Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-07 Thread John Hasler
Shaul Karl writes: > What are Corel plans for the future of their Debian venture? Will they > release updates, Corel-potato, make their release larger etc? I haven't the foggiest idea what their plans are. They are very secretive. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisc

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-07 Thread Shaul Karl
> Randy Edwards writes: > > I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support > > newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the > > dark side? :-) > > I consider them all new Debian users. What are Corel plans for the future of their Debian ventu

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Randy Edwards writes: > I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support > newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the > dark side? :-) I consider them all new Debian users. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elm

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-06 Thread Randy Edwards
> actually sounds kinda scary. Flashback to when AOL entered the Internet?! :-) I dunno, I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the dark side? :-) -- Regards,| Debian G

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-05 Thread aphro
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: redwar > This ought to be interesting, because as Corel establishes itself I'm redwar >sure we'll be dealing with more and more Corel users here in Debian-User... maybe a good time to unsubscribe ? ;) actually sounds kinda scary. nate ---

Re: XFree86 3.3.5 for slink? (was: Corel to Slink upgrade)

1999-12-05 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Dec, Arcady Genkin wrote about "XFree86 3.3.5 for slink? (was: Corel to Slink upgrade)" > Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Joe Block wrote: >> > >> > When I did the install on my friend's laptop, the first thing I did &

XFree86 3.3.5 for slink? (was: Corel to Slink upgrade)

1999-12-05 Thread Arcady Genkin
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joe Block wrote: > > > > When I did the install on my friend's laptop, the first thing I did > > after corel's install was done was add my local mirror of slink, > > security.debian.org, the y2k updates & the XFree86 3.3.5 to its > > sources.list and up

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-05 Thread Randy Edwards
I went ahead and did a Corel to slink upgrade. I added in the Debian slink lines to /etc/apt/sources.list and also a line to slink-proposed-updates. Then I used dselect to do an update, selected a few additional games for good measure, and installed everything. The system came up and seeme

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Joe Block
Randy Edwards wrote: > > Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to > slink? > > I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in > /etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did > an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've b

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: redwar >I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in redwar >/etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did redwar >an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've been playing with the idea of redwar >testing it her

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
Randy Edwards wrote: > Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to > slink? That's pretty pointless. Corel linux *is* slink with a very few changes, most of which are upgrades. Thus, there is nothing in slink to upgrade to. Please see http://www.debian.org/News/week

Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Randy Edwards
Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to slink? I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in /etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've been playing with the idea of testing

Re: SV: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-13 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Another silly newbie q: What's an NMU? Non Maintainer Upload, it's when the debian developer can't upload to fix a bug. Please fix you mailer. It is tagging the subject line in some obscure way. Please use "Re: " instead of "SV: ". TIA - Peter Makholm -- I congratu

SV: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-13 Thread vw
not shown > Emne: Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade > > Le 1999-08-12, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait : > > > This is due to a recent bash NMU which now pre-depends on the potato > > libreadlineg2 which conflicts with the slink bash. > > > > Bash -MUST- be

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Aug-99 Julian Gilbey wrote: >>From what I recall from the GNU ftp site, bash-2.04 includes > libreadline-4.0, so the major number *has* been bumped up. Perhaps we > could switch to that which might alleviate this problem? > I don't know what is going on, but if I put a "hold" on the bash

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Le 1999-08-12, Jason Gunthorpe _crivait : > > > This is due to a recent bash NMU which now pre-depends on the potato > > libreadlineg2 which conflicts with the slink bash. > > > > Bash -MUST- be re-uploaded with the proper changes made so

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread John Hasler
Jason writes: > Apparently it is usable enough to startup and run scripts. What you might > be able to get away with is to put a normal Depends: librealine on bash - > but I am not sure. > Probably the best answer is that bash should not require bash to install > itself! A while back I had a libr

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Thomas Quinot wrote: > > Bash -MUST- be re-uploaded with the proper changes made so that it can > > exist with the slink libreadlineg2 ASAP. > > This is not so simple. Bash is unusable with slink's libreadline. > Three bugs of severity important existed in the BTS for this >

