Re: One jigdo file missing - cannot build ISO image DVD7.
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 06:46:36PM +1030, djs wrote: > When using jigdo-lite to download files for debian-9.8.0-amd64-DVD7 the > majority of the files download correctly. The procedure becomes stuck > at http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/afl/afl-doc_2.36b-1_all. > deb . One file missing! I waited several weeks to see if this missing > file would be updated but it did not. I tried several other mirrors > around the world and the same problem appears even if trying to > download it directly. Seems to be a broken file globally mirrored. > The error message is '2019-03-10 18:25:18 (0.00 B/s) - Read error at > byte 0/132596 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.' Files required to > download and build all other DVD iso images did correctly complete. > Images 2 to 6 and 8 to 14 are all OK. DVD image 1 is also broken but > this can be downloaded as an image directly so this is not a problem. > Can a workaround be suggested to complete or ignore this missing file? You can download the missing package from https://snapshot.debian.org For instance: https://snapshot.debian.org/package/afl/2.36b-1/#afl-doc_2.36b-1 Kumar -- "...you might as well skip the Xmas celebration completely, and instead sit in front of your linux computer playing with the all-new-and-improved linux kernel version." (By Linus Torvalds)
Re: KDE madness again
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 08:45:49AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Long time ago I stopped using KDE, because they started going insane. > > Two days ago upgraded to Buster and now wanted to check if all works fine. > > One of the things I need to use is qdbusviewer - unfortunately there is no > acceptable alternative. Now I spend already one hour because of the > stupidity and madness of the way KDE decided to do configuration > > $ qdbusviewer > qdbusviewer: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qdbusviewer': > No such file or directory I am currently running most packages on testing. On my system, qdbusviewer seems to be: # ls -l /usr/bin/qdbusviewer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 3 2019 /usr/bin/qdbusviewer -> qtchooser qdbusviewer itself seems to be in qttools5-dev-tools, and I seem to be able to run it as: # /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qdbusviewer Please let mke know if some version information from my side would help. Thanks. Kumar -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: Kernel 2.4 on Etch
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:19:35AM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > which procedure do u use for compiling? (debian-way or others?) > > The only thing that u can do is try! Actually, it may not be possible[0]. I think there isn't any support, and from hearing others' experience, they've run into trouble every time. [0] http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070628.213246.7332ad07.en.html Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why apache do not respct charset on web page ?
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:46:25AM +0200, Vladimir Strycek wrote: > Installed debian on mine second pc with apache and everything but all > www pages start have the same issue. > > > > but apache do not respect this and i have "?" insted of special characters > on another box where i have gentoo or on windows its workig just fine. Are you sure it's a HTTP header issue with Apache? Did you try changing the encoding at the client (browser) manually? The meta tag is embedded in a HTML page, so it can't influence the HTTP headers, AFAIK. So, it's either something wrong at the client, or with your Apache config. See AddCharset and AddDefaultCharset in the Apache docs for some hints. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFS: disksearch
Dear Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "disksearch". * Package name: disksearch Version : 1.2.0-1 Upstream Author : Stefan Saring * URL : http://disksearch.sf.net * License : GPL Section : python The website does talk about an unofficial Ubuntu package being available, but I went ahead and packaged it afresh for Debian, since I couldn't get my hands on the source package for the former. If you have any comments or find mistakes, please do get back to me. dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/disksearch/disksearch_1.2.0-1.dsc Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: disksearch
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 01:20:18PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: [snip] Very sorry. This was meant for another list. Sory again! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not change Screen Resolution
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:05:19PM -0700, yong lee wrote: > Hi, > I was using 1280x768. But after a reboot, my scrren > changed to 640x480. Then, I went to Desktop | > preference | Screen Resolution and tried to change the > resolution back. But the drop down box did not work. > The entry just stayed blue and did not show the rest > of selections for the screen resolution. I was not > able to change it back. > Any idea? How about sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, and ensuring that the resolution(s) you desired are checked in the debconf configs? Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Icons dissapears in gnome
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 09:34:09AM +0200, "Miguel J. Jiménez" wrote: > Hi, after I updated my machine today (dist-upgrade) lots of icons have > dissapeared: "about box", "Force kill applet", "brasero", etc... Anyone > know what happened? :-( Thanks... Ensure that the relevant icon package is installed. My guess is that package could have been removed in the process. You don't mention which desktop manager it is, but I am guessing you can find the KDE, GNOME icon packages. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non-free repo on DVD!
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 07:23:56PM +0100, José Santos wrote: > wget --force-directories --no-host-directories \ > --input-file Download.list > --- > but it just doesn't work, i gives me this output: > > wget: invalid option -- f > Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... > > Try `wget --help' for more options. > /home/un1xer/bin/debnf.sh: line 13: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/ChangeLog: No such file or directory For one, these files don't really exist on ftp.debian.org. See for yourself at: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/ But they are there at: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/ Replace ftp.debian.org with another mirror. But that doesn't seem to end your problems. Hope someone else can throw more light. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debugging symbol packages (4 questions)
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:16:02AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > More and more debug (-dbg) packages are popping up in the repositories. > Is there an effort going to to make sure _all_ packages in Debian has a > debug package? It's possible that it's going to become a requirement for all libraries in Lenny. > It seems that Ubuntu has .ddeb packages while the packages I've seen in > Debian are regular .deb, but with -dbg in their names. Will it remain > this way or will the two converge on one approach at some time? I don't think so. I think Ubuntu and Debian have diverged far enough to have different policies. > What I've noticed so far is that most GNOME packages have a -dbg > package. I suppose one reason for this is to make sure users submit > good bug reports to Debian and GNOME. However, expecting regular users > to manually install debug symbols and reproduce the error is a bit too > optimistic. Are there any plans for automating this? I am not sure about this, though this seems sound. But if it's users of testing/unstable, you could expect some of them to possess enough knowledge to do the needful to use the dbg library. > Is there a remote server that shares a folder that I could mount (e.g. > using FUSE) and get all symbols without having to install all the > packages myself? I didn't understand this exactly. Is this related to the Debug packages? Do you want to mount a repository and use the debug packages without having to install them? HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Debugging symbol packages (4 questions)
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:08:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I am relatively certain that he is right. I recall a discussion about > this a whaile back. I'm sure it's in the list archives somewhere. Well, Neil "codehelp" Williams told me so: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/07/msg00001.html Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
people.debian.org down?
