Re: Mixing Debian releases the easy way - HowTo - questions

2002-02-13 Thread tluxt
your comments informative. See also other comments questions below. (I'd suggest you send your answers to the list, so everyone can benefit from them. :) ) Chris - I thought you might find some of this info useful. --- Donald R. Spoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tluxt wrote

Mixing Debian releases the easy way - HowTo - questions

2002-02-11 Thread tluxt
I'm trying to put together a howto, and could use your input. I've assembled a procedure, and some references- do you have any suggestions? My persoal goal is to have the procedure to run a Woody system, with all the latest KDE packages pulled from Sid. But, this procedure could be used for many

Re: Mixing Debian releases the easy way - HowTo - questions

2002-02-11 Thread tluxt
--- tluxt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am particularly concerned about ensuring apt-get upgrade works properly, and simply - ie, not having extra-normal things to do for the person doing the upgrade. From the following

KDE-Debian HowTo for KDE2 Debian3=Woody X86. Ver 0.22

2002-02-09 Thread tluxt
It can be found here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2002/debian-kde-200202/msg00097.html This howto is in an early release form: It is not complete, but contains much useful information. I hope to update this once or twice per week, and will post it to the debian-kde list. :)

Erroneous out of space msg fs corruption on WS then KDE install

2002-01-31 Thread tluxt
During a KDE install I get an err msg saying out of disk space. There was plenty of space on the disk, and I seem to recall seeing a similar msg on -user, -kde or -devel in about the past day. So I just wanted to post this in case others start to see a problem like this.

Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-28 Thread tluxt
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 22:58, tluxt wrote: I want a method that will not cause apt to get confused about this and other sw once I install the Sid package. Specifically: I have kghostview installed on the woody system. That sw has a malfunction

Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-28 Thread tluxt
--- Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 09:51:52PM -0800, tluxt wrote: --- Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the pinning feature of apt. In /etc/apt/preferences, enter Package: kghostview Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 200 Package

What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-27 Thread tluxt
I want a method that will not cause apt to get confused about this and other sw once I install the Sid package. Specifically: I have kghostview installed on the woody system. That sw has a malfunction, and from the bug report info on kghostview I see that Sid has a newer package that might fix

Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-27 Thread tluxt
--- Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the pinning feature of apt. In /etc/apt/preferences, enter Package: kghostview Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 200 Acctually you can pin the entire unstable distribution. Add the unstable deb sources in your sources.list Then

John Maddog Hall for the Annual Linux Showcase (ALS) 11/8-10 (video)

2001-11-07 Thread tluxt
Check it out: http://168.103.109.171/ Thanks to Bay Area Debian, Linux other volunteers for helping. Now, hop on a plane get yourself out here! :) __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

Come to ALS Debian BOF Thurs 11/8 6-8 PM Oakland, CA, USA, Earth

2001-11-07 Thread tluxt
The (San Francisco) Bay Area Debian group invites you to attend the Debian BOF at the Annual Linux Showcase technical converence. This is the largest technical Linux conference in the USA (says Maddog). The technical talks and exhibits are all free.

Re: HowTo install X on Woody today - Please help, thanks :)

2001-09-05 Thread tluxt
Thanks James! - A few follow ups: --- James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:52:59AM -0700, tluxt wrote: What is the way to properly install X (to prepare for KDE) on a Woody system today? 2. apt-get update apt-get install x-window-system Tasksel

Re: HowTo install X on Woody today - Please help, thanks :)

2001-09-05 Thread tluxt
Thanks again! - A few more questions: (Essentially: x-window-system isn't right?) --- James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:45:29PM -0700, tluxt wrote: --- James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:52:59AM -0700, tluxt wrote

Error upgrading to woody: mv: cannot create file `/etc/exim/exim.conf'

2001-09-04 Thread tluxt
Starting from a (IIRC) rather basic potato system, I did (essentially): change sources.list to point to testing apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade I got the following error after much stuff had installed: Preparing to replace exim 3.12-10 (using .../archives/exim_3.31-1_i386.deb) ... mv:

Re: Error upgrading to woody: mv: cannot create file `/etc/exim/exim.conf'

2001-09-04 Thread tluxt
--- der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That does fix it. Ran into it somewhere the other day. Yes, this is a bug. Thanks for the confirmation. I have just done that fix, and I think (after having several more errors, but just redoing apt-get dist-upgrade several times), I may have succeeded

HowTo install X on Woody today - Please help, thanks :)

2001-09-04 Thread tluxt
What is the way to properly install X (to prepare for KDE) on a Woody system today? (I have just done an upgrade to W from a basic (no X) potato.) On the Woody page it says: Expected major upgrades, by the time woody releases, include . . . XFree86 4.0 Does that mean woody has _only_ X4, or

How to upgrade stable - testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
Hi Ben, Thanks for your great work! I see you've got a very important bug marked closed: libdb2 breakage when upgrading from potato to woody http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107636repeatmerged=yes Would you kindly take a moment to give us the procedure of how to upgrade stable

Re: How to upgrade stable - testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
Err, I think I would rather have titled that message: How to accomplish a fresh install of today's Woody system. rather than How to upgrade ..., because I the procedure I gave there (and want) is about doing a fresh install. Of course, the answer is relevant to doing an upgrade of an existing

Re: How to upgrade stable - testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
Thanks Ben for your prompt reply! :) --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, to do a fresh install of woody, you download the woody boot-floppies, and install woody. That's pretty simple, right? :) I don't suggest upgrading to woody yet. Wait a day or two for the new glibc and

libdb.so.3 woody upgrade failure-bug - Please help.

2001-08-20 Thread tluxt
Hi - (Would a/the Debian developer with responsibility for the problem causing package please respond to this? Thank you! :) ) Thanks everyone for the great work on Debian! (This isn't a demand - just a plea for help!) I believe a serious problem exists: My requests are: Immediately: 1. Would

Re: libdb.so.3 woody upgrade failure-bug; apt/preferences favoring testing

2001-08-20 Thread tluxt
Thanks Anthony for your prompt informative reply! --- Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: 1. Would someone please provide a reply email with a workaround for this bug? There are two db2 problems: one is an upgrade ordering problem, which is fixed by apt-get install'ing libc6

Re: Potato to woody problem

2001-08-20 Thread tluxt
Thanks dman for you response on this issue. ... But, ... (I'm in the process of learning about this now - would you please help me out?) --- dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:38:07AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | I changed the references in my apt/sources.list to point