On 2017-09-02 Tom Browder wrote:
> I would especially appreciate other ideas for programming editors for
> novice programmers.
Jed, http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/, is highly recommendable!
Morten
On 2016-11-03 Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Hi all,
> Here at shellworld we are using Ubuntu 16.04 with elinks compiled to
> support java scripting.
> I am working with the partner indigogo site generosity,
> www.generosity.com
> even in elinks the site does not allow one to log in or create an
> ac
On 2016-06-13 Nicolas George wrote:
> As I already explained twice, a solution that requires a
> different action when it is a mailing-list and when it is not
> is not an acceptable solution.
Why not? Don't you know when you are corresponding on a mailing
list or not? You only need to switch betw
On 2016-06-13 Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
>> I expect you to conform to the CoC and not continue to reply to me
>> personally.
>
> Nobody can be expected to remember the personal preferences of each
> mailing-list member, nor the subscription s
On 2016-06-08 Johann Spies wrote:
> Until a few weeks ago, I could open firefox from mutt by 'v' and then
> select the html-part of the email and press enter.
>
> Now firefox does not but w3m handles everything - which is not preferred
> when some links are important.
I use the following in ~/.ma
On 2014-12-17 Karen Lewellen wrote:
> I have a still in the package copy of wordperfect 5.1 for UNIX. I got
> this because wordperfect is my main word processor on my primary computer
> and I would welcome, if at all possible, to use it with Linux as well.
> Is there any reason why the program
On 2014-11-11 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Intel runs fine on Wheezy, though you do need a kernel upgrade in the
> form of a backported kernel for some (though not all) Intel drivers.
Of course, but if you are using backported packages, you are
not really running Wheezy anymore.
Morten
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On 2014-11-11 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On 11 November 2014 10:25, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
>> On 2014-11-11 Man_Without_Clue wrote:
>>> Really? Wheezy? HD4600?
>>> No kernel upgrade or anything?
>> No, you need Jessie. In Wheezy the Vesa fallback is used.
> I
On 2014-11-11 Man_Without_Clue wrote:
> Really? Wheezy? HD4600?
> No kernel upgrade or anything?
No, you need Jessie. In Wheezy the Vesa fallback is used.
Morten
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On 2014-08-23 Steve Litt wrote:
> If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at
> least for partial conversions and touchups. But if you haven't used
> Sigil for awhile, you might not be aware that it's really grown up in
> the past two years, to the point where it's a reason
On 2014-03-07 Paul E Condon wrote:
> There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past
> within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on
> the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black
> background. I get this in both gnome-terminal and i
On 2013-11-13 lina wrote:
> I checked most, seems none has "pop up" action before the events.
I use the following little script that I borrowed from somewhere: It uses
"gmessage" (you can change to xmessage) and "at", and will pop up the
message that you typed in originally. If you call the scrip
On 2013-10-26 Glenn English wrote:
> There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd
> thing in Aptitude:
> lqk
> xReally quit Aptitude?x
> x [ Yes ][ No ] x
> mqj
You should look at your $TERM var
On 2013-10-13 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> apt-mark hold
> or
> echo hold | dpkg --set-selections
> or
> Synaptic's lock option
Sure. But the gist of the discussion to me was the point of view of the
naive user, i.e. how the two package managers behave out of the box.
No compelling arguments have been
On 2013-10-13 Dmitrii Kashin wrote:
> I think that aptitude works quite well for the easiest cases. And it is
> the only instrument I know which allow to see dependency chains. It was
> dselect some time ago which could do it too as I know, but now it seems
> to be dead. BTW, it provides with good
On 2013-10-08 Florian Lindner wrote:
> What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or
> aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better
> dependency checking. What is the current state? apt-get or aptitude?
> Does it matter? What about using both?
Both use lib
On 2013-07-15 Csanyi Pal wrote:
> I have problem only in the console ( that is not in X Window System ).
> There Midnight Commander ( mc )beeps every time when I use arrow keys,
> and I heare beep when start mc too.
If mc on the console is the only problem remaining, then try to
use the Options
On 2013-07-15 Csanyi Pal wrote:
> I can give some informations more.
> On the console ( not on X Window System ) when I start Midnight
> Commander ( mc ) I can hear right after mc start a beep, which I never
> heared before. Moreover, when I use arrow keys in mc, I heare every time
> a beep, whic
cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
> I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to
> catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC
> search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return
> the information I want:
[..]
> I have the list of book
Matej Košík <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a line:
> (EE) No devices detected.
> What does that mean? Given card is not supported by a given driver?
