Aptitude Wants to Delete/Remove Way Too Much

2004-03-21 Thread David Crane
that they have broken dependencies. Strangely, "perl" is not listed as one of the packages being changed. It is listed under "Installed Packages" with the "iB" flag. Its only unsatisfied dependency is "perl-base", which I can successfully mark for reinst

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-14 Thread David Crane
--- When libsensors-1debian1 appears in http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing, aptitude will find it there. If I ever want to download or create individual deb's, I can put them in /var/cache/apt/storage/debs, and use the dpkg-scanpackages and gzip commands above to refresh my loca

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread David Crane
ng someone fight Swen), and this morning, there were 20+ Swens, over 3 Megabytes. I was *that* close to losing e-mail. Never again. I am not being allowed to post again to this list from this account (I'm sneaking in this one last post, figuring 12 hours won't matter much). A sad g

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-18 Thread David Crane
):.*Security Department DENY=^(From|FROM):.*(Email|Mail|Net|Message|Network) (Delivery|Service).* DENY=^(From|FROM):.*microsoft (network|internet).* (service|system).* DENY=^(From|FROM):.*Technical (Assistance|Support).* David Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: KDE Sound Server Test Silent, But OSS Driver Works

2003-09-01 Thread David Crane
On Monday 01 September 2003 02:00 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Are you in the audio group? Now I am, and it works. I installed xmmsarts, and am very happy. Thanks, David Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE Sound Server Test Silent, But OSS Driver Works

2003-09-01 Thread David Crane
1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp Early on, before I had the correct sound driver, I clicked something on a dialog that KDE was using to complain that the sound wasn't working. I probably should have just lived with it, because I can't figure out how to fix things n

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-01 Thread David Crane
nothing. I only used dd to create a backup of NTLDR. I could have forged ahead without it, but that isn't prudent. Good luck, David Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread David Crane
let LILO know how to boot Windows 2000, with: other=/dev/hda2 label=Win2000 table=/dev/hda (12) Run lilo and reboot. Everything should be fine, and you will be presented with the LILO prompt. If you have never seen this before, you need to know one thing: HOLD DOWN THE SH

Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-24 Thread David Crane
But it will have to wait until next weekend, since it says it will download 291MB of archives, which will take 21.6 hours over my modem. I'll try to remove bunches of stuff before I dist-upgrade. Thanks, David Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-24 Thread David Crane
e switch. Is it possible that the switch has left some cruft in my APT database? I don't think so, but I am a newbie. Thanks, David Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-24 Thread David Crane
ple rounds of "apt-get upgrade" would be needed to bring a 3.0rev1 "woody" distribution up to a current "testing" distribution. Thanks, David Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-24 Thread David Crane
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:38:06AM -0400, David Crane wrote: 12 packages upgraded, 20 newly installed, 65 to remove and 387 not upgraded. Well, it looks like your box is significantly behind in updates. It thinks there are 387 packages available for upgrade, but

Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-24 Thread David Crane
tems analyst by trade, but don't have many cycles left over for coding, I think that I could contribute to testing the APT package cache database. I'm also very interested in it. Thanks, David Crane I think I made a mistake by upg Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Hi! On Sun Aug 24, 2003 a

Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-24 Thread David Crane
fully understand that it takes a lot of work (including testing). Or are we in a period of an unusual amount of activity in "testing?" Thanks, David Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why Does Testing mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove diald

2003-08-23 Thread David Crane
org/debian testing main contrib non-free If the solution isn't obvious, please reply to the list with what other information I should gather. I'm pretty new with using debian, but I'm very experienced with writing UNIX server software. I'm impressed so far. Thanks, David Crane