Re: Is there a way to undo web browser changing desktop manager

2015-02-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/02/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 12/02/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: >>> On 2015-02-12, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am running Debian 6 LTS, with the GNOME Desktop Manager (if that is what it is named). I have three web browser

Re: aptitude search: What exactly does `~S` (aka `~narrow`) do?

2015-02-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Kynn Jones wrote: > (Unfortunately, it says nothing about "filters", let alone how they > differ from "patterns".) Yeah, that bit of the documentation is really confusing, and certainly should be improved. I have to admit that I had to read it very carefully for a while (and i

Re: aptitude search: What exactly does `~S` (aka `~narrow`) do?

2015-02-13 Thread Kynn Jones
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Kynn Jones wrote: >> The [documentation][1] for `~S` says: >> > ?narrow(filter, pattern), ~S filter pattern >> > >> >This term “narrows” the search to package versions matching >> >filter. In particular, it match

Re: Changing the install path of a web package

2015-02-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/13/15, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Generally speaking, packages shouldn't be installing to /var/www either, > they should be installing to /usr/share or similar. > > Personally, I'd just copy the files if I was going to modify themq, > and/or use Directory/Location directives in the apache confi

Need help on wireless card setup

2015-02-13 Thread Long Wind
I plug a PCI wireless card into PC. Below are msg related to it: [ 11.292510] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input4 [ 11.312937] airo(): Probing for PCI adapters [ 11.313104] airo :00:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 [ 11.313131] airo 00

Re: aptitude search: What exactly does `~S` (aka `~narrow`) do?

2015-02-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Kynn Jones wrote: > The [documentation][1] for `~S` says: > > ?narrow(filter, pattern), ~S filter pattern > > > >This term “narrows” the search to package versions matching > >filter. In particular, it matches any package version which > >matches both filter and pa

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, February 13, 2015 03:31:32 PM Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/13/2015 03:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On 2015-02-13, Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 02/13/2015 09:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote:

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, February 13, 2015 02:39:45 PM Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/13/2015 09:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Friday, February 13, 2015 07:12:37 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-02-13,

aptitude search: What exactly does `~S` (aka `~narrow`) do?

2015-02-13 Thread Kynn Jones
[NB: I hope no-one is bothered by the markdown below; I originally posted this in unix.stackexchange.com, but it was ignored there, so I deleted it and am reposting it here. I kept the markdown because I find it useful, even when it has no effect on the rendering of the text.] --- The [document

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/13/2015 03:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-02-13, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/13/2015 09:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: [SNIP] Now, the javascript problem? Still remains. A PIMA, if I goto www

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > If a pastefrom iceweasal works: > === > The address wasn't understood > > Iceweasel doesn't know how to open this address, because one of the > following protocols (javascript) isn't associated with any program or is > not allowed in this context. > =

Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-13 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi, I'm trying to install 7.8.0-AMD64  on an HP dc5850. The install went fine. After it asked me to remove the DVD so it could reboot, Grub loads and reports: error: no such disk I booted into rescue mode using DVD 1, went to a shell and ran: # fdisk -l /dev/sda boot   

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/13/2015 09:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: >>> On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: [SNIP] Now, the javascript problem? Still remains. A PIMA, if I goto www.cbsnews.com it will start to di

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/13/2015 09:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday, February 13, 2015 07:12:37 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Is there any way to get rid of all these bo

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:31:34 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > [SNIP] > > >> > Now, the javascript problem? Still remains. A PIMA, if I goto > >> > www.cb

Re: Disk in a raid array

2015-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 02/13/2015 04:53 AM, James Allsopp wrote: I've got home mounted on a LVM partition over two RAID 1 arrays. Unfortunately one of the disks in the second array has dropped out. I can still fdisk -l it, but when I ran dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/null it got about 132M through a 2Tb drive before crash

