On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:34:21AM +0200, Andreas Mueller (EED) wrote:
> Hallo Debian's
>
> I've tried to install lynx out of the potato 2.2 r_0_ CD-Roms using dpkg
> Lynx claims to depend on libz1. I couldn't find these on any of my
> CD-R's.
>
> Can someone help me please on that? Andreas...
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:41:21PM +0200, vester wrote:
>
> i know this sounds trivial, but i haven't figured it out...after
> installing and successfully loading ALSA drivers (as root) sound
> applications only work as root...what do i need to change to make sound
> accessible to normal users? an
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:07:53AM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote:
> May 23 06:13:15 c243491-a sm-mta[407]: f4NCCqk7000407:
> from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=2433,
> class=-30, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]
>
> Is there anyone who migh
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:28:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Since you're probably root at the time you're doing this sort of thing,
> you'll find yourself with an unusable system.
>
> For that reason, I always advise people to forget that killall exists,
> even if it's a handy short cut on Li
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do
> about:
>
> 9 opentcpdiscard
> 13 opentcpdaytime
> 37 opentcptime
> 113 opent
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> 99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, check 3.
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
> E: Failure running script /us
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA
> GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS,
> and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the
> tar file, right?
thats what I've been using.. unpack, type
make
as
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:55:46AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Yeah, I picked a good example, didn't I ?? In fact, gnumeric may not
> have any sound capabilities at all. Maybe it does... Where esound
> comes in is that *another* package that gnumeric requires requires
> esound itself. Aren't de
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> application, I was concerned that I'd need to install various qt
> libs and possibly even some KDE, depending on how things were
> packaged. Luckily, it only req'd (not including what I already had
> installed) libqt2.
Mmm I use
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:33:38AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see
> below)
> > is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building
> > from source?
>
> Do you not run many gnome packages ?? Many of those are pretty
>
Hi,
I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see below)
is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building
from source?
Any (mebbe console based) alternatives?
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:39:22PM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> Would some people give me an opinion on the US Robotics external
> 56k Message Modem ? Is it suitable for use with Linux.
I used one for a couple of years with windows and linux, absolutely no
problems in either. Not the fastest i
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 04:51:03AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Everything else is commented out. Even commented out the following
> lines:
> # Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
> #
> #*.emerg*
>
> So what gives? How do I stop this logging to th
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:06:15PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > the settings. Personally after you get the hang of things
> > it's not bad for free. I don't even pay attention to the
> > banner ads.
>
> It's all configurable... except for the toolbar with the ads which is
> the biggest and m
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:03:59AM +1000, Krisno Pryosusilo wrote:
> Hi,
> Question 1 : -> Is there a simple blow by blow description on how to
> install a deb package which is currently in a directory on my
> hard-drive?
dpkg -i filename
> The reason : ->
> I'm trying to install Opera and under
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:49:48PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using kernel 2.2.19 and with debian 2.2r2 and keep getting the following
> message at boot up :
>
> Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep
>
> I read the earlier post in this mailing
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:43:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Plextor's 2mb. I assume, all things being equal, this would be an
> >advantage. Is this a valid assumption?
>
> My understanding after reading about Burn-Proof on the Plextor web page is
> that
> this technology pretty much p
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Stefano wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering
> if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody?
>
> The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and
> "offic
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:38:06AM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> Hi All,
> I search the web for an answer, but came up short.
try a search for
pop rfc
at www.google.com
> Occasionally I get some junk mail that will hang
> my system and won't let me get my mail. So I
> telnet into my isp an look for
Hi,
Everytime my isdn (ipppd) connection goes up or down it dumps messages
on whatever console I'm logged in on and it's annoying.
