Re: Palm sync gone again

Hi, version 2.6.17 of the kernel introduced quite a lot of issues with the serial ports (USB and legacy, I imagine the 'serial' subsystem has been rewritten), and not all have been solved with 2.6.18. Personally, I have rolled-back to 2.6.16 because of issues with my Palm (on legacy serial i.e

Re: freemind

Hi, it's pretty easy: somewhere in /etc/apt/preferences, you must have set the priority of ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca to 1001, which, if I remember well, allows downgrade of software. By setting my depot eric.lavar.de to 9, you've as well removed yourself the possibility to get updates from them (

Re: Using Free JVM implementations

Hi, >> Unfort with kaffe I get the following error: > > I am sure that the kaffe developers would be pleased to know what > exactly doesn't work with their implementation. > > BTW, have you tried to use any other JVM for comparison purposes? It > would be good to know. > >> 15:27:32 ~/src$ kaffe -

Re: books/doc for programmers and sysadmin on a debian system

Hi, you might want to have a look at: http://www.debian-administration.org/ Eric anoop aryal wrote: is anyone aware of books/doc about how best to: 1) manage source-code (not just in a CVS/subversion but, how do you lay it out so that managing multiple projects is easy) 2) do .deb packagin

Re: Howto find and remove unused libraries?

fraz wrote: How can I find libraries etc that were installed as dependencies, but which currently have no "dependants" installed? IE the package that caused apt to install them isn't installed anymore. I've been apt-getting and removing packages on my system for the last 4 years. And I suspec

Re: dpkg and apt

Hi, it's normal behavior: 'dpkg -l' shows the installed packages. If you want to know which packages are available, you should use apt-cache. I generally use 'apt-cache search '. Then you can have a look at the found packages using 'apt-cache show ', and at last install it using 'apt-get install