Re: LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

2021-06-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, this looks as a bibtex issue: did you update the bst ? Otherwise, did you try to compose out of TeX Studio, for instance with command lines or latexmk ? Cheers, Jerome On 28/06/2021 03:05, Robbi Nespu wrote: On 6/27/21 2:41 PM, Robbi Nespu wrote: Issuing bug on https://bugs.debian.org/c

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 iun 21, 11:27:39, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:31:33 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Could you elaborate on why in your opinion an entity providing a service > > should automatically accept connections from third-party clients and/or > > federate with other service pr

Re: LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

2021-06-27 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 6/27/21 2:41 PM, Robbi Nespu wrote: Issuing bug on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990360 I trying to install it myself, where someone said there is a way how to override it $ wget https://mirrors.concertpass.com/tex-archive/install/macros/latex/contrib/revtex.tds.zip $

Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread IL Ka
Hi. You are using a slightly inaccurate terminology. ``tty`` is a kernel subsystem that supports terminals. Terminal could be * hardware device connected to the serial port, * virtual terminal -- so-called vty that runs on top of virtual console which is emulated by kernel using your videocard a

Re: RESOLVED: Synaptic error message

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/27/2021 05:37 PM, Brian the PERFECT wrote: ""

Re: RESOLVED: Synaptic error message

2021-06-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Jun 2021 at 16:00:12 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/27/2021 12:50 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > On 26/06/2021 15:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of > > > Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to insta

Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 5:33 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 09:01:48PM +, Long Wind wrote: > > i think terminal font used by jessie is nice but it's ugly in stretch > how > > to set font? Thanks! > > As sudo / root equivalent: > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > > should

Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 05:33:57PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 5:02 PM Long Wind wrote: > > > i think terminal font used by jessie is nice > > but it's ugly in stretch > > how to set font? Thanks! > > > > I believe that this is done through Frame Buffer settings. > > Th

Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 5:02 PM Long Wind wrote: > i think terminal font used by jessie is nice > but it's ugly in stretch > how to set font? Thanks! > I believe that this is done through Frame Buffer settings. The reason why this is fresh on my mind, is that I recently got a Gaming PC. Until I

Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 09:01:48PM +, Long Wind wrote: > i think terminal font used by jessie is nice but it's ugly in stretch how > to set font? Thanks! As sudo / root equivalent: dpkg-reconfigure console-setup should work. [Please consider moving to something later than stretch for secur

how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Long Wind
i think terminal font used by jessie is nicebut it's ugly in stretchhow to set font? Thanks!

RESOLVED: Synaptic error message

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/27/2021 12:50 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On 26/06/2021 15:20, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install some non-Debian software I wanted a local repository. To have a known base to

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
[...] > `vgchange -an` usually does the trick), but AFAIK there is standard ^ no Damn! > support for doing those things for you currently (and if you forget to [...] Ste

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> What would be the way to do that using LVM ? I think you already had the answers you need, but I'll just point out that it is possible to use LVM on a "removable" disk (a disk which you sometimes take out of a machine to put into another), and as a matter of fact, it would make a fair bit of sen

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On 26/06/2021 15:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of > Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install > some non-Debian software I wanted a local repository. To have a known > base to start from I extracted the contents of

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Jun 2021 at 08:33:58 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 6/27/21 7:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 07:31:57AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > On 6/27/21 12:29 AM, Curt wrote: > > > > On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linu

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-27 16:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: cool -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:51:21 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... > Well, apparently lots of people[1] seem very upset about and hell bent > to change Signal's (the service) policies on federation, third-party > clients, etc. > > Why? There's Matrix, that already has all that. Why insist that > e

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 07:41:51 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: ... > Not enough for what? The primary issue I have with Matrix is that > there's too much concentration of servers under the control of > matrix.org - but I think that they believe that too, and that > this will be rectified over the next few

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 08:33:58AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 6/27/21 7:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > You also need to install "xorg", which will bring in the X server and > > various utilities to make it run, including startx (which is in the > > xinit package, which is a direct dependen

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 17:02:10 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 26 iun 21, 14:05:04, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 14:14:13 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > An interesting read. Countered at > > > > https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom > > Looking fo

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 04:01:07PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > got it about the labels/UUIDs I think but I think I'm confusing myself here. > The file system doesn't know anything about the LVM ? > The LVM takes care about how and where data is stored on disk. > What is lv root the file system think

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/27/21 7:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 07:31:57AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 6/27/21 12:29 AM, Curt wrote: On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett wrote: One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Installing the Base S

