Re: Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 16:29, dman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Emiel Metselaar wrote: > ... > > | sys c: > > I did this once. Destroyed the disk! I don't recommend doing it > again. > > The story : > A few years back I acquire

Re: Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 16:06, o polite wrote: > Some time ago I tried to install the userfriendly OS Windows 98 on spare > partition. Of course it succeded in rendering my laptop unusable. It took > me two days to get my system back. This was four weeks ago, so now I'm > ready for some more pa

glutg3-dev & xlibmesa-dev

2001-11-22 Thread Emiel Metselaar
Yesterday I installed glutg3-dev & xlibmesa-dev for my visualisation code, since the non-dev things do not have the header files. Today going throught the apt-get update, upgrade routine I see that these 2 files will be removed. My question is why, i didnot deselect them... A related question is ho

Re: Intel(R) Fortran Compiler

2001-11-14 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 13:44, Daniel Faller wrote: > has someone tried and/or managed to install the > Intel(R) Fortran Compiler on a debian (potato/unstable) system ? yep, I did it the dirty way install on a RH machine and then copy it to the debian machine It is not a clean way of do

Re: reportbug package

2001-11-14 Thread Emiel Metselaar
man reportbug: --email=ADDRESS Set the email address for your report. This should be the actual Internet email address on its own (i.e. without a real name or comment part). This setting will override any environment variable that is

Re: kde 2.2 upgrade

2001-11-13 Thread Emiel Metselaar
Are you getting error's like these: delibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but 4:2.2.1-14 is to be installed Then head over to the debian-kde lists (thread 2.2.2 changes), in short the files are not uploaded yet, but the meta package is.. emiel On Tuesday 13 November 2001 12:50, Tom Allison wrote: > Tom Allis

Re: lprng & ps-to-printer.fpi

2001-10-25 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Thursday 25 October 2001 14:42, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:28:09PM +0200, Emiel Metselaar wrote: > > I was trying to print using lprng on a woody machine and it did not work. > > After some poking around i found that in > > /usr/share/lprngtool/ps-to-

Re: lprng & ps-to-printer.fpi

2001-10-25 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Thursday 25 October 2001 14:28, Emiel Metselaar wrote: > I was trying to print using lprng on a woody machine and it did not work. > After some poking around i found that in > /usr/share/lprngtool/ps-to-printer.fpi something did not work allright. > > It seems that the line &qu

lprng & ps-to-printer.fpi

2001-10-25 Thread Emiel Metselaar
I was trying to print using lprng on a woody machine and it did not work. After some poking around i found that in /usr/share/lprngtool/ps-to-printer.fpi something did not work allright. It seems that the line "source ${SPOOLDIR}/postscript.cfg" does not work. I am not much of a shell script expe

Re: intel fortran compiler

2001-10-24 Thread Emiel Metselaar
I also had some problems with alien, but since i just converted from a red hat machine and i had backups i could just *ahum* copy the backup /opt/intel directory and it worked. So try to find a rh machine and try the same approach. Not clean & nice, but one could call it pragmatic good