Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you don't ever want announcements from Progeny on any subject posted to
> any Debian mailing list ever again, speak up now.
And then I didn't write my oppinion on the subject. I have no problem
giving Progeny a 100% reduce for sending Debian-relat
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. Why are packages kept back like follows?
>
>$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Upgrade will never install new packages. So packages with changed
depends-fields will not be upgraded by this command.
Read the manual you can read it there.
Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm noticing that my root file system has filled up. I'm having a very
And what do you have on you root-partition? /var peharps?
> BTW, what is the file kcore? It seems to be very big.
Do you mean /proc/kcore? it is a projection of you memory into the
f
Mirek Kwasniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Today I've trying (in bash):
>
> ls /dev/tty[a-z]0
>
> and answer has unexpected /dev/ttyI0 and /dev/ttyS0 followed by
> /dev/tty[a-z]0 entries.
I've seen this comming up a lot of places the past few months. It
looks like somebody wants to redefine
Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Bugs need to be filed, though they need proper investigation.
>
> But do you think they are release critical bugs?
If the packages can't be installed because of missing depencies it's
and release critical bug. If the depencies just are ugly
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter Makholm (brother) already did some work on it, but I haven't
> seen anything else... and we have a big fat warning in current
> update-inetd implemented.
What I did was a drop-in replacement of the present perlscrip behind
"Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there any plan to provide i586 optimized binaries in the future?
Probally not. At least not all of the distribution. It will take to much
space with to litle gain.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Who would upload if not the developer and not the maintainer?
> Just curious...
Normally each package is maintained by _one_ developer. If _that_
developer can't upload a needed bugfix (vacation, netdead, busy, ...)
some other debian devoloper will do a NMU.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Another silly newbie q: What's an NMU?
Non Maintainer Upload, it's when the debian developer can't upload to
fix a bug.
Please fix you mailer. It is tagging the subject line in some obscure
way. Please use "Re: " instead of "S
"Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ?
> I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports,
> security warnings etc...
Look at security.debian.org for security updates.
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Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Instead of loading init, bash is loaded, giving you a root shell.
> Mount the root file system read/write, run passwd, then reboot.
Couldn't this break the filesystem?
Isn't a sync or remount as read-only needed?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> read 'Why so much hate?' posted some days ago in this mailing - list.
> we could put in contact each-other by this mailing-lists for an initial
> project about Dselect.
Try have a look at apt-find and see if that is better and probally
make sugestions for improving th
Bill Shui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> and I really like to upgrade glibc to 2.1
> but I followed the instruction from the GNU site, downloaded all the
> any suggestions?
Yes: Next time use the debian packages from unstable when you want to
upgrade anything.
I don't know wha
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo
> when I boot :-). Is there any way I can change this logo?
Take a look at
http://linux-patches.rock-projects.com/v2.2-f/logo-select.html
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"Salvatore Comito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> sono molto interessato a Linux. Posseggo un apple Performa 6400 (ppc 603e) e
> vorrei sapere se esiste una vostra distribuzione per questo computer ed
Please use:
debian-italian@lists.debian.org
You probally also want to read:
http://www.debian
"People" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> PLEASE
> GIVE-ME OPL3SAX SOUND BOARD
Sorry but it seems like you caps lock i broken.
OPL3-SAx works almost perfect with the new 2.2.x kernels. Grab a
kernel source read the Documentation/sound/OPL3SAx, compile and be
happy.
I think you need the isapnp pack
Nathaniel Couper-Noles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a SSH 2.0 package for debian? Are there any plans for one?
ssh2 is released under a non-DFSG license. That's probally why the
maintainer of ssh don't won't to upgrade.
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Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am in the early stages of setting up a Debian system. So far, so
> good. I have now tried to install a few RPM's and failed due to
> dependancy problems with /bin /sh.
It means that the RPM package has a depency on a RPM package providing
/bin/sh
You shouldn'
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2
> compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-)
The slink version of tar does this.
>From the manual:
NAME
tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
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pfau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) Is there a way to install a deb-package which is not included in the
> standard distribution.
Use dpkg.
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"Mark Bathie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> I have been trying to set up my awe64Pnp on kernel 2.0.36. I have
>>> been through just about every doc there is but still I have no luck.
>>Do you use isapnp?
> yea
"Mark Bathie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been trying to set up my awe64Pnp on kernel 2.0.36. I have
> been through just about every doc there is but still I have no luck.
Do you use isapnp?
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budi w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i use ess 1868 i try to detect my sound with sound module and isapnp but
> when i try to play my *.mp3 file
> i got messsage "can't open /dev/dsp"
Your user has probally not permission to write to /dev/dsp. Add your
user to the "audio" group in /etc/group.
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Khalid EZZARAOUI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is it safe to use the old 2.2.5 config file (to compile the kernel) in
> the 2.2.7 configuration ?
I havn't tried exact that combination but it should work. Just use
"make oldconfig"
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André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation
We have all been there.
> I must have installed something incorrectly because 'man fstab' says:
> "can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config"
Yuck, I keep f
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you don't want to mount the drive for the entire session, you could
> also just try the following:
I shoul proof read my articles before sending them.
