Re: If my graphics card and monitor work in Knoppix...[question]

2006-03-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hex Star wrote: Hi, I was wondering, since Knoppix is a live CD based off Debian, if my graphics card and monitor work fine with the GUI does that mean that it'll also work fine with regular 'ol Debian? Thanks! :-) Yes. It will work. In the rare case that it does not work, copy the /etc/X11/

Re: kanotix HD installation

2006-03-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rocky Ou wrote: Hey... Really thank you very much for all of your replies! espesically the link you posted there are quite helpfull:) I'm going to try testing version. But as I tried to download the testing package CD images I saw [alpha

etch packages source problem?

2006-03-13 Thread Deephay
Hi all,  I got some errors while doing "apt-get update":Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/debian/dists/etch/main/source/Sources.gz   404 Not FoundFailed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/debian/dists/etch/contrib/source/Sources.gz  404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://http.us

Re: How to restore /bin?

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:02:17PM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > To my surprise, most things seem to be working; but I'm wondering if I > can expect problems, and if there's a way of restoring /bin to the > correct state for an up-to-date testing system? I wouldn't want to leave it in that state.

Re: If my graphics card and monitor work in Knoppix...[question]

2006-03-13 Thread Hex Star
Also, does the Debian installer have the megaraid driver so I can use my HP NetServer LH3Rs embedded NetRAID controller which currently has all my HDs connected to it? (6 9GB SCSI HDs) Thanks! :-) On 3/13/06, Hex Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I was wondering, since Knoppix is a live CD based

How to restore /bin?

2006-03-13 Thread John O'Hagan
Hi, In an unfortunate (beer-related) incident, I rm'ed /boot and /bin from my etch laptop. I had /boot backed up, but not /bin, so I copied that from an oldish Mepis CD. To my surprise, most things seem to be working; but I'm wondering if I can expect problems, and if there's a way of restori

Re: /dev/snd/seq doesn't exist

2006-03-13 Thread John O'Hagan
PAolo wrote: >So i have two sound cards [modules snd_ens1371, snd_ac97_codec and >relatives], the /dev/snd/seq doesn't exist. How can i get it back? Mine disappeared from my testing system a while ago; it was fixed by manually loading the snd_seq module (modprobe snd_seq or put it in /etc/modu

Re: kanotix HD installation

2006-03-13 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey... Really thank you very much for all of your replies! espesically the link you posted there are quite helpfull:) I'm going to try testing version. But as I tried to download the testing package CD images I saw [alpha] [arm] [ hppa] [i386] [ia64] [ m68k] [mips] [mipsel] [ powerpc] [sparc]

If my graphics card and monitor work in Knoppix...[question]

2006-03-13 Thread Hex Star
Hi, I was wondering, since Knoppix is a live CD based off Debian, if my graphics card and monitor work fine with the GUI does that mean that it'll also work fine with regular 'ol Debian? Thanks! :-)

Re: Re: Dell Inspiron 4000: Linux Install Fails

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Romero
Hi Chouck: I am not sure if I replied to you correctly before so here are my concerns. I assume version 2.6 and the Sarge release are basically the same thing. Do you remember what drivers--such as xserver-svga--you used as a driver for the ATI RAGE M3 Mobility LF AGP card ? I assume from what y

Re: posting question

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 13 March 2006 18:41, Paul E Condon wrote: > I sent a message to this list a few minutes before 9am MST this > morning and haven't seen it on the list yet. Is the server having > problems? or is it likely something that I did wrong? Email is not instantaneous. It is regularly delayed by

Re: Where to download precompiled Netbeans 5.0 debian package?

