Re: Network install
Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. It seems that the > minimal netinst doesn't install ppp, so I can't connect to Internet to fetch > the remaining packages. Am I missing something important, or should conclude > that the network install is not for me? Pascal Hambourg writes: > Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >> >> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. > > I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. Sorry, it's something similar to a pendrive. >> It seems that the minimal netinst doesn't install ppp > > It does. You may need to choose expert install in order to be able to > select ppp extra packages. In the expert mode, I select the two ppp packages, but even then the `pon' command, which I use to connect, still remains `not found' by the system. Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87y4okisw3@gmail.com
Re: GHOST, Am I ok?
Jochen Spieker writes: > Sven Hartge: >> Darac Marjal wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:52:49PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Look at checkrestart in the debian-goodies package. >> >>> Or alternatively, if you're on testing or newer (or can accept a >>> backport), try needrestart (in its own package) which will inform you >>> after a dpkg run which services need restarting. >> >> needrestart is also available in the official backports. > > Thanks for that hint! This should really be installed by default. I > wonder how many systems regularly stay vulnerable even after installing > security patches, just because admins don't realize they may have to > restart some services manually. > And this is why simply rebooting after significant patches is a good idea. Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/86fvasu2ii@gaheris.avalon.lan
Re: Linux based cellphones?
I did not mean destros. I meant actually put into hardware and sold devices. Thanks again for all the answers. I did admire the creativity of the raspberry pie example I admit. Karen On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Stephen Allen wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 07:44:10PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: hi All, If this is not the best place for such a question, direct me elsewhere. Still I am wondering if there are open source /Linux based mobile devices? If so who manufactures them? thanks, Karen Ubuntu has a mobile distro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150130050217.GA5400@stephen-desktop -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1501300356001.65...@server1.shellworld.net
Re: Linux based cellphones?
Karen Lewellen writes: > I did not mean destros. > I meant actually put into hardware and sold devices. > Thanks again for all the answers. Has Golden Delicious be suggested? They sell a board GTA04 that fits in the original openmoko case. http://www.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=Products -- /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_ African word //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamicomeaning "I can \/ coltivatore diretto di software not install già sistemista a tempo (altrui) perso...Debian" Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21707.18695.736668.429...@mail.eng.it
Re: Linux based cellphones?
Now that seems nifty. Thanks for it. Kare On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Karen Lewellen writes: > I did not mean destros. > I meant actually put into hardware and sold devices. > Thanks again for all the answers. Has Golden Delicious be suggested? They sell a board GTA04 that fits in the original openmoko case. http://www.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=Products -- /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_ African word //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamicomeaning "I can \/ coltivatore diretto di software not install già sistemista a tempo (altrui) perso...Debian" Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21707.18695.736668.429...@mail.eng.it
Re: Linux based cellphones?
be careful with that as seems there is no working kernel at the moment - ask guys at Golden Delicious. And even the QTMoko dissapeared and the other distribution SHR is dead too. Unfortunately nobody taking care to continue this work. Take a look at Jolla or FirefoxOS devices. I would propose you the FirefoxOS as it seems most promising open sourced OS for mobile devices build on top of Linux and Gecko kernels. https://jolla.com https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/ Unfortunately none of those are completely open sourced. The last one was the OpenMoko GTA02. GTA04 has some closed sourced components AFAIK, but check with them. -- Peter Viskup On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Now that seems nifty. > Thanks for it. > Kare > > > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Karen Lewellen writes: >> > I did not mean destros. >> > I meant actually put into hardware and sold devices. >> > Thanks again for all the answers. >> >> Has Golden Delicious be suggested? They sell a board GTA04 that fits >> in the original openmoko case. >> >> http://www.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=Products >> >> -- >> /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient >> /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_ African word >> //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamicomeaning "I can >> \/ coltivatore diretto di software not install >> già sistemista a tempo (altrui) perso...Debian" >> >> Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21707.18695.736668.429...@mail.eng.it >> >>
Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg
On 2015-01-30, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Doesn't X documents this as Mouse-1 and Mouse-3? Clicking Mouse-1 is > the primary mouse button. No need to stress left or right and no need > for confusing "non-dominant mouse button" either. :-) I would go > with mouse-1. > Have we taken the politically correct to painfully facetious extremes? We will now denominate the left-handed as "Non-majoritively unidextrous persons." Please be advised. Of course, the lefties have been persecuted for centuries. I once read that flipping through magazines from back to front (a habit of mine, as the interesting stuff is always in the back) is the sign of a left-handed individual who has been deprived in infancy of his natural impulse towards non-majorititive unidexterity. I have been dominated. And so it goes. -- “There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” —Robert Graves -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmcmmsm.2k4.cu...@einstein.electron.org
Re: Linux based cellphones?
