Re: [arch-general] Pacman update fails to commit transaction

2011-12-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Brandon Betances Sent: Wed 12/14/2011 04:41 To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] Pacman update fails to commit transaction Might I suggest (to the OP) the IRC channels and the forum as

Re: [arch-general] Pacman update fails to commit transaction

2011-12-13 Thread Pham Bao Trung
If you want to get almost instant reponds, you can visit IRC channel #archlinux on freenode. There are many Arch geeks on that channel, who can answer questions with any levels of difficulty but remember not to ask so simple questions because some guys there are pretty unfriendly to newbie question

Re: [arch-general] Pacman update fails to commit transaction

2011-12-13 Thread Brandon Betances
Might I suggest (to the OP) the IRC channels and the forum as places to go to get help for things like this? No sense cluttering up the mailing list with fairly irrelevant questions. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Grant McDuling wrote: > Thanks Pham, worked beautifully. > > Grant > On 14/12/20

Re: [arch-general] Pacman update fails to commit transaction

2011-12-13 Thread Grant McDuling
Thanks Pham, worked beautifully. Grant On 14/12/2011, at 1:05 PM, Grant McDuling wrote: > Thanks Pham, > > Can you please tell me how I access this file. I typed in /etc to the command > line but was told it is a directory (which I know). How can I go about > deleting it? > > Many thanks > >

Re: [arch-general] Pacman update fails to commit transaction

2011-12-13 Thread Pham Bao Trung
if you use sudo: sudo rm /etc/profile.d/locale.sh if not: rm /etc/profile.d/locale.sh Your books are cool :)) On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Grant McDuling wrote: > Thanks Pham, > > Can you please tell me how I access this file. I typed in /etc to the > command line but was told it is a dire

Re: [arch-general] Pacman update fails to commit transaction

2011-12-13 Thread Grant McDuling
Thanks Pham, Can you please tell me how I access this file. I typed in /etc to the command line but was told it is a directory (which I know). How can I go about deleting it? Many thanks Grant On 14/12/2011, at 12:56 PM, Pham Bao Trung wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Grant McDuli

Re: [arch-general] Pacman update fails to commit transaction

2011-12-13 Thread Pham Bao Trung
Read this http://www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-manual-intervention-required/ On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Grant McDuling wrote: > I have my new system up and running and am delighted. However, when > running packman -Syu to update, all appeared to be progressing well with > all so

[arch-general] Pacman update fails to commit transaction

2011-12-13 Thread Grant McDuling
I have my new system up and running and am delighted. However, when running packman -Syu to update, all appeared to be progressing well with all sorts of downloads happening but at the end the message says: Checking package integrity, checking for file conflicts, error: failed to commit transact

Re: [arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?

2011-12-13 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Basically, many config files using this syntax, when read, will strip everything that is located to the right of hash signs (#) including those hash signs (except when enclosed with quotes or other cases). This makes it that the only lines that will be left in the locale.gen file are those that do

Re: [arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?

2011-12-13 Thread Nicholas MIller
remove the # from the startof the line you want to use On Dec 14, 2011 8:41 AM, "Grant McDuling" wrote: Hi, I am busy installing Arch core and am stuck at configuring the locale-gen part of the process. I am asked to uncomment the locales I need. Does this mean to delete them? There is a

Re: [arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?

2011-12-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Grant McDuling wrote: > Hi, I am busy installing Arch core and am stuck at configuring the locale-gen > part of the process. I am asked to uncomment the locales I need. Does this > mean to delete them? There is a long list of them and I presume I need to > dele

[arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?

2011-12-13 Thread Grant McDuling
Hi, I am busy installing Arch core and am stuck at configuring the locale-gen part of the process. I am asked to uncomment the locales I need. Does this mean to delete them? There is a long list of them and I presume I need to delete all except the Australian ones (in my case). Do I simply delet

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap

2011-12-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:04:46 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > I'll test if usinmg the same maildir will work between GUI mailers Claws-mail uses maildir by default. You'd need to think or test locking or collisions for multiple users at once. Using dovecot would be better. You can always download w

Re: [arch-general] urxvt colours and Xresources

2011-12-13 Thread gt
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:34:02PM +0530, gt wrote: > Well, changing the termName to rxvt, has solved things for now. I know > it's not good to force termNames, but i didn't see any other solution > for now. Let's wait and see if this gives trouble or not. Well i came up with a ridiculous idea, an

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap

2011-12-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/13/2011 09:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I'm not sure exactly what your goal is, but my advice is never use any mail client's local storage for anything. I'd suggest you run a local imap server (dovecot works well) - keep the data dir on a partition that is common to all your local linux

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap

2011-12-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
No, this all seems to be uncomfortable apps :(. I'll test if usinmg the same maildir will work between GUI mailers, without using offlinemail. Hm? For old installs I can't chose Evolution, since theire versions are without maildir support. Is this the safe way to remove unneeded packages with i

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap

2011-12-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Victor Silva Sent: Tue 12/13/2011 14:25 To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] offlineimap Maybe you could try mailsync http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/ +++ Thank you :) that's it! Re

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap

2011-12-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: Kazuo Teramoto [mailto:kaz@gmail.com] Sent: Tue 12/13/2011 13:22 To: Ralf Mardorf; arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] offlineimap On 2011-12-12T22:29:56, Ralf Madorf wrote: >I suspect that offlineimap isn't what I need for the wanted task:

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap

2011-12-13 Thread Victor Silva
Maybe you could try mailsync http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Victor 2011/12/12 Ralf Madorf > Hi :) > > I suspect that offlineimap isn't what I need for the wanted task: > > - to download emails from my providers server > - to delete them from the server when the download is finished >

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap

2011-12-13 Thread Kazuo Teramoto
On 2011-12-12T22:29:56, Ralf Madorf wrote: >I suspect that offlineimap isn't what I need for the wanted task: > >- to download emails from my providers server >- to delete them from the server when the download is finished >- to keep them on my computer, to get access to the emails from > differen