Re: [Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

Peter Hutnick said: > So, does anyone know a way to /actually/ get XFree 4 out of the apt system? So, I don't know why the 3.3.6 servers are still hanging around in unstable, but the answer to my own question is: apt-get remove xserver-svga apt-get install xserver-xfree86 -Peter

Re: [Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

> You clearly have the latest version installed. Perhaps you also have legacy > version? It turns out that unstable uses the 3.3.6 xservers(?) See http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=xserver&searchon=names&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all to see what I am talking a

Re: Trouble installing Potato on Dell Poweredge 2450

Stuart Allen said: > At 11:43 24/10/2001 +1000, Stuart Allen wrote: >>I am having trouble installing Potato on a Dell Poweredge 2450. The >>problem appears to be the Perc 2/DC RAID controller. When booting off the >>rescue floppy, the system hangs after the following three lines of output: >> >>meg

[Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

Patrick Lane said: > Peter Hutnick wrote: >>The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus: >> >># apt-get install xfree86-common/unstable >> >>I get: >> >>Reading Package Lists... Done >>Building Dependency Tree... Done >>Selected ver

Re: copying (partition3 and 4) to another drive..

Michael C. Alonzo said: > hi. i want to move my debian partition to another disk.. > > here's my "fstab": > > /dev/hda1 --> mandrake > /dev/hda2 --> extended > |_ /dev/hda5 --> mandrake swap > |_ /dev/hda6 --> mandrake /usr > |_ /dev/

Re: What's apt-get doing to me?

Paul Baloo Johnson said: >> But KDE clearly (?) states I am running 3.3.6-11, which is the stable >> package, AFAIK. > > You have to update pretty much every X related package to unstable to do > that, AFAIK. It's easier just to switch to unstable. I did "apt-get dist-upgrade unstable" what else

Why doesn't the kernel make like my libncurses?

What's up with this? /usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status -e >> Unable to find the Ncur

What's apt-get doing to me?

I'm new to Debian, and apt. I started out with a set of "Potato" CDs (why do you have to lie to the website to get ISOs?) and have dorked around with apt-get to the point that I think I have all unstable packages. Sort of. The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus: # apt-get install xfree86-

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

Charles Bray said: > I've searched places like http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#man, but I > can't find this man page. My system doesn't know the command "man" yet, so > I can't type "man interfaces". No excuses. :-) If you don't have man you can't do squat. Do "apt-get install man-db" -Peter

Re: tape backup...

Kurt Lieber said: > Not a direct answer to your question, but check out > http://www.linux-backup.net. > > They have some great linux backup resources there including several example > backup scripts. > > --kurt > On Wednesday 24 October 2001 08:01, Alexander Wallace wrote: >> Hello there! I have