Re: [R] How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system

2005-10-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:04:50PM -0500, Dan Davison wrote: > I would like to install the latest version of R (the statistical computing > software). This is package r-base version 2.2.0 and is in the debian > 'unstable' repository. Otherwise my system has 'sarge' packages, including > r-base 2

remote attack?

2000-12-18 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, seems my machine was subject to an remote attack. I saw these in the logs: Dec 16 05:10:03 ap031 rpc.statd[21964]: gethostbyname error for ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220

ITP gemdropx, madbomber, defendguin, ...

1999-12-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Id like to package all the games http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/x/ which I can get working. All games are (gemdropx will be made) GPL. As nobody reacted to my call on debian-devel-games, it seems I'll have to package them myself. Most of these games use SDL (available as libsdl* in debian) for so

framemaker

1999-12-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, is anyone else trying to use framemaker with debian/slink? Yesterday I got a mail from adobe: (1) C library incompatibiliy with some distributions of Linux, including Red Hat 5.2 and Debian 2.1. Users will typically see the following message in this case: ./maker: error in l

meta key for xemacs

1999-11-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, How can I define new Meta keys for Xemacs? I have two slink/i386 installations, on one I can use the windows key as Meta key, on the other I can't, most of the time. I had the impression it worked for a short time while editing a shell script, but then, I couldn't... My .emacs and .xemacs-optio

Japanese debian?

1999-09-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, we have a japanese guest scientist and he would like to read his japanese email here. I bet it is possible to do this with debian, debian-jp. Can somebody please tell me what packages to install to allow reading japanese mail with debian? (and maybe send a mail in japanese for testing?) Thanks

fetchmail over ssh, how?

1999-06-08 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am trying to run fetchmail over ssh but I seem to be too dumb to get it going. Ive read the (debian) docs, a webpage dedicated to this problem (http://yosh.gimp.org/Secure-POP-SSH.html) but still I cant get it going. I hope somebody here can help me. The setup, two debian/slink boxes ap031

Re: setting up a HP 880C/850C

1999-05-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, On Tue, 11 May 1999, David Wright wrote: > I have an 895c and use the hpdj driver in gs-aladdin, which uses a lot > less ink than hp550c which I believe is the "traditional" deskjet driver. Gonna try that (have to update the notebook from hamm to slink...) > Use the extra switch -M A4dj to t

setting up a HP 880C/850C

1999-05-11 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I got an HP 880C yesterday which works in principle. Now I have two or three questions: Ive seen there is an (experimental?) gs driver for newer HPs, available as a patch. Are there plans to integrate it into gs or is it not worth it? When printing with a2ps the first two columns of the let pa

Re: fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart

1999-01-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, > 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. > I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with "From" > in the text, procmail sorts everythin

Re: fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart

1999-01-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:36:35 +0100 (CET) "Christian T. Steigies" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail > > (hamm, 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart.

fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart

1999-01-26 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with "From" in the text, procmail sorts everything before "From" in the correct folder, everything after "From" (the line with

NFS install

1998-11-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, Im just setting up debian system on a new PentiumII. Got no Debian CD. I want to install the basesystem with NFS, can anybody recommend me a NFS server preferably in Germany/Northern Europe? Ciao, Christian.

BTS

1998-08-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have sent a bug report to the BTS. Now I see this on the www: Your message specified a Severity: in the psuedo-header, but the severity value 'normal ' was not recognised. The default severity 'normal' is being used instead. The recognised values are: critical grave important normal wishlist

less with lesspipe reports: bash option -c requires an argument

1998-06-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, since some time less (or lesspipe) when displaying compress texts reports: /bin/bash: option -c requires an argument when I Quit displaying a text. The text (or deb, nice script manoj :-) is displayed correctly, its only a little annoying to get this message everytime I quit less. I dont rememb

mutt, xlock, xautolock problems

1998-05-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have installed mutt (0.91.1-4) on i386 and have experienced some strange colors, which make most of the mails (citations) unreadable. I know how it looked before and have seen the same with the new version I built for m68k. Is mutt supposed to look like this now? Do I have to configure it

Re: Problem with deinstalling emacs20

1998-02-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, On 27 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Somehow you managed to remove the emacsen-common package without > removing emacs20. Since emacs20 depends on emacsen-common, this means > you must have forced dpkg to ignore dependencies. This is a bad > thing. > > To fix the problem, reinstall emacsen-co

Problem with deinstalling emacs20

1998-02-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I can not (completely) deinstall emacs20. I have removed all emacs* packages, including emacs, emacs19, but I do not get rid of emacs20. This is not WinExploder in disguise, is it? ;-) I want to remove it because I had the impression it did not install properly. How do I get rid of it (without