Re: repairing damage to package manager

2017-03-24 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Hi J., On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 08:47:18PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Chuck Hallenbeck: > > > > # apt-get remove upgrade-system apt > > Nice one! This brightens my day a little as it reminds me how I found > out the relationship betweent the commands available on MSDO

Re: repairing damage to package manager

2017-03-24 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 03:22:06PM -0400, songbird wrote: > Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > ... > > I presume you are suggesting using wget to retrieve the missing > > packages after identifying their URL's? > > if you haven't cleared /var/cache/apt/archives y

Re: repairing damage to package manager

2017-03-24 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Hi Jonathan, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 03:40:52PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:30:31AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > dpkg-reconfigure doesn't help, nor dpkg -i apt-get. > > "apt-get" exists in the "apt" package, but "

Re: repairing damage to package manager

2017-03-24 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Correction below: On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:30:31AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been using Debian Stretch for a couple of months, and following > this list for a month or two. I'm afraid I did something stupid anyway, > and find myself with a

repairing damage to package manager

2017-03-24 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Hi folks, I've been using Debian Stretch for a couple of months, and following this list for a month or two. I'm afraid I did something stupid anyway, and find myself with a damaged apt-get and can't figure out how to fix it short of reinstalling. Here is what I did to damage it: The discussion

Cepstral swift and Debian stretch: problem solved.

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
My thanks for all the help and suggestions, and my apologies for all the floundering. Cepstral support spotted the problem pretty quickly. Evidently somehow I managed to install a 32 bit Debian on this 64 bit PC, but I was attempting to install a 64 bit package on it. Downloading and installing th

Re: Cepstral swift on Debian and on Arch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 05:53:24PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:28:22 -0500 > Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > Hello Chuck, > > >Any idea where to go from here? > > File you need is in package sid's libc6 package. NB: A quick search > se

Cepstral swift on Debian and on Arch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Okay, I think we're closing in on it. The Cepstral swift package runs fine on archlinux, where using ldd -r on the executable lists eleven libraries, all but one of which is present on Debian where the Cepstral package fails. On Debian, ldd -r on the executable says simply "not a dynamically link

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 03:06:13PM +0100, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > Am 28.02.2017 um 13:00 schrieb Chuck Hallenbeck: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:47:35PM +0100, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > >> Am 28.02.2017 um 01:03 schrieb Chuck Hallenbeck: > >>> Hi everyone, > &g

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 03:06:13PM +0100, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > Am 28.02.2017 um 13:00 schrieb Chuck Hallenbeck: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:47:35PM +0100, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > >> Am 28.02.2017 um 01:03 schrieb Chuck Hallenbeck: > >>> Hi everyone, > &g

Recap: Cepstral Swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Here is a summary of what we now know: The only package in play now is Cepstral_William_x86-64-linux_6.2.3.873.tar.gz It was downloaded with wget from a link given to me from support at cepstral.com. The package was downloaded to Debian Stretch on a dual boot system where Arch Linux is the sec

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 01:32:39PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 06:52:56AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > My comment below: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:30:25PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:47:35PM +0100, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > Am 28.02.2017 um 01:03 schrieb Chuck Hallenbeck: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm attempting to install a tommercial TTS from Cepstral on my Debian > > Stretch system, and get the following when ru

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
My comment below: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:30:25PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 06:04:24AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 07:59:01AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > On 27-02-2017 21:03, Chuck Hall

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
21:03, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm attempting to install a tommercial TTS from Cepstral on my Debian > > Stretch system, and get the following when running swift: > > > > /usr/local/bin/swift: 12: exec: /opt/swift/bin/swift.bin: E

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-28 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
have 32 bit libs installed?  > On Feb 27, 2017 19:03, "Chuck Hallenbeck" wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm attempting to install a tommercial TTS from Cepstral on my Debian > Stretch system, and get the following when running swift: > > /usr/local/bin

Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-27 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Hi everyone, I'm attempting to install a tommercial TTS from Cepstral on my Debian Stretch system, and get the following when running swift: /usr/local/bin/swift: 12: exec: /opt/swift/bin/swift.bin: Exec format error My system dual-boots Debian Stretch and Arch Linux, and the same Cepstral exec

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-06 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Hi, On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:16PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've > recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent > and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around > here. Have the threads I re