Re: Help - cross-compiler for powerpc-linux

2000-12-20 Thread Bradley Bell
You want this: www.emdebian.org in a nutshell: echo deb http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian unstable main >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install task-cross-powerpc -Brad On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:38:55AM -0600, Gentry, Jeff wrote: > I posted this once before but I have suffered a

Re: (A bit OT) Quake 3 ignores setuid root

2000-04-21 Thread Bradley Bell
well, if it's like Q1 (svgalib) was, it drops root permission too early. try using sudo instead. -brad On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > I have potato's XFree 3.3.6 with glx and Mesa from CVS. > > To be able to use full acceleration (direct rendering) a glx client has to be > st

Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?

2000-02-28 Thread Bradley Bell
The CD should come with a DOS program to extract the cab files, EXTRACT.EXE, I think. Have you tried using that under dosemu/freedos? -brad On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, addiction wrote: > Hello.. > > Rather silly question but here goes: > > I don't have access to Windows or DOS and I need to extract

Re: AGHHHH! I ruined Linux!

2000-02-03 Thread Bradley Bell
You're trying to get GTK+ from potato, correct? You'll probably have to upgrade all of your major libs to the potato versions... I would try this: make sure you have frozen (potato) in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb-src http://htt

Re: dwww

2000-01-13 Thread Bradley Bell
dwww seems to need a _lot_ of work. dhelp, on the other hand, will do most of what you need. -brad On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Evan Moore wrote: > is any1 else having a very hard time trying to get dwww to work on > potato. Everything but the info pages will not work. After hacking the > the scripts i

Re: debianized slash?

1999-09-16 Thread Bradley Bell
I would recommend bk2site, depending on how demanding your needs are. http://multiagent.com/bk2site/ It's in potato. I've not used the "slashdot-like" features yet, so it will take a little configuration, but I presume it's straightforward. (look at http://multiagent.com for an example configurati

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Bradley Bell
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Hasso Tepper wrote: > > Agree. I moved from Redhat to Debian 2 months ago and only app I'm missing > is printtool. ...Which works fine using alien... -Brad

Re: Gdm is evil!

1999-08-26 Thread Bradley Bell
Yes, gdm is evil :) It is not finished software, don't let the 1.0 version number fool you. My advice is not to use it. period. The next release (gdm2 I think) should be much better. -Brad On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Haggerty wrote: > I have spent the past 5 hours bashing my brains out getting

RE: apt-get KDE?

1999-08-26 Thread Bradley Bell
No, you don't need the installer. That's why we have debs... tdyc has everything you need, so just be patient, and I'm sure it'll be back up soon. -Brad On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, B. Szyszka wrote: > > I wonder if http://kde.tdyc.com is down now. > When I did an apt-get update with that added, it was

Re: Problem running Corel WP

1999-08-05 Thread Bradley Bell
You need to install the xpm4.7 package. This is the libc5 version. -Brad On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Don't know how you converted the system. But when the program is complaining > missing > some files, you can always do: > > shao:/home/shao$ dpkg -S libXpm.so.4 > xpm4g: /usr/X11R6

Re: More questions...

1999-07-12 Thread Bradley Bell
Definitely go with slink. I would say that to even the most experienced linux users, if they're new to debian. Once you're comfortable with that, consider going to potato. Keep in mind that potato is unstable which means it has not been officially released yet, and won't be for some time. -Brad

Re: KDE

1999-07-11 Thread Bradley Bell
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Bill West wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:55:38PM +0000, Bradley Bell wrote: > > aptable KDE is here: > > > > deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty > > or > > deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty >

Re: KDE

1999-07-09 Thread Bradley Bell
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 05:29:03PM +0200, Jerome Marant wrote: > > >I don't want it in non-free, I want it in main. => > > > > So, it'll be in main and nowhere else :-) > > > > But KDE packaging project guys are doing a so good job ... :( > > Until its r

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Bradley Bell
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Mark Wright wrote: > * Anyone know what the problem is with the tecra install? If I try to do a > 'insmod ppa' on my laptop after installing the tecra base system, I get a > error message saying that several functions (or entry points, or something > like that) are missing. I

RE: Need Help Building my first .debs???

1999-07-06 Thread Bradley Bell
.0-1 and you have yourself a .deb file. -Brad > > -Original Message- > > From: Bradley Bell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 2:22 PM > > To: Person, Roderick > > Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > > Subje

Re: OK, My turn for some help - KDE and apt

1999-07-06 Thread Bradley Bell
Use apt. deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty -Brad -- Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission critical applications, and - due to it's open source code - has a long term credibility which exceeds many other competitive OS's. - Microsoft internal m

Re: Need Help Building my first .debs???

