apt-offline usage

2015-03-05 Thread peter
On isolated machine, joule. peter@joule:~$ apt-offline set aptoffline.joule.sig --verbose --update \ > --install-packages rsync On networked machine, armada. peter@armada:~$ apt-offline get aptoffline.joule.sig --verbose \ > --bundle aptoffline.joule.bundle On joule again. peter@joule:~$ a

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Mar 06 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2015 19:43:35 Ric Moore wrote: >> It's probably more >> solid than it's Ubuntu counterpart. Ric > > Correction: it's CERTAINLY more solid than its Ubuntu counterpart. ;-) Thus starts the flame wars. :) sivaram -- -- To UNSUBS

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:08:49 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:03:30PM -0500, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > > I did a bit of reading and would prefer the Gnome "Classic" > > interface. Is there a way to install this type of "minimal" gnome > > without breaking it too much? Is it

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1 is it. Regards, Ken -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlT5IagACgkQlNlJzOkJmTenMACcDU5QwjjiXzegcr6Q5cpvQwHQ XzcAn1sZx8xsKPGyJjHcSe2CT/GI0z

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Keith BAINBRIDGE
The bar/s can be moved: top, bottom, centre vertical or side vertical. Right click on empty space, panel preferences, and choose which panel you want, where. Default seems to be 2. -- Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my Apad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 05 March 2015 19:43:35 Ric Moore wrote: > It's probably more > solid than it's Ubuntu counterpart. Ric Correction: it's CERTAINLY more solid than its Ubuntu counterpart. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Keyboard layouts in GNOME3 on Debian Jessie

2015-03-05 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
Hi Selim > Well, here's a guess for "why": in your e-mail in the other thread, you > seemed to say you did a *new install* of jessie on your Lenovo T440s and > then you *upgraded* your desktop to jessie. So maybe the desktop had an > old version of something, that had "US keyboard with German

Re: Strange entry in my routing table.

2015-03-05 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:18:08 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Here is my routing table: > > 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.68 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 > eth0 192.168.24.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1 0 > 0 eth0 > > The first entry IS my default gateway as I exp

trying to report a bug for stable package

2015-03-05 Thread muayad y
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/kernel/linux-headers-3.2.0-4-amd64  (3.2.65-1+deb7u2 is in stable) click on report bugthe page header: Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package linux-headers-3.2.0-4-amd64 in unstable is it stable or unstable ? the bug got below error while installing  openafs

Re: Keyboard layouts in GNOME3 on Debian Jessie

2015-03-05 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 10:29:16PM +0100, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: > As already announced earlier here are the screenshots > > add_input_source_laptop.png - shows the "Add input source" dialog for > the laptop installation > > add_input_source_desktop.png - shows the "Add input source" dialog

Re: A suggestion for a new programme in Debian 8?

2015-03-05 Thread Martin Read
On 05/03/15 20:36, ludo0...@dbmail.com wrote: Could I allow myself to express a wish for the next version of Debian: it would be to have the DVD authoring programme "bombono" (see http://www.bombono.org) on the distribution. No new software will be added to Debian 8 at this point; it has been i

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread lostson
On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 22:34 +0100, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: > > Adding my noise; It was simple for a newbie like me; I did an > > upgrade and a fresh install and both were uneventful activities. It > > simply works. > > Adding some noise too. I did a new installation of Jessie on a Lenovo > T

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
> Adding my noise; It was simple for a newbie like me; I did an > upgrade and a fresh install and both were uneventful activities. It > simply works. Adding some noise too. I did a new installation of Jessie on a Lenovo T440s about a month ago and immediately afterwards upgraded my desktop syst

Re: Keyboard layouts in GNOME3 on Debian Jessie

2015-03-05 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
As already announced earlier here are the screenshots add_input_source_laptop.png - shows the "Add input source" dialog for the laptop installation add_input_source_desktop.png - shows the "Add input source" dialog for the desktop system When I search for "german" I obviously get two different

A suggestion for a new programme in Debian 8?

