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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2119

Today's Topics:

  Re: Installing xorg without all thos  [ Robert S  ]
  Re: libc6 with support for old kerne  [ Nigel Henry  ]
  automagically mounting cdrom with di  [ "Mathieu Malaterre"  ]
  Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators        [ Mike McCarty  ]

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:11:55 +1000
From: Robert S <robert.spam.me.senseless@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installing xorg without all those video drivers

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>> I'd like to install xorg, but only with the video drivers that I need. I'm
>> doing a net install.
>
> I do it by trial and error, but usually I start from the things I know I
> need for sure.
>
> xserver-xorg-video-intel (replace with your driver)
> xserver-xorg-vesa (just for backup)
> xserver-xorg-input-kbd
> xserver-xorg-input-mouse
>
> Spice with some xfonts:
>
> xfonts-100dpi
> xfonts-75dpi (probably don't need those as I run X with 100 dpi)
> xfonts-base
> xfonts-terminus (my favorite :)
>
> Don't forget to turn off recommends first (at least temporary).

I managed to do this with some difficulty, but your choice of packages is basically right. I used aptitude, as suggested by Doug (see previous posting), and switched recommends off.

Aptitude is one of the great things about Etch.

Do you need help?

The difficult part was installing the proprietary ATI drivers for my ATI X1950 GT card. The debian kernel driver does not support this and I needed to download the latest driver from ATI and turn it into a .deb. It involved installing quite a few development packages.

All works fine now.

Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:15:52 -0400
From: "Manaen Schlabach" <manaen.schlabach@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bzflag Segfaults

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On 8/7/07, Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 8/4/07, Manaen Schlabach <manaen.schlabach@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am currently running Debian testing and since doing my daily update
> > > two days ago am unable to run Bzflag. The program immediately
> > > Segfaults back to the prompt and occasionally causes gdm to restart as
> > > well. Is anyone else having this problem?
> > >
> > I suppose it's bad form to reply to your own list message but maybe my
> > experiences will help someone else out. I have determined that it
> > isn't just bzflag that has segmentation faults, xmms, and pan are also
> > affected. Does anyone know off the top of their heads what package or
> > packages that were recently upgraded is used by all three of these
> > programs? If this can't be resolved I plan to use apt-pinning to go
> > back to stable and hopefully that will clear up my problems.
> >
> >
>
> Whenever I have a program that segfaults I apt-pin the version from
> unstable, and that usually fixes the problem for me. What version of
> Debian are you on anyway, amd64?
>
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I'll try to go unstable first and then back to stable if that doesn't work. I am still running 32 bit x86 since it's an older machine (1.1Ghz AMD). I have examined the strace logs for all of the programs when they go "kerput" but I haven't seen any commonalities in the logs that have resulted in an epiphany about what could be causing my issue yet.

Regards,
Manaen

Can we help you?

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:03:29 +0100
From: graham <graham@theseamans.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: cups yet again

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Florian Kulzer wrote:

 > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:06:25 +0100, graham wrote:
 >> Florian Kulzer wrote:
 >>

> That should be fixable by putting the "lp" module in /etc/modules.

You were right. I'd just assumed that was there by default.

After installing the lp module, I found that lprng behaved in exactly the same way as cups. Having established that the problem is not with cups but with the output filters in some way, I have now uninstalled lprng and returned to cups.

> It seems to me that your CUPS problem was fixed at some point (you could > print the test page, right?)

It printed the test page correctly once, apparently randomly. After the next boot it stopped doing so, but this was before the lp module problem which only appeared after I removed cups and changed to lprng..

I can't afford to spend more time on this for now. I will have to find some other way to print (sneakernet to my wife's windows machine, I expect :-(

Can't find what you're looking for?

Thanks for all your help

Graham

Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:42:05 +0200
From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: "Ph. Marek" <philipp@marek.priv.at>
Subject: Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

