apt-get && 'something wicked happened' problem.

2000-11-22 Thread Russell Davies
Just wondering if anyone knows whether this problem has been laid to rest once and for all. Recently my place of work firewalled outgoing dns traffic so my workaround (which was to use dnscache instead of bind [http://dnscache.com]) can no longer work. Surely this a bug of such significance tha

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-04 Thread Russell Davies
; Tried both upgrade and dist-upgrade, can't be certain now but one gave a ; bunch of errors and declined to work. The one that did loaded 57 files ; including pcima stuff which I did not have or want and libc6 v2.1.96-1. ; ; Apt-get update failed after the files were installed, so now I have two

Re: Help: Command to search & replace word in file?

2000-10-19 Thread Russell Davies
; Is there a way from the console to use a grep like command to search a file ; for, say the word "blue" and replace it with "red"? The key is console and ; not within Vim, etc. I'm trying to set up a way to automate changing ; .Xdefault setups with a simple Bash script. man sed r.

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Russell Davies
; --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V ; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; Content-Disposition: inline ; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ; ; > I use alias ld=3D'ls -l | grep "^d"' ; >=20 ; > Many interesting ways of doing the same thing :) ; ; Just make sure you don't get that confused with

XFree86 4.0.1

2000-10-10 Thread Russell Davies
y Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded. Need to get 87.7kB of archives. After unpacking 758kB will be freed. Err http://samosa.debian.org woody/i386/ xserver-common 4.0.1-0phase2v13 404 Not Found -- Russell Davies

apt && woody.

2000-10-09 Thread Russell Davies
Hi, I just installed potatop and did an: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade anyway, after hours of upgrading over a 28.8K modem the process has finished. However something now seems broken with apt-get I did notice a warning about name resolution and th

strange looking fonts.

2000-10-08 Thread Russell Davies
Hi, I'm a long time unix user -- I've just recently installed debian on my home system, basically my problem boils down to fonts not looking "right" in X, where right is defined as to what I usually expect with my combination of software. I use twm and X eve

unsubscribe

1997-03-03 Thread Russell Davies
unsubscribe