Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/local/portage does not seem to have a valid PORTDIR structure.

2005-11-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> you're using sudo. I find many anomolies in sudo; > > > Why does people hate sudo so much? > Actually, I don't hate sudo at all; I use it all the time, and it saves a lot of difficulty. I just get annoyed bec

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing quicktime online

2005-11-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > What do I need to do to be able to view a quicktime video online? > > I see a couple of quicktime library packages but neithers website > mention plugin tools for Mozilla. > > I'm guessing there are viewers available that employ these libs. But > need to know what combina

[gentoo-user] Big problem with module-rebuild

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
.. and that problem is, in short, that the rebuild unmerges the previous version, in the currently-running (or previous) kernel modules folder, breaking the previous kernel. And my question is, how to get it to stop doing that. If Portage has a FEATURES setting that prevents the previous version b

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Qian Qiao schreef: > On 11/6/05, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> All I do is running this set of commands every night from >> crontab: >> >> emerge --sync emerge --update --deep --newuse world emerge >> --depclean revdep-rebuild >> >> So my portage is also always updated, to the last stab

Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with module-rebuild

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:26:02 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> And my question is, how to get it to stop doing that. If Portage >> has a FEATURES setting that prevents the previous version being >> unmerged this way, I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Jarry schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Qian Qiao schreef: >> >>> On 11/6/05, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> All I do is running this set of commands every night from >>>> crontab: emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big problem with module-rebuild [SOLVED]

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Remy Blank schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> And the drivers build and install fine... then this: >> >> |>>> Safely unmerging already-installed instance... ==>--- >> cfgpro obj /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video/fglrx.ko ==>--- >> cfgpro di

Re: [gentoo-user] two ati-drivers packages using --deep --update

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > Hi, Is the following expected with recent ati-drivers? Is this > slotted? No, and no. > If so, and if I did the --deep --update command, then how do I know > which one I'm using when I load fglrx? fglrxinfo would tell you the version of the ati-drivers in use. But... the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Jarry schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> The Gentoo Handbook does *not* recommend you do these procedures >> *unattended*, the way you are doing them. > > > Well, gentoo says "...update your system regularly...". I thought it > means really regu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OTAnn] Feedback

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
shenanigans schreef: > > We have mirrored your mail list in a new application Is this permitted? (a mirror of the mail list that is unaffiliated with the Gentoo organization and administration? or is this affiliated?) And is there something wrong with me that it rather gives me the creeps if it

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Jeff Smelser schreef: > On Monday 07 November 2005 02:04 pm, Jarry wrote: > >>> Which you are not doing, and frankly, you're pretty lucky that >>> something hasn't blown up up to now. >> >> That might happen, sooner o later. But still I think it is still >> better than leaving some hole for uni

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > > A recent update to dovecot stopped it completely until you updated the > config file. I suppose you could fix that with a cron job that did > > echo "-5" | etc-update > > :-) My goodness, Neil-- are you aiming to be the next Stephen King? You certainly have an eye fo

Re: [gentoo-user] X freezes & locks up, constantly

2005-11-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Phill MV schreef: > Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox > ( mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but it's also happened when someone sent > me a file over MSN in gaim (gaim-1.5.0), my copy of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 > will lock up and refuse all interaction. > > All windows stop re

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Digby Tarvin schreef: > Something which I havn't found any explicit elaboration of in the > documentation... > > The convention in the Linux/gentoo filesystem seems to be to have a > unique directory for each installed kernel in /usr/src, with a > symbolic link to the 'current' kernel directory

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kino problem

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:34:59 +1000 Richard Watson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this >> status message. In other words, please post the 10-20 lines *above* the lines you posted (which were the status report); t

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: > Peter Ruskin wrote: > >> ebegin "Checking that /usr/src/linux is linked to booted kernel..." >> if [ "/usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)" != "$(ls -l /usr/src/linux|cut >> -f2 -d\>|cut -f2,3,4 -d' ')" ] > > > This looks more complicated than it really should be. Just run "ln"

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: > 051109 Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Can someone tell me on what basis this *needs* to be done as a >> standard operation? Not getting it at all. How many kernels does >> one keep in a bootable state, anyway -- and use commonly, without >> ne

