slink and wine

Hey guys, I just installed wine 991114. I get an error saying to get xpm and recompile, however, I have xpm. from the wine man page: If you're using Debian, the packages you need are xpm4g and xpm4g-dev. got 'em. had them already, in fact. are they not the right version, do you su

no list mail

Hey guys, I'm writing this, but I won't be able to see I did. I'm not getting any mail at all from debian-user. Have any idea why this might be? cc me please, -- -t

wine error

Hey guys, trying to run an app under wine, I get a load of errors. Have any idea what I can do about this? I get a few screens full of lines similiar to: err:ole:GetLocaleInfo32A 'SMONTHNAME9' not supported for your language. -- -t

wine.conf

Hey guys, can someone please send me a copy of his or her wine.conf? my "wine" is pretty mangled, and I'd like to try to track down the problem. I just want to run one program (and I believe people have done so with success, with the app in question...) thanks, -- -t

setting the date with date

Hey guys, I have one that really should be easy, I think, but I'm struggling with the silly "date" command. I need to set my system clock. ack. three books, an info page and a mailing-list archive later... can someone put me out of my misery and tell me the format for date? thanks -- -t

revisions of slink?

hey guys, my slink works fine, and I'm not in a hurry to upgrade, but I was curious about which revision slink is on (3?) and whether I should worry about updating to it. if so, it's apt-get update, then apt-get install? -- -t

shell account

hey guys, I just got a free shell account at sdf.lonestar.org. I've never messed with anything like this before, and could use some zmodem advice. I just installed the lrzsz package. Um, should I upload files from my box, or from the remote computer? sorry, I'm clueless. Is there a ultility I

wine trouble

hey guys, At this point, I might have wine.conf mangled beyond recognition, but I also stumbled upon this: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of wine: libwine0.0.971116 depends on wine (= 0.0.981018-1.1). dpkg: error processing wine (--remove): does this look suspicious? might I be hav

wine.conf example?

howdy guys, can someone kindly give me an example of a working wine.conf? I must be mangling something pretty bad... I have no windows partition anywhere, but I made a windows directory in /var that I point to... any help will be greatly appreciated... -- -t

retail set

Hey guys, I was curious if the upcoming retail debian set will "wait" for potato? I was gonna get a potato CD anyway, once they are available. I may as well spend a little more, and support the team. (when can I start putting "Debian/GNU Linux" in my sig line?) -- -t

looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

Hey guys, I'm going to get rid of gnome by dpkg -purging all four of the task-gnome-* debs that I installed. I also stumbled on the fact that, for some reason, apt-get install mc also gets rid of them. unless one of you guys yells at me, this is probably the method that I will use, as I want some

sour wine

Hey guys, Have some "wine" problems. I just installed the deb, thought I edited /etc/wine.conf correcty, made a directory, /usr/windows, stuck some win apps in there, and... about three pages of errors scrolled by. can someone give me a clue? thanks -- -t

html, and a file manager.

Hey guys, I'm on a roll. Those of you who write html for a living, what do you use? I have, but have not tried, asWedit, amaya, and (ahem) wordperfect. I hate to plug a windows app, but notetab pro is great. Sure would be nice if someone would make a clone for linux. Also, I want to try out s

tiresome mail questions.

Hey guys, I've saved some up for ya. Ok, if I wanted to tell netscape mail to use this machine for a smtp server, how would I write the line? Instead of smtp.isp.com, what would it be? (I have exim) someone posted somthing about getting a pop server, too, but I'm not clear on that, either. I on

gnome removal, and mcedit

installed. This is a cool thing. is there anything wrong with killing two birds with one stone this way? -- -tf

mcedit?

Hey guys, before I installed gnome, I could call up mcedit independently of Midnight commander. It will no longer come up. This is a drag, since I would like to use mcedit as my primary editor for a while. I don't suppose anyone knows how I can get it back? -- -t

word perfect stuff...

hey guys, I have wordperfect installed, but I may have mangled the installation. when I try to start it, I get ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' hmm. do I have this library? Should I move my WordPerfect directory out of home, to usr/local? dumb questions, perhaps, but thanks anyway! --

can resolve now..and Star Office...

Hey guys, Thanks for everybody's help. I got bind 8, and now everything works. I'm back on my own computer again. While I'm at it, I want to get rid of the giant Star Office. I have it in a sub-directory of /home. can I just delete that directory? Where else on my system do I need to look for

still can't resolve...

This sure is cramping my style. thanks for the help... -tf

can't resolve...

knows what I can look at to fix this? thanks, -tf

netscape, and gnome

hey guys, two problems that I've just been living with... 1. netscape won't open cgi pages. I have a message board and one of those fake chat rooms that come up pretty much blank. Could it be that I'm using somehow microsoft-specific cgi scripts? 2. I got gnome from netgod. the displays in a

partition this thing!

