Re: Bluray Debian ISOs: Which app(s) burns bluray images?

On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:35:32 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > but when I did, I used K3b or wodim from the command line. > > I omitted wodim from my answer, because it can hardly do DVD and would > do Blu-ray only by accident. One should use it only for burning CD. I never knew that. I'm goin

Re: Bluray Debian ISOs: Which app(s) burns bluray images?

On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 12:25:59 -0400 (EDT) Anonymous wrote: > With downloaded Bluray ISO images, I need to use > a burning application in Linux which supports blank > Bluray medium. I know I could try Windows options > such as ImgBurn via Wine, but I'm hoping for a Linux > application. Thanks. I h

Re: Just a question...........

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:19:25 +1000 Charlie wrote: > > I don't know enough about this hope someone can help: > > My ISP CEO suggests that this address is BitTorrent: > http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib > > Is that correct? No, that is a debian mirror. :) -- To

Re: wacky question

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:44:12 -0400 Greg wrote: > Does anyone think that debian could participate in any programs like > PRISM? Or could a lone (or group of) sympathetic DD or DM slip a > backdoor or something that could collect private info in the binary > packages distributed by debian? Everythi

Re: /dev/dsp missing in Wheezy

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:16:15 -0400 amber gilchrist wrote: > I want to throw out another problem I am having in this Wheezy > upgrade: sound! I used to use ALSA with Squeeze, no problems. > After the upgrade, I am able to get sound in my browser, I can play > MP3 files, but I can't record and can't

Re: No cfdisk in Wheezy ??

On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:44:58 -0600 paul e condon wrote: > I've just noticed that I don't have cfdisk in my recently installed > Wheezy. Is this a matter of some mis-configuration on my part or is > it really being dropped? What is the replacement? cfdisk is installed here. You may need to be roo

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:14:51 -0500 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) > > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > &g

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at deb-multimedia.org? > >Yes, it is, alas. >I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister >

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:04:59 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > After the release of Wheezy, I tried the Debian Sources List > Generator (at http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/), and was surprised to > see in the resulting sources.list: > > deb http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-mul

Re: Upcoming 7.1 (not 7.0.1?) release - upgrade from 6.0.7 possible?

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:51:29 -0700 David Guntner wrote: > Alan Ianson grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:32:49 -0700 > > David Guntner wrote: > > A request, if I may: Please adjust your mailing program to include > the name, but not the E-Mail

Re: adding packages sources to the apt-get database

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:29:52 + Atar wrote: > Hi there!! > > Just wanted to know please what's the structure of the > "/etc/apt/sources.list" file and how can I add more sources to this > file in order to make the 'apt-get' program able to install packages > from those sources too. You can a

Re: Upcoming 7.1 (not 7.0.1?) release - upgrade from 6.0.7 possible?

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:32:49 -0700 David Guntner wrote: > There was just an announcement that 7.1 (not 7.0.1?) is going to be > released June 15. where did you see that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Unusual behavior

On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:25:31 -0400 Verde Denim wrote: > I've been running Wheezy for a few months now and lately (seemingly at > random times) I get a dialog popping up telling me that > "Authentication is required to update packages". When I view the > details in the dialog, it shows the Action

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:55:59PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:14:00 -0400 > > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, T

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:14:00 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > > > Co

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:11:31 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 04 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote: > > > > "Note that in DebianWheezy and beyond tasksel provides and uses > > dummy packages (known as meta packages) to pull required > > dependencies." > > > > but as there are 80 packages (seems heck a l

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:15:35 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > My system is Wheezy. > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. I'm not familiar with workbone but try loading snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss with mo

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:56:15 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which > were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list > includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. > > Obviously I'm not goint to remove all these; p

Re: Where is Jessie?

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:53:58 -0700 Alan Ianson wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:26:35 +0200 > ha wrote: > > > I have trouble locating the link to download Jessie. > > Wherever I look for, sooner or later it redirects me to old testing > > (Wheezy). Could anybody p

Re: Where is Jessie?

