Paul E Condon writes:
> I'm running Jessie on an HP Pentium host that's a several years old.
> Desktop software is Xfce4 and CUPS from a Debian repository, as is all
> software on the box. Printing works for the LibreOffice suite, but not
> for Emacs23-lucid, or for plain text files. What do I ne
Xuan Ngo writes:
> Where can I find the definitions of all sections in the Control file?
>
> Examples of sections: admin, cli-mono, comm, database, devel, debug,
> doc, editors, electronics, embedded, fonts, games, gnome, graphics,
> gnu-r, gnustep, hamradio, haskell, httpd, interpreters, java, k
On 12/16/2009 2:52 PM, Tom H wrote:
And yet the udev maintainer's response to the
'CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED" syslog message is "So do it."
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560821
I assume that if you are using "testing", you have to be prepared for
problems and to make system chan
On 12/16/2009 1:31 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:15:30AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
Folk,
Observations from bystander.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500 Brian Nelson wrote,
Some of the .rules files on your system are using
a deprecated syntax, ...
The
On 12/14/2009 10:16 AM, Rick Pasotto wrote:
The udev module in testing got updated this morning. As a result I got
these lines in my syslog:
Dec 14 09:51:02 niof udevd[15399]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev
version, please use ATTR{}= to match the eventdevice, or ATTRS{}= to match a
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 10:46:50 Wolodja Wentland wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:29 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
comply with recommendations, you can use the User Agent plugin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
to have Iceweasel report a dif
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:42, Chris wrote:
web browser: Firefox (Not IceWeasel)
am curious: what's wrong with Iceweasel?
It fails to work in some cases where Firefox does work, due to it
reporting a different User-Agent string.
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Dirk writes:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> Nobody forces you to do anything. You can compile patch X.org yourself,
>> run oldstable, switch to another distribution or throw your computer out
>> of the window. Or you could just accept HAL and go on with your life.
>
> You suggest that everyone compile
David Baron writes:
> I mean, really stuck, with oops-like kernel messages complaining about the
> process. How do I get rid of it?
Reboot?
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lee writes:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:58:21PM -0500, green wrote:
>> lee wrote at 2009-06-23 14:13 -0500:
>> > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp
>> > in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a
>> > dependency with gman. But gman is not
Eike Lantzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I attempted to compile kernel-2.6.15 with make-kpkg but I got this error:
>
> gzip
> -9qf
> /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15/debian/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/conf.vars
> install -p -m 644
> debian/buildin
Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Why does Debian default to gnome? When I install a recent "testing",
>
> I believe GNOME sprang up partially in response to KDE using Qt, which
> had a non-free license at the time.
s/non-free/GPL-incompa
"Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:00:35 -0500
> Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > For the past month I have been trying to
"Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For the past month I have been trying to get a friends computer working
> with Sylpheed-claws & gaim, but libaspell has an ongoing error within
> it.
>
> I keep getting this error message;
>
> sylpheed-claws: relocation error: /usr/lib/libaspell.so.1
All Nicks Are Taken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've just started to use Quod Libet, which is a really great jukebox style
> music
> player, but it doesn't seem to have a crossfade effect plugin.
> I've googled for it, and the only useful thing I found was this link:
> http://www.sacredchao.net
"Josh Battles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Nelson said:
>> "Josh Battles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> I got something like that...
>>> Here's the relevant information that dmesg outputs about the ipod, but it
&
"Josh Battles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I got something like that...
> Here's the relevant information that dmesg outputs about the ipod, but it
> doesn't seem to be doing anything with it.
>
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> scsi3 : SCSI e
Scott Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (noob)
>
> I would like to know if and how it is possible to do a non-interactive
> install of an .deb package. The pages I have read talk only of a 'yes to
> all questions' option which is obviously useless if the package you are
> installing has question
Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:38:58PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
>>> Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> > golfer wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> The only way I seem to be a
Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> golfer wrote:
>
>> The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back
>> on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. For one or two packages,
>> this may be ok, but it's not something I want to waste time doing
>> routinely.