Dear Debian user, Could someone confirm that people.debian.org is down? I am unable to reach it from here (Chennai, India). Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: people.debian.org down?
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:31:02PM -0700, Paul A. Scott wrote: > I can't ping in from here (Tucson, Arizona, USA). OK, so could it be a network issue? I still can't reach it, and wanted to know (for no particular reason) whether it's a network issue or whether machine is down. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lists down? or did I get dropped?
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:23:18AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I haven't seen mail from the list in over 6 hours despite > lists.d.o/d-u showing many mails in the archive. My last one was about > 18:08 pacific, US, or 01:08 UTC Friday the 13th. > > Anybody else? I think I am getting the mails. I got this one as well! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MP3 + Patent issues in Debian
Dear Debian users, While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making available the (supposedly) patent encumbred codecs (decoders, at least) by default, on the install CD. I tried to search for the Debian take on this issue (mailing list discussion or bug report), but couldn't find the definitive discussion. Could someone please point me to it? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to configure access thru proxy
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:52:19PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > Several applications haven't proxy configuration ( i want to use skype). > I have to traverse a proxy, for example in firefox the possibility > exists, this is not the case for skype (maybe I am wrong) . > > I suppose it is possible to declare somewhere a variable for proxy > info, usable by all applications, to traverse the proxy. I don't think this is possible. While, for GNOME apps, you can use gnome-network-preferences, KDE apps use the configuration specified in KControl or Konqueror. And for console applications and most other applications, you can hope that they honour the http_proxy environment variable, and either wrap calls to them in scripts which set this variable or add the setting to your .(bash|zsh|csh)rc. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTLM APS not working after upgrade of Testing
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:00:53PM +0100, David Watson wrote: > Can you confirm that ntlmaps is running using the following command: > > ps aux | grep ntlmaps > > if it is not running try running this command it should let you know if > there is an error starting ntlmaps: > > python /usr/share/ntlmaps/main.py -c /etc/ntlmaps/server.cfg Also, do check whether the server.cfg has not been replaced. There's a high chance that this has happened, and in that case, the port would have gone to 5865 (and you have to re-enter the username and password as well). Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dialup modem connection
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:40:30AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > I tried kppp, and did get it to connect, but only when run as root. I > read kppp's help, and it said a bunch of stuff about "noauth" and > "dip"; so, my regular user is a member of both dialout and dip, and > I uncommented "noauth" in the kppp-options file (as instructed). I > still can only connect via the root user. See the comment which refers to PAM in the article below: http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1006405364/index_html May not be the right thing for this problem, but worth a shot. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Etch) flash player md5 fail
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:15:12PM +0100, time lord wrote: > this process then fetches the flash player from adobe and the install > continues but it > fails at the end with: "Not Installed, md5 fail" - from memory and indeed > when I try a vid on > you tube it complains about no flash. I'd suggest getting the Flash plugin straight from Adobe's website and putting it in .mozilla/plugins. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gtablix
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:54:01PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gtablix > /home/mark/.gtablixrc: No such file or directory > en_CA.utf8 > No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML.pm line 518. > at /usr/share/gtablix/modinfo.pm line 213 How about export LC_ALL=C gtablix Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A question of fonts
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:28:13PM +0100, andy wrote: > I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with Xmms > and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But certainly Xmms is > the worst of the bunch. I think XMMS is a GTK 1 application, and it's fonts will be that bad because it doesn't use the GTK 2 libraries which can render fonts in an anti-aliased manner (using a backend I don't recall). For example, see this for what I mean: http://alx14.free.fr/gtkaa/ So, unless someone corrects this statement, XMMS preferences etc. will have bad fonts! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: 'sensible-browser'
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:57:56PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > How do I add seamonkey to the list of alternatives? update-alternatives --install seamonkey x-www-browser /path/to/seamonkey 80 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
GTK+ File dialog hangs
Dear Debian user, I am having this problem with the GTK+ file dialogs that whenever I try to save a file in any GTK+ based applications, it just keeps doing something and effectively hangs. Is someone else facing the same problem? I am on sid, by the way. libgtk2.0-0 version 2.10.13-1 Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:41:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > You *know* that if all you say is "it just keeps doing something and > effectively hangs", you'll get fussed at for sending a useless message. Right. The window becomes unusable, I am unable to regain control over the application, and am forced to kill it. The hard disk shows some activity initially, then the process uses the processor time sporadically increases and decreases for that application if I leave it running. Observed using top. I can't describe it better. Sorry if this doesn't help. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:57:03AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > I'm not seeing this when saving a simple file with mousepad (the GTK > file dialog does take an annoyingly long time to start up, though, > which I believe has been discussed on the list a while back). OK, here's a narrowed down clue. This happens only when the "File System" option is involved. When I do Edit->Preferences and choose "File System" as the default save location, it just hangs in a similar fashion. And my default save location happens to be "File Systems", so it's hanging there (consistent with the earlier observation). Further hints anyone? Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:40:47PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > OK, here's a narrowed down clue. This happens only when the "File > System" option is involved. When I do Edit->Preferences and choose > "File System" as the default save location, it just hangs in a similar > fashion. And my default save location happens to be "File Systems", so > it's hanging there (consistent with the earlier observation). And even further, if the default selection on the left is my home directory, the moment I type "/" in the file name bar, it repeats the hanging business. Further hints? Thanks in advance. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[solved] Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:40:47PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > OK, here's a narrowed down clue. This happens only when the "File > System" option is involved. When I do Edit->Preferences and choose > "File System" as the default save location, it just hangs in a similar > fashion. And my default save location happens to be "File Systems", so > it's hanging there (consistent with the earlier observation). OK, it was my mistake. ntlmaps was spewing files by the hundreds into /. So, no wonder it was struggling. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:35:08PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > The closest to that which I have seen is that the larger a directory > gets, the longer it takes to open a GTK File dialog. And it just > burns up the CPU. If there's more than 12000 files, the File dialog > will "never" open. And, as I have already pointed out, you have hit the jackpot, since that was the very problem I faced. :-) Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany
Dear Debian user, Could someone direct me on how/whether the "bookmark nicknames" support which Galeon and Iceweasel have is available on Epiphany? What I mean is, I should be able to set things up such that: wp Epiphany: Launches a search for "Epiphany" in Wikipedia bug : goes to bugs.debian.org/ etc. My searches on how to get this working were inconclusive. I did find something related to GNOME deskbar which does this, but I don't have GNOME and don't want to install it. Also, in Iceweasel, if there's an address we have in the visited locations which drops down when we type it, and we want to make a change, we can select that and edit it. But that doesn't seem to be the case in Epiphany. Is there a way to replicate that behaviour as well. To be more clear, if I want to go to debian.net, but I've already been to debian.org, if I type "de" in Iceweasel, it shows me debian.org below. I use th arrow keys to come down to debian.org, backspace the org part and put net and Return. Is this all right or too much to ask? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:07:24AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >My searches on how to get this working were inconclusive. I did find > >something related to GNOME deskbar which does this, but I don't have > >GNOME and don't want to install it. > > Look at the Bookmark Shortcuts extension on this page: > http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/ThirdPartyExtensions Many thanks for the pointer. > >Also, in Iceweasel, if there's an address we have in the visited > >locations which drops down when we type it, and we want to make a > >change, we can select that and edit it. But that doesn't seem to be the > >case in Epiphany. Is there a way to replicate that behaviour as well. > > IIRC that's a problem with the GTK+ widget. This question has been > asked before in the epiphany mailing list. Well, I guess it is a little too much to ask for. Thanks for the pointers! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-file behin HTTP proxy
Dear Debian user, Is there a way to use apt-file with a HTTP proxy server? I don't seem to be able to get it working with just an export http_proxy="..." and apt-file update. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compile Question
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:40:13PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > up-to-date than sid). It is a reportable bug if the gentoo package is > not as up-to-date as the upstream developers' release. Why isn't it in Debian? You can always file a minor or wishlist bug, and normally, my experience has been that it is attended to. > I'm installing gentoo on another partition, > for the occasional moments when I really need aggressive up-to-date-ness, > and having troubles. Xorg didn't autoconfigure properly. I would like you to name a few packages which are not as up to date in sid. Of course, there could very well be a reason, such as inactive maintainer etc., but that should be reported to the BTS, IMO. Comments? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:37:55AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I tried: > bug http://bugs.debian.org/%s > wphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go OK, i got it. It's interchanged! :-) http://bugs.debian.org/%sbug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go wp Works like a charm. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:29:01PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Look at the Bookmark Shortcuts extension on this page: > > http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/ThirdPartyExtensions > > Many thanks for the pointer. I am still struggling with the format of the text file. I haven't had deskbar create it for me. So, could you please give me a sample? I tried: bug http://bugs.debian.org/%s wp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go But it doesn't seem to work. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:26:59AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >You can achieve the desired behaviour by adding a bookmark containing a > >"%s" which will be filled with the entered string. > > > >So to add a search for debian bugs just add the following bookmark: > > > >http://bugs.debian.org/%s > > That won't result in the behaviour desired by the OP, not exactly. It > is however an excellent substitute for the desired behaviour. One that > I use myself :-) I accept that it is similar, but if I have some 10 or 12 such shortcuts, I necessarily have to type out the shortcut, and then use the arrow keys or the mouse to come to the right option in the drop down menu. I find the method I asked for (which works now) mych faster. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:29:30AM +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I'm using an old laptop with > debian and I read a lot of news everyday and loading the websites seems such a > pain and slow process. Besides, nothing beats the commandline. snownews for RSS, slrn for nntp. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dumb question about using php
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:53:19PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists > > I downloaded a small free software from the following location: > > http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/Scientific-Engineering-Ruby/Chemistry/McCabe-Thiele-Method-for-an-Ideal-Binary-Mixture-31835.html > > I unzipped it and three little files appeared. These are Matlab scripts. PHP is wrong information on the website you mention. Your best bet is to run in using GNU Octave on Debian GNU/Linux. apt-get install octave2.9 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Canon Powershot A640
