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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2301

Today's Topics: 

  Re: A sane way to merge config file   [ Ron Johnson  ]
  Re: rndc woes                         [ Chuck Payne  ]
  Re: rndc woes                         [ Jeff D  ]
  Re: Hi where can I get g++ package    [ Kamaraju S Kusumanchi  ]
  How to make deb packages when compil  [ Amit Uttamchandani  ]
  Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgi  [ "Rickard Lindberg"  ]
  Re: Where and how do I install a TTF  [ "Mumia W.." 

Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:01:46 -0500


From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: A sane way to merge config file differences during package installation?

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On 09/02/07 04:55, Richard Hartmann wrote:

> Everyone will know a message like this:
> 
> Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf'
>  ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
>  ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>       Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>  The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** sysctl.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
> 
> What I would want is something like
> 
> M: merge files interactively
> 
> which would then call vimdiff, probably via $DIFF_EDITOR
> or some other variable if something like it does already exist.
> 
> Is anyone aware of any such solution or has good suggestions
> on custom-creating it?

Great idea!  File a wishlist bug against debconf.



  •   --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA



Do you need help?X

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!


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Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:04:46 -0400


From: Chuck Payne <cepayne@magidesign.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: rndc woes

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Chuck Payne wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I am at lost, I been look on the net haven't found a clean answer 
> (google is becoming more and more a pain)
> 
> About five days ago I got error where my rndc.key was not the correct 
> key and could no longer xfer between my main dns server and bind9 
> wouldn't not come up any more.
> 
> I remove bind9 from my box and only got back installed after doing this...
> 
> apt-get -y --force -yes -f install bind9
> 
> But I am still having an issue with rndc.key. I have found two errors in 
> my syslog...
> 
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: loading configuration from 
> '/etc/bind/named.conf'
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: none:0: open: /etc/bind/rndc.key: 
> permission denied
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: couldn't add command channel 
> 127.0.0.1#953: permission denied
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: none:0: open: /etc/bind/rndc.key: 
> permission denied
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: couldn't add command channel 
> ::1#953: permission denied
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: zone gdicatv.com/IN: refresh: 
> failure trying master 66.23.219.82#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0): operation 
> canceled
> 
> 
> ep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: starting BIND 9.3.4
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: loading configuration from 
> '/etc/bind/lwresd.conf'
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: none:0: open: 
> /etc/bind/lwresd.conf: file not found
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: loading configuration from 
> '/etc/resolv.conf'
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: command channel listening on 
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: command channel listening on ::1#953
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: lwres listening on 127.0.0.1#921
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: running
> 
> I have looked thru the old mailing list, I am got most emails dating 
> back seven month and was able to get the permission fix so that bind9 
> starts with out issue, but until I get these issue fix, I am at a lost.
> 
> Payne
> 
> 


By the way, I have found two bug on these site, it this what I am facing?


http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=111
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386791

Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:23:53 -0400


From: Chuck Payne <cepayne@magidesign.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: postfix loop by to itself

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Do you need more help?X

Guys,



Again, google is not my friend. I been looking for a month how to fix 
this problems and haven't gotten a clean answer.



By the way this problem only is happen on my debian box. But I am unable 
to get any of my system emails, because the system is looping by to itself.



Sep  3 00:18:32 inferno postfix/smtp[29302]: 4A871FF0C: 
to=<amavis@inferno.magigames.net>, relay=none, delay=10, 
delays=0.02/0/10/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for 
inferno.magigames.net loops back to myself)



I have this in my main.cf



mydestination =localhost, localhost.localdomain, magigames.net, 
britishscifiexchange.net, pegasusofamerica.com, periodicupdates.com, 
drummertom.com



But no matter what, it gives that error above.



Any clues as to what to look at to fix this.


Can we help you?X

Payne



Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:08:21 +0530


From: "vivek shah" <boni.vivek@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Problems regarding sound

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hello,
        I am using Debain Etch on my Acer laptop and it was running


fine till the sound stopped working suddenly. I was playing a movie on
VLC player and in the middle it just stopped working. After that I
tried


cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp


but I didnt get any sound.


I checked that my user was in the group audio and the above command
didn't give anything as root too.



I checked with alsamixer and nothing was muted. I ran alsaconf which
ran successfully but still nothing. Even after rebooting nothing
happened.



Please note I did no upgrade or package install when this problem
occured. It just stopped in the middle.


I checked to see if the sound-card had shorted out and so I ran Ubuntu
7.04 Live CD and I got the startup sounds in that.



