Re: rpm packages Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 02:41:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 2 rpm packages that I want to install on a Sarge system. Can someone > give me a hint or a link as to how to do that. > Michael Hi M, the first rule of DEBIAN club is to use .

Re: Bridge Freeze

Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:10:00AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:29:47PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote: Hello, I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for my internal network.

Re: What did I do wrong? (Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS)

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:23:28AM -0400, James Herschel wrote: > I rebooted my server one day to find that I needed to run reiserfsck. > So I booted up my trusty copy of Knoppix and ran it. It said that I > needed to run --rebuild-tree, so I did. One has to wonder why you felt you needed to b

RE: Where is libXp.so.6 solved

> -Original Message- > From: Kaj Wiik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 13 August 2004 11:46 AM > To: Keith Davidson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: > > On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 10:32, Keith Davidson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Any ideas where I can find libXp.so.6 for deb

Re: Bridge Freeze

Hi, On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:10:00AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:29:47PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote: > >>Hello, > >>I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for > >>my internal network. > >> > >>But when im try

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Re: version number of Sarge?

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Re: Obsessed with a clean system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that > proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than > needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages al

version number of Sarge?

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Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:28:24PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > The malloc() might fail and return NULL. You need to deal with that. Good point. Can't believe I missed that... Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Making a route change persistent in Debian

Hello Tony Uceda Velez (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > How do you make a route change persistent in Debian? Is there a > comparable tool like yast or a route.conf file? If you want the route to be configured everytime a certain interface comes up, you can use /etc/network/interfaces. Read the in

Re: Mouse stopped working

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:56:53 -0500, Don wrote: > On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:40 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:34:40PM -0500, Don wrote: >> > said, I've tried rebooting multiple times with this Debian Linux, with >> > Win2K, and with Knoppix this afternoon, with only the m

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

John Hasler wrote: John Summerfield writes: The size of cfgfile is what bothered me as soon as I saw it.Presumably properly calculating the amount of storage to request takes care of that. As I said: use snprintf or do something else. In fact, use snprintf anyway. Leading / is fine...

Re: Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer

Hi, Thank you all for the reply, problem solved. On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:51:33 -0400, Tong wrote: > I'm trying to install my HP PSC 1210 usb printer. I was able to do it in > previous Debian installation, but this time, I am having difficulties > doing it... I didn't know how, but after many t

RE: Where is libXp.so.6

> -Original Message- > From: Seneca Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 13 August 2004 11:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Where is libXp.so.6 > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:38:42AM +1000, Keith Davidson wrote: > > Any ideas where I can find libXp.so.6 for de

Re: Where is libXp.so.6

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:38:42AM +1000, Keith Davidson wrote: > Any ideas where I can find libXp.so.6 for debian. I have looked in > www.packages.debian.org , but can't > find it. In woody, xlibs, in sarge and sid, libxp6, on the filesystem, /usr/X11R6/lib/libX

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On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 10:32, Keith Davidson wrote: > Hi, > > > > Any ideas where I can find libXp.so.6 for debian. I have looked in > www.packages.debian.org, but canʼt find it. apt-cache search libXp apt-get install libxp6 Kaj

Re:

Keith Davidson wrote: Hi, Any ideas where I can find libXp.so.6 for debian. I have looked in www.packages.debian.org , but can't find it. Here is the error message I get: lib/j2se/1.4.2_02/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No su

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Re: lib/j2se/1.4.2_02/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open ...

Incoming from Keith Davidson: > > Any ideas where I can find libXp.so.6 for debian. I have looked in (0) keeling /scratch/afio_ dpkg -S libXp.so xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6.2 xlibs-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so -- Any technology distinguishable from magic

Where is libXp.so.6

    From: Keith Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 August 2004 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:   Hi,   Any ideas where I can find libXp.so.6 for debian.  I have looked in www.packages.debian.org, but can’t find it.   Here is the error message I

Re: which Sarge ISO I should download?

