Re: Error installing Emacs20 in Potato

1999-12-14 Thread John R. Sheets
Marshal Wong wrote: > > For the emacs20 error, I think you need to make the directory > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev and copy debian-changelog-mode.el > into it from /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg. I though that this > problem was fixed already. Anyways, see if that helps. Hey, thanks!

Error installing Emacs20 in Potato

1999-12-13 Thread John R. Sheets
I've been getting this error for a couple weeks, and it's keeping me from installing a bunch of other stuff. Anyone know what the problem might be? Here's what I have installed (more or less): $ dpkg -l | grep emacs rc emacs19 19.34-23 The GNU Emacs editor. iF emacs20 20.

Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-19 Thread John R. Sheets
Aaron Solochek wrote: > > I just installed a potato partiton, all seemed to go well. I even > installed accelerated X on it, and its setup didn't segfault, an obvious > improvement. The first time I ran X everything worked fine. Then, out > of the blue, the mouse stopped working in X. I get th

Perl dependency problems in unstable

1999-10-01 Thread John R. Sheets
Hi, I just did an upgrade of the latest unstable branch, and ran into a rather perplexing problem with the perl-5.005-doc package. Dselect won't let me change the upgrade status of that package. In fact, it won't even let me hold it! When I hold it and the main perl package, it comes back with

Re: Need docs on Fontselector In Gnome

1999-09-23 Thread John R. Sheets
John Foster wrote: > > I have looked for the docs on the Gnome fontselector. There do not seem > to be any. Anyone have any ideas? Sure: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libgnomeui/gnomefontselector.html However, it has been deprecated in favor of GtkFontSelection or GnomeFontPicker. I imagi

Re: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread John R. Sheets
Bryan Scaringe wrote: > > OK, > If you wish to get a new package that is released WITHOUT updating > all existing packages that have new versions, just use apt-get to install > tha package directly. > > apt-get update #update the package DB > apt-get install Is it possible to use apt-g

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-10 Thread John R. Sheets
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > IPX also has a bug that prevents me to use 2.2. with my slink. I'm using > 2.0.38 on the machine that needs IPX support and 2.2 in the rest. Does this also apply to the 2.2 kernel in unstable? I was thinking about upgrading my kernel, but if that'll prevent me