2006-03-13 Thread Chong Zan Kai
Hi,Thanks for you reply, guys. I have successfully install the netbeans 5.0. However, I found that I cannot create a new project in netbeans. When I click "File"->"New Project", from the "Standard" category I only see "Java Project with Existing Ant Script", which require me to fill the location of

posting question

2006-03-13 Thread Paul E Condon
I sent a message to this list a few minutes before 9am MST this morning and haven't seen it on the list yet. Is the server having problems? or is it likely something that I did wrong? -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: kanotix HD installation

2006-03-13 Thread Rocky Ou
Thanks a lot for your reply! Is there any Debian/windows XP dual boot Debian HD installation resources I can refer to? Thanks in advance! Blessings, RockyOn 3/14/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rocky Ou wrote:> Hey list,>> I'm a newbie to linux. By googling and friends recomen

Re: Strange GNOME Problem

2006-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:19:38 -0500 "Leonid Grinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > just a thought... maybe the "Computer" icon is automatically created, > > > much like the "CD" icon for a freshly inserted CD. The WM has to place them > > somewhere and arbitrarily chooses a location based on th

Re: Strange GNOME Problem

2006-03-13 Thread Leonid Grinberg
> just a thought... maybe the "Computer" icon is automatically created, > much > like the "CD" icon for a freshly inserted CD. The WM has to place them > somewhere and arbitrarily chooses a location based on the > default grid? > Just a hunch as I dumped gnome for IceWM a while back and don't re

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-13 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I run Debian on a Sony Vaio PCG-GRT170, and it runs great except none of the special buttons work, not even "activate VGA/TV out". If I had it to do again, I would not buy this machine. Here are a few of the sites I've since found: http://www.linux

Re: Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-13 Thread Craig Puetz
Check the startup messages (page up on the initial screen if you can) and verify that /usr is mounting correctly. I recently had a similar problem on a machine that had /usr installed in a partition separate from /. Without /usr mounted, the machine could not find grep/egrep, which breaks some i

Re: Running debian on athlon X2?

2006-03-13 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 13/03/06, Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at getting a new rig, and I've decided that what I *really* want > is one of those new Athlon64 X2's (cue Homer S. gargling noise). > > Since I've been a happy Debian user for over 5 years now, I'd like to stick > with what I know

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 13 March 2006 13:13, Michael Schurter wrote: > I've heard of lots of people running Linux on IBM Thinkpads, but I can't > seem to purchase one from Lenovo without Windows. Your local used computer store should be able to hook you up with a recent vintage IBM ThinkPad without Windows on

Re: Hardware

2006-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
Chris Lale wrote: [...] William Roca wrote: I have done everything you told me, and I have not been able to get into Linux. In case this may help, at the end I get this message:authentication token lock busy. Also, root@(none):/# and debian: #. I am tired. Don't know what to do. Hello Wil

Re: Makefile for library and application

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/13/06, Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to write an application which includes library which are also > written by me. > > I can create a makefile for an application and i can create makefile for > libraries. But is it possible to write both in one makefile with > subdirs. One f

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Michael Ott wrote: > > I've heard of lots of people running Linux on IBM Thinkpads, but I can't > > seem to purchase one > > from Lenovo without Windows. IMHO ThinkPads are just the best laptops you can get, period. That might change in the future, though. And the ammount

Re: remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
Eric Persson wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: If that's the cause (and I agree that it almost certainly is), then in means your drive is encountering errors. What kind of errors, any errors? Mostly bad spots in the magnetization layer. All harddrives have these because it is technically impossi

Re: mucked-up locale settings in testing FIXED

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Becker
Well the fix turned out to be a mixture of Magnus' suggestions and running apt-get build-dep on locales. Thanks! Glenn +-+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org +---

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-13 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:13:06PM -0600, Michael Schurter wrote: > I know I've seen lots of posts on this before, so I'm sorry for asking > the same questions over and over. > > Someone just asked me what the ideal laptop would be to purchase to > install Debian Linux onto. The main thing is W

Re: CUPS/foomatic/gs printing problem - plain text - first line too high,gets cut off

2006-03-13 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Rick Reynolds wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > >On 3/12/06, *Daniel B.* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > >I'm having trouble with printing after switching to using CUPS, > >foomatic, and gs (gs-esp) in Sarge: > > > >When I try to prin