>
> The dist-upgr
"Christopher L. Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maurits van Rees wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>So if I would remove libmysqlclient12 then these packages would be
>>removed as well. Not all packages that you mention are in this list.
>>But there are packages that also depend on packages in this list, s
"Christopher L. Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For various reasons (I believe a version conflict is causing selects
> to return no rows when it clearly has data to return),
Yes, that can happen due to lack of versioned symbol support in all but
the most recent MySQL libs in unstable.
>
Petr Mandys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is it possible to build deb package from package which is currently installed
> in the system?
>
> How to?
dpkg-repack
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belbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> my etch works very well, but the startup process takes too long... I can see
> many useless probing scripts working during the startup.
> I thought I could remove some autoprobing script from /etc/rc*, but I don't
> know
> which. Here's the list:
[...]
> Which
"J F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The KDE font size keeps changing randomly.
> I set the font size to Arial 10 and use it for about a week or 2.
> I shut down my desktop every night.
> Then, the next morning, Arial 10 is huge and I can't fit 80 character
> across on the screen. I switch it back
Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
>>deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
>>etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
>>deb-src http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
>>etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
>>
>>Alternativ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
>> I find it easiest to just grab the vanilla sources straight from
>> kernel.org. The Debian ones tend to be crippled and patched, which
>> makes it a pain to apply new patches.
>
> I always find it easier to use the Debian stock kernels. They have
> all o
"David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot and
> the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every Evening.
> In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. (By the bye, why doesn't
> Debian have Bo
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have written some apps with Qt3 and I still work on them from time to
> time. I have libqt3-mt-dev installed for this purpose. I'd like to start
> working with Qt4, so I tried installing libqt4-dev. Of course, it conflicts
> with libqt3-mt-dev. Is th
Joe Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am running Sid, and I can use apt-get update just fine. However, when
> I then run apt-get upgrade I see apt fail to get even a single file.
> Each one yields the message about failed to open the file.
>
> I thought that if the server was down, update wou
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Quoting Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> security team.
>>>
>>> Are you sure i cannot go back to stable ?
>>
>> I don't think so, at least not without reinstalling. You can upgrade
> from
>> Woody (old stable) to sarge (current stable) or from stable to testing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Steve Å wrote:
>> Obviously, I wasn't paying close attention to the messages aptitude
>> was giving me. 8(
>
> :-)
>
>> I've spent time searching the archives, and checking that the needed
>> dictionaries are present, but I can't see the forest for the tree
Steve Å <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm having a devil of a time with Aspell. When I first installed Sarge
> (Testing over 2 years ago), I had Aspell replace Ispell. It took some
> work at the time to get Aspell spell checking for British English.
>
> Over the past few weeks, (I think it was whe
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 04:16:26PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade from woody to sarge by following the release notes,
> which state that I should first upgrade to sarge's aptitude.
>
> However, when I do this, aptitude tries to update glibc and a lot of
> other package
"Merijn Schering (Intermesh)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi I updated unstable with apt and now I have two problems:
>
> The new udev package removed a lot of /dev/* links. My mouse and sound
> card stopped working because all the dev symlinks were gone.
http://bugs.debian.org/udev
> The oth
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:51:18PM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> I've been wondering the past few days why there are no updates via
> "apt-get update/upgrade" (I have the correct entries in
> sources.list!). A few days ago I was reading at heise.de
> (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61076) th
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:43:46PM +0200, wegner wrote:
> After upgrading to the latest stable distribution of debian, aspell no longer
> shows german umlauts in the upper window. It uses blanks instead. But it
> shows
> umlauts in the lower window with the suggestions.
> I would like to have uml
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:10:55PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> SquirrelMail has released a security patch. Will that eventually show up
> in a Sarge security update? As a new user of "stable" (previously
> testing), I have no experience with security updates. Tnx - John
Normally, yeah, but..
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:40:24AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I just discovered the oldstable distribution. What are the implications
> of this? For example, for years I have used cbb (checkbook balancer)
> which I find is in the oldstable distribution but not in Sarge.
>From http://ft
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:47:16PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
[...]
