Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Vi, 27 aug 10, 01:07:22, s. keeling wrote: > > I've my own complaints about pkg managers (*everything* drags in > CUPS!) Package managers are not responsible by the dependencies set by individual packages. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lis

Re: Mailing list protocol

On 8/25/2010 11:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I don't know anyone who gets irritated by seeing the usenet quoting style. Joel Spolsky does. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: ftp root password

On 8/26/2010 11:25 PM, J.H.Kim wrote: Hi, everyone My root password, for exmple, is 1234. When I do ftp to my debian, the password 1234 for root account is not permitted. Other user account is well operated with ftp. How can I fix it? Thanks in advance. J.Hwan Kim 1.) You did not give us

ftp root password

Hi, everyone My root password, for exmple, is 1234. When I do ftp to my debian, the password 1234 for root account is not permitted. Other user account is well operated with ftp. How can I fix it? Thanks in advance. J.Hwan Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Mailing list protocol

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:30:21PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: [...] > seem to be a soul who understands how to read email text, and how to > properly reply to a technical list (probably because they're all using > the crappy Gmail MUA): It's not that bad; I've actually grown fond of it and I'm a

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

On 8/26/2010 9:31 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 8/26/2010 5:08 PM, T o n g wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:03:55 +0200, Oliver Schneider wrote: (which lsb_release> /dev/null&& `which lsb_release` --id)|awk '{print $3}' ... does not work on older systems which don't have lsb_release, though. Is

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

On 8/26/2010 5:08 PM, T o n g wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:03:55 +0200, Oliver Schneider wrote: (which lsb_release> /dev/null&& `which lsb_release` --id)|awk '{print $3}' ... does not work on older systems which don't have lsb_release, though. Is lsb_release mandatory? I'm using latest te

Re: Mailing list protocol

Tixy : > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:46 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > >> noela...@gmail.com : > > >> > > >>> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the > > >>> text first and then hit reply, and only the selected section >

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

Joe : > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > s. keeling wrote: > >> T o n g : > >> > >>> Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates > >>> that would affect end users? > >> > >> I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up and says > >> production machines serving users

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

Osamu Aoki : > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:13:26PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > T o n g : > > > > > > I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it > > > OK to do so? > > > > Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a couple of years ago, saying > > essentially yes. aptitu

Re: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Paul Richards wrote: > > Everything else like the new boot scripts, upgrade to grub2, new > kernel, etc are working great. > > > -- > Paul Richards > @pauldoo > Don't forget the "aptitude purge ~c" to clean out all those leftover, and possibly conflicting, config

RE: Arrow keys won't scroll history in squeeze konsole/bash

Original Message > >> After an `aptitude full-upgrade` on a Squeeze system last Monday I've >> lost the use of the arrow keys to browse my history in konsole. >> >> If I switch to one of the VTs (ctrl-alt-F1, etc.) the keys work fine, >> and my history is present. However within konsole

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:03:55 +0200, Oliver Schneider wrote: > (which lsb_release > /dev/null && `which lsb_release` --id)|awk '{print > $3}' > > ... does not work on older systems which don't have lsb_release, though. Is lsb_release mandatory? I'm using latest testing and I don't have it. So if

Re: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

In <201008261613.03510@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >Thanks for the report. Mine is shorter: > >I used the heavily mixed system described above and tried (on a whim) the >upgrade last night as well. I simply issued (aptitude safe-upgrade -t >testing), and it failed to pro

Re: Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

On 08/26/2010 03:52 PM, James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Ross > wrote: On 08/26/2010 02:10 PM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/

Re: Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

James Stuckey writes: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Ross wrote: > It doesn't say anything. Honestly, I'd like to just know if it is > possible to play fm radio on this. I'm not sure if dvb-bt8xx is > necessary for that or not. This might help, although it might be a bit dated:

Re: Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Ross wrote: > On 08/26/2010 02:10 PM, James Stuckey wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've installed this card and identified it as this device: > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of > loading the modules I get all the way to the

Re: Huawei E220 on NetworkManager

On Tuesday 24 August 2010 22.33.48 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Freitag, 13. August 2010 schrieb Linux t-shirt: > > On Wednesday 11 August 2010 11.28.28 Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > has anyone out there been able to get NetworkManager to bring up a 3G > > > connection on a