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:21:51AM -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote: > Dear all, > > I'd like to install Sarge, but I found in the FTP serve, there are 13 ISO's. > Which one should I download, I think I should not download all of them. > > thanks in advance > Ming Hi Ming, Debian does a cool thing. It

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Hi,   Any ideas where I can find libXp.so.6 for debian.  I have looked in www.packages.debian.org, but can’t find it.   Here is the error message I get: lib/j2se/1.4.2_02/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory java.lang.Unsatisfie

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

John Summerfield writes: > The size of cfgfile is what bothered me as soon as I saw it.Presumably > properly calculating the amount of storage to request takes care of that. As I said: use snprintf or do something else. In fact, use snprintf anyway. > Leading / is fine... We don't have the rest

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I am trying to connect to a hp815c printer connected to a windowsXP pro computer via samba. I tried two users, one with password and one without and added a printer with both gnome-cups-manager and the web interface (which seems to ignore usernames and passwords BTW). When I try to print I see the

Re: send_tcp_raw => operation not permitted

Micha Feigin wrote: I tried scanning one of my computers using nmap (which did show some things that needed fixing BTW). The thing I was wondering about was the error message: sendto in send_tcp_raw: sendto(3, packet, 40, 0, , 16) => Operation not permitted I ran it as root for this purpose, under

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

John Hasler wrote: John Summerfield wrote: So set the ball rolling, here is a snippet from a program I found via freshmeat the other day: configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv("HOME")) + 20); sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",getenv("HOME"), cfgfile); The malloc() might fail and return NULL. You n

send_tcp_raw => operation not permitted

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Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

John Summerfield wrote: > So set the ball rolling, here is a snippet from a program I found via > freshmeat the other day: > configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv("HOME")) + 20); > sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",getenv("HOME"), cfgfile); The malloc() might fail and return NULL. You need to d

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:51:46PM -0700, Stefan Nicolai O'Rear wrote: > Using a glibc extension, how about: > >char *configfile; > >asprintf (&configfile, "%s/%s", getenv ("HOME"), cfgfile); > > aprintf auto-mallocs a buffer of the right size. > Be sure to free()! On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at

Re: Configuration DB

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Re: Obsessed with a clean system

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:36, Lourens Steenkamp wrote: > Lourens replying to Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [big snip] > > > > > Doesn't matter to me... I have a local mirror for the 4 archs I use. > > I have also aquired a mirror (woody, sarge, sid, experimental, security > stuff

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

John Summerfield wrote: Jason Rennie wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: So set the ball rolling, here is a snippet from a program I found via freshmeat the other day: configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv("HOME")) + 20); sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",geten

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Re: Bridge Freeze

Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:29:47PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote: Hello, I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for my internal network. But when im trying initialise, i dont know why, its freezes. I tryed to initialise it wit

Re: Bridge Freeze

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:29:47PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote: > Hello, > > I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for > my internal network. > > But when im trying initialise, i dont know why, its freezes. > > I tryed to initialise it with: > >

Re: Configuration DB

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:01:34PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:43:04AM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > > Once upon a time Jason Rennie said... > > > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:09:08AM -0700, Brian N

Re: Problem in Sarge with IDE controler

Diego A. Puertas F. wrote: Hello I've just installed sarge i386, using a net installation with floppy disks. The PC has 2 SCSI disks and 1 IDE. Since most of the system is installed in the scsi disks (the IDE is a FTP site) the computer works just fine except for the fact that it doesn't recognize

Problem in Sarge with IDE controler

Hello I've just installed sarge i386, using a net installation with floppy disks. The PC has 2 SCSI disks and 1 IDE. Since most of the system is installed in the scsi disks (the IDE is a FTP site) the computer works just fine except for the fact that it doesn't recognize the IDE controler. The bi

Re: screen messing with tab completion and other annoyances

John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jorge Santos wrote: > >>Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >>>Jorge Santos wrote: >>> >>> Hello, I've searched for these but I can't find an answer: Screen, as configured by default, uses two switch windows, but this i

Bridge Freeze

Hello, I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for my internal network. But when im trying initialise, i dont know why, its freezes. I tryed to initialise it with: /etc/init.d/networking restart ifup -a All these froze,