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 1999-08-12, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait : > This is due to a recent bash NMU which now pre-depends on the potato > libreadlineg2 which conflicts with the slink bash. > > Bash -MUST- be re-uploaded with the proper changes made so that it can > exist with the slink libreadlineg2 ASAP. This is not

WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-11 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Package: bash Version: 2.02.1-1.5 Hi all, The current bash/libreadline dependencies in potato are formed in an conflicts/pre-depends loop that causes APT to remove bash, install libreadlineg2 and then try to reinstall bash (which fails because bash needs bash to install [remove actually]..) Newer

Re: Slink upgrade broke printer configuration [Epson Stylus Color]

1999-05-26 Thread Brad
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Mike O'Donnell wrote: > > The problem was the filter /etc/magicfilterstylus_color_720dpi-filter, > from magicfilter version 1.2-28. It's > good for Ghostscript version 3.33, and possibly 4.03, but not 5.50 > which I am running. I replaced the > PostScript section of the fil

Re: Slink upgrade broke printer configuration

1999-05-26 Thread Mike O'Donnell
I'm answering my own query from Saturday 20 March 1999, in case someone else has the same problem (Epson Stylus Color 400 failed after Hamm -> Slink upgrade). The problem was the filter /etc/magicfilterstylus_color_720dpi-filter, from magicfilter version 1.2-28. It's good fo

Slink upgrade left old symlinks in /lib

1999-05-19 Thread Tony Robinson
I've just noticed that my hamm -> slink upgrade didn't go as smoothly as I thought. The new libraries were installed into /lib but the symlinks point to the old ones. A full list is appended but here is libc: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 19 15:04 /lib/libc.so.6 -

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-04-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In a message dated 3/22/99 10:21:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > labs.com writes: > > > > Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for > > > those programs that also have info pages, eh? > > > > Don't remove the

2nd Request - APT, Slink upgrade problems

1999-04-05 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > Got a mixed slink/potatoe system. > Bought the CheapBytes 2.1 disks. > > apt-cdrom add outputs; > > Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ > Unmounting CD-ROM > Please insert a Disc in the drive and press any key Mounting CD-ROM > Identifying.. apt-cdrom

Re: Slink upgrade problems

1999-04-02 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:53:24AM -0800, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > Got a mixed slink/potatoe system. > Bought the CheapBytes 2.1 disks. > > apt-cdrom add outputs; > > Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ > Unmounting CD-ROM > Please insert a Disc in the drive and press any key Mounting CD-ROM > Id

Slink upgrade problems

1999-04-02 Thread Mike Nachlinger
Got a mixed slink/potatoe system. Bought the CheapBytes 2.1 disks. apt-cdrom add outputs; Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ Unmounting CD-ROM Please insert a Disc in the drive and press any key Mounting CD-ROM Identifying.. apt-cdrom: error in loading shared libraries /usr/local/lib/libpthread.so

Re: Slink upgrade and /usr/local problems locating libs!

1999-03-30 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hey guys, > > Since I have upgraded to slink > I have noticed that when I unzip certain tars in /usr/local the binaries > seem to have trouble finding the required libs. For example, Wingz3 can't > find libXpm.so.4 although it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. Wingz3 worked with hamm. > Has there been s

Slink upgrade and /usr/local problems locating libs!

1999-03-30 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guys, Since I have upgraded to slink I have noticed that when I unzip certain tars in /usr/local the binaries seem to have trouble finding the required libs. For example, Wingz3 can't find libXpm.so.4 although it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. Wingz3 worked with hamm. Has there been some kind of chang

Slink Upgrade Trouble

1999-03-29 Thread Chevelle Strobel
When I use apt-get update It gets beyond the system integrity check and prints OK, then it gives a segmentation fault. Is there a known fix for this?

