Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/7/25 17:37, Thomas Southerland wrote: > > > > On 7/20/25 5:21 AM, Mathew Alexander wrote: > >> Mathew Alexander > >> mat...@gmail.com > >> > >> > >> > >> WebRep > >> Overall rating > >> > >> WebRep > >> Overall rating > >> > > > > To unsub

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2025, 20:46:18 CEST schrieb Van Snyder: > On Sun, 2025-07-20 at 14:24 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > > > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. > > > > How about > > >

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

On Sun, 2025-07-20 at 14:24 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. > > How about > >    mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n > > where <100-page.pd

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

* On 2025 20 Jul 12:08 -0500, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > > Sorry, I meant digital signatures. Mailing list messing with the body > > means that the signature is no longer valid. > > Strange, I have in my archives mails from that mailing-list that are > digitally signed

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > Sorry, I meant digital signatures. Mailing list messing with the body > means that the signature is no longer valid. Strange, I have in my archives mails from that mailing-list that are digitally signed, where a footer with unsubscribe instructions was added, and mu

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

> I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. > I wish to edit those 2 files. I've used Inkskape in the past to edit PDFs, and more recently LibreOffice. As a general rule, the better option is to do something else, because editing PDFs is fundamentally "wrong" so the tools ha

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

On Jul 20, 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > > And it'd break signatures for those of us who use them. I *hated* yahoo > > groups (and, now, groups.io) for doing that. > > Can you explain what it means? I am subscribed to > a

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 10:52:36 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 20/07/2025 13:22, Tom Dial wrote: > > > unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No > > > such file or directory > > > > try: > "sudo apt up

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 20/07/2025 13:22, Tom Dial wrote: > > unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No > > such file or directory > try: "sudo apt update" "sudo apt purge ld-linux" "sudo apt install ld-linux" > Do you have lib -> usr/

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. For a simple graphical solution, try xpdf. The print option allows you to print specified pages to file. We cannot help with the editing since you ha

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 7/20/25 7:24 AM, Roger Price wrote: > > mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n > > > > where <100-page.pdf> is the original file > >Page-n.pdf is the one page file extracted > > > Is some demo or tutorial that would clarify what it

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > And it'd break signatures for those of us who use them. I *hated* yahoo > groups (and, now, groups.io) for doing that. Can you explain what it means? I am subscribed to and I do not observe anything that looks like breaki

Re: Open Microsoft Surface

On 20.07.2025 15:10 Uhr Andrew W Rambus wrote: > Hello , I have a Microsoft Surface 4 ; I bought at a yard sale. ,and > I’m trying to turn it on , and I can’t get past the Debian login > GNU/Linux 12 login & password !! > Can someone please help me , open this laptop Did you install it? Which de

Re: Open Microsoft Surface

On Jul 20, 2025, Andrew W Rambus wrote: > Hello , I have a Microsoft Surface 4 ; I bought at a yard sale. ,and I’m > trying to turn it on , and I can’t get past the Debian login GNU/Linux 12 > login & password !! > Can someone please help me , open this laptop Reinstall your preferred OS over the

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

On Jul 20, 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:48:01PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > Perhaps, the List Administrators could find worthwhile, to add a footer to > > the mailing list messages, something like > > > > "To unsubscribe, change your subscription mode, or view the

Open Microsoft Surface

Hello , I have a Microsoft Surface 4 ; I bought at a yard sale. ,and I’m trying to turn it on , and I can’t get past the Debian login GNU/Linux 12 login & password !! Can someone please help me , open this laptop

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

On 7/20/25 7:24 AM, Roger Price wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. How about mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n where <100-page.pdf> is the original file Page-

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

Hi, On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:48:01PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Perhaps, the List Administrators could find worthwhile, to add a footer to > the mailing list messages, something like > > "To unsubscribe, change your subscription mode, or view the list archive, > see https://lists.debian.org/deb

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

On 2025-07-20, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Debian 12.8. > > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. > I wish to edit those 2 files. > How? > [Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple. > What I've read confuses me

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a 100+ page PDF document. > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. How about mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n where <100-page.pdf> is the original file Page-n.pdf is the one page file extracted

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

On 20/07/2025 13:22, Tom Dial wrote:  unable to install new version of '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory Do you have lib -> usr/lib and lib64 -> usr/lib64 symlinks in / ? Perhaps you may run statically linked tools busybox sh If it is not installed, you may extract t

How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. I wish to edit those 2 files. How? [Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple. What I've read confuses me.] TIA

Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

Thomas Southerland (HE12025-07-20): > pool then chroot into the broken file system. > > At that point, apt update and apt upgrade should work. No, they should not. Booting on another system and chrooting is for when the system does not want to boot or does not want to let you in, but it still req

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Re: Bookworm libc6 (and libc6:i386) update deleted ld-linux and cannot proceed.

On 7/20/25 2:22 AM, Tom Dial wrote: In updating a Bookworm installation from 12.1 to 12.11 I have hit a brick wall during upgrade of libc6 and libc6:i386. The update appeared normal until the upgrade of libc6:i386 (apology offered for the wrap): -- Preparing to unpack .../20-libc6_2.36-9+

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Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM Michael Paoli wrote: > > [...] > And sed and awk are POSIX, so using those is POSIX, so long as we > restrict ourselves to specified POSIX functionality. As crazy as this is going to sound... you can't count on all POSIX tools to be present anymore. VMs or containe