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Raquel wrote: > I got a PowerShot A570IS soon after they came out this year. > Plugging into the USB port it mounted right up. I bought a SanDisk > card reader just for ease of use and it works too. The OP hasn't mentioned whether he is using Etch. Could you just mention which distribution and kernel you are running? I guess it'd be helpful to try that kernel out. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Canon Powershot A640
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: > I did mention that I was running Lenny. The kernel is 2.6.21 Foolish of me to miss it! Sorry. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP auto renew - not working
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:50:27PM -0600, betty Snoop wrote: > --- > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > --- > Plugging it in again recognized that it's connected in, but the IP will not > renew. On reboot it always renews the IP correctly. > > Why does it not renew the IP automatically? Should I be using something > other than "allow-hotplug"? I am not sure about whether it is needed, but do you have auto eth0 somewhere in your interfaces file? man interfaces seems to suggest having that as well... HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Python init
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:22:27AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > bash weighs in at 1.6Mb > > zsh comes in at 10.4Mb... This is an interesting observation. I guess it's just the price you pay for features; there doesn't seem to be any free lunch anwhere! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP auto renew - not working
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:57:35AM -0700, betty wrote: > The man page for interfaces states the following: > "allow-auto" and "auto" are synonyms Accepted. Thanks for the pointer. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Editing a text file with sed
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > This is a test > file, what I am > trying to do is get the lines to join. > > It isn't a complicated thing, > but I also want to keep the paragraphs > separate. > [snip] > But ideally I'd like to just have a script to do it, but cannot figure out > how > to go about it, as sed doesn't seem to be working. If I run your file through fmt, I get This is a test file, what I am trying to do is get the lines to join. It isn't a complicated thing, but I also want to keep the paragraphs separate. Of course, that may not have been what you were looking for, but I just thought some might find it useful later. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Editing a text file with sed
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:33:54PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > I appreciate the answer, I didn't even know about the fmt command until now. > It does seem to work in the example, but not on the real file(s) that I am > working with. Something makes me think that these files have some very > strange characters in them, but they don't seem to show up when I cat the > file. OK, how about fill-region of emacs (and gq of Vim)? Would they be of use here? This is, of course, assuming your files show up well in Emacs and Vim. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network problem.
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:13:16PM +0530, Yazad Khambata wrote: > Hi Guys, >I'm relatively new to Linux... I installed Debian 4.0 on my PC (I also > have XP and 2000) on my system. Today morning I could finally configure > things right and could connect to the internet(I'm using a broadband > connection - Sify)... but then something went wrong with my network slot and > there was no network detected on any of my OSs, I changed the network cards > slot and things work fine on Windows XP and 2000; however, despite > configuring the network card (I entered the static Ip, gateway,netmask, > primary and secondry dsn); I can assure you that the config is proper; I am > unable to even ping the server... when i ping i get 90+% loss of packets. Please tell us what card it is, it might be useful. You can find the required information by getting the appropriate line of the output of the lspci command. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi where can I get g++ package
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 05:50:33AM +0200, isarayunyong wrote: > Things seem to be going into an infinite loop. What do I do from here. Any > suggesstion, please? The best way to solve this problem is: 1. Set your sources.list to a good mirror. That is, my /etc/apt/sources.list has this line: deb ftp://10.65.0.42/debian stable main contrib non-free 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get install g++ That's all! APT does all dependency resolution for you. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/grub.conf + /boot/grub/menu.lst
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:54:07AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Mondo insists on /etc/grub.conf and that is what you get to edit on a > restore from CD. Other distributions store it here; notably Fedora. > But it seems that Debian only uses /boot/grub/menu.lst and that is what > update-grub updates. I think a symlink will have the desired effect, but I am not sure. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:36:13PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Congratulations, you just killed your system. Though he's very terse, what Doug means to say is that you have broken your system by injecting a potent mix of unstable packages, which is not recommended. One thing you might (or might not) want to do is, a straight dist-upgrade to unstable (sid) using apt-get dist-upgrade, but the choice is yours. Kumar P.S. I've been using sid for a long time, and am able to get work done with no problems! So, don't be afraid. -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Etch becoming slower than Sarge?
Dear Debian users, A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to Etch has slowed their machine down considerably. This is irrespective of the Window Manager. Is there any particular reason why this could be happening? I could not pin down anything in particular which could cause this to happen. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?
On 04/01/07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: maybe its a memory issue? My understanding is that the etch kernel is much bigger than the sarge kernel. that is entirely anecdotal as I have no sarge box to compare to. Do you think I should suggest compiling a new kernel, lean? Of course, I thought the stock kernel Debian provides were modular anyway, but if you think this'd help, I'll try it out. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Python2.4.4-1 examples usage?
On 05/01/07, Ishwar Rattan wrote: I just updated to python2.4, it also installed a python-examples package. How does one use this package? Import into python interpreter does not work.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] dpkg -L python-examples /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/python-examples So, there are no files in the package? Is this the sign of a bug? Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Python2.4.4-1 examples usage?