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Digby Tarvin schreef: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:35:42PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> -- If you have some external module that compiles against the >> kernel source, you most likely need it against *all* kernel >> sources, not just the running one (so redirecting

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautified kernel config

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > On 11/9/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On 11/9/05, ellotheth rimmwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>G'afternoon, list, silly question for you. Often here or in the >>>forums, a user will post a snippet of his kernel configuration, a la >>> >>> >>>Bus optio

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Watson schreef: > Hi - can anyone tell from the attached why > media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed? I'm a bit stuck at the > moment. I'm trying to emerge kino and this is one of the required > packages. I'm not good enough to diagnose the problem so any help > would be great. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Hmmm. I not sure I did compile the ati-drivers: > > media-video/ati-drivers Available versions: 8.14.13-r2 [M]8.14.13-r3 > 8.14.13-r4 8.14.13-r5 *8.16.20 *8.16.20-r1 8.18.6 8.18.6-r1 8.18.8 > 8.18.8-r1 Installed: none > Well, depending on which ATI video card you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > If you want to try the ati-drivers, generally you just need to merge > the package and change the "Driver" setting in xorg.conf from radeon > to fglrx. > Not completely true; the ati-driver module (fglrx) will not work if the kernel DRM is compiled (either as a module o

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Mrugesh Karnik schreef: > Richard Fish wrote: > >> The via_drv I am talking about is an _x.org_ driver, not a kernel >> driver. It has nothing to do with the kernel sources or rebuilding >> the kernel. It should exist at /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o >> (along with all other X11 drivers)

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem with fam USE-flag

2005-11-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rumen Yotov schreef: > Hi, Recently (last two days) when running:"emerge -DNu world -ptv" > receive the following: ... #emerge -DNu world -ptv > > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] > mail-filter/maildrop-2.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-13 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > Apparently you too are not looking at the router I've specified: > NETGEAR FVS318 > Not to mix in (not having a Netgear router), but I wonder if perhaps the reason you are not seeing the ability to block IPs (which several people have said exists) is because you have not

Re: [gentoo-user] what z p2p clients for linux?

2005-11-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Csányi András schreef: > 2005/11/15, El Nino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> dear friends, >> >> what is the best p2p (Gnutella support) client for linux? -- > > > IMHO the best is MLDONKEY Not if you've ever used aMule--- but El Nino asked for a p2p client with *Gnutella support* so I see your poin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realplayer download security problem

2005-11-15 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > How does a gentoo system know the difference between an rpm file that > it can install and a rpm file that it cannot or should not install > on a gentoo system? > It's not like RPMs (or DEBs for that matter) just *appear* on the system and are installed by mental telepathy i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realplayer download security problem

2005-11-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: > [1] The easiest way i have found to look inside an rpm is to use > midnight commander (mc) and hit with the rpm highlighted. You > get a "virtual" look inside the rpm, including all the metadata, the > install scripts, and the files to be installed. The rpm package must >

Re: [gentoo-user] Local dictionary in KDE?

2005-11-16 Thread Holly Bostick
abhay schreef: > On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 4:25 am, Willie Wong wrote: > >> An option to skip installing dictd is to install the commandline >> version of StarDict, http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/ Last I checked it >> is not in portage. It doesn't really work like Kdict, but suits my >> needs well en

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > On 11/17/05, Michael Kjorling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI >> Technologies, device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my >> monitor at 48.5 kHz 60 Hz 1024x768 usi

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > On 11/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The point being, you need to know your monitor's specs. > > > Back in the day, that was true. But with modern monitors (I'm not > sure of the spec, I think is part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:19:58 + (UTC), James wrote: > > >> Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on >> linux? > > > It works, whether it works in DL mode I have no idea as I haven't > tried it. DL discs are so expensive. Is there anything spec

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: > Patrick McLean schrieb: > > >> Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a >> modern Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it. > > > What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) > user on the system and the

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: > and, *on the other hand*, the whole point of using free, open source > software, is usually to get hands-on software on a lower level than > in windows like platforms. > > That's what I wanted to say. Most gnu/linux/oss users like screwing > up their system