Re: screen messing with tab completion and other annoyances

Jorge Santos wrote: Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jorge Santos wrote: Hello, I've searched for these but I can't find an answer: Screen, as configured by default, uses two switch windows, but this is annoying since it blocks tab completion for the shell and I can't find anythin

Re: screen messing with tab completion and other annoyances

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:10:58PM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: > Mmmh, I changed screen's prefix to and for some reason that > made tab also the prefix (does anyone knows why?), well that [sorta] > fixes one of the problems. Ctrl-I is the same as tab. Also: Ctrl-J: Return Ctrl-H: Can be backspac

Re: screen messing with tab completion and other annoyances

Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jorge Santos wrote: >> Hello, I've searched for these but I can't find an answer: >> Screen, as configured by default, uses two switch >> windows, >> but this is annoying since it blocks tab completion for the shell and >> I can't find anything in the d

Re: Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer

Tong([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:46:31 -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:51:33PM -0400, Tong wrote: > >> Here are all the relevant packages that I have installed: > >> > >> cupsys > >> cupsys-bsd > >> cupsys-client > >> foomatic-

RE: Making a route change persistent in Debian

open, /etc/network/interfaces add something like, up route add -net 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.1.2 down route del -net 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.1.2 see this page for an example, http://www.thing.dyndns.org/debian/setup2b.htm regards thing -Original Messa

Re: Making a route change persistent in Debian

Tony Uceda Velez wrote: How do you make a route change persistent in Debian? Is there a comparable tool like yast or a route.conf file? man interfaces -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ -- To U

Re: screen messing with tab completion and other annoyances

Jorge Santos wrote: Hello, I've searched for these but I can't find an answer: Screen, as configured by default, uses two switch windows, but this is annoying since it blocks tab completion for the shell and I can't find anything in the documentation about how to turn this off (or even that this

screen messing with tab completion and other annoyances

Hello, I've searched for these but I can't find an answer: Screen, as configured by default, uses two switch windows, but this is annoying since it blocks tab completion for the shell and I can't find anything in the documentation about how to turn this off (or even that this binding exists). A

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

For anyone who happens to stumble across this or what-not, I ended up messing with Crossover Office a bit, and eventually got it to install IE6. So far it works quite well, other than a few (realitively minor) glitches in displaying things like combo boxes and such. Thanks for all the suggestions.

Weird getty behaviour

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Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

On Thursday 12 August 2004 15:38, Jason Rennie wrote: > Something a bit safer... > > char *home = getenv("HOME"); > if (home == NULL || cfgfile == NULL) hittheuseronthehead(); > int sz = strlen(home) + strlen(cfgfile) + 2; > char *configfile = malloc(sizeof(char)*sz); > sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:36, Lourens Steenkamp wrote: > I have also aquired a mirror (woody, sarge, sid, experimental, security > stuff, no src). > Could you tell me how you keep your mirror in sync? I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that proxy. That way

Re: k3b and dvd+rw-tools

It is corrected in version 0.11.13-1 (unstable debian) of k3b. If you cannot install this version then install previous version of dvd+rw-tools (dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/dvd...) Cesta On Mon 9.Aug 14:48, Cedric Gavage wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange thing with k3b... dvd+rw-tools packa

Re: which Sarge ISO I should download?

Mingzhai Sun wrote: Dear all, I'd like to install Sarge, but I found in the FTP serve, there are 13 ISO's. Which one should I download, I think I should not download all of them. Unless you particularly want them, none of them;-) You cando network installs off the Internet, and if you have a cac

Making a route change persistent in Debian

How do you make a route change persistent in Debian? Is there a comparable tool like yast or a route.conf file? Thanks. T -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

Jason Rennie wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: So set the ball rolling, here is a snippet from a program I found via freshmeat the other day: configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv("HOME")) + 20); sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",getenv("HOME"), cfgfile); Some

Can't print a PDF file

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Re: Sarge not printing

For what it's worth, I started experiencing the same problem beginning perhaps a couple weeks ago. The weird thing is that my cluster is running woody except for a few backports! One of them was gs 7.07, so I downgraded back to the gs in woody, but still no luck. I haven't found a solution yet.