Hey guys, I'm about to install on or move to a new hd, and I'd like to divide it up. I've read faqs and howtos, but I can't help thinking that if I partition it by "feel", I'd just end up wasting alot of space. Ok, the drive's in another machine right now. reading it's case, it has 6448.6 mb.

hd to hd copy?

hey guys, I might put in a 6 gig drive in place of the 1.6 gig drive I'm using now. My current installation works fine (its me thats "broken"!). is there a way that I can copy this hd to the new one? I only have a swap and a root partition on this drive, and will probably want to partion the 6 g

A fetchmail question

hey guys, Here's the message: reading message 1 of 1 (1850 octets) . flushed I just did that. Little while ago, I got: .sh: usr/sbin/exim: no such file or directory Fetchmail: MDA exited abnormally or returned non zero status (paraphrased) that one message was actually the first one fetchma

more mail and security..

hat what I need to use? Thanks for your patience...I'm an idiot! -tf

mail and security

Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nob

netscape and gnome--again

Hey guys, sorry, last post I forgot the subject line. I know I can get the output of (is it stderr?) to provide you guys with more info-- can you remind me of how? I'm unfortunately using netscape as my mailer right now... -- -t

[no subject]

ssion resulted in error messages. What's up? oh, one more: do I have to specify *.cgi as a file type that netscape will load? I can't get to my message board... Thanks ya'll. -tf

word not so perfect

Hey Guys, I'm on a roll. In trying to install wordperfect 8, I followed the instructions on their site: gz guilg00.gz;tar guilg00 And got an error, "not in gzip format". Corrupt download? Hope not. Any ideas? -- -t

swap

hey guys, I'm cheating here with netscape, but on my own machine! yee haw. I don't seem to be swapping. the boot messages include "activating swap", and I have a swap partition, but top shows nothing but zeros in the swap line. any ideas? -t

blackbox, plus a few..

ail, but lost the url. I just got the smail deb. once I get mail, and netscape, I'll have no more reason to borrow a computer! Thanks -tf

yet more net but no install...

hing simple, but, until I get debian installed, I don't have a computer, so any clues would be great. thanks -tf

more ftp, but no apt-get

hey again. here's my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian-non-us stable non-us as far as I know, just the default.. see anything wrong? -tf

ftp, but no apt-get

o debian's ftp site as a password? and can I ftp sets of packages? (not using the normal procedures of apt and dselect, just an ftp client?) working on it... -tf

more net install

x27;t do it. any ideas? Given access to my computer, most of you guys could fix this in about 15 seconds. Thanks! -tf

net install

hey guys, I just got my modem happily dialing and connecting, however, apt-get --update can't open (sources list). can someone please tell me what files to edit? /etc/hosts? hosts.allow? I'm installing from a base slink system I downloaded a while back. I'd also like to configure exim whe

no fixed disk

Hey guys, I dual boot, and suspect I picked up a virus that ate somthing important. I can't get either to windows or my debian partition. What I wonder is, how can I restore my mbr, (or do anything,) If I can not boot? the slink rescue disk does not boot. windows system disk wont eit

hostname lookup failure

hey all running eximconfig, and also startx, results in a hostname lookup failure. Can someone give me a hint? -t

exim, et al

hey list guys I have a couple of less-stupid-than-usual questions for you. exim.conf wants a hostname, and I can't find where to give it one. mutt wants a mailbox, same problem. also, I've been using different means of installing...apt-get, dselect (aarguah)and even lynx. most of the time grab

deselect help.

Hey guys. Can someone please point me to some hand-holding dselect documentation? I did want to "remove" sendmail in favor of a newbie-friendlier package, but it removed mc instead. (which I installed with dpkg). Also, the "intro" to mc on the download page said you could call its editor by

x up

hi guys I've got slink, lynx,mutt, and I can connect. can someone give me the "direct route" to getting x up and running? In the past, with another distribution, I installed xfree86 3.3.3.1, and had things going pretty good. One concern I have is that my integrated sis5598 is supported. I'

x etc

hey all Well, I'm connected. really not all that hard, but it sure took me long enough. Ok. I have xfree86 3.3.3.1 on a disk someplace, but they're tar.gz files (those nicknamed tarballs?) can I "alien"those things? also, I have the pine source package, plus the other pine package (whose

pon probs

hey all I just did pppconfig, then pon... I get somthing real close to "can't open shared libraries...libpwdb.so.0 ...does not exist... (I know that's not the exact message, but hopefully its close enough...) I did an ftp search, and downloaded libpwb.so.0.54..there's no file extenti

wvdial, pon ,poff

hey all I need to be able to connect. until recently, pon dialed, but left my connection open (I get the sound like if you leave the phone off the hook.) wvdial does the same thing. pon no longer works even to the extent that it did, can't find a shared library... wvdial still dials but nev

making linux look bad

Hey everybody I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2 years and have never had it running well enough to use. So. can someone give me a strategy to follow? I'm obviously going about this the wrong way. I think it would help if I got ppp working-both pon and wvdail d

sorting this mail

hey all I don't suppose the list manager would consider putting somthing like [deb] in the subject line, would he (you)? Sure would help me sort this stuff... -t

more about those *.debs

hey all >If there are unsatisfied dependancies, dpkg will warn you and stop after >unpacking the package, but before configuring it. Because of this, you >may wish to use apt-get instead. When you use apt-get, you can forget >about dealing with .deb files, and instead think only about the packag

lilo problems

. hda1 is windows, hda2 is swap, and hda3 is Linux. Can anyone, ah, tell me what to write or do? Of course, I have questions about other stuff too, but I don't want to get tiresome. [|:-) (that's supposed to look like a guy wearing a hat) -tf

newbie stuff

hey all I just installed Debian Slink Yesterday, and before I mangle things, I have some general questions. I would prefer to ask them off-list, though. Anyone willing? -tf