Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Simply that, if you intend to take i3, you will have to learn to think > differently. My opinion is that tiling wm are far more efficient than > classic stacking window managers, but it indeed changed my habits. Since > then, for example, I do not use any file explorer, they are slower than > com

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Defining "desktop" is the tricky bit (to some it only means where the > box sits). In this instance I've assumed the OP means office apps, bit > of gaming, internet apps - so I'd go go for a two slice setup, with a > separate / and /home, with and a swap file. For a similar "desktop" in a > busin

I can not install Debian because UEFI 32-bit

2014-02-06 Thread Renaud15000 .
Hello, I am contacting you because I am confronted with the impossibility to install Linux on my computer because it has a 32-bit UEFI (without Legacy BIOS mode, although the processor is an x64) and all distributions Linux compatible EFI is 64-bit. My computer is a netbook Packard Bell easynote ME

Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/02/14 14:25, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/02/14 14:07, Chris Bannister wrote: >> CC'ing debian-boot >> >> Seems as though Roelof is now in space trouble. >> He says he followed the d-i's suggestions >> Thread starts here: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00269.html >> >> On

Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/02/14 14:07, Chris Bannister wrote: > CC'ing debian-boot > > Seems as though Roelof is now in space trouble. > He says he followed the d-i's suggestions > Thread starts here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00269.html > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:08:39PM +, Roelof Wo

d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Bannister
CC'ing debian-boot Seems as though Roelof is now in space trouble. He says he followed the d-i's suggestions Thread starts here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00269.html On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:08:39PM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: > > Was that the default partitioning layout s

Re: I can not install Debian because UEFI 32-bit

2014-02-06 Thread Doug
On 02/06/2014 09:23 PM, Renaud15000 . wrote: Hello, I am contacting you because I am confronted with the impossibility to install Linux on my computer because it has a 32-bit UEFI (without Legacy BIOS mode, although the processor is an x64) and all distributions Linux compatible EFI is 64-bit.

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-06 Thread berenger . morel
Le 06.02.2014 22:09, Tom H a écrit : On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:56 AM, wrote: Le 05.02.2014 13:53, Tom H a écrit : On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:28 AM, wrote: Le 02.02.2014 23:27, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Le 02.02.2014 21:46, Tom H a écrit : Regarding the partitions, a gpt lab

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:56 AM, wrote: > Le 05.02.2014 13:53, Tom H a écrit : >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:28 AM, wrote: >>> Le 02.02.2014 23:27, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Le 02.02.2014 21:46, Tom H a écrit : >> Regarding the partitions, a gpt label allows 128 primary partiti

Re: creating virtual users

2014-02-06 Thread Linux-Fan
On 02/06/2014 07:54 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > The idea may seems, and probably is, quite strange. > > But I have seen for now 2 uses for it (there probably are more than > those ones). > _ Building a DE which would be a complete IDE, even for command line > users as me. Those of y

Configuring OpenLDAP to support dynamic list overlay in Wheezy

2014-02-06 Thread Alan Chandler
I am stuggling to understand how to get the dynamic list overlay working using OpenLdap It uses the online version of configuring slapd, and all the instructions on the internet seems to assume an older version with slapd.conf file. I have manage to configure the module part to include dynli

creating virtual users

2014-02-06 Thread berenger . morel
The idea may seems, and probably is, quite strange. But I have seen for now 2 uses for it (there probably are more than those ones). _ Building a DE which would be a complete IDE, even for command line users as me. Those of you which have written more than 500 lines of code knows that there ex

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2014-02-06 Thread John
Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Get list of installed packages Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <52f388e4.6000...@gmail.com> On 06/02/14, Tino Sino (robottinos...@gmail.com) wrote: > > It has been asked before, but with different answers, e.g.: > 1) dpkg-query --list | awk '/^ii +/ { print $2; }' > 2) dpkg --get-

Re:

2014-02-06 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 14:50 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > hi community. > i installed new hardware to my my computer. Namely ide cd-dvd rw. The > device is presenting in /dev directory but i can not see it in file > manager. i can not use it. What is correct way to install new hardwa

