Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-02 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 09:31:39PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: [...] > I don't know about your position, but I find myself repeating > Hanlon's Razor a lot: "Never ascribe to malice that which can > adequately be explained by stupidity." But then, in the back > of my mind, a little voice replies

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-02 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Tue, 02 May 2023 13:40:01 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > >>> i see 100% non-Hanlon opinions including a "sudo rm -R /" >>> assassination attempt. > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> Murder by a Hanlon razor. Now that would be... something. > > It would only be deadly if the

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 May 2023 at 13:03:48 (-0400), songbird wrote: > David Wright wrote: > ... > > It seems a bluff was called. Anyway, I got > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > > as it seems bookworm's libfreetype6 was upgraded overnight. > > that was the only upgrade i

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Tue, 02 May 2023 18:10:01 +0200 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 02 May 2023 at 11:39:09 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > >> It's a pointless thing to discuss, in any case, since I have been >> unable to think of essentially any reason why anyone would ever want >> to do any such thing. > > It mak

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread songbird
David Wright wrote: ... > It seems a bluff was called. Anyway, I got > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > as it seems bookworm's libfreetype6 was upgraded overnight. that was the only upgrade i saw this morning for my testing partition. > And I'm not brave; the

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 May 2023 at 11:39:09 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > It's a pointless thing to discuss, in any case, since I have been unable > to think of essentially any reason why anyone would ever want to do any > such thing. It makes me think of that gruesome cartoon where a meat mincer's handle is

Re: shame on me (was: Re: No fool like an old fool (debian installation probs))

2023-05-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 May 2023 at 12:10:48 (+0200), DdB wrote: > I notice, that, even though i did change the name of the sda2 partition, > the PARTLABEl remained unchanged. It's rather confusing that gdisk (my preferred partitioner, which I use outside the installer) refers to the PARTLABEL as the partition

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread debian-user
Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/5/23 20:23, Michel Verdier wrote: > > Le 2 mai 2023 Bret Busby a écrit : > > > >> I expect that, by context, running > >> apt purge > >> without the restriction specifying particular package, will apply > >> apt purge > >> to all installed packages, according to what pu

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-05-02 at 10:28, Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/5/23 20:23, Michel Verdier wrote: > >> Le 2 mai 2023 Bret Busby a écrit : >> >>> I expect that, by context, running >>> apt purge >>> without the restriction specifying particular package, will apply >>> apt purge >>> to all installed packages, acc

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 22:28 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > I think that, to remove all installed packages, a system administrator, > from the superuser level, needs to run something like > rm -r / Or apt remove '*' Man page for apt says it accepts regex and globs for package specifiers. Other too

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 May 2023 at 22:28:11 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/5/23 20:23, Michel Verdier wrote: > > Le 2 mai 2023 Bret Busby a écrit : > > > > > I expect that, by context, running > > > apt purge > > > without the restriction specifying particular package, will apply > > > apt purge > > > to al

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 May 2023 at 08:09:57 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 10:18:10AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > > man apt > > > > Which doesn't say what 'apt purge' does without a package name. It says > > 'Performs the requested ac

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 mai 2023 Bret Busby a écrit : > and, so, where a particular package is specified as an argument to the > command, all obsolete configuration files associated with the package, will be > removed, and, where no package is specified as an argument to the command, all > obsolete configuration fi

Re: Impossible to change ownership of a file to user when user is UID 0

2023-05-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 04:37:34PM +0200, Pierre Willaime wrote: > After some investigations, it is most likely a permission issue > > May 1 15:32:42 vm sshd[131848]: debug1: trying public key file > /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys > May 1 15:32:42 vm sshd[131848]: debug1: fd 5 clearing

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 20:23, Michel Verdier wrote: Le 2 mai 2023 Bret Busby a écrit : I expect that, by context, running apt purge without the restriction specifying particular package, will apply apt purge to all installed packages, according to what purge does, in relation to packages. But as "apt purg

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread songbird
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and > the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next.  > I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with > the base from which I get updates, etc.  I used th

Re: Request for guidance to output(print, i.e.) mouse movements, key press, perepherals insert, etc., on a terminal

2023-05-02 Thread songbird
Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 4/25/23 à 06:00, Susmita/Rajib a écrit : > >> >> Try looking at "evtest". >> >> [ ... ] >> >> Raed the manual of evtest. There are very little >> example code lines. evtest isn't installed in the Official Debian >> GNU/Linux Live 11.6.0 lxde 2022-12-17T11:46. > >

Re: shame on me (was: Re: No fool like an old fool (debian installation probs))

2023-05-02 Thread songbird
DdB wrote: ... > I notice, that, even though i did change the name of the sda2 partition, > the PARTLABEl remained unchanged. > This proves my previous post wrong and i am sorry for the confusion, > this may have caused. You were correct all along. > DdB yes, but i also recall you saying somethi

Re: bind9 and dns forward

2023-05-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 mai 2023 Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > linbobo:/etc/bind# cat named.conf.local > --- > [] > zone "tio.nl" IN { > type forward; > forward only; > forwarders {172.16.128.40; 172.16.208.10;}; > }; > > zone "staf.tio.nl" IN { > type forward;

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 18:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 17:18, Tixy wrote: On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: Have you tried running also apt autoclean I thought that just cleared /var/cache/apt/archives/.

