Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

2016-12-18 Thread deloptes
john cusey wrote: > Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs? > > > I tried to install opera on Debian. > > > I have computer science degree and I still trying to do this. > LoL > > I know nobody will read this email. > LoL^2 > > Time to go back to Windows. > LoL^3

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

2016-12-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
john cusey writes: > Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs? > > I tried to install opera on Debian. Did you look at https://wiki.debian.org/Opera ?

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

2016-12-18 Thread John Hasler
john cusey writes: > Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs? > I tried to install opera on Debian. I suggest that you ask for help here: http://www.opera.com/help -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

2016-12-18 Thread emetib
On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 8:20:04 PM UTC-6, john cusey wrote: > Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs? > linux treats executable files/programs differently than windows. thus more secure. > I have computer science degree and I still trying to do this. > a piece of

Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

2016-12-18 Thread Ben Finney
john cusey writes: > Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs? What kind of answer are you looking for? One correct answer would be: Because installing software is a potentially very disruptive act on a computer, so it should be done through a formal system of packages. Ins

Why I can not install software on debian easily?

2016-12-18 Thread john cusey
Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs? I tried to install opera on Debian. I have computer science degree and I still trying to do this. I know nobody will read this email. Time to go back to Windows. John

Re: [Newbie] Can ls command format output my way?

2016-12-18 Thread emetib
> > This Vortex won't last long enough. it only feels like -40 f where i'm at. > Several of the responses I've received are opening my eyes to > what can be done with some straight forward (if not simple) shell > commands. the beauty of the cli em

Re: Easiest Way to Mount an Image File

2016-12-18 Thread Martin McCormick
> 1) While losetup 'cooks' you a block device from the file, it does not > expose underlying partitions. What you need is: > > sudo kpartx -a /home/pgmaudio/2016-11-25-raspbian-jessie-lite.img > Look for devices created in /dev/mapper, don't forget to run afterward: > > sudo kpartx -d /home/pgma

Re: [Newbie] Can ls command format output my way?

2016-12-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/17/2016 10:59 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 17 Dec 2016 at 17:57:26 (+0200), Lars Noodén wrote: On 12/17/2016 05:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] I don't wish anything but full path to all files in a top level directory. Followup question how should I found the answer for myself. I lo

Re: Easiest Way to Mount an Image File

2016-12-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
"Martin McCormick" writes: > sudo losetup /dev/loop0 /home/pgmaudio/2016-11-25-raspbian-jessie-lite.img [...] > sudo mount /dev/loop0 p2 /mnt > > The report is that it doesn't exist and ls /dev/loop0* only shows > the original loop0 loopback device. I looked through all of /dev > such as /dev/mappe

Re: Easiest Way to Mount an Image File

2016-12-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 08:41:01 -0600 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > The following command works: > > sudo losetup /dev/loop0 /home/pgmaudio/2016-11-25-raspbian-jessie-lite.img > > When one does > > fdisk -l /dev/loop0 the result is sensable: > > Device Boot Start En

Easiest Way to Mount an Image File

2016-12-18 Thread Martin McCormick
The following command works: sudo losetup /dev/loop0 /home/pgmaudio/2016-11-25-raspbian-jessie-lite.img When one does fdisk -l /dev/loop0 the result is sensable: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/loop0p18192 137215 64512c W95 FAT3

SOLVED:Re: Restore problem deja dup

2016-12-18 Thread Aquarius
According to the message I was also thinking it had to do with rights on my new installed system At last I found that the pointer to the backup directory was the problem. As the external hard drive was already re/dicognized I entered the path from there to the directory. When I tried again I ent

Re: Restore problem deja dup

2016-12-18 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday, 18 December 2016 15:18:05 PYST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:18:25PM +0100, Aquarius wrote: > > I re-installed Debian Jessie after making a backup of my home directory. > > Could you describe this "dejadup" a bit more? How is it supposed to > do its thing? Is it s

Re: Restore problem deja dup

2016-12-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:18:25PM +0100, Aquarius wrote: > I re-installed Debian Jessie after making a backup of my home directory. Could you describe this "dejadup" a bit more? How is it supposed to do its thing? Is it saving your home dir or more i

Restore problem deja dup

2016-12-18 Thread Aquarius
I re-installed Debian Jessie after making a backup of my home directory. Maybe the hostname of the new installation is different from before. When trying to restore my backup I get an error saying: "Error creating directory. Permission denied." I would think the to be created directory is on my new

awstats: Debian's update.sh script

2016-12-18 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, I'm setting up the awstats version from Debian Stable. There is Debian custom update.sh script included, which should update all logs, identified by a configuration file in /etc/awstats # ll /etc/awstats -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63654 May 14 2016 awstats.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2593 D

Re: Black screen after exiting X

2016-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-12-17 23:35 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Rodolfo Medina composed on 2016-12-16 09:34 (UTC): > >> After logging out X (I have Openbox as window manager) with >> Ctrl-alt-Backspace >> (or also mouse right-clicking), tty1 is completely obscured and then I have >> to >> do Alt-F2 (so going to

Re: Black screen after exiting X

2016-12-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
The problem remains also with another window manager: icewm, as suggested by Kamaraju, and also after `aptitude purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau' as suggested by Felix. Thanks to both. I have no idea of how to fix it. Rodolfo

Re: Help! -- Not enough space to store temporary files

2016-12-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/12/2016 à 03:21, Dennis Wicks a écrit : Dennis Wicks wrote on 12/17/2016 07:36 PM: I am trying to install Qt on Debian How ? From the Debian repository with APT ? 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 This is the kernel version, not the Debian version. The Debian version is in /etc/debian_version.