Re: dist-upgrade problem

Zach wrote: > I routinely run apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade to keep my > packages up to date, > well when I went to do a dist-upgrade today it wants to install many > texlive-* packages, yet i don't have texlive installed and i don't > want it installed ! i use tetex for my tex/latex ne

Re: lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

David Fox wrote: > On 7/7/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> What error? > > > Amarok tells me it cannot play mp3s; a sliding popup window, "Error > loading media" there is no available decoder. Hi David, Do you have the amarok-xine and libxine1 packages installed? Cheers

Re: How to connect to debian server from Windows

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dist-upgrade problem

I routinely run apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade to keep my packages up to date, well when I went to do a dist-upgrade today it wants to install many texlive-* packages, yet i don't have texlive installed and i don't want it installed ! i use tetex for my tex/latex needs and don't want to

Apache-SSL - PHP5 not working

hi everyone i have a problem with apache-ssl and php5 playing nice together. php works fine when loading via http, but when you load via https i get prompted about saving the php file to disk without it being executed. straight html works fine in both http and https. i've added "AddType applicati

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 21:56 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 07:43:26PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > By (my) definition there no good sites that use Java. :-/ > > > What about all those pages that run on JSP and servelets? > > Regards, > > -Roberto > JSP and serv

Re: lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

On 7/7/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What error? Amarok tells me it cannot play mp3s; a sliding popup window, "Error loading media" there is no available decoder.

Re: lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:18:53PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > Subject line pretty much describes the situation. I've even purged and > reinstalled amarok, but this still > brings up an error when I try to play an mp3 file. What error? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connex

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:47:29PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > You are right. But those websites do you use Java. I think the > > confusion was that you did not specify client-side versus server-side. > > Those are two different things. Your statement appears to cove

Re: Using apt-zip -was Re: Upgrade on box not on Net

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:58:55 + (UTC) Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:02:44 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:25:09 +0100 > > John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Is it possible to upgrade a box not connected to the Internet? > >>

Re: lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

On Sat July 7 2007 09:18:53 pm David Fox wrote: > Subject line pretty much describes the situation. I've even purged and > reinstalled amarok, but this still > brings up an error when I try to play an mp3 file. It should just play. It could be sound is muted in your mixer settings. I always use a

lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

Subject line pretty much describes the situation. I've even purged and reinstalled amarok, but this still brings up an error when I try to play an mp3 file.

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

On Sat July 7 2007 08:02:35 pm David Fox wrote: > > In a nutshell you need to get the installer from the nvidia website and > > copy > > nvidia_drv.so into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. But I get this from the > > Xorg.0.log: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

In a nutshell you need to get the installer from the nvidia website and copy nvidia_drv.so into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. But I get this from the Xorg.0.log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > You are right. But those websites do you use Java. I think the > confusion was that you did not specify client-side versus server-side. > Those are two different things. Your statement appears to cover both. You are correct that the JSP server runs Java. I don't rea

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:03:30PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > By (my) definition there no good sites that use Java. :-/ > > > > What about all those pages that run on JSP and servelets? > > JSP (JavaServer Pages) AFAIK runs on the server not th

Re: [SOLVED] Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

ArcticFox wrote: > And that seems to have done it! Thank you! If I have anymore issues > I'll be sure to ask. Yeah! As followup if an lsh-server champion could look into why it did not handle sftp, whether lsh-server should conflict with openssh-server or not, whether openssh-server should confl

Re: Postscript conversion

Thanks florian, that solution is exactly what i wanted. I dont suppose you know of a way to print a html page to .ps or .pdf as a browser would see it from command line? The conversion program i am using (http://www.tufat.com/script19.htm) works great, but it takes a while and uses alot of cpu t

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > By (my) definition there no good sites that use Java. :-/ > > What about all those pages that run on JSP and servelets? JSP (JavaServer Pages) AFAIK runs on the server not the client. I could be very wrong here though. Examples? Bob -- To UNS

[SOLVED] Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

On Jul 7, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: ArcticFox wrote: Looks like both were installed, I'm removing lsh-server. Ok, removed but it's saying now that the connection is being refused on port 22. It's refusing ssh and sftp, I ran ssh with the -v option and all it spat out was connection r

