Re: Deb-Newby: Re: wondering about xpm and png files... (2nd try)

2001-08-01 Thread J.F.Gratton \(alternate\)
At 21:07 2001-08-01 -0500, you wrote: Thank You JEFF, Many of the acronyms that are used I do not know and have to guess at them. hey, isn't that why we have such fine mailing lists like this one ? to help people out :) I get plenty of help here :) Jeff

Re: wondering about xpm and png files... (2nd try)

2001-08-01 Thread J.F.Gratton \(alternate\)
At 17:57 2001-08-01 -0700, you wrote: np. at least I got a reply very quickly...anyway, two hopefully not dumb questions... 1. Where can I get the source-tarballs and/or packages and what are they called? 2. What did you mean by "a given package."? OK... a good bet to find the source tarba

Unidentified subject!

2001-08-01 Thread J.F.Gratton \(alternate\)
At 17:36 2001-08-01 -0700, you wrote: Hi, Just wondering if there was a repository somewhere where I can get xpm/png files of /usr/share/pixmaps. I noticed that redhat,debian,etc have some different collection of xpm/png files and I would like to get a good collection of them to use in my desktop.

XFree86 4.1 woes, part2

2001-08-01 Thread J.F.Gratton \(alternate\)
...me again ! As I mentionned 2 days ago, I'm unable to upgrade X 4.0x to X 4.1.0 because of a dpkg error that I'll reproduce again here : /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config: return: bad non-numeric arg `Check' dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): subprocess post-installa

Unable to configure XFree-4.1.0-1 on sid ?

2001-07-31 Thread J.F.Gratton \(alternate\)
Hello all, I've fallen throught a weird crack. When I dist-upgrade and upgrade XFree to 4.1.0-1 dpkg starts configuring the package and then falls on its face. It asks for the keyboard model (101, 104 or 105 keys, etc), and then exits with this message: /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config