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread Holly Bostick
James Colby schreef: > > Thanks, revdep-rebuild did give me the list of files that would not > link, and equery belongs FILENAME tells me that the files are part of > the kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7 package. Is there a way for me to > find out which packages on my system depend on kdelibs-3.3.2-r

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: > Alexander Skwar wrote: > >>> /etc/passwd like on HP-UX 11.00. Ie. no /etc/shadow. > > > /etc/shadow was provided by an additional package and libraries. Just > like PAM. Shadow changed from being a security measure to be an auth > storage backend. As a storag

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>> As you see, all the relevant programs that *can* use PAM (which >>> is *optional*) do *not* do so on my system. I do not need PAM >>> authentication, and I do not use PAM authentication. As

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Hemmann, Volker Armin schreef: > On Monday 21 November 2005 13:33, Steve B wrote: > >> WTF.. I'm getting ready to rebuild my gentoo box. I have always did >> a stage 1 install. i was under the impression that if u used a >> stage 3 u couldn't muck with your CFLAGS or what not. If I'm forced >>

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel da Veiga schreef: > Gentoo is not easy, its not simple and its not designed or the best > distro to start in the Linux world. > Hogwash. What's so hard about it, as opposed to any other Linux distro, once you get past the install issue? Is learning Portage somehow intrinsically harder th

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Abhay Kedia schreef: > On Sunday 20 Nov 2005 7:16 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> equery hasuse pam > > > Wow!!! I performed that thing on my system and the stupid PAM is > everywhere (I am scared as shit after reading this thread). What > would be the easiest w

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with wxGTK

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: > !!! set-wxconfig: /usr/bin/wxgtk2u-*2.4*-config not found > > [ebuild R ] x11-libs/wxGTK-*2.6.1* -debug -doc +gnome +gtk2 -joystick > +odbc +opengl +sdl +unicode -wxgtk1 0 kB > > equery belongs /usr/bin/wxgtk2u-2.4-config [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/wxgtk2u

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Ausmus schreef: >> -Original Message- From: Alexander Skwar >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 20, >> 2005 3:48 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: >> [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature >> >> You're answer was to a different question. > > > Wh

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Holly Bostick
George Garvey schreef: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:17:45PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> reinstall, again I must wonder why he would complain that such a >> reinstall is now likely to be much easier, and lead to a >> functioning system (from which he can emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature

2005-11-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: > Holly Bostick schrieb: > >> However, other than pointing this out by the simple expedient of >> confusing everyone further, Alexander's reply was less than >> helpful, since it neither pointed out why the answer given was >> presumab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Me too. Seems that the system didn't get that change. Please send >> output of: >> >> grep dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.use > > > dev-db/mysql mysql mysqli dev-db/mysql doc dev-db/mysql ndb-doc > > > Harry, p

Re: [gentoo-user] Could not emerge "app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r2" due to new kernel being emerged too

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Jules Colding schreef: > Hi, > > Todays "emerge -vauDN world" failed with gnupg not being emerged. The > reason seems to be that I am emerging a new kernel too. This new > kernel has obviously not been configured/build yet which makes gnupg > unable to find .config in "/usr/src/linux/". I expec

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Langer schreef: >> >> It also says "See config.log for details", but I can't find >> config.log - it doesn't give a full path. The config.log referred to can be found in the temporary working directory of the package being compiled: /var/tmp/portage/package-name.and.version/work (or som

Re: [gentoo-user] Could not emerge "app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r2" due to new kernel being emerged too

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:49:04 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> Fortunately, I noticed that it was going to happen before the >> emerge proceeded (I was getting a new kernel, and upgrading the >> ati-drivers package, which I know must c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > > Since syncing yesterday and emerge -u world, I now get > mysql-5.0.16-r1 when I emerge mysql. It doesn't have the docs built > either regardless of what USE variable are in force. Are there in fact docs available for this version yet? From MYSQL, I mean, not Gentoo. P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Of course, you might want to upgrade to -r2, since clearly some >> things didn't work in -r1 (in ebuild terms) >> >> You might also want to stick with stable until things settle do