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:31:33 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > > Despite Signal making some of their source availabl

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:14:37 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:04:13, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include S

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-27 14:03, David wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 22:10, mick crane wrote: root@pumpkin:~# lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE FSVERLABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT sda ├─sda1 ext21.00a3fac2b-e17e-4be0-8cde-c1d2a3edbc2c 68.6M66% /boot ├─sda2 └─sda5 LVM2_member

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 07:31:57AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 6/27/21 12:29 AM, Curt wrote: > > On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me > > > grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Installing the Base System"[2]. > > > > > Insta

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/27/21 12:29 AM, Curt wrote: On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett wrote: One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Installing the Base System"[2]. Install only the standard system utilities with the installer, and then once you have a core

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-27 Thread Joe
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 07:46:58 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > When I'm sufficiently > > annoyed with the problem I'll do a reinstall but there are over 4000 > > packages... > > While I don't upgrade daily it's bad to let it get that far behind. I do upgrade pretty much daily. I mean

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread David
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 22:10, mick crane wrote: > root@pumpkin:~# lsblk -f > NAME FSTYPE FSVERLABEL UUID > FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT > sda > ├─sda1 ext21.00a3fac2b-e17e-4be0-8cde-c1d2a3edbc2c >68.6M66% /boot > ├─sda2 > └─sda5 LVM2_member LVM2 001 xXXSc

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-27 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > When I'm sufficiently > annoyed with the problem I'll do a reinstall but there are over 4000 > packages... While I don't upgrade daily it's bad to let it get that far behind. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-27 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, June 27, 2021 04:27:19 AM Joe wrote: > There is no 'digital', it's all analogue with a poor signal/noise ratio. Interesting -- thanks! Nothing new below this line. > And no, I'm not kidding. Some of the more obscure digital faults turn > out to require actually looking at the data wit

Re: Resolved: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

2021-06-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/27/21 3:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/26/2021 03:30 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is

Re: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

2021-06-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/26/21 2:07 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 27/6/21 4:30 am, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is placed?

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-27 11:43, David wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 19:00, mick crane wrote: hello, Please bear in mind that I don't know what I'm doing. It looks like when I installed debian on this PC I requested a LVM. I'd forgotten about that. root@pumpkin:~# df -h FilesystemSi

Re: Regarding My Email to Mr. Tormod Volden, Could your xscreensaver package be improved by switching off the LED backlights with "xset dpms force off"?

2021-06-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 04:14:39PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Mr. Tormod Volden is the maintainer of xscreensaver package of Debian. > If multiple requests are sent to Mr. Volden, the same line to switch > off LED backlights of laptop, with "xset dpms force off", could be > implemented. > > Hop

Re: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

2021-06-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/26/21 1:30 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is placed? to my knowledge no. there is the "or

Re: Disklabel type

2021-06-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 iun 21, 11:04:54, mick crane wrote: > I don't know what happened here. > Can I change the Disklabel without messing things up or is it necessary ? Careful, 'Disklabel' below is a synonym for 'Partition table' (of type 'dos' in this particular case). > root@pumpkin:~# fdisk /dev/sda >

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 iun 21, 13:30:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:10:21AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > and mount it on a directory at boot ? > > Wait: this is orthogonal to the above. Usually, whatever you want > mounted at boot is in /etc/fstab (or, perhaps, in some systemd > un

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-27 12:30, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:10:21AM +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2021-06-27 10:32, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >>/dev/sdb1 is one whole disk ext4 partition that I usually unmount >>and mount in a directory in /home to save files in. I should >>probably ha

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:10:21AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-27 10:32, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > >>/dev/sdb1 is one whole disk ext4 partition that I usually unmount > >>and mount in a directory in /home to save files in. I should > >>probably have added it to fstab. > > > >OK. Not n

Re: Disklabel type

2021-06-27 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-27 12:01, David wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 20:51, David wrote: You're trying to apply a *filesystem* label to a block *device*. That cannot work. Not the best wording, sorry, I'll try to be a bit clearer. Your command failed because it tried to apply a *filesystem* label to a

Re: Disklabel type

2021-06-27 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-27 12:14, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: I don't know what happened here. Can I change the Disklabel without messing things up or is it necessary ? root@pumpkin:~# fdisk /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors [...] Disklabel type: do

Re: Disklabel type

2021-06-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote: > I don't know what happened here. > Can I change the Disklabel without messing things up or is it necessary ? > > root@pumpkin:~# fdisk /dev/sda > Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors > [...] > Disklabel type: dos If you are worried about the "do

Re: Disklabel type

2021-06-27 Thread David
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 20:51, David wrote: > You're trying to apply a *filesystem* label to a block *device*. > That cannot work. Not the best wording, sorry, I'll try to be a bit clearer. Your command failed because it tried to apply a *filesystem* label to a partitioned block device /dev/sda.

Regarding My Email to Mr. Tormod Volden, Could your xscreensaver package be improved by switching off the LED backlights with "xset dpms force off"?

2021-06-27 Thread Susmita/Rajib
Mr. Tormod Volden is the maintainer of xscreensaver package of Debian. If multiple requests are sent to Mr. Volden, the same line to switch off LED backlights of laptop, with "xset dpms force off", could be implemented. Hope in the coming days, Mr. Volden would receive several more requests. Best

Resolved: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/26/2021 03:30 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is placed? Just curious ;/ TIA I received a

Re: Disklabel type

2021-06-27 Thread David
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 20:05, mick crane wrote: > > I don't know what happened here. > Can I change the Disklabel without messing things up or is it necessary > ? > > root@pumpkin:~# fdisk /dev/sda > Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors > Disk model: KINGSTON SA400S3 >

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-06-27 at 03:48, Francesco Florian wrote: > On Sa, 26 Jun 2021, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> [1] unless you're one of those still running dist-upgrade for every >> security update, just because `apt-get` doesn't install new >> packages by default. > > Actually, I'm one of those running on

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread David
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 19:00, mick crane wrote: > hello, > Please bear in mind that I don't know what I'm doing. > It looks like when I installed debian on this PC I requested a LVM. > I'd forgotten about that. > root@pumpkin:~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted

Re: LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

2021-06-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 June 2021 01:27:07 Robbi Nespu wrote: > Hello Debian, > > I want to compile AIP Conference Proceedings LaTeX templates > (https://aip.scitation.org/apc/authors/preppapers) on my machine but I > keep getting: > > Extra \endgroup. \begin{document} > Missing \begin{document}. \

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-27 10:32, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: /dev/sdb1 is one whole disk ext4 partition that I usually unmount and mount in a directory in /home to save files in. I should probably have added it to fstab. OK. Not necessarily in fstab. It depends on what you want to do. Cheers - t Thanks,

Disklabel type

2021-06-27 Thread mick crane
I don't know what happened here. Can I change the Disklabel without messing things up or is it necessary ? root@pumpkin:~# fdisk /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors Disk model: KINGSTON SA400S3 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/phys

Re: add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 09:59:50AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > hello, > Please bear in mind that I don't know what I'm doing. > It looks like when I installed debian on this PC I requested a LVM. > I'd forgotten about that. > > root@pumpkin:~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail

Re: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/26/2021 04:49 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 27/6/21 5:07 am, Bret Busby wrote: On 27/6/21 4:30 am, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any

add disk to LVM

2021-06-27 Thread mick crane
hello, Please bear in mind that I don't know what I'm doing. It looks like when I installed debian on this PC I requested a LVM. I'd forgotten about that. root@pumpkin:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/27/2021 02:29 AM, Curt wrote: On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett wrote: One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Installing the Base System"[2]. Install only the standard system utilities with the installer, and then once you have a co

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-27 Thread Joe
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:11:25 +0100 Brian wrote: > > A choice between analogue and digital? You really were well off. We > had to train carrier pigeons to peck out a message with their beaks > and we needed to be adept at semaphore. Drum skills were a must. > There is no 'digital', it's all an

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-27 Thread Weaver
On 27-06-2021 18:01, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 08:12:07 -0500 > John Hasler wrote: > >> Andrei writes: >> > Unstable is challenging when you rely on that system for any kind of >> > useful work, regardless if a movie night with friends or a big >> > presentation at work, as each and every

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-27 Thread Joe
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 08:12:07 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > Unstable is challenging when you rely on that system for any kind of > > useful work, regardless if a movie night with friends or a big > > presentation at work, as each and every upgrade has the potential to > > break you

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-27 Thread Francesco Florian
On Sa, 26 Jun 2021, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [1] unless you're one of those still running dist-upgrade for every > security update, just because `apt-get` doesn't install new packages by > default. Actually, I'm one of those running on testing, since I believe it's stable enough for my workflow o

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-27 Thread Curt
On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett wrote: > One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me > grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Installing the Base System"[2]. > Install only the standard system utilities with the installer, and then once you have a core system up and running install