On 05/01/07, Michael Marsh wrote: $ apt-cache depends python-examples python-examples Depends: python Depends: python2.4-examples ^^ Examply goodness lives here. Sorry, goofed off. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Root privilege
On 08/01/07, Danesh Daroui wrote: How can I have root privilege in graphical mode? I can run any command by using "sudo" but how can I have full privilege in graphical mode? This is NOT recommended, as some configuration may be unnecessarily overwritten or modified by the X application, causing trouble. If you still want to do it, go to a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1 or F2 etc. to F6), login as root, close your display manager (/etc/init.d/kdm stop, where kdm may be replaced by kdm/gdm/xdm appropriately). Then, run startx to start X as root. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dial up connection
On 09/01/07, Mark Grieveson wrote: I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root. As a regular user it states that it cannot access pppd, instructing me to check my permissions. I've checked, and regular users have read permission, with the program being labelled executable. Does it need write permission? (Assuming your modem is in /dev/ttyS1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] ls -l /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 65 Jan 9 2007 /dev/ttyS1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 260920 Dec 19 17:53 /usr/sbin/pppd Now, from what I gather from this, if you adduser dialout, and adduser dip, you should be able to dial out as ordinary user. Please confirm if this works. Also, you may need to log out and log in again to effect the group addition. HTH Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to create a debian-Cd like a standard
On 09/01/07, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I create a debian Cd from a selected packages for my own purpose, so I have 2 cd's, the first official one ( a bootable cd) and the second built with dpkg-scanpackage. Instead of this a want a Cd like the official standard ( to respect the tree of directories). To do it manually it is hard ( the copy and sort for alphabetic order, the md5sum,), I want the script which create the official. I get the feeling that making Debian CD images using jigdo is what you're looking for: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:16:05PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >> Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered? >> >> Ben >> > It says connection refused by 127.0.0.1 What is the output of mailq? Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with > 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with 731 permissions. I > changed the permissions to 777 but this did not correct the problem. I > still got exim: permission denied when I executed mailq as user tom. mailq > works for root. OK, I meant su;mailq or sudo mailq. You should be able to run mailq as root. Otherwise, you have a problem. For me, it's just a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/exim4. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:30:22PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > This is an added disadvantage for me, since it also can take 10 or more days > until a fix can enter Testing where it is fixed sometimes on the same day in > Unstable. Finally, it all depends only on one thing: you! What you want decides your choice. But I think it's just because you tried sid that you decided to stay with it. So, others can also try if they have the time (and a little courage :-). But believe me, it's NOT unstable! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > So far I've coded everything as process oriented rather than object > oriented as that is what I am familiar with, but I'm beginning to believe > that using classes is probably the way to go as it would be much easier to > abstract concepts out that way. If someone has an example or two they > could share with me on how to do interprocess piping in either oo or > process oriented, or both, manner I would appreciate the help. Read the documentation for os.popen. It opens the command and it's stdin and stdout as pipes. The commands module might also be of interest. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:44:27PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > If you happen to live in the country where the spam originates and if > that country happens to have decent anti-spam laws, you might help to > fight spam at its roots by reporting it to the network owner and/or take > legal action. > > [The trace of the mail can be seen in the full header. 'whois' and a bit > of general knowledge will tell you the owner (usually also the abuse > e-mail) of the IP, that sent the spam out. In this particular case, the > IP is 72.52.77.20 and it appears to come from Bangalore, India.] Though we have laws for unsolicited SMS on mobiles, I don't think we have any anti-spam laws. Tough luck on that front! :-( Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:43:42PM -0700, Mostafijur Rahman wrote: > Hello > Im new in Debian.I install Debian from my ISO CD.But I got only Text > mode.How I can get GUI mode? Please feedback me step by step.It will be > better for me. You can just type "installgui" at the boot prompt, and it will boot into the GUI mode. Please read the Debian Installer manual fully to know the full steps to set Debian up. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it a BUG????
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:28:23PM -0700, Ramesh j wrote: > 1. My BIOS battery is getting down so my system date is changed regularly. > 2. While booting Debian it shows your system is not checked for past > 42356 days so check forced. > 3. For every booting it shows like that only. It really irritates a user. > Is it a BUG in Debian or the user requirements. Simplest solution, replace BIOS battery. And it is NOT a bug in Debian! Of course, you can set the fs_passno (sixth field) in /etc/fstab to 0 to avoid checks (IIRC), but this is totally not recommended. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get a list of installed packages
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Franz Edler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if the question is too simple. I just started with debian-etch.
> I now tried to figure out how I can get a list of actually installed
> packages.
> Is there a simple answer?
Yes. dpkg -l
A better answer would be dpkg -l|awk 'NR > 5 { print $2}'
HTH.