Please suggest what should I do



Regards,


Vivek

-- 
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
                -- Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxims"


Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:42:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>
To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: rndc woes
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0709022138530.21798@proto.technobounce.com>
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On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Chuck Payne wrote:


> Hi Guys,

>

> I am at lost, I been look on the net haven't found a clean answer (google is 
> becoming more and more a pain)

>

> About five days ago I got error where my rndc.key was not the correct key and 
> could no longer xfer between my main dns server and bind9 wouldn't not come 
> up any more.

>

> I remove bind9 from my box and only got back installed after doing this...

>

> apt-get -y --force -yes -f install bind9

>

> But I am still having an issue with rndc.key. I have found two errors in my 
> syslog...

>

> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: loading configuration from 
> '/etc/bind/named.conf'
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: none:0: open: /etc/bind/rndc.key: 
> permission denied
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: couldn't add command channel 
> 127.0.0.1#953: permission denied
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: none:0: open: /etc/bind/rndc.key: 
> permission denied
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: couldn't add command channel ::1#953: 
> permission denied
> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: zone gdicatv.com/IN: refresh: failure 
> trying master 66.23.219.82#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0): operation canceled

>
>

> ep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: starting BIND 9.3.4
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: loading configuration from 
> '/etc/bind/lwresd.conf'
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: none:0: open: /etc/bind/lwresd.conf: 
> file not found
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: loading configuration from 
> '/etc/resolv.conf'
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: command channel listening on 
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: command channel listening on ::1#953
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: lwres listening on 127.0.0.1#921
> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: running

>

> I have looked thru the old mailing list, I am got most emails dating back 
> seven month and was able to get the permission fix so that bind9 starts with 
> out issue, but until I get these issue fix, I am at a lost.

>

> Payne

>

what permissions does /etc/bind/rndc.key have? On my systems its owned by 
bind:bind with permissions 640.  This should be the default permissions 
set by the bind9 package.  Are you perhaps running bind as a different 
user?


-+-
8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.


Don't know where to look next?X

Date:  Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:10:54 -0400
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: Hi where can I get g++ package
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isarayunyong wrote:


> 
> I have the same problem. "Configure error: C compiler cannot create
> executables"
> 
> First of all I did not have "gcc" at all. I downloaded and installed
> [b]gcc-4.1_4.1.1-21_i386.deb[/b]. Then I got your heading message. After
> reading your messages I downloaded [b]g++-4.1_4.1.1-21_i386.deb[/b], tried
> to installed with GDebi package installer."Error: Dependency is not
> satisfiable: [b]libstdc++c-4.1-dev[/b]".
> 


Please stop using html formatted emails. Just use plain text.

If all you need is a C++ compiler, apt-get it. The exact command looks like

apt-get install g++

If you are interested in a specific g++ version then look for available
versions

$apt-cache search g++ | grep g++

and then install the corresponding package available. For example, you would
do

sudo apt-get install g++-4.2

to install the 4.2 version of g++.


> So I downloaded [b]libstdc++c-4.1-dev_4.1.1_21_i386.deb[/b],tried to
> install "Error:Dependency is not satisfiable:g++-4.1"
> 
> Now I downloaded and tried to install [b]g++-4.1_4.1.1-21_i386.deb[/b]
> "Error:Dependency is not satisfiable: [b]libstdc++6-4.1-dev[/b]"
> 
> Things seem to be going into an infinite loop. What do I do from here. Any
> suggesstion, please?


apt-get pulls in all the necessary dependencies. You need not download all
the .deb files and install them individually. apt-get will do that for you.
That is its job.

raju

-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:53:52 -0400
From: Chuck Payne <cepayne@magidesign.com>
To: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>
Cc: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: rndc woes
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Jeff D wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Chuck Payne wrote:
> 

>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I am at lost, I been look on the net haven't found a clean answer 
>> (google is becoming more and more a pain)
>>
>> About five days ago I got error where my rndc.key was not the correct 
>> key and could no longer xfer between my main dns server and bind9 
>> wouldn't not come up any more.
>>
>> I remove bind9 from my box and only got back installed after doing 
>> this...
>>
>> apt-get -y --force -yes -f install bind9
>>
>> But I am still having an issue with rndc.key. I have found two errors 
>> in my syslog...
>>
>> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: loading configuration from 
>> '/etc/bind/named.conf'
>> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: none:0: open: 
>> /etc/bind/rndc.key: permission denied
>> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: couldn't add command channel 
>> 127.0.0.1#953: permission denied
>> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: none:0: open: 
>> /etc/bind/rndc.key: permission denied
>> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: couldn't add command channel 
>> ::1#953: permission denied
>> Sep  2 23:40:23 inferno named[11996]: zone gdicatv.com/IN: refresh: 
>> failure trying master 66.23.219.82#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0): operation 
>> canceled
>>
>>
>> ep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: starting BIND 9.3.4
>> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
>> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: loading configuration from 
>> '/etc/bind/lwresd.conf'
>> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: none:0: open: 
>> /etc/bind/lwresd.conf: file not found
>> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: loading configuration from 
>> '/etc/resolv.conf'
>> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: command channel listening on 
>> 127.0.0.1#953
>> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: command channel listening on 
>> ::1#953
>> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: lwres listening on 127.0.0.1#921
>> Sep  2 23:17:31 inferno lwresd[3333]: running
>>
>> I have looked thru the old mailing list, I am got most emails dating 
>> back seven month and was able to get the permission fix so that bind9 
>> starts with out issue, but until I get these issue fix, I am at a lost.
>>
>> Payne
>>