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 07:43:26PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > By (my) definition there no good sites that use Java. :-/ > What about all those pages that run on JSP and servelets? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

ArcticFox wrote: > Looks like both were installed, I'm removing lsh-server. Ok, removed > but it's saying now that the connection is being refused on port 22. > It's refusing ssh and sftp, I ran ssh with the -v option and all it > spat out was connection refused. Verify that the openssh-server

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

andy wrote: > Jeff D wrote: > >>When I go to http://www.java.com/en/ and click the link that asks "Do > >>I have java?", which opens > >>http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1 then > >>the result is > >>that I don't have the recommended version for my browser (iceweasel).

vim-lesstif

Hi, Is there any one uder unstable using vim-lesstif? I'm getting the following error: % gvim gvim: Symbol `_XmStrings' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking Warning: Cannot find callback list in XtAddCallback The window pops up OK, however I see only the upper half of the i

Re: procedure for "abandoned" packages

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 07:38:00PM -0500, Seb wrote: > Hi, > > What is the appropriate procedure that a normal user can follow when a > package seems completely abandoned by the maintainer. By abandoned I mean > there are no updates in unstable for more than 3 months since the sources > for the u

mutt folder browser broken?

Anyone else seeing weird behavior with the mutt folder browser? mine no longer shows the message count (imap mailboxes) or mbox file size. just shows a 0. and there is no "new message" "N" shown either. buffy list works fine, btw. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

procedure for "abandoned" packages

Hi, What is the appropriate procedure that a normal user can follow when a package seems completely abandoned by the maintainer. By abandoned I mean there are no updates in unstable for more than 3 months since the sources for the upstream package have a new major version. Additionally, attempts

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

andy wrote: > That was a useful overview to alternatives: I wasn't aware of that, and > how (seemingly) prevalent it is with Debian. Wouldn't you guess it ... > yep, when I run I am showing manual. I've corrected that now to auto. Note that Red Hat is now using a forked copy of the alternatives

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

On Jul 7, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: ArcticFox wrote: foxpaws:/home/fox# ssh -v localhost OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 So far so good. debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

H.S. wrote: > > Same here. From all the texlive packages that are to be intall, there at > least a few tetex package still, e.g. tetex-bin tetex-extra. > > These packages I would expect to be purged by aptitude automatically (by > reporting they are no longer used) some time "soon". > > ->HS >

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

ArcticFox wrote: > foxpaws:/home/fox# ssh -v localhost > OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 So far so good. > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config > debug1: Applying options for * > debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22. > debug1: Connection establi

Re: BAD Error Installing new Apache2 & PHP?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:40:27PM -0700, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) wrote: > Andrew, > > You may have forgotten this thread. Thanks for your previous > suggestions. > > (BTW, your domain made me curious. Spokane, eh? I spent a very hot 4 > days up there a few years ago attending a BMW motorcycl

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Extensively discussed here: |> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=90214 |> |> The problem is that post 2.6.18 Debian kernels have PARAVIRT_CONFIG |> and nvidia does not like that. |> |> You can either rebuild the kernel and turn that o

Re: Possible problems with kscreensaver in Lenny?? [solved]

On Saturday 07 July 2007 19:01, Dale Stephens wrote: > Hello all, > > After recent updates of kde from v3.5.5 to v3.5.7 on Lenny, my kscreensaver > seems to have stopped working completely.  Also, Control Centre crashes > when I try to access the Screen Saver section in Appearance and Themes (but >

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

On Jul 7, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: ArcticFox wrote: Kent West wrote: Again, what happens when you attempt to connect from/to the same Linux box? Both the remote terminal and local terminal give the same error. (Request for subsystem... blah blah blah) Yes. Please debug this on

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

Hi Brad, On 7/7/07, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right. You could also consider using GSpace. That's what I do with You are joking, right? GSpace depends *entirely* on the goodwill of Google. GSpace isn't endorsed by Google, and can disappear without warning, if Google make any (un