> I've looked at the contents of several release files, and see that in
> these files the stable/testing/unstable value is in the 'Suite:'
> field. In man apt_preferences, this is called the Archive, not the
> Suite. This, I think
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:27:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> > Yesterday on the chat rooms it was claimed that using aptitude was more
> > successful and effective than using apt-get dist-upgrade. Apparently
> > aptitude is suppo
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Now that Sarge has gone stable and I have done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
> I am left with only a few packages held back. These are all, I believe,
> due to the fact that I have put them on 'hold.' I don't think that any
> of them
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:57:30PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Questions for you and others now using Dvorak: I could change my own keyboard
> to whatever I want, but I know I'll still have to use other keyboards, and
> I've been using QWERTY for close to 30 years. So:
>
> 1) How hard is it to
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:11:51PM +0200, Dominik Epple wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have an empty /var/cache/apt/archives directory. For building
> a custom CD, I want to have all packages that are installed on the
> machine as a file on my computer, e.g. in the /var/cache/apt/archives
> directory. Ca
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:28:58AM +0200, Daniel Déchelotte wrote:
[...]
> I think that an history-independent behaviour makes senses for
> meta-packages. Let's imagine a "prerm" script for package kde. On running
> "apt-get remove kde", the user would see this warning:
>
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On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:31:59PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2005-05-03, Brian Nelson penned:
> > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Ah, yes. I've run into that kind of obnoxiousness before.
> >>
> >>
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:53:08PM +0200, Lars Roland wrote:
[...]
> --
> Configuration file `/etc/qmail/tcp.smtp'
> ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
> ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
> What would you like to do about it ? You
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 2005-05-01, Paul E Condon penned:
>>
>> In most cases this is good, but it can lead to aptitude doing really
>> bad things in some special situations. For instance, I once
>> installed kde by requesting the single over-all package that exists
>>
Olaf Conradi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:42:36 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:20 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
>> > Ron Johnson wrote:
>> > > On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 15:04 +0100, Olaf Conradi wrote:
>> > >>Most of the development work t
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:54:01AM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On Monday 27 December 2004 12:32 am, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > I think the issue is that packages are not directly uploaded to testing.
> > So it is possible to have version X of package A installed in testing.
> >...
> > If a seriou
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:42:31PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
> > > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
> > > servers, it's plenty st
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:58:21PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote:
> I've purchased an iPod (40GB) for Macs. I've mounted the hfs+ partition
> to /media/ipod. Then i've had the *stupid* idea to rm -rf /media/ipod/*.
> Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any
> ideas how
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:03:42PM +1100, James Foster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious about why there isn't an MPlayer package in Debian. The
> MPlayer website says that "MPlayer is available under the GNU General
> Public License v2", so I don't see why it wouldn't be considered "free
> software
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:21:20AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 23 December 2004 6:48 am, Bahadir Balban wrote:
> > just a simple question -
> >
> > if I use dpkg -i option, does it do anything extra than resolving
> > dependencies and extracting the packages?
Yes, lots.
> It calls
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:01:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote:
> >Em Ter, 2004-12-21 ??s 20:23 -0200, Franz Gustav Niederheitmann escreveu:
> >>Em Ter, 2004-12-21 ??s 17:08 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu:
> >>>Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote:
> Em Ter, 2004-12-
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:01:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> I've run "debootstrap sid" (it spewed an ungodly number of warnings and
> failed to configure many packages, but it essentially worked) and I can
> chroot into it.
>
> Now what? Is there a way to run the rest of debian-installer
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sarge installs ipchains by default.
> Nothing that depends on ipchains is installed by default.
>
> I don't use ipchains. I use less.
>
> Can we have less in the base install and not ipchains?
It already is that way.
less is Priority: standard, so i
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:23:48PM +0800, ?? wrote:
> >Just replace them with the original files. You may have a
> >/etc/deconf.conf.dpkg-dist file--this is the unmodified file from the
> >package.