On 2015-01-30 10:47, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Now that seems nifty. Don't know what your timeframe is, but have you considered the Neo900? See neo900.org. It is not out yet, but it seems promising. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54cb5ec6.2090...@gmail.com
Re: Network install
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > On 29/01/2015 15:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > >> > >> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. > > > > I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. > > Bet he's referring to 3g/4g cell card as a "pendrive modem" or perhaps > is using a wired USB modem that happens to look similar to a storage device. Such things do exist. There are modems that, on first connection appear to be a USB Mass Storage device (i.e. a pen drive) upon which the user can find drivers for the modem (though, typically, these drivers only work with a very limited number of operating systems). In these cases, debian can use the package "usbmodeswitch" to send the command to switch the USB device into modem mode, at which point the PPP connection can be made. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54caa19a.9070...@djph.net > signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie
Am Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2015, 20:03:09 schrieb Brian: > On Sun 25 Jan 2015 at 12:28:17 +0100, Thomas wrote: > > I started the PC this morning, no printer was working so I used > > http://localhost:631/admin and AFTER this I used your commands, and this > > is > > the result: > > > > > > $ lpstat -t > > scheduler is running > > system default destination: HPDeskjet3050A > > device for HPDeskjet3050A: > > hp:/usb/Deskjet_3050A_J611_series?serial=CN1AJ485JC05PJ > > HPDeskjet3050A accepting requests since Sa 24 Jan 2015 23:07:04 CET > > printer HPDeskjet3050A is idle. enabled since Sa 24 Jan 2015 23:07:04 CET > > With that output it would expected that > > lp ~/.profile > > would lead to a printout. Does it? > > > If you need output ater PC started and BEFORE using cups admin let me > > know.. > The 'lpstat -t' result should be the same as the previous one. But let > us see it anyway. Hi, no printout... #:~$ lp ~/.profile lp: Error - no default destination available. #:~$ lpstat -t scheduler is running no system default destination device for HP_Deskjet_3050A_J611_series: usb://HP/Deskjet%203050A%20J611%20series?serial=CN1AJ485JC05PJ&interface=1 HP_Deskjet_3050A_J611_series accepting requests since Do 29 Jan 2015 17:53:22 CET printer HP_Deskjet_3050A_J611_series is idle. enabled since Do 29 Jan 2015 17:53:22 CET thanks Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/7449276.UjpenO081V@tmprod1
Re: Linux based cellphones?