Kumar
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Re: Where to find missing documentation
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 01:13:30PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to get most of the documentation that has been removed > from the debian repositories? I can always get the documentation manually > from the respective project sites, but then, I would be losing the > functionality of 'apt' and manually updating and maintaining the > documentation is a major pain. Is there an easy way to do this? I think many docs have been moved to non-free, though you are not being clear about which documentation. For example, the ConTeXt typesetting package has it's doc in context-doc-nonfree, which is in pool/non-free/c/context-doc-nonfree/ So, you might want to add non-free to your sources.list, if you already haven't done so. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to find missing documentation
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:01:55PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > But many manpages refer to the complete documentation, but 'info ' > gives me the manual page itself. Examples are bash, cp, mv, etc. I have > been so used to firing up the info documentation of bash and feel crippled > trying to navigate it manpage. Something tells me that info coreutils might be what you are looking for, at least for mv, rm etc. Is this so? At least for bash, note that bash-doc has a "dfsg" extension in the source version. So, I am sure the non-free parts have been removed. But the description of bash-doc clearly says "info format", which is incorrect. See the bugs for bash-doc. They require addressing, but haven't been addressed in a long time. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=bash-doc;dist=unstable > Then there are packages like mysql where the documentation is not present > even in the nonfree section. After being used to apt-getting for the past > four years since I converted to debian, it is a bit frustrating to have to > do things manually. I hope most of the documentation makes it atleast into > the 'non-free' section so that maintaining current versions of the > documentation is taken care of. I agree with this. If not for MySQL (I don't use it), at least for bash, please provide the info files in non-free. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim4 maybe too complex to remain useful
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 06:42:32AM +, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If using exim4 and it's necessary to use a smarthoast where can that be > configured? I find sendmail less complex than exim4 and all other mail > transport agents I've tried less complex than the pair of them. sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config Adn this is waay less complex than anything else I've seen for smarthost! This is also useful, even for non-GMail configuration: http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian p.d.o stats
Dear Debian Users, Joerg has an interesting list of stats for packages.debian.org. Have a look at it: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2007/09/10#pdo_stats Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need a pointer on emacs
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:33:40AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: >> Can someone point me to a website that explains how I can use emacs to >> complice, I get a thousands site with I try to use google to look it. >> I am currently working on teaching myself to program in curses, but it a >> pain to save the compile, someone told me that you can do that within >> emacs and test the file. >> Thanks, >> Payne > Sorry, what I meant to says compile within emacs. Sorry a very very late > night or early morning. :) These will help: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CompileCommand http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CompilationMode And I would recommend that you use Emacs 22. The default colouring is better there for compilation. And BTW, did you know that source errors and warning are coloured, and merely pressing enter on them takes you to the correct position in the correct file in the source code? Improves efficiency a lot! Of course, more experienced users can chip in with their tips. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tool for document management
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:00:28AM -0400, Neil Watson wrote: > With TeX and LaTeX and its ilk the templates actually work. I can use > the same template for all of my reports and they always look the same. > There are no annoying format inconsistencies that are so common with > Word and OpenOffice. A +1, and I'd also vouch for consistency, like Neil. Also, CTAN has numerous classes and formats which can be readily used, like for Resume writing, exam paper setting etc. Of course, a praise for TeX's math is always a must. Anyway, I think this is a little OT with respect to the thread. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:30:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > To be fair I am operating out a large measure of ignorance. One of my > main concerns is that the typesetting languages are languages. I'm sure > they're robust but I have always seen their use tied to another editor. Since > an outside editor is required it is my impression that there is no WYSIWYG, no > way to get a basic view of how it might look printed outside of actually doing > whatever magic it is to send it off to a printer. Which I don't have. Kile and Lyx may be for you. > Also the end result of my labor will be to send this out to be published. > I have seen many publishers take submissions in Word, plain text or printed > out. I've yet to see one accept LaTeX. So without a printer I am stuck with > transforming what I want into an acceptable format and plain text won't so. I > am using some formatting. Nothing fancy, noting that will cause formatting > inconsistencies. But just enough that plain text is unacceptable. I am actually a bit surprised. Numerous scientific books are written in TeX. In fact, Dr. Knuth's own books are typeset in TeX, which is what eh created TeX for. Besides, I am really surprised publishers won't want TeX, since a lot of books I've read have acklowledged that they were written in TeX. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:23:55PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > What is screen? http://packages.debian.org/sid/screen http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to reply in the mailing lists
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:59:12PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and > what do you mean by trimming? > Ill try to fix it myself if I can. It's easy to get over it. Just look at the top posted and bottom posted messages here and see for yourself which makes more sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Posting GMail users can scroll up and see the previous contents. But more conventional mail client users will get _really_ pained if they see untrimmed top postes stuff because they can't scroll up and search. Besides, it is always better to trim replies and quote only the things related to context. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Cannot apt-get update
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what > distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a > friend's Debian system, at home I've Ubuntu and Fedora, and tomorrow I > might sit at an OpenSuse machine. I like to learn distro-ambiguous > tools. This might be useful: http://chennailug.org/wiki/?title=Find_your_distro Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best text
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:19:20PM -0700, jekillen wrote: > Hello; > I would like some recommendations on a published manual for > Debian. I think O'Reilly has one, and there is the Linux survival > guide, but are there others? > I like to have hard copies rather than taking up window space > with manual pages and having to shuffle between text windows > and what I am trying to get in hand. > I have a copy of Running Linux, but as I recall (I have not looked > at it for some time) it is more generalized and not distro specific. I haven't read it too much myself, but I have heard good things about the Debian System by Martin "madduck" Krafft. http://debiansystem.info/ Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Listing packages
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:58:12PM -0500, Miguel Cobá wrote: > I have a mixed installation with packages from stable and testing and I want > to list the packages and what version (stable, testing, unstable) of debian > are they from. > > I have searched the web for a solution, but nothing until now. With > > dpkg -l or apt-show-versions > > I can find the version number of the package, but not the repo. How about combining it with apt-cache madison ? That'll tell you the version and the repository. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sshfs installation error
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 06:26:00PM +0100, michael wrote: > /etc/init.d/fuse: line 24: /lib/init/vars.sh: No such file or directory sudo touch /lib/init/vars.sh might help. It worked for me some time back. In any case, that script should be in the initscripts package. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (mod-) ssl for apache 2.2.x
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 02:34:40PM +0300, Georgi Alexandrov wrote: > > The package is libapache-mod-ssl - install that, then run 'a2enmod ssl' > > to enable the module in your apache configuration. > > > > That's wrong. ssl is included in the apache2 packages for Debian etch. > You don't need a separate package for that as it was with apache 1.3. > You just need to enable the module. Moreover, libapache-mod-* packages are for Apache 1.x. One should always look for libapache2-mod-* for the current apache2. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb?