> 
> what permissions does /etc/bind/rndc.key have? On my systems its owned 
> by bind:bind with permissions 640.  This should be the default 
> permissions set by the bind9 package.  Are you perhaps running bind as a 
> different user?
> 
> 
> -+-
> 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred 
> Techno.
> 
> 

I did those changes and that fixed the permission error, but still can't 
  xfer between servers.

One down.

Thanks



Date:  Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:32:11 -0400
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  reporting spam websites
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In a previous thread Douglas A. Tutty wrote:


> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:54:52PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote:

>> Uh, what the heck is this crap? I hope I'm not going to start getting
>> spam through this list now....

>  >

>> Yup, it's spam. Someone needs to get the list off this....

> 
> Yup, and by quoting spam and putting it back on the list, you teach
> Debian's spam filter that this wasn't spam after all.  Thanks.
> 
> The list maintainers are in a constant battle.  If you must respond to
> spam on it, the best way is to locate the post in the archives on the
> web at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user then click on the 'report
> this as spam' link.  That teaches the filter what you want.
> 


I agree with this. May I offer couple of other solutions with spam emails?

1) I report all the spam emails that I get to knujon (www.knujon.com). They
seem to be pretty good at shutting down spamvertized websites. I started
reporting all my spam emails around March 2007 and so far around 100
spamvertized websites in these emails have been shutdown.

2) Another option is to use complainterator software
(www.complainterator.com) and automatically write an email to the registrar
of the spam website and have it shut down. This approach is also yielding a
lot of good results to me. The only downside is that complainterator works
only in windows.

hth
raju

-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:07:50 +0200
From: Luis Fernando Llana =?iso-8859-1?q?D=EDaz?= <luis@ramonvazquez.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: a LaTeX question
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On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:26:18 Richard Lyons wrote:
>

> I suppose I'll have to get a copy.  This is not the first time I have
> seen that recommendation.  It is just that I prefer to use online
> resources.  TeX/LaTeX seems unique in lacking a good online manual.

>
In the package tetex-doc you have lots of documentation.


Luis.
=2D-=20
http://antares.sip.ucm.es/~luis
In a world without walls, who needs Windows(R)?

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Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:56:45 -0700
From: Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: workaround for: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486
 kernel
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Takehiko Abe wrote:

> Paul Scott wrote:

>

> > $ stat /dev/ptmx
> > [...snip...]

>

> ptmx looks fine to me.

>

> > mountpoint says /dev/pts is not a mount point

>

> You need to mount devpts filesystem at /dev/pts.
> pts(4) manpage says:

>

> ;; The Linux support for the above (known as Unix98 pty naming) is
> ;; done using the devpts filesystem, that should be mounted on
> ;; /dev/pts.

>

> Try something like this (_NOT_TESTED_):

>

> $ sudo mount -t devpts -o uid=0,gid=5,mode=620 devpts /dev/pts

This would allow the window to be drawn but no shell!  Changing mode to
666 allowed shell as well!

(snip)
>

> Note that I've never had to do it myself.  My /etc/fstab on a Sarge
> system has this entry:

>

>     none    /dev/pts    devpts    gid=5,mode=620    0    0

I will try putting this in my fstab after I send this email.
>

> But my lenny box does not have it. I don't know who mounts devpts for
> me on lenny (perhaps it's udev but I'm not sure.)

This still leaves the mystery of how it happened and whether the fstab
entry is the correct Debian solution for sid.

Thanks!!

Paul

>

> Good luck.

>
>



Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 07:04:43 +0000 (UTC)
From: Amit Uttamchandani <amit.uttam@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  How to make deb packages when compiling from source?
Message-ID:  <loom.20070903T090207-614@post.gmane.org>
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Hey everyone,

I've recently been compiling a few programs from source. I then realized that I
might have to uninstall them in the future. Thus, I did a quick google search
and the main point was that after compiling create a .deb file and then install
the software. Then I could just use dpkg to install and uninstall the software
correct?

