Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-20 Thread Rich Renomeron
the latest gs-aladdin in unstable (or any Ghostscript > 6.0). If you run Potato (like me), you can always download the sources and compile it yourself. Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.

Re: Wvdial - How do you surf without being root?

2001-03-19 Thread Rich Renomeron
allow certain users access to certain commands with root privileges. Once set up, you can issue the command "sudo wvdial ..." and you'll be up and running without worrying about setuid problems and device file permissions. Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Don't tak

Re: VMware work on Debian

2001-03-08 Thread Rich Renomeron
kernel (mis-)configuration. It suffices for what I do with it. Good luck, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Aren't these one-line witticisms pretentious?

Re: Compiling KDE apps, headers fails

2001-03-04 Thread Rich Renomeron
ady. You might need some other foo-dev packages, too, depending on what your app requires. Generally, if the app requires package "libfoo", you'll need to have "libfoo-dev" (although check the Debian package list (unstable) for the exact name, the correspondence is not always

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Rich Renomeron
atives and /etc/init.d), so when I tried to do a full restore, I had some problems. My impression from poking around the code a bit symlinks are not supported. Good luck, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

Re: Regenerating /etc/alternatives

2001-02-15 Thread Rich Renomeron
Here's what worked: #!/bin/bash cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives for j in * do update-alternatives --auto $j done Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Regenerating /etc/alternatives

2001-02-13 Thread Rich Renomeron
? If I have to reinstall all the packages (similar to "upgrading" with Red Hat), is there a way to do *that*? Thanks, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

apt-get tricks

2001-02-01 Thread Rich Renomeron
e/apt/archives on another machine) so I don't have to download the same set of packages twice for each machine. Thanks, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron If you cannot convince them, confuse them.