Re: Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC ...

2011-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-03-14 01:06 +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > ~ > in order to run dpkg-scanpackages, I need to install first lzma, > patch, libtimedate-perl and dpkg-dev, which I do via dpkg --install (I > have done this before without any problems whatsoever) This is very much not recommended, since dpk

Re: Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC ...

2011-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 13, 2011 8:06 PM, "Albretch Mueller" wrote: > > ~ > in order to run dpkg-scanpackages, I need to install first lzma, > patch, libtimedate-perl and dpkg-dev, which I do via dpkg --install (I > have done this before without any problems whatsoever), but then when > I try to run dpkg-scanpack

Re: Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC ...

2011-03-13 Thread Albretch Mueller
Also, let me point out that perl is installed on my default system: $ uname -a Linux Microknoppix 2.6.37 #13 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 23 23:54:32 CET 2011 i686 GNU/Linux $ which perl /usr/bin/perl $ perl --version This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 51 registered p

Re: modem symlink in /dev

2011-03-13 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Martin, On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:16:43PM +0100, Martin wrote: > I installed martian-modem and martian-modem-source that work fine > but after each reboot I have to issue command: > # ln -s /dev/ttySM0 /dev/modem The device symlink created by the martian-modem daemon (/dev/ttySM0 by default)

debian packages to view x3d files

2011-03-13 Thread briand
Hi all, can't seem to find one. and I'm having a terrible time trying to get any of the x3d viewers built. the plugins are even worse since they have javascript dependencies I can't figure out. any suggestions ? that would include suggestions on a better 3d viewing format. I can't figure ou

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 13:53, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > If I recall correctly, the question was about Windows solutions.  Many > of those suggested are Linux only.  I don't know about Ekiga but my > guess would be it is running on cygwin which introduces a considerable > shim between Ekiga

Seagate Barracuda drives?

2011-03-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
There has been much talk about the WD 2TB drives and the problems that they can have with linux. I just went into an electronics store that is going out of business and has 40% off all drives. For internal drives, all they have are Seagate Barracudas. They have 1.5 TB and 2 TB drives running

evince reload: weird behaviour ?

2011-03-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have just notice the following (weird ?) behaviour. When I view a pdf file with evince, if I move (`mv') a new pdflatexed version of this file, I have to reload it manually in evince. But if I touch (`touch') the new pdflatexed version, evince reloads it as expected. Is there an

Question about mii-tool

2011-03-13 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! Doing several tests with mii-tool, I'm noting that it works on some hardware but in others it does not. In all cases I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze with Linux 2.6.32 from Debian repositories. - defiant:~# lspci | grep

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 05:35:16PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Just checking :-) module-assisitant has never failed me once prepared > properly. Mind you, I've never tried to compile and install lirc. > > Anyway, apt-file reports that the files include/linux/autoconf.h and > include/config/auto.c

Re: Security of the browsers

2011-03-13 Thread Dan
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 13 mar 11, 20:11:22, Dan wrote: >> Yes I think that I was using woody or sarge and it took for ever to >> update. Then I switched to Ubuntu. > > Sarge was released almost 6 years ago, hence my wondering ;) AFAIK sarge > was also the b

Re: Security of the browsers

2011-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 13 mar 11, 20:11:22, Dan wrote: > Yes I think that I was using woody or sarge and it took for ever to > update. Then I switched to Ubuntu. Sarge was released almost 6 years ago, hence my wondering ;) AFAIK sarge was also the big exception in Debian release history. > > You seem to assume

Re: Security of the browsers

2011-03-13 Thread John Hasler
Dan writes: > The Debian approach is to freeze the version and apply themselves the > patches. In my opinion this is worse because the mozilla/chromium > project should know better the problems/security issues related with > their browsers right? But do they care as much? They seem more intereste

Re: Security of the browsers

2011-03-13 Thread Dan
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 13 mar 11, 19:30:30, Dan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have been using Ubuntu for a while for my desktop and I am planning >> to come back to Debian stable because there is now a two-year release >> cycle which is more reasonable. > > Debian

Re: kde missing documentation

2011-03-13 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:40 Sun 13 Mar, Andreas Goesele (goes...@hfph.mwn.de) wrote: > Hi! > > I just noticed that (after upgrading to squeeze) I'm missing all kde > documentation. I visit help for instance for Konqueror and get the error > message: > > The file or folder help:/konqueror/index.html does not exist.

Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC ...

2011-03-13 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ in order to run dpkg-scanpackages, I need to install first lzma, patch, libtimedate-perl and dpkg-dev, which I do via dpkg --install (I have done this before without any problems whatsoever), but then when I try to run dpkg-scanpackages, I get: ~ ~ ~ ~ Can't locate Dpkg.p

Re: Security of the browsers

2011-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 13 mar 11, 19:30:30, Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Ubuntu for a while for my desktop and I am planning > to come back to Debian stable because there is now a two-year release > cycle which is more reasonable. Debian does not have a fixed release cycle, and probably never will. M

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Mar 2011 at 00:02:50 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most > important contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed > Ekiga and signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP addresses, but the sound > quality was very choppy and unusable. T

Re: Xorg sever does not work in squeeze for me

2011-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 13 mar 11, 22:39:46, Martin wrote: > Now in squeeze there is no Xorg.conf file to be found! And [of course] > I did not save a backup of the old one. Thats ok in most cases, Xorg should work fine without one. > Also my graphic card is rather old one [MGA G100] with 6Mb RAM. > > Bellow I

Security of the browsers

2011-03-13 Thread Dan
Hi, I have been using Ubuntu for a while for my desktop and I am planning to come back to Debian stable because there is now a two-year release cycle which is more reasonable. My worried is related with the security of the browser. The Ubuntu approach is to use the latest version of mozilla or th

Re: DVDs mirrored on http://localhost is untrusted

2011-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I have copyed all DVDs to external USB HD and made it available to > aptitude as described in http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html. It > works fine but everytime I install a package I get a warning something > like: > > > ┌───

Re: modem symlink in /dev

2011-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Martin wrote: > I installed martian-modem and martian-modem-source that work fine > but after each reboot I have to issue command: > # ln -s /dev/ttySM0 /dev/modem > > Is there some option for module to create this symlink automaticaly. > Where do I put such an op

kde missing documentation

2011-03-13 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi! I just noticed that (after upgrading to squeeze) I'm missing all kde documentation. I visit help for instance for Konqueror and get the error message: The file or folder help:/konqueror/index.html does not exist. In the help window: There is no documentation available for /konqueror/index.h

Re: regular user can't umount automount drive

2011-03-13 Thread briand
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:34:55 + Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On 11 March 2011 06:32, wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Here's the option line from the auto.media file: > > > > /media/thingy  -fstype=vfat,users,flush,rw,umask=   :/dev/ipod > > > > I could have sworn this was working... > > > > I po

modem symlink in /dev

2011-03-13 Thread Martin
I installed martian-modem and martian-modem-source that work fine but after each reboot I have to issue command: # ln -s /dev/ttySM0 /dev/modem Is there some option for module to create this symlink automaticaly. Where do I put such an option? Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Xorg sever does not work in squeeze for me

2011-03-13 Thread Martin
Hello, I have problem to start X server on newly installed squeeze. I installed Debian without Desktop first. Then when system was running OK in console I installed xorg package and xdm. During the boot proces xdm starts but the picture on monitor is distorterd (unreadeable/unusable). Lower half of

DVDs mirrored on http://localhost is untrusted

2011-03-13 Thread Martin
Hi, I have copyed all DVDs to external USB HD and made it available to aptitude as described in http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html. It works fine but everytime I install a package I get a warning something like: ┌

Re: regular user can't umount automount drive

2011-03-13 Thread george.stand...@gmail.com
> The option specified by mount(8)'s manpage is "user", not "users". I > don't recall if that relates to the automounter at all. Your statement regarding user vs users is correct. It doesn't affect the automounter however, as I don't have an fstab line regarding my external drives - this may be t

Re: firewall: iptables vs ufw/gufw

2011-03-13 Thread Joe
On 13/03/11 15:15, Michael Friendly wrote: On 3/12/2011 5:55 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 11 mar 11, 14:56:42, Michael Friendly wrote: - Do I have to install/enable the rules from iptables for ssh, samba, etc within ufw? First you need to f