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

matt zagrabelny wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 19:31, Gregory Pierce wrote: Mike, I don't know if this has already been suggested, but you can emulate the whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a proprietary package called VMware. Unfortunately, it does a cost a small s

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

Werner Mahr wrote: Am Montag, 9. August 2004 00:05 schrieb Simon Kitching: Of course this would not count users of testing or unstable, which don't have security updates. Only testing. Unstable has securityupdates. Sarge gas security updates. I'd have said, 'Unstable has random updates:-

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

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Re: [NEWBIE] Installing PHP and Apache on Debian

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 04:18:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > I plan to install PHP and Apache on a new, virgin (remote) Debian > server, with PHP running as an Apache shared module. Can I do that > using "apt-get install"? Would I simply run "apt-get install php4" (is > that the c

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:38:25PM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > Something a bit safer... > > char *home = getenv("HOME"); > if (home == NULL || cfgfile == NULL) hittheuseronthehead(); > int sz = strlen(home) + strlen(cfgfile) + 2; > char *configfile = malloc(sizeof(char)*sz); > sprintf(configfile,

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > So set the ball rolling, here is a snippet from a program I found via > freshmeat the other day: > configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv("HOME")) + 20); > sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",getenv("HOME"), cfgfile); Something a b

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

Werner Mahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Montag, 9. August 2004 00:05 schrieb Simon Kitching: > >> Of course this would not count users of testing or unstable, which don't >> have security updates. > > Only testing. Unstable has securityupdates. Unstable does not get security updates on secu

Re: Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer

I can't find the driver "Foomatic + hpijs (recommended)" when choosing a driver (previously I can). Have you installed the foomatic-db-hpijs package? Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

Am Montag, 9. August 2004 00:05 schrieb Simon Kitching: > Of course this would not count users of testing or unstable, which don't > have security updates. Only testing. Unstable has securityupdates. -- MfG usw. Werner Mahr registered Linuxuser: 295882 pgpvkZj2zzyyu.pgp Description: signatur

Re: How to dist-upgrade?

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:34:07PM +1000, Clement wrote: > So what should be the sequence: If you have to ask, you shouldn't. :) /me runs. -- Thomas Adam -- "Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse." -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

Am Sonntag, 8. August 2004 20:37 schrieb Steve Lamb: > Werner Mahr wrote: > > Many Browsers Identify themselves as IE, Opera as example does this as > > default even under Linux. > > Not exactly true. It still identifies itself as Opera in the string, > it just presents it in a way that most c

Re: How to dist-upgrade?

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:34:07PM +1000, Clement wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > >On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:30:32AM +0600, askar wrote: > > > > > >>Hello! > >> > >>I want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge. > >>As I understand the necessary commands are: > >>1) apt-get update > >>2) apt-get upgrad

Re: Configuration DB

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:43:04AM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > Once upon a time Jason Rennie said... > > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:09:08AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > The debconf database is nothing more than a tempo

Re: Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:51:33PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install my HP PSC 1210 usb printer. I was able to do it in > previous Debian installation, but this time, I am having difficulties > doing it... Have you checked out linuxprinting.org? (See for example, http://www.linu

Re: Squatted harddisk

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:02:07AM -0700, James Vahn wrote: > Patrick wrote: > > Help! My harddisks are being sqautted by renegade bits! > > No, seriousely, my hdd's are slowly filling up, but I'm not realy sure > > with what. How can I get a comprehensive overview which files are where > > occupyi

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Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

[Ew! I swore to myself I wouldn't get involved in this one ...] Incoming from Paul Galbraith: > Mike Ward wrote: > >Hehe.. in all fairness, it's just because we hired some new guy who > >now has the windows box I used to use for testing. Oh, and because I > >think it'd be hilarious to run IE6

Re: rpm packages Debian

On August 12, 2004 02:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 2 rpm packages that I want to install on a Sarge system. Can someone > give me a hint or a link as to how to do that. > Michael You can convert them to debs using alien command and then install the debs: apt-get install alien alient -

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Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

Mike Ward wrote: Hehe.. in all fairness, it's just because we hired some new guy who now has the windows box I used to use for testing. Oh, and because I think it'd be hilarious to run IE6 on Linux. Just... well, if you don't see the humor in that, I'm not explaining it. :) I do see the humour, not

