Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Questions: 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? 2:) Perhaps some other feature can be added to apt-get to allow this reconstruction to occur in a smooth way? That would save

adding new ps fonts to latex (how to keep it during upgrades)

Hi, is there a recommended way of adding information about new postscript fonts into psfonts.map (or into another file), which retains this during upgrades? At the moment I always need to readd my fonts after the tetex maintainer changes this file. Maybe something like modutils do with

Re: slink: kernel-package fails

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make-kpkg clean; make config; make-kpkg --rev printe.20362 kernel_image and get the following error messages: dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.36 -Pdebian/tmp-image parse changelog/debian: error: unable to open substvars file debian/substvars:

netscape 3.04

Hi, I just installed Netscape 3.04 with the Debian installer package, and I always get a bus error, when trying to start netscape. :( I use custom kernel versions 2.0.36 or 2.1.132 - no difference. Is it possible to run Netscape 3.04 on current slink? I dont want to upgrade to

special exim configuration

Hi, is it possible to configure exim such that outgoing mails appear to come from another host *and* mails between local users really come from the local host? My current configuration masquerades *all* mails as coming from another host. This is bad for replys, especially if the sender is

Installing (and using) LiLo on 2nd HD?

Hi, the BIOS of my PC is able to boot from the second HD which is called D by the BIOS and /dev/hdc by Linux. I'd like to use /dev/hdc2 as my root partition and I want to install LiLo on this second HD, booting from it. I don't want to install LiLo on the first HD. Reading LiLo's

Re: Dead keys and X11 3.3.2 svgalib and mouse I/O permissions...

Ignacio Ms Ivars wrote: I have two problems I think I know the solution but I don't know how to apply it. First is the eternal problem of the dead keys under X11. I had it solved using Thomas Quinnot modified libX11.so.6.1, but as I have upgraded to hamm and to X11R6 3.3.2 it doesn't

Re: Is Xforms 0.88 for bo available?

Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: BTW. It seems very strange to me that user program, such as lyx (in fact sometimes my Netscape 4.04 does the same, after trying to download some perticular pages) is able to crash the Xserver. It is very inconvenient :-) when during long simulation in Scilab and

german vs english manpages

Hello, I have german and english manpages on my system. And I use LC_ALL and LANG for german local settings. If there is a german manpage for a certain topic, the corresponding english page isn't shown in favour of the german one. Unfortunately, sometimes the german manpage isn't complete

mtools: mmove usage

Hi, how am I supposed to use mmove? I think it should be called just like mcopy. However, while 'mcopy a: /dos/e' works, 'mmove a: /dos/e' doesn't. The man page and the info file didn't help. Any hints? Or is it a bug? Thank you, Ulf -- #include signature -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: mtools: mmove usage

Thank you for your reply. On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does not harm to try out: mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever Well, I tried that before and it didn't work either. Best regards, Ulf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: mtools: mmove usage

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: The error message is a bug, but DOS-wise a: is a non-sensical source; DOS wouldn't accept it for either copy or move. a:*.* is the answer but you'd have to quote it. That may or may not be the problem

Re: -I- Re: mtools: mmove usage sorry, could not help...

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: I never could get the mtools to have full functionality... especially on logical drives in extended partitions for dos. Is that how you do it? just do a mcopy a: /dos/e? and it'll hunt for logical partition named E:? I tried mcopy a: e:

Re: printer woes

justin honold wrote: i'm running debian hamm with all the latest files off the ftp.debian.org/pub/dists/hamm directory. lpr 5.9-21 and magic filter 1.2-17. anyways, i have some problems. my printer (hp deskjet 660c) will not print at ALL after installing magic filter. i've forced a new

Re: X-Windows and Bash Settings

Jason Bauer wrote: I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows (Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that get run in my .bash-profile when I login, and when i quit X the settings are back to how they should be. Is this just a bug or

Re: elf-x11r6lib

Will Lowe wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: that needed xforms. When I tried to install xforms from dselect, it said I needed elf-x11r6lib, but that it doesn't appear to be available? gs-alladin depends on it, too, but I couldn't find it either. This is a wrong (old)

YASQ (yet another sendmail question), more detailed

On 14 Oct 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: Hi, I doubt it's sendmail problem (I mean, nothing that a recompile will solve). It looks like a configuration problem. Can you send more information to the list? Your hosts names, your sendmail.mc file, where are you trying to send mail to, etc.

YASQ (yet another sendmail question)

Hi, I've a small intranet running with debian. In fact, there are only two machines which are not connected to the internet. I don't use a name server on either of the machines, it's not needed. Addresses are read from /etc/hosts. I use the latest sendmail package but can't send mail from

group 'wheel'

Hello, this is kind of a newbie question. I installed the secure-su package and there is a config file in /etc which can be used to restrict the access to 'su' on members of the group 'wheel'. I also heard of this group in conjunction with wu-ftpd (but I haven't installed this). What's

xlib6(g) 3.3-5 problems

Hello, recently I installed xlib6 (3.3-5) and xlib6g (3.3-5) because these packages are needed by other packages of X programs in hamm. This resulted in several problems: 1) Some packages (mostly still from Debian 1.2) depend on elf-x11r6lib which was apparently provided by older

gdb dependencies

Hi, I installed gdb_4.16-10 from unstable. It depends on ncurses-3.4 and libreadlineg2. However, there are no such packages. Is this a bug or are these packages missing at the moment? Thanks, Ulf -- #include signature -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase

Hi, I'm running Debian 1.3 with some packages from unstable (aka hamm), eg. libc6, xfree 3.3 and several packages depending on it. I noticed the following (minor) problems: 1) DOSEmu I installed DOSEmu 0.66.6 and when I run it as an ordinary user I always get dos: error in loading shared

Re: reload .bash_profile in xterm?