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-25 Thread Holger Schauer
"HM" == Hamish Moffatt schrieb am 24 Mar 1999 23:19:54 +0100: HM> IMHO, the info browser (in emacs or standalone) adds little HM> functionality over a plain HTML document, except that it is much HM> less accessible for non-emacs users. I disagree. What if you don't have lynx installed and

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Holger Schauer wrote: > IMO man pages serve as a quick thorough overview and should be as > compact as possible. Info pages serve IMO a different need: they > should provide detailed information, perhaps for some more obscure or > advanced features. If _the

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Holger Schauer wrote: > "MB" == Mark Brown schrieb am 23 Mar 1999 03:32:21 +0100: > MB> ->HTML conversion seems to be the most likely route > MB> for those that want a standard interface at present. > I am strongly against having a _single_ interfac

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Olaf Rogalsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This would be wonderful!!! Only one single point from where to search for > documentation. If you ever executed a command like > find /usr -type f|xargs egrep -li 'proxy|squid' > then you know, that a central point for documentation would be a great time

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-23 Thread Holger Schauer
"MB" == Mark Brown schrieb am 23 Mar 1999 03:32:21 +0100: MB> ->HTML conversion seems to be the most likely route MB> for those that want a standard interface at present. I am strongly against having a _single_ interface to documentation. Diversity is a good thing, IMHO, especially in this

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 11:55:08AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Now isn't there a utility that will create 'man' pages out of 'info' > ones? If so then at least some current information may be presented > in man format for those of us that are more used to the 'older' This would be hard - the

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-22 Thread ktb
Timothy Hospedales wrote: > Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info > pages > are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to > have > an info command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man > or is it a special package

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-22 Thread Dale E. Martin
Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info > pages > are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to > have > an info command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man > or is

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
In a message dated 3/22/99 10:21:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] labs.com writes: > > Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for > > those programs that also have info pages, eh? > > Don't remove the manpages. And don't start an "info vs. man"

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-22 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info pages are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to have an info command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man or is it a special package or what? Thanks! Tim > [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread Dale E. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've no intention of starting a flame war - but the fact remains, if the man > pages are no longer being supported by developers, there's no sense including > them in the man pages package. It just adds to the confusion. Not true. If the manpage says "this manpage is

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/22/99 10:21:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] labs.com writes: > > Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for > > those programs that also have info pages, eh? > > Don't remove the manpages. And don't start an "info vs. man" wa

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread Dale E. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for > those programs that also have info pages, eh? Don't remove the manpages. And don't start an "info vs. man" war, either, please! -- +- pgp key available -

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread MallarJ
I also agree with the idea of having a single starting point for documentation. And something I kind of wonder about - why are there always so many documents for a given program? Can't they be combined into one document devided into sections? With info pages, you can get to any specific section

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-22 Thread Olaf Rogalsky
> > I have to admit, there is a bit of truth to this, alot of people just don't > > have the time to read 18 different documents in 18 different locations. Man > > pages, info pages, FAQs, HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, READMEs, INSTALL docs, package > > descriptions... it is a bit daunting. I do feel tha

Re: Slink upgrade broke printer configuration

1999-03-21 Thread John Maheu
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Mike O'Donnell wrote: I also have noticed some strange printer behaviour. I use magicfilter, and have periodically had a printing problem with ps files after the upgrade. Once it produced another page with junk on it and the other time it printed several extra pages. Have you

Slink upgrade broke printer configuration

1999-03-20 Thread Mike O'Donnell
I just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Everything appears to be fine, except that my printer configuration is broken. I've hunted all the places that I know to look for the problem, to no avail. I'm using magicfilter with an Epson Stylus Color 400 printer. After the upgrade to Slink 1. ASCII prints

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:36:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to admit, there is a bit of truth to this, alot of people just don't > have the time to read 18 different documents in 18 different locations. Man > pages, info pages, FAQs, HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, READMEs, INSTALL docs, pack

Re: Slink upgrade - problems with X.

1999-03-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In Debian, unlike most linux distributions, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a >symlink to the `real' X binary. It's a wrapper-program which reads a >configuration file /etc/X11R6/xserver to find out which X server to >run (and some other things). >In hamm (haven

Slink upgrade - problems with X.

1999-03-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
I just upgraded to slink, and followed the instructions to delete xbase. Lots of problems have resulted. I am very confused by the new X stuff. Startx wasn't installed, but I found it on the CDRom and installed it. To get startx to work I had to make a link from /etc/X11/XF86Config to /etc/XF86

Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I have to admit, there is a bit of truth to this, alot of people just don't > have the time to read 18 different documents in 18 different locations. Man > pages, info pages, FAQs, HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, READMEs, INSTALL docs, package > descriptions... it is a bit daunting. I do feel that anyo

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread maillists
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:40:30AM +0100, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > > > 2) Edit /etc/init.d/xdm and insert an 'exit 0' at the top of the file. > >Xdm will not even start or listen with this option. > > > Thanks for these suggestions. I'll get an eye on these possibilities ASAP. Or just d

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 15 Mar, 1999 à 08:20:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 16 Mar, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > > > There was a point that I liked before : the possibility to not start xdm > > even > > if it was installe

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread William Lacy
=) On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:36:43 EST > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows > > In a message dated 3/15/99 8:05:15 PM Central Stan

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/15/99 8:05:15 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Please don't slam people for not reading everything. That is why you > are needed- because they don't have time, or maybe they just aren't > capable of understanding everything- again, that is why you are n

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:45:23PM -0600, William Lacy wrote: > >I don't know how I am supposed to "support" XFree86 if people won't read: > > >1) the Debian release notes > >2) the Debian package descriptions > >3) anything in /usr/doc/* with the string "README" in the filename > >4) anything in

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread William Lacy
I would like to say a couple of things, I am just seeing this for the first time. I do understand now the reason that these packages were activated, and I do appreciate the work that Branden and others do/have done for Debian. I am sorry if I offended any developers as my comment was pretty harsh

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread servis
*- On 16 Mar, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > There was a point that I liked before : the possibility to not start xdm even > if it was installed. Why ? Well sometimes I'm trying to advocates linux to > friends and showing them th

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 15 Mar, 1999 à 01:37:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I sometimes wonder why I bother writing any documentation at all. People > will just ignore it and then chime in with profound insights like > > "THIS--SUCKS" > > when anything changes. >

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:30:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 15 Mar, Mike Merten wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> As long as you were removing xdm

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Mar, Mike Merten wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> *- On 15 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" >> > After reading this thread, I

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 15 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll > > own up, I didn't rtfm, and it cause

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:37:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 07:32:59PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > > Well, maybe I should READ those package descriptions :) > > I should make this the offical motto of the Debian X packages. > > I don't know how I am supposed to

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 14 Mar, George Bonser wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > >> As a developer, I track the debian-devel-changes mailing list. I freely >> admit that this is not something we can reasonably expect our u

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll > own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading > hamm->slink). However, I dpkg warnings: >

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:20:29AM +, Richard Harran wrote: > After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll > own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading > hamm->slink). However, I dpkg warnings: > while removeing xdm, directory /var/state/xdm not

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Richard Harran
e for /etc/X11/xdm. Is it ok for me to manually remove these directories and their contents, or will I break something? Thanks in advance, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > *- On 14 Mar, George Bonser wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 [

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 10:58:15PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > The problem is that many of the other packages DO NOT note in the package > descriptions what has changed and the other docs are only available AFTER > you have installed them unless you want to manually take it apart and look > at it

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 07:32:59PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > Well, maybe I should READ those package descriptions :) I should make this the offical motto of the Debian X packages. I don't know how I am supposed to "support" XFree86 if people won't read: 1) the Debian release notes 2) the De

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 14 Mar, George Bonser wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> xdm was installed on your system before. It was part of the old xbase >> package. The reason xdm was sucked in during the upgrade was that >

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 14 Mar, George Bonser wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, William Lacy wrote: > >> I think that installing xdm and xfs as part of the upgrade is a very bad >> idea for several reasons: >> >> 1) This is a very big cha

Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread William Lacy
The Slink upgrade went great for me. Upgraded without rebooting. A couple of days later I needed to reboot to run a windows program (it had been 2 weeks). I had read "The great X reorganization" but forgot to remove xdm and xfs. So when I did reboot I got the xwindows login which i