On 21/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed Debian with kernel 2.6.18-4 on my PC, but I could not find > linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb, I can only find a > linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-7_i386.deb which caused error when I install > it.Where can I find linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb? Use linux-headers-*. For example: http://packages.debian.org/sarge-backports/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-486 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: online sourcecode viewer
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 01:04:12PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Thanks. I meant pastebin, but I found http://www.esnips.com/web/gpc-qt4-002 > that I started to use, but you cannot *view* the code there that I know of, > you have to download it. > > I already use sourceforge: > http://gpc-qt.sourceforge.net/ While you're at it, try this (scroll down): http://pygments.org/ HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with
> no luck... Looks like aptitude doesn't pay attention to them. Does
> any one know how to overcome this? Also, I liked the environment
> variables solution because it can be temporally enabled/disabled,
> without having to edit a config file everytime one wants to change...
> I've tried looking in the man page, but didn't find anything...
Try adding this to /etc/apt/apt.conf:
Acquire {
// HTTP method configuration
http {
Proxy "http://:";
};
};
HTH.
Kumar
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Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:40:12AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:31:53PM +1100, hce wrote: > > I've just installed mutt in Debian, one problem is there are some > > mails from news lists with HTTP format, it was fine when I use Mozilla > > mail reader, but with mutt and vim, I could not read the HTTP format > > mails. One solution I can think of is to use lynx, but I don't know > > how to config mutt with lynx. How do you handle this issue? > > If you mean HTML, there was a post to Planet Debian on this subject > just yesterday: I think the OP means HTTP links, i.e. URLs in mails. Since you're on Debian, I'd suggest apt-get install urlview and add the urlview and add the config to your muttrc like the one in present in /usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/sample.muttrc.gz, which is: macro index \cb " urlview" # simulate the old browse-url function HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bootsplash ramble
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:22:30PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Anyway, first using menuconfig, and then xconfig, I was unable to find > any entry for "Console drivers". I did find some framebuffer stuff, > but nothing about "Use splash screen instead of boot logo", as I was > instructed to turn on. I did find something about turning on a penguin > during bootup (the "boot logo", maybe?). I checked that, just so that > I could say to myself, "Well, at least I did SOMETHING". Now, hours > later, I'm still waiting for the revised kernel to finish its stuff, > via the command fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom > kernel_image kernel_headers. > > Yikes. Has anyone else succeeded with bootsplash? Well, I do think you need to patch your kernel and take a bit more pains. See this, it has worked for me earlier: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:03:55AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Since you're on Debian, I'd suggest apt-get install urlview and add > > the urlview and add the config to your muttrc like the one in present > > in /usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/sample.muttrc.gz, which is: > > > > macro index \cb " urlview" # simulate the old > > browse-url function > > I don't think this is necessary. My /etc/Muttrc already contains this: > > # simulate the old url menu > macro index,pager,attach,compose \cb "\ > set my_pipe_decode=\$pipe_decode pipe_decode\ > urlview\ > set pipe_decode=\$my_pipe_decode; unset > my_pipe_decode" \ > "call urlview to extract URLs out of a message" You are right. Thanks for pointing this out. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which TeX distribution to use?
Dear Debian users, I am wondering which Debian TeX packages to use, TeXLive or teTeX. I have been using teTeX, and it has been all right. However, some parts seem to be outdated, such as ConTeXt (which I use), and this results in some missing features. Here's the detail: % texexec --version TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.01.31 cont-en : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2007.1.31 mes: english total run time : 1 seconds So, do you think it would be all right to switch to the "context" package available with TeXLive in Debian, and is the LaTeX support etc. also identical to that with teTeX? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:08:17PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday. > > > Virtually all the stock kernels provided by several distributions in the > > > past year appear to be vulnerable. > > > > Is it specific to x86 (not x86_64) as the exploit contains x86 code, > > or are other architectures also vulnerable in some other way? > > You can get the list of architectures for which built kernels were > uploaded here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=72;bug=464945 Er, I apologise. This was not the answer to the question asked. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday. > > Virtually all the stock kernels provided by several distributions in the > > past year appear to be vulnerable. > > Is it specific to x86 (not x86_64) as the exploit contains x86 code, > or are other architectures also vulnerable in some other way? You can get the list of architectures for which built kernels were uploaded here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=72;bug=464945 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to compare the package version?
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:55:05AM +0800, hhding wrote: > Assume I have installed gcc-4.1 with version 4.1.2-15, and some > application need gcc with version greater than 4.1.2-18. How can I check > and compare the installed gcc version in debian way then decide install > the new version or not? I have read the debian policy manual, but no > version compare tool or command is mentioned. if dpkg --compare-versions 4.1.2-18 gt 4.1.2-15;then echo 4.1.2-18 is more than 4.1.2-15;fi This prints: 4.1.2-18 is more than 4.1.2-15 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Steve wrote: > I've just run up my first linux box and I'm goin ok. Only thing is I > can't get SSH running on it (to enable me to access it from a windows > box using putty or similar). I've tried openssh but of course that is > a client. Can anyone tell me where to start looking. I'm guessing > that it's a daemon that I need to run. apt-get install openssh-server > Other problem that I'm getting is if I run aptitude or dselect, I get > a time out when trying to connect to mirror.pacific.net.au. It shows > an IP address of 1.0.0.0 which would suggest to me a problem with > named, however if I ping it, all is fine. Sorry, but all I can suggest as of now is to try another mirror, and check why the host is resolved like that (something in /etc/hosts or /etc/resolv.conf?). Someone else could probably suggest something better... HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Basic bash question.