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:46:06 + "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Manon, > Right. You could also consider using GSpace. That's what I do with You are joking, right? GSpace depends *entirely* on the goodwill of Google. GSpace isn't endorsed by Google, and can disappear without w

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

Thanks all for your input. I may brave Lenny soon, but I think I've decided (I may change my mind) to give the chroot option from the amd64-HOWTO a try. Its probably not much more hastle as upgrading to Lenny but then it should (hope) just work from then on. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Cannnot authenticate debian archive packages

[ Please do not top-post. ] On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 14:31:56 +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi all, > > I have similar problem. > The only thing is that instead of installing from DVD, i put the DVD > images on to a server which loop-back mounts the DVD. I have added > the local server address to t

Using apt-zip -was Re: Upgrade on box not on Net

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:02:44 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:25:09 +0100 > John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is it possible to upgrade a box not connected to the Internet? >> > > This is what the apt-zip package is for. 2 simple queries: 1. ZIP drives are a thing

Re: Madwifi drivers on floppy, howto.

On Saturday 07 July 2007 3:27 pm, J. Santos wrote: > Hi everyone. > > How do i create a floppy with the madwifi driver so ecth can recognize > my atheros based wifi card at install time? > I have been googleing but cant find anything relevant. > > Thank you. Well, it looks like you would need to

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

Hi Brad, On 7/7/07, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When backing up to CD, my preference is to make two copies. On disks from two different (but high quality) companies. That way, I hope I greatly reduce the risk of suffering problems from a bad batch of disks. At least one of those d

Re: Errors Upgrading to Latest 'sarge'

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 16:13:15 -0700, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) wrote: > I'm currently running 'sarge' & am trying to upgrade to the latest in > sarge before upgrading to 'etch'. The problems I'm having doing this > make me reluctant to try & jump straight to etch before I get this > install wor

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 19:46:27 + "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Manon, > Then for months I checked all data on CD after making a backup, but I > didn't encounter > a single error anymore. I stick to Verbatim only for backup. When backing up to CD, my preference is to make two c

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 11:49:28 -0500, ArcticFox wrote: > On Jul 7, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] >> I agree with Kent that it is better not to allow remote root logins. > > Unless you guys have a suggestion that'll let me run root commands as a > normal user I kinda have to. Tr

[SOLVED] Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

andy wrote: andy wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: Thats odd, it should create a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so Agreed. what does update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so give you? it should give you something like this: /usr/lib/

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

Hi Rodolfo, On 7/4/07, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to do may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could burn my data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its content in

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

andy wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: Thats odd, it should create a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so Agreed. what does update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so give you? it should give you something like this: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-s

Madwifi drivers on floppy, howto.

Hi everyone. How do i create a floppy with the madwifi driver so ecth can recognize my atheros based wifi card at install time? I have been googleing but cant find anything relevant. Thank you. -- José Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ http://www.ftml.net/mail/?STKI=1516747

[SOLVED] Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Bob Proulx wrote: andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: Thats odd, it should create a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so Agreed. what does update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so give you? it should give you something like this: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plu

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: When I go to http://www.java.com/en/ and click the link that asks "Do I have java?", which opens http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1 then the result is that I don't have the recommended version for my browser (iceweas

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

andy wrote: > Jeff D wrote: > >Thats odd, it should create a symlink to > >/etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so Agreed. > >what does update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so give you? > >it should give you something like this: > >/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplug

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course.

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

ArcticFox wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Again, what happens when you attempt to connect from/to the same > > Linux box? > > Both the remote terminal and local terminal give the same error. > (Request for subsystem... blah blah blah) Yes. Please debug this on the local host first. That will be m

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

On Fri July 6 2007 07:19:20 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee > future performance, but what has the experience been like for > non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that > Lenny is ready for a desktop

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have download

Possible problems with kscreensver in Lenny??

Hello all, After recent updates of kde from v3.5.5 to v3.5.7 on Lenny, my kscreensaver seems to have stopped working completely.  Also, Control Centre crashes when I try to access the Screen Saver section in Appearance and Themes (but seems OK elsewhere).   I have not altered the config at all be

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On 07/07/2007 10:30 AM, andy wrote: > Jeff D wrote: >> in iceweasel, if you put about:plugins in the address bar, >> does it show that the java plugin is loaded? >> > Yes, about:plugins shows 3 main groups of > application/x-java-bean, x-java-vm, and x-java-applet > > Am I supposed to be seein

WPA support for ipw2200?