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r6 failed

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Ernie Schroder schreef: > I've figured out most of my 11 month updates, but this one is driving > me mad. I would appreciate some advice here. I still have a few apps > to update that fail like this: > > checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.0... no *** Could not run SDL test > program, checking wh

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --newuse misses package that new USE affects

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
glen martin schreef: > > I've changed some USE flags deliberately to add features to a package > > > Despite the USE change, I find that that apache is not being caught > by "emerge --newuse world". > > I added "threads nptlonly mpm-worker" to USE in make.conf. I've > probably made some ot

Re: [gentoo-user] masked package woes

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Hello, > > Jffnms is masked. However I am able to install it on an intel portable > by adding this line to the /etc/portage/package.keywords > net-analyzer/jffnms ~x86 > > This is pretty must standard approach. > > However, on a gentoo system that I manually hacked a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone know where I can find an ebuild for projectx?

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: > ProjectX is a java mpeg2 editor. It used to be in portage but has > been dumped with no warning. I didn't have a chance to move it to > overlay. > > Does anyone have an ebuild for this package? If it used to be in Portage, you can probably find it in the CVS attic-- check the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --newuse misses package that new USE affects

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
glen martin schreef: > > As an aside, I wonder whether it is a good feature idea that > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="" emerge without --oneshot should > automatically add to the package.keywords file. > That's an idea with some merit, but imo not enough (merit) to make it feasible (but it's not my decis

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --newuse misses package that new USE affects

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
glen martin schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> glen martin schreef: >> >>> As an aside, I wonder whether it is a good feature idea that >>> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="" emerge without --oneshot should >>> automatically add to the package.keywor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > First let me add that (mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3) isn't even installed: > root # qpkg -v -I |grep mjpegtools media-video/mjpegtools-1.8.0-r1 * > > > equery depends mjpegtools [ Searching for packages depending on > mjpegtools... ] media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r2 > media-vide

Re: [gentoo-user] dovecot problem

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > I'm having a problem with dovecot. I upgraded dovecot yesterday to > 0.99.14-r1, although dovecot --version still claims to be 0.99.14 I don't know how to fix your problem (sorry); just wanted to mention that the reason that the version is still claimed to be 0.99.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (Including Richard in reply as well) Nagatoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: >> [...] >> >>> Assigning files to ebuilds... using existing >>> /root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds. Evaluating package order... >>> using existing > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: > > I still don't see the actual error there and it was the output of: > > revdep-rebuild -nc 2>&1|tee revdep.log > > revdep.log is what I posted online. > Richard Fish replied with the specific issue about half an hour ago: > Richard Fish schreef: > > Ok, now we are g

[gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Holly Bostick
OK, I take it back. I said that the situation of upgrading a kernel with the 'symlink' USE flag active occurring at the same time as a (particular) program needing to compile against a configured kernel was not likely to occur all that often, but I was wrong. It's happened again today, but with a

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> I said that the situation of upgrading a kernel with the 'symlink' >> USE flag active occurring at the same time as a (particular) >> program needing to compile against a configured kernel was not >> l

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Zac Medico schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> >> This sounds great, but what about the kernel I'm booted into, >> against which the module will *not* be compiled, if I have to >> reboot before actually configuring/compiling/installing the new >> ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Home Network Printing

2005-12-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: > Richard Fish wrote: > > >> On 11/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Are you running cups? >> >> And if so, post the output of: >> >> grep -v "^#" /etc/cups/cupsd.conf | grep -v "^$" >> >> for both systems. > > > Thanks Richard, this is what I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

2005-12-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > >> On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:55:47 + Mick >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > >> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:25:07 - "Michael Kintzios" | > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > Which USE flag will >> make that +xterm_clipboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing old version of a package

2005-12-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Leandro Melo de Sales schreef: > Hi folks, > > Recently I installed mysql using emerge mysql, but the version that > was installed is 4.1.14, but I'd like to install the last available > version of the 4.0 release. How can I do this? > dev-db/mysql Available versions: 3.23.58-r1 4.0.25-

