Re: Creating a local repos

2007-05-25 Thread Chris Halls
On Friday 25 May 2007 09:15, Abu Zaher wrote: > Does apt-proxy store the packages in hierarchical order like apt-move > (i.e. a real mirror). Yes, it mirrors the mirror structure exactly. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: How do I use openoffice.org-gtk-gnome?

2004-12-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 19:40 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I run FluxBox but prefer the Gnome interface. Can I set this somewhere > in my profile but not system-wide? What do I need to be running for > OpenOffice to pick the Gnome interface? I don't know how exactly it detects the Gnome interfa

Re: How do I use openoffice.org-gtk-gnome?

2004-12-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 03:38 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Does it use the GNOME/gtk file-picker? yes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I use openoffice.org-gtk-gnome?

2004-12-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 19:15 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > When I install openoffice.org-gtk-gnome OpenOffice looks exactly the > same. I've tried googling "vclplug" or seeing how to enable them, > but no luck. > > How do you use this feature? Normally OOo will detect that you are using gnome

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration

2004-12-02 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:59 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > The other box does not find its attached printer and insists on using a > generic printer which only spits out dozens of blank pages. If, > instead, I comment out export SAL_DISABLE_CUPS=1 openoffice finds the > attached printer but

Re: Openoffice Setup Fails after Upgrade on Sid

2004-11-30 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:50 -0500, Carl Brown wrote: > ~# openoffice > OpenOffice.org for Debian - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz > running openoffice.org setup... > /usr/bin/openoffice: line 281: 13905 Aborted (core > dumped) /usr/lib/openoffice${VER}/program/s

Re: Openoffice Problem ID'd, Not Solved

2004-11-26 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 11:16 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > In printer settings, paper the field for the paper size is blank Aaah, that's a known problem, caused by a bug in the native CUPS backport in 1.1.2. You have two options to try: 1. Try removing any extra CUPS instances that you have fo

Re: Openoffice Bug

2004-11-25 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 17:18 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > 1.1.3 is still stuck in experimental, the debian-openoffice has I > think been working pretty hard on perfecting 1.1.2 for sarge. > matt Actually we're trying to get 1.1.3 into a good enough state to upload to unstable now. We've given up

[announce] Openoffice 1.9.62 .debs

2004-11-23 Thread Chris Halls
I have put up a set of .debs of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 version here: http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/test/ooo1.9-java/ These are .debs generated by the new openoffice 'native installer' system, and are not of the same quality or caliber as Debian users would normaly expect to

Re: Defoma Fontconfig Openoffice Truetype...

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 22:23, Rainer Kiehne wrote: > fc-list lists the font > > openoffice seems not to know about the > font at all :-( > Is there any step-by-step howto to get > a .ttf file into openoffice.org Are you using the .debs? Because they include Ximian's fontconfig integration, which

Re: font problem in OO

2004-01-09 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 15:09, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I assume that you are not using KDE or Gnome? If that was the case, OOo > > would use the same font as your desktop, and you shouldn't have > > problems. > > Not using KDE or Gnome for a desktop/wm. Using fluxbox. OK. > > It sounds like OOo

Re: font problem in OO

2004-01-09 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:15, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I recently did a new install on a laptop of unstable. I also loaded up > openoffice 1.1.0. > > For the first time I actually brought up OO yesterday, and was surprised > when all of the menu headings, etc. were mostly vertical rectangles. > Only

Re: italics in openoffice not being displayed

2004-01-08 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:25, martin f krafft wrote: > The problem is quite simple: When I format text in OpenOffice.org as > italic, it is displayed as normal text. However, when I open the > document on the same OpenOffice.org veersion on another machine, the > italics is displayed. Thus, it looks

Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-07 Thread Chris Halls
Hi Christian, On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 03:12, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > today, I did the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my > girfriend's machine. > In the process, the Openoffice backport was upgraded from 1.0.xx to > 1.1.xx. This has severe side effects. I'm sorry to hear this. Thi

