Re: [arch-general] Best way to clone install (package selection to another box?)

2009-04-21 Thread Juan Diego
box1: pacman -Qet | awk '{print $1}' >> INSTALLED box 2: (first copy files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg in box1 to box2 and also INSTALLED file) pacman -S $(cat installed) On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates: > >        If I want to clone my package selection to a

[arch-general] Best way to clone install (package selection to another box?)

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates: If I want to clone my package selection to another box, is there a better way to do it other than just parsing the files in /var/cache/pacman/pkg to generate a list to feed to pacman after install on the second box? Something like: for i in $(find /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ -type

Re: [arch-general] How is process loading configured at boot? rc.sysinit & rc.local?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Most people start their daemons in the rc.conf file. > > See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rc.conf > > DR > (smacks-self for forgetting what I read during install) Thanks again DR, I should have the basics sorted by tomorrow... let us hope. I am certainly enjo

Re: [arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On Wed, April 22, 2009 12:06 am, David C. Rankin wrote: > David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> David C. Rankin wrote: >>> Listmates, >>> >>> Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I >>> was unable to >>> locate it with pacman -Ss pdftk and no luck. >> >> It's in the AUR: >> >> h

Re: [arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> Listmates, >> >> Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I >> was unable to >> locate it with pacman -Ss pdftk and no luck. > > It's in the AUR: > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=pdftk&SeB=nd&PP

Re: [arch-general] How is process loading configured at boot? rc.sysinit & rc.local?

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Most people start their daemons in the rc.conf file. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rc.conf DR David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, How is process loading handled at boot in Arch Linux? I found: [19:32 archangel:/etc] # ls -1 rc* rc.conf rc.local rc.local.shutdown rc.multi rc.s

Re: [arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I was unable to locate it with pacman -Ss pdftk and no luck. It's in the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=pdftk&SeB=nd&PP=25 i.e., you have to build it yourself.

Re: [arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Raeven K.Bathory wrote: > pdftk is in AUR or alternatively the archlinuxfr repos > [archlinuxfr] > Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686 > > Great, that's what I needed to know. I'll go make friends with AUR... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoc

[arch-general] How is process loading configured at boot? rc.sysinit & rc.local?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, How is process loading handled at boot in Arch Linux? I found: [19:32 archangel:/etc] # ls -1 rc* rc.conf rc.local rc.local.shutdown rc.multi rc.shutdown rc.single rc.sysinit rc.d: But before I started hacking things I thought I would ask where I should put things g

Re: [arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

2009-04-21 Thread Raeven K.Bathory
pdftk is in AUR or alternatively the archlinuxfr repos [archlinuxfr] Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686 On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:22 AM, David C. Rankin < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > Listmates, > >Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I was > un

[arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I was unable to locate it with pacman -Ss pdftk and no luck. But whoop! I found keepassx and basket, that's half the battle. I know have my cheat-sheets and I can unlock the doors ;-) If you use KDE and hav

Re: [arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before --what is it?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Andrei Thorp wrote: > Erk, > > I'm always a bit iffy on editing system-wide configurations. If the > package is updated, pacman won't update the edited configuration file > (and start spawing .pacnew files), right? I also just don't like > keeping configurations outside of home if at all possible.

Re: [arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before -- what is it?

2009-04-21 Thread Andrei Thorp
Erk, I'm always a bit iffy on editing system-wide configurations. If the package is updated, pacman won't update the edited configuration file (and start spawing .pacnew files), right? I also just don't like keeping configurations outside of home if at all possible. Does the current Arch VI respe

Re: [arch-general] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?

2009-04-21 Thread Zack
pacKage manager? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:24 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> David Rosenstrauch wrote: >>> >>> The mirrorlist file that you see reference 3 times in the pacman.conf is >>> telling pacman which mirror to use.  IIRC, by default the mirror list >>> poin

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Brannon
Eric Belanger wrote: > No packages in extra depends on bcprov. But both bcprov and junit are > needed by community packages so if they are removed from extra they'll > need to go in community repo. Is there a TU willing to adopt/maintain > them? I am willing, unless some more knowledgable person i

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > 2009/4/21 Eric Bélanger : >> junit is a makedepends for bcprov so it needs to stay in extra. >> > what about move bcprov to community/unsupported? it's orphan too > > -- > Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino > Arch Linux Developer > No packages in extr

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2009/4/21 Jan de Groot : > It used to be, but azureus contains an internal copy. If you don't build > azureus from source, the bcprov classes are included. > Ok, I wanted only to know if bcprov must be in community or can be in unsupported. so, we must wait others dev/tu opinion... -- Andrea `Ba

