Re: Checking for installed package

2013-05-24 Thread Dom
On 25/05/13 06:30, Kip Warner wrote: Hey list, I'd like to know the most reliable way for a bash script to verify that a package is installed on the user's system. I've looked already at dpkg, dpkg-query, and aptitude. These are the constraints: 1. It needs to work on any stock Debian

Checking for installed package

2013-05-24 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I'd like to know the most reliable way for a bash script to verify that a package is installed on the user's system. I've looked already at dpkg, dpkg-query, and aptitude. These are the constraints: 1. It needs to work on any stock Debian based system, e.g. aptitude not

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Dom
On 24/05/13 22:08, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas I've been using Sil3114 based cards in two of my

Re: Debian 6 query - how to adjust mouse double click sensitivity

2013-05-24 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 24 May 2013, Wayne Topa wrote: On 05/24/2013 10:01 AM, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am running Debian 6, with GNOME 2.30.2 (I think; when I select Help-> About, with a GNOME application, that is the version number shown). I have recently noticed a problem, with uncontrollable double (o

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 24 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 24 mai 13, 09:56:44, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Nothing in particular. Just "in general." For example say, in the > > future, a particular version of an app from Stable repo is giving me > > trouble or I need some feature(s) that's only in a

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk? [SOLVED]

2013-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Dan Hitt wrote On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Hi Rick, fdisk and cfdisk are being honest with you. 2.19T is the limit. But you can partition it as gpt, and have many many partitions on it, or i believe one huge one. You can use the live gparted cd to do it. (ubuntu will

problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-24 Thread Larry Johnson
I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what additional info I might need to pull together). I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my install seems to be afflicted with a very old bug which was closed with no resolution. It was bug 636874

Re: PDF index

2013-05-24 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:18:30PM +0800, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > Hello world! > > Some pdf files has a built-in index that can be used for navigation, which > in most cases, are shown in the left side plate of the PDF browser, for > example `evince`. If still not clear, you may think of latex g

Re: virtual host/user and gui configuration

2013-05-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
apt-cache show packagename might give you some details about that package. There are a number of webmail packages to choose from. Who is this mail server for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: Debian 6 query - how to adjust mouse double click sensitivity

2013-05-24 Thread Wayne Topa
On 05/24/2013 10:01 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 6, with GNOME 2.30.2 (I think; when I select Help-> > About, with a GNOME application, that is the version number shown). > > I have recently noticed a problem, with uncontrollable double (or > multiple) mouse clicks, when

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/05/13 05:08 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas thanks! Pol I think most of us prefer softwa

cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Debian 6 query - how to adjust mouse double click sensitivity

2013-05-24 Thread Valery Mamonov
I have faced this problem too, googling was unsuccessful. 2013/5/24 Bret Busby > Hello. > > I am running Debian 6, with GNOME 2.30.2 (I think; when I select Help-> > About, with a GNOME application, that is the version number shown). > > I have recently noticed a problem, with uncontrollable do

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

2013-05-24 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Success!. Thank you, Gary. I downloaded the 64 bit verison of the boot repair disk and it works; the 32 bit version did not. Somehow the MBR seems to have gone out of sync with grubsdevices. It looks as if, especially when you chroot to a mountpoint this can happen. If root is mounted on /mnt I

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 May 2013 at 07:26:57 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > Well, there is a solution: marking all the dependencies of the > > meta-package as manually installed, that is, faking that you installed > > them explicitly Aptitude

Re: "configuration of openssl" or "how to adjust openssl.cnf".

2013-05-24 Thread Slavko
Dňa 24.05.2013 18:39 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote / napísal(a): > Googling "site:debian.org openssl.cnf" yields bug reports and > complaints. > > Is openssl.cnf documented? try this http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php/ regards -- Slavko http://slavino.sk signature.asc Description

Re: Need help setting up bluetooth file transfers

2013-05-24 Thread recoverym4n
> paired my desktop computer and my tablet but file transfers failed. The > tablet said the failure was because the computer does not use obexftp so > I installed obexftp and obexfs. hciconfig found the bluetooth device to > be hci0 so I entered the command Hi. Packages you've installed are '

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 mai 13, 09:56:44, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Nothing in particular. Just "in general." For example say, in the > future, a particular version of an app from Stable repo is giving me > trouble or I need some feature(s) that's only in a newer version, and > I want to search ONLY backports

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 24 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 mai 13, 20:39:40, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, > > etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search > > Wheezy-backports. Is there one? I'm sure there is. I'm just not > >

"configuration of openssl" or "how to adjust openssl.cnf".

