Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file]

2019-06-15 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > If I had been looking for information one of them could provide, is > there a URL that attempts to summarize such tools? i go in roughly this order. command line: man -k keyword apt-cache search keyword browser: google linux keyword songbird

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 2:03 p.m., Brian wrote: On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 12:09:51 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-06-15 9:49 a.m., Brian wrote: On Fri 14 Jun 2019 at 19:08:02 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-06-14 7:15 a.m., Brian wrote: Very useful. As confirmation (or not) of an idea, let us have what

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/15/2019 09:22 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/06/2019 à 15:15, Richard Owlett a écrit : I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian in order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot. For my pur

Re: Intended question

2019-06-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/06/2019 à 21:10, Felix Miata a écrit : Pascal Hambourg composed on 2019-06-15 16:22 (UTC+0200): in legacy mode Oops, I meant in EFI mode. the installer does not allow to select a location and name... ...It would be nice if the installer could offer to define a custom identifier for th

Re: Intended question

2019-06-15 Thread Felix Miata
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2019-06-15 16:22 (UTC+0200): > in legacy mode > the installer does not allow to select a location and name... > ...It would be nice if the installer > could offer to define a custom identifier for the boot loader. Unless something has changed lately, a bootloader "l

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Fred
On 06/15/2019 08:40 AM, k. jantzen wrote: On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote: Hello, in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or documentviewer. But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then I have to go to Windows to open it. What is

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 12:09:51 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2019-06-15 9:49 a.m., Brian wrote: > > On Fri 14 Jun 2019 at 19:08:02 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > > On 2019-06-14 7:15 a.m., Brian wrote: > > > > Very useful. As confirmation (or not) of an idea, let us have what > > > > > > > > cup

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting k. jantzen (2019-06-15 17:40:24) > On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote: > > in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either > > xpdf or documentviewer. > > > > But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then > > I have to go to Windows to open it. >

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 17:46:50) > On 2019-06-15 10:56 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 16:31:28) >>> On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used in an otherwise non-KDE environment.

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 15/06/19, Curt (cu...@free.fr) wrote: > I use mupdf from time to time, but as it doesn't refresh automagically like > Evince when I run 'pdflatex' on an open pdf file whose tex source I've > modified, I prefer the latter. Depending on your editor, it should be simple to sync the PDF to changes

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 05:40:24PM +0200, k. jantzen wrote: > Hello, > > thanks a lot for this interesting discussion. > > As stated before I used documentviewer and xpdf. > > As a consequence of this discussion I tried evince and mupdf. > They did not solve the problem. You might also try gv

Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing

2019-06-15 Thread Erik Josefsson
On 6/15/19 9:27 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: When I get around to using it myself I will likely add it to one of the addon profiles of thehttps://box.redpill.dk/ images but not the gui profile specifically: It is a command-line tool, not graphical. As far as I can see, pullimap needs libconfig

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 9:49 a.m., Brian wrote: On Fri 14 Jun 2019 at 19:08:02 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-06-14 7:15 a.m., Brian wrote: Very useful. As confirmation (or not) of an idea, let us have what cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/ -m printer/foo \ -e --list-filters /etc/nsswitch.conf gives (as r

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread k. jantzen
On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote: Hello, in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or documentviewer. But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then I have to go to Windows to open it. What is so spectacular about these files that they

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 10:56 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 16:31:28) On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used in an otherwise non-KDE environment. Far better than (e.g. virtualized) Windows with Adobe R

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 9:50 a.m., Brian wrote: On Fri 14 Jun 2019 at 23:32:50 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I thought I'd figured it out - that the network printer shouldn't be installed locally, because it's automagically discovered. I tested this by As we have seen, it is the way you installed the queue on

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 16:31:28) > On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used in an >> otherwise non-KDE environment. >> >> Far better than (e.g. virtualized) Windows with Adobe Reader, though >> :-) > > However few pe

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [ quotes reordered by time - please consider not top-posting, Hans ] Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 05:35:58) On 2019-06-13 12:10 p.m., Joe wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: in general I do not have a problem

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/06/2019 à 15:15, Richard Owlett a écrit : I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian in order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot. For my purposes, the Debian installer has two annoyances:

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-06-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > didier gaumet writes: > >> Le 14/06/2019 à 20:26, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >> [...] >>> Could not determine java version from '11.0.4'. >> [...] >> >> I would say you are probably (assuming you are still running Debian >> Unstable), you need to install openjdk-11-jdk and

Configure Stubby to use DoT(DNS over TLS)

2019-06-15 Thread Finn
I'm struggling with setup of "stubby" to use DoT(DNS over TLS). I found a good tutorial by Linuxbabe[1] but it's for Ubuntu. So, I tried to retro-fit it for Debian and install getdns-utils(which contain stubby)[4] but don't find any configuration file in /etc folder as mentioned in tutorial. On IRC

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Jun 2019 at 23:32:50 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I thought I'd figured it out - that the network printer shouldn't be > installed locally, because it's automagically discovered. I tested this by As we have seen, it is the way you installed the queue on the client (with a Samsung driver) t

Re: error when printing to Samsung C410 series colour laser printer

2019-06-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Jun 2019 at 19:08:02 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2019-06-14 7:15 a.m., Brian wrote: > > Very useful. As confirmation (or not) of an idea, let us have what > > > > cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/ -m printer/foo \ > > -e --list-filters /etc/nsswitch.conf > > > > gives (as root). The line i

Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file]

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. TIA I was looking for /etc/

Re: GeoIP free databases and Geo::IP

2019-06-15 Thread MI
I have the same problem. For my needs, the best solution I found turns out to be the workaround you suggested using https://freegeoip.app. The alternative seems to be something like     apt install geoipupdate mmdb-bin     # use the free license in GeoIP.conf:     cp /usr/share/doc/geoipupdate

Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. TIA The filename I had forg

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-06-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
didier gaumet writes: > Le 14/06/2019 à 20:26, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > [...] >> Could not determine java version from '11.0.4'. > [...] > > I would say you are probably (assuming you are still running Debian > Unstable), you need to install openjdk-11-jdk and to verify > tesseract-ocr and (tes

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 09:39:08AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:28:10 +0200 Hans wrote: Never had a problem with PDF forms using Okular. A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used in an otherwise non-KDE environment. I haven't had any better luck

Re: web page problem

2019-06-15 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-13 20:33, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; And it's my web page. Or do I have to copy them across to a local dir I can share and chown them to match the apache2 sandboxes names? Don't know if supposed to but can put a soft link in /var/www/html pointing to directory anywhere

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.06.19 07:51, Curt wrote: > curty@einstein:~$ mupdf > usage: mupdf [options] file.pdf [page] > -p -password > -r -resolution > -A -set anti-aliasing quality in bits (0=off, 8=best) > -C -RRGGBB (tint color in hexadecimal syntax) > -W -

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Curt (2019-06-15 09:51:22) > On 2019-06-15, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 > >> Erik Christiansen wrote: > >> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to > >> > have on hand. > >> > >> I actuall

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

2019-06-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/06/2019 à 20:26, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : [...] > Could not determine java version from '11.0.4'. [...] >From their website, I quote: "You also need a suitable Java SE Development Kit for a 64-bit environment (a 32-bit environment would not work, because of the deep learning library) Note:

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-15, Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-15, Erik Christiansen wrote: >> On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote: >>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 >>> Erik Christiansen wrote: >>> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on >>> > hand. >>> >>> I actually love mupdf, a

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-15, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 >> Erik Christiansen wrote: >> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on >> > hand. >> >> I actually love mupdf, and I use it as my main pdf reader. It

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ quotes reordered by time - please consider not top-posting, Hans ] Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 05:35:58) > On 2019-06-13 12:10 p.m., Joe wrote: >>> Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf

Re: Diagnosing what applications are doing

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Erik Josefsson (2019-06-15 08:24:40) > On 5/26/19 4:36 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-26 16:25:43) > >> On Sunday 26 May 2019 07:05:45 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >>> Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-05-26 12:28:43) > On my netbook,  Thunderbird seems really un