how to build a debian package from .run file

2011-12-09 Thread lina
Hi, Can someone provides some links/tutorials about how to build a debian package from a .run file. On debian, I tried the ./filename.run --buildpkg Debian/sid it popped up lots of errors. Thanks with best regards, lina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

CUI tool for converting FLAC/Wav bit/stability.

2011-12-09 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I wonder if there is in Debian a CUI tool for converting FLAC/Wav files from >16bit, >44kHz sound quality to 16bit, 44kHz? Thanks for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Working bootable USB boot stick, can bootable ISO be created from it?

2011-12-09 Thread vr
On 09.12.2011 19:10, Brian wrote: On Fri 09 Dec 2011 at 17:30:18 -0500, vr wrote: As the title says; can a bootable ISO be created easily somehow off a working bootable USB stick that is formatted FAT? I would have thought so. dd gives you an exact copy of everything on the stick. I tr

Re: Planning a Debian Pure Blend: Halconix

2011-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Luis Arturo Roa Mora wrote: > * Using the Debian Pure Blend approach. Are you sure about that? It sounds like what you want to do is the opposite of a Debian Pure Blend. > * We plan to use Gnome 2.32 desktop environment for its stability and for > their support o

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread doug
On 12/09/2011 09:04 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:01 PM, doug > wrote: On 12/09/2011 06:37 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: Labelling the partitions sensibly is probably a better plan. OK, I'll bite. How do you label the partit

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:01:47 -0500, doug wrote: > OK, I'll bite. How do you label the partitions? I was under the > impression that they would have to be called / or /home or /boot, and so > on. I think you are confusing partition labels with mount points. Scroogle is your friend. -- To UN

Re: Planning a Debian Pure Blend: Halconix

2011-12-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Luis, On 11-12-09 at 02:25pm, Luis Arturo Roa Mora wrote: > It is intended to re-re-release Halconix: > > * Using the Debian Pure Blend approach. > * Modify the installer again, this time including only the graphic > one. > * We plan to use Gnome 2.32 desktop environment for its stability a

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:01 PM, doug wrote: > On 12/09/2011 06:37 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> Labelling the partitions sensibly is probably a better plan. >> >> >> OK, I'll bite. How do you label the partitions? I was under the > impression > that they would have to be called / or /home or /b

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread doug
On 12/09/2011 06:37 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:24:56 -0500, doug wrote: /snip/ Hint: if you run more than one Linux distro, within each Documents directory, put a filename that says pclos, or ubuntu, or whatever, so when you select a partition, you can figure out what syst

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 09 December 2011 12:29:17 Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. > I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone > else? I would like to do some comparison shopping. > > Thank you. HP ships laptops with Freedos, or enterprise

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Dell maybe still does this. They used to a while ago.On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, doug wrote: > On 12/09/2011 04:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of > > System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do > > some

Re: Working bootable USB boot stick, can bootable ISO be created from it?

2011-12-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Dec 2011 at 17:30:18 -0500, vr wrote: > As the title says; can a bootable ISO be created easily somehow off a > working bootable USB stick that is formatted FAT? I would have thought so. dd gives you an exact copy of everything on the stick. > I tried dd if=/dev/sdb of=/tmp/myboot.is

ISO fail

2011-12-09 Thread zzrt
Both: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso Don't now about other architectures. Xfce/LXDE and more are missing on the ISO images. Ins

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:24:56 -0500, doug wrote: > On 12/09/2011 04:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware >> of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like >> to do some comparison shopping. >> >> Thank you. >> >

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread doug
On 12/09/2011 04:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do some comparison shopping. Thank you. I think I've heard that Asus will ship with Linux, and perhaps

Working bootable USB boot stick, can bootable ISO be created from it?

2011-12-09 Thread vr
As the title says; can a bootable ISO be created easily somehow off a working bootable USB stick that is formatted FAT? I tried dd if=/dev/sdb of=/tmp/myboot.iso but probably that won't ever work since they're a different media structure. Any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Wheezy: Iceweasel: Bank login fails with "Skype buttons for kopete" plugin disabled

2011-12-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > I struggled with this problem for a while and was able to identify it to > > the "pluginreg.dat" file in my profile and then to the enabled/disabled > > state of the "Skype buttons" plugin. If the plugin enabled then I can > > log in, if it's disabled then I

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread der.hans
Am 09. Dec, 2011 schwätzte Richard Owlett so: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do some comparison shopping. ZaReason. Emporor Linux has been around for a long time. ciao, der.hans