1999-07-06 Thread Bradley Bell
Well, what's the error? If the program you're trying to debianise has compilation instructions, try to follow those first, using "configure", "make", etc. and then when you're successful with that part, use dh_make and debuild. -Brad On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > Hey All, > > I'

Re: kde

1999-07-03 Thread Bradley Bell
add one of these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty if you're running "unstable" or deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty if you're running "stable" (Debian 2.1) For more information, see http://kde.tdyc.com/Debia

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

1999-07-01 Thread Bradley Bell
On 1 Jul 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > It says 486DX-AC-WBu-25/33/40/50-L3-ZZ in the top line of the screen, > it also prints: > > "32MHz CPU Clock" just below the BIOS box where it lists all the > system info. If my CPU is DX4, does it mean that it multiplies 32Mhz > by 4? no. DX4 means it is ca

Re: language WP8

1999-06-29 Thread Bradley Bell
try here: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/cnet/win95/business/ the modules are in the GUILGxx directories, where xx is the language you want. -brad On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I find the language modules for the download > version of WP 8. > > HTH > > Cuno

Re: Help with Dynamic Drive overlays.

1999-06-16 Thread Bradley Bell
this list has nothing to do with either win95 or DOS, but i'll try to help you anyway. ddo resides in the mbr (master boot record) of the drive. It is probably still intact. just boot from floppy and do format /s c: if that doesn't work, you'll need to use the ddo tools. go to the seagate web pa

Re: gtcd seems to of disappeared in potato

1999-06-16 Thread Bradley Bell
it's been moved to the gnome-media package -Brad On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Lawrence Walton wrote: > The topic says it all. > The last round of gnome packages broke a bunch of stuff, and I can't seem to > find > gtcd any more. > -- > *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 > *--* Fax

Re: GNOME vs. KDE

1999-05-21 Thread Bradley Bell
On Fri, 21 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (Enlightenment is currenlty the only window-manager that fully supports > GNOME). this might be true to a degree, but it is a gross overstatement to say that GNOME requires one to use Enlightenment. I'm using Gnome with icewm, and it runs well enoug

root can't login

1999-04-11 Thread Bradley Bell
I'm running potato, and just upgraded libc6. As can happen with unstable, it broke stuff. bash for one. since root has bash set as its shell, I can't log in as root. I can log in as a normal user, which has tcsh for its login shell. SO, does anybody know any way I can get root on this box? I c

Re: Discussion with Pine developers & Debian Issues

1999-04-09 Thread Bradley Bell
As a student and an employee at the UW, it seems to me very unlikely that Pine will even be actively developed in the near future, considering the generally antagonistic attitude of the administrators (PHB's, so to speak) towards anything non-Microsoft, and more and more of the students, faculty, a

Re: Package dependency problem: a loop?

1999-03-20 Thread Bradley Bell
Install them simultaneously. Assuming you downloaded the packages by hand: dpkg -i libpam0g-util_0.65-0.9.deb libpam0g_0.65-0.9.deb -Brad On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, John wrote: > When I tried to install ppp-pam package I encountered a dependency > problem. The following two packages depend on each ot

Re: mailing list archives

1998-11-24 Thread Bradley Bell
Oh, never mind, I forgot that they're available as newsgroups. -brad On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I'm writing this, the archive on www.debian.org was last updated 35 > hours ago. > > Does anyone know of a mirror that is kept more up to date? even just a > flat text file wo

Re: printing problems

1998-10-02 Thread Bradley Bell
ner page, and I still have to figure out how to specify *which tray to be the paper source*. oh well, any clues greatly appreciated. -brad On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Dirk Bonne wrote: > Bradley Bell wrote: > > > > I need to print to an HP Laserjet 5Si printer which is hooked up to a >

printing problems

1998-10-01 Thread Bradley Bell
I need to print to an HP Laserjet 5Si printer which is hooked up to a netware network, Can anybody point me to any resources on printing to netware printers? I've studied and tried every trick in the IPX- and Printing-HOWTO, and the instructions there are pretty insufficient when it comes to this

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-06 Thread Bradley Bell
Gabrie van Zanten wrote: > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm > using root. Like this one: > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 > > I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command > not found. I had this too when installing fortune. Afte