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 18:29 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > I plan to use them stacked ... so that shouldn't be a problem IMO. > > Is your machine too speedy? There are other things you could do to > slow it down if that's important to you. *g* ... I'm already using mprime for that ;) > Yes,

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:30:30 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> To hold a Debian package not to be updated by apt-get >> >> echo $package hold | dpkg --set-selections >> >> Please note that such holding will not work for aptitude. . . > > I just tested. It worked for me. Please elaborate a bit more

Do apt-get and aptitude know each other's records

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:21:02 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Old information may not be valiad for new apt-get :-) > > You may see change in release note: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411280 On reading above, I think it is time for me to do away with aptitude and use back to m

Re: Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

On 08/26/2010 02:10 PM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of loading the modules I get all the way to the end, and "modprobe dvb-bt8xx". Then when I try to confirm it w

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:52:31 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:43 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > I presume you mean the cipher by Anderson, Biham and Knudsen. > Yep was there another one of the same name? > > > > I'm unaware of one, but I think it is a fai

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:43 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > I presume you mean the cipher by Anderson, Biham and Knudsen. Yep was there another one of the same name? > I'm unaware of one, but I think it is a fairly bad move to use > algorithms other than standard ones. Unless you have very

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:51:19 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Is there a implementation of SERPENT (for file encryption, not > disk) in Debian, except mcrypt (which is buggy and orphaned > according to its package description)? > > I mean a finished tool, not just a library. I presume you

Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of loading the modules I get all the way to the end, and "modprobe dvb-bt8xx". Then when I try to confirm it with "lsmod | grep dvb-bt8xx" nothing shows up. Can

Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of loading the modules I get all the way to the end, and "modprobe dvb-bt8xx". Then when I try to confirm it with "lsmod | grep dvb-bt8xx" nothing shows up. Can

Re: Mailing list protocol

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:46 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > >> noela...@gmail.com : > >>> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text > first > >>> and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be > quoted. > >>

Re: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

In , Paul Richards wrote: >Hi, >I recently upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I did the upgrade rather >haphazardly without much preplanning and the procedure turned out to >be a bit of a nightmare. You should always read the release notes (available as a WIP now) for the new release and use the u

RE: A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

Original Message > > I then tried "apt-get -f install", several times, which seemed to > clear up a lot of things. Eventually my repeated "apt-get -f install" > commands were just giving me the same udev error message. Apparently > udev and the kernel need to be updated at the same time,

Re: "*:80 has no VirtualHosts" --- again

On 8/26/10, Camaleón wrote: > How about your "/etc/apache2/ports.conf" file? Bingo! Remming out the dupeNameVirtualHost line does the trick!: # cat /etc/apache2/ports.conf # If you just change the port or add more ports here, you will likely also # have to change the VirtualHost statement in

SERPENT implementation in debian

Hi. Is there a implementation of SERPENT (for file encryption, not disk) in Debian, except mcrypt (which is buggy and orphaned according to its package description)? I mean a finished tool, not just a library. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: "*:80 has no VirtualHosts" --- again

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:20:25 -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: (...) > /etc/init.d# ./apache2 restart > Restarting web server: apache2[Thu Aug 26 20:09:37 2010] [warn] > NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts > ... waiting .[Thu Aug 26 20:09:39 2010] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 > has no VirtualHosts

"*:80 has no VirtualHosts" --- again

I have an up-to-date Lenny running in a linode virtual server (http://linode.com). Here's what I have installed apache2-wise: ii apache2-doc 2.2.9-10+lenny8 Apache HTTP Server documentation ii apache2-mpm-worker 2.2.9-10+lenny8 Apache HTTP Serve

Re: playing WMA (amd64)

On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:01 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 22. 08. 2010 20:15:55 je michael napisal(a): > > Evening all. I asked a similar question a while ago but didn't elicit > > any responses so am trying to understand from a different angle... > > which plug-ins do people use to play WMA fi

A warning how not to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

Hi, I recently upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I did the upgrade rather haphazardly without much preplanning and the procedure turned out to be a bit of a nightmare. I acknowledge that Squeeze is not fully released (just frozen), so I understand that there may not be any official upgrade guide ye

Re: playing WMA (amd64)