2015-03-05 Thread ludo0565
Dear Sirs and Madames, Could I allow myself to express a wish for the next version of Debian: it would be to have the DVD authoring programme "bombono" (see http://www.bombono.org) on the distribution. Very many thanks for this in advance. ludo

IO Problems (USB) seem to hang on Boot (AMD64)

2015-03-05 Thread Micheal Smith
To all Glorious Saviors: Installation goes smooth. When asked, during installation, I install device-specific drivers. For the record, this is the AMD64 distribution. So, whenever my IOMMU Contoller is enabled on the UEFI of the motherboard, I get this error: [ 1.669503] AMD-Vi: Event Logged [

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Joe
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:41:15 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/05/2015 07:22 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a > > toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal > > glasses, I have to strain my neck badly in order to focus t

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/05/2015 12:33 AM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the next month or so I will have to do a clean OS installation in two desktops. Jessie is now frozen (Debian's contribution to retarding global warming?); and there are apparently fewer RC bugs at this poin

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/05/2015 07:22 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal glasses, I have to strain my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce toolbar at the TOP of the screen through the LOWER area of

Re: Debian in small/medium business

2015-03-05 Thread John Foster
I'm unfamiliar with what a "spares" business is, so I will offer these generalized suggestions. First of all I agree totally with the other poster "David Christensen" about things you should consider. The single most important thing with any business system is reliability, of everything!! Hardw

Re: Upgrading clients using rsync

2015-03-05 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 04-03-15 om 23:21 schreef Bob Proulx: > Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> I have successfully upgraded clients from Debian7 to Debian8 using rysnc. > > You have company using rsync to upgrade file by file. Google upgrades > that way too. I liked presentation and found it quite interesting. > >

Re: have we any twittering-mode users on the list?

2015-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Jude DaShiell [2015-03-04 23:30:44-05] wrote: > > > I tried using the package and almost got everything working with the > > exception of one mystery for me. > > I use twittering-mode installed from MELPA package archive. > > > I get the package author

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Mar 05 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: [snipped 7 lines] > A few weeks ago I used the Jessie RC1 Installer, the day after it was > released. I loved it. It was IMHO nicer than the Wheezy one, easier to use > for what I wanted it for (I did not want to install Gnome, but it looked as > though

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:33:22 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:22:50PM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a > > toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal > > glasses, I have to strain my neck badly i

RE: server monitor

2015-03-05 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hello – I have implemented Nagios/Icinga for our systems. Perhaps that could be of use in your environment. From: Igor Cicimov [mailto:icici...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 2:10 AM To: Pol Hallen Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: server monitor Munin On 05/03/2015 1:18 AM, "Pol Halle

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:22:50PM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a toolbar > placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal glasses, I have to strain > my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce toolbar at the TOP of the screen > t

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Wilko Fokken
What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal glasses, I have to strain my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce toolbar at the TOP of the screen through the LOWER area of my glasses. The second shortcoming of Xfce i

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 05 March 2015 07:17:25 Bob Proulx wrote: > Having said that you might just want to go ahead and test the new > Jessie installer.  Can't hurt.  It will either work (install > successfully) or it won't.  Either way you will have learned something > and can plan for it.  If it fails then p

Recompiling debian kernel

2015-03-05 Thread csanyipal
Hi, I'm trying to recompile the installed kernel on my headless power PC box. On this box I'm running Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy system. uname -a Linux b2 3.2.62-1 #1 Mon Aug 25 04:22:40 UTC 2014 ppc GNU/Linux I have downloaded kernel source from here: https://github.com/Excito/community-b3-kernel.

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-03-04 23:30, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:30:05 +0100 Erwan David wrote: I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer You seem to be saying you're tired of the minimalist life and want to splash out a bit so there's only XFCE for that. That

Re: hp-setup fails with ImportError

2015-03-05 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Mar 2015 at 08:51:36 +0200, tommi.lan...@kolumbus.fi wrote: > I get the following error trying to install a printer with hp-setup: Which printer? > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/hp-setup", line 45, in >from base import device, utils, tui, models, module >

Re: Keyboard layouts in GNOME3 on Debian Jessie

2015-03-05 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
Hi Selim thanks for your response. > Searching for "German letters" at http://codesearch.debian.net, I found > three candidates: xkb-data, libxkbcommon-x11-0, libxkbcommon0. > Let the list know if you have any luck... > > All three packages are installed on both machines. So this cannot be th

Re: Removing sound from mvi files

2015-03-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:11:19 -0600 Emil Payne wrote: > Is there a simple way to remove the audio track from MVI files? > MVI is the format my camera produces and I want to upload to YouTube > without the background sound. > Or can I over write the audio track with a mp3 file? I belive you can d

Re: Working minimally with pulseaudio

2015-03-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:14:33AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > For those who need PA for something, this configuration > makes it possible to get audio output from pulseonly apps. There's much simplier way to do it: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian