k> I recommend the Hanazono fonts (packaged as 'fonts-hanazono'), which
k> supports all of them!
Thanks, but on
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/cjk_unified_ideographs_extension_b/utf8test.htm
I still see two empty squares on the first line, seven on the second
line, etc.
Thanks! It works!
Now I even see about half of
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/cjk_unified_ideographs_extension_b/utf8test.htm
too!
All I want to do is see
https://zh.wiktionary.org/zh-hant/%F0%A1%91%9D
and more of
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/cjk_unified_ideographs_extension_b/utf8test.htm
Is it true that on Debian there is no font package for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_B
On https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=914504
they tell me to "change my system theme".
So how shall I "change my system theme"?
And will it affect other things more that the white on black text?
Are they talking about picking another icewm theme?
beep works, speaker-test doesn't.
beep(1) makes beeps right into the headphones.
speaker-test doesn't make any sound.
$ alsamixer looks horrible after installing PulseAudio.
lqqq
x Card: PulseAudio
x Chip: PulseAudio
x View: F3:[Playback
x Item: Master
something is wrong with its c
On the chvt 1..6 terminals there is a white line at the bottom of my
laptop's screen that I would like to avoid.
How can I move the whole console upwards half a character?
But then that would shove the top line halfway off the screen.
So I suppose I need to make the number of rows one less.
Which should I install, firefox or firefox-esr?
They both say:
Description-en: Mozilla Firefox web browser
Firefox is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern
web application technologies.
But one is much more fresher,
$ apt-cache policy firefox firefox-esr
firefox:
Installe
$ curl
curl: relocation error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: symbol
SSLv3_client_method, version OPENSSL_1.0.0 not defined in file
libssl.so.1.0.0 with link time reference
Yes I see lots about it in the bug tracker. What is the workaround?
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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766448
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On all my systems, initramfs-tools 0.116 works fine,
installing 0.118 just gives some message about rebooting in 5 seconds that is
not
enough time to read. I.e., the system becomes unbootable.
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How I fixed it: I noticed that all the packages with the problem
depended on libgtk2.0-0 whilst none of the ones without the problem did.
And indeed an aptitude reinstall libgtk2.0-0 fixed it!
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On one of my machines scim does not work in chromium, firefox, and
midori. Hitting CTRL+SPACE does nothing.
It works in abiword, xterm and emacs though.
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How does one tell which package makes chromium abort with exit code 134?
Replace each package one by one with an older version until it works again?
Yes it happens for all users.
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Gentlemen, I wish to disable my built-in keyboard which is inhabited by
a ghost occasionally typing bad things. I will instead use my USB
keyboard.
Of course in X windows, all that is needed is
$ xinput --disable 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
The problem is I wish to disable the bad keyboard als
All I know is there is something missing for _i386 this time
$ w3m -dump http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/|grep
chromium_
[ ] chromium_31.0.1650.63-1~deb7u1_amd64.deb
2013-12-08 49M
[ ] chromium_31.0.1650.63-1~deb7u1_i386.deb
https://packages.debian.org/sid/chromium says i386 is version 33 and
amd64 is version 34. Will there be a i386 version 34 chromium .deb?
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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4
Severity: wishlist
Why go through all the effort to make a Packages.diff directory, and
then only keep one week of diffs in it?
Doesn't the song go "on the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave
to me"...one tiny missing .diff, so I have to download the whole
*/
How many
usb 3-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2's
is normal per day for you card reader users, as seen in dmesg?
I use udev and hal on sid.
Resets are just normal and don't mean files are going to get
corrupted, right? If files were going to get corrupted then cp(1) e
Say, would the least bandwidth package updating system be one where
the user just does
rsync mirror:Packages /var/...
then for $(each package that needs updating)
rsync mirror:uncompressed_package /var/...
Hmmm, but then it's not usually just documents that have changed...
