Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed?

Quoting Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, /opt is where the files were written to, > indeed. But since dpkg was involved, the managing > system got in the middle. In the end, I removed all > the stuff, since apt-get can't do anything else > besides complain, 'till you remove'em. Thanks, I'

Debian package management puzzle

How useful is grep-dctrl? Having nothing better to do, I did some informal tests of the program. The results have left me even more puzzled about the relation between dpkg, apt, aptitude and the other upcoming or obsolete Debian package managers? Can somebody account for the anomaly below? There ar

Re: apt-get and authentication

Quoting Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why has apt-get started giving me this message: > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! That's part of apt 0.6's new security feature. You must add to your apt set-up the gpg public key of the archives where you downloaded the pack

Re: ways to read man pages

Quoting kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi >We all know how important it is to read man pages. I > would like to collect info on different ways to read the > man pages. My > favorites are as follows > > 1) man pagename > 2) In konqueror, man:pagename > 3) In vim, Man pagename > >

Re: USB2 Video/TV capture?

Quothing Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:28 -0500, Ephemeral root wrote: > > Has anybody managed to get any brand of a video or TV capture > > device connected via USB2 to work under Debian? The first > > result I got on a Google s

USB2 Video/TV capture?

Has anybody managed to get any brand of a video or TV capture device connected via USB2 to work under Debian? The first result I got on a Google search for "linux video usb2 capture" is a link to somebody's Linux *in*compatibility list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Updates to unstable

Am I the only one not getting any apt-get updates to the unstable version of Debian? I decided to check the sources list by hand and interestingly the dates of the lates Packages.gz and Sources.gz is 2005-07-21. What gives? http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ [ ] Packag

Re: external USB acomdata drive

Quoting Pete Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:38:55PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > > > > > However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error > > > saying wrong fstype: > > > > > > % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/