On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:40:54 +
Joe wrote:
> No, it doesn't, sometimes a judicious bit of butchery is required to
> clear a dependency jam. I waited for quite a while recently, when
> apt-get wanted to rip out a fair number of packages which I use, and
> aptitude just threw up its virtual hands
On 11/03/2015 05:19 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
When tracking sid, the biggest problems you're likely to encounter
cannot easily be fixed in-place at all; you're likely to need to
reinstall Debian from scratch. I have encountered this twice, and
that's more than enough. The latter is, IMO, by far
On 11/03/2015 04:06 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
So far, the only structural problem I've had with testing has been in
the grub-related packages, in the form of longstanding open bugs
reported by people whose computers became unbootable after a grub
upgrade (which may have been related to the trans
Also, not installing the latest version - installing the package at all,
as it is absent from testing entirely.
On 11/03/2015 06:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
You mean your suggestion to install Sid? I agree. Suggesting that
someone run sid just so that they can have the latest package, is
IMHO, very cruel.
To someone who runs stable - sure. He's running testing, though, which
is more troublesome, in
On 11/02/2015 03:22 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
But some videos are not supported with official precompiled Firefox
versions due to obsolete gstreamer:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947287
Oh, right. I use gstreamer from http://www.deb-multimedia.org/
Yes, I know I just said us
Not really a solution to OPs problem, but I've decided that it's much
easier to just use a stand-alone precompiled Firefox downloaded from
Mozilla website, which happily updates itself. Debian's update policy
for Iceweasel is far from ideal or comprehensive, using third-party
repositories is bo
On 11/02/2015 12:58 PM, Andrey Rybak wrote:
thanks for your answer.
its very strange for me that it is not possible to use filezilla in
testing. i was using testing brunch in several years and filezilla was
presenting in there. am i right? is it ok if i will change "testing"
to "stratch"?
No
Testing/unstable is just a common release name for testing AND unstable.
Your sources.list is fine. Filezilla package isn't present in
testing/stretch (see https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/filezilla). In
fact, if you were running sid, you'd be able to install it.
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:52:37 -0700
Rick Thomas wrote:
> As shown below, aptitude has been progressively downgraded from
> “important” in oldstable (Wheezy) to “standard” in stable (Jessie),
> “standard” in testing (Stretch) and finally to “optional” in unstable
> (Sid)
> And exim4 has gone from
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:44:10 + (UTC)
John DeVito wrote:
> I ran into an issue today where X is not working after andupgrade of
> Stretch. The pervasive errorI am seeing is related to dbus-core.
> Xorg.0.log says ... Failed to connect to
> socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket. Manual attem
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:12:21 -0600
Glenn English wrote:
> On 10/19/2015 04:04 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > I almost hardly dare say it, it is barely better than saying
> > s*d, but when I have a problem with sound, I install Pulse
> > Audio, install pavucontrol, and have a look at what it say
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:18:58 -0700
wrote:
> that's horrible UI design. Menu bar goes away without a hint of how
> to get it back ?
>
Ever tried pressing F10 in Firefox?:)
--
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Best wishes,
Alex S.
On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:51:17 +0200
Arno Schuring wrote:
> The last time I wrote an init script:
>
> - copy /etc/init.d/skeleton
> - edit the DAEMON= and DESC= lines
I'll be completely honest, I just never understood sysvinit. I'm
alright with bsd-style Slackware single-rc.d-folder layout, where
On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:49:08 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> What has the end-user, with a single machine, gained today from
> the adoption of systemd?
Speaking for myself:
1. It took me an hour of googling to write my own working init script.
It takes me 10 minutes to write my own systemd unit.
On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:55:36 -0700
tom arnall wrote:
> i read the piece on installing without systemd. i get the feeling
> that the bottom line of it is: good luck. or am i missing something?
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian_jessie/sid_installation
t
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:43:15 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > That's very strange. [...]
>
> No, it's not strange, the issues might be related to some hardware
> issue, e.g. a wrong graphics driver.
>
> The OP can use a search engine and learn how to provide more info, so
> that the list is abl
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 05:40:19 -0500
Long Wind wrote:
> I have run a squeeze i386 CD
> After selecting the first menu item "Install" the screen turn blank
>
> I have run a suse 9.3 installation CD
> it says I'm running 32-bit software on 64bit computer
>
> I have plugged hard disk with i386 whee
> > > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:50:01 +0200
> > > Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I'm speaking about upstream and here is one conflict:
>
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -S mate-file-archiver
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for inter-conflicts...
> :: mate-file-archiver and file-roller are in c
Off-topic
On 11.10.2013 17:41, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
MATE from upstream does conflict with other software. This isn't good,
it's the most worse I can imagine and likely the reason that distros
aren't interested to add it to official repositories. MATE is the only
software I know available for Linu
Still, when I was looking for something that feels like Gnome2, I was
dissatisfied with my short Cinnamon experience. Too slow and bloated,
doesn't resemble G2 much in fact.
I'm using MATE right now and it's good, but from the perspective
viewpoint, I'd stick with XFCE.
On 11.10.2013 16:36, Joche
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:37:38 +0200
a...@alphanet.ch wrote:
> I simply wonder if it is better to take a graphic card with an ATI or
> a NVIDIA chipset.
I've had all kinds of problems with ATI proprietary drivers (fglrx),
from missing hardware acceleration to freezing desktop and
awful font rende
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200
> "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote:
> >
> > This will not work. The problem is missing libxvmc1:ii386, which got
> > a dependency problem. There is a bugreport related to it. They say,
> > it was fixed by adding a new libnvidiaxvmc1, but it is still not. Got
> > the sam
On Wed, 08 May 2013 19:57:29 +0200
Sven Joachim wrote:
> Yes, unless you use multiarch. There is still the unresolved issue
> that binNMUs break co-installability. Packages which have been
> binNMU'ed on one architecture but not on another are not
> coinstallable at all, and even those where th
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