On 4/28/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Isn't there a checksum for all the Packages.gz in the Release file?
That's it. Thanks a bunch.
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downloaded it *without* downloading it again.
Apparently there is a way to do this since two consecutive runs of
apt-get update will not get all index files afresh.
I skimmed the Debian Package Repository HOWTO but didn't find anything
in there to help me.
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> But how come I find no google hits at all for distwatchd?
Maybe the Chinese mistook it for a human rights watch group ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Censorship_in_mainland_China
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When I connect my usb audio-dongle I want all audio output to be
redirected to that device. I guess that this involves restarting alsa
and artsd from a hotplug
script. Anyone doing that already? Got a script laying around
somewhere?
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On 9/11/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whilst not the solution you're looking for, why not harness the debian
> kernel infrastructure, so that these modules are handled by make-kpkg?
>
I've been doing that for a long time. Helps some.
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Now I just want to get precompiled kernels, but the ones in sid won't
do it for me. Is there anyone out there that maintains a set of kernel
packages with lots of extras included? And with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
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lve this?
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I've burnt several DVDs using k3b. They'll show up alright under linux
but not on my Mac OS X system. Does this ring any bells with you? I
don't know where to start debugging this.
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Where can I find Emacs CVS prepackaged for Sarge?
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ater on I get this:
"Kernel Panic: cannot open initial console, please try passing valid
init= option to the kernel
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ot CD for it.
Could someone please point me to a relevant howto? I've tried googling
but get swamped with irrelevant results.
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After some more googling I found kismet. It does just what I
want. It's also packaged for Debian.
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:51:26PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
> Alex Polite wrote:
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> > What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point
> > to attach to?
>
> The 'ap' option to iwconfig (part of the wireless-tools package).
>
Thanks. But
t in
range, but it won't always work when there are multiple access points
in range.
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I use the mplayer package from here:
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
It lacks jack support. Does anyone know of a mplayer package compiled
with jack support?
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> The only matroska packages in debian unstable are libmatroska-dev and
> mkvtoolnix. mkvtoolnix can mux/demux/remux matroska files, but cannot
> play them.
I'll play with that that and see where it gets me.
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cks aren't compiled with matroska support. Are there any
unofficial packs for unstable with matroska support, or do I have to
compile it myself?
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I installed sitecopy which seems to be more better for this task.
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make any difference. I also have a line
saying "cache on" in my lftp script file. All to no avail.
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So what's with this Ubuntu thing?
I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users.
How does it compare to the Debian unstable that I'm used to?
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of fact it doesn't seem to allow pretty much
anything at all.
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I'm looking for an application that will playback mp3 faster than real
time. My MD player has this function and I use it when listening to
interviews I've made. Very handy.
mplayer has it to but it can only be set on command line. It won't let
you change the speed interactively.
than 3.2.
Also see to it that you running a low latency kernel.
I have to admit however that I use KDE mainly as WM and do most of my
work in non-KDE apps. emacs, screen, firefox.
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You have to compile the drivers yourself and you should be comfortable
with compiling your own kernel.
Some nice danish guy put up a page and some packages for building the
drivers as debian packages.
http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/madwifi
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ridiculous. The downside is being that when you
want to update something you find your self in rpm dependency hell.
Is there anything similar based on Debian? Minus the hellish part that
is.
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ciate it if anyone could
> tell me what I'm missing.
I've put up a python script that allows you to record Windows Media
Audio streams from cron. It should work fine with RealAudio to. It
saves to mp3. You need to have python, mplayer and gogo on path.
http://snippsnapp.polite
I've just installed Skype (http://www.skype.com) and it seems to work
all right.
Now I want to be able to record conversations. If I start a recorder
and then try to make a Skype call, the call want go through.
Any way of doing this without running artsd or esd?
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for every file on the site, preferably with the sum in the filename.
I'm sure someone has already written a script for this.
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Has anyone got juk running under woody? Preferable prepacked.
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Does anyone here have experience with using ccache or compilercache
with make-kpkg? Will it work? How is it done?
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ard is appreciated.
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I'm not quite sure what you're after but maybe you want to look into a
package like iptraf. Or maybe something like etherreal.
good look whatever you're up to
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Configuration failed.
make[2]: *** [.prereq.ok] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src_matijek/modules/pcmcia-cs'
make[1]: *** [kdist_image] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src_matijek/modules/pcmcia-cs'
Module /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs failed.
Hit return to Continue
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:17:59AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I tried to install Evolution; apt-get complained about
> libcommerr1-kerberos* package not found.
> No Evolution yet?
>
The Evolution package is currently broken. It depends on a package
that has been removed from the a
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
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> I installed the other dependencies. Then I downloaded the
> evolution*.deb and did
>
> dpkg --force-depends -i evolution*.deb
>
> Took me an hour but evolution seems to be working nicely.
And then apt-get s
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:29:36AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
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> Evolution is currently uninstallable in unstable due to a dependency
> on a removed package.[1] Is there any way to work around this, get it to
> install anyway, pull in all dependencies that are available and skip
&g
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:11:42AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Which filesystem would you recommend for a biggish (10 gig) partition ? At
> the moment I'm using Ext2fs and I really have to use something else, it's
> just way to slow. So shou
Evolution is currently uninstallable in unstable due to a dependency
on a removed package.[1] Is there any way to work around this, get it to
install anyway, pull in all dependencies that are available and skip
the rest?
