Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 15 August 2013 05:14:34 Anubhav Yadav wrote: > It's working nicely (atleast for the first DVD). Now since I have added the > entry in the fstab file, will it get auto mounted on startup? Suck it and see? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: need help on install android development environment

2013-08-14 Thread Long Wind
Thanks for your detailed help! I will try it without Eclipse. PS: Your email address looks pretty distinguished to me. On 8/14/13, Steve Witt wrote: > > You can install the Android development environment on wheezy. Debian is a > fine development environment for Android (among other things). >

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Anubhav Yadav
It's working nicely (atleast for the first DVD). Now since I have added the entry in the fstab file, will it get auto mounted on startup?

Re: need help on install android development environment

2013-08-14 Thread Steve Witt
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Long Wind wrote: does wheezy meet requirement below? GNU C Library (glibc) 2.7 or later is required. does wheezy have Eclipse? You can install the Android development environment on wheezy. Debian is a fine development environment for Android (among other things). Th

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 15/08/13 01:30, François Patte wrote: > I think that sudo system is less secure than the old system "root account". > > 1) Anybody with sudo root permission (as it is the case for the first > person using sudo after an installation) can do "sudo bash" and he can > run as many commands as he wan

need help on install android development environment

2013-08-14 Thread Long Wind
does wheezy meet requirement below? GNU C Library (glibc) 2.7 or later is required. does wheezy have Eclipse? -- 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/cab-gx

can't hibernate

2013-08-14 Thread John Akintayo
i can't hibernate with debian wheezy kde it shutsdown instead

Re: can't apt-get update

2013-08-14 Thread John Akintayo
thanks it work From: Diogene Laerce To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:04 AM Subject: Re: can't apt-get update Hi > good day sir. > i just installed debian wheezy kde from a live cd image. but any time > i try to apt-ge

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Klaus
On 14/08/13 18:30, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I still do not understand and really wish to be helpful. If you could actually edit my sample, it would be DEEPLY APPRECIATED. TIA Ethan Ethan There are several aspects to this, maybe it's worth going through them one by one (this list is prob

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
An advantage of sudo: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -c mcedit /etc/fstab su: user /etc/fstab does not exist [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -c "mcedit /etc/fstab" Password: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo mcedit /etc/fstab [sudo] password for rocketmouse: If you work much with command line as use

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 20:03 +0100, Joe wrote: > it has the sudo advantages [snip] of being required for each command. That's not true and it would be a disadvantage. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su Password: [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# exit [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo -i [sudo] password for

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: > > I believe the idea is to discourage people from logging in as root. I think it is more one of trying to simplify things for the non-technical user. Having non-technical users deal with one password is hard. Having non-technical users deal with two p

Re: Wheezy NetInstall problem - modules.builtin.bin 0k size

2013-08-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Aug 2013 at 15:23:02 +0200, RamShadow R wrote: > i try to install Wheezy with an netinstall USB Stick. > Within the Installation i get ask for a CDROM but i have non. At what point in the installation was this asked? What exactly was the wording? > After switching to a shell i can see

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > And if it is an official Debian image then there won't be > > > > non-free there since the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) > > > > do not allow nonfree. > > > > deb file:/media/dvd-mountp

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 00:38 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > if it is an official Debian image then there won't be non-free > > there since the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) do not allow > > nonfree. > > At least for the firmware there are packages: > > https://wiki.deb

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Joe
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:21:43 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 8/14/2013 12:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:36 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> However, when I use su, I need to key in the root password before > >> doing anything. This adds another layer of security to the

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Ethan :) now I reply to my own mail and fake that I'm you. Btw. I'm sorry the ">" signs of my example were written by hand and not done by the MUA reply option and so it seems not to work as expected. Your last mail shouldn't look like http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00503.html

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Oops, sorry, too many cats and mice. Jerry wrote: Tom wrote: > Itchy wrote: >> Scratchy wrote: >>> I'm hungry. [snip] >> I'm too. > Let's cook Tux under the grill. No, let's eat tofu. Regards, Jerry CORRECTIONS: First SCRATCHY wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied to be hungry too, wh

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops, sorry, too many cats and mice. Jerry wrote: > Tom wrote: > > Itchy wrote: > >> Scratchy wrote: > >>> I'm hungry. [snip] > >> I'm too. > > Let's cook Tux under the grill. > > No, let's eat tofu. > > Regards, > Jerry CORRECTIONS: > First SCRATCHY wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Tom wrote: > Itchy wrote: >> Scratchy wrote: >>> I'm hungry. [snip] >> I'm too. > Let's cook Tux under the grill. No, let's eat tofu. Regards, Jerry Explaination: First Tom wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied to be hungry too, while doing this Itchy snipped irrelevant content, since Tom

