Making DXF files, if possible with perl

2015-08-18 Thread aka
Hi everyone, I need to make a program (if possible in perl) which does DXF files, having some splines. It seems that it's no splines in CPAN CAD::Drawing module, so I wonder what to do... Have please someone an advice for me ? Thanks, best regards, aka

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:02:55PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:57:43 -0400 > Edward Lukacs wrote: > > > robust software. Linux has been amazingly good for most of its life but > > over the last few years it has begun to

Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble

2015-08-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:13:20PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > Audacious works because it allows me to select the audio device. > > However playing audio in iceweasel does not work. Have you tried to select the "sound card" with alsamixer?

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 04:42:10PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: [...] > I read the Debian.Readme file and came away confused. What is a > "rake task". Rake is Ruby's own take on Make [1] -- i.e. a program used to build other programs. > I could use a l

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-18 Thread briand
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:57:43 -0400 Edward Lukacs wrote: > robust software. Linux has been amazingly good for most of its life but > over the last few years it has begun to show serious signs of bloating. > I mean the sort of thing that Detroit did when they put tail-fins on > cars and the sort

no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble

2015-08-18 Thread briand
Audacious works because it allows me to select the audio device. However playing audio in iceweasel does not work. Why not ? Who the heck knows. Humorously i think that's the reason i installed pulse-audio in the first place. Been going through the usual sources- nothing works so far. Any id

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread doug
On 08/18/2015 08:24 PM, Renaud OLGIATI (Ron) wrote: /snip/ The people at Virtualbox also warn you against using the binaries from distributions, but to get them from their own site. This said, I have been playing with it in recent days, mainly to get MS Windows without dual-boot; installed

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/18/2015 01:47 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-08-18, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, I have just installed Redmine by the usual method of "aptitude install redmine. I selected sqlite as the database. I have had Apache2 running for a long time on my jessie system. Usually, I would expect to fin

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Ron
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:58:58 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" > > > running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can > > > easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant > > > install iso's. > > > I need advice on h

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Weber
*...Bob* On 08/18/2015 07:43 PM, doug wrote: > > On 08/18/2015 07:17 PM, Bob Weber wrote: >> >>> > /snip/ >>> >> I also use the kvm/qemu packages. There is also a GUI that makes setting up >> and running VMs very easy. Its Virtual Machine Manager and it uses libvirtd >> to manage machines. I

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Mike Castle
With VirtualBox, one has the option to install a bunch of guess additions that help the guest and host work better together. Is such needed/useful with KVM and friends? FWIW, I use vbox as it comes with the installation, mostly because I'm too lazy to download the upstream version. Seems to wor

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 00:48:56 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" > > running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can > > easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant > >

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote: > My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" > running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can > easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant > install iso's. > > I need advice on how to do this on Jessie. W

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Bob. On 18/08/15 19:06, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> # aptitude install qemu-kvm > I'll give it a shot. Good! That's the attitude! > Don't be surprised if you see me pop up here again! No problem :) >> # egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo > This shows two instances of 'svm', in r

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread doug
On 08/18/2015 07:17 PM, Bob Weber wrote: /snip/ I also use the kvm/qemu packages. There is also a GUI that makes setting up and running VMs very easy. Its Virtual Machine Manager and it uses libvirtd to manage machines. I have also at one time installed bsd and it ran fine. You can

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Weber
** On 08/18/2015 06:06 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > >> # aptitude install qemu-kvm > > I'll give it a shot. Don't be surprised if you see me pop up here again! > >> # egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo > > This shows two instances of 'svm', in

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Daniel Bareiro wrote: # aptitude install qemu-kvm I'll give it a shot. Don't be surprised if you see me pop up here again! # egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo This shows two instances of 'svm', in red. Is that what I'm looking for? You should also che

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-08-18, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just installed Redmine by the usual method of "aptitude install > redmine. I selected sqlite as the database. I have had Apache2 running > for a long time on my jessie system. Usually, I would expect to find a > listing in my application lau

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Bob. On 18/08/15 16:10, Bob Bernstein wrote: > My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" > running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can > easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant > install iso's. > > I need advice on how to do this on J

Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant install iso's. I need advice on how to do this on Jessie. What Debian virtualization packages do people like? I g

Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-18 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have just installed Redmine by the usual method of "aptitude install redmine. I selected sqlite as the database. I have had Apache2 running for a long time on my jessie system. Usually, I would expect to find a listing in my application launcher. There is none. I have tried systemct

Re: How to fix problems with "libstdc++6 breaks [something]"

2015-08-18 Thread Joe
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:54:32 +1000 Dorival Pedroso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering if there is a way to fix problems with libstdc++6 > in Debian unstable? > > I'm trying to install blender and/or python-scipy for example. > Waiting is. There are serious upheavals in unstable at the momen

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 09:27:46PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:54:19 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:32:37PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > > A nation of supermarket-keepers. > > > > Why does there seem to be preocupation with hyphens these days, or am > > I

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-18 Thread Brian
On Tue 18 Aug 2015 at 19:58:21 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > assumed i can build Debian package files of three existing > orphaned Debian packages with current upstream release on > Debian 8.1 - where to ask the following questions: > > - What more do i have to set up for making them re

One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, assumed i can build Debian package files of three existing orphaned Debian packages with current upstream release on Debian 8.1 - where to ask the following questions: - What more do i have to set up for making them ready for submission to a sponsor ? Sid ? - Is an experienced packager aro

aptitude/dpkg fails at "Preparing to unpack"

2015-08-18 Thread Bill Brelsford
Recent security updates on jessie (i486) have failed: # aptitude update ... # aptitude -DPR safe-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common ... Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 72512 files and dir

Re: Security in our local network

2015-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 01:48:15PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sat, 2015-08-15 at 11:59 +0200, B. M. wrote: > > - I have no control over the router (firmware updates? security > > fixes? I assume it's > > "really cheap" ...) > > I would start right there. If you can't get firmware updates,

Re: Security in our local network

2015-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:23:49AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 6:59 PM, B. M. wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > - Not really a debian problem, but I value the knowledge of you all :-) > > Well, these are common technical problems that many of us face, and > some/many of the strate

Re: Problems playing videos on Iceweasel

2015-08-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/18/2015 11:53 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > On 18/08/15 12:49, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > >> Any idea that can shed some light on this problem? > > I forgot to say that I'm using Debian Jessie with iceweasel 40.0-1~bpo80+1. It works fine for me on up-to-date Jessie with iceweasel 38.2.0. With

Re: Problems playing videos on Iceweasel

2015-08-18 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On 18/08/15 12:49, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Any idea that can shed some light on this problem? I forgot to say that I'm using Debian Jessie with iceweasel 40.0-1~bpo80+1. Thanks again. Best regards, Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Problems playing videos on Iceweasel

2015-08-18 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! Some time ago I'm having problems when trying to play in Iceweasel some videos posted on LinkedIn. Example: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/too-much-your-plate-36-fred-kofman?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like I get a message saying something like "Video not found or access denied: //vcdn.sli

Re: How to fix problems with "libstdc++6 breaks [something]"

2015-08-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/18/15, Dorival Pedroso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering if there is a way to fix problems with libstdc++6 in > Debian unstable? > > I'm trying to install blender and/or python-scipy for example. Are you working with your package manager's absolute latest updates that are drawn from the

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/18/2015 08:57 AM, Edward Lukacs wrote: it took me a half hour to totally eliminate it and set up a complete alsa installation which is utterly reliable. I will not go back, even if pulseaudio is repaired and made less of a system hog. I don't get this. You got alsa working "complete" af

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/18/2015 08:57 AM, Edward Lukacs wrote: My own opinion, for what it's worth, is to keep your system simple, stupid, as the saying goes. I used to feel as you do, and ranted on pulse whenever the opportunity arose. But, that was years ago. Pulse is far more simple to use, when it comes t