Re: [gentoo-user] Package conflicts

2005-12-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Leandro Melo de Sales schreef: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to make a world update, but I got the following: > > # emerge -uD world Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > !!! Error: the =kde-base/kcheckpass-3.4* package conflicts with > another package. !!!both can't be installed on t

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing old version of a package

2005-12-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schreef: > On Saturday 03 December 2005 12:46 pm, Holly Bostick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> or you could unmask the specific version using >> >> echo "=dev-dv/mysql-4.0.26 ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords >

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: > LOL It helped a little bit, but not much. > > >> swifty / # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available >> Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 3564108 3505584 58524 >> 99% / udev12738880127308 1% /dev >> /dev/hda1

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> 3 (Tough Love): You don't want to get rid of KDE, but there's a >> good chance you don't need all of KDE-- you might consider trimming >> it. > I plan to let my mom use it if I move so I hope I can keep i

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emergeing (through winxp shared connection)

2005-12-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Nacho schreef: > Hi, I'm trying to emerge kde-meta, but i get stuck here (the "error" > reproduces with "emerge kde-meta"): > > -- > gentoo ~ # emerge kde-meta Calculat

Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Joseph schreef: Please excuse me for interrupting when I know nothing about this issue at all, but: I keep noticing that latex seems to supercede divps > Sql-Ledger is using latex forms to generate invoices. So to > my understanding the program will be using "dvips" to convert > lat

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Joseph schreef: > > SOLVED, SOLVED! Believe me or not, I'm not sure what I did. Don't care (since I don't know anything about this anyway) ;-) ; I'm just happy for you. Congratulations Persistence pays (as does restarting a server or two, apparently). :-D Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I force an unmerge? [SOLVED]

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: > Well, it doesn't actually 'solve' the original question, but I did > figure out why superkaramba kept showing up. > > "emerge -Davut world" revealed several plugins related to karamba. So > unmerging ALL of them, finally made the block go away. > > The obnoxious part w

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Ernie Schroder schreef: > Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with > your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world > > I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and > got the above message. Should I worry yet? Let's see... you expect one insta

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Willie Wong schreef: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:56:22PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Ernie Schroder schreef: >> >>> Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected >>> with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 update: python error...

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Jarry schreef: >> What does 'gcc-config -l' say? > > > obelix ~ # gcc-config -l /usr/bin/gcc-config: line 632: > /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6: No such file or directory * > /usr/bin/gcc-config: Profile does not exist or invalid setting for > /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6 [1

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:33:58 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> There are reasons that major Portage processes are not supposed to >> be carried out concurrently. It's true that while I'm upgrading >> KDE, I probably could emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Rafael Fernández López schreef: >> Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package >> (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in >> package retrieval. > > > Well, give realplayer a try, and see if it is installed in any way: > > # equery list -p realplayer > > Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Optical mouse lights off on kernel 2.6.14 but works on kernel 2.4.30

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales schreef: > I had legacy /dev/psaux on. Besides, it doesn't explain why the > lights go off even outside X. Perhaps I could try to disable this > option and let /dev/input/mice be the sole device node for the > mouse... > OK, it's time then for the stupid

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox toolbar font size

2005-12-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Ryan Viljoen schreef: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how to change the application font sizes? What I > mean by this is the font sizes used to display the menus in firefox, > open office and other programs. I run fluxbox. > > Currently they are quite large and I would like to decrease them. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update

2005-12-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Bill Roberts schreef: > On 01:55 Wed 07 Dec, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Rafael Fernández López schreef: >> >>>> Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package >>>> (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] krecipes fails due to gcc library problem

2005-12-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: > Hi All, > > This is a box I converted into the new gcc-3.4.4 following the long > winded approach of re-emerging everything according to the guide. > Neveretheless, I have now come up to this problem when I am trying to > emerge krecipes: > Any ideas how I could fix it? *Whene

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: krecipes fails due to gcc library problem

2005-12-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Dirk Heinrichs schreef: > Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2005 07:59 schrieb ext Mick: > > >>I've tried it, but can't find 'fix_libtools_files.sh' on my machine! >>What do I need to emerge to get this script? > > > There's a small typo, should be 'fix_libtool_files.sh'. > Thanks, Dirk, you're rig