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

2003-12-28 Thread Chris Halls
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 17:45, Stephen Liu wrote: > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvos3gcc3.so(_ZN3vos14OSignalHandler5raiseElPv > +0x26)[0x40b403c0] > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libtl645li.so[0x409be120] > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libtl645li.so(_ZN6ResMgr4InitERK6String+0x24) > [0x409be2fe] > /u

Re: openoffice.org and ispell

2003-11-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 19:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried to install openoffice, but it wouldn't peacefully coexist > with ispell and related dictionaries; it "conflicts" with them - I am > quite anxious to know why on earth. It certainly doesn't do that. I guess you must have misread

Re: openoffice.org 1.1 spellchequer & MS word look

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 17:36, Ben Edwards wrote: > Just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.1 (Debian). > > Cant work out how to get the spellcheck working, any ideas? apt-get install myspell- where is whatever language you want to spellcheck in. 'apt-cache search myspell' would give you a list of availa

Re: need advice on default font size in X app menus

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:10, mike wrote: > oops - after an upgrade to Xfree86 where I wasn't paying enough > attention to the prompts telling me which config files were going to > be overwritten I have a problem. The font of the menus in many X > windows applications such as openoffice, mozilla bro

Re: apt-proxy still maintained?

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:00, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > I have not noticed any release of the python apt-proxy v2 yet. > Apart from the mentioned flaw I'm very satisfied with apt-proxy > which helps to save a lot of bandwith. So I'd rather stay with > apt-proxy if I would have the hope that the probl

Re: Xinerama and OO and Mozilla

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:14:27PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > It's like instead of placing the text at position(x,y) it's ending up at > position(x+screen_width,y). > > Anyone else see that? > > Should I suspect Xinerama code? My video driver (Matrox G550)? I'm seeing that on the same setup,

Re: Use of apt-proxy with net install of sarge

2003-10-13 Thread Chris Halls
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:15:54PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > But, I can't figure out what I should tell the netinstall software when it > asks me to specify a mirror. Some particulars of my system: > The url of the host running apt-proxy is cmn.lan.gnu . > A sample line in a using host sources

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:28:02PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > fonts. So, if you have a new font, you may need to tell > OpenOffice.org about it, X about it, GS about it > > This is gradually getting better now that we have fontconfig, which > hopefully gives all the info all apps needs, but

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:27:40PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I'm sorry to say, the code to create the compressed .gifs is patented and we > > had to disable it. I wasn't actually aware that Impress has the option to > > create GIFs for export, although I won't have time to look at disabling it > >

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:54:59AM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > I used OpenOffice.org's Impress (a power-point-like application) to make > a really nice slide show, and exported it to html. > > It works great. > > Except that the slide control buttons, a series of .gif's, are messed up > som

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:40:19PM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > I don't know what version of OOo you're using, but on 1.1rc I get the option to > > export the graphics as JPG, which should be better quality and should > > actually work. > > There is an option for creating jpg's when you expor

Re: apt-proxy

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:08:56PM +0200, Frank Langanke wrote: > This works for apt-get, how do I enable such a login-procedure for > apt-proxy ? I tried to set the http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables like > ftp_proxy=ftp://firewall_user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/, but > with no success. apt-proxy just us

Re: Probelms with apt-proxy

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:46:30PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Thanks. I just needed to add 'apt-proxy : LOCAL, 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0' > to my /etc/hosts.allow. I can connect to my local proxy now with no problem, > however I now get this error: Hmm, your config looks ok to me. Can you

Re: gifs, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:47:15PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Why not PNG? For navigational buttons, PNG would be the obvious choice. > JPEGs have a tendency to distort that kind of images quite a lot. PNG isn't included in the available options. Chris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: Probelms with apt-proxy

2003-08-10 Thread Chris Halls
Hi Roberto, On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:29:14PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > This is the error I get when I run apt-get update: > > (from the Woody box) > Err http://localhost stable/updates/main Packages > Connection failed > > (from the Unstable box) > Err http://P-Pro-200 unstable/main Pa

Re: XFree86 4.3 in Woody

2003-07-18 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:43:29PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > openoffice.org-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.3-7 is to > be installed > E: Sorry, broken packages > brain:/var/cache/apt/archives# > > I need the l