Sylvain Briole wrote: I run Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29/olvwm. I have set up a color xterm. But, my ls is not a color ls. I need to type alias ls='ls --color' in the login window to obtain ls in color. But I have written this command in my .bash_profile. So, xterm does not reload .bash_profile?

Re: keymapping, consolefont and mc

Markus Schneider wrote: I am also using bash-2.0, kbd-0.94 and de-latin1.map. I didn't set a special font. The only thing I had to do for mc to display german umlauts was to selecet Full 8 bits in the options menu under Display bits If this doesn't do what You want perhaphs

keymapping, consolefont and mc

Hi, I've got a problem regarding the localized keyboard mapping (german) and an appropriate console font. After I installed bash-2.0 and kbd-0.94 I couldn't access certain chars, so I needed to replace default.map by de-latin1.map or de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. Then I used 'setfont iso01.f14'

Re: keymapping, consolefont and mc

Markus Schneider wrote: I am also using bash-2.0, kbd-0.94 and de-latin1.map. I didn't set a special font. The only thing I had to do for mc to display german umlauts was to selecet Full 8 bits in the options menu under Display bits If this doesn't do what You want perhaphs selecting ISO

Re: mouse problem

David S. Jackson wrote: On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote: i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and i just get /dev/xxx no such device. try gpm -m /dev/psmouse -t ps2 And don't forget to include support for bus mice in your kernel. -- TO

Re: modutils and recent kernels

Wichert Akkerman wrote: A warning to everyone trying to run new kernels: the current modutils implementation does not work with the latest kernel recent. For the stable kernels everything up to and including 2.0.29 seems to work fine. 2.0.30 however does not work. For the 2.1 series there is

Re: Error patching to 2.0.30....anyone else?

Dave Cinege wrote: I just tried to patch up to 2.0.30 and I got an error along the lines of hunk 1 of 1 failed. Rejected 3c59x.c... I restored 'pure' kernel 2.0.27 source off of the Debian 1.2.6 CD I have and tried itup to 2.0.29 no complaints, but it gets to 2.0.30 and I get that

Re: strange who/wtmp

Remco van de Meent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ w 2:10pm up 1 day, 22:32h, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.07, 1.01 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ Strange, isn't it? When I do 'last -10', there ARE users logged in. But they don't show up

Re: kernel-config

Tim Sailer wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote: I try to get the sound working i linux and when I do make config in th kernel-source I'm aksed to enter the I/O-base but the only thing that happens is that it says 'no help is available. Can anyone help me,

Re: Module Errors!!

Thought wrote: Do you or does anyone else get these errors right after installing Debian? This happens if you compile a new kernel of the same version (2.0.27). Modules are copied to /lib/modules/[version], so existing modules are overwritten if you compiled them again but they aren't deleted.

/etc/alternatives -- How?

How do you manage links in /etc/alternatives (ie. what's the recommended way)? Would you establish the links by hand or run the postinst of the desired package or do something else? I'd like to switch from nvi to vim... Thanks, Ulf

make-kpkg error

Hallo, yesterday I successfully compiled kernel 2.0.29 at home. Today I tried the same at work and it went wrong :( Both systems are equally configured regarding the relevant packages (dpkg 1.4.0.8, dpkg-deb 1.4.0.8, kernel-package 3.19, don't know about others). I did: make mrproper make

Re: X tries to start XIE and PEX but wont

Randy R Dees wrote: I have just done a clean install from a 1.2.2 CDROM and am having troubles starting X. I got the base system installed, and then installed the X stuff. I selected xbase, xserver-vga16, fvwm2, and xserver-svga for the initaial install. I did allow xdm to set up. [...]

1.2.0: problem with dependencies

Hello, how do I manually change dependencies in the dpkg-database? Is it sufficient to do it in /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/status? I tried to install gimp-smotif from Debian 1.2.0 (InfoMagic Dec1996). dselect says, that X11R6 is needed but doesn't seem to be available. I

changing/correcting dependencies

Hello, somehow there's a problem with X11R6 dependencies in Debian 1.2. Trying to install gimp-smotif dselect says, that X11R6 is needed but doesn't seem to be available. Of course I installed it and it even works :) This should be a problem in xbase, I think. I tried to correct it by

PEX? XIE?

Hello, what are these PEX and XIE extensions that startx doesn't load? Which packages are they in? Thanks, Ulf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dselect

Hi, I've got some (newbie) questions about dselect. 1) Is it merely a frontend for dpkg or is it used for other tasks as well? 2) Do I've to use '=' (Hold) for all packages at the beginning of the installation (and may be everytime I use dselect) in order to use dselect without

shadow-suite?

Hi, is there a shadow-suite package available for Debian? I couldn't find it in my distribution. Thanks, Ulf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

1.2.0 installation problems

Hello everyone, I just moved to debian from another distribution (DLD). I got it from the December 1996 Developers Ressource of InfoMagic (it's Debian 1.2.0, I think). I really liked the way it installs (though it could work without floppies like RedHat or my older distribution - maybe in a