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:26:35 +0200 ha wrote: > I have trouble locating the link to download Jessie. > Wherever I look for, sooner or later it redirects me to old testing > (Wheezy). Could anybody please enlighten me. If your after testing or unstable you can also go here.. http://debian.org/de

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:26:08 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > My /etc/default/grub file contained > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet vga=775" > > should I remove the vga=775 when adding > GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep Yes! I've been trying different settings and rebooting and

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:26:08 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > Alan Ianson writes: > > > On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:59:49 -0700 > > Joe Riel wrote: > > > >> Alan Ianson writes: > >> > >> > On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 > >> > Joe Rie

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:59:49 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > Alan Ianson writes: > > > On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 > > Joe Riel wrote: > > > >> After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. > >> It didn't work (X didn

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. > It didn't work (X didn't come up). I managed to revert to using the > nouveau driver, by removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which mostly works. > However, I'm having an issue rend

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

On Mon, 27 May 2013 20:22:45 +0200 Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dňa 26.05.2013 21:08 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote / napísal(a): > > This bug is still not fixed. Building the packages from Nvidia > > installer however is working fine. > > i was using the Nvidia installer along time ago, and in this time, t

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

On Sun, 26 May 2013 17:31:50 +0100 Dick Thomas wrote: > On 26/05/13 07:21, Alex Moonshine wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 > >> "Hans-J. Ullrich" >> > > > wrote: > >> > > >> > This will not work. The problem is missing libxvmc1:ii386, which > >> >

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Alan Ianson: > > I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a > > 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel > >

32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel and the debian packaged nvidia drivers. I used to install an ia32 (or somesuch) nvidia package to run 32 bit programs on amd64 with good results but wheezy is multia

Re: Troubleshooting apt-get -f install

On Thu, 23 May 2013 22:18:38 +0200 Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm following instructions[1] from Debian Wiki to install Skype > on Wheezy. > > [1]: http://wiki.debian.org/skype#Debian_7.0_.22Wheezy.22 > > In a nutshell: > > # dpkg --add-architecture i386 > # apt-get update >

Re: Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD Installation: Desktop Environment Default?

On Wed, 22 May 2013 10:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Artur Conley wrote: > Who uses XFCE?(rhetorical question) I use xfce! I switched to xfce when kde changed the whole desktop in kde4. I used gnome for a time as well and wouldn't you know it, they changed the whole desktop too! Both kde and gnome made ch

Re: About installation DVD's

On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:49:12 -0700 Rick Thomas wrote: > > OK, Rupesh. Here's the process: > > 1) Debian releases the downloadable CD/DVD/Blu-ray disk images. For > reasons already covered, they release the first three DVD as ".iso" > images and the rest as '.jigdo" templates. (As you have po

Re: Video and sound in Wheezy: Howto?

On Wed, 08 May 2013 20:34:23 -0600 Paul Condon wrote: > I installed Wheezy on a HP computer which had been running Squeeze > about a week or two ago. I've done installs of Debian many times > before on other hardware, and earlier versions of Debian. This > install went very smoothly, but ... I ju

Re: New distro

On Wed, 08 May 2013 16:19:59 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 05/08/2013 03:49 PM, Valaki Valahol wrote: > > Hello Sven... > > > > I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to > > me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... > > Can I find it somewhere in these formats, not in ji

Re: New distro

On Wed, 8 May 2013 22:49:52 +0300 Valaki Valahol wrote: > Hello Sven... > > I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me > then simply downloading it from http of ftp... It's not as simple for sure, but jigdo is not that hard to use and a very useful software if you ne

Re: Xfce 4 + LXDM problem

On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:55:33 -0500 Patrick Thomas wrote: > I installed LXDM. I could not get it to run it as the default display > manager (yes, I had /usr/sbin/lxdm > in /etc/X11/default-display-manager), I had to login and run it from > tty. I managed to fix that by adding lxdm before exit 0 in

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA & Yahoo)

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:47:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:21:54 +0100 > Brad Rogers wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:07:01 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Hello Patrick, > > > > >Sylpheed accepts plugins, too. To what extent I don't know. > > >Haven't gott

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:27:41 -0400 Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:20:04 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I use Firefox not with Debian, > > but other distros. > > I didn't notice that..I see Arch Linux listed among the multitudes: > > http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uplo

Re: Nvidia Driver Working [Was: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek wrote: > Well, that was easy:  Just created, since there wasn't one by > default, an xorg.conf per instructions in the Debian Nvidia wiki > > == > Section "Module" >     Load        "glx" > EndSection > > Sectio

Re: On-going problems with flashplugin for IW

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:00:20 + AG wrote: > On 15/03/11 20:05, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On 2011-03-15, AG wrote: > > > >> Hello all > >> > >> In Iceape and other browsers (e.g. Opera) I can watch embedded > >> (streaming?) videos on-line. In Iceweasel/ Swiftfox I cannot. > >> Insterad I g

