Re: salome in debian etch

2007-11-06 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 00:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > What is salome? www.salome-platform.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: salome in debian etch

2007-11-06 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 00:34, Roberto Nicolini wrote: > Expecially if the installer you have is trying to replace Etch versions of > the dependencies with its own verions, wich may well equal to break your > Etch system. Its own versions are installed in its own directory, they don't replace

salome in debian etch

2007-11-05 Thread Mauro Darida
hello all, I am trying to install salome in debian etch. At the salome website I have downloaded the sarge tarball (there is none for etch). The install wizard says mine is a "not supported linux platform" because is not sarge and recognise only gcc of my system; it wants to install form its bin

module mach64 does not compile under kernel 2.6.

2007-01-26 Thread Mauro Darida
Hello all, after upgrade from sarge to etch direct rendering for my ati rage mobility mach64 card is not working anymore. I have self-compiled kernel 2.6.19. I downloaded both : common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2 mach64-20060325-linux.i386.tar.bz2 but I am unable to install the second one, it abo

is hp proliant DL140 G2 scsi debian friendly?

2005-09-07 Thread Mauro Darida
hello, I was evaluating the hp server proliant dl140 g2 with scsi but could not find anything on sarge compatibility. Has anyone installed sarge on this server successfully? -- On this laptop no Windows system survives and LINUX POWER reigns UNLIMITED. Successfully Microsoft free since December

Re: pppd: CHAP authentication failed

2005-01-01 Thread Mauro Darida
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 at 03:37:27 +, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >Dec 29 20:40:30 ifi pppd[793]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1 > ><67ebcc8735df1478486093c19f9e869c>, name = "apx-na1"] > >Dec 29 20:40:30 ifi pppd[793]: sent [CHAP Response id=0x1 > ><8b7464067e56bd43969a6f290ef2e077>, name = "robert210"

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-30 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 at 15:32:11 +, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png > > > Thanks, but I cannot access the above picture (?) > > > > Works for me. What error message do you get? > > konqueror-3.1.4 flashes it

pppd: CHAP authentication failed

2004-12-29 Thread Mauro Darida
Hello, I am experiencing a weird thing: I have got KDE kppp perfectly working but when it comes to use pppd directly with the pon script even from root pppd won't start. I have the following /var/log/ppp.log: Dec 29 19:49:50 ifi pppd[1302]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Dec 29 19:49:50 ifi ppp

names good for marketing

2004-12-28 Thread Mauro Darida
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 at 18:12:18 +, Sam Watkins wrote: > > > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing named > > > _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu. > > > > Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, "Ubuntu." > > I think Ubuntu is a g

names good for marketing

2004-12-28 Thread Mauro Darida
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 at 20:12:43 +, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:17:03PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Dec 26 2004, Mauro Darida wrote: > > > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing > > > named _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-28 Thread Mauro Darida
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 at 13:57:44 +, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > checkout my picture: > http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png Thanks, but I cannot access the above picture (?) -- On this laptop no Windows system survives

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-26 Thread Mauro Darida
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 at 14:10:33 +, Greg Folkert wrote: > > One word: Ubuntu > > www.ubuntulinux.org > > You could do that with Debian, but why not just use something that is > geared for Humans, that is based on Total Technical Geekness - Debian. > The folks there should change the name: I

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-23 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 at 08:45:25 +, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > > published. When you're getting started you're way too stupid to > > "Stupid"? I may not be a native speaker, but that certainly doesn't look > like the correct term at all

what is experimental?

2004-12-23 Thread Mauro Darida
Hello, just wondering what is experimental. I know about stable, testing and unstable, but cannot find anything about "experimental". Someone said it not a real distribution... -- On this laptop no Windows system survives and LINUX POWER reigns UNLIMITED. Successfully Microsoft free since Decembe

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-12-03 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 10:09:45 +, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I > have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something > greater than I ;-) > What I don't understand is how you apply debian patches to a kern

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-12-03 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 08:59:14 +, Alex Malinovich wrote: > You're free to continue using the stock kernels and you'll have no > problems with it. The Debian kernels are just there for convenience. On Ah, that is good to know. > You should put your signature after "-- ", not "--". That's two "

htdig ignores /usr/local and /opt

2004-12-02 Thread Mauro Darida
I cannot make htdig search in /usr/local and /opt. I have tried to change /etc/apache/http.conf as suggested by htdig's FAQ: Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI with no result in woody. Any ideas?? Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows system survives and LINUX POWER reigns UNLI

tomorrow's OS

2004-11-30 Thread Mauro Darida
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 at 23:42:00 +, Brian Coiley wrote: > > Unfortunately, unless it gets one hell of a sight easier very fast, > tomorrow's operating system is going to remain the preserve of a few very > determined digit heads. I have 20 years' software development experience > and a degree

debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Mauro Darida
hello debianers, I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No visible side effects here, though... Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows system survives an

Re: pdflatex cannot see index

2004-11-26 Thread Mauro Darida
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 14:25:27 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > >When you use indexes in latex, you have to run latex (or pdflatex) > >at least three times. One to make the .aux file > > at this stage, do not forget to properly run `makeindex' > After exporting the latex code from lyx I have fou

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-26 Thread Mauro Darida
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 09:27:55 +, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > * ia64 - Intel's 64-bit Itanium series of workstations. Not doing too > well in the marketplace. > Do you mean we will have a debian sarge for Itanium processors ?! Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows system survives and L

Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB

2004-11-19 Thread Mauro Darida
Some questions on coming Sarge release: 1. I know GRUB will be the default: will make-kpkg support it? 2. Automatic installing of Recommends and Suggested packages will be default in aptitude behaviour? Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows system survives and LINUX POWER reigns UNLIMITED. Gn

debian architectures

2004-11-19 Thread Mauro Darida
I cannot quite understand which machines debian "architectures" are referring to. Of course I know that x-86 are common pcs, sparc are sun workstations, but others are quite cryptic to me. Anyone willing to translate into non-developer language?? Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows system s

pdflatex cannot see index

2004-11-19 Thread Mauro Darida
I am using LyX 1.3.3 in woody. I have found that if lyx produces a foo.tex with an index, running: pdflatex foo.tex gives a foo.pdf without the index. The foo.log says: No file foo.ind I can see a foo.idx but there is no foo.ind actually. If in lyx I view the foo.dvi I can see the index. Any soluti

Re: Postfix question....

2004-05-27 Thread Mauro Darida
On Mon, 24 May 2004 at 20:21:35 +, Steven Sheeley wrote: > > I can reach the debian box with Outlook from my personal machine and pick up my > email just fine I can not, however, send it. > When I write an email and click on send, it times out. > I think you have my problem: how to authe

help:postfix+SASL

2004-04-23 Thread Mauro Darida
hello people, I was trying SASL out but without success so far (using woody). I have read all the docs telling what to do: apt-get install postfix-tls apt-get install sasl2-bin libsasl2-modules-plain apt-get install libsasl2-digestmd5-plain In /etc/postfix/main.cf I put smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes s

how to set apt repository

2004-04-23 Thread Mauro Darida
On my machine I have an apt repository which I would like to share with occasional friends over internet. This is what I have in /etc/apt/sources.list : deb file:/opt/debs archive which works fine on my machine; but I cannot find the way to allow other machines to access to it via apt. I have tryed

Re: problem with /dev/cdrom --) /dev/cdrom0 [solved]

2004-04-01 Thread Mauro Darida
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 at 03:43:36 +, Kevin Mark wrote: > Ciao Mauro, > IIRC this may have something to do with the DISCOVER package. IIRC it > makes links during the boot process. > -Kev Thank you _so_ much! apt-get --purge remove discover solved the problem. I think it was rather difficult to sp

Re: What happens if one of the source.list are no longer found.?

2004-03-22 Thread Mauro Darida
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 at 11:16:04 +, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > I use testing as my standard distribution. > > Now I see 4.3 is in unstable (and not in testing). I think that getting xfree86 4.3 > from unstable > will get me going (I am not an expert in apt-get so please take i

Re: apache cannot load libphp4.so

2004-03-22 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 at 09:58:00 +, Joost De Cock wrote: > > It seems to me like there is a problem with the script that's starting apache > (the init script). That doesn't mean the the server isn't ok. > Try starting apache from the command line (find the apache executable, on my > system it

problem with /dev/cdrom --) /dev/cdrom0

2004-03-22 Thread Mauro Darida
Recently I have discovered on my woody system this weird situation: ifi:/home/mario# ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 11 Mar 18 2004 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/cdrom0 ifi:/home/mario# ls -l /dev/cdrom0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Mar 18 2004 /dev/cdrom0 -> /dev/scd0

Re: apache cannot load libphp4.so

2004-03-09 Thread Mauro Darida
hello, I upgraded the php4 package installing a backport version 4.3.4-1 but apache keeps giving up only with a different error: Starting web server: apache/etc/rc.2.d/S91apache: line 65: 323 illegal instruction start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON failed If nobody helps me I

Re: apache cannot load libphp4.so

2004-03-05 Thread Mauro Darida
On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 at 16:20:03 +, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > > Hi, > what version of Apache are u using? > 1.3.26 used by debian woody package. Php4 is also stable debian woody package...I repeat, no problem on my laptop: this is _very_ weird. Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows sy

apache cannot load libphp4.so

2004-03-04 Thread Mauro Darida
I have installed on an old pentium machine the woody base system and packets mysql apache and php4 upon it. Shortly after I have realized that apache was not executing the php code. I found a README.debian which explained how to manually configure apache to make it execute php code. In particular I

Mutt coding

2003-12-11 Thread Mauro Darida
Is the default coding system in Mutt determined by how I have set up locales in debian ? I have got a standard "C" locale and put charset="ISO-8859-1" in .muttrc but Mutt does not display accented characters, unless I set: $ export LANG="it_IT" before running Mutt. Is there a way to have in Mutt a

Mutt 1.3.28i and attachments

2003-12-09 Thread Mauro Darida
What kind of settings should I put in .muttrc to avoit Mutt displaying such annoying things: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: multipart/signed, Encoding:7bit, Size:1.2K --] [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding:quoted-printable, Size:0.7K --] and so on... Saluti, Mauro. -- On this l

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-09 Thread Mauro Darida
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 at 11:34:23 +, Steinar Bang wrote: > Platform: Intel PII 233 > debian sarge (testing/unstable) > xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-12.1 > kdm 3.1.3-1 > > I have an X server using kdm to handle sessions on the Ctrl-Alt-F7 > display, and I'm trying to start a seco

yeah !

2003-12-06 Thread Mauro Darida
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 14:42:21 +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Many people, including me, would not recommend debian for a linux > novice, though there are debian-based distros that some might recommend. > But I don't really see this as a problem. There are different distros > for different nee

Re: Can apt-get install or remove openoffice

2003-05-30 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:20, Kevin Mark wrote: > > (Reading database ... 110934 files and directories currently installed.) > > Unpacking openoffice.org (from .../openoffice.org_1.0.3-2_all.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org_1.0.3-2_all.deb (--unpack): >