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 21:05 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 26 aug 10, 17:22:16, michael bane wrote: > > > > I'll try these suggestions. It's just under my new build (Lenny, > > amd64) that for all WMA files (the half dozen of so I've tried) played > > by audacious I cannot control the v

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

> > > > Original Message >From: tom.brow...@gmail.com >To: aaron.topo...@gmail.com >Subject: Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude >Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:51:29 -0500 > >>On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 19:23, Aaron Toponce > wrote: >>> On 08/25/2010 01:09 PM, T o n g wrote: I used to use either

Re: 2.6.34 Will Not Boot

> You should be able to install lvm on Knoppix. If you can't and have> access > to the net, you can download a Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu live cd,> install lvm, > and mount your LVslvm is on Knoppix. However, support for it is not build > into the kernel so it cannot mount them. I also cannot chroot--

Re: Now lost boot dir

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, wrote: >> > Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? >> > Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! >> >> As I said before, I have no experience with LVMs and therefore >> can't be of much help on a recovery.  Sorry. > > All of the data (

Re: Now lost boot dir

> > Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions?> > Best reply > > off list also. Thanks for any help!> > As I said before, I have no > > experience with LVMs and therefore> can't be of much help on a recovery.  > > Sorry.All of the data (except for the boot dir which was not in

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:59, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 08:51:29AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: >> Aside, can you post another blog (or another thread here) about why >> you use both Ubuntu and Debian? > > http://pthree.org/2009/02/19/server-migration-from-ubuntu-804-to-debian-5

Re: subversion-tools/svnmerge update?

On Jo, 26 aug 10, 00:29:11, Jeppe Øland wrote: > Looking closer, it seems subversion-tools is taken from the subversion > 1.6.x branch, and that branch hasn't been updated since early 2009. From http://subversion.apache.org/source-code.html : The best available version of Subversion is: 1.6.12

Re: playing WMA (amd64)

On Jo, 26 aug 10, 17:22:16, michael bane wrote: > > I'll try these suggestions. It's just under my new build (Lenny, > amd64) that for all WMA files (the half dozen of so I've tried) played > by audacious I cannot control the volume... But can we assume volume control works for other types of

Re: subversion-tools/svnmerge update?

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:18:24 -0700 Jeppe Øland wrote: > Hi there, > > It seems the svnmerge tool included in the subversion-tools package is > pretty ancient. > Whats the correct procedure to request an update? File a bug mentioning the existence of a newer tool upstream. Celejar -- foffl.sou

RE: Hauppauge WinTV Card

Original Message From: James Stuckey [mailto:jhstuc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:03 AM To: debian-user Subject: Hauppauge WinTV Card > Hi all, > > Does anyone know if there exists drivers for using these WinTV cards > from Hauppauge? I found an old one and I'd like to u

Re: Hauppauge WinTV Card

On 08/26/2010 09:02 AM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if there exists drivers for using these WinTV cards from Hauppauge? I found an old one and I'd like to use it on squeeze. On the top it says: PAL - B/G - I 44354 Rev A242 I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so please r

Re: playing WMA (amd64)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22 Aug 2010, at 20:01, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:15:55 +0100, michael wrote: Evening all. I asked a similar question a while ago but didn't elicit any responses so am trying to understand from a different angle... which plug-

Hauppauge WinTV Card

Hi all, Does anyone know if there exists drivers for using these WinTV cards from Hauppauge? I found an old one and I'd like to use it on squeeze. On the top it says: PAL - B/G - I 44354 Rev A242 I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so please reply to me directly. ciao, James

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 08:51:29AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > Aside, can you post another blog (or another thread here) about why > you use both Ubuntu and Debian? http://pthree.org/2009/02/19/server-migration-from-ubuntu-804-to-debian-50/ Long story short- Debian does a better job at package qu

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:27:58PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:23:56PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html#s-aptitude > > This needs update. This is very old. Why is this old? What is out-of-date? -- . O .

Re: Now lost boot dir

Le 26/08/2010 à 14:09, David Baron a écrit : > > Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? Best reply off > list also. Thanks for any help! > > I just subscribe to the list and have only the abovz message, which is not enought for me to understand your problem :( Can you

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 25 aug 10, 21:49:28, T o n g wrote: Hi, Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would affect end users? weather.debian.net Unstable is sunny right now for amd64, but if you go into details you'll see that a lot of apt-related packages a

Re: Now lost boot dir

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:09:16 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: > > Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? > Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! As I said before, I have no experience with LVMs and therefore can't be of much help on a recovery. Sorry. -- .''`.

