Hey guys, signed on to the mailing list a couple days ago, VERY good. Keep up the good work!
Okay, now comes the things I don't understand or that are bugging me... (p.s. LOTS of stuff coming up here) Note that is any of this is covered in a previous message, just point it out to me so you don't have to retype it again. ;) # I just bought Debian 1.3.1, and for some reason the version I got on the cdrom pretends to be every bit 1.3 Now I don't have a problem with this, but do have a problem with the kernel level of the cdroms. The kernel level is 1.2.29 (last digits are 29, but I know the first two are current, so disregard them if they are extremely old) -I bought this cdrom from LSL (www.lsl.com) and paid $8.95 including the 5 dollar donation to the wonderful people at debian.org :) I just got it 6 days ago in the mail, the total process took 3 weeks+ I also got a brand NEW Sunsite archive that I know is very up-to-date. Most of the files on the disk do not have a date later than jul 5. (please tell me wtf is going on with that, thank you!) #The cdrom I got has broken packages, something like 5. The java kaffe package relies on java-common, which did not come on the disk somehow. The Imagemagick package relies on something other than the corresponding imagemagick libs, that is not included. hmm, I can not think of other ones right now, but will specify more if you want me too. -I do not know if this is a problem with the cdrom image the guy(s) at lsl used, or if it plenty common for dselect? #I have been having a hell of a time install stuff. I don't really think that I am having trouble, but I just think I don't understand the basics of adding path statements and the like under Linux. -Where is the file that I edit for a total path change in debian? I have edited the root's ..bash_profile and that worked for root, I mean adding /usr/X11R6/bin worked for the root's path only. #Okay, what is the problem with Xfree86 3.3.1 and its documentation? It took me awhile to install it, note that I had to download this version(3.3 came with my debian cds) since the instructions were wrong. - I have no trouble with xf86 3.3.1 right now, at least I don't think so. I have it running great, and installed it using the process below: *cd /usr *cd X11R6 *cp /mnt/extract* . *cp /mnt/*.sh . *sh ./preinst.sh *chmod +x extract *./extract /mnt/x*.tgz *sh ./postinst.sh Now that seemed to work great, and I have no trouble with it now. I can start X, and run fvwm2 since I installed that WM only. (boy, who would want that fvwm95? Someone not getting the point?geez) -Now this way was not described at all in the readme and/or install guide. It told me to use tar on each file seperately. Which did not work at all, most files and directories were not correctly placed. But then again, I was told to run tar in the root passively to each directory and file. i.e. cd / : tar -zxvf /mnt/download/x331bin.tgz hmm, weird out come, like it putting the bins and libs in my /bin and /lib directroy! When it should have been in my /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib respectively. Okay, now we move on, sorry about the size of this message. The IRC just did not help much, and I have been finding myself helping other people in #linux :) hehe (you know me, I go by the irc nick name: reentry and I will frequently invite people to help them in #reentry ;) #Another weird one, when I try out make on many different software, like enlightenment and imlib, I get non-fatal errors that say make include and make makefile, nothing to do with each of them. Now these are prolly just setup probs with designer of the programs. #Well, this is about all the questions I have right now, I really can't think of them. Thank you for your help, and I will be e-mailing another book soon! haha JOE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "THE OS2 Guide" homepage master : http://www.impulsedata.net/~sniffen ========================================================== All being caught up in the action of MS, people did not even notice the non-ignorant *fools* using other OSs and software. It must have been the pretty colors, or maybe just ones mainly green... ========================================================== -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