Re: Squeeze: Gnome icons missing

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:00:13 + (UTC) Zeissmann wrote: > Hi all! > > Recently I've installed Debian Squeeze with Gnome on a new laptop. > Unfortunately I'm missing some of the icons. Namely missing are those > under the System menu and all of those in the right-click menus. I've > got all the

Re: grub

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:12:52 -0500 John Lindsay wrote: > Recently I had to do a reboot. I get the following 'grub' screen > > > titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 > > root(hd0,0) > > kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet > > initrd/boot/

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 13:55 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > This originally arose from a discussion on debian-live[1] (sorry to > anyone who reads both lists, but it seemed more appropriate to > continue this tangent here). > > I wanted to block installation of a couple of recommended packages in > t

Re: failure of gnome baker

Francesco Pietra wrote: In my updated debian i386 sqeeze/gnome and debian amd64 lenny/gnome i have no more workable cd-dvd burners. Gnome-baker reports burning (CD data disk) OK, however the CD is unreadable. In contrast, k3b works fine for both CD and DVD data disks. However, installation of k3b

Re: A question for the list:

On Fri November 5 2010 08:54:23 am ZephyrQ wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote: > >> Drew writes: > >>> Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid. > >> > >> Good point. Also, don't feel that you should "track" Unstable. Upgrade > >>

Re: help with rtorrent

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 23:06 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:24:20 -0700 > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:35 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I'm new to bittorrent. I'm using rtorrent to download > > > debian-506-i386-

Re: help with rtorrent

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:35 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm new to bittorrent. I'm using rtorrent to download > debian-506-i386-CD-1.iso. I set my firewall to forward TCP 6890-6999 to > my bittorrent machine, per my .rtorrent.rc file. That sounds right for a classic bittorrent client. I used to op

Re: Game online

On Tue November 2 2010 05:12:41 am Alex PADOLY wrote: > Di you know a game online that I can play with firefox on Linux. > Regards. I like quakelive.com. I haven't run it in a while but it is much like running quake III.. one of many.. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

On Sun October 31 2010 11:56:46 pm godo wrote: > > It makes a difference on mine when I choose a new file to edit. If I > > uncheck that box I get the usual gnomey file chooser, and if I check it > > I get the openoffice chooser. > > I don't know is it because I use KDE, but in both case it's the s

Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 06:57 +0100, godo wrote: > > Tools -> options -> openoffice.org -> general -> "use openoffice.org > > dialogue boxes" > > > > That's my best guess.. :) > > > > > I also do not see anything else but don't see any difference if check > box is checked or not. > > -- > Bye,

Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 01:01 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:46:44 +0100 > godo wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps I wasn't clear; I'm interested in filename / path completion in > > > dialog boxes, not word completion within documents. And I'd also just > > > like to revert to the system

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 02:52 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Allow me to ask a stupid question. > > Somewhere near this point in the dmesg messages, the console blanks and > becomes a different resolution. > > [ 8.135936] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle > [ 8.137762] processo

Re: Stopping sound preview

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 17:43 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/22/2010 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:21:47 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > > >> I am running latest Squeeze Gnome (2.30), it previews music files when > >> you hover the mouse cursor over the file icon. While sorti

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #1688

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 06:52 -0700, Farid Ansari wrote: > Please someone advise how to unsubscribe from the userlists. I tried > to do so unsucessfully. I cannot cope with the mails. > Any help given will be highly appreciated. > Thanks. > Farid You can try this web page to unsubscribe.. http://ww

Re: Question for users of OOo and/ or LibO

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 19:49 +0100, AG wrote: > On 17/10/10 18:37, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 12:12 +0100, AG wrote: > > > >> Dear all > >> > >> I want to poll Debian users for their experience of using OOo and, more > >> r

Re: Question for users of OOo and/ or LibO

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 20:20 +0200, godo wrote: > > > > Mine is where I saved it. My openoffice version is 3.2.1-7 and I ran it > > on gnome. > > > > > That's interesting. My is not and have same version as you only on kde. I'm not sure what the difference is.. I don't have kde installed so I can't

Re: Question for users of OOo and/ or LibO

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 20:16 +0200, godo wrote: > >> > > > > Thanks Goran. Are you using LibO beta 1 or 2? Also, as a matter of > > interest, did your LibO installation also install a quickstarter (like > > OOo does)? > > > > Cheers > > > > AG > > > > > I didn't try LibO yet, I'm using ooo-build 3.