On Thursday 29 January 2015 19:44:10 Karen Lewellen wrote: > hi All, > If this is not the best place for such a question, direct me elsewhere. > Still I am wondering if there are open source /Linux based mobile devices? > If so who manufactures them? > thanks, > Karen Karen, The Jolla phone has a SailfishOS linux distribution. There is a closed-source alien-dalvik in it and there may be other closed-source parts. Depending on your point of view it is either semi-open or semi-closed. A nice thing is that it allows you root access to the device. Bests, Luis
Re: Network install
Darac Marjal writes: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On 29/01/2015 15:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >> >> >> >> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. >> > >> > I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. >> >> Bet he's referring to 3g/4g cell card as a "pendrive modem" or perhaps >> is using a wired USB modem that happens to look similar to a storage device. > > Such things do exist. There are modems that, on first connection appear > to be a USB Mass Storage device (i.e. a pen drive) upon which the user > can find drivers for the modem (though, typically, these drivers only > work with a very limited number of operating systems). > > In these cases, debian can use the package "usbmodeswitch" to send the > command to switch the USB device into modem mode, at which point the PPP > connection can be made. I've been using for years that device simply with the command `pon'. Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87zj908qr9@gmail.com
Re: Network install
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Darac Marjal writes: > >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: >>> On 29/01/2015 15:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >>> >> >>> >> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. >>> > >>> > I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. >>> >>> Bet he's referring to 3g/4g cell card as a "pendrive modem" or perhaps is >>> using a wired USB modem that happens to look similar to a storage device. >> >> Such things do exist. There are modems that, on first connection appear >> to be a USB Mass Storage device (i.e. a pen drive) upon which the user >> can find drivers for the modem (though, typically, these drivers only >> work with a very limited number of operating systems). >> >> In these cases, debian can use the package "usbmodeswitch" to send the >> command to switch the USB device into modem mode, at which point the PPP >> connection can be made. > > > I've been using for years that device simply with the command `pon'. ... My problem now is that after netinstall, even installing ppp in expert mode, that command turns to be `not found'. Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87fvas8qkq@gmail.com
Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg
On Friday 30 January 2015 10:23:18 Curt wrote: > I once read > that flipping through magazines from back to front (a habit of mine, as > the interesting stuff is always in the back) is the sign of a left-handed > individual who has been deprived in infancy of his natural impulse > towards non-majorititive unidexterity. What about the Japanese? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501301124.32878.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Duel Booting Debian on a Mac
On 30-01-2015 00:57, John Holland wrote: In the end I uninstalled Debian because of the following problems: 1. The brightness of the screen does not readjust after suspend/resume in Debian (I worked hard trying to solve this with some published hacks, but no full success). 2. Often the Mac got hot with closed lid, eating the battery. This seems caused by the above firmware manipulation hack. 3. Ugrades of OSX seem to damage the reFind configuration. Also there is a problem writing the hidden rescue partition during an upgrade of OSX. \ I'm writing this from wheezy on my macbook pro (2011). It took a while to get it working well but now it has been for >> 1 year. Some of the key things that have helped: things I have never resolved: screen brightness keys, keyboard brightness keys - I'm not sure if hibernate would work as I don't have a swap partition to use for it. I did make shell scripts to do these things and they can be mapped to key combinations in various ways if those things are a priority. John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org gpg public key ID 0xEFAF0D15 I'm writing this on my macbook pro (late 2011) with xubuntu 14.04 (I switched from debian, which I used for about 6 years, because I don't like systemd). I have everything working for a month now: suspend, backlight keys, keyboard backlight, sound, ... I know xubuntu is not debian but, being a derivative, I think it would be possible to do it on wheezy as well. For me, the key was using the package pommed which also exists on debian wheezy. This makes all the hot keys work and also sound and beep, and even switching the default of the function keys (top row). As to the gpu, I login through refind into grub that passes commands to the kernel that switch to intel and switch-off amd completely. I also had to issue hardware commands directly to the hardware ports by slightly modifying a grub script. As an indication, when I do $ lspci | grep VGA, I only see the intel gpu, the amd doesn't even show. This saves a lot of battery; when I pull out the adapter, I see 7 hours on the power manager icon. Of course I also have the cpu on "power-on-demand". Still concerning the suspend, I remember I had to repeat the port commands to switch the gpu on wake-up. I did this by reading a lot on the net but unfortunately I lost track of the links. But, if you have trouble finding it, I'm willing to dive in it again because only about a month has past, it's still fresh in my mind. Cheers jss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/blu436-smtp216014374677d1853696b00d0...@phx.gbl
Re: Network install