Re: openoffice hangs machine

2003-07-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:31:26PM +, James Mathers wrote: > I recently installed Debian 3.0 on my laptop, and have installed > openoffice from both a apt source, and compiled the program myself, > with the same issue. As soon as I load the application it hangs mt > whole machine, no responce t

Re: Printer installed with CUPS- Unable to print

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:52:35PM +0530, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > So, my orignal question : How to get the option of printing using > "cups" in other programs like kword or openoffice? $ apt-cache show openoffice.org | grep cups Suggests: openoffice.org-spellcheck, openoffice.org-help, menu, ooqsta

Re: Setting Menu fonts with OpenOffice

2003-06-02 Thread Chris Halls
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:03:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does someone know where the fonts are selected for the menus in OO? It's documented in /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta release

2003-03-27 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:08:13AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > I saw today that Ximian is working on a gnome version of OO. >http://www.gnome.org/~michael/XimianOOo/img0.html > > Are you aware of that? Yes, Rene & I were in the room when Michael gave that talk. > Do you intent to packa

OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta release

2003-03-26 Thread Chris Halls
In case anyone is interested, the 1.1 OpenOffice.org Beta is out now. There is a problem which can cause this version to exit with an IO error message on machines that do not have a domain name set. See this issue for details: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11777 You can wor

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > So does anyone have suggesions about > -tweaks to get debian to run optimally on a (relatively) small > memory/processing speed budget; > -if necessary, alternatives to / modifications of OpenOffice that > don't require quite so much ro

Re: [newbie] multiusers problems

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:37:09PM -0300, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: > OpenOffice I had installed from tar.gz, from the last one you can download > on openoffice site. Maybe you didn't use the -net flag for setup? You might find it easier to use the Debian packages: http://www.linux-debian.de/op

Re: [newbie] multiusers problems

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:25:30AM -0300, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: > and what about OpenOffice? Did you install from the upstream .tar.gz or from our packages? If so, which version of the packages? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: apt-proxy backup question

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Halls
Hi Richard, On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 06:24:09PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Is /var/cache/apt-proxy self contained? If I back up that directory, > together with /etc/apt-proxy, can I then just reinstall apt-proxy > and unpack those 2 to be back where I was? Or are there some indexes > or somethi

Re: openoffice

2003-02-07 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:56:33PM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote: > And in Woody??? > > El vie, 07-02-2003 a las 21:32, florin gheorghiu escribió: > > How can I make the truetypes fonts avaible in openoffice 1.0.2 in my box sid The Debian packages already automatically add known font paths to OOo's

Re: OpenOffice 1.0.2 font ugliness

2003-01-31 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:12:29AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:21:46AM -0800, Jeff wrote: > > Matt Price, 2003-Jan-27 12:22 -0500: > > > just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.0.2, and the fonts are _exceedingly_ > > > ugly, despite the fact that I installed the x-ttcidfont-conf as

Re: OpenOffice language locale

2003-01-08 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:01:42PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > language is set to "English(UK)". The problem is that it will not save > the language locale setting as English (UK) when closed - it reverts to > English (USA) and for "Locale setting" and "Default languages for > documents". Strange

Re: Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts

2002-12-13 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:46:25AM -0600, Dale Hair wrote: > I read this and everything else I found on google, everything on my > system seems to be correct. I also reinstalled msttcorefonts and > x-ttcidfont-conf. Did you downgrade libfreetype6 to the version in Woody? > What I don't understan

Re: Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts

2002-12-13 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:21:03PM -0600, Dale Hair wrote: > After upgrading openoffice I have no fonts in the menus but I do in the > document. My XF86Config-4 is correct and I am using the defoma TrueType > fonts. > > If I run it as su everything is fine. > If I run it as sudo it is the same as

Re: complete system lock up

2002-12-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:31:11PM +, Ben Thompson wrote: > or another way is to load up and start using > openoffice. Did you check /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz already? There are several known problems with certain chipsets. It would help if you give a summary of the har

Re: openoffice on testing

2002-12-09 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:49:23PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Just curious, which program is faulty here: fluxbox/openoffice? Openoffice. See: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5445 We promised not to upload the openoffice.org packages to unstable very often, because they are s

