, when you logout and agein login. The output of »id« is quite usefull in those cases. Yours sinc

Re: it was supposed to be my first DVD

* Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040723 06:31]: > append="pci=biosirq hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1" > I assume it is these issues and we haven't even got to the encryption > business. Yes I linked hdd->dvd. I'm not sure, since I don't use ide-scsi any more, but if I remeber

Re: Gallery

Moin! * Thijs Koetsier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040716 16:49]: >> Could someone please explain me, why you are wasting your time, >> installing things from source? [..] > Why are you wasting your time installing Linux, when you could buy a > working PC out-of-the-box with Windows, at your local supe

Re: Gallery

Moin! * Thijs Koetsier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040716 15:12]: > Yes, as a matter of fact I did today. > What seems to be the problem in the first configuration screen? > Normally, the installer outputs the warnings and errors which cause > problems. > > Which version of Gallery did you download?

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