August 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Apt-get error
by Preston Crawford 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

By the way, this is the error I'm getting after running apt-get update and following the instructions on the site listed in an earlier thread. "WARNING: 'apache' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug." What does this mean and is this fixable? Preston

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RE: [SLE] YOU, Updating Gnome, Mozilla, etc.
by Clifford Okoro 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

If you've got KDE installed, give KPackage a try. I tried it this weekend and it rocks!! Clifford -----Original Message----- From: Preston Crawford [mailto:prestonc@crawfordsolutions.com] Sent: 27 August 2002 21:20 To: S.u.S.E. mailing list Subject: [SLE] YOU, Updating Gnome, Mozilla, etc. I'd like to updated either/or Mozilla and Gnome. However, they haven't yet (Gnome 2 or Mozilla 1) appeared on YOU. I'm a fairly new SuSE user, so I'm wondering, will these ever appear on YOU? If not, where is the best place to get them? I tried the SuSE FTP site, but it was dog-slow. Even worse, when I finally did download Mozilla 1, I got an error stating that Galeon and Nautilus required it so I'm not really sure what the best approach is for getting Mozilla especially, upgraded, so that I don't have to use the dreaded --force --nodeps. Any ideas? Preston -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com ------------------------------------------ Confidentiality Notice & Disclaimer ------------------------------------ This e-mail is confidential and intended only for the addressee(s) shown. If you are not an intended recipient, please be advised that any use, dissemination, forwarding or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure and Information Systems Associates Ltd does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Please note that incoming and outgoing electronic mail messages may be monitored. Should you receive this transmission in error, notify the sender immediately. All reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure no viruses are present in this E-mail. As Information Systems Associates Ltd cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage arising from the use of this E-mail or attachments we recommend that you subject these to your virus checking procedures prior to use.

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Handy utility - CheckInstall
by Graham Smith 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

Hi, Just found this gem -CheckInstall This package basically overcomes the problem of downloading and compiling a package from source and after installing it you find it is rubbish and want to remove it. A lot of these packages don't have a "make uninstall" option, which makes removing all files difficult. I'm sick of trying to figure out what files get installed and where they are located. CheckInstall installs a compiled program from the program's source directory using "make install" or any other command supplied on checkinstall's command line. checkinstall will create a Slackware, RPM or Debian compatible package and install it using your distribution's standard package administration utilities. http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------

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"3D hardware support not available" (FALSE!!)
by Ivanovich 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I get the following message every time i try to run a 3D game: 3D Hardware support not available No 3D graphics card available or 3D support not configured yet (...) [continue] [abort] The game runs perfecly just clicking continue because i installed the driver myself (NVidia pathetic driver): which had to rebuild the rpm because binary package from nvidia didnt seem to like the running kernel 2.4.18-4GB vanilla My question is: how can i get rid of that warning message??? Some info about my system in case is needed: SuSE 8.0 KDE 3.0.3 NVdriver 1.0-2960 a.k.a. "segmentation fault" the games which this happens are bzFlag, Tuxedo, etc... ty Ivan

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Mail Notification of remote server reboot.
by zentara 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

Hi, I saw this tip today from UGU, and thought some of you might find it useful for security of remote servers. It was a ksh script, I converted to bash. Put it in /etc/rc.d/notify , and make a symlink to it in /etc/rc2.d ln -s /etc/rc.d/notify /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99notify ############################################# #!/bin/sh # Boot Notification Script # /etc/rc2.d/S99notify - Sends e-mail notification to the #administrators when the system is booted. DATE=`date` SRVNM=`uname -n` # The next variable can be set for multiple addresses # (i.e. jsmith@yahoo.com,jsmith@hotmail.com) MAILADD=root(a)you.net mail $MAILADD <<EOF From: $0 To: $MAILADD Subject: Boot of $SRVNM $DATE $SRVNM has booted up. If this is news to you, please investigate. EOF exit 0 ############################################## -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