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 mai 2023 Bret Busby a écrit : > I expect that, by context, running > apt purge > without the restriction specifying particular package, will apply > apt purge > to all installed packages, according to what purge does, in relation to > packages. But as "apt purge " remove this package and rem

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 10:18:10AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > man apt > > Which doesn't say what 'apt purge' does without a package name. It says > 'Performs the requested action on one or more packages specified via > regex(7), glob(7) or exact m

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-02 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 01:39:28PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > i see 100% non-Hanlon opinions including a "sudo rm -R /" assassination > > > attempt. > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Murder by a Hanlon razor. Now that would be... something. > > It would only be deadly if

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > i see 100% non-Hanlon opinions including a "sudo rm -R /" assassination > > attempt. to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Murder by a Hanlon razor. Now that would be... something. It would only be deadly if the assassination target is indeed stupid and not just pretending. > Perhaps this

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread David Christensen
On 5/1/23 18:51, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next. I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with the base from which I get updates, etc. 

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 18:20, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 18:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 17:18, Tixy wrote: On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: Have you tried running also apt autoclean I thought that jus

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 17:18, Tixy wrote: On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: Have you tried running also apt autoclean I thought that just cleared /var/cache/apt/archives/. and apt purge I've never tried t

shame on me (was: Re: No fool like an old fool (debian installation probs))

2023-05-02 Thread DdB
Am 02.05.2023 um 05:50 schrieb David Wright: > On Tue 02 May 2023 at 02:21:20 (+0200), DdB wrote: >> Am 01.05.2023 um 21:38 schrieb David Wright: >>> And PARTLABELs aren't interfered with even by the installer. >> >> This at least i can contradict for a fact. > > So is this post the rebuttal, or a

RE: bind9 and dns forward

2023-05-02 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, Lots of info and log quotes. I hope you can find the "normal" text. >> We use a different dns server(s) and zonefile for the external dns >> environment from what we use internally. Company dns is Windows server 2016 >> incase that is relevant. > > It's better to use dig (package bind9-dns

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-02 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 11:32:13AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: [...] > In > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2023/03/msg00123.html > i see 100% non-Hanlon opinions including a "sudo rm -R /" assassination > attempt. Murder by a Hanlon razor. Now that would be... something. I used

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > If you still have issues with your printer, I strongly advise you to ask > > > on the German mailing list, Thomas Hochstein wrote: > > They started on the German mailing list, about a year ago ... Schwibinger Michael / Sophie wrote: > The Germans did send You to th

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Have you tried running also > > > > > > apt autoclean > > > > > > I thought that just cleared /var/cache/apt/archives/. > > > > > > > > >

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 16:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: Have you tried running also apt autoclean I thought that just cleared /var/cache/apt/archives/. and apt purge I've never tried that without a package name. What does it do? RTFM ? man apt ... .. Bret Busb

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/5/23 11:42, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 23:24:56 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:45 PM Rick Thomas wrote: On Mon, May 1, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/5/23 02:06, David Christensen wrote: On 5/1/23 06:51, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Th

Re: Request for guidance to output(print, i.e.) mouse movements, key press, perepherals insert, etc., on a terminal

2023-05-02 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 4/25/23 à 06:00, Susmita/Rajib a écrit : Try looking at "evtest". [ ... ] Raed the manual of evtest. There are very little example code lines. evtest isn't installed in the Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.6.0 lxde 2022-12-17T11:46. I second evtest which is very straightforward. Up

AW: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-02 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good morning. The Germans did send You to this list. Was this wrong? Regards Sophie Thank You Von: Greg Wooledge Gesendet: Montag, 1. Mai 2023 11:30 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are us

Re: what's $_ in bash

2023-05-02 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 4/8/23 à 04:35, t...@myposts.ovh a écrit : Hello in bash shell, what's "$_" variable? where defines it? Thanks. It's the last argument of the last command. I use it often when installing a package. Something like: $ apt-cache show "package-name" [... read the description ...] $ sudo apt-g

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-05-02 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 4/5/23 à 17:19, Yvan Masson a écrit : Hi list, As the subject says, I am looking for a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures. You can try the imgp + nnn combo. You get speed as a bonus, but it misses some of your requirements (like french translation and possibly the GU

Re: No fool like an old fool (debian installation probs)

2023-05-02 Thread David Christensen
On 5/1/23 17:13, DdB wrote: Am 01.05.2023 um 19:46 schrieb David Christensen: Reading the above plus your previous post "Looking for inspiration/advice/best practices on system upgrade", it seems that you are making things too complicated. I would pick one machine, disable/ disconnect/ uninsta

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I used the reinstall on brasero and it just said that it was up to date. What error message does Brasero issue before refusing to work ? What optical medium type do you give Brasero for burning ? I can probably help with composing a xorriso run which performs a simi

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Tom Dial
On 5/1/23 19:51, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next. I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with the base from which I get updates, et