>
> I am sorry I did not find such file, this means I have to backup first
> next time. Bu
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:09:07PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >Paul Johnson wrote:
> >
> >>On Tuesday 07 December 2004 8:30 am, Giorgio Raccanelli wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm in trouble in the installation of the x-server. I have an ATI
> >>>Radeon 9600, so I installed the dri
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:12:49PM +0100, J.Rinas wrote:
> Is there a a logfile anywhere for the actions dpkg did
> ... like installation/deinstallation/update of packages?
No. See http://bugs.debian.org/957 (almost 10 years old!)
> If there is no logfile, Is there another chance to get this
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:50:39PM +0800, ?? wrote:
> I was reading the introduction about Conffiles in Debian Policy
> Manual, section 10.7 and appendix E,
Don't trust anything in the appendix. That stuff tends to be way out of
date.
> and modified conffiles of package debconf, /etc/debco
"Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any formal requirement that a maintainer be responsive, or even
> do his job at all?
No. Debian's Constitution actually states that you can't force a
developer to do any work he or she doesn't want to do.
> Is there a procedure for ta
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:47:07AM -0800, ken keanon wrote:
> Hi,
> This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e.
> community-base, open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat.
>
> Anybody has any opinion about it? Is it better than Debian?
I think this pretty muc
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:03:33PM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041124 19:26]:
>
> > What about the practical implications? How can you have a GNU/Linux
> > distribution without gcc, make and especially coreutils?
>
> If it's not possible to write free docum
Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]:
>> Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread
>> (which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, how it fits
>> in, and what programs it replaces, I'd apprec
"Robert Cates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is it possible with apt-get to upgrade a Woody installation to Sarge?
> If so, would that be with:
>
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> or is that just to completely upgrade the Woody installation.?
Read the release notes, available at:
http://www.debian.or
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:45:43PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:22:44PM -, michael wrote:
> > I initially went for 'stable' (woody) but it was too out of date for my
> > Ethernet card & hard drive. I've now installed 'testing' (sarge) and have
> > followed recommendation
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:12AM +, michael wrote:
> Michael Spang wrote:
>
> >Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails:
> >
> >sudo install-info --quiet --section "General commands" "General
> >commands" /usr/share/info/sed.info
> >
> >The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should b
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:23:16PM -0500, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
> Hi all,
> Hey, is now a good time to switch my sources from "testing" to "sarge"?
If you have to ask, you shouldn't even be running testing in the first
place.
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:14:42AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 01:54:19PM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > What dpkg does is broken. It has no business storing that stuff in the
> > status file.
>
> Now you're echoing Colin Watson.
And we all
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:41:04AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> I believe that the only things left in non-us are programs that infringe US
> patents.
No, software that cannot be distributed because of patents (e.g. lame)
is not included in Debian.
AFAIK, non-us is not used for anything anymore.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:26:07AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and
> > stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though
> > Marc is sa
APT application. I have become
> > quite used to aptitude install, aptitude remove, aptitude purge, aptitude
> > update, aptitude dist-upgrade, etc. Usually, its just a case of putting
> > typing aptitude where you would have typed apt-get.
>
> Now, wait just a second...
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:33:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:43:38PM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:12:47AM +, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > > > A
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:12:47AM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > Aptitude does an OK job in this respect. It doesn't make conflict
> > resolution completely obvious, but the information is there.
>
> Aptitu
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:50AM -0800, ken keanon wrote:
> Read all the responses to "Why debian".
> My summary:
> 1. It is free, w/o any non-free components.
> 2. It can be easily updated and upgraded.
>
> My questions:
> 1. Is it free because it is not popular?
You got it backwards. It's p
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:01:14PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:13:05AM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > This is another good example of why apt-get should be avoided, since it
> > gave absolutely no indication as to the problem you correctly diagnosed.
&g
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:20:02PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Debian isn't a true democracy. We elect our leader, and thereafter
> > the leader acts under his own accord.
>
> It's a representative democra
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:53:58PM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Friday 12 November 2004 02:11, ken keanon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian
> > should be the preferred choice?
> >
> > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the po
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:08:35PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:46:31PM +0800, cwinl-debian-user wrote:
> > But my mysql server shouldn't be remove.
> > how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?
>
> Of course it should be removed. The 'mysql-server' package depe
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:15:26AM -0800, RituRaj wrote:
> Any approx dates?