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Michael! > I know I've seen lots of posts on this before, so I'm sorry for asking the > same questions over > and over. No problem. > Someone just asked me what the ideal laptop would be to purchase to install > Debian Linux onto. > The main thing is WiFi support and good quality. Don

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-13 Thread Rick Reynolds
Michael Schurter wrote: > I know I've seen lots of posts on this before, so I'm sorry for asking the same questions over and over. > > Someone just asked me what the ideal laptop would be to purchase to install Debian Linux onto. The main thing is WiFi support and good quality. Don't need l

Makefile for library and application

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! I want to write an application which includes library which are also written by me. I can create a makefile for an application and i can create makefile for libraries. But is it possible to write both in one makefile with subdirs. One for the source of the application, one for the libs and

Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Schurter
I know I've seen lots of posts on this before, so I'm sorry for asking the same questions over and over. Someone just asked me what the ideal laptop would be to purchase to install Debian Linux onto. The main thing is WiFi support and good quality. Don't need lots of storage or a super fast

Re: remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:41:10PM +0100, Eric Persson wrote: > I have a server that repeatedly remounts its / harddisk readonly, > probably caused by the errors=remount-ro in fstab. If that's the cause (and I agree that it almost certainly is), then in means your drive is encountering errors.

Re: kanotix HD installation

2006-03-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rocky Ou wrote: Hey list, I'm a newbie to linux. By googling and friends recomendation, It seems debian will be my best choice. Did anyone do the Kanotix HD installation before? If so could you give me some advise? I want to have a dual-boot system on my Dell inspiron 2200 laptop. If you w

Re: Hardware

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:35:06AM +, Chris Lale wrote: And I thought that Debian was so secure! To change the root password as Florian described, you need physical access to the machine, which most attackers lack. If you are concerned

Re: CUPS/foomatic/gs printing problem - plain text - first line too high,gets cut off

2006-03-13 Thread Rick Reynolds
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On 3/12/06, *Daniel B.* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I'm having trouble with printing after switching to using CUPS, foomatic, and gs (gs-esp) in Sarge: When I try to print plain text, the system cuts off the top two-thirds of th

Re: remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:41:10 +0100 Eric Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server that repeatedly remounts its / harddisk readonly, > probably caused by the errors=remount-ro in fstab. I read the following > about it on the web: ><> > Is it a sign of starting to failing hard

Re: Cannot connect to Debian Server over network

2006-03-13 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:42:20PM -0500, Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: > > I am in process of setting up Dell 2800 server with Debian 3.1, 2.4 smp > kernel. > I can ping/telnet/ftp out, but from other machine I cannot connect to > to this server using ping, telnet/ftp. > Any body can help, how t

Re: Hardware

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Lale
-Original Message- From: Chris Lale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 1:35 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Hardware Florian Kulzer wrote: Chris Lale wrote: Hello William - please reply to the list, not individuals. You may get more repli

Re: remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Persson
Dave Sherohman wrote: If that's the cause (and I agree that it almost certainly is), then in means your drive is encountering errors. What kind of errors, any errors? Thunder-: when you get { MessagesLikeThisFromYourHardDrive } Thunder-: it either means { TheDriverIsScrewy } or { YourDriv

Re: Suggestion for a low memory system

2006-03-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 12 March 2006 21:36, Mike McCarty wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Dear Users, > > I would like your suggestion of a Sarge install on a low memory > > system. The system actually has a 750 Mhz P-III, and 56 MB RAM (+ 8 > > MB VRAM, I hear). Now, I would like to install Sarge on to that >

Re: Running debian on athlon X2?

2006-03-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm looking at getting a new rig, and I've decided that what I *really* want > is one of those new Athlon64 X2's (cue Homer S. gargling noise). > > Since I've been a happy Debian user for over 5 years now, I'd like to stick > with what I know. But from looking at the web site, I haven't found a

remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I have a server that repeatedly remounts its / harddisk readonly, probably caused by the errors=remount-ro in fstab. I read the following about it on the web: "Specifies that if errors are found when the filesystem is checked, the filesystem will be remounted in read-only mode so that t

Running debian on athlon X2?