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jerry wrote: > No, let's eat tofu. Hi Jerry, does it mean that we should eat veggie, or is it some kind of figure of speech for being against tofu posting style? Ciao, Ralf PS: You might notice that the ">"-sign is used no "#---" or anything else, that it can be read from to

Re: Migrating 32 -> 64

2013-08-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/11/2013 4:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > I recently went through the exercise of putting a GbE NIC into an old 32 > bit x86 machine w/PCI only. The first card I purchased, a $10 USD > TP-Link w/RTL8169, couldn't power on. It is a 3.3v only

Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I appreciate your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. I surely do not wish to have my posts unanswered. Introduction - Industrial standard I think is, top quoting and styled email. This is the way my Thunderbird is set. Mail list requirements are the reverse as I well know. Therefore, I

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/14/2013 10:40 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 14.08.2013 17:36, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I agree in principle that sudo is better then su. The problem I have with it is security; when you use sudo you type in your own password. So if your password is compromised, the hacker can do anything the sudo

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/14/2013 12:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:36 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: However, when I use su, I need to key in the root password before doing anything. This adds another layer of security to the system. He? Than configure sudo to ask for the password too. [rocke

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:36 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > However, when I use su, I need to key in the root password before > doing anything. This adds another layer of security to the system. He? Than configure sudo to ask for the password too. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo mcedit [sudo] pas

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
root usually does connect to the Internet too, e.g. to run apt, ntp, etc. pp., even the internet connection for the user has to be established by root, maybe not by a human being, but at least e.g. on startup automatically. You don't have to give a user special permissions, it's the admin's task t

using bluetooth.

2013-08-14 Thread atar
Hi there!! I've tried to use the 'hciconfig' command to initialize my Bluetooth antenna but after the initialization process, when I have tried to connect to nearby Bluetooth devices with the 'bluetooth-wizard' frontend program, the program failed to paired to them nor to send them or recei

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Lars Noodén
On 14.08.2013 17:36, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > I agree in principle that sudo is better then su. The problem I have > with it is security; when you use sudo you type in your own password. So > if your password is compromised, the hacker can do anything the sudo > user can do - which may be very bad.

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/14/2013 8:44 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: I believe the idea is to discourage people from logging in as root. You can't get rid of root completely (any user with an ID of 0 is root), nor would you want to. But there have been many a horror story of people logging in as a super-user (either Root

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 14/08/13 15:30, François Patte wrote: > Moeover, by default on my debian install, I could see that root login > through ssh is allowed: is it really the default configuration? > Yeap ! For details, read the subsection `PermitRootLogin set to yes' in the first section of /usr/share/

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 23:17 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> If you have no need for the images otherwise, a local mirror might be >> what you want? Eg using debmirror, apt-move etc. > > And this does work without downloading completely everything by the > Interne

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread François Patte
Le 14/08/2013 14:44, Darac Marjal a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:14:47PM +0200, François Patte wrote: >> Bonjour, >> >> For some unknown reason I did not activate the root account during the >> installation. I activated it from a user account, say John Doe. >> >> Now John Doe can become roo

Wheezy NetInstall problem - modules.builtin.bin 0k size

2013-08-14 Thread RamShadow R
Hi, i try to install Wheezy with an netinstall USB Stick. Within the Installation i get ask for a CDROM but i have non. After switching to a shell i can see that there is no Module for the Network Card installed. I have added the non free Firmware files to the USB Stick. I can see the Card with

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 23:17 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > If you have no need for the images otherwise, a local mirror might be > what you want? Eg using debmirror, apt-move etc. And this does work without downloading completely everything by the Internet ;)? IIUC the ISOs should be used to avoi

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/13, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Anyways tried genisoimage and it worked. > > The only problem was I needed to search what I wanted to download. > > Now I have to do the same with the other two dvds. > And then I have to make a provision that these disks get auto mounted at > startup. If you ha

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I am still getting used to handling mailing list from Gmail. Pretty hard with the new ui of Gmail. Anyways tried genisoimage and it worked. The only problem was I needed to search what I wanted to download. Now I have to do the same with the other two dvds. And then I have to make a provision th

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:14:47PM +0200, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > For some unknown reason I did not activate the root account during the > installation. I activated it from a user account, say John Doe. > > Now John Doe can become root anytime and do anything on my machine. > > How

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 16:47 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > root@Innovator:/home/# apt-get update > Ign file: wheezy Release.gpg > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD > #Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy Release.gpg > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Offici