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On Tuesday 07 August 2007 14:36, Ph. Marek wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
>
> I'd like to ask for some help.
>
> I have some machines running an old kernel (2.4.25, from Suse7.3). Now I'd
> like to get some newer software running on them, *without* re-installing
> the whole system.
> (That would be gnuplot, graphviz, subversion, fsvs, and some others).
>
>
> About a year ago I could take a debian-installation, take the needed
> files, and put them into a chroot on the old machines, and it worked.
> Without any problem.
>
> I wanted to do that again, with the current versions; but now I get an
> error message "Kernel too old" (from ld-linux.so AFAIK).
>
> [ I tried to use the sarge-packages; while the packages work on
> 2.4.25, they are really old versions, and unuseable. Eg. fsvs needs at
> least subversion 1.2, while sarge has only 1.1.4.
> backports.org has subversion 1.4.1 for sarge, but no libsvn0-dev. ]
>
> Is there an compiled libc6 that has support for older kernels, too, or
> some easy way to recompile it?
> I'd like to use the normal debian-packages, as they're updated
> regularly -- the best solution for me would be to pin libc6 to some
> version or repository, keeping support for the old 2.4, too.
>
>
> Help? Any other ideas?
> Thank you for all answers.
>
> [Please keep me CCed.]
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil

Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after some updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message.

anyway, looking at synaptic on Etch, Subversion is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, libsvn-dev is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, and libc6 is 2.3.6.ds1-13.

I don't know if that's any help.

Don't know where to look next?

Nigel.

btw. All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, started off as Woody 3.0r2, and is why I still have the 2.4.27 kernel installed on all of them.

Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:42:45 +0200
From: "Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> To: "Debian User Mailing List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: automagically mounting cdrom with discover

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Hello,

In the past I clearly remember that my cdroms where automagiclly mounted in /media/cdrom by -I think- discover. Today when I put a cd in the cdrom I have to manually mount them. Is there something I need to setup ?

Thanks for any documentation

-- 
Mathieu

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:50:45 -0600 From: "Aenn Seidhe Priest" <sidhepriest@yandex.ru> To: "Mike McCarty" <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators Message-ID: <200708070950450777.1F545CA3@smtp.yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" There's a Live CD based on Mandriva which has Virtualbox built-in. RAM requirements are bound to be very hefty, but 1 GB should be enough. http://mcnlive.org ("Virtual City" build). On 07.08.2007 at 2:22 Mike McCarty wrote:
>Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>> I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux,
>>> and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them,
>>> based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation.
>
>[snip]
>
>>
>> Did you run kqemu with qemu?
>
>No, I couldn't get it to build for me.

>I tried VirtualBox, and found it impossible to install on my machine.
>It won't build. The build errors are rather obscure. I looked at the
>"log" file they say should contain information, but here is the
>head of the log file

>
>Mike
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter -- for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had -- first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine... -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"

Confused? Frustrated?

Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:03:40 +0200 From: Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at> To: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: libc6 with support for old kernels Message-Id: <200708071703.40614@x5> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Dienstag, 7. August 2007 Nigel Henry wrote: ...
> Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after
> some updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message.
>
> anyway, looking at synaptic on Etch, Subversion is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, libsvn-dev
> is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, and libc6 is 2.3.6.ds1-13.
>
> I don't know if that's any help.
Well, I'll try. I fear that some packages won't be as current as I'd like them ... but lets see. Thank you very much! Regards, Phil -- Versioning your /etc, /home or even your whole installation? Try fsvs (fsvs.tigris.org)!

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:30:17 -0500 From: Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators Message-ID: <46B89009.8010105@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hi Mike.
>
[about kqemu]
>>No, I couldn't get it to build for me.
>
>
> How did you try? More than the following commands is not necessary:
I downloaded the source and used the recommended commands.
> # apt-get install module-assistant
> # m-a prepare
> # m-a a-i kqemu
> # modprobe kqemu
This will not work on my machine. I don't run Debian. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:31:23 +0200 From: Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: CD/DVD Burner Configuration Message-ID: <f9a387$t3f$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Adriano Bonat wrote:
>
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> I tried to burn a CD with k3b, and got an error from wodim, the same as
>> follow: adriano@heisenberg:~$ wodim -scanbus
>> /usr/bin/wodim: No such file or directory.
>> Cannot open SCSI driver!
>> <snip>
> Is your K3b configured correctly? Open K3b and Settings -> Configure
> K3b ... -> Devices
> Do you see your Matshita listed there? If not K3b is not configured
> correctly. If need be you can add your device by clicking on the "Add
> Device..." button in the Devices window.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
Answer pasted from a personal reply to me: Hello, yes its listed in the devices section of k3b, to make it work, i had to configure a custom parameter to wodim in k3b, but i would like to find a better solution than this. Thanks. Dear Adriano, Please don't take discussions off the list. Other people cannot benefit from any light shed on the subject if you make it private. In general it's not good netiquette to reply to a person rather than the list where the posting appeared. I'm not sure what you mean by "configure a custom parameter" but I know when wodim replaced cdrecord I simply made a symbolic link in /usr/bin where I linked cdrecord to wodim (cdrecrod -> wodim). I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:32:04 -0500 From: Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators Message-ID: <46B89074.302@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Aenn Seidhe Priest wrote:
> There's a Live CD based on Mandriva which has Virtualbox built-in. RAM
> requirements are bound to be very hefty, but 1 GB should be enough.
$ head /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 248088 kB MemFree: 2916 kB Buffers: 9240 kB Cached: 51432 kB SwapCached: 98208 kB Active: 166328 kB Inactive: 34996 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 248088 kB Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!

Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:32:49 +0200 From: "Manon Metten" <manon.metten@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How to add dir to path Message-ID: <5da176070708070832s1c9a9011p5e7cc029563706a6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_109001_12482578.1186500769780" ------=_Part_109001_12482578.1186500769780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for that? M> echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games But how do I add ~/scripts to that path? Thanks, Manon. ------=_Part_109001_12482578.1186500769780 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for that? M> echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games But how do I add ~/scripts to that path? Thanks, Manon. ------=_Part_109001_12482578.1186500769780--

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:43:15 -0500 From: Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to add dir to path Message-ID: <46B89313.3090809@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for that?
>
> M> echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
>
> But how do I add ~/scripts to that path?
Do something like this $ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH If you put it into the appropriate startup script it will get done every time. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:45:18 +0200 From: Hans Vogelsberger <hans.vogelsberger@chello.at> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: apt-get: broken dependencies Message-ID: <46B8938E.7080108@chello.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Since one week or so apt-get is broken because of unmet dependencies on m= y =E2=86=92 AMD64, Aspire 4200, Debian, mirror http://ftp.at.debian.org/de= bian/ =E2=86=92 testing. There should be a bug report, but I do not know against which of the=20 five packages apt-get, gcc-4.2-base, lib32stdc++6, glibc-2.6.1, or dpkg. = Some further packages also seem to depend on the same 'old' version of=20 gcc-4.2-base. Experience shows that bug reporting against the wrong=20 package leads to no consequences at all. This would be more than=20 disastrous. Testing without upgrades is absolutely unusable. I would=20 have to change to Ubuntu after having used Debian testing since it came=20 up - in the times of Potato, wasn't it? The following error messages I had to translate from German, only a few=20 of them matched with readable texts I found in /bin/apt-get, so please=20 excuse if there are mistakes. Errors after apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade and apt-get=20 deselect-upgrade (exactly the same text): Package lists are read... done Dependency tree is built... done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: lib32stdc++6: depends: gcc-4.2-base (=3D 4.2-20070712-1) but=20 4.2-20070627-1 is installed locales: depends: glibc-2.6-1 E: Unmet dependencies. Try to use -f. Errors after apt-get -f install: (Reading data base ... 88142 files and dictionaries are installed.) Package lists are read. Preparing to replace libc6-i386 2.5-9 (by=20 =2E../libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement for libc6-i386 ... dpkg: Error processing=20 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): Trying to overwrite =C2=BB/usr/lib32=C2=AB which is also in lib32z1 Errors occurred while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) When trying to remove one or all of the above files, apt-get threatens=20 to delete several screenfuls of files, including some which I need and=20 use every day. This is, what aptitude does, therefore I never used this=20 program. '--reinstall install' shows no effect at all. After updating to kernel 2.6.21 some more insufficiencies showed up,=20 especially during boot procedures. I shall ask for them separately when=20 they become bothering too much. Hans

Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:45:13 -0300 From: "Adriano Bonat" <adrianob@gmail.com> To: "Jonathan Kaye" <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: CD/DVD Burner Configuration Message-ID: <6bb4c8cb0708070845h58b65f91lbc37e374269973ee@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Thanks for your advice, shame on the lack of reply-to :) The link to cdrecord dont change anything. And about the custom parameter, it is in the programs sections of k3b, in the "user parameters" tab. Regards. On 8/7/07, Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> wrote:
> Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>
> > Adriano Bonat wrote:
> >
> >> Hello guys,
> >>
> >> I tried to burn a CD with k3b, and got an error from wodim, the same as
> >> follow: adriano@heisenberg:~$ wodim -scanbus
> >> /usr/bin/wodim: No such file or directory.
> >> Cannot open SCSI driver!
> >> <snip>
> > Is your K3b configured correctly? Open K3b and Settings -> Configure
> > K3b ... -> Devices
> > Do you see your Matshita listed there? If not K3b is not configured
> > correctly. If need be you can add your device by clicking on the "Add
> > Device..." button in the Devices window.
> > Cheers,
> > Jonathan
> Answer pasted from a personal reply to me:
> Hello,
>
> yes its listed in the devices section of k3b, to make it work, i had
> to configure a custom parameter to wodim in k3b, but i would like to
> find a better solution than this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dear Adriano,
> Please don't take discussions off the list. Other people cannot benefit from
> any light shed on the subject if you make it private. In general it's not
> good netiquette to reply to a person rather than the list where the posting
> appeared.
> I'm not sure what you mean by "configure a custom parameter" but I know when
> wodim replaced cdrecord I simply made a symbolic link in /usr/bin where I
> linked cdrecord to wodim (cdrecrod -> wodim). I don't know if this has
> anything to do with your problem.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
>
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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:47:15 -0500 From: Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help buying Economic Printer Message-ID: <46B89403.6070207@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit terryc wrote: [snip]
> Now, if you really want low cost per page, mono, look at a good dot
Did you really mean to use that word? I dunno what language you intended, but in slangy Spanish "'mano" is short for "hermano", or brother. But "mono" is pejorative. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:19:44 -0400 From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: what brings up the wireless network interface Message-ID: <f9a63f$7h4$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0b:00.0 logical name: eth2 version: 02 serial: 00:13:02:9e:cc:1b width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw3945 driverversion=1.1.2dmpr firmware=13.0 1:0 () ip=128.84.152.138 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11a resources: iomemory:dfcff000-dfcfffff irq:169 The relevant stanza in /etc/network/interfaces is # allow-hotplug eth2 # auto eth2 # iface eth2 inet dhcp # wireless-essid SomeThing # wireless-mode Managed I commented out this stanza and did $sudo ifconfig eth2 down Even after that, eth2 interface comes up after some time for no reason. I believe it is due to dhclient, since I see messages like the following in /var/log/syslog Aug 7 12:15:10 kusumanchi dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth2 to 132.236.56.249 port 67 But I dont know how to prevent the automatic configuring of this wireless device. I do not want to remove dhclient since it is essential when I do want to bring up eth2. $dpkg -l \*dhcp\* | grep ^ii ii dhcp3-client 3.0.4-13 DHCP Client ii dhcp3-common 3.0.4-13 Common files used by all the dhcp3* packages Any suggestions? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:24:08 +0200 From: "Manon Metten" <manon.metten@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to add dir to path Message-ID: <5da176070708070924g13220928r2d84f16789071d52@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_109661_8699849.1186503848694" ------=_Part_109661_8699849.1186503848694 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi Mike, On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Do something like this
>
> $ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
>
> If you put it into the appropriate startup script it will get done
> every time.
I was looking for some kind of 'path' command but could not find anything alike. I didn't know of 'export'. I just found out that if I add my dir to /etc/profile it's available every time. Thanks, Manon. ------=_Part_109661_8699849.1186503848694 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi Mike, <div>On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <<a href="mailto:Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net">Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Do something like this $ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH If you put it into the appropriate startup script it will get done every time.</blockquote><div> I was looking for some kind of 'path' command but could not find anything alike. I didn't know of 'export'. I just found out that if I add my dir to /etc/profile it's available every time. Thanks, Manon. </div></div> ------=_Part_109661_8699849.1186503848694--

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:35:21 +0200 From: Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: A basic question about apt-cdrom (was: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list) Message-ID: <87vebr8fqu.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi. After adding a CD-ROM with `apt-cdrom', running `apt-get update' will be enough? Or should I also run `apt-get dist-upgrade' as a third step? I couldn't find an answer in the Debian documentation. Tnanks for any reply, Rodolfo

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:42:54 +0200 From: Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: CD/DVD Burner Configuration Message-ID: <f9a7e9$bku$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Adriano Bonat wrote:
> Thanks for your advice, shame on the lack of reply-to :)
>
> The link to cdrecord dont change anything. And about the custom
> parameter, it is in the programs sections of k3b, in the "user
> parameters" tab.
>
> Regards.
>
> <snip>
Hi Adriano, I have no special parameter settings. What did you need to put in there? Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2119 ************************************************** Received on Tue Aug 7 13:09:33 2007

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