Re: openoffice on testing

2002-12-09 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:21:19PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> - OOo has a problem with your window manager (Oroborus, Fluxbox and >> possibly others) Bug #171556 >> > Right on target. Maybe I should I have tried it first and then posted. > A similar behaviour was noticed even with x

Re: openoffice on testing

2002-12-09 Thread Chris Halls
Hi, On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:41:06AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Currently I am running sarge. Yesterday I upgraded the openoffice.org > suite of programs. Now when I run openoffice, I get this eror, > > $ openoffice > OpenOffice.org for Debian - see > /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/READM

Re: Graphics & Linux

2002-12-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:38:30PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > > Just add the following into your sources.list, to get it from one of the > > mirrors. > > deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ unstable > > main contrib > > Do you know whether it's also available for stable

Re: Testing; openoffice installed but I can not find the setup program in any menu.(solved)

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:20:36AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Well go figure this I restarted the system and the entire batch of > OpenOffice applications are now working. Is this something new?? I have > never noticed this as a requirement before on ANY Linux system with he > exception of up

Re: Preload Openoffice.org at X startup

2002-11-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:30:28PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > There is ooqstart-gnome, which on my system sometimes keeps Gnome from > starting (ack!), but it is essentially the concept that is being asked > for Also, have a look at this document, which explains the available command line param

OpenOffice.org new unstable packages available for testing

2002-11-11 Thread Chris Halls
ki) If no problems are found with these packages we will upload to unstable. Thanks, Chris Halls Debian OpenOffice.org team msg12323/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Installing TrueType fonts

2002-11-09 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:52:32AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > I am not an expert - just a recipe-follower. I expect that I could have > modified something without realising! The ttf fonts are in > "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/". Here is the ttf font path in > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; it is commented

Re: Installing TrueType fonts

2002-11-08 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:40:07PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I'm afraid the situation is even uglier - the xfs protocol does not supply > >enough information about the fonts and OpenOffice writer can not use them. > > I a

Re: Installing TrueType fonts

2002-11-06 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:06:53AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > >>In a magazine I've found a CD with many ttf files for the use > >>with Photoshop under windows. > >>What's the straightforward way to install those ttf files under debian > >>woody for the use with gnome 1.4, OpenOffice, and - abov

Re: mirroring configured with apt sources.list lines?

2002-11-06 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:46:49PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > apt-proxy seems to cache what you install; it's not clear whether > it can "pre-cache" a whole subtree. You are right, it only caches the packages that you request and does not have the ability to 'pre-cache' built in. Although yo

Re: Openoffice.org debs on sarge/sid - any unofficial sources?

2002-11-04 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:31:07PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used to use the freenet.de mirror of vpn-junkies.de to get my OO.o > debs, but some wierd dependancy errors have started cropping up > recently when I try to dist-upgrade. > > Does anyone have a hybrid testing/unstable box w

File locking in Openoffice.org (was Re: Running script on logout from KDE)

2002-10-30 Thread Chris Halls
Hi Marius, On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:43:04PM +0800, marius rogn wrote: > My real problem is that I'm having problems with users sharing files > (OpenOfffice.org files). On my fileserver I have a directory where all my > users have a commnon directory, there they store their projectfiles > (OpenOf

Re: OpenOffice

2002-10-17 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:33:25PM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: > Recently, all of my OpenOffice applications seem to have lost their > fonts. What I mean by this, is that all text in the applications is > missing. Menu text, text typed in by a user...ALL TEXT. It's odd. This > happened a couple of

Re: whereami: setting ip address?

2002-10-15 Thread Chris Halls
Hi Martin, On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:18:41AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > whereami is called from /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/whereami, and it > works like a charm. but no matter whether it detects the lan with > a static ip, wireless, dhcp, or offline, the interface brought up is > still contro

Re: openoffice error

2002-10-02 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:18:01AM +0200, Francois Chenais wrote: > I can't use openoffice because of errors. > It aborts. You probably have a font problem. Did you follow the troubleshooting procedure in /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian? Setup does not work - abort -

Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)

2002-09-12 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:22:29PM +0200, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > Sound quite like my "No menus and weird field size" problem. If you > could elaborate on the steps required to identify the problem font, I > would post it to the lists. The only way that I know of is to do a binary search of

Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)

2002-09-12 Thread Chris Halls
Hi Michael! On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:09:34PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just upgraded my testing machine to unstable and installed KDE3.0.3. > All worked well except that openoffice no longer shows a single > character. That is there is no longer any character in the menues, > windows, et

Re: typo error

2002-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:13:59AM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > To solve that, please grap Torsten's libstlport packages from: > http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/pool/main/stlport/ > > and then reinstall OpenOffice.org. Well, alternatively just downgrade libstlport in

Re: understanding apt-proxy

2002-08-31 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:41:40PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > >I would happily accept worked-over documentation for anything I maintain - > >knowing a program inside-out does not help in writing documentation - I > >don't always see the problems you do. > > > I would be glad to help if I end up ge

Re: understanding apt-proxy

2002-08-30 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:17:22PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I had read all of these except the import but I had done the import. > Often enough I find Linux documentations skips over or assumes > understanding that I don't have yet. Not that I don't appreciate all > that has been done. I wo

Re: apt-proxy and security.debian.org

2002-06-26 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 08:54:08AM -0400, Jason Bleazard wrote: > I've recently started using apt-proxy, and today discovered that I > apparently don't have the settings quite right for security. The other > settings all have been okay so far, so apt-proxy does work for me. > Also, apt-get update

Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-25 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:11:24AM -0700, David Richmond wrote: > Sorry to jump in, but I'm a bit confused. The OpenOffice.org packages > current on http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice installed fine on my woody > systemalthough I may have grabbed some packages from sid as necessary. > T

Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-24 Thread Chris Halls
about our packages, and a list of available mirrors, see: http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice Chris Halls OpenOffice.org packaging team pgp4mUK9V18EL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-proxy 111 connection refused

2002-06-19 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:22:12PM -0700, Paul Scott,,, wrote: > When I run apt-get update on the other machine I get 111 connection refused. > > Do I need something in /etc/exports or /etc/hosts.allow? A quote from the README: Q: A connection cannot be established with apt-proxy on a remote mac

Re: Foreign Language with OpenOffice?

2002-06-15 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:44:40PM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: > > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I appreciate your response. Could any one give me any guidance as to > > > how this is done? Do I use the standard OpenOffice (English version) > > > that I already have and just do somethi

Re: Apt-get problem

2002-06-13 Thread Chris Halls
this server is unreachable at the moment - it's probably the problem. See http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html for a replacement. BTW, you don't need the 'deb-src' line unless you want to download the OpenOffice.org source... :) Chris Halls pgp4NbB8354bc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Open Office problems

2002-06-04 Thread Chris Halls
rint/pspfontcache Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany Yahoo:hagga12000 ICQ:36940860 MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software installation

2002-06-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:09:35PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > #for OpenOffice debs > #deb http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/openoffice unstable main contrib > #deb-src http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/openoffice unstable main contrib Sorry, we were asked to take that mirror down. Please s

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-06-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:37:45AM -0700, Jeff wrote: > I use OpenOffice as well, but now and then I get a Word doc that > crashes OpenOffice when opening. I then fire up VMWare and start Jeff, I don't have enough time to test every type of Word doc with OOo. If you are able to reliably make OO

Re: X 4.2 problem

2002-05-24 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:23:31PM +0200, José Manuel Pérez wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ openoffice > running openoffice setup... > I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "spanish" > I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "C" > /usr/bin/openoffice: line 27: 11555 Violación de segmento

Re: OpenOffice.org and antialiased fonts

2002-05-24 Thread Chris Halls
ing the issuezilla at www.openoffice.org for issues regarding fonts. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany Yahoo:hagga12000 ICQ:36940860 MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice.org and gcc conflicts

2002-05-24 Thread Chris Halls
ompiled with different compiler ABI versions are incompatible) may be worked out as part of a GCC2.9x->GCC3.1 transition in Debian. Otherwise we'll have to hack the openoffice source around to use a different library name I guess. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany -- To UNSU

Re: Running openoffice as regular user?