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 21:47 +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > 2009/4/21 Jan de Groot : > > Which is a depend for azureus... something else using it? Maybe we > > should move them together then. > are you sure bcprov is an azureus' dependence? I'm the maintainer of > vuze and I not listed it It used

Re: [arch-general] Are there sets for installing apache?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> Listmates, >> >> I installed apache2 with pacman -S apache, but all I got was >> apache2 itself. >> Is there a set of packages that will install all of the modules as well? > > Many of them come installed with apache. (See "pacman -Ql apac

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2009/4/21 Jan de Groot : > Which is a depend for azureus... something else using it? Maybe we > should move them together then. are you sure bcprov is an azureus' dependence? I'm the maintainer of vuze and I not listed it -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2009/4/21 Eric Bélanger : > junit is a makedepends for bcprov so it needs to stay in extra. > what about move bcprov to community/unsupported? it's orphan too -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 15:40 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > junit is a makedepends for bcprov so it needs to stay in extra. Which is a depend for azureus... something else using it? Maybe we should move them together then.

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Vitaliy Berdinskikh wrote: > Hi archers! > > Motivation to move: > * Package has no a contributor. > * Any packages don't depend on it. > * Package is outdated. > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских) > > junit is a makedepends for bcp

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2009/4/21 David Rosenstrauch : > I use JUnit heavily, so I'll be happy to maintain it in AUR/unsupported if > no one else wants to. No problem for me, but first we must wait if some TU is interested. -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Vitaliy Berdinskikh wrote: Hi archers! Motivation to move: * Package has no a contributor. * Any packages don't depend on it. * Package is outdated. I use JUnit heavily, so I'll be happy to maintain it in AUR/unsupported if no one else wants to. DR

Re: [arch-general] Are there sets for installing apache?

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, I installed apache2 with pacman -S apache, but all I got was apache2 itself. Is there a set of packages that will install all of the modules as well? Many of them come installed with apache. (See "pacman -Ql apache | grep modules/mod_".) Some othe

[arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Vitaliy Berdinskikh
Hi archers! Motivation to move: * Package has no a contributor. * Any packages don't depend on it. * Package is outdated. -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских)

[arch-general] Are there sets for installing apache?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, I installed apache2 with pacman -S apache, but all I got was apache2 itself. Is there a set of packages that will install all of the modules as well? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Fa

Re: [arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before -- what is it?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
János Illés wrote: >>I'm kind of chuckling at this one. I did a simple substitution in vi >> on >> 2009.02 to comment out a few samba shares I wasn't going to use from a >> smb.conf >> I copied over. I simply used ':35,72s/^/# /' and then -- Orange appeared over >> all the comments and le

Re: [arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before -- what is it?

2009-04-21 Thread Hubert Grzeskowiak
David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates: > > I'm kind of chuckling at this one. I did a simple substitution in vi on > 2009.02 to comment out a few samba shares I wasn't going to use from a > smb.conf > I copied over. I simply used ':35,72s/^/# /' and then -- Orange appeared over > all the comme

Re: [arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before -- what is it?

2009-04-21 Thread János Illés
> >        I'm kind of chuckling at this one. I did a simple substitution in vi on > 2009.02 to comment out a few samba shares I wasn't going to use from a > smb.conf > I copied over. I simply used ':35,72s/^/# /' and then -- Orange appeared over > all the comments and leading whitespace in the fi

Re: [arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before -- what is it?

2009-04-21 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates: > >        I'm kind of chuckling at this one. I did a simple substitution in vi on > 2009.02 to comment out a few samba shares I wasn't going to use from a > smb.conf > I copied over. I simply used ':35,72s/^/# /' and then -- Or

[arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before -- what is it?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates: I'm kind of chuckling at this one. I did a simple substitution in vi on 2009.02 to comment out a few samba shares I wasn't going to use from a smb.conf I copied over. I simply used ':35,72s/^/# /' and then -- Orange appeared over all the comments and leading whitespace in the fi

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Pierre Schmitz schrieb: Am Dienstag, 21. April 2009 18:41:32 schrieb Aaron Griffin: I think they try ffmpeg first, and then try to look for binary codecs if they exist. For me its the other way round; mplayer loads the dll if available otherwise complains about it and uses ffmpeg. That's

Re: [arch-general] Proposed netcfg expansion

2009-04-21 Thread Andrei Thorp
Cool, thanks :) -AT On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:57 PM, James Rayner wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Andrei Thorp wrote: >> Ah, I see. >> >> Well, in that case, guess there isn't really anything to be done, >> aside from perhaps updating a netcfg example to include this. >> >> This is wh

