How to override xlib6 dependencies?

1996-12-14 Thread gobbel-no . junk . mail
[apologies if this is a repeat, I'm having a little trouble with the spam filter] I use AcceleratedX (the only accelerated server for my graphics card), so I don't want to install XFree86, but I haven't been able to convince dselect that I already have a package which provides xlib6. I have a lo

E-Mail address

1996-11-09 Thread no . junk . mail
> I have a university account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and a linux box at home. My > account name is "joe" on the linux box, and I want all outgoing mail to say > it is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] How would I do this? I'm using sendmail, rather than smail, and the sendmail installation dialogs ask about thi

verify script for Debian packages

1996-11-02 Thread no . junk . mail
Having gotten nervous after almost losing my file system last week, I wrote a little perl script to go through the file lists in /var/lib/dpkg/info and check to see that the files are where they're supposed to be. Given the current way of doing things in the packaging system, I think this is about