As Camaleón wrote your card is not supported by the driver in Debian
Squeeze. It is supported in the backporte
Nick White wrote:
> I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things
> generally went very nicely.
> One thing which isn't yet working though is sound.
I did an installation of a Wheezy-system about a month ago and ran into
the same problem: No sound. I did not take notes as to how
Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:06:40 +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
>> In the latter case, which package should I report against?
> I'd say "libsane".
I think I'll go for udev. Once the scanner is attached to to a
scsi device file, then the appropr
Hi,
My scanner suddenly stopped working. It is connected through firewire and
when I turn it on, the firewire devices are created:
~/ % dmesg | tail -6
[ 8377.031246] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
[ 8377.529022] scsi7 : SBP-2 IEEE-1394
[ 8377.529102] fi
Camaleón wrote:
> As Sven points out, there is no current support for 3D in Nuvó driver
> (there is, but is very experimental and probably highly unstable¹).
> Should you want to play with 3D programs/applications, just install
> nvidia driver.
> ¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumH
Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Appreciate all the replies. However I have never used an initrd in the
> past (been building kernels since the 2.0.x series) and don't want to
> this time. sata and ext3 drivers are built into the kernel (not
> modules) so I don't think I should need one. Any thoughts as t
Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> * Lost compression sync: disabling compression
> Jul 25 13:16:55 localhost pppd[4004]: \
> sent [CCP TermReq id=0x5"Lost compression sync"]
> * Jul 25 13:16:55 localhost kernel: PPP: VJ decompression error
> Jul 25 13:16:56 localhost
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:42:33 -0600 Rick Weinbender wrote:
> Is there a command to flush or empty the contents
> of a file?
> I would like the empty file to retain it's attributes and rights.
$ >file
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:01:27 - (GMT) Mark C wrote:
> I run a nightly cronjob to back up certain system files, for the life of
> me I cannot add them as an attatchment, when I mail to files to myself,
> they always got put into the message body. Reading the man pages gives
> no indication of ho
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:07:23 -0600 Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:
> Earlier today I tried
> $urlview .gaim/logs/*.log > url-view.txt
> It worked, but the output was a bit nasty. Is there a way to just get
> the url's from urlview into a txt file?
Depending somewhat of the format of the logfile, th
LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
L> There is a section named Modules in the XF86Config-4 file. Has
L> somebody a howto, or doc page where is some explanation about
L> the modules? For example "dbe" "ddc" "vbe" "dri" "extmod"
L> "glx" "pex5" "record" "xie" "xtrap" "speedo" "type1" "GLcore"
L> "bitm
Hi,
I am in the process of updating som Danish translations of the
gettext message catalogs of some programs.
According to http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po/da one
can download and translate these PO files, and submit them as
bug reports to package maintainers.
I am a little uncertain
Glyn Kennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
GK> I have found some ways that work, though. For all the
GK> following, I'm using my hacked gpm ncurses compiled after
GK> a ./configure --with-shared --with-gpm --with-develop the
GK> untouched lynx binary, with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to find the
GK> ne
Glyn Kennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
GK> Has anyone else managed to get ncurses' gpm support to work with lynx? That
GK> is, proper mouse support for lynx navigation, not just gpm copy-and-paste.
GK> I know that the default libncurses5 package doesn't come with gpm support,
GK> but even aft
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
VL> This is not sufficient: one needs a TERM value that defines color
VL> *and* bce (neither xterm, nor xterm-color does, because they are
VL> too generic).
xterm-xfree86 does, no?
Regards,
Morten
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Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SL> Hi all -
SL> I changed my hostname from callerio to callerio.piscat.nj
SL> and now when i invoke "sudo" i get the followin message:
SL> slamson@callerio:~$ sudo -v sudo: unable to lookup
SL> callerio.piscat.nj via gethostbyname()
Do you have callerio.
Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
EG> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:15:08PM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I wanted to create an alias for the loopback interface in
>> /etc/network/interfaces corresponding to e.g.
>>
>>
Hi,
If I wanted to create an alias for the loopback interface in
/etc/network/interfaces corresponding to e.g.
# ifconfig lo:0 192.168.1.1
then how should the entry look like?
Regards,
Morten
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Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SS> There is a newsgroup where this mailinglist is mirrored - check the
SS> archives (or someone else might mention it)
news.gmane.org is a bi-directional news interface to tons of mailing
lists, among them debian-user. I am using it right now ;)
Rega
What is the current address for fetching packages' changelogs?
I tried e.g.
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=aptitude
but got
The requested URL /cgi-bin/get-changelog was not found on this
server
Regards,
Morten
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Hi,
I just upgraded to wmaker 0.80.0-4 and libpng3 was installed as
a dependency. Now it seems that the png icons in my wmaker dock
cannot be displayed anymore. It seems like a catch 22 to me: if
I remove libpng3 wmaker complains and if I remove libpng2 then
21 other installed packages complain. A
Bill Benedetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BB> Does anyone *KNOW* if all X uses ~/.Xdefaults ?? Is there
BB> somewhere else that Matijs should be trying to put his resources?
Just a suggestion for the latter part.../etc/X11/app-defaults.
Regards,
Morten
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Klaus V. Slott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
KVS> Det er jo bare en timeout, nogen må da allerede have
KVS> fordansket det begreb bedre end jeg lige kan kan finde
KVS> på. Men ellers hvad så med noget i stil med:
KVS> "Værtskomputeren svarede ikke indenfor rimelig tid"
I denne sammenhæng er "frist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been attempting to get my Mutt going but it's giving me a
hard time I've included .procmailrc .muttrc .forward
.fetchmailrc . If there's more, please let me know
[...]
However able to get the mail delivered where I want to, Mutt
complains that
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wondered if there is a perferred way to handle aquiring perl
modules?
The CPAN interface shell that gets installed with perl provides a
nifty way to search, download, install most of what is on CPAN and
can be enhanced with WAIT (a WAIS based search
Hi,
What is the terminfo denotation for the control-key?
I have looked at terminfo(5) and I see all sorts of keys listed
with corresponding denotations but nowhere do I see the
control-key listed.
I want to change the setting in the xterm-xfree86 terminfo
entry with infocmp so that key sequenc
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RS> On my earlier SuSE system "less" was able to read gzipped text files. Can i
RS> get less to do it also on Debian?
I have included
LESSOPEN="| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s"
in my /etc/enviroment
This enables less to view the contents of a number
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BN> More powerful mail readers (/me ducks) cache messages much more
BN> efficiently than mutt.
BN> Emacs gnus, for example, only fetches/displays unread messages unless
BN> you tell it otherwise, which makes it far faster to open and read
BN> folders.
You
Does anyone know of any unofficial .debs of the IBM Java
runtime environment?
Regards,
Morten
Hi,
I have created a local mirror with apt-move, I have placed a
line like this in sources.list:
deb file:/mirrors/debian/ local main contrib non-free non-us
As you can see, with my sparkling imagination I gave the local
mirror a release name of "local".
I ran apt-get update and all seems fin
Hi,
I have two questions related to file pattern matching and
specifying comments in /etc/apt/preferences
1)
I would like to pin all jed packages so that they don't get
upgraded because I made som personal modifications to them.
Those packages are jed, jed-common, jed-sl and xjed.
I thought I
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:30:21PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> > Nothing went wrong actually. I just had to remove
> > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu, then the menus generated by
> > update-menus appeared but this
Siert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 01:40:43PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
>
>
> > What will I have to do to make them available to the normal user?
>
> Did you tried `update-menus -v` to see where it goes wrong? I think the
> normal u
Hi,
I only have access to the menus generated by update-menus if I
start wmaker as root.
When starting wmaker as a normal user no menus have been
generated.
I have tried running update-menus both as root and as user.
What will I have to do to make them available to the normal user?
TIA,
Mor
Hi,
I would like to use the new Xfree 4.1 in woody with my S3
Virge/DX card but I am experiencing two problems:
1) When shifting from console to X (ctrl-alt-F7) it takes a
couple of seconds for the dockapp icons on my desktop to be
redrawn
2) The mouse pointer freezes ocassionally, usually
I have just installed zgv but when I start it I get a messy
flickering screen, I exit with ctrl-c and I see these messages:
Monitor setting from environment denied.
Color/mono text selection from environment denied.
svgalib applications otherwise work ok. so I am at a loss what
to look for.
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: lynx-ssl
> Version: 2.8.4.2-1
>
> Does the following a lynx bug or is there a way to get lynx behave like
> other browsers?
It could be a Lynx bug, certainly. Whether or not one should
dub some behaviour in a brower's interaction with html a bug i
Hi,
I am trying to create a resource file for particular programs
as specified in "The X Window User HOWTO", section 8.5, instead
of having the settings for all of them in ~/.Xdefaults.
However it does not seem to work. Here is what I have done:
- Set XAPPLRESDIR to point to ~/app-defaults in th
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> anyone have an idea how to make wvdial use pppd with the -d flag for
> debugging?
