Re: build: no utmp entry available

1998-04-23 Thread B. Bell
Hi, That's caused by a bug in the scripts (or possibly libc6), and there is probably nothing wrong with your utmp. look up the thread "weird utmp/perl problem" in the archives. When it is fixed, it still will not do what you want, I think, because even if it does find the utmp entry, it will use

weird utmp/perl problem

1998-04-21 Thread B. Bell
Okay, I've got a strange problem here. I'm trying to build a .deb, using the devscripts tools and dpkg-dev... I get a utmp error when I try to build: < $ build no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("brad") at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16.

Re: Gnome .debs released

1998-06-18 Thread B. Bell
On 18 Jun 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > Anybody that installed the unofficial pre-release .debs I put out last > week will probably need to install these .debs by hand (instead of > relying on dselect) - because I didn't increment the version number. hi, which ones have changed? Should we install _all

Re: libungif?

1998-06-19 Thread B. Bell
it needs a symlink from libungif to libgif3g... just do: (from memory, should be right) % ln -s /usr/lib/libgif3g.so.3 /usr/local/lib/libungif.so.3 % ldconfig and it should work fine. or, if you want libungif (which is free, libgif3g is not) it's in slink/graphics On 19 Jun 1998, Steve Dunham w

Re: New gnome packages

1998-06-19 Thread B. Bell
be sure to check out the panel... it's cool. -brad On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: > Am I correct that we currently do not have a complete desktop with gnome? > Since there is no wm yet, it's pretty difficult to judge it. > > Also it seems some libraries/binaries are compiled with deb

Re: New gnome packages

1998-06-22 Thread B. Bell
start up X type "panel &" if you're impressed, put it in your .xsession On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: > B. Bell writes: > > be sure to check out the panel... it's cool. > > -brad > > Nice to hear that. But unless I get a description of