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 19:23, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 08/25/2010 01:09 PM, T o n g wrote: >> I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to >> do so? > > Yes. However, aptitude is a much more powerful program. Check my blog > post on the many reasons to use aptitude o

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:08:10PM +, T o n g wrote: > First of all, sorry that I miss read your meaning. > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:47:30 -0400, Anticept . wrote: > > > Can apt-get hold back package updates like aptitude? This might be one > > of them. > > Yes, it can, but it's done at the

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:23:56PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 08/25/2010 01:09 PM, T o n g wrote: > > I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to > > do so? > > Yes. However, aptitude is a much more powerful program. Check my blog > post on the many reasons to

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

Hi, On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:13:26PM +, s. keeling wrote: > T o n g : > > > > I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it > > OK to do so? > > I've not read your link. > > Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a couple of years ago, saying > essentially yes. a

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:08:10PM +, T o n g wrote: > First of all, sorry that I miss read your meaning. > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:47:30 -0400, Anticept . wrote: > > > Can apt-get hold back package updates like aptitude? This might be one > > of them. > > Yes, it can, but it's done at the

Re: Now lost boot dir

On 08/26/2010 06:09 AM, David Baron wrote: > Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? I'm assuming that you have more than one disk? Are they the same size? If so, you should have been using Linux software RAID to prevent the volume from losing data. Not much you can do at thi

Re: Eye Candy Window Manager

On 08/26/2010 12:37 AM, Jangita wrote: > Hello List, > > When it comes to graphics and linux, is there a Eye Candy window manager > out there; for me if I'm to go GUI and I have a powerful graphics card > humming under the hood; I'd like something that looks nice, shadows, > transparent well drawn

Re: Mailing list protocol

On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> noela...@gmail.com : >>> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first >>> and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. >> Yep. "Pan" (a nntp newsreader) has such option. > > So does Claws-mai

Re: Mailing list protocol

> noela...@gmail.com : >> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first >> and then hit reply, and only the selected section will be quoted. >Yep. "Pan" (a nntp newsreader) has such option. So does Claws-mail. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat:

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: s. keeling wrote: T o n g : Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would affect end users? For example, the recent massive update on the sid repo side, I know it is I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up

Now lost boot dir

Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100826110

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Re: Eye Candy Window Manager

On 8/26/2010 4:00 AM, Camaleón wrote: KDE4 3D desktop http://bit.ly/aWuFXa GNOME 3D desktop http://bit.ly/cQSO2l Greetings, Definably KDE4, I've almost ditched GNOME for the new KDE, seriously, but I just can't do it. Not yet at least. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Eye Candy Window Manager

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:22:30 +0400, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote: > >> On 08/26/2010 12:07 PM, Jangita wrote: >> > Hello List, >> > >> > When it comes to graphics and linux, is there a Eye Candy window >> > manager out there; for me if I'm to

Re: Mailing list protocol

Hey! > On 08/25/2010 10:52 AM, Gary Roach wrote: snippy > I sent this email to the chromium-discuss mailing list, as there > doesn't seem to be a soul who understands how to read email text, and > how to properly reply to a technical list (probably because they're > all using the crappy Gmail MUA)

Re: subversion-tools/svnmerge update?

>> It seems the svnmerge tool included in the subversion-tools package is >> pretty ancient. >> Whats the correct procedure to request an update? > > Do you mean stable/lenny/5.0 ? No new versions are included in a stable > release (that's why it's called stable). Try backports.org or wait for > th

Re: Broken deps?

On 25 Aug 2010, B. Alexander wrote: >I went to upgrade a sid box today and found that libapt-pkg-libc6.0-6-4.8 >appears to be broken. I got a number of messages saying: > >Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 which is a virtual package. > >Which means aptitude wants to remove things

Re: Eye Candy Window Manager

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 08/26/2010 12:07 PM, Jangita wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > When it comes to graphics and linux, is there a Eye Candy window > > manager out there; for me if I'm to go GUI and I have a powerful > > graphics card humming under the hood;