Re:

2014-02-06 Thread Robin
On 6 February 2014 15:58, John W. Foster wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 14:50 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: >> hi community. >> i installed new hardware to my my computer. Namely ide cd-dvd rw. The >> device is presenting in /dev directory but i can not see it in file >> manager. i can

Re: Get list of installed packages

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 06/02/2014 13:06, Tino Sino wrote: > I wonder, what's the golden way to do this and why? It depends on what you're doing it for. If it's for a script, dpkg-query is a better choice, because you can do --showformat and it does not truncate version strings etc. 'dpkg -l' output is really meant fo

Re: Get list of installed packages

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 06/02/2014 13:12, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > (you could use grep -e '^ii') or egrep '^ii', but I think it's not > worth the cpu used). You don't need -e to use anchors in the regex. Whilst -e would use more CPU than a plain grep, the anchor would likely reduce the work done (lines can be matche

Re: (none)

2014-02-06 Thread linuxlover
Op donderdag 6 februari 2014 14:10:03 UTC+1 schreef andrey...@bilkent.edu.tr: > i installed new hardware to my my computer. Namely ide cd-dvd rw. The > device is presenting in /dev directory but i can not see it in file > manager. i can not use it. What is correct way to install new hardware to >

Re: Get list of installed packages

2014-02-06 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 06/02/2014 14:06, Tino Sino wrote: It has been asked before, but with different answers, e.g.: 1) dpkg-query --list | awk '/^ii +/ { print $2; }' 2) dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1 3) ... etc ... Given that the output is the same: $ diff \ <(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1) \

Re: Get list of installed packages

2014-02-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/06/2014 08:17 AM, iijima yoshino wrote: > ?? Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:06:44 +0100 > Tino Sino : > >> It has been asked before, but with different answers, e.g.: >> 1) dpkg-query --list | awk '/^ii +/ { print $2; }' >> 2) dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1 >> 3) ... etc ... >> Given that the out

Re: Get list of installed packages

2014-02-06 Thread iijima yoshino
?? Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:06:44 +0100 Tino Sino : > It has been asked before, but with different answers, e.g.: > 1) dpkg-query --list | awk '/^ii +/ { print $2; }' > 2) dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1 > 3) ... etc ... > Given that the output is the same: > $ diff \ > <(dpkg --get-selec

Re: Get list of installed packages

2014-02-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Tino Sino writes: > It has been asked before, but with different answers, e.g.: > 1) dpkg-query --list | awk '/^ii +/ { print $2; }' > 2) dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1 > 3) ... etc ... > Given that the output is the same: > $ diff \ > <(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1) \ >

RE: upgrade problem

2014-02-06 Thread Roelof Wobben
> Was that the default partitioning layout suggested by the installer? Yes, it is. > I notice that you only have 85M free under / which includes /lib. > e.g. > root@tal:~# du -h /lib/modules/ | tail -n 3 > 81M /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/kernel > 84M /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae > 84M /lib/mod

Get list of installed packages

2014-02-06 Thread Tino Sino
It has been asked before, but with different answers, e.g.: 1) dpkg-query --list | awk '/^ii +/ { print $2; }' 2) dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1 3) ... etc ... Given that the output is the same: $ diff \ <(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1) \ <(dpkg-query --list | awk '/^ii +/ { pri

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2014-02-06 Thread andrey . rybak
hi community. i installed new hardware to my my computer. Namely ide cd-dvd rw. The device is presenting in /dev directory but i can not see it in file manager. i can not use it. What is correct way to install new hardware to debian machine? I have newest debian on my computer. Thanks in advance, A

new hardware component

2014-02-06 Thread andrey . rybak
hi community. i installed new hardware to my my computer. Namely ide cd-dvd rw. The device is presenting in /dev directory but i can not see it in file manager. i can not use it. What is correct way to install new hardware to debian machine? I have newest debian on my computer. Thanks in advance, A

Re: Build binary package from debian sources.New format 3.Errors.

