> 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
>
> Note, this WILL download and install updates to
ecause I'm not going to ask again if no
replies show up. Apologies if you've recently discussed it - I've
resubscribed to the list only to ask this question.
Regards,
Michael Talbot-Wilson
>
> >The kindest thing you can do for anyone in difficulty is to persuade him
> >that he really does need to study the manual.
>
> >He shouldn't even be posting questions until he has looked into the matter
> >himself and drawn a blank on all fronts. So any question answered in the
> >manual de
> On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:18:48AM +0200, Gerhard Kroder wrote:
>
> > ever RTFM for bash? it says:
>
> I love how people insist on firing off this remark. It is sooo much more
> explanatory than pasting in a piece of the manpage then breaking it
> down to a newbies' terms. Then _calmly_
> Hi. I finally worked out how to do the Linux equivalent of batch files
> (scripts) and was wondering if there was a generally accepted directory
> for keeping user (and/or root) scripts in.
I don't think there is, but it is generally accepted that anything that is not
host-specific (such as bi
>
> I guess that you used ipfwadm/ipchains to set your box as a router. What's
> probably happening is that you have blocked the incoming connection from the
> ftp server. To solve this you can either change your ip rules or try and use
> the passive (pasv) form of ftp where the server tells
When I exit fvwm and restart it the pager window background goes black.
This is on Debian Potato Fvwm 2.2.2.
And I think that sharing of IRQs by serial ports is a kernel config
option. It may be that your particular kernel can't do it.
> Hello and thanks a million to those who have responded to my request for
> taking some of your precious time to help me out.
>
> I downloaded wvdial and minicom like some of you suggested and wvdial
> cannot find my modem. I sent a message to them like they suggested because
> I am 100% sure tha
> Software patents are threating the freedom of programmers and users of
> free software in Europe alike. If this becomes a reality then the Free
> Software Community will suffer a hard blow to say the least. So if you
> live in Europe please take this seriously, make your voice heard and
> tell a
> Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
>
> > i found 4.6.1 even more unstable than 4.08. at least i know that, if
> > i don't close windows, 4.08 is unlikely to crash. 4.6 just died all
> > the time.
>
> well, then it seems, that the poor glibc2.1 people should go to the
> libc5 version.
Nope. This poor,
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote:
>
> > Are any of the earier versions of Netscape more stable than 4.6?
> > I'm willing to use whatever is stable. I haven't yet tried earlier
> > Netscapes.
>
> same thing happens to me with 4.51 and 4.08, both linked with glibc2. i
> think it's
Wait a while. In six months no-one will care.
Where in potato are fdformat and setfdprm? They aren't in util-linux.
Does Debian have a cross-reference of programs to the packages that
contain them?
On 12 Jun 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> >> "MT" == Michael Talbot-Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> MT> When I start xdm my keyboard locks and I have to switch the
> MT> computer off. The mouse works.
>
> This happens when more th
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:04:56 +0930 (CST), Michael Talbot-Wilson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A few phrases of your mail:
>
> "Contemptible complaints and demands", "self-important and self-serving
> clai
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> point-and-click interfaces suck, because they are too easy. Windows
> could learn a lot from Linux in terms of performance, power and
> stability, but Linux doesn't even come close to the ease of installation
> and use you'll find with Windows. This is n
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Andy Bottman wrote:
> Thanks, I have done this at least 10 times in the last 2 days, I
> don't think I am missing any prompts. I am looking for more than the
> obvius, is there somting that I could not recognize as related to PPP.
Well, the next step is to give more in
When I start xdm my keyboard locks and I have to switch the computer off.
The mouse works.
Clues, anyone?
And is there any way of rebooting with the mouse in X11 (as can be done
with gpm)? I don't really like switching off a running Linux system.
--Mike
P.S. Potato's xdm (3.3.3.1-7), Linux 2.2
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Gareth wrote:
> G'day Just a quick point me in the right direction question.
>
> I am trying to get my system to boot from the SCSI disk and pass some
> parameters to the kernel (mem=128M is one of them)
> however I cannot get it to boot from the SCSI disk! (it hangs at LI)
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux
> from c source code.
This is not quite clear. You can't install the Linux kernel from its
source code on a bare computer---you have to bootstrap via simpler systems
to get to t
Is there any simple way to toggle hold on all installed packages?
I guess this is because I installed bo, upgraded to slink and then
potato, but...
There is a /usr/lib/elvis directory that contains documentation and
trash (MS-DOS stuff). There is also a /usr/doc/elvis directory.
There are directories /usr/lib/developers-reference,
/usr/doc/developers-reference
For some reason, vi (elvis) has started to display colors and behave in a
generally unpredictable way. I first (just now) noticed this in a .h file
in which it is also disallowing things I want to do, e.g. it beeps when I
try to delete (with 'x') the first character of a commented-out line,
althou
Hi. I didn't select doc-linux-text. How come it is downloaded?
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
tetex-base kernel-source-2.2.9 tetex-bin xmanpages xserve
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Anthony Landreneau wrote:
> Greetings,
> I host several domains and would like to have my DNSs get and hold mail
> when remote WAN host drop off line. I had been using sendmail, but it has
> become MUCH to complicated for this task. I am looking for a simple, yet
> con
Oops -- sorry to trouble you. I had some other difficulty and had
renamed the destination directory.
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> > Could not open file
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/libpng2_1.0.2b-0.1_i386.deb - open (2 No
> > such file or directory)^M
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:
> I used to wonder the samething. When I started using Linux, I always wonder
> why partition a disk to use the same OS on all the partitions. Then I made a
> big boo boo and hosed system and re-installed all 500MB of downloads again,
> that took over a
Good day. I can't upgrade. I've tried both apt and ftp access methods
and several mirror sites. I'm getting messages like this saying that there
is no file, but (script session below) I can do Update from all sites.
> Could not open file
> /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/libpng2_1.0.2b-0.1_i386
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> cd /etc/rc2.d // for the standard runlvel,e.g.
> mv S99xdm _99xdm
Thanks for the info. There is one advantage in the Slackware method of
dedicating a run level to xdm--you can kill it off by changing to the
non-xdm run level (telinit 3).
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:28:11PM +0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
> > I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux!
> > I got X windows running, with default window
> > manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it
> > didn't stop at the commandline --- went stra
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Roy Coates wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a real problem getting a custom kernel to recognise
> an Adaptec 2940UW-Pro (AIC7xxx) controller on bootup.
>
> The kernel (2.0.36) has been configured with only the AIC7xxx driver
> as an internal module - no other scsi drivers have been se
Hello. I've installed Debian from a Debian 1.3 CD and partly upgraded to
2.1 by downloading with apt. This is my first encounter with Debian.
(1) The upgrade failed because the ftp server hung up on a small number
of files. They are represented in the partial directory.
How can I restart this
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