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Juranich
I'm looking at getting a new rig, and I've decided that what I *really* want is one of those new Athlon64 X2's (cue Homer S. gargling noise). Since I've been a happy Debian user for over 5 years now, I'd like to stick with what I know. But from looking at the web site, I haven't found any definit

strange bluetooth pairing woes

2006-03-13 Thread Oliver Jato
hi, i'm having some weird troubles pairing my mobile phone with my pc. bluetooth is up and running, i'm already using skype with a bluetooth headset (bound with btsco on login) and i can also transfer files to my phone with obexftp and transfer files from my phone to the pc. my phone's mac is bou

Re: VSFTP refuses Windows connections

2006-03-13 Thread Tiago Pedrosa
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:00:15 +0100 Anthony Simonelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running VSFTP as an inetd service on my LAN. I want to allow > everyone on the LAN to access this server but it only seems to work > on the local computer with either ftp://localhost or > ftp://192.168.1.101 (m

Re: Enabling remote X display

2006-03-13 Thread Ignacio Mondino
Hi you should ad the line " ForwardX11 yes" in the file /etc/ssh/ssh_config and "X11Forwarding yes" in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config -- Ignacio Mondino JabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: mucked-up locale settings in testing

2006-03-13 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:23:05PM +, Glenn Becker wrote: > > >Is the `locales` package installed? > > I /believe/ it is ... in aptitude, "locales" is highlighted green, is > marked 'ciA' in the leftmost column and is taking up 11.2 MB if I am > reading the display correctly. > "c" usuall

Re: kanotix HD installation

2006-03-13 Thread B.Hoffmann
I don't intend to flame anybody's favourite OS or distribution, but before you go for Mepis read this http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=6404 for some additional information. Why not go for Debian itself (speaks the man who's currently using Ubuntu). Or Kubuntu. Over and out. On Mon, 2006-03

Re: Enabling remote X display

2006-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
Johan Daine wrote: Hi, I cannot find the file that must be edited in order to enable remote X connections on my X server. (Of course, I ran xhost and adjusted the DISPLAY variable on my "remote" machine but as far as I remember, there is an option in a config file disabling remote coonections...,

Re: Strange GNOME Problem

2006-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:05:03 -0500 "Leonid Grinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a rather stange and, frankly, silly problem with GNOME. You > see, I have around 20 icons on my desktop. They are all arranged in > different places, with Firefox in the top right corner, the > Was

VSFTP refuses Windows connections

2006-03-13 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I am running VSFTP as an inetd service on my LAN. I want to allow everyone on the LAN to access this server but it only seems to work on the local computer with either ftp://localhost or ftp://192.168.1.101 (my local IP address). I have a Windows XP machine and am trying to connect to the FTP

Cannot connect to Debian Server over network

2006-03-13 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Cannot connect to Debian Server over network I am in process of setting up Dell 2800 server with Debian 3.1, 2.4 smp kernel. I can ping/telnet/ftp out, but from other machine I cannot  connect to to this server using ping, telnet/ftp. Any body can help, how these services are set in

Re: kanotix HD installation

2006-03-13 Thread Anthony Simonelli
If you must use a Debian-based GNU/Linux then you should try Mepis (www.mepis.org). You should give MepisLite a try since it seems to work the best on old and new hardware and is very close to a Desktop installation of Debian Sarge, the stable release of Debian. It even uses Debian repositorie

Re: xine under sarge

2006-03-13 Thread Mark Walter
Hi all, > So, I'd probably try "apt-get install libdvdnav4 libdvdplay0 libdvdcss2 > libdvdread3" yes, this is working. I can even install libdvdcss2 with this entry. Many thank's for your help ! deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main -- Best Regards, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: GPG error during apt-get