Re: [arch-general] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: David Rosenstrauch wrote: The mirrorlist file that you see reference 3 times in the pacman.conf is telling pacman which mirror to use. IIRC, by default the mirror list points to the main arch site, but that site intentionally has bandwidth limitations placed on it in orde

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 21. April 2009 18:41:32 schrieb Aaron Griffin: >> I think they try ffmpeg first, and then try to look for binary codecs >> if they exist. > > For me its the other way round; mplayer loads the dll if available otherwise > compla

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag, 21. April 2009 18:41:32 schrieb Aaron Griffin: > I think they try ffmpeg first, and then try to look for binary codecs > if they exist. For me its the other way round; mplayer loads the dll if available otherwise complains about it and uses ffmpeg. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-Augu

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 12:31 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Christos Nouskas wrote: >> > 2009/4/21 David C. Rankin : >> >>        In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories >> >> (pack

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Eric Bélanger schrieb: None of the A/V apps in Arch (at least in extra repo) use the codecs so installing the codecs package might have no effect. Most popular video formats are handled well by ffmpeg. I would suggest to post back if you have problems playing a specific video format. At least m

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Christos Nouskas wrote: >> 2009/4/21 David C. Rankin : >>>In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories >>> (packman & >>> videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or set) for Arch or do we just >>> build fro

Re: [arch-general] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > The mirrorlist file that you see reference 3 times in the pacman.conf is > telling pacman which mirror to use. IIRC, by default the mirror list > points to the main arch site, but that site intentionally has bandwidth > limitations placed on it in order to encourage

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 12:31 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Christos Nouskas wrote: > > 2009/4/21 David C. Rankin : > >>In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories > >> (packman & > >> videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or se

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Christos Nouskas wrote: > 2009/4/21 David C. Rankin : >>In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories >> (packman & >> videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or set) for Arch or do we just >> build from vlc? > > # pacman -S codec

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Hubert Grzeskowiak wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> Marco wrote: >>> What about ~/.vimrc ?? >>> >> Dunno?? >> >> That's what I was looking for to begin with, but not finding any and not >> finding a global /etc/vimrc, I am still looking for the place this >> information >> is stored so I ca

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Christos Nouskas
2009/4/21 David C. Rankin : >        In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories > (packman & > videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or set) for Arch or do we just > build from vlc? # pacman -S codecs -- # # # ### # # #"I find your lack o

[arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
List, In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories (packman & videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or set) for Arch or do we just build from vlc? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (93

Re: [arch-general] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, After my initial install, loading packages from core, extra and community I was limited to an average of 58K downstream bandwidth. for kdemod-legacy (and normally) I see the full 136K that my pitiful 1M down provides. Currently I have the repositories d

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread Hubert Grzeskowiak
David C. Rankin wrote: > Marco wrote: >> What about ~/.vimrc ?? >> > > Dunno?? > > That's what I was looking for to begin with, but not finding any and not > finding a global /etc/vimrc, I am still looking for the place this information > is stored so I can change it globally. > > Th

Re: [arch-general] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Held
hi > Do I need to specify individual mirrors that would work better for my > location in TX? If so, where can I get a list that will let me see the > closest ones? Thanks. Use the "rankmirrors" skript: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Improve_Pacman_Performance#Choosing_the_fastest_mirr

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Bohn
On Tue, April 21, 2009 17:55, David C. Rankin wrote: >> What about ~/.vimrc ?? > Dunno?? Try the non-standard ~/.virc No idea why. Thomas

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Marco wrote: > What about ~/.vimrc ?? > Dunno?? That's what I was looking for to begin with, but not finding any and not finding a global /etc/vimrc, I am still looking for the place this information is stored so I can change it globally. There isn't a chance these things were s

Re: [arch-general] Broken link for kde3 install from ww.kdemod.ath.cx

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > Post it at the kdemod/chakra project forums. They maintain that site. > done, > BTW, there's probably a closer mirror you can use than Norway. I use > the mirror at RIT in New York: http://mirror.rit.edu/kdemod/legacy/x86_64 > > DR > I found it, thanks DR for

[arch-general] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, After my initial install, loading packages from core, extra and community I was limited to an average of 58K downstream bandwidth. for kdemod-legacy (and normally) I see the full 136K that my pitiful 1M down provides. Currently I have the repositories defined in pacman.conf in