New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do some comparison shopping. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

phpBB new version " Bertie's off to the beach

2011-12-09 Thread phpBB Support
The new version of phpBB forums is now available. We recommend that you update your forum to this new secure version for more stablity and minor features. We provide paid services, so we can update the forum for you . Also we provide many services like : new unique style for your forum, installin

Planning a Debian Pure Blend: Halconix

2011-12-09 Thread Luis Arturo Roa Mora
Hello everyone, Greetings from Xalapa, Ver México, My name is Luis Mora Arturo Roa, the reason for this message is to requesthelp from the community to take forward a project we have in mind here in the UV http:// www.uv.mx/ The project itself has already launched a year ago, it's name is Halconix

Re: X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Brian Flaherty
On 12/09/2011 09:32 AM, Michel Blankleder wrote: On Friday 09 December 2011 18:15:39 Alan Chandler wrote: On 09/12/11 17:07, Alan Chandler wrote: Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. just seen a message on debian-kde that implies it could have been libdrm-intel1 Last week I had a

Re: X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Michel Blankleder
On Friday 09 December 2011 18:15:39 Alan Chandler wrote: > On 09/12/11 17:07, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. > > just seen a message on debian-kde that implies it could have been > libdrm-intel1 Last week I had a problem playing videos. When I tried to wa

Re: X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On 09/12/11 17:07, Alan Chandler wrote: Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. just seen a message on debian-kde that implies it could have been libdrm-intel1 -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Chandler
Since yesterday (and I presume something which got updated in my SID desktop) I can reliably crash X when running Mythtv. I just move the mouse about/offscreen. It doesn't lockup, like is normally the case, rather I instantly logout, and am left with the gdm login screen. Looking at the end

Re: Counting occurances of a word in a file.

2011-12-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:34:45 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Yes, you are right. My suggestion doesn't work if a word appears more > than once in a line since only lines which contain the word are counted. > Sorry for the confusion. PMFJI. Never mind; *I'm* glad you mentioned it anyway. I have

OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
Sorry for the cross post I hadn't seen any chatter about this on the lists. It would seem that Download.com got caught with their pants down and were re-wrapping F/OSS with their own installer and bundling adware, spyware and malware with it. NMap's author, over at insecure.org got pretty hot abou

Re: xfce4-panel often stops running?

2011-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bob Proulx wrote: Is anyone else seeing a lot of crashes of xfce4-panel in stock Squeeze stable? It frequently drops off the screen and stops running. No messages related to this are logged to ~/.xsession-errors. Restarting it with Alt-F2 xfce4-panel brings it back up again. But of course it

Re: Counting occurances of a word in a file.

2011-12-09 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Yes, you are right. My suggestion doesn't work if a word appears more than once in a line since only lines which contain the word are counted. Sorry for the confusion. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Chile Connection.

2011-12-09 Thread Lisi
On Friday 09 December 2011 10:46:41 Weaver wrote: > There's a group starting up in a University in Chile to promote Free Open > Source software. I suggest that they get in touch with the Free Technology Academy: It is connected to/a project of the Free Knowledge Institut

debian live username and password

2011-12-09 Thread tadziu
hi, it's strange but debian-live-lxde stable does not login automaticly, when run from usb hdd. i've installed it on a stick with LiveUSB Install. instead gdm requires username and password. unfortunetaly any combo of username and password 'live' and 'user' do not work. i've done really detalied

Re: Counting occurances of a word in a file.

2011-12-09 Thread afuentes
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 09:15 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > With a modern grep version it is even more simple: > > grep -c 'the' /path/to/file.txt i just tested with grep 2.9 and -c and -o does not get along well :) -c only is able to count lines within file and no the lines of output (gener

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-09 Thread afuentes
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 19:55 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Sorry... but is this *your* system? It seems there is a 'Beep' in the mixer: > > Simple mixer control 'Beep',0 >Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum >Playback channels: Mono >Limits: Playback 0 - 3

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-09 Thread afuentes
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 17:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > The beep started months ago¹ in testing (in that time there was GNOME3 > but no "gnome-shell") and came back again but still have not found a way > to silence it. Well, for me it started 4 months ago when i bought this computer and installed t

Re: no sound with flash videos....

2011-12-09 Thread Guo, Xunhua
Hi Jeff, Thank you so much! But the fact is that I had been using pulseaudio for more than half year and everything worked well until last week. I tried removing pulseaudio but it doesn't help. I also tried reinitializing alsa, but no luck. I think the problem exists in the adobe flash plugin, b

Re: Counting occurances of a word in a file.

2011-12-09 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With a modern grep version it is even more simple: grep -c 'the' /path/to/file.txt I'm to lazy to look up when this feature was introduced. It works at least with grep version 2.9. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject