Here's what I do:
1. apt-get update
2. apt-get dist-upgrade -uf
if this breaks then,
3. dpkg --configure -a
then
4. apt-get dist-upgrade -uf (the -f flag is especially important here)
and repeat 3-4 until it finishes. Sometimes I might apt-get install or
remove a package that is explicitly me
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:02:30PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:39:01PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I notice there are these new-fangled motherboards with 2*ATA-100 and
> > 2*ATA-33 ports. With 75GB disks, that baby should give us 600GB of raw
> > disk
> Maybe because they're bloated, take huge gobs of memory, and are
> designed only to emulate the mistakes and misdesign of a certain OS
> from Redmond?
I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not
aspire to emulate Microsoft, I'd rather see some newer and better ideas
imp
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:34:02AM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> > I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not
> > aspire to emulate Microsoft, I'd rather see some newer and better ideas
> > implemented instead.
>
> apt-get install ratpoison. it rocks. :) sorry, can't resist.
I will be back in the NYC area on May 16th, if no one else has signed your
key by then, I will do it.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:33:39PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Hi, I have recently started maintaining a Debian package for Althea, an IMAP
> email client for GTK+. That package, thanks to the
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:25:34AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> Why would you keep something around if you don't want to run it? Debian
> makes the (correct) assumption that if you've installed something, you
> want to run it. If i install bind, it will assume i want it to run. If
> i install
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:12:59PM +, Will Lowe wrote:
> > Actually there are some packages that depend on a mail-transport-agent,
> > (such as lilo->logrotate->mailx), yet one may not want to have an MTA
> > running on certain systems. I suppose a dummy or minimal MTA may be
>
> I think it's
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +, Will Lowe wrote:
> > > I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA of
> > > some sort (even if it's local-only, which is supported by eximconfig).
> > This is true, but does it need to be world-accessible? There should
> > be a way
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Based on an ad-hoc Virtual Machine, STklos can also be compiled as a
library, so that one can easily embed it in an application.
The salient points of STklos are:
* efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS providing
- Multiple Inheritance,
- Ge
I created a test program to do fibonacci series recursively in Perl, Python,
Scheme, Lisp, C, and OCaML. Needless to say, OCaML kicked ass ;) But between
Perl and Python, Python performed better by about 20%. On the other hand,
fibonacci series is a bit of a different application than whatever ta
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Visual is a library for 3D scientific visualization. It allows rapid
development of programs in Python, but is itself written in C++ for speed.
It currently supports various colored geometrical primitives (texture
support is being added). It was developed for use
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Visual is a library for 3D scientific visualization. It allows rapid
> > development of programs in Python, but is itself written in C++ for speed.
> > It currently supports various colored geometrical primitives (texture
> > support is being adde
Can I have sex?
(sorry, had to be said 8-)
If anyone else steps up to take the package, they're welcome to it.
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:13:33AM -0700, BERNARDES,JOAN (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1)
wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to make a warm boot from Linux to Dos, do you know if it's
> possible?
> Somebody tested this yet:
> There was a BIOS set up interrupt (INT19 form memory) which could be
> cal
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:12:47PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 06:14, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> > people, i just want to remember you that DFSG stands for debian free
> > SOFTWARE guidelines. documentation is *not* software
>
> Unfortunately this is becoming less true.
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:39:12PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Whatcha mean "becoming"? Lispers have been blurring the line between
> > data and code for the last half-century.
>
> Speaking as a budding LISPer (working my way through "On
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