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:17:23AM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - Hangs complete machine on S3 Savage with Xfree 4.1 by default > > I trust you already knew about the > export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true > tric

Re: files with spaces

2002-05-15 Thread Chris Halls
> Is there any way to get find or xargs putting a "\" in front of every space > in > a filename? find -print0 | xargs -0 Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany Yahoo:hagga12000 ICQ:36940860 MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Running openoffice as regular user?

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Halls
have a look at the issues I've been involved in by quering for user [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Issuezilla. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany pgpRiVQ5xlmoF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Workaround for Openoffice.org not starting on Gnome+sawfish: unset SESSION_MANAGER

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Halls
: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4494 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81762 (This problem, and it's workaround, is identical for Opera users.) Chris Halls Debian Openoffice Team -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany pgptILiCunCaa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Running openoffice as regular user?

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:26:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 03:12, Chris Halls wrote: > > This is a very large package with many twists and turns to it. We can't get > > it all running in one go - the .debs are up there to save people having to > &g

Re: Running openoffice as regular user?

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Halls
in README and TODO in the doc directory - you may like to have a look there. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany pgpGksZN2z87Z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Openoffice file copy error

2002-05-07 Thread Chris Halls
ot yet done). Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany pgpV6vbPMbhAP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OpenOffice.org & Woody

2002-05-07 Thread Chris Halls
d that will create the necessary per-user files in ~/.openoffice. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice 1.0 ,debs?

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Halls
. /me picks up brown paper bag and hides under it again. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice 1.0 ,debs?

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Halls
to /usr/local. If you need good quality packages without glitches, please be patient and wait until we are ready to upload to the Debian archive. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice.org & Woody

2002-05-03 Thread Chris Halls
the Java build dependency. And as Colin says, it needs much polishing before it can go in. We have only had good .debs of build 641 (now 1.0) since a few weeks - it took months to work through the build process, adding patches and workarounds as we went along. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankf

Re: OpenOffice 1.0 ,debs?

2002-05-03 Thread Chris Halls
can be ignored for now. Sorry about these problems. Now the dependency issues are sorted the next wave of problems are comming to light. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice apt install problem

2002-05-02 Thread Chris Halls
mbol: _ZN4_STL12__node_allocILb1ELiOEE11_M_allocateEj > /usr/bin/openoffice: /root/.openoffice/soffice: No such file or directory These problems are fixed in the 1.0.0-1 package. Announcement tonight. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany pgpNr2O4fNyOA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: "mirror"

2002-04-25 Thread Chris Halls
o put the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives into the apt-proxy mirror directory. If during the install, the machine asks for a newer version than you had in /var/cache/apt/archives, apt-proxy will then go off and fetch it for you. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: why?

2002-04-05 Thread Chris Halls
table_main_binary-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) Probably because you've changed your /etc/apt/sources.list and forgotten to apt-get update, or you ignored error messages from apt-get update. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: apt-proxy woes

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Halls
, and with apt-proxy you also have to add an extra line to apt-proxy.conf. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany pgpnX7JAjSoOe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-proxy woes

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Halls
-proxy.sourceforge.net/apt-proxy/unstable, which will hit Debian unstable in a few days if no problems arise. HTH, Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany pgpiOcKWg2kK8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Halls
pt-move seems to strip off the _i386 part of the filenames. Try this: find -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name That'll rename all the .debs to include their architectures. HTH, Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany

Re: Open Office in unstable?

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Halls
en I run OO on it. That package is from Openoffice build 638. The current build it 641c and Jan-Hendrik Palic and others on the debian-openoffice list are trying to get it built. See http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/ for the latest news. Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany pgpN6w

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-07 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 04:41:15PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > Well, no, not the script itself so I'll attach it. *muffled sounds of Chris beating the script into submission* Oops, it ran off just before I hit the send key. Or maybe I just forgot... Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt,

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-07 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:45:41PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:51:17PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > > http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/apt-proxy/unstable > I would like to try it, but I (well, my nameserver) can't seem to > resolve apt-proxy.so

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-07 Thread Chris Halls
ceive feedback if you try it out and have any problems. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Halls | Frankfurt, Germany pgpNU2t4xjjPh.pgp Description: PGP signature

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