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Bohn
On Tue, April 21, 2009 17:45, Thomas Bohn wrote: > The bug is IIRC that vi doesn't use .vimrc but .virc. So vi behaves > different from vim even though it is vim. Message-ID ea09a6380903190801n31f79e4j950d0d4e0693a...@mail.gmail.com from March 19, 2009. Thomas

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Bohn
On Tue, April 21, 2009 17:34, Aaron Griffin wrote: > This isn't a bug. It's a vim setting. Biru already answered the question The bug is IIRC that vi doesn't use .vimrc but .virc. So vi behaves different from vim even though it is vim. Thomas

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Thomas Bohn wrote: > On Tue, April 21, 2009 10:14, David C. Rankin wrote: > >> So... hoping not to have to reinvent the wheel, where is this setting >> hiding?? > > Seems to be a bug in the weird packaging of vim in Arch, no idea why. > Since it works if you insta

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Bohn
On Tue, April 21, 2009 10:14, David C. Rankin wrote: > So... hoping not to have to reinvent the wheel, where is this setting > hiding?? Seems to be a bug in the weird packaging of vim in Arch, no idea why. Since it works if you install vim and start vim with vim and not vi. The fucked up and out

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread Marco
What about ~/.vimrc ??

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Biru Ionut wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> Listmates, >> >> One thing I have to fix is vi's behavior of wanting to go into >> visual mode >> ever time I try to select something and vi's refusal to paste the >> clipboard in >> insert mode using the middle mouse button. I know this must be a b

Re: [arch-general] Broken link for kde3 install from ww.kdemod.ath.cx

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Following the help provided here, I have run into a broken link in the kdemod install. Specifically, from step two at: http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/download-kdemod3-step2.html If you select: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondhe

[arch-general] Broken link for kde3 install from ww.kdemod.ath.cx

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Following the help provided here, I have run into a broken link in the kdemod install. Specifically, from step two at: http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/download-kdemod3-step2.html If you select: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim / Norway / 1000Mbit)

Re: [arch-general] howto install kde 3.510?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On Tue, April 21, 2009 5:04 am, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Listmates, >> >> Last question for the night, "How do I install KDE3?" > > Arch doesn't provide packages for KDE3 anymore, but it's still available > from an external repository courtesy of the wonderful fol

Re: [arch-general] howto install kde 3.510?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 21. April 2009 11:04:20 schrieb David C. Rankin: >> However, until the >> kate and quanta issues are resolved, I need kde 3.5 to avoid a loss of >> functionality in the interim. After those items are resolved, I'll happily >> move back to kde4 and continue playi

Re: [arch-general] howto install kde 3.510?

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On Tue, April 21, 2009 5:40 am, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > If you still want to use KDE3 there is a step by step description at > http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/download-kdemod3.html In that case make sure not > to > mix KDE4 and KDE3; so never install kdelibs and related. Actually, you can install KDE3 an

Re: [arch-general] howto install kde 3.510?

2009-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On Tue, April 21, 2009 5:04 am, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > Last question for the night, "How do I install KDE3?" Arch doesn't provide packages for KDE3 anymore, but it's still available from an external repository courtesy of the wonderful folks at the KDEmod/Chakra project. ht

Re: [arch-general] howto install kde 3.510?

2009-04-21 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag, 21. April 2009 11:04:20 schrieb David C. Rankin: > However, until the > kate and quanta issues are resolved, I need kde 3.5 to avoid a loss of > functionality in the interim. After those items are resolved, I'll happily > move back to kde4 and continue playing the "where did my widget

[arch-general] howto install kde 3.510?

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Last question for the night, "How do I install KDE3?" I have picked around through the forums, found http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE, which sent me to http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=54118&p=1 and I added the repo, but it appears to be a downgrade repo and pac

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread Biru Ionut
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, One thing I have to fix is vi's behavior of wanting to go into visual mode ever time I try to select something and vi's refusal to paste the clipboard in insert mode using the middle mouse button. I know this must be a basic configuration setting somewh

Re: [arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > One thing I have to fix is vi's behavior of wanting to go into visual > mode > ever time I try to select something and vi's refusal to paste the clipboard in > insert mode using the middle mouse button. I know this must be a basic > configuration sett

[arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, One thing I have to fix is vi's behavior of wanting to go into visual mode ever time I try to select something and vi's refusal to paste the clipboard in insert mode using the middle mouse button. I know this must be a basic configuration setting somewhere? I've looked for /etc

[arch-general] Interesting install of 2009.02 with multiple dmraid devices present

2009-04-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, First post and... first install of Arch Linux went pretty well. The only fun occurred with grub and getting the dmraid devices correctly numbered. Thankfully somebody had blazed this trial before and the wiki had good information to point me in the right direction: http://wiki