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Weird problem....
by Fred A. Miller 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 'Was working on a 'puter last night that has had a Lexmark Z52 attached. Since Lexmark doesn't support Linux as it should, and the driver they supply won't work with 8.0, I suggested they get an Epson C80, and they did. I uninstalled all printer defs, etc., and installed CUPS. Yast2 HANGS when the selection under Misc. "Printers in CUPS" is chosen. Even after an on-line update of the Yast2 CUPS update!! Anyone have an idea what is wrong? Thanks, Fred - -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm(a)cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org - --- SuSE Linux v8.0 Pro, KMail 1.4.3--- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1szscACgkQB9vk4ichYXfiRwCgrhKqphHROerGN+SwNK4cRU07 qEwAnR7Xs/QCEKD/PE2mFyPyP7xhu5Kj =/kml -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Wireless PCMCIA in a Desktop: Will Linux Recognize it?
by Dennis J.Tuchler 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I would be thankful for answers to some questions: about wireless cards 1) Re: Wireless Ethernet Cards for Desktops. How does one get Linux to recognize an ethernet card (e.g. a wireless card) that is not on the list of supported cards shown by YAST2? 2) Re: Installing a PCMCIA card onto a Desktop. I understand that one can install a wireless PCMCIA ethernet card in a desktop with the appropriate PCI card. Is there any problem with Linux's recognizing the card under these circumstances? Under Linux 8.0, is there any problem with recognition and use of a wireless PCMCIA? I read the relevant HowTo, but that installed under Debian and I think (guess) an older kernel. Thanks -- dj tuchler dtuchler(a)earthlink.net

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Re: [SLE] Mozilla 1.1
by Frederik Vos 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

On Thursday 29 August 2002 19:20, you wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Frederik Vos wrote: > > 2) manually is also simple: > > rpm -Uvh > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/projects/mozilla/1.1/8.0/mo > >zilla-1.1-0.i386.rpm > > I tried that. Problem was that Galeon depended on it and I didn't want to > --force --nodeps. > > Preston Yes, if you're using Galeon, you have to wait for an updated galeaon version. So far as i know there will be an updated version very soon (also Galeon2 for Gnome2 will be there) -- greetz, Frederik Vos www.vosberg.be

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What's up with USB scanners?
by wolfi_z＠gmx.net 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

Hi fellows, Has any of you heard something new about the state of USB scanning under Linux? The web site http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html which used to be the source of information in previous days is hopelessly out of date. What's wrong here? Cheers ... Wolfi -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net

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[Fwd: [Fwd: Re: [SLE] GUI for apt-get]]
by Tom Nielsen 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I tried "apt-get install synaptic" and I got a dependency error on other packages. Why should I get an dep error on other packages that don't relate to synaptic? Here's my message: server:~ # apt-get install synaptic Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: GConf: Depends: /sbin/install-info Netscape6: Depends: libodbc.so but it is not installable Depends: libodbcinst.so but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). Thoughts??? Thanks, Tom -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Tom Nielsen <tom(a)neuro-logic.com> > To: tom2 <tom2(a)neuro-logic.com> > Subject: [Fwd: Re: [SLE] GUI for apt-get] > Date: 27 Aug 2002 21:44:49 -0700 > > -----Forwarded Message----- > > > > From: L. Mark Stone <LMStone(a)LMStone.com> > > To: Tom Nielsen <tom(a)neuro-logic.com> > > Subject: Re: [SLE] GUI for apt-get > > Date: 27 Aug 2002 23:11:35 -0400 > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 19:46, Tom Nielsen wrote: > > > After all the chit-chat about apt-get I got it. But I'm having a hard > > > time following it. Is there a GUI for it? > > > > Yes, it's called Synaptic and it's a neat tool. > > > > It's a little rough around the edges (it crashes if I try to resize its > > window while it is doing something), but it's quite handy. > > > > Either log in as root and open up a console window, or open up a console > > window as a regular user and execute "sux" (without quotes) to log in as > > the super user. > > > > Next, execute: > > > > apt-get update > > > > to update your apt databases (assuming you've installed apt already), > > then execute: > > > > apt-get install synaptic > > > > Never hurts to run SuSEconfig after any package install. > > > > You can then run Synaptic by typing "synaptic" from a console when > > logged in as root or the super user. Or, you can type "sux -c synaptic" > > from a console window when logged in as a regular user. > > > > Separately, as a Linux newbie I confess I find most of the Linux > > documentation heavy on describing the "rules of the game" without being > > as clear on how the game is actually played. > > > > In the case of apt, I play its game with three steps, in this order: > > > > apt-get update <= This command updates the local database > > apt-get -S upgrade <= This command Simulates a system upgrade > > apt-get upgrade <= Upgrades all already-installed packages > > > > Synaptic is good for browsing new package descriptions and installing > > new packages. > > > > Best of luck! > > > > > > -- > > ______________________________________________ > > Another Message From L. Mark Stone > > http://www.lmstone.com > > > > > > > -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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