Re: Question for users of OOo and/ or LibO

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 12:12 +0100, AG wrote: > Dear all > > I want to poll Debian users for their experience of using OOo and, more > recently LibO beta 2. It is a very small thing, but this apparently > works on Ubuntu but not on my current testing machine, so I want to find > out about Debia

Re: KDE Question

On Tue October 12 2010 07:38:31 pm Mike Bird wrote: > On Tue October 12 2010 19:11:29 Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:39, Camaleón wrote: > > > use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget > > > activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop.. > >

Re: install lenny on Dell

On Sat August 28 2010 06:54:47 pm you wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sat August 28 2010 04:54:01 pm Tom Poe wrote: > >> I bring up stuff on my computer, and it has an icon with CD-RW/DVD-ROM > >> drive. I downloaded a lenny i386 iso image, and used brasero to burn

Re: install lenny on Dell

On Sat August 28 2010 04:54:01 pm Tom Poe wrote: > I bring up stuff on my computer, and it has an icon with CD-RW/DVD-ROM > drive. I downloaded a lenny i386 iso image, and used brasero to burn it > to a Memorex DVD+RW disc. I shut down computer, started computer, got a > blinking cursor for a few

Re: Broken deps?

On Wed August 25 2010 09:20:04 am B. Alexander wrote: > I went to upgrade a sid box today and found that libapt-pkg-libc6.0-6-4.8 > appears to be broken. I got a number of messages saying: > > Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 which is a virtual package. > > Which means aptitude wants to remove thi

Re: No Consoles???

e AMD64 p.c., on different partitions. > > Greetings, > Martin. > > Alan Ianson schreef: > > On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > >> John W Foster wrote: > >>> Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue >

Re: No Consoles???

On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > John W Foster wrote: > > Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue > > with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using > > testing dist. I am VERY used to using a console screen to manage my

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 22:03 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 24 June 2010 21:27:40 Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > Hi List! > > > > >

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > > Hi List! > > > > My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc > > RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and eve

xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

Hi List! My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration everything seems to run slowly. I have been using a minimal xorg.conf that s

Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 00:42 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/12/2010 12:13 AM, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 21:40 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > >> I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using > >> squeeze and am

Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 21:40 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using > squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin downloaded > and installed. Currently, I > see /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libjavaplugin.so, which is a lin

Re: Lenny / Pidgin / Msn

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:21 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:41:24PM +, Frederic Robert wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:34:29AM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > > If you are running stable, you need to install the pidgin from > > > lenny-backports in order to get

Re: Some clarification is needed on Debian repos.

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 21:51 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > Could You please explain, should some security testing repo be > specified for a stable + testing Debian, or stable, updates and testing > repos is all that should be enabled for the stable, testing with all > *for the repos* secu

Re: Is volatile repo bad for secure stable version of Debian?

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 02:48 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I got a question, Should "volatile" Debian repository be avoided from > servers running stable version of Debian for stability/security reasons? > > Thank You for Your time. No, it should be used for stability/security reasons.

Re: Backports kernel

On Tue June 1 2010 12:20:43 pm Proskurin Kirill wrote: > Hello. > > One question: > It is safe to use backported kernel in production? > > I seems to need to use 2.6.30+ kernel to have a fix in OCFS2. I use the kernel from backports for ext4 support on one of my boxes, never had a problem with it

Re: popularity contest : not sending email via HTTP

On Mon May 31 2010 06:27:37 am Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > ... > > >> How to send email to popularity contest ? > > > > Run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and set it up to use a smarthost, > > your usual email smtp address will probably be ok. > > Sorry I forgot to mention that this sys

Re: popularity contest : not sending email via HTTP

On Sun May 30 2010 01:57:47 pm Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I installed and activated the popularity contest package > (note : goal of this package is to gather statistics about package > usage and report them to Debian). > > Option http is activate to send the statistics (in place of email

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

On Sat May 29 2010 10:16:16 pm T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? I haven't made a dos disk in ages but I think mkdosfs from the dosfstools package will do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: How to keep debian current??

On Fri May 14 2010 11:22:54 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/15/2010 01:14 AM, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Fri May 14 2010 09:48:47 pm RyanJB wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> With the latest apps keep pouring in, is there any way to keep debian in > >> the "cu

Re: How to keep debian current??