I can't locate a good how-to for implementing WPA support in Etch or Lenny, and IIRC the gnome network manager doesn't support WPA. How are people making this work? Is there an up-to-date how-to somewhere that I haven't been able to find? -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of t

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

Kent West wrote: > I think at this point I'd try "aptitude purge ssh && aptitude install > ssh", from the command line. (It's irrational, I know, but I just don't > trust Synaptic as much as I do aptitude.) The 'ssh' package is a metapackage and contains nothing other than the dependencies. Pur

Re: Submit bug reports to Debian or upstream project?

Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > Is it preferable to submit a bug report to Debian or to the > upstream project? Assume it is not a Debian only package, like > GNOME for example. This is a judgement call on your part. If you have good detail about the problem and are confident that it is actually an upst

Re: /etc/inid.d/networking script

Jaime Ventura wrote: >I'm new to debian and Im using etch. I see you have already the answer but I wanted to add to it. >I've made some changes on the /etc/network/interfaces and was > hopping that "/etc/inid.d/networking restart" would apply the changes. >Big mistake. The interfaces

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which

Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth

On 07/07/07 09:31, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Matthew K Poer wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 4:12 am, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I like the new features of icedove 2 (thunderbird), but when I'm using a 56k modem, I noticed that it uses a lot of bandwidth (especially upon the first get messages of t

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

andy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Jeff D wrote: > >On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: <> > > I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any of > the three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it reports > that java6 is not installed. Hence, I w

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the appropri

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the appropriate plug-in), but: (i) is this th

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

On Jul 7, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:24:52 -0500, ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:54 PM, Kent West wrote: ArcticFox wrote: [ snip: sftp does not work from Apple box to Debian server, while ssh does work. ] You might "tail /var/log/auth.log"

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Tom Rauchenwald wrote: andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff D wrote: The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude install sun-java6-bin Thanks I've already done that - it still doesn't show up

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the appropriate plug-in), but: (i) is this the best thing to

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeff D wrote: >> >> The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your >> /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude >> install sun-java6-bin >> >> > Thanks > > I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any of

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the appropriate plug-in), but: (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system an

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

On Sat July 7 2007 05:00:06 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia > > graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia > > kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that a

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Martin Marcher wrote: Hi Martin Thanks for this info - I wasn't aware of a native Debian install. However, now that I have installed sun-java6-jre & bin the plug-in still doesn't appear to work. Has this been your experience, and if so do you have a suggestion on how to work this or ... ? for

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

On Sat July 7 2007 07:54:21 am Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Check your locale settings. I think that starting with Etch, the > > default locale is set to a UTF8 locale. That means that every > > application has to treat everything as unicode. AIUI, that makes things > > slower. This is espci

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote: Dear each Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the appropriate plug-in), but: (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and (ii) if so, h

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [SOLVED]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 19:49:55 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > I've now discovered why /dev/dsp disappeared - /dev/dsp is deleted when I run > alsaconf! This might be related to unreproducible bug #406738: alsa-utils: > Running alsaconf stops sound card from working[1]. Not quite the same beca

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

David Fox wrote: > > > On 06 Jul 2007 17:13:19 GMT, *Tyler Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > If you search the list you'll find several threads about people > switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless. > > > Kind of. But my las

Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:31:37PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Matthew K Poer wrote: > >> > >Look under preferances for a setting called "Fetch Message Headers Only." > >That should save you from having to download each message at once. > > > > with IMAP I only fetch message headers only (and

Re: setting default screen resolution for Gnome desktop

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 13:10 -0700, yong lee wrote: > Hi, Is there a way to set the default screen > resolution (to 1280x768. perhaps) for a debian Gnome > desktop ? I have 4 machines, but I have only 1 > monitor. Currently, I am using a Belkin monitor > switching device to switch from one machine t