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy

2005-12-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: > Hi, > > I want to make a copy of my Gentoo install CD. I open K3b, with the > Gentoo install CD in the drive, and go to tools and select "copy CD". > The box pops up but "start" is grayed out so I can not copy the CD. > > I only have one CD drive but it usually copies it to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gnome-vfs

2005-12-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Edwin Kapauni schreef: > Why do mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird depend on > gnome-base/gnome-vfs, even when they have > > --disable-gnomevfs --disable-gnomeui > > in their Configure arguments (about:buildconfig)? > > Shouldn't it be possible to really remove that dependency by > config

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Gerhard Hoogterp schreef: > On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: > >> Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software >> you receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to >> install (which includes compiling) the software with your specific >> pre

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/env.d help

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: > That doesn't seem to do it either. Firefox still crashes from Flash > unless I put the export line in /usr/bin/firefox. > Why don't you just alias it, then (until such time as you figure out what's going wrong and how to adjust)? In ~/.bashrc alias firefox="export XLIB_SKIP_

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Willie Wong schreef: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:07:07PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler > squawked: > >> But I notice in yahoo when I try to read my mail after logging into >> my account I'm bumped to a window that says my browser is not setup >> to go to that URL, > > > Perhaps it checks fo

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk display

2005-12-10 Thread Holly Bostick
cucu ionut cristian schreef: > hi all ! > I have a problem reguarding my gtk aplications they cannot be started > using sudo nmapfe(or any program for that matter) > the error message is Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > i'm using the e17 windows manager, if it makes any differences > Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords/kde

2005-12-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Ernie Schroder schreef: > On Monday 12 December 2005 09:12, a tiny voice compelled Marc > Christiansen to write: > >> Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> [ebuild UD] sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 [1.4.4] [ebuild UD] >>> sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-3-r1 [3.2] [nomerge ] >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords/kde

2005-12-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Ernie Schroder schreef: > On Monday 12 December 2005 10:11, a tiny voice compelled Holly > Bostick to write: > >>>> Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> [ebuild UD] sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 [1.4.4] [ebuild &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: Y'know, it's a bit early in my morning for so much whine, so that's probably why I'm a bit testy >>> He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a >> >> 200Mhz machine. >> >> He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of >> other packa

Re: [gentoo-user] MPlayer

2005-12-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Cláudio Henrique schreef: > What is the advantage of running mplayer in framebuffer? > Mainly that you don't also have to run X to watch a movie. Afaik. Not that that isn't a pretty big benefit. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Langer schreef: > Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them > as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down > firefox, ssh etc. In the case of Azureus specifically, your problem is actually not with Azureus, but with Java (that's what's slowing down,

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL Server Error

2005-12-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales schreef: > Why would a CD burning program ask for OpenGL? > > Not k3/b/, k3/d/; eix k3d * media-gfx/k3d Available versions: ~0.2.5.4 ~0.4.4.0 ~0.4.4.2 ~0.5.0.33 ~0.5.0.34 Installed: none Homepage:http://k3d.sourceforge.n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI driver, tvout, blue video window

2005-12-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Mauch schreef: > Alan E. Davis wrote: > >> I followed an instruction on one of the howtos or faqs to not >> enable dri in the kernel. > > > That's something different, you should revert that. > > Michael, that's wrong, for the fglrx drivers-- they won't install or run if the kernel D

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Question

2005-12-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: > On 12/17/05, Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When I ran emerge -uaD today, I got the following output: >> >> These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >> >> Calculating world dependencies ...done! >> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.16 [2.15]

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge realplayer

2005-12-17 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: > > Turns out RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm is > not in the same location that emerge looks for it. A > search leads to helix but you have to scroll down, way > down to find it. Download into /usr/portage/distfiles > and re-emerge. Worked for me :) > > You might p

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Ernie Schroder schreef: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:57, a tiny voice compelled Richard > Fish to write: > >> On 12/17/05, LostSon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:17, Nick Rout wrote: >>> I see a lot of people seem to have upgraded to kde 3.5. >

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