2014-02-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:07:16AM +, Luis Suzuki wrote: > When I needed to build a package from debian sources I used to: > bzcat ../debianpackage.diff.gz | patch -p1 from within the original > source.Then: > debuild.And everything went smoothly. > > Now I do (and does not work): > > Fro

Re: Build binary package from debian sources.New format 3.Errors.

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 06/02/2014 00:07, Luis Suzuki wrote: > And does not work.What am I doing wrong? What error message do you get? -- 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/52f3

Re: FW: upgrade problem

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 22:57, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:31:57AM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: On 02/05/2014 04:16 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > When I did today apt-get dist-upgrade it fails with this message : > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 1

Re: FW: upgrade problem

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:31:57AM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: > >> On 02/05/2014 04:16 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > >>> When I did today apt-get dist-upgrade it fails with this message : > >>> > >>> Preconfiguring packages ... > >>> (Reading database ... 146026 files and directories currently instal

Re: FW: upgrade problem

2014-02-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:31:57AM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: > >> On 02/05/2014 04:16 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > [cut] > > df -h gives this : > > /dev/sda1 315M 210M 85M 72% / Here's your problem. The package is trying to write to /lib, which will be on this partition. "apt-ca

Re: FW: upgrade problem

2014-02-06 Thread Robin
On 6 February 2014 08:31, Roelof Wobben wrote: >> >>> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:35:47 -0500 >>> From: deb...@paulscrap.com >>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>> Subject: Re: upgrade problem >>> >>> >>> >>> On 02/05/2014 04:16 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 21:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 06.02.2014 11:03, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 06/02/14 20:09, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> >>> >>> Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit : yaro wrote: > Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates b

Re: Difference between apt and apt-get

2014-02-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > > > Le 06.02.2014 11:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > On Thursday 06 February 2014 05:43:45 Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > >> I want to know what is the basic difference between *apt*, as in > >> /apt update/ and *apt-get*, as in /apt-get update/. > > > > C

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread berenger . morel
Le 06.02.2014 11:03, Scott Ferguson a écrit : On 06/02/14 20:09, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit : yaro wrote: Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little benefit. It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when

Re: Difference between apt and apt-get

2014-02-06 Thread berenger . morel
Le 06.02.2014 11:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Thursday 06 February 2014 05:43:45 Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: I want to know what is the basic difference between *apt*, as in /apt update/ and *apt-get*, as in /apt-get update/. Can one do ? I have never heard of it, which could easily be my ign

Re: Difference between apt and apt-get

2014-02-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 06 February 2014 05:43:45 Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > I want to know what is the basic difference between *apt*, as in > /apt update/ and *apt-get*, as in /apt-get update/. Can one do ? I have never heard of it, which could easily be my ignorance, but Google can't find it either. If

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 20:09, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit : >> yaro wrote: >>> Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little >>> benefit. >> >> It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when there's a >> problem). It only

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread berenger . morel
Le 05.02.2014 15:08, Anubhav Yadav a écrit : I do not know for awesome, but for i3, the reason could be to avoid learning a new way of thinking. I3 is not only efficient in a memory and CPU point of view, but also in term of user's time, if you learn how to use it. Tiling Wm are different fr

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-06 Thread berenger . morel
Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit : yaro wrote: Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little benefit. It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when there's a problem). It only complicates boot due to the practice of putting stuff that belongs under /

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-06 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-02-06 8:42 GMT+01:00 Chris Bannister : > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:20:12AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > 2014-02-05 Andrei POPESCU : > > > > > On Du, 02 feb 14, 13:58:54, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > What about running 32 bit windows and apps in wine or VMWare? > > > >

FW: upgrade problem

2014-02-06 Thread Roelof Wobben
> >> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:35:47 -0500 >> From: deb...@paulscrap.com >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: upgrade problem >> >> >> >> On 02/05/2014 04:16 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: >>> When I did today apt-get dist-upgrade it fails with this