2013-05-24 Thread peasthope
Hello again, To make an own CA, try to sign a certificate. carnot:/etc/ssl/localcerts# openssl ca -in daltonOpenVPN.csr -out daltonOpenVPN.crt Using configuration from /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf Error opening CA private key ./demoCA/private/cakey.pem ... carnot:/etc/ssl/localcerts# cd .. carnot:

Re: Troubleshooting apt-get -f install

2013-05-24 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:02:06 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [...] > > What am I missing? How should I help APT here? Does the > > wiki page need update? > > There is also this note: > > If apt-get is not able to install libqtwebkit4:i386 as > dependency, try with aptitude (If you know what

Re: MySQL slow and high load with Debian Wheezy (was: [whole mail text])

2013-05-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Andrei, How could that KMail can answer from the subject if marked, but I strongly second Lisi´s notion of putting a legible text into the mail body and using a fine descriptive and short enough subject for the mail. Am Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013, 11:15:29 schrieb Andrei Hristow: > Hi, I have

Debian 6 query - how to adjust mouse double click sensitivity

2013-05-24 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am running Debian 6, with GNOME 2.30.2 (I think; when I select Help-> About, with a GNOME application, that is the version number shown). I have recently noticed a problem, with uncontrollable double (or multiple) mouse clicks, when a single click should be occurring, causing multip

Re: amd64 debian wheezy installation: software raid: partition misaligned by 512 bytes

2013-05-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:12:10AM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > Ok, so any way to fix that now? Without reinstalling everything? Any way to > move the partitiions? > > Also, I don't remember creating these md partitions. The installer does > that by default? I should do that part manually d

Re: X Window System error

2013-05-24 Thread låzaro
Have sence, but, emelfm (the 1) work fine to, so it it gtk. But mtpaint not use gtk+ or gtk2. All point to the X server :( Kailash Kalyani cogió un teclado y escribió: > > > I just update debian6 to 7 and bad surprises: > > > > lazaro@utopian:~$ mtpaint > > The program 'mtpaint' received an X Wi

Problem with SID after upgrade for samba 3.6.6

2013-05-24 Thread Marcos Renato da Silva Junior
Hi, After upgrading debian 6 to version 7 samba stopped working properly. Log: [2013/05/23 08:29:55.811240, 1] auth/server_info.c:386(samu_to_SamInfo3) The primary group domain sid(S-1-5-21-3651478259-4121578499-3132057975-513) does not match the domain sid(S-1-5-21-3182595135-1874831366-4

Re: virtual host/user and gui configuration

2013-05-24 Thread Pol Hallen
> apt-cache search webmail | grep -i webmail do you mean courier-webadmin? thanks Pol -- 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/201305241349.35040...@fuckarou

Re: Wheezy. Ugly df -Th output

2013-05-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:01:56PM +0400, Leonid Korostyshevski wrote: >On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Darac Marjal ><[1]mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:07:37PM +0400, Leonid Korostyshevski wrote: > >    Hello, list! > >    I've > googl

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 23 May 2013 at 22:59:00 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > > > > > I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debi

Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

2013-05-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 24.05.2013 01:03, schrieb Wayne Topa: > On 05/23/2013 04:46 PM, Sean Alexandre wrote: >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:39:16PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: >> >> You should be able to disable it with: >> update-rc.d avahi-daemon disable >> > > Or just tell the system not yo start it in /etc/defaul

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:52:29AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 23 mai 13, 22:59:00, Stephen Allen wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > > > > > I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian l

Re: Wheezy. Ugly df -Th output

2013-05-24 Thread Leonid Korostyshevski
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:07:37PM +0400, Leonid Korostyshevski wrote: > >Hello, list! > >I've googled [1] > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656067 > >and... a solution is? > > A solution to what? If you want the u

Re: Wheezy. Ugly df -Th output

2013-05-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:07:37PM +0400, Leonid Korostyshevski wrote: >Hello, list! >I've googled [1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656067 >and... a solution is? A solution to what? If you want the updated coreutils as mentioned in that bug report, it's in upstable (

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 May 2013 at 22:59:00 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > > > I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop installation as I use > > > my browser to access email/ca

Wheezy. Ugly df -Th output

2013-05-24 Thread Leonid Korostyshevski
Hello, list! I've googled http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656067 and... a solution is?

segfaulting GTK3 apps

2013-05-24 Thread Tom
Hey all, Since today's sid upgrade, most of my GTK apps (libgtk-3-0 3.8.2-1) won't start (e.g. pavucontrol, gnome-control-center etc. etc.), though some do (actually I could find only one, exfalso/quodlibet). I found a seemingly related bug report at [1], but at the end it is about libcairo and t

Re: Troubleshooting apt-get -f install

2013-05-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 mai 13, 22:18:38, Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm following instructions[1] from Debian Wiki to install Skype > on Wheezy. [snip] > What am I missing? How should I help APT here? Does the wiki > page need update? There is also this note: If apt-get is not able to install lib

Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

2013-05-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 mai 13, 12:39:16, David Guntner wrote: > > So, is avahi-daemon truly essential for the system? No. > If not, is there a > way to remove it without removing other things such as Gnome? Probably. See the reply I just wrote a few minutes ago to the "Remove evolution" thread, it's likel

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 mai 13, 22:59:00, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > > > I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop installation as I use > > > my browser to access email/calendar onli

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 mai 13, 20:39:40, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, > etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search Wheezy-backports. > Is there one? I'm sure there is. I'm just not finding it. You didn't tell what exactly are you looki

Re: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 mai 13, 18:59:11, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > If I am correct, then I do not understand, why packages are available in > wheezy-backports, but not in debian/testing. According to debian behaviour (I > think the word policy is the wrong choice here), Packages from unstable will > be tes