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/13/2015 07:35 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 01:22:52AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On 13/02/15 16:54, Jack Chuge wrote: [cut] Alternatively, when you used this line: echo "deb ..." | tee /etc/apt/...java.list did you put sudo in front of tee as well? Like this: sudo

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/13/2015 03:46 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: On 02/13/2015 01:54 AM, Jack Chuge wrote: I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the oth

Re: Changing the install path of a web package

2015-02-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Tim Burns wrote: > I moved to debian from another distro for stability reasons. > > I prefer to keep my web accessible files in /srv/www rather than > /var/www, as I back up /srv and not /var. If I have to I have to. > > I'm installing owncloud, and can't figure out how I can

Changing the install path of a web package

2015-02-13 Thread Tim Burns
I moved to debian from another distro for stability reasons. I prefer to keep my web accessible files in /srv/www rather than /var/www, as I back up /srv and not /var. If I have to I have to. I'm installing owncloud, and can't figure out how I can make it install where I want it. I could c

Re: How well-maintained are NEWS and changelog files in deb packages?

2015-02-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Martin T wrote: > apt-listchanges uses NEWS and changelog files in Debian packages. Are > NEWS and changelog files always or at list usually updated, i.e. is it > safe to trust those? changelog.Debian.gz files are updated on every new version which is present in Debian, howeve

How well-maintained are NEWS and changelog files in deb packages?

2015-02-13 Thread Martin T
Hi, apt-listchanges uses NEWS and changelog files in Debian packages. Are NEWS and changelog files always or at list usually updated, i.e. is it safe to trust those? thanks, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Disk in a raid array

2015-02-13 Thread ehuggett
I've got home mounted on a LVM partition over two RAID 1 arrays. Unfortunately one of the disks in the second array has dropped out. I Just to check I understand, - you have 4 physical hard disks (2 x 2TB and 2x ??). - you have two RAID1 arrays comprising of 2 physical hard disks each. - one of

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-13 Thread songbird
what version of the installer are you using? if it is an older image i'd try the most recent before filing bugs. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lis

Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

2015-02-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Blair (c-bl...@illinois.edu): >Thanks for all previous suggestions. > >An "updates available" message resulted in an update that > stopped in the middle because of insufficient space. This has > left me with a system in which character-based programs are working, > but any

Re: Disk in a raid array

2015-02-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting James Allsopp (jamesaalls...@googlemail.com): > Hi, > I've got home mounted on a LVM partition over two RAID 1 arrays. Unfortunately > one of the disks in the second array has dropped out. I can still fdisk -l it, > but when I ran dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/null it got about 132M through a 2Tb

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: [SNIP] >> > Now, the javascript problem? Still remains. A PIMA, if I goto >> > www.cbsnews.com it will start to display it, for perhaps a second, >> > then thi

Re: Mount local NFS share on boot

2015-02-13 Thread Laverne Schrock
On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 18:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:50:46 -0600 > Laverne Schrock wrote: > > > So here is my question: What is the best way to automatically mount a > > NFS share on the system acting as the server? > > Try using automount feature of systemd for NFS

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, February 13, 2015 09:01:25 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday, February 13, 2015 07:12:37 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Greetings; > >> > > >> > Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decora

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Jack Chuge wrote: > Liam O'Toole 於 2015-2-13 19:40 寫道: >> On 2015-02-13, Jack Chuge wrote: >> [SNIP} >> >>> I know it means nothing to me until I want to install CGoban, a go >>> client been maintaining by kgs(www.gokgs.com). And I found my debian >>> pre-installed a java version

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday, February 13, 2015 07:12:37 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Greetings; >> > >> > Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decorations >> > saying javascipt doesn't work? >> > >> > There are quite a fe

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, February 13, 2015 07:12:37 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decorations > > saying javascipt doesn't work? > > > > There are quite a few javascript "engines" installed, but I haven

Re: Disk in a raid array

2015-02-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:53:29PM +, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I've got home mounted on a LVM partition over two RAID 1 arrays. Unfortunately > one of the disks in the second array has dropped out. I can still fdisk -l it, > but when I ran dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/null it got about 132

