[lug] fonts for evolution/mozilla in debian sarge

[Hugh Brown]

> > What's the best way to get the full package name in dpkg -l output?  If
> > it is dpkg-query -W --showformat, where's a list of the available field
> > names?
> 
> I assume "full package name" means "name of the .deb file".  I can't 
> answer that but I've never cared -- apt et. al. take care of that for me.
> 

No, full package name means "name I can feed to dpkg to get a file
listing"

For example, if I do

dpkg -l |grep font

I get one of the lines of output as:

ii  xfonts-scalabl 4.3.0-7        scalable fonts for X

In this case I can extrapolate that the package name is likely
xfonts-scalable.  In other cases, it isn't as easy to guess.




> > Why do the kde and kdenetwork packages have ksirc as a dependency?  I
> > was surprised that apt-get remove was ready to throw out kde and
> > kdenetwork as a result of trying to remove ksirc.
> 
> kde is a package that depends on "all things kde".  kdenetwork is a 
> package that depends on "all kde networking things".  That makes it easy 
> to install the lot all at once.  You can remove kde and kdenetwork 
> without removing any other packages.
> 

good to know.



> That might be easier using dselect or aptitude than with apt.  Don't use 
> apt, it doesn't tell you enough about what it will/won't do for 
> dependencies.  Don't use dselect either, it's difficult to pick up and 
> isn't as capable as aptitude.
> 
> Aptitude rocks!  I used dselect for a long time because there's a 
> beginners HOWTO in Debian's docs.  But aptitude will mark things that 
> are installed because of dependencies (rather than because you selected 
> it) and then it can remove them when they are no longer needed.  It also 
> shows you reverse dependencies (if I remove this, what will break) which 
> is nice (and I don't think any rpm tools do this yet but correct me if 
> I'm wrong).
> 
> Being a curses app it may take a little getting used to, but it's the 
> best package manager I've found so far.
> 

also good to know, I might give synaptic a go first.



> > Right now the fonts in evolution and mozilla firefox under KDE are small
> > and unappealing.
> 
> I recently got that problem on upgrading to KDE 3.2.  Don't know why, 
> Google didn't seem to know.  But a workaround is detailed here:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/02/msg03267.html
> 
> Basically you get your own stylesheet to adjust the UI settings.
> 

This is kde 3.2.  The above will fix mozilla, but it doesn't help for
the rest of the non-kde apps.  I may just start using konqueror and
kmail instead.



> HTH,
> Dave

thanks for the help,

Hugh