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-18 Thread Nicolas George
Le primidi 1er fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ric Moore a écrit : > Pulse generally is a pussycat. It sits on top of alsa and if alsa is broken, > pulse is broken. On the other hand, there are situations where ALSA works perfectly and just INSTALLING the pulseaudio package would break it, even if it was a

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-18 Thread Edward Lukacs
I am far from a guru, but I am a twenty-one year Linux user since Kernel 0.91. Pulse audio has been, at least since Kernel 3.0, a pain in my side. I currently run Jessie 8.0 on both my Compaq desktop and my HP laptop (64 bit AMD Sempron and Turion x2 respectively,) On both systems Pulseaudio crap

Re: bluetooth speakers

2015-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/18/2015 04:30 AM, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 16/08/2015 18:51, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:16:44 +0200 François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I try to have speakers connected thr

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/17/2015 10:10 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:25:24 +0200 Arno Schuring wrote: Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:37:37 -0700 From: bri...@aracnet.com [..snip list of PA inadequacies..] so soliciting opinions on whether or not getting rid of pulse audio is a good idea.

Many questions to live-build

2015-08-18 Thread Hans
Hello folks, I am running live-build for several targets (debian-live, kali linux and some other). I read into the manual, but there are some questions, the manual could not solve. Maybe you can help. What I want to do is the following: I want to download and create a chroot for several arch

Re: Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Distribution Disk

2015-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
In-reply-to: <20150818082444.6a59c...@ron.cerrocora.org> > Download the latest release of Raspbian from > https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ then dd it onto your 32GB sd card, > and boot the Pi; one of the first thing it will offer you in the setup is > to resize the partition, so as to use

Re: Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Distribution Disk

2015-08-18 Thread Ron
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:13:26 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > 1. Is there an email list similar to this one about the > Raspberry Pi computers? There are a number of web forums that are > fine, but I would like to find an email list similar to this one > or to the PIC microcontroller list which

Re: Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Distribution Disk

2015-08-18 Thread Ron
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:13:26 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > The other question is about the boot disk for a Raspberry > Pi2. > > The Raspberry Pi's OS is on a micro SD card. The Pi2 I > just got came with an 8 GB SD and I want to use a 32GB SD card. > > It has not yet been

Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Distribution Disk

2015-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
A couple of questions, here. 1. Is there an email list similar to this one about the Raspberry Pi computers? There are a number of web forums that are fine, but I would like to find an email list similar to this one or to the PIC microcontroller list which some of you may know about. Rasp

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-18 Thread Mart van de Wege
Arno Schuring writes: >> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:16:55 +0200 >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > [..] >> >> You can't install gnome without the pulseaudio libraries, but it runs >> perfectly fine without the daemon. >> > > On Debian? > > $ aptitude why gnome-core pulseaudio > p   gnome-core D

How to fix problems with "libstdc++6 breaks [something]"

2015-08-18 Thread Dorival Pedroso
Hi, I'm just wondering if there is a way to fix problems with libstdc++6 in Debian unstable? I'm trying to install blender and/or python-scipy for example. Cheers Dorival

I have a problem loading with my usb from 2 different pcs.

2015-08-18 Thread Oxalc Ganymede
My post on the internet is here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=124117&p=589256#p589256 and basically we're at trying to load the proper ehci-orion module so I can load my root partition from the usb stick. That page explains my case.

Error filing RFP using reportbug

2015-08-18 Thread Andrew Beverley
Hi, I'm trying to file a new bug report using bugreport for a RFP via WNPP. I'm getting the following error after I submit the description for the package: Querying Debian BTS for reports on wnpp (source)... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2211, in main(

Re: bluetooth speakers

2015-08-18 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 16/08/2015 18:51, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : > On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:16:44 +0200 François Patte > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Bonjour, >> >> I try to have speakers connected through bluetooth. Everything >>