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-13 Thread Jochen Spieker
Stephen R Guglielmo: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:46:35 +0100 > Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Stephen R Guglielmo: >>> I'm not sure why the automatic partitioner didn't provide >>> for enough space for future updates. See below for the relevant >>> logs. >> >> There's been several complaints about similar

Disk in a raid array

2015-02-13 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I've got home mounted on a LVM partition over two RAID 1 arrays. Unfortunately one of the disks in the second array has dropped out. I can still fdisk -l it, but when I ran dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/null it got about 132M through a 2Tb drive before crashing out. This doesn't bode well. I can't r

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, February 13, 2015 07:12:37 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decorations > > saying javascipt doesn't work? > > > > There are quite a few javascript "engines" installed, but I haven

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 01:22:52AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 13/02/15 16:54, Jack Chuge wrote: > [cut] > > Alternatively, when you used this line: > echo "deb ..." | tee /etc/apt/...java.list > > did you put sudo in front of tee as well? Like this: > sudo echo "deb ..." | sudo tee /etc/a

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/02/15 16:54, Jack Chuge wrote: >>> They say to run the following: su - echo "deb >>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main" | >>> tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list >>> >> It seems it's not allowed sudo i

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Jack Chuge
Liam O'Toole 於 2015-2-13 19:40 寫道: > On 2015-02-13, Jack Chuge wrote: > [SNIP} > >> I know it means nothing to me until I want to install CGoban, a go >> client been maintaining by kgs(www.gokgs.com). And I found my debian >> pre-installed a java version of 1.6.0, seems odd for ever. > > kgs app

Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:18:10AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Charles Blair wrote: > > I tinkered with "Preferences/Applications". Did not > > do anything about a special kind of Preference. If > > this message gets posted, the thing worked :) > > > >If so, thanks! > > > > I never

Re: javascript:void(0)

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decorations saying > javascipt doesn't work? > > There are quite a few javascript "engines" installed, but I haven't > managed to find that Magic Twanger yet. > > Is this a conscious effort

Re: Is there a way to undo web browser changing desktop manager

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/02/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2015-02-12, Bret Busby wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I am running Debian 6 LTS, with the GNOME Desktop Manager (if that is >>> what it is named). >>> >>> I have three web browsers open; Arora, Konqueror and Rekonq. >>> >>> E

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > On 13/02/2015 2:52 PM, Jack Chuge wrote: >> I know it means nothing to me until I want to install CGoban, a go >> client been maintaining by kgs(www.gokgs.com). And I found my debian >> pre-installed a java version of 1.6.0, seems odd for ever. > > Keep i

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-13, Jack Chuge wrote: [SNIP} > I know it means nothing to me until I want to install CGoban, a go > client been maintaining by kgs(www.gokgs.com). And I found my debian > pre-installed a java version of 1.6.0, seems odd for ever. kgs appears to be a Java applet. To run it install ic

RE: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Boblitz John
> -Original Message- > From: Klaus Jantzen [mailto:k.d.jant...@t-online.de] > Sent: Freitag, 13. Februar 2015 09:46 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: about installing Java > > On 02/13/2015 01:54 AM, Jack Chuge wrote: > > I want to install the latest version of Java on my d

Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-13 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-13, Charles Blair wrote: > I tinkered with "Preferences/Applications". Did not > do anything about a special kind of Preference. If > this message gets posted, the thing worked :) > >If so, thanks! > I never click on those mailto links myself, but I followed my own advice for onc

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 13. feb. 2015 09:46, Klaus Jantzen wrote: On 02/13/2015 01:54 AM, Jack Chuge wrote: I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the oth

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-13 Thread Klaus Jantzen
On 02/13/2015 01:54 AM, Jack Chuge wrote: > I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is > there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think > debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the > other hand, I'm a newby to it. Any support