dselect for X?

2002-01-20 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi, is there a dselect for X? Whenever I launch dselect in xterm, the 'select' option produces an ugly black screen with only a few lines of white-on-black text. TIA, Elizabeth

Re: dselect for X?

2002-01-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:07:54AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: Hi, is there a dselect for X? Whenever I launch dselect in xterm, the 'select' option produces an ugly black screen with only a few lines of white-on-black text. There is no dselect for X but there are things that replace

Re: dselect for X?

2002-01-20 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
On Sunday 20 January 2002 07.07, Elizabeth Barham wrote: Hi, is there a dselect for X? Whenever I launch dselect in xterm, the 'select' option produces an ugly black screen with only a few lines of white-on-black text. TIA, Elizabeth Not exactly, but if you're using KDE, you should

Re: dselect for X?

2002-01-20 Thread Martin Atukunda
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:07:54AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham decided to write thus: is there a dselect for X? Whenever I launch dselect in xterm, the 'select' option produces an ugly black screen with only a few lines of white-on-black text. in sid you could check out the deity-gtk package

Re: dselect for X?

2002-01-20 Thread ben
On Sunday 20 January 2002 10:21 am, Martin Atukunda wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:07:54AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham decided to write thus: is there a dselect for X? Whenever I launch dselect in xterm, the 'select' option produces an ugly black screen with only a few lines of white

how to advise dselect of X 4.1.0

2001-08-06 Thread Robin Rowe
I've installed XFree86 4.1.0 from source. (The latest deb seems to be 4.0.3.) How do I tell dselect that I've done that? I want it to leave XFree86 4.1.0 alone, not try to bring in an updated 4.0.x. Thanks! Robin

Re: how to advise dselect of X 4.1.0

2001-08-05 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Robin Rowe so: I've installed XFree86 4.1.0 from source. (The latest deb seems to be 4.0.3.) How do I tell dselect that I've done that? I want it to leave XFree86 4.1.0 alone, not try to bring in an updated 4.0.x. echo xserver-common hold | dpkg --set-selections

Re: dselect for X?

1997-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
If a version of dselect is created for X, PLEASE let it be an option, not the only version. Many of us have X-less installations and intend to keep it that way (I have both X and non-X machines). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: dselect for X?

1997-04-29 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I strongly second Bob Nielsen's remarks. Bob Hilliard On Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:14:38 Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a version of dselect is created for X, PLEASE let it be an option, not the only version. Many of us have X-less installations and intend to keep it that way (I

dselect for X?

1997-04-28 Thread Angelo Addante
Hi all, Is there any project about an X-based dselect-like program? I have some experience with Tcl/tk and would like to help giving Debian Linux a tool like that. I think the best way would be to create an extension to tcl to handle /var/lib/dpkg/ stuff. Probably, having the sources of dpkg

Re: dselect for X?

1997-04-28 Thread Rick Jones
There is a group currently making a replacement for dselect called diety. So you might want to hold off on that thought. On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Angelo Addante wrote: Hi all, Is there any project about an X-based dselect-like program? I have some experience with Tcl/tk and would like to help

Re: dselect for X?

1997-04-28 Thread Jim Smith
Angelo Addante wrote: Hi all, Is there any project about an X-based dselect-like program? I have some experience with Tcl/tk and would like to help giving Debian Linux a tool like that. I think the best way would be to create an extension to tcl to handle /var/lib/dpkg/ stuff. Probably