How is this done? And what is the proper procedure?

Thanks!
Amit



Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:14:36 +0100
From: Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to make deb packages when compiling from source?
Message-ID: <20070903071436.GA24506@steve.org.uk>
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On Mon Sep 03, 2007 at 07:04:43 +0000, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:


> I've recently been compiling a few programs from source. I then realized that I
> might have to uninstall them in the future. Thus, I did a quick google search
> and the main point was that after compiling create a .deb file and then install
> the software. Then I could just use dpkg to install and uninstall the software
> correct?


   Try using checkinstall:

        http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/147

Steve
--
http://www.steve.org.uk/

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:31:27 +0200
From: "Rickard Lindberg" <ricli576@student.liu.se>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package
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Thank you guys for all the information. I might try a dist upgrade to
sid, and if that is not working well, I might do a complete reinstall
of etch.

Does anyone have any experience running the 'testing' release? I
watched 'The Technology Behind Debian's Testing Release' from google
video yesterday, and in the end of the presentation he mentioned that
in the future, it might be possible to run a stable release, but at
the same time install some packages from unstable. Does anyone know
anything about that? When will it be available? Is someone is working
on it?

Again, thanks for all the helpful information.

-- 
Rickard Lindberg
ricli576@student.liu.se
+46 733 464794


Confused? Frustrated?X

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:34:10 +0100
From: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: a LaTeX question
Message-ID: <20070903073410.GJ6014@acampbell.org.uk>
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On 02 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote:

> 
> Yes, I had spotted that it was installed on mine too.  texdoctk was new
> to me, though.  I had to install perl-tk and tetex-doc, but after that,
> --wow!  There is a lot of additional information there!  
> 
> Thanks Douglas
> 


Indeed. This amazingly useful tool should be more widely noted; I'd
never heard of it.

Anthony


-- 
Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk 
Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian
http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, 
on-line books and sceptical articles)



Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:14:57 +0530
From: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:31:27AM +0200, Rickard Lindberg wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience running the 'testing' release? I
> watched 'The Technology Behind Debian's Testing Release' from google
> video yesterday, and in the end of the presentation he mentioned that
> in the future, it might be possible to run a stable release, but at
> the same time install some packages from unstable. Does anyone know
> anything about that? When will it be available? Is someone is working
> on it?


You can, even now, try putting testing in your sources.list and try to
move to testing. Testing is also a trifle better than instable because
the secutiry team now gives security updates for testing as
well. Added advantage: it gets all newer packages from unstable after
10 days of no critical bug reports in unstable.

In a sense, testing (now lenny) may be just the right balance you are
looking for, but YMMV.

Kumar
-- 
Kumar Appaiah,
458, Jamuna Hostel,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600 036



Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:09:58 -0500
From: "Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>
To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?
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On 09/02/2007 08:24 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:

> 
> The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use here.
> We don't have control over the PDF.
> We want to change all machines running Windows to Linux, but the only
> missing thing is this barcode font on the PDFs. Windows displays them
> correctly while we couldn't make it works on Linux :-/
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Best regards,
> Nelson
> 


It looks like I'm out of my league since I don't even know what a 
hintfile is.

I hope someone can help you.



Date:  Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:32:49 -0400
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: How to make deb packages when compiling from source?
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Amit Uttamchandani wrote:


> Hey everyone,
> 
> I've recently been compiling a few programs from source. I then realized
> that I might have to uninstall them in the future. Thus, I did a quick
> google search and the main point was that after compiling create a .deb
> file and then install the software. Then I could just use dpkg to install
> and uninstall the software correct?
> 
> How is this done? And what is the proper procedure?


There are multiple ways of achieving this. Assuming that the package that
you are interested is already in debian, you can use pdebuild to build the
packages.

1) simplest way
download the source
  apt-get source packagename
install the necessary dependencies
  apt-get build-dep packagename
change directory
  cd packagename
make necessary changes in the source
build the package
  dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot

I use the above procedure to build gnuplot packages with readline and
history support. More detailed instructions can be found at
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2007/04/build-gnuplot-with-gnu-readline-and.html

2) most general way - use pbuilder, pdebuild
This method, for example, can be used to build packages for a machine
running Sid on a machine running stable. Instructions on this can be found
at
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2007/04/recipe-for-building-texmacs-package.html

There might be other ways but I am not familiar with them.

For more detailed documentation, you can read the "Debian New Maintainers'
guide" (apt-get install maint-guide).

hth
raju

-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

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