On 30/01/2015 03:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > [...] >>> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. >> >> I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. > > Sorry, it's something similar to a pendrive. > What is it exactly? Is it a 3/4g cell card (such as provided by a phone company), or something else? > >>> It seems that the minimal netinst doesn't install ppp >> >> It does. You may need to choose expert install in order to be able to >> select ppp extra packages. > > > In the expert mode, I select the two ppp packages, but even then the `pon' > command, which I use to connect, still remains `not found' by the system. are those ppp packages being INSTALLED (or at least loaded into the minimal kernel) ... or are you selecting them for install after the PC finally connects to the internet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54cb7f2f.7000...@djph.net
Re: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:24:32 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > What about the Japanese? not to mention the Israelis, Farsis, Urdus, and the Muslims ? Cheers, Ron. -- A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts. -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150130092302.626b8...@ron.cerrocora.org
Re: Network install
Dan Purgert writes: > On 30/01/2015 03:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> [...] To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. >>> >>> I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. >> >> Sorry, it's something similar to a pendrive. >> > > What is it exactly? Is it a 3/4g cell card (such as provided by a phone > company), or something else? Yes, that's something like that: huawei-e169. It seems that the minimal netinst doesn't install ppp >>> >>> It does. You may need to choose expert install in order to be able to >>> select ppp extra packages. >> >> >> In the expert mode, I select the two ppp packages, but even then the `pon' >> command, which I use to connect, still remains `not found' by the system. > > > are those ppp packages being INSTALLED (or at least loaded into the > minimal kernel) ... or are you selecting them for install after the PC > finally connects to the internet? They're installed (or at least loaded into the minimal kernel) when I launch the Debian Installer. Precisely: from http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and installed Debian with it, everything fine. Now I want to install the remaining packages via internet, but to connect to it I need ppp and the `pon' command, which is `not found'. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87vbjoxubv@gmail.com
Re: Network install
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 07:55:11 -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > On 30/01/2015 03:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > [...] > >>> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. > >> > >> I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. > > > > Sorry, it's something similar to a pendrive. > > > > What is it exactly? Is it a 3/4g cell card (such as provided by a phone > company), or something else? If it is that sort of device there is no support for it in the installer. It would be useful for us to see the output of 'lsusb'. > >>> It seems that the minimal netinst doesn't install ppp > >> > >> It does. You may need to choose expert install in order to be able to > >> select ppp extra packages. > > > > > > In the expert mode, I select the two ppp packages, but even then the `pon' > > command, which I use to connect, still remains `not found' by the system. > > are those ppp packages being INSTALLED (or at least loaded into the > minimal kernel) ... or are you selecting them for install after the PC > finally connects to the internet? In spite of the quote in the first mail in this thread and the reply by Floris there is no support for PPP network connections in d-i: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.txt.en The network can be used during the installation to retrieve files needed for the installation. Whether the network is used or not depends on the installation method you choose and your answers to certain questions that will be asked during the installation. The installation system supports most types of network connections (including PPPoE, but not ISDN or PPP), via either HTTP or FTP. After the installation is completed, you can also configure your system to use ISDN and PPP. There is also #342656. The modules under discussion are for use with PPPoE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150130134605.ga14...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: Network install
Rodolfo Medina writes: > My problem now is that after netinstall, even installing ppp in > expert mode, that command turns to be `not found' It seems to have been removed from ppp. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87wq44tlzd@thumper.dhh.gt.org
Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 11:55:59 +0100, Thomas Meier wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2015, 20:03:09 schrieb Brian: > > On Sun 25 Jan 2015 at 12:28:17 +0100, Thomas wrote: > > > I started the PC this morning, no printer was working so I used > > > http://localhost:631/admin and AFTER this I used your commands, and this > > > is > > > the result: > > > > > > > > > $ lpstat -t > > > scheduler is running > > > system default destination: HPDeskjet3050A > > > device for HPDeskjet3050A: > > > hp:/usb/Deskjet_3050A_J611_series?serial=CN1AJ485JC05PJ > > > HPDeskjet3050A accepting requests since Sa 24 Jan 2015 23:07:04 CET > > > printer HPDeskjet3050A is idle. enabled since Sa 24 Jan 2015 23:07:04 CET > > > > With that output it would expected that > > > > lp ~/.profile > > > > would lead to a printout. Does it? > > > > > If you need output ater PC started and BEFORE using cups admin let me > > > know.. > > The 'lpstat -t' result should be the same as the previous one. But let > > us see it anyway. > > Hi, > no printout... The 'lpstat -t' output quoted above is for after the PC is started and AFTER using cups admin. It clearly says the system default destination is a print queue with the name 'HPDeskjet3050A'. 