It's been a long time since I used wvdial but I notice from an
old backup that I had a file /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial with a few
pppd options in it so I guess that wvdial could be
Pierre Hyvernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
> I am using lynx (I am also trying w3m, but I haven't got used to it
> yet...) in X when I don't want to launch Mozilla or Netscape (and
> sometimes even if one of them is aleady running!)
>
> It looks like I can't always cut or paste text in it.
peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After I yesterday updated some packages to be able to install
> KDE base from unstable, my key seems to have stopped
> working properly. It used to work in most places, but now it
> does some really weird things in several programs (most notabl
Ardy -- Not Entered -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[you might like to wrap your lines a wee bit..I did it for you]
> hai i need some help from you guys out there , does anybody
> know hot to setup WMPPP and also how to make it work? because
> this is first time for me to use wmppp , before i just
Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got a minor problem ,I can not use mouse in rxvt or
> xterm running mc; before in slack I can use it. Even
> vim , I can not use (although I have set mouse
> options). In console I try to run gpm and mc, but have
> not test it yet. I use debian 2.2 r3.
Y
Henrik Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also tried 'apt-get install libncurses5-dev' - this couldn´t be found, and
> 'apt-get install libncurses-dev' gave me something like "package
> libncurses-dev has no version [...]"
>
> Am I using the right commands?
On my potato CDs libncurses5-dev
Henrik Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Everything seemed to go smoothly until I suddenly got this:
>
> checking for tgetent in -lncurses ... no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses ... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap ... no
> checking for termcap functions library ... error: configure: n
Hi,
When I upgraded from potato to woody it seems that I have done
something wrong in that my perl installation now appears to be
broken. When I try to install a module from cpan I get this
error message:
cpan> install Net::FTP
Running make f
Simmons-Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My ISP uses a proxy server and so prevents Lynx from working
> properly (or at least that was a possiblility that someone else
> suggested). I know for sure that my ISP uses a proxy server as
> they told me themselves. Please tell me what information I n
Sergio Da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wondering if there is anybody out there who does disk-at-once
> recording using "cdrdao" or any other recording software. My main
> purpose is the recording of audio CDs, and so far I have succeeded only
> a few times in recording CDs without a gl
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> xcdroast from testing no longer works, and the one in unstble
> won't run either. What do other people used?
>
> I tried gtoaster but I have to admit I don't understand its user
> interface a bit.
Gcombust will please you, I'm sure. As for audio I
Gudmundur Erlingsson,,, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a dialup connection to the net, a mailbox at Yahoo (I'm
> a bit on the move) that I access using pop3 retreaval with
> Fetchmail, and since I really want to use Mutt (pretty sure
> it's safe to admit that in this crowd:-) I guess I have t
Simmons-Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Debian Group,
>
> I am unable to run lynx on the Debian 2.2r2 system I recently installed.
> After I run "wvdial", connect to my ISP, hit "cntrl z" and then type the
> command "lynx" at the command prompt (all as root) I get the following
> errors (
Hi,
Could someone help me with the syntax for searching the source
cache..
I have tried something like
apt-cache showpkg gimp -o Dir::Cache=/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
My source cache reflects the unstable archive But the command
above still only gives me package information from my old
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:55:05PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED])
> > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:11:56PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> > > > I am using Netscape 4.76 wi
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:11:56PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> > I am using Netscape 4.76 with WindowMaker 0.64.0 on a potato
> > system, the latter being compiled from the sources in unstable.
> > Occasionally Netscape won't star
Hi,
I am using Netscape 4.76 with WindowMaker 0.64.0 on a potato
system, the latter being compiled from the sources in unstable.
Occasionally Netscape won't start when I click on its icon --
from the error messages that are output to one of the consoles
I can see this:
Class: XmDisplay _M
Hi,
I have fetched the deb-src package of util-linux 2.10q to
comply with the demands of a kernel 2.4.1. Compiling and
installing it seems more daunting than usual -- the MCONFIG
file in the source archive lists a lot of options that should
be answered correctly so as not to wind up with a system
I was wondering if anyone could provide me with a link
explaining the steps one needs to take to install a 2.4
kernel on a potato system. I suppose that several packages
(e.g. pppd) need to be updated to get a functioning system..
Thanks
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kmself@ix.netcom.com said:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:59:03PM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's
> > timesetting with that of a timeserver but
Hi,
I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's
timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what
timeserver address I pass to netdate I get the following
lacklustre message:
Connection with udp to x.x.x.x failed
I converted to Debian a couple of weeks ago and th
Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi,
> I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the
> console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line,
> then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to
> filter into assorted folders
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