Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

You may want to consider starting over, and staying within a single release (stable or testing). Mixing releases can make a mess of your system quickly unless you really know what you're doing. Now you tell me! ;-) Ok, I'll start over. Keeping the faith :-) Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

How do I clean up? dpkg-reconfigure debconf Says debconf not installed. Is that grave? I wasn't able to understand what debconf is yet. Next I'd like to have OpenOffice. Any advice? I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or unstable. That's part of the pro

Scary df output

I assume comand "df" is the one to know free disk space. It gives me this information: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1-429168968127 1 0 49% / according to which I have a negative number of blocks! Also, the columns seem to

Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

Thanks all w.r.t. windows and printing systems. Slightly better now: running icewm instead of twn, and lp seems to print PS files. But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially failed (gnome, kde, cups-client

Windows and Printing Systems

I hereby promise that in a near future I will make a conceptual network of this outstanding forum publicly available (as part of my PhD reserach on adaptive hypertext). There everybody will be able to find the right archived answer by ostensive querying. In the meanwhile, please help me the old fas

graphic system setup

Hi. (Sorry if you get this more than once. I'm also struggling with email configuration.) I've installed Debian over the network from the default server (Woody I think). It's my first time. I cannot get X to work properly. "startx" runs but shows in a 320x200 mode even though I select a higher

Re: graphic system setup

"Try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86." Tried. startx crashes with fatal errors - AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver - no screens found for drivers - vga - s3virge (the only S3 item on the list) respectively. This is kinda what I had just after installation and that made me start usin

graphic system setup

Hi. /* Sorry if you get this more than once. I was also struggling with email configuration, and list subscription requests and confirmation seem to have gotten a bit out of sync. */ I've installed Debian over the network from the default server (Woody I think). It's my first time. I cannot get