Re: color broken after slink upgrade

1999-02-22 Thread surak
> I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my hamm system to upgrade to > slink. Everything worked smoothly, except now I notice that I am not > getting color in a few places that I used to, namely aalib stuff and > nethack. Well, from what I hear from the Nethack maintainer (Ben Gertzfield), li

Re: color broken after slink upgrade

1999-02-22 Thread Joey Hess
Ryan Yeske wrote: > I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my hamm system to upgrade to > slink. Everything worked smoothly, except now I notice that I am not > getting color in a few places that I used to, namely aalib stuff and > nethack. Where there was color before in these programs I simp

color broken after slink upgrade

1999-02-21 Thread Ryan Yeske
I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my hamm system to upgrade to slink. Everything worked smoothly, except now I notice that I am not getting color in a few places that I used to, namely aalib stuff and nethack. Where there was color before in these programs I simply get inverse text. ls -

Re: hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
Peter Berlau wrote: > > Yes, if You use the apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade method > apt-get will continue where it is "broken", no prloblems here (afaik) :-) That seems to be the case here. I decided to try it out. I shut down ppp and ctrl-c'd apt. I then restarted ppp and restarted apt-ge

Re: hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You can upgrade small chunks at a time by using deselect to put sections > on hold. First start by putting everything on hold by putting the > cursor over the > > --- Updated packages (newer version is available) --- > > line and hit the equal key(=). Then select th

Re: hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread servis
*- On 18 Feb, Mark Wagnon wrote about "hamm to slink upgrade via atp question" > Hi all, > > I've decided to try to upgrade to slink. My question is that according > to apt. it's going to take 8+ hours to ftp all the files. I can't have > my phone tied up

Re: hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread Peter Berlau
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:00:48PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi all, [..] > my phone tied up that long. How can I download the files during shorter > times? If I close the connection, will apt just start where it left off? Yes, if You use the apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade method apt-get w

hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I've decided to try to upgrade to slink. My question is that according to apt. it's going to take 8+ hours to ftp all the files. I can't have my phone tied up that long. How can I download the files during shorter times? If I close the connection, will apt just start where it left off? I

Re: oddlu corrupted file during slink upgrade

1999-01-19 Thread Jason Wright
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 11:39:39PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell spewed forth: > > gusgus:~ # ls -l /usr/man/man2/iopl.2.gz > > prw--ws--- 1 505 38296 0 Jan 2 1970 > > /usr/man/man2/iopl.2.gz > > > > And I can't delete it > > This looks familiar. I'd suggest: > 1) e2fsck -cf /dev/

Re: oddlu corrupted file during slink upgrade

1999-01-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Jason Wright wrote: > It's obviously corrupted and bogus: > > gusgus:~ # ls -l /usr/man/man2/iopl.2.gz > prw--ws--- 1 505 38296 0 Jan 2 1970 /usr/man/man2/iopl.2.gz > > And I can't delete it This looks familiar. I'd suggest: 1) e2fsck -cf /dev/hd? 2) try

oddlu corrupted file during slink upgrade

1999-01-18 Thread Jason Wright
stead, but I doubt I'd get any better results. This machine is still running 2.0.31 - I was hoping to get the slink upgrade over and done with before bringing it up to something more modern. If a kernel upgrade will allow me to delete this file, then I'll do it now. Any ideas? Thanks!

Re: Slink Upgrade Benefits

1999-01-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Nils wrote: > > Right now I'm running Hamm. I'm pretty much a newbie to this. But what > good would it do to upgrade to slink? I had installation problems with > Hamm, like on the rescue disk when it would boot the kernel, it'd > automatically repartition my hard drive. And put 4 bogus partitions

Slink Upgrade Benefits

1999-01-04 Thread Nils
Right now I'm running Hamm. I'm pretty much a newbie to this. But what good would it do to upgrade to slink? I had installation problems with Hamm, like on the rescue disk when it would boot the kernel, it'd automatically repartition my hard drive. And put 4 bogus partitions on it that weren't the

Re: X won;t start after partial slink upgrade :-(

1998-12-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Stan Brown wrote: > > In an attempt to get the siag office automation suite set up, I have > been partialy upgrading my hamm system to frozen. > > I have installed xbase, which warned me that I would need othe > packagse > now. I added xter, and xbas-clients, but