2006-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Friedman wrote: > Is anyone else experiencing this problem with ftp.debian.org? If so, any > solutions? ftp.debian.org dropped off the network while updating its mirror yesterday and had to be rebooted. This left its mirror in an inconsistent state. Either switch to another mirror or wait 4

Re: mucked-up locale settings in testing

2006-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn Becker wrote: > ... then more badness sets in with this: > > Preparing to replace kdemultimedia-kio-plugins 4:3.3.2-1 (using > .../kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.1-1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement kdemultimedia-kio-plugins ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/kd

Re: kanotix HD installation

2006-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:59:33 +0800 "Rocky Ou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey list, > > I'm a newbie to linux. By googling and friends recomendation, It seems > debian will be my best choice. Did anyone do the Kanotix HD installation > before? If so could you give me some advise? I want to have

Enabling remote X display

2006-03-13 Thread Johan Daine
Hi, I cannot find the file that must be edited in order to enable remote X connections on my X server. (Of course, I ran xhost and adjusted the DISPLAY variable on my "remote" machine but as far as I remember, there is an option in a config file disabling remote coonections..., but I don't know whi

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:57:21 -0500 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > It seems like almost all cool > tools on Windows need cygwin! > > Hal Have a look at OpenSSH for Windows http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net It is also based on Cygwin, but doesn't need a full install of the later

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 13 March 2006 11:42, anoop aryal wrote: ... > > Again thanks a lot for the suggestion, I'll try this too -- but I > > have a possibly stupid question. What protocol will the gateway of > > my corporate WAN think it is being asked to handle in this case? I > > don't think it will allow any

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-13 Thread anoop aryal
On Saturday 11 March 2006 02:02 am, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > >On Friday 10 March 2006 09:29, nullman wrote: > >>2 short infos to clarify : > >> > >>1. VNC over http doesn´t exist > >>2. Port-Numbers can be altered with any version > >> > >>Solution would be : ssh on Port 443 ...

Re: upgrading Cyrus

2006-03-13 Thread listrcv
. wrote: has anyone yet updated Cyrus 1.5.19-9.2 to 2.2.12-4? Just to let you know, I did the upgrade on the past weekend, and it went flawless and much better than I thought. The renewed server's running without problems since yesterday evening, and no problems came up yet. Performance se

Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-13 Thread listrcv
Andrew Cady wrote: Use cfdisk to create partitions; using fdisk is afaik deprecated. *Always* reboot after creating partitions or changing the partition table before doing anything else, and verify that the partitions have been created in the way you wanted after the reboot. This isn't necess

Re: mucked-up locale settings in testing

2006-03-13 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:23:05PM +, Glenn Becker wrote: > >>Is the `locales` package installed? > >I /believe/ it is ... in aptitude, "locales" is highlighted green, is >marked 'ciA' in the leftmost column and is taking up 11.2 MB if I am >reading the display correctly. > >If I run 'apt-get i

Re: PHP4 - Java recompile error

2006-03-13 Thread David Koski
On Monday 13 March 2006 12:08 am, Cem Kamil Külekçi wrote: > Hi all, > make[1]: *** [ext/yp/yp.lo] Segmentation fault > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/php4-4.3.10/apache2-build' > make: *** [build-apache2-stamp] Error 2 Perhaps something is corrupt or you have a hardware (memory) pr

Re: mucked-up locale settings in testing

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Becker
Is the `locales` package installed? I /believe/ it is ... in aptitude, "locales" is highlighted green, is marked 'ciA' in the leftmost column and is taking up 11.2 MB if I am reading the display correctly. If I run 'apt-get install locales' I get a shower of unmet dependencies, mostly for

Re: KPPP and PPP dial in SOLVED! ;-)

2006-03-13 Thread John Hasler
dawizz writes: > Had to hash out auth in file /etc/ppp/options You should not have had to do that. > And had to enter name servers of isp provider: /etc/resolv.conf file You should have been able to do that from within Pppconfig. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mucked-up locale settings in testing

