Re: Who installed package "foo"?

2020-11-02 Thread Victor Sudakov
Nito wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 09:51:29 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > > > or apt-cache rdepends foo > > > > I got the impression that it shows all possible reverse dependencies, > > not just those installed locally. > > It lists plenty of stuff which "dpkg

Re: Who installed package "foo"?

2020-11-02 Thread John Crawley
On 02/11/2020 12:31, Victor Sudakov wrote: David Wright wrote: On Mon 02 Nov 2020 at 09:52:53 (+0700), Victor Sudakov wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: When I want to figure out what package has installed package "foo" as a dependency, is there a less barbaric method than apt-get -s remove foo In a

Re: Who installed package "foo"?

2020-11-02 Thread Nito
On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 09:51:29 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > > or apt-cache rdepends foo > > I got the impression that it shows all possible reverse dependencies, > not just those installed locally. apt-cache rdepends --installed foo will limit this to locally in

Re: Special Key Assignment?

2020-11-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 03:42:11PM -0400, Thomas George wrote: > I want to assign a unicode character to an unused key on my keyboard. For > example F6 currently is assigned ~, name of my home directory. I would like > to change it to ♠. You are probably confused about what's actually happening.

Re: Mounting a USB device

2020-11-02 Thread David
Hi Mick Please make sure to send all your replies to the mailing list so that others can add to the conversation. On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 21:25, Mick Ab wrote: > > Thanks very much, David, for your suggestions. I appreciate that very much. > My knowledge of Linux is gleaned from various online ar

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-11-02 Thread Nicolas George
Andrei POPESCU (12020-11-02): > > > Doing this with a lossy format like MP3 will worsen the quality, it is > > > not a good idea. > Import the mp3 directly in audacity ;) > > Audacity might still be doing some conversion internally on > import/export from/to mp3 It will. >

Re: Mounting a USB device

2020-11-02 Thread David
On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 22:55, Mick Ab wrote: > My plan is to update my distribution very soon, but first I need to do > a backup of the system to a USB portable hard drive (which uses NTFS). Hi Mick, Forgive me if I am wrong, but it seems possible that there could be some "XY Problem" occurring

Re: package of cfdisk

2020-11-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 01 nov 20, 23:53:18, gregoire roumache wrote: > Hello, > > I've found multiple bugs while using the command : cfdisk. I've written a > report to sub...@bugs.debian.org, however it was rejected because I didn't > specify a package (line at the very first line of the mail body). > Unfortunate

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-11-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 29 oct 20, 16:11:18, ghe2001 wrote: > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:54 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > > > ghe2001 (12020-10-29): > > > > > I had a very similar problem a few years ago. SoX will convert those > > > mp3s to files you can edit (I conver