This chapter contains notes of things I discover while I work with Debian, nothing very constructed but it should allow me, and perhaps some of you, to avoid doing twice the same errors.
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to add the
option compose:menu to the XkbOptions
of the keyboard section. Allows to type any kind of letter
(look at
/usr/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose)./usr/share/doc/konsole/README.linux.console/usr/share/doc/xprt-xprintorg/README.printing-problems.gzkdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING:
Icon directory /foo group bar is not valid appears in
file ~/.xsession-errors a lot of times, follow
these instructions:
run in a shell (I cannot find this on any menu): kdebugdialog --fullmode select: debug area: 264 kdecore (KIconLoader) Change the Warning Output to "None" select: OK(from bug number Bug#253127)
snd-ens1371, you get some horrible noises when
starting KDE, start the Sound Mixer (kmix); hack the
advanced option, and shut-off IEC958.
Do it for each user. (see Bug#239575).W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net etch Release:
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the
public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY
07DC563D1F41B907'. I just called two commands, and the
problem was over:
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907
(or "gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring trustedkeys.gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907" but I don't think it's necessary.)
gpg --armor --export 1F41B907 | sudo apt-key add -
send host-name "hostname"; to
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. A short hostname (without DNS
domain) seems to be sufficient to get it working after a hearty
/etc/init.d/networking restart.host hostname should return
your IP address (this can be useful to setup a small server)./etc/modprobe.d/aliases and replaced
alias net-pf-10 ipv6 through alias net-pf-10 off.
End of the problems!I have two Debian repositories, one unstable and one experimental, which you can use by adding
following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux/debian/ unstable/ deb-src http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux/debian/ unstable/ deb http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux/debian/ experimental/ deb-src http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux/debian/ experimental/
Beside the official ones:
I also described the installation of Debian on an HP nc6000.