'lp ~/.profile' should go to this print queue by default. 'lp -d HPDeskjet3050A ~/.profile' also goes to the same queue. > #:~$ lp ~/.profile > lp: Error - no default destination available. > > > #:~$ lpstat -t > scheduler is running > no system default destination > device for HP_Deskjet_3050A_J611_series: > usb://HP/Deskjet%203050A%20J611%20series?serial=CN1AJ485JC05PJ&interface=1 > HP_Deskjet_3050A_J611_series accepting requests since Do 29 Jan 2015 17:53:22 > CET > printer HP_Deskjet_3050A_J611_series is idle. enabled since Do 29 Jan 2015 > 17:53:22 CET This is what you get after the PC is started but BEFORE using cups admin? This is a *different* print queue using a different device (which is ok). The queue name is 'HP_Deskjet_3050A_J611_series' and there is no system default destination. Therefore 'lp ~/.profile' will not work and you have to use lp -d HP_Deskjet_3050A_J611_series ~/.profile Does that print? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/30012015135802.c80b5aead...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
VMWre Player Full Screen Question
I hope that someone on this list may have a solution. I have looked at the VMWare Player pages on the web and have concluded that it's a real mess. I am running Debian Testing (v-8 daily build) in VMWare player v-7.0.0-2305329 with the accompanying Tools on my 64 bit N+MS win 7 Professional as a test bed prior to making the decision to update my main Linux computer. On to the question! When I open VMWare Player in Win 7 the window is not full screen. Now I selected the option to "Enter full screen mode after powering on". This is what happens, but Debian is booting and opening to a user (or as root) in a smaller window. In order to get Debian full screen it is necessary to toggle between "Exit full screen mode' and "enter full screen mode" - usually several times. This is rather annoying. Is there a solution? Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for ChemistryStochastic and Multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528(c) Skype: smolnar1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54cb92b8.7050...@sbcglobal.net
Re: Network install
I did more tests to the problem. The situation is the following. From: http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso. Now I have two possibilities: 1) I burn that file onto CD-ROM and install Debian on PC using that CD-ROM. After the base installation, I do: `aptitude install ppp', the system asks to insert te CD-ROM, installs ppp and, from that moment, I can connect to internet and download the remaining packages. The system is born, it lives its own life. Everything is all right. Instead, 2) I put debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso onto pendrive instead that on CD-ROM, that is more simple, comfortable and practical. Then there are problems. In fact, the base installation is done without problems just the same way as with the CD-ROM. But, after it, if I do: `aptitude install ppp' in order to connect to internet and download the remaining packages, the system requires inserting a CD-ROM and won't see the pendrive. This seems wrong to me because, if it's possibile to install the base Debian system via pendrive, logically it should also be possibile to install other packages like ppp. Then I tried, as someone suggested, to install ppp via expert mode through Debian Installer with the pendrive, but that's not possibile or, anyway, the installation is not as complete as with `aptitude install ppp', so that a connection cannot be established. But the package, complete, *is* there and it *should* be possibile to load it. Whereas it is not. Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87sies46sv@gmail.com
Re: Network install
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:38:56 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hello Rodolfo, > connect to internet and download the remaining packages, the system > requires inserting a CD-ROM and won't see the pendrive. Somewhere, in your settings, you've still got the CD selected as a valid source. Remove it. Then re-sync your sources. You should now be able to install/upgrade software without reference to CDs. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Life goes quick and it goes without warning Bombsite Boy - The Adverts pgp2d0OG0jIHK.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg
On 2015-01-30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > What about the Japanese? > Sorry. What I read was restricted to anglophones. What about illiterates? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmcncr3.2k4.cu...@einstein.electron.org
Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg
On 2015-01-30, Curt wrote: > On 2015-01-30, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> What about the Japanese? >> > > Sorry. What I read was restricted to anglophones. Well, let's say "American Study" using empirical evidence gathered in the good old USA applicable to, well, not the Japanese, obviously. No, I'm not going vouch for the study nor bicker with anybody about it any farther than this. Sorry if it all wasn't clear to you from the beginning. I'm outta here. > What about illiterates? > > -- “There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” —Robert Graves -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmcndj3.2k4.cu...@einstein.electron.org
Re: Network install