My /etc/fstab have almost the following lines:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto
André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is xwindows already installed on my system when I installed debian 2.1? I
> can't seem to find it by cd / and then reading the subdirectories from there.
It probally is. (I don't remember what a standard installation looks
like.)
Try looking at /usr/X11R
André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does bash contain a pause feature other than control-z?
try:
$ command | less
where "command" is what you want to do.
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André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) How do I move from one partitioned drive to another? How do I know the
> drive letters to use too?
There is no such thing as drive letters.
Partitions ar mounted around in the directory structure and you move
around just like on any other directory.
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> what's VMWare? is it like an emu? any pointers to info?
VMware is a company taht produces a virtual x86 machine running on x86
Linux or (soon to come) x86 WinNT.
It is buy-ware but a beta release is free to public download. for more
infomation: http://www.vmware.com
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I see from the vmware web page that 64 MB RAM is required. Does anyone
> know if this is a hard requirement? I'd like to install the demo on a
> system with 40 MB.
It's a matter of speed.
I've installed Win95 over VMware on my AMD K6 200Mhz with 32 MB
Steve Przepiora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I was wondering how debian automatically generates menus when you install
> new stuff.
Read:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/
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"Rick Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it compiles but i get the "command not found" error mesg.
> what am i doing wrong?
The program is probally not in you path. Try "./a.out" instead of just
"a.out"
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George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Again, only partially true. If he sends the debian diffs to the pine team
> and they approve them, he may distribute the binary within the pine
> license and they will be within the debian package guidelines.
But then it may conflict with the DSFG
John Welling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone have any idea when XFree86 3.3.3 will
> be included in the debian release?
Probally with the potato release.
The X maintainer is smart enough to get the slink versions bugfree
before proceding to the potato versions of the packages. XFree86 3.3.3
Ken Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> than with putting out software! Shoot - missed deadlines and playing
> politics insteadwhat is this? Microsoft?? ;)
At least one difference:
MS would release a non working slink. Debian wouldn't.
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"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think these cards are now properly supported in 2.2.0 If that works,
> then do let me know, as I've got one that I never use
I've been in the same position for the last year. I got one of those
to work under 2.2.0 as a module and some use of isapn
Thomas Janke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon.
Lets hope so...
> Is Debian ready for the new kernel?
> Will Slink be?
Slink will not include the new kernel. Linux 2.2.0 is pretty much new
code compared to 2.0.X and will probaly not go into a frozen
distr
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> what is the package for C++ compiler??
g++
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- citat RockBear
When I'm trying to compile C++ files it doesn't finds the C++
headerfiles automatically. It works when I'm telling it where to find
them as in:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > g++ -I/usr/include/g++-2 test.cc
- or -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > setenv CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH /usr/include/g++-2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > g++ tes
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anybody know what happened to orbs.dorkslayers.com? I'd email them, but
> there are no address records for the domain - just ns and glue records.
I got this on third hand:
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:12:38 -0800
From: Alan Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTE
"Martin Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does this mean Qt-dev and KDE stuff will come out of the non-free
> section eventually?
We're discussing it at debian-devel. I believe that Qt2.0 will be DSFG
free, but there could still be some licensing problems with KDE.
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Andrew Philip Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /pub/OS/Linux/dist/debian/dists/sid/non-free/binary-alpha/devel/lclint_2.4b-1.deb
Don't use this unless you are running on an alpha. If you are using
i386 this file should be better:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/de
Eric S. Raymond has made another memo from Vinod Valloppillil public.
http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html
I do not thionk it's as interesting as the first, but it mentions
Debian (and RedHat)
[About RedHat]
[...]
One of the larger "grants" however has been the now
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Lets say I have two text files... Both having several quotes, one per
> line. Each file has unique quotes, but both also have some quotes which
> are the same. What is a method to get from these two text files, a third
> file, which has all of the uniq
"BALAJI VENKAT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hence i get a feeling that i am loading a wrong binary of xfree86 ( ie i
> dont know if i have to take a.out binary or whatever ).
Where did you find the binaries?
Was it the official debianpackages from ftp.debian.org (or a mirror
thereoff), or was
"Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes that should do it...hmm...I seem to remember something about sync'ing
> twice
Remounting as read-only should do all the syncing needed.
I can't remember if sync actually wait on the harddrive but I'm think
not. Then a doubel-sync and a
"Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
#include
> LILO: linux /bin/sh
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> hopefully once you zap the root password...it SHOULD be sufficent
> to remount the filesystem read-only and issue halt or reboot
You didn't try this Stephen?
When I blew up my /etc/inittab this was the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Malloy) writes:
> It is quite worth while on its own merits, but what does it have to do
> with linux or debian?
Debian, the multi kernel/multi arch distribution. I like the sound of
that.
I don't need hurd right now. but when I'm going to make some programs
my self
I have a problem booting directly into X with xdm. I told the
instalation script to boot into xdm. By hand I removed runlevel 2
from xdms entry in runlevel.conf.
The problem is that when I boot into runlevel 3, the keyboard dies.
It works when I first boot into runlevel 2 and then as root writes
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