No. Subscribe to debian-devel-announce if you want to receive the
latest release info. The most recent announcement regarding the release
is: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/09/msg5.html
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:39:55AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 23:51]:
> > Following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I
> > filed a couple of bugs. Now one of them has been resolved, how can I
> > report this and
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> our cd player died so I'm converting my old laptop to a part-time
> mp3-player/ cdp player. I usually use xmms & groovycd to play music,
> but that combination is a little clumsy for my family members. here's
> what I want:
>
> -an mp3 organizer that make
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the iPod itself shows that i have no music, no artists, no anything.
> it also shows that i have 18.5G used, and 2.8G available. all
> consistent.
>
> so what i need to do is recreate the table, if possible. my only
> other option, afaict, is to delet
ROBERTOJIMENOCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to know if there's a formal process where defaults like the
> ones I proposed can be voted to please the majority of the users.
Good God, NO! We've already seen how poorly the majority choose things,
like the President of the US for example.
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:03:30PM +, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What's the best way to remove Remove Config-file packages?
>
> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge
Jeez. Save yourself that pain and just run
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:40:00PM +, Nick Smith wrote:
> i use gentoo primarily now because i like the feeling that every piece
> of software on my system from the bootstrap up is compiled for my
> hardware aka p4, every debian binary is built for a 386 machine to keep
> compatibility! and
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs
> in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development
> machine running mostly woody with some packages from sarge, including
> g++-3.4 of cours
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:08:44PM -0400, ted wrote:
> I'd really like to use Mozilla 1.7.3 on my powerpc, but either the
> documentation I've read on how to do so is wrong or I don't understand it.
>
> I've tried editing my /etc/apt/sources.list to include unstable, and
> then gave the command
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:40:27PM -0500, Rich Wellner wrote:
> The photo questions reminded me I have an outstanding issue. I fequently
> resize hundreds of photos at a time and it takes a heck of a long time under
> convert. I know from experience that convert can be dog in some circumstances
>
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> Is there a secure, solid and stable e-mail client built for linux?
No. Every mail client in existence is utter crap, including mutt and
gnus. The best you can hope for is something that is barely tolerable,
and I'm still searching
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Douglas G. Phillips wrote:
> > It might not complain, but it'll take its sweet ass time loading a large
> > mailbox.
> It's a lot faster than some others, especially Evolution with huge mbox
> files, IMHO. If you have issues with the speed, try switching t
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Francois Cerbelle wrote:
> Le Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Ed Sutherland ecrit :
> > had to log-out and reboot in order to regain control. Is there a
> > secure, solid and stable e-mail client built for linux? I don't want
> > applications to hav
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:34:25PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:17:23AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated:
> > i just got an iPod(!), and i'm very excited to start using it.
> > however, i can't figure out how to mount it. i'm not even trying to
> > set up automounting or a
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:19:20AM -0300, JAIME GIMENEZ JR wrote:
>
>
>
> I?m brazilian and I need your help to understand a
> english word:
> What means this word."nasally-insertable"
You can stick it in your nose.
> It?s usual find this words...
>
> "But what we need to know is, do
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is
> > Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from
> > Unstable to Testing?
>
> Testing becomes f
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:21:00PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> > because the final Sarge "will be ready when it will be ready", and it will
> be
> > _good_ and _stable_
> > That's what's really important, no?
>
> Really naive question - Could recently-released SpamAssassin 3.0 still make
> it int
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:36:22AM -0700, Jianbo Wang wrote:
> Does anyone know the frozen, release data of sarge? Thanks!
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/09/msg5.html
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:51:27PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:
> The changelog entry for aptitude says "new upstream release." I know
> Debian is trying to be Kernel-neutral, but isn't aptitude a
> Debian-native package which might happen to run on things like Redhat?
It just means the source
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:03:45PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Trying to load about:config results in
>
> XML Parsing Error: syntax error
> Location: jar:resource:///chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/config.xul
> Line Number 1, Column 1:ig.xulUT
>
> Is it just me, or is this a problem wit
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