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 15:38:56 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I did more tests to the problem. The situation is the following. > > From: > > http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso. Now I have two > possibilities: > > 1) I burn that file onto CD-ROM and install Debian on PC using that CD-ROM. >After the base installation, I do: `aptitude install ppp', the system asks >to insert te CD-ROM, installs ppp and, from that moment, I can connect to >internet and download the remaining packages. The system is born, it lives >its own life. Everything is all right. By "install Debian" do you mean you go all the way through the installer menu and then finish the install by booting into the new system? If so, there is an easy solution to your particular problem. I ask because of your use of the term "base installation" and the reference to using aptitude. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/30012015171724.5f87db24d...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: VMWre Player Full Screen Question
Hi. On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:18:32 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > When I open VMWare Player in Win 7 the window is not full screen. Now I > selected the option to "Enter full screen mode after powering on". This > is what happens, but Debian is booting and opening to a user (or as > root) in a smaller window. In order to get Debian full screen it is > necessary to toggle between "Exit full screen mode' and "enter full > screen mode" - usually several times. This is rather annoying. > > Is there a solution? So, let me rephrase. Some program running under Windows confuses you as it likes to change its window size. You'd like to change this behavior, but instead of using a direct approach (i.e. force the program in question to be always fullscreen), you try to find a workaround (i.e. forbid Debian to switch videomodes on boot). Sorry, but you came to the wrong place. This is Debian users' list, not Windows one. I doubt anyone can help you here, short of advising to ditch VMWare along with Windows altogether. Best I can personally offer is: 1) Ditch VMWare Player, use VirtualBox. VirtualBox may be not the best virtualization solution, but it should work under Windows. Maybe. It's been a long time since such things were of interest to me. 2) Force desired videomode in GRUB2 (I assume you use this bootloader to boot Debian) by adding to /etc/default/grub: GRUB_GFXMODE= GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep running 'update-grub' as root and rebooting Debian. 3) Reverse OSes. The natural way to run any kind of virtualization is to run Linux. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150130210639.e3adb0733f4d20275ec42...@gmail.com
Re: Network install
Brian writes: > By "install Debian" do you mean you go all the way through the installer > menu and then finish the install by booting into the new system? I'll try to explain better (strange, it seems so clear to me). The problem only occurs with pendrive stick, not with CD-ROM. I.e.: From: http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ I download the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and put it onto pendrive stick, then start the installation trough the Debian Installer. Everything goes fine all the way through the installer menu until finishing the install by booting into the new system. At that point, I need installing ppp, because, once installed ppp, I'll be able to connect to internet and download the remaining packages. I do: # aptitude install ppp The system tells me to insert the debian CD-ROM, because it `doesn't know' that I have no CD-ROM at all, but instead a pendrive stick. I insert the pendrive stick with debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso on it, but the system insists on wanting a CD-ROM. So I can't install ppp and so I won't be able to connect to internet. At this point, someone from the list suggested to start Debian Installer in expert mode and load the packages from there. I tried, with no success. That way, the installation of ppp is not complete, not sufficient. Hope it's clearer now. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87oapg5ae4@gmail.com
Re: Network install
On 30/01/2015 14:36, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > >> By "install Debian" do you mean you go all the way through the installer >> menu and then finish the install by booting into the new system? > > > I'll try to explain better (strange, it seems so clear to me). > > T[...] > > At that point, I need installing ppp, because, once installed ppp, I'll be > able > to connect to internet and download the remaining packages. I do: > > # aptitude install ppp > > The system tells me to insert the debian CD-ROM, [...] I insert the pendrive > stick with debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso on it, but the system insists on > wanting a CD-ROM. Fix /etc/apt/sources.list to point at the "correct device" that is your "cdrom" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54cbe01a.40...@djph.net
Re: Network install
Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > I download the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and put it onto pendrive > stick, then start the installation trough the Debian Installer. Everything > goes fine all the way through the installer menu until finishing the install > by > booting into the new system. > > At that point, I need installing ppp, because, once installed ppp, I'll be > able > to connect to internet and download the remaining packages. I do: > > # aptitude install ppp > > The system tells me to insert the debian CD-ROM, because it `doesn't know' > that > I have no CD-ROM at all, but instead a pendrive stick. I insert the pendrive > stick with debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso on it, but the system insists on > wanting a CD-ROM. > > So I can't install ppp and so I won't be able to connect to internet. Insert the pendrive, and see where it's mounted (from the logs, console etc.) mount -t auto /dev/sdZ1 /mnt where Z is b, c, d as appropriate apt-cdrom -d=/mnt add aptitude ... You'll probably want to remove the pendrive from apt's sources.list pretty soon afterwards so that it doesn't keep being asked for. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150130210017.gb3...@alum.home
Re: GHOST, Am I ok?