Tried fiddling with syslog.conf and looked over the /etc/isdn files but
can't seem to stop it. or work out what is doing it.. The kdebug
level for ipppd is set to
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:34:20AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
>
> Sorry, I did not express myself clear enough. This sed thing changes
> every line in the "wget-script" script. This, I did easily with emacs
> (while sed is much more elegant). My problem is: I do not want to do
> hundreds of
> m
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:28:12PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> So enough of talking, here comes my idea of how to do it: Is there a
> shell-script that can change the x'es in the downloaded file names
> back to % (the script, I edit with emacs, this is no problem).
> Unfortunately, I have no
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:46:28AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few
> problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm there, I'm at bash
I dont think you say what version you installed, but see if you can get
the latest potato
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:57:06AM +0200, chris wrote:
> does it work ?
It does, but I purged it as soon as I realised you could do
apt-cache search ^task*
and then just
apt install task-name
for the one you want... do you really need a front end for that :)
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:21:06AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> I recently reinstalled Potato from scratch. As part of this I changed some
> system software, including smail --> exim.
>
> How can I tell exim to refuse connections from other than local addresses?
> I've searched the docs, but can fi
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:38:09PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote:
> > I'm looking for a GUI cd-burning tool that I can let loose on users
> > without expecting them to patch the source or jump through any other
> > hoops to get it going. In other words, something that works. There is
> > xcdroast b
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:59:37PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> echo 40960 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
>
> in a bootup script, probably whatever starts your servers.
>
> > I'm afraid you need to reboot the server (the machine) to activate these
> > changes.
> >
> You probably don't, just find the boo
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:43:52PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote:
> Having upgraded my woody box this evening, I am not able to run X
> anymore. It will complain that it does not find the 'fixed'
> font. Anyone having the same problem ? What can I do ?
Do you still have the xfonts-base package i
> hello, I am a graduate student in molecular biology and I AM SICK OF MS
> WINDOWS! I am installing your debian Linux os on my IBM 600x laptop, but I
> still need a couple statistical packages currently only available for MS
'> Q: Can I have Debian/Linux OS installed on my computer while also ha
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:14:56AM -0700, Charles Lewis wrote:
> Apparently it was a permissions problem with /dev/sg0.
> Not sure what that device is used for, because my cd is on /dev/scd0, but
> after I fixed permissions, grip worked just fine.
sg0 refers to the sg.o kernel module which provide
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:32:28PM -0400, Cheng wrote:
As you first say this ..
> Second, I'd like to install the 2.4 kernel due to some of the advantages I've
> heard about it, such as Athlon optimization, more efficient threads, and
> memory detection.
then ..
> To me stability is more im
> >$ startx xterm
> >
> > ...and report if it still prompts for a password.
>
> still the problem persists.
> I also tried as root, no results.
try editing the startx script and add
set +x
at the start of it, it should echo the commands it runs as it does so ,
might give you a clue as to whi
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:50:04AM -0700, John and Kristy Woodill wrote:
> I have just bought a GForce 2 graphics card and now i can't seem to get x to
> configure and load correctly. I just get a black and white screen all
> scrambled up. I have a Riva TNT 2 before and had zero problems with t
> There ain't none. mp3 encoders are all patent encumbered, so Debian
> distributes none. It's been an ongoing discussion on -legal for years
> now. My suggestion is to go ogg/vorbis or build lame from source.
www.debianplanet.org
has a few unofficial apt sources, and I am pretty sure there is
> I just subscribed to the list, I'd really need some help for
> separating mail from lists, as you might easily guess.
> This is my cfg: mutt/exim/potato
> Any help (and receipe better yet!) will be higly appreciated
Have a look at
www.procmail.org
and in particular (the ones that made it click
> > > i don't see any point to using upgrade instead of dist-upgrade.
> >
> > But surelly upgrade has some use, I mean, there's probably some
> > situation in which you would prefer to use upgrade in place of
> > dist-upgrade, could someone please shed some light in this isue?
>
> I'm going back to
> > out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and
> > maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something
> > useful too)
>
> In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always
like
> that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents
and
> after a few months I am using Debian at home I keep
> wandering whether it uses too much RAM.
Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike..
Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it
better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used
to speed things up, c
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