Re: regular user can't umount automount drive

2011-03-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 11 March 2011 06:32, wrote: > Howdy, > > Here's the option line from the auto.media file: > > /media/thingy  -fstype=vfat,users,flush,rw,umask=   :/dev/ipod > > I could have sworn this was working... > > I posted a while back and found out that the "users" option had to be in > there. The

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:43 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:02:50 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most important > > contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed Ekiga and > > signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP address

Re: Selinux on a Squeeze Desktop

2011-03-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Josep M. Gasso wrote: > Hello. > > I would like ask if someone have in his home a Desktop/Server machine > what runs selinux, my Debian Squeeze machine is always on and is a > mailserver too. > > So, I would like if there is any desktop problems with selinux, and

Re: regular user can't umount automount drive

2011-03-13 Thread george.stand...@gmail.com
Brian, I am experiencing the same issue with external EXT formatted drives with the automounter (in Gnome). They mount just fine, but I must become root to umount them. If you find a solution, please share it with the mailing list ;) Best of luck, George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-13 Thread Octavian Afilipoai
I had the same problem until I installed some of the optional acroread packages (acroread-plugins and mozilla-acroread). That fixed the issue and now I can fill in and save pdf forms --Tavi

Re: Selinux on a Squeeze Desktop

2011-03-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 3/13/11, Josep M. Gasso wrote: > I would like ask if someone have in his home a > Desktop/Server machine > what runs selinux, my Debian Squeeze machine is always on > and is a > mailserver too. I run Fedora. (And have since FC3.) SELinux is installed by default. It has problems.

Re: Octave crashed

2011-03-13 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
On Saturday 12 of March 2011 22:56:48 you wrote: > 2011/3/12 Zbigniew Komarnicki > > > I do this but with no success. Thank you anyway. > > > > Zbigniew > > Hmm. But i dont think the problem has to do with the processor, since I am > running octave in a very > similar one (athlon xp 2600). I am

Re: firewall: iptables vs ufw/gufw

2011-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 13 mar 11, 11:15:28, Michael Friendly wrote: > > For example, there is currently one rule allowing me to ssh from a > PC in my office > > iptables -A INPUT -s 130.xxx.xxx.xx/32 -p tcp --destination-port 22 > -j ACCEPT > > I can mimic this for another PC (e.g., in my lab), but I'd like to

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-03-13 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 27 February 2011 21:58:47 David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 20 February 2011 21:42:29 David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 February 2011 22:56:40 David Baron wrote: > > > On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: > > > > On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-dige

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-13, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:03:15AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2011-03-13, Rob Owens wrote: >> > When I run 'm-a a-i lirc' I get this error: >> > >> > echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ >> > echo " inclu

Re (2): SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-13 Thread peasthope
* From: Dotan Cohen * Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:02:50 +0200 > Is there an better softphone? You can try Twinkle. The contact list and configuration are text file based; design is generally spartan; no video. > Is there a better sip address service than ekiga.net? I use it with Twi

Re: [OT] errors with g++-4.5 not with g++-4.4

2011-03-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Axel Freyn wrote: Hi Hugo, Thanks Axel. It is stranger yet: 1. mutrec is defined in aa.cpp 2. It is used as extern in mc.cpp, grafrs.cpp and setfile.cpp 3. But g++-4.5 only finds undefined referenes in mc.cpp and grafrs.cpp, *not* in setfile.cpp 4. Yet the extern for mutrec is defined in all

Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?

2011-03-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 07:07:50PM +, darkestkhan wrote: You know you are arguing with people who have been using sid under controlled and considerate ways for YEARS. (Not just a year.) > 2011/3/12 John Hasler : > > darkestkhan writes: > >> ...I don't see a reason why should I do dist-u

Re: firewall: iptables vs ufw/gufw

2011-03-13 Thread Michael Friendly
On 3/12/2011 5:55 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 11 mar 11, 14:56:42, Michael Friendly wrote: - Do I have to install/enable the rules from iptables for ssh, samba, etc within ufw? First you need to find out exactly how the iptables rules are

Selinux on a Squeeze Desktop

2011-03-13 Thread Josep M. Gasso
Hello. I would like ask if someone have in his home a Desktop/Server machine what runs selinux, my Debian Squeeze machine is always on and is a mailserver too. So, I would like if there is any desktop problems with selinux, and if speed is also affected. Any advice will be appreciated, I plan in

Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-13 Thread Dom
On 13/03/11 13:58, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:06:58 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) The manual page should be then updated accordingly to reflect the current status of the "--names-only" argument :-) Done: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618017 Thank you, I sho

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:03:15AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-03-13, Rob Owens wrote: > > When I run 'm-a a-i lirc' I get this error: > > > > echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ > > echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/au

Re: [OT] errors with g++-4.5 not with g++-4.4

2011-03-13 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Hugo, > > > > Thanks Axel. It is stranger yet: > > 1. mutrec is defined in aa.cpp > > 2. It is used as extern in mc.cpp, grafrs.cpp and setfile.cpp > > 3. But g++-4.5 only finds undefined referenes in mc.cpp and grafrs.cpp, > > *not* in setfile.cpp > > 4. Yet the extern for mutrec is defined

Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:06:58 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) > The manual page should be then updated accordingly to reflect the > current status of the "--names-only" argument :-) Done: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618017 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?

2011-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 13 mar 11, 13:33:40, darkestkhan wrote: > > In which case I'm manually intervening, though aptitude is solving > this problem in most cases for me really gracefully. Running apt-get > dist-upgrade would cause removal of ~2GB ( latex, fonts, and few other > ) of packages just to get slightly

Re: [OT] errors with g++-4.5 not with g++-4.4

2011-03-13 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Hugo, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:35:55PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Axel Freyn wrote: >> Hi Hugo, >> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:17:19AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am looking for your opinion as to whose bug this is. >>> >>> I have a C++ project ( http://gpc-qt.sourcefor

Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?

2011-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 12 mar 11, 12:32:47, Aniruddha wrote: > I've collected some best practices for running Debian unstable, I'm > curious to hear what other Debian unstable users do to minimize > possible problems with running Debian unstable. My current list: Did you consider starting a wiki page about it?

Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?

2011-03-13 Thread darkestkhan
2011/3/13 Andrei Popescu : > On Sb, 12 mar 11, 19:07:50, darkestkhan wrote: >> >> I'm running sid / experimental so dist-upgrade in my case is almost >> like throwing away half of the system; And I'm using aptitude >> safe-upgrade which is good solution. Also frequent ( I'm doing upgrade >> at leas

Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?

2011-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 12 mar 11, 19:07:50, darkestkhan wrote: > > I'm running sid / experimental so dist-upgrade in my case is almost > like throwing away half of the system; And I'm using aptitude > safe-upgrade which is good solution. Also frequent ( I'm doing upgrade > at least 2 times a day ) upgrades are re

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:02:50 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most important > contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed Ekiga and > signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP addresses, but the sound quality was very > choppy and unusable. The

Re: SSH Issue

2011-03-13 Thread Michael Thompson
This is now solved. MaxAuthRetries was set to 1, so when the server rejected the ID, it exceeded the value. Increasing this amount so the server could procede to password interactive login worked and let me send the new keyfile to server. Thanks for all your help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: SSH Issue

2011-03-13 Thread Michael Thompson
On 13 March 2011 02:28, Adrian Levi wrote: > On the server to get key based auth working you must: > 1)Have the correct permissions on .ssh/* Permissions on all ~/.ssh are fine and correct at 0644 > 2) have your public key in authorized_keys Both authorized_keys on the server and client have be

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-13, Rob Owens wrote: > When I run 'm-a a-i lirc' I get this error: > > echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ > echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf > are missing."; \ > echo " Run 'make oldc

Re: regular user can't umount automount drive

2011-03-13 Thread briand
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:17:47 +0100 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 11. 03. 2011 07:32:31 je bri...@aracnet.com napisal(a): > > Howdy, > > > > Here's the option line from the auto.media file: > > > > /media/thingy > > -fstype=vfat,users,flush,rw,umask= :/dev/ipod > > > > I could have sworn this