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

On 06 Jul 2007 17:13:19 GMT, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you search the list you'll find several threads about people switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless. Kind of. But my last dist-upgrade involved grabbing a whole slew of texlive packages, and in p

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 22:19 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > My daily must-haves really are mild: base system, a brower (lynx or > links2), an editor, mutt, exim, fetchmail, and I like mc, and aptitude > (or apt-get or even dselect or plain dpkg in a pinch), along with > ppp/chat. It wouldn

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:07:59AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:24:49AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > Yes and no. For 99% of what I do, my 486 is fine. Although, after > > doing a drive-shell game to get Etch on it (it only has 32 MB ram so > > the

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

Hi Martin Thanks for this info - I wasn't aware of a native Debian install. However, now that I have installed sun-java6-jre & bin the plug-in still doesn't appear to work. Has this been your experience, and if so do you have a suggestion on how to work this or ... ? forgetting everytime that

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

system), I've got lots of room. OTOH, Stuff just takes up more and more memory. OTOH, there are no other hands (from __Fiddler_on_the_Roof__) That's been the case. I started on a 386sx with 4 megs of ram :). I already use TexLive. What happened to your / partition? How small was it. Is i

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: So my suggestion would be to bring your system right up-to-date across the board and then see if you still have the problem. I updated using "apt-get upgrade" and the problem still persisted. It may have to do with one of the modules I built and installed. So, to

Re: DNS server [was: dhcpd.conf questions]

Adam Hardy cyberspaceroad.com> writes: > I've moved on to the bells and whistles now that I've got my network up > again. > Now that I'm using DHCP I need some sort of DNS to locate the servers on my LAN > by name. > > I see I already have avahi-daemon, which is mDNS according to man, running

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear each > > Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I > need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is > the appropriate plug-in), but: > (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and > (ii)

Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth

Matthew K Poer wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 4:12 am, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I like the new features of icedove 2 (thunderbird), but when I'm using a 56k modem, I noticed that it uses a lot of bandwidth (especially upon the first get messages of the day); I'm using only IMAP. I think this

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:24:49AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Yes and no. For 99% of what I do, my 486 is fine. Although, after > doing a drive-shell game to get Etch on it (it only has 32 MB ram so > the installer doesn't work), its really much slower than sarge and > certainly slo

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

Hi Douglas, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee >future performance, but what has the experience been like for >non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that >Lenny is ready for a desktop ru

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

On 7/7/07, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Many thanks to all that provided their help. Mostly I found easy to use Thomas' suggestion: "Thomas Hoppeer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To verify data on your dvd you can also use star and readcd: > http://www.linuxconfig.org/Create_an

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

On 4 Jul., 15:10, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to > do may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could > burn my data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its content > in

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 08:40:11PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 7/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I ran Etch for about 6 months before it became stable since my new box > >required it. I'm runing amd64. > > I'm still on a (sniff) AMD Thunderbird 1000 mhz box. :) > >

Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth

On Saturday 07 July 2007 4:12 am, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Hi > > I like the new features of icedove 2 (thunderbird), but when I'm using a > 56k modem, I noticed that it uses a lot of bandwidth (especially upon > the first get messages of the day); I'm using only IMAP. > > I think this is due to th

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:44:29AM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On the other hand, I haven't really noticed any change between Etch > and Lenny, so if testing-Etch wasn't solid enough for you, I'm not > sure that testing-Lenny is going to be better. > Testing-Etch was just fine; I started someti

nss + pam + samba + ldap + rfc2307bis

Hello, I'm planning on restructuring our authentication services. Currently they're a simple LDAP setup with posixgroups which afaik makes dynamic groups impossible (correct me if i'm wrong, _please_ tell me how to do that). Googling around I found rfc2307biz, which makes in contrast to rfc2307

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

On 2007-07-07, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 6, 12:40 pm, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Presumably, >> if you just let apt handle all the upgrades you will probably find >> that you no longer have tetex by the time Etch goes stable, and all >> packages have bee

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

On Jul 6, 12:40 pm, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Presumably, > if you just let apt handle all the upgrades you will probably find > that you no longer have tetex by the time Etch goes stable, and all > packages have been replaced by texlive. Or something like that. > Is this a typo? E

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