We like to say "there's no such thing as a dumb question," but in practice I find it difficult to post something like my OP on this GHOST question. I felt really dumb dumb dumb. So *thank you* Debian Folk for a gracious reception and a nice little thread following on my display of cognitive deficits! Ya gotta love Debian! -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150130211727.gd4...@sixtiessurvivor.org
PDF forms and field issues
I created (LibreOffice) a PDF document with user-entry fields. Sent it to a friend with a Mac to check that it worked. He filled in fields and returned it to me saying it worked fine. There is a problem in that the fields appear blank (except for the one checkbox). Having now tried a number of PDF 'viewers' on the document, I can report: Evince (Gnome 'Document Viewer') - fields are blank until you click in the field. Click to another field and the first goes blank. xpdf - fields are blank GIMP - fields are blank (not surprised) Inkscape - fields are blank (not surprising) LibreOffice with pdfimport - fields are blank imagemagick - shows fields properly!!! Evince, GIMP, and xpdf when run from command-line all give Error: Unknown font in field's DA string Any ideas on work-around? Bruce -- === Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54cbee8e.3020...@orcon.net.nz
Re: Network install
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 19:36:03 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > By "install Debian" do you mean you go all the way through the installer > > menu and then finish the install by booting into the new system? > > > I'll try to explain better (strange, it seems so clear to me). Your explanation was full and understandable, apart from the lack of clarity about booting into the new system before using aptitude. A "yes" or "no" was all that was required in answer to my query. 1. Insert the USB stick carrying the netinst image and look at the output of dmesg. It will have something like 'sdg: sdg1' sdg1 is the partition which holds the image. 2. Next is the command mount /dev/sdg1 /mnt followed by ls -l /mnt 3. Your attention should focus on the pool directory. 4. 'ls -l /mnt/pool' and 'ls -l /mnt/pool/main' gets you exploring. 5. After checking, install the ppp package with dpkg -i /mnt/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.5-5.1+b1_i386.deb 6. Carefully read the screen and curse me for leaving you to work out the last bit of the puzzle for yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150130222325.gc14...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: Network install
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 15:00:17 -0600, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > > > > So I can't install ppp and so I won't be able to connect to internet. > > Insert the pendrive, and see where it's mounted (from the logs, console etc.) > > mount -t auto /dev/sdZ1 /mnt > > where Z is b, c, d as appropriate > > apt-cdrom -d=/mnt add About a year ago I spent an afternoon investigating why this didn't work for me. Locating the notes I made would take time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/30012015222815.78d524d31...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: PDF forms and field issues
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Bruce Ward wrote: > I created (LibreOffice) a PDF document with user-entry fields. Sent it to a > friend with a Mac to check that it worked. He filled in fields and returned > it to me saying it worked fine. > > There is a problem in that the fields appear blank (except for the one > checkbox). Having now tried a number of PDF 'viewers' on the document, I can > report: > Evince (Gnome 'Document Viewer') - fields are blank until you click in the > field. Click to another field and the first goes blank. > xpdf - fields are blank > GIMP - fields are blank (not surprised) > Inkscape - fields are blank (not surprising) > LibreOffice with pdfimport - fields are blank > > imagemagick - shows fields properly!!! > > Evince, GIMP, and xpdf when run from command-line all give >Error: Unknown font in field's DA string > > Any ideas on work-around? A font issue could definitely cause fields to not display. Imagemagick is probably doing some sort of substitution. The rest seem to be pickier. Or, imagemagick can find fonts on your system the rest can't find. Since Evince shows the contents while you are focused, I might guess that evince is falling back to a default font for data entry. (I might be guessing wrong, of course.) I'd lean towards looking for a way to get the PDF viewers on your system to figure out a good substitute for the (possibly Macintosh specific) font that your friend's system seems to have used for the data entry. (I want to raise Cain with the US government for deciding that PDF with forms should be the only way to submit certain kinds of documents. When is the government of the "land of the free" going to recognize that formats from companies that claim to own the intellectual property used in the formats cannot be compatible with freedom?) -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iOLmJL8mFOPd9rLrr5-2ZVAVKMAWzFWm=x0khazdmz...@mail.gmail.com
