Re: Most stable MSN and ICQ support?

2002-08-31 Thread Addis Perez
In GAIM, go to --> Tools --> Plugins --> choose Load (this will open a new sindow) --> choose the plugins desired (i.e. libyahoo.so for Yahoo!) Voila! Enjoy and good luck Addis On Saturday 31 August 2002 07:25 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I have GAIM working fine, but how do you make

Re: Most stable MSN and ICQ support?

2002-08-31 Thread Addis Perez
I have found Gaim (v0.59) to be most useful for AIM (via TOC), MSN, ICQ and Yahoo IM's. I was a user of Gabber/Jabber. But I can not comment on it's performance -- it's been a while. On Saturday 31 August 2002 05:36 pm, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I want to find a stabl

Re: KMail Crash - Please Help

2002-05-06 Thread Addis Perez
No trouble at all :) Let's see ... I grep-ed the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives to see how many instances of qt appear and I got the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives$ ls | grep qt libqt2_3%3a2.3.1-22_i386.deb libqt3-mt_2%3a3.0.3-20020329-1_i386.deb libqt3_2%3a3.0.3-20020

Re: RealPlayer

2002-05-05 Thread Addis Perez
On Sunday 05 May 2002 11:39 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > you probably need to do something like > > root# mv rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm > rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm note the *.rpm extension OR, as Dale Hair has kindly stated before me, do alien -k *.rpm to convert the *.rpm into a *.deb

Re: KMail Crash - Please Help

2002-05-05 Thread Addis Perez
On Sunday 05 May 2002 03:38 am, Jatin Golani wrote: > Has anyone faced a similar problem using KMail?? I have not faced a similar problem. > Are ppl using KMail on Woody with KDE 2.2.2 successfully??? > Could you'll please tell me which QT you'll are using? I am successfully using KMail 1.3.2

Re: CDwriter

2002-05-05 Thread Addis Perez
On Thursday 02 May 2002 05:30 pm, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: >> | still detected as hdc (cdwriter samsung) and hdd (toshiba dvd) >> | ("cdrecord -scanbus" doesnt detect it). > > You need to add a line into your lilo.conf to tell you kernel what > drives to scsi-emulate. Put something like > > appen

Re: OpenOffice question

2002-05-05 Thread Addis Perez
On Sunday 05 May 2002 01:28 am, Gary Turner wrote: > >apt-get install j2re1.4 openoffice.org > ^ s/b j2re1.3, no? why YES, i too think it is j2re1.3 at least as of this afternoon when i apt-got it, that was what i got! -- "... a la ciudad lejana no vuelvas nunca, nunc

Re: OpenOffice question

2002-05-04 Thread Addis Perez
I just apt-got it :) Add the following 2 lines to /etc/apt/sources.list --> deb http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/openoffice unstable main contrib deb-src http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/openoffice unstable main contrib (pay no attention to the word wrapping) I say let dpkg do all the work fo

GUI for LaTeX

2002-05-04 Thread Addis Perez
On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:49 am, Shawn McMahon wrote: > A GUI for LaTeX? Who would have ever thought of such a thing? > > http://www.lyx.org OR, you could use ktexmaker2 http://xm1.net.free.fr/linux/ Addis -- "... a la ciudad lejana no vuelvas nunca, nunca jamás..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: OpenOffice 1.0 ,debs?

2002-05-03 Thread Addis Perez
-- Original Message -- >Which java version? >Where can I get those .debs ? There are no *.deb's for the recent versions of Java. I have yet to install OpenOffice, so I do not know which Java version it requires. Just go to java.sun.com and download the l

Re: MPEG Player?

2002-04-24 Thread Addis Perez
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 05:47 am, Luca Pasquali wrote: Or you could try the now publicly available pre-release which can be downloaded here --> http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre1.tar.bz2 (as mentioned at their homepage --> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/news.html ) "

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-19 Thread Addis Perez
On Thursday 18 April 2002 09:43 am, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Point the cursor at the first character within a link that has > some characters you want to cut-n-paste, press the left mouse > button and *try* to highlight the characters you want. YOU CAN'T > DO IT! Clicking *anywhere* within the link

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-17 Thread Addis Perez
YES! gaim is _the_ way to go! apt-get the latest version and you even get nice emoticons :) It has good functionality. I highly recommend it! On Wednesday 17 April 2002 06:39 am, Jeff wrote: > Try using gaim, it provides good Yahoo Messenger support and > has proxy support built-in. Addis ".

Re: Dpkg trouble again

2002-04-16 Thread Addis Perez
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 01:34 pm, Florian Struck wrote: > Could someone be so kind and give me the list file for > rcs? > they are listed in the file: /var/lib/dpkg/info/rcs.list Here goes! I attached my rcs.list. **note** I installed it on woody, not sid. I hope this does not bring problems a

TTF howtos for linux in general and debian :)

2002-04-15 Thread Addis Perez
On Monday 15 April 2002 10:04 pm, DSC Siltec wrote: > (2) I have linux on the same box as Windoze, and Windoze does have > TT fonts that include the baltic (ISO 8859-13) fonts. Is there > some way I can import those fonts, and then use them with X, so > that I can read my Lithuanian email with it?

Re: Linux baltic fonts?

2002-04-15 Thread Addis Perez
> I'd also like to be able to switch my keyboard between the > American configuration and > a configuration that would allow me to type these characters > directly. It is my understanding that Ctrl+Alt+K will allow you to switch between different keyboard layouts (if you are a KDE user). Have