On Fri May 14 2010 11:43:41 pm RyanJB wrote: > >If you want the latest I'd run either testing > >or unstable. I have both stable > >and unstable installed. > >Most of the time I run unstable. > > So considering that, the extra debian iso have practically no use since > later I'll be upgrading packe

Re: How to keep debian current??

On Fri May 14 2010 09:48:47 pm RyanJB wrote: > Hi, > > With the latest apps keep pouring in, is there any way to keep debian in > the "cutting edge"? I mean, how to keep debian as updated as, say, ubuntu > or even sidux?? You know, latest iceweasel, openoffice, gnome, etc. Maybe > using unstable or

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

On Fri May 14 2010 07:25:34 pm ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi there, > > Just one question, > > Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new > iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. > Currently still using lenny. I don't think there

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

On Tue May 11 2010 12:11:42 pm Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 18:10:32 Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: > > > Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not > > > the way kde4 is pushing it to th

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: > Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not the > way kde4 is pushing it to the end user. If there was enough interest, kde3 could continue to be developed as it's own project. I would support the project but I can't cont

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

On Sun May 9 2010 02:35:02 pm Lisi wrote: > I am, however, very sad that KDE 3.5, which I regard as the pinnacle of > DE's, is being laid to rest. We are in agreement here Lisi. It's not that I don't like kde4 it's just that I'd like to keep what I have since it does just what I want/need it to

[update] Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:25:11 -0400 (EDT), Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > I've noticed the same things. I've stuck with epiphany because it worked > > so well for so long but there are times recently when I nee

Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > and it will work. Then, in theory, restarting the X server again > (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server > to restart on vt 7. This used to work, but the last time I tried > it I ended up with two X servers, on

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 20:34 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Alan Ianson writes: > > All the stuff at debian-multimedia can't be included in debian for > > various reasons, mostly freedom I think, so you won't find it in > > debian at all. It's made for debian but

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 00:00 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2010-04-19 16:19, Clive McBarton wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >> How come there is no link anywhere on debian.org pointing to > >> debian-multimedia.org? Anything to

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 11:01 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 06:10 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > > > > I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia > > > on > > > Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error. I rei

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:25:11 -0400 (EDT), Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > I've noticed the same things. I've stuck with epiphany because it worked > > so well for so long but there are times recently when I nee

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 13:17 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > I am continuing to suffer the on-going de-volution of the once-decent > epiphany browser under Debian Squeeze. First they broke file > downloading. They still haven't fixed that. I'll bet it's been > six months or more. > > Now I can't

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 06:10 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > > I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia on > > Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error. I reinstalled Lenny on the same > > machine tonight, without adding debian-multimedia to /etc/apt/sources.list,

Re: acroread not seeing printers

On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 05:56 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. > It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just > shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers like > all the oth

Re: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 dependency on Squeeze

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 10:45 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I have recently downloaded a binary file which depends on > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 , > an old version of ibstdc++-libc6 : I can run it on an old computer, but I > would like > to run it on my amd64 Squeeze box ( which ha

Re: OOo 3 dependency hell in Lenny backports

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 06:00 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu January 14 2010, Zhan wrote: > > For me, I have set backports with the highest priorities, so anything at > > backports.org with a higher version number will be automatically installed. > > I've never used backports. What packages

Re: Squeeze vs. Lenny update frequency?

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:05 -0800, Mark wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Stable release only have security updates. > >Testing has much more updates. > > Probably a dumb question, but...if a person uses Squeeze for pretty > much nothing but web browsing wi

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:52 -0800, Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:30:32AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > > first time. I just installed both s

Re: Gnome apps in KDE

On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:55 +0330, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me why Gnome applications look so ugly in KDE and if > something can be done about it to make them look as in their native > Gnome environment?! ;) I don't use kde anymore so I'm going from memory.. As someone el

Re: alternate web browser etc...

On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone > (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs > and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have > something

Re: LAME for Lenny

On 24/12/09 11:19:12 AM, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3. > However I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where to > find the appropriate package ? Add debian-multimedia to your /etc/apt/sources.list. More in

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

On 23/12/09 12:28:34 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Hi all, > > my new drive comes with LightScribe support. > > >From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. > LaCiE > seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on > Linux, but I am loath to try it for the sim

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 15:16 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kun Niu wrote: > I don't have such a problem. Can you get some kind of hint > from the output of the pidgin debug output window? > > > > > > The error message i

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