If not is there anyway to automatically get an email when a bug is
marked as
ell, here is a guide to set up debian in a chroot enviroment
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot
Very cool!
If I do this, will I be able to run xapps from my chroot envirionment
on the xserver that my "main" environment is running?
alex
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stable, testing packs goes under /testing and so on.
Sure this will waste a lot of disk space, because libc6 and a lot of
other core packs will be in three places. But what do I care. Disk
space is a lot cheaper than my time.
Anyway to hack this?
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I tried this script from cron. But for some reason cups didn't come up
again restart so I had to delete the cron entry. Maybe some kind soul
can tell me why and make me and Jerome happy.
...
find /var/spool/cups -maxdepth 1 -type f -ctime +7 -exec rm -f {} ';'
/etc/init.d/cupsys re
a lot
of people but I'm sure it can be done. And if the file permissions are
set right I don't see why it should be any less secure than public
keys with empty pass phrases.
But how is it done?
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Pin-Priority: 999
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 555
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 333
This wouldn't be a problem if it happened once every now and then but
it happens for almost any package I try to install.
Any usual suspects?
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So gift finally made it into debian. I've been using CVS versions for
a long time. This is a most welcome change.
If only it would work:
$giftd
giftd: relocation error: giftd: undefined symbol: mime_init
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g to invoke this option, or if it would really
help.
All help is appreciated.
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:48:32AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:18:47AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
> > Just installed xserver-xfree86-dbg to find out what's messing up my X
> > session.
>
>
that ("gdb for drawling morons in ten seconds")
Except for the server the xserver-xfree86-dbg package includes the
binary /usr/share/bug/xserver-xfree86-dbg. Is this a debugging tool or
what? How do I use it?
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as about what I can do to improve X stability are welcome.
regards alex
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built on top of
rsync. It offers some more functionality but I myself had a nasty
experience with it trying to recreate an incremental backup. Now I
just run plain rsync.
good luck alex
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:48:28AM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote:
> Thanks Alex and would the same apply to Xprint?
I never used it so I don't know. I use cups (apt-get install cupsys)
which I'm very happy with. I think it's pretty much the standard
nowadays.
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A simple cron entry like so:
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machine and the software that may/should reside on a different
> machine which in turn may also be a server :-((
No you don't need to run X on the server.
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The log of our CUPS server is so full that loading the "completed
jobs" in the CUPS www interface takes quite some time. I've been
trying to find out how to prune the log of old jobs with no success.
Ideas?
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> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:17:50PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
> > The position slider in xmms is not visible when playing streams? I can
> > play the same ogg or mp3 streams through windows winamp and use the
> >
This isn't Debian specific but anyway:
The position slider in xmms is not visible when playing streams? I can
play the same ogg or mp3 streams through windows winamp and use the
position slider. Is there an other app (preferably console) for linux
that will do the trick?
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Footnotes:
[1] http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
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tive would be to have something that can
process a whole stack of papers automatically.
Anyone that has had any experiences with this?
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:25:54PM -0600, Steve Wollkind wrote:
> http://www.winamp.com/components/detail.jhtml?componentId=123836
I think that might have been the wrong url.
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A hard drive on a firewall I maintain crashed. I just built a new
firewall using the bf2.4 woody installation floppies. I selected ext3
as my file system.
I would like to add RAID-1 to this setup. How do I add RAID-1 without
rebuilding the file system?
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wsing experience be smooth, even during
the office rush hour. I know of "Wonder shaper" and the debian shaper
package. Any other alternatives?
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ust a matter of adding a single module. I'm sure there some
smart way of doing this, preferably using kernel-package.
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ximize to available space" will let the window
grow precisely so much that it will not overlap with any other window on
that workspace.
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all the input.
I've installed blackbox. I doesn't meet requirements 1 and 2, contrary
to what someone in the thread said, but it does meet 3. I'll stay
with it for a couple of weeks.
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3) Must be fast.
4) Must be faster.
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:10:15AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> grep-dctrl?
Thanks. Cool but slow. Not what I was looking for really.
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I use apt-cache search about twenty times a day.
I'd like a faster version of this tool, something that does full text
indexing, possibly even boolean and regexp searches.
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Does anyone know of any unofficial debs for MySQLC 4.0.0?
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Font size in XEmacs can be controlled with settings in .Xdefaults. But
for every change you have to run xrdb and restart XEmacs.
Is there any way of changing the font size on the fly?
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with a
/mobile phones on the market that use this format.
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), and I
didn't get any more of these messages, until today when my box froze
for a minute or so and the stuff quoted above showed up in
/var/log/messages
Is this an indication that my hard drive is physically damaged and
that I can expect another crash unless I replace it with a new drive?
kernel 2.4.20 and is not packaged for debian.
Any other options?
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I have tried to set $card and $tuner with all possible settings but
all to no avail.
Any ideas about what to try next?
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; This would bypass the (x,k,g)dm issue entirely.
Thanks a lot. I found this page that has all the details about your
suggested approach.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue52/tag/14.html
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I increase the "open files per process limit"?
2) How do I find out which processes have which files open?
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Is there a tool to fake keyboard activity?
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xset s off/*Turn's off other options*/
xset dpms 0 0 0
xset dpms 6 6 6
I'm running X with framebuffers on a Matrox G400 card.
The display comes back if I run a fbset on the framebuffer device.
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