Re: PDF forms and field issues
Is there a way for you to check if specific fonts are being assigned to the input fields? Im sure there are better suited tools for your purposes, have you tried scribus? On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 09:50 +1300, Bruce Ward wrote: > I created (LibreOffice) a PDF document with user-entry fields. Sent it > to a friend with a Mac to check that it worked. He filled in fields and > returned it to me saying it worked fine. > > There is a problem in that the fields appear blank (except for the one > checkbox). Having now tried a number of PDF 'viewers' on the document, I > can report: > Evince (Gnome 'Document Viewer') - fields are blank until you click in > the field. Click to another field and the first goes blank. > xpdf - fields are blank > GIMP - fields are blank (not surprised) > Inkscape - fields are blank (not surprising) > LibreOffice with pdfimport - fields are blank > > imagemagick - shows fields properly!!! > > Evince, GIMP, and xpdf when run from command-line all give > Error: Unknown font in field's DA string > > Any ideas on work-around? > > Bruce > -- > === > Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1422661298.6489.4.camel@debdesktop.myapt
Re: Network install
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 15:00:17 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > > > > > > So I can't install ppp and so I won't be able to connect to internet. > > > > Insert the pendrive, and see where it's mounted (from the logs, console > > etc.) > > > > mount -t auto /dev/sdZ1 /mnt > > > > where Z is b, c, d as appropriate > > > > apt-cdrom -d=/mnt add > > About a year ago I spent an afternoon investigating why this didn't work > for me. Locating the notes I made would take time. Ditto. Yes, you also need to stop it unmounting and so on. Thus apt-cdrom -d /mnt --no-auto-detect -m add will do it, where "it" is to stick deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 ]/ jessie main in /etc/apt/sources.list and check the contents. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150131010430.ga8...@alum.home
list non auto packages
Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Yeah I know that dpkg --get-selections will get ALL packages How to filter out the zillions of lib... and only see what was manually installed? Yeah I remember some answer to this a few months ago. The closest I can get is aptitude search '~M~i' but it still lists a large number of libs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/9dc8adc6-a898-4998-b9a5-4007fbf03...@googlegroups.com
Re: Problems playing stuff on Soundcloud
Hi I had the same problem here - pressing the play-button resulted in a calming animation, but no sound at all. I solved the problem by deactivating the Adblock- plugin on the Soundcloud-page. Do you have something similar installed? Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54cc4838.7080...@qq.com
Re: list non auto packages
Quoting Rusi Mody (rustompm...@gmail.com): > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? > > Yeah I know that > dpkg --get-selections > will get ALL packages > > How to filter out the zillions of lib... and only see what was manually > installed? Would it help to look at /var/log/aptitude... [INSTALL] lines but not [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES], and also /var/log/apt/history.log... Install: () lines but not (, automatic). Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150131044714.ga12...@alum.home
Re: list non auto packages
Rusi Mody wrote: > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command is new for Wheezy and later. Older systems do not have that feature. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: list non auto packages
On 01/30/2015 11:55 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Rusi Mody wrote: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command is new for Wheezy and later. Older systems do not have that feature. Bob If you downloaded the package from somewhere, the original file may still be in your Downloads directory. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54cc6525.1080...@optonline.net