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:33:20PM -0800, Luis Maceira wrote: > How can I see all the messages generated by > a bash command (configure make make install, > for example) to standard output(computer screen), > and at the same time make sure that all is > written to a text file for later analysis. > It is a redirection but I don´t know how to make > both things happen at the same time. > Is that possible?With all the bash commands? > > Without GUI(X),all command line environment. tee From the man page: tee - read from standard input and write to standard output and files HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Basic bash question.
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:10:25PM +0800, hhding wrote: > Any method to redirect any fd to the pipe? > Not only stdout,stderr. If you mean both stdout and stderr ./configure 2>&1 | tee log.txt would work. But I don't know if that is what you meant. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: rotating a rectangular image in Gimp
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:53:02PM -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > To rotate a rectangular image by 90 degrees > in Gimp, I followed these steps. > * Expand the canvas to a square containing the image, centered. > * Rotate 90 degrees. > * Contract the canvas to the boundary of the image. > If I just rotate without changing the canvas, the > image is cropped. > > Does anyone have a way to achieve the rotation > in one step? As trivial a problem as this is, > I didn't see it mentioned in the Web based manual. Well, merely for rotation, I would also request you to try imagemagick convert. convert image.png -rotate 90 image_rotated.png Though, of course, you might have a reason to use Gimp. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to create an ssh chain A->B->C to do http over ssh across the chain?
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:31:07AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Here is the situation. You have machines A->B->C. You want to create a ssh > tunnel directly > from A to C. > > Machine A can see machine B and machine B can see C, but A can't see C > directly. > A and B are on a local network and only B has 'limited net access'. > > I know how to ssh in from A to B and then again from B to C. But I want a > direct tunnel. > This would work for http over ssh or perhaps to run X say. > > Thus I know how to browse while logged on B through using C via a ssh tunnel > from B to C. In case you want to set up a multi-level ssh connection for port forwarding etc., the following helped me: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2007/12/15/using-a-ssh-jumphost.html HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian is losing its users
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:28:12PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > >> The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the > >> recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most > >> famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, > >> e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years. > > > > Link to this statistics? > > > > Oh. Sorry. This page: http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian > I beg to disagree that reduction in search volume directly means a reduction in polularity. While less people are Googling for Debian, if the activity in the Debian user and developer lists are something to go by, Debian is not doing too bad. Granted that we could do with popularity boosts, but I guess the loyal followers will always remain and keep trying to pull in more people. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and xorg.conf
On 12/06/06, Artem Zolochevskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all after X upgrade (etch 7.0.20) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't change xorg.conf. Any ideas why? So that it doesn't overwrite any custom changes you have made? But yes, it can back your file up and then replace it. I also don't know why this happens. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Insititute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: google earth error (opengl error)
On 14/06/06, Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I run google earth for linux. And found the error below. I read in the internet but not found suitable solution. Do u have any suggestion? I use i915 intel chipset. ERROR! sizeof(I830DRIRec) does not match passed size from device driver libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs. libGL error: InitDriver failed libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No Sure. DRI isn't enabled. Check whether your kernel has the i915 module. And check that you are using the i810 Xorg/XFree86 driver, depending on your distro, X etc. Also, if you are using Xorg 7.0 on Debian (Etch or Sid), DRI is broken, and I had to get the latest version at dri.freedesktop.org and replaced the Debian package's vrsion, but I don't know whether that bug still exists. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Insititute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bitstream Vera size in XTerm
Dear Debian users, I am using Sarge (3.1r2), and am trying to get the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font to work. I have installed x-ttidfont-conf and fontconfig, and set fontconfig to the "native" setting in debconf. Now, when I do xlsfonts, I see the vera fonts, and xterm -fn "" allows me to use the font, albeit in one size. I would like to know how to enable it in higher sizes. Thanks. Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bitstream Vera size in XTerm
On 16/06/06, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Debian users, I am using Sarge (3.1r2), and am trying to get the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font to work. I have installed x-ttidfont-conf and fontconfig, and set fontconfig to the "native" setting in debconf. Now, when I do xlsfonts, I see the vera fonts, and xterm -fn "" allows me to use the font, albeit in one size. I would like to know how to enable it in higher sizes. Got it! I got it working by using the -fa option with "xft: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono". Also, I have set XTerm*faceName to that value in my ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xresources. Of course, this is after configuring fontconfig to "native". Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Insititute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bitstream Vera size in XTerm
On 16/06/06, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ctrl+ displays xterm's "VT Fonts" menu. That doesn't work for TrueType fonts in XTerm. It switches to "fixed" ot something. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Insititute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Python 2.3 with Debian Testing
On 16/06/06, Stef Daniels VK5HSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi There.. I have tried to install, reinstall, remove and dpkg-preconfigure, reconfigure python 2.3 (along side python 2.4) on a Debian (testing) Desktop without success. I have tried everything I could think of, with dpkg and apt, however, it gets the similar errors and exits with error code (1) I did the "apt-get install -f" command in the hope of fixing it and the following is the results of that.. Any help with the problems would be very much appreciated.. Here's the bugzilla report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373856 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Insititute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