X won;t start after partial slink upgrade :-(

1998-12-28 Thread Stan Brown
In an attempt to get the siag office automation suite set up, I have been partialy upgrading my hamm system to frozen. I have installed xbase, which warned me that I would need othe packagse now. I added xter, and xbas-clients, but now my system will not start

Re: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade

1998-12-24 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade Date: Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:57:45PM -0800 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have Gnome from slink working. I did an upgrade to 2.2 last night, > however, and that br

Re: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade

1998-12-24 Thread wtopa
Subject: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade Date: Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 09:53:32PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Just tried a new slink upgrade, again. I must have something wrong > because I can't get

Re: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade

1998-12-23 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 09:53:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just tried a new slink upgrade, again. I must have something wrong > because I can't get gnome to upgrade correctly. > > when I run panel or eeyes I get the message: > > libgtk-1.1.so.2 cannot o

Re: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade

1998-12-23 Thread Sean M Hollingsworth
Slink upgrade > >Just tried a new slink upgrade, again. I must have something wrong >because I can't get gnome to upgrade correctly. > >when I run panel or eeyes I get the message: > >libgtk-1.1.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or >directory > >

Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade

1998-12-23 Thread wtopa
Just tried a new slink upgrade, again. I must have something wrong because I can't get gnome to upgrade correctly. when I run panel or eeyes I get the message: libgtk-1.1.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory I do have libgtk-1.1.so.3 & libgtk-1.1.so.1 but

HAMM-SLINK Upgrade Howto

1998-12-01 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
For those of you interested I have written a small howto document on upgrading to SLINK from HAMM. I still have some minor changes to make to it but it is still usuable. The only thing I am missing is the exact name of one package...but the system will tell you what that is anyways so it's no big

Re: slink upgrade

1998-11-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "TH" == Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TH> On: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 16:16:10 +0200 Yosef B writes: >> >> Still trying to install slink. >> Somebody on the list suggested that I install hamm and then upgrade to >> slink as the 1743 resue disk won't work on my system. >> >> I cannot

Re: slink upgrade

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 16:16:10 +0200 Yosef B writes: > > Still trying to install slink. > Somebody on the list suggested that I install hamm and then upgrade to > slink as the 1743 resue disk won't work on my system. > > I cannot seem to find any instructions or FAQ to show how to > "upgrade" to s

slink upgrade

1998-11-29 Thread Yosef B
Still trying to install slink. Somebody on the list suggested that I install hamm and then upgrade to slink as the 1743 resue disk won't work on my system. I cannot seem to find any instructions or FAQ to show how to "upgrade" to slink from hamm. Maybe I am just looking in the wrong place. Can

Re: HELP slink upgrade: netscape: locale `C' not supported (fwd)

1998-11-17 Thread Tamas Nyitrai
ne. Hope this helps. Later, Tamas -- Forwarded message -- Date: 16 Nov 1998 21:21:52 GMT From: Rene Hojbjerg Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HELP slink upgrade: netscape: locale `C' not supported Resent-Date: 16 Nov 1998 22:12:44

Re: HELP slink upgrade: netscape: locale `C' not supported

1998-11-16 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Jeff Noxon wrote: > Re-install xlib6g and it should work. Now if only I could get Acrobat > working again... Removing /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11/locale (empty dir) and linking it to /usr/lib/X11/locale instead worked for me. A small glitch in the upgrade process, I presume. -- /'"`\ z

Re: X Slink upgrade break matlab

1998-11-16 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "X Slink upgrade break matlab" > Hi Debian users, > I recently upgrade XWindow to last slink version and > matlab stops to run. The error is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ matlab > /usr/local/stow/matlab/bin/lnx86/matlab: ca

X Slink upgrade break matlab

1998-11-16 Thread baptista
Hi Debian users, I recently upgrade XWindow to last slink version and matlab stops to run. The error is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ matlab /usr/local/stow/matlab/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' What is the problem? Have a nice day,Paul

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