Re: Confused about lenny, KDE4 and debian-multimedia.org

2009-08-25 Thread SteveM
On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > KDE4 libs *are* available in stable (lenny), but without specific error > messages (preferably from aptitude or apt-get) it's impossible to help > further. And your sources.list might help too ;) Yes, the sources.list did help. It read sid, not

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

2009-07-12 Thread SteveM
On Saturday 11 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > Suggesting another DE is sort like suggesting I speak another > > language. I've got 5+ years invested in understanding the crap pile > > that is KDE. Better the devil I know. > > Well I wasn't really suggesting you switch, just explaining why I ca

Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

2009-07-10 Thread SteveM
Fellow Debians, I have seven systems scattered around the house. I thought a NFS and a shared /home would solve my file sharing problems but it doesn't help with desktop app configs. What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e. same kicker applets, same konsole profiles, same amarok

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-03-06 Thread stevem
On Monday 25 February 2008, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:10:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02/24/08 21:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > PLEASE HELP, when I tried printing debian told me that my printer > > > is

Re: Sarge -> Lenny

2007-12-22 Thread stevem
kages. Is there a "debian way" to use CPAN for the others? stevem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-21 Thread stevem
ed a cron job to compare the timestamps of the source dir and source tarball. Highly inelegant. This is surely the most common example of Hugo's dilemma. Or am I missing something obvious here? thanks, stevem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cron-apt has lost touch with reality

2007-11-18 Thread stevem
This started about a week ago. Any idea how to bring cron-apt back to earth? Its not fatal, aptitude still knows what to do on upgrades but its an real annoyance and I'm downloading useless files. thanks, stevem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: 32 & 54 bit shared libraries -- how to?

2007-05-12 Thread stevem
alling them is 32 bits, but a 64 bit program needs > 64 bit libraries. > Precisely my problem. The question remains, how to I maintain two different libraries using NFS? Are you suggesting I can get perl to distingush between them? I saw this as an NFS or $PATH problem but I'm open

32 & 54 bit shared libraries -- how to?

2007-05-11 Thread SteveM
All the machines on my network mount /usr/local/lib/... using NFS. This has worked well for me until I added 64 bit boxen. 64bit perl chokes on 32bit compiled libraries. I feel there must be a simple solution. How have others solved this problem? thx, stevem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

best practice: mixed 32/64 bit?

2007-04-29 Thread SteveM
sysadmin's possess. Adhering to the FHS, the only concerned is bin & lib. My 1st reaction is mounting nfs .../lib64 on top of nfs .../lib IF !32 bit, (ditto bin) but this seems a kluge. Who uses the slick trick I seek? stevem -- impeachment IS compassionate conservatism -- To UN

special-kernels

1996-08-08 Thread stevem
I recently posted a problem I was having installing a "special-kernel" with the boot disk during the installation procedure. Gilbert Ramirez responded indicating he had the same problem (error in format archive) with these kernels, and the culpret was the "modules.tgz" file on the boot disk. It is

PPP initial connection

1996-06-13 Thread stevem
I have had for the longest time the problem of never being able to get PPP to connect with a server the first time (off af a boot). I used to think it was the provider, but now believe it is me, since I can connect and reconnect flawlessly as long as I don't reboot. Has anyone else out there had t

dselect

1996-05-03 Thread stevem
I think I've got all the files now to upgrade to 1.1, but before I start I have a couple of questions. When I initially installed the stable version I managed to get it done, but I stumbled a bit with dselect. Does dselect expect the Packages file to reflect what files are available, or should it