2006-03-13 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:14:00PM +, Glenn Becker wrote: > >OK, it seems the time has come for me to confront one of those topics I've >never bothered with: locales. The reason is that it seems I have some fouled >up >locale settings (I don't know how) and that this is preventing my >system

upgrade sid now firefox no longer prints. dialog button "the paper size is not supported by your printer"

2006-03-13 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have been using the xprint system for printing from firefox cause it seemed to work better than cups when printing from firefox. i have both cups and xprint installed. i updated my sid installation lately. Now I seem not to be seeing the usual xprt type stuff in the printing dialog box -

Re: Where to download precompiled Netbeans 5.0 debian package?

2006-03-13 Thread Craig M. Houck
You need to get the source and compile it. A not difficult task. I have it running on a classroom lab full of Debian boxes. At 01:36 PM 3/13/2006 +0800, Chong Zan Kai wrote: >Hi, > >May I know where can I download the latest Netbeans 5.0 (Debian Package)?? > >Thanks a lot. >-- >Best Regards, >Ch

mucked-up locale settings in testing

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Becker
OK, it seems the time has come for me to confront one of those topics I've never bothered with: locales. The reason is that it seems I have some fouled up locale settings (I don't know how) and that this is preventing my system from updating. The system is an all-testing one, on a Dell lapto

Re: What can't CUPS start up?

2006-03-13 Thread David James
Christian, In June of last year you said that cups was giving the error message 'StartListening: Unable to bind socket for address 7f01:631 - Cannot assign requested address.' I have the same problem. I could only find one reply to your question, asking if any other process was listening to

Re: iptables wrong version?

2006-03-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Philip Mak wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# iptables -A INPUT --source *.*.*.* -p tcp -j DROP > > iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is wrong > version > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a > Linux naga

KPPP and PPP dial in SOLVED! ;-)

2006-03-13 Thread dawizz
Dear all, A couple of months ago I was trying to help out my family with a linux box and dial in connection to there ISP. Via the mailing list a tried a number of scenario's also the very bad one's with setting SUID bits, using chown to set root permissions etc. By now I learned what not to do, a

Openoffice2 hinting madness

2006-03-13 Thread MrVanes
Hi, Since OO2 2.01-5 I miss hinting in my menu fonts. A little research revealed the following: 1. There is a patent issue with bytecode hinting in freetype 2. Openoffice normally is statically linked against it's own bytecode disabled freetype 3. Debian uses ooo-build, that defaults to --system-

Re: Suggestion for a low memory system

2006-03-13 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Kent West wrote: dillo is a light-weight browser, but I don't believe it has support for Java, Flash, etc (but you'd really need more RAM for that anyway). I don't think dillo even has support for frames. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Suggestion for a low memory system

2006-03-13 Thread Digby Tarvin
I don't think of 56 MB as a low memory system - although I do think of KDE, GNOME, netscape etc as high overhead, resource hungry pieces of software. I have several systems for which 64MB is the *maximum* memory expansion, with 32MB being the standard. I have some old 68k based systems that work j

Re: Hardware

2006-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:35:06AM +, Chris Lale wrote: And I thought that Debian was so secure! To change the root password as Florian described, you need physical access to the machine, which most attackers lack. If you are concerned, you can set a password i

Latest xemacs (testing) and speedbar

2006-03-13 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, I updated my xemacs21 packages and now my speedbar throws an error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) normalize-menu-item-name(nil) easy-menu-remove(("Speedbar" ["Update" speedbar-refresh t] ["Auto Update" speedbar-toggle-updates :active (not speedbar-upd

PHP4 - Java recompile error

2006-03-13 Thread Cem Kamil Külekçi
Hi all, I am trying to recompile php4 with java support. I've installed java and then get the source of PHP4. In the compile process suddenly it stops with an error. Nothing found in google. Can you help me? thanks a lot Cem /bin/sh /usr/local/src/php4-4.3.10/apache2-build/libtool --preserve-du