Re: rpm packages Debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have 2 rpm packages that I want to install on a Sarge system. Can someone > give me a hint or a link as to how to do that. alien might be able to convert them to .debs for you. pgpieaqieoalo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: rpm packages Debian

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 14:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 2 rpm packages that I want to install on a Sarge system. Can someone > give me a hint or a link as to how to do that. > Michael Try alien -i filename.rpm signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

'Error Message' "language plpgsql does not exist

I got this error when setting up SQL-Ledger> Error! CREATE FUNCTION del_yearend() RETURNS OPAQUE AS ' begin delete from yearend where trans_id = old.id; return NULL; end; ' language 'plpgsql'; ERROR: language "plpgsql" does not exist Any ideas as to what or why? -- John Foster -- To UN

rpm packages Debian

I have 2 rpm packages that I want to install on a Sarge system. Can someone give me a hint or a link as to how to do that. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If the "help" command is only available in "bash", I'll have to > do some negotiating... I'm a csh/tcsh nazi and hate anything that > looks like the original Bourne shell on general principles (or no > principles at all, FTM) > > Please correct me if I'm wrong about an

Re: Configuration DB

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:43:04AM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Jason Rennie said... > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:09:08AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > The debconf database is nothing more than a temporary cache of answers > > > gotten from the user. Debconf will regener

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:04:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It's built in in - at least in bash ;) > > Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm > posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are > split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, a

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:04:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It's built in in - at least in bash ;) > > Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm > posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are > split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, a

Re: extended vga

Incoming from Paul Maser: > With lilo the command vga=extended in lilo.conf would get you an > svga prompt screen. > How do you do this with grub? kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-1-686 root=/dev/hda9 ro hdc=scsi vga=ask acpi=off .^^^ -- Any te

Re: Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:47:08 -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: >> I can't find the driver "Foomatic + hpijs (recommended)" when choosing a >> driver (previously I can). >> >> When I used foomatic-gui, there is no option for me to choose an USB >> printer (previously I can). >> > > does "cat /etc/f

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

Lourens replying to Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [big snip] > > Doesn't matter to me... I have a local mirror for the 4 archs I use. I have also aquired a mirror (woody, sarge, sid, experimental, security stuff, no src). Could you tell me how you keep your mirror in sync? TIA. *

Re: Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:46:31 -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:51:33PM -0400, Tong wrote: >> Here are all the relevant packages that I have installed: >> >> cupsys >> cupsys-bsd >> cupsys-client >> foomatic-db >> foomatic-db-engine >> foomatic-db-hpijs >> foomatic-filters >>

Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

> It's built in in - at least in bash ;) Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, and docs that appear via the "help" command (the data for which is stored somewh

Re: extended vga

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 12:15, Paul Maser wrote: > With lilo the command vga=extended in lilo.conf would get you an > svga prompt screen. > How do you do this with grub? > google for "grub extended vga", follow first link. -matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

a number of question concerning debian/satge and thinkpad 770x laptop

I'm now having a number of small issues related to the laptop. I did get sarge installed on the pcmcia network card, after figuring out how to get it recognized. And that was, when the requester asked which driver needed to be used, I had to remove, and re-insert the pcmcia network card, nd it work

Re: restarting network connections

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:10:05 +0200, Paul Maser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Besides rebooting, how do you restart the network connections >after making changes to /etc/network/interfaces? >Thanks; Thanks everyone. Your help is always greatly appreciated. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

extended vga

With lilo the command vga=extended in lilo.conf would get you an svga prompt screen. How do you do this with grub? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Counsole problem with kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp

I just built a system using the new debian-installer. Everything (almost) worked fine, but the d-i installed the default kernel, kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386. No problem. I just used aptitude to upgrade to kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp. I then updated my menu.1st file and grub and rebooted. Everythi

Re: Installing a new version of XFree86

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, H. A. Sujith Shastry wrote: > I have Debian 3.0rc2. I've installed XFree86(4.1) and I'm using the > fbdev driver, because my video card is not supported. But my video card > is supported in newer versions of XFree86(4.2 onwards),

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