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 15:49 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > deb file:/media/dvd-mountpoint1 wheezy main contrib >^^^

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 15:49 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > deb file:/media/dvd-mountpoint1 wheezy main contrib ^^^ > > file:/media/dvd1-mountpoint/dists/wheezy/non-free/binar

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/14/13, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> To verify that your /etc/fstab line is correct you should mount using > >> it instead of doing all of it above. > >> > >> # umount /media/dvd

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 12:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > You can set up a root account, but you anyway shouldn't run X sessions > as root. The Debian on my machine and all Debian installs I ever used > had a root account by default, but sudo wasn't enabled. Oops, pushed the wrong button, I wanted

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/13, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> To verify that your /etc/fstab line is correct you should mount using >> it instead of doing all of it above. >> >> # umount /media/dvd-mountpoint1 >> # mount /media/dvd-mountpoint1 > Yes it works!! Gre

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
You can set up a root account, but you anyway shouldn't run X sessions as root. The Debian on my machine and all Debian installs I ever used had a root account by default, but sudo wasn't enabled. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 11:12 +0100, Klaus wrote: > How have you included quotes in the past? Did you manually copy and > paste them? Even that can be done, using "Edit -- Paste as Quotation" > or "Ctrl+Shift+O" . This can be done, but should be done with caution. I rarely sort my mails by thread,

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Please, someone who uses Thunderbird/Icedove, come to the rescue of > the rest of us and tell Ethan how to sort his quoting out. It is, as > Bob says, painful. There isn't something to explain. I used Mozilla, Seamonkey, Thunderbird and Icedo

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > To verify that your /etc/fstab line is correct you should mount using > it instead of doing all of it above. > > # umount /media/dvd-mountpoint1 > # mount /media/dvd-mountpoint1 > > Yes it works!! > deb file:/media/dvd-mountpoint1

sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, For some unknown reason I did not activate the root account during the installation. I activated it from a user account, say John Doe. Now John Doe can become root anytime and do anything on my machine. How can I deactivate this? I have seen that John Doe is a member of almost all group

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Klaus
On 14/08/13 10:32, Lisi Reisz wrote: Sorry, Ethan. On Tuesday 13 August 2013 Bob Proulx wrote: And your quoting is really painful. I am sure it is not a problem with Thunderbird since other people use it successfully. Please, someone who uses Thunderbird/Icedove, come to the rescue of the res

Re: Reg: Installing debian in tablet

2013-08-14 Thread Igor Cicimov
Try the Linux Deploy app from Playstore if you are on android On 14/08/2013 7:21 PM, "Balamurugan" wrote: > Hi, > > Can Debian be installed in a tablet? If so, can any one point me how to > proceed on the same. Any document links on the same is also sufficient. > > I am a newbie in installing GNU

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
Sorry, Ethan. On Tuesday 13 August 2013 Bob Proulx wrote: > And your quoting is really painful. I am sure it is not a > problem with Thunderbird since other people use it successfully. Please, someone who uses Thunderbird/Icedove, come to the rescue of the rest of us and tell Ethan how to sort h

Re: unable to install apps

2013-08-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi! On 14/08/13 04:19, John Akintayo wrote: > i just installed debian wheezy kde from a live cd image. but any time i > try to apt-get update or aptitude update i get this message= > > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] whe

Reg: Installing debian in tablet

2013-08-14 Thread Balamurugan
Hi, Can Debian be installed in a tablet? If so, can any one point me how to proceed on the same. Any document links on the same is also sufficient. I am a newbie in installing GNU/Linux OS to tablets. Kindly help me. Regards, Balamurugan R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/13, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Here is my sources.list > #Added for making the repository from iso > deb file:/media/dvd1-mountpoint debian main contrib non-free My "deb file..." entries look like this: deb file:///media/debian/... wheezy main contrib ie. 3 forward slashes; I just tested, and

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-14 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:25 PM, green wrote: > Alphonse Ogulla wrote at 2013-08-13 04:02 -0500: >> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi: >> THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot! >> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875] thinkpad_acpi:

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-14 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Tom Grace wrote: > On 13/08/13 13:19, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: >> >> The system is going down for system halt NOW! >> >> Regarding the canned air solution, is it a one-off job to clean out >> the CPU heat sink or is it for a continuous circulation of air >> directly

Re: [SOLVED] Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-14 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Grace > wrote: >> On 13/08/13 10:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: >>> >>> After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the >>> cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of an

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2013-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 00:38 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > if it is an official Debian image then there won't be non-free > there since the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) do not allow > nonfree. At least for the firmware there are packages: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware http://packages.deb