OK, then how does ubuntu
$ man tar
The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents
instead. Unfortunately, the info document describing tar is licensed
under the GFDL with invariant cover texts, which violates the Debian
Free Software Guidelines. As a result, the i
I just want to sometimes get around my ISP's transparent proxy which
intercepts all port 80 traffic to anywhere, as sometimes it has too
old caches. Mostly very fast, but sometimes one wants a second view
without its help.
Do I need to install and learn e.g., "tor",
or is there some proxy someone
http://home.no.net/david/i18n.php and locale -a says use LC_ALL=zh_TW.utf-8
but /etc/locale.gen and /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED seem to say zh_TW.UTF-8.
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For the locales stuff, should I use
zh_TW.UTF-8, zh_TW.Utf-8 or zh_TW.utf-8?
My guess is the latter, from locale -a.
Should I report bugs if I see mentioning of the others?
How about for web pages? charset=utf-8 like tidy or UTF-8 like Google?
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Looking at the hwclock docs, I suppose this is unsightly but harmless?:
# grep rtc /var/log/boot
Sat Jan 14 00:38:28 2006: Setting the system clock:modprobe: WARNING:
Error inserting genrtc
(/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-k7/kernel/drivers/char/genrtc.ko): Device or
resource busy
Sat Jan 14 00:39:21 2006
/etc/modules is for adding modules at boot.
What is the file for taking away modules at boot?
e.g. tsdev. I don't have a touchscreen, so I suppose I should remove it.
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dmesg(8) mentions some modules etc. (?) that I probably don't use but
are perhaps included in the stock 2.6 kernel:
ata1: no device found (phy stat )
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe]
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
Which web hosting company would a Debian user (not developer) choose
for his personal website (jidanni.org)?
Got by with no ssh or cgi and only 1Gb/month bandwidth and 25Mb
disk usage at affordablehost.com for US$20/year, but would like more
bandwidth. True, no Debian relevance, but might as well g
(Was Re: why early boot timezone so east?)
What is the time of the beginning part of your /var/log/boot, as
compared to the latter part of your /var/log/boot, as compared with
your local time, as compared to the time in your BIOS setup menu. Mine
is GMT+16, GMT+8, GMT+8, GMT+8.
On my two unconnect
Just curious, why in /var/log/boot do we see that the system first is
in some UTC+16 timezone,
Thu Sep 15 19:15:51 2005: Setting the System Clock using the Hardware
Clock as reference...
Before it gets adjusted to my local Taiwan time, UTC+8:
Thu Sep 15 11:15:50 2005: System Clock set. Local tim
Announcing my new script,
http://jidanni.org/comp/debian/dpkg-repackage recreates lost .debs
from installed packages.
(Useful only if we are on an non networked island and want to install
packages onto machine B that exist on machine A, but the .debs are
gone.)
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These days in sid, I get lots of
"Package x has broken dep on y"
from apt-get, where x =
odbcinst1debian1 libjack0.80.0-0 openoffice.org-bin
gnome-control-center libgc1c2 libaspell15c2 xserver-xorg libenchant1c2
libaiksaurus-1.2-0 aspell x-window-system-core libplot2c2 plotutils
libwpd8c2 libaiksau
> "Jack" == Jack Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jack> Now, a question. Does anyone know of efforts to develop a DWG
Jack> library that is compatible with GPL, LGPL or a similar license?
Jack> The Open Design Group's OpenDWG library (a misnomer in its own
Jack> right), is seriously problema
A> nohup sh -c "(sleep 100h; move-my-toes)" &
Yeah, never rebooted where you live.
Out with it, what at(1) command do they use at GNU?
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Constructive me says: Debian's at(1) is so bad, one can't even do
$ at next year
parse error. Last token seen: year
Garbled time
$ at now + 12 months #Sigh. Must use instead.
No wonder. Not genuine GNU parts. Say, Stallman to the rescue. What
do those cool GNU people use? Don't tell me they don't
Any package for converting the average bloated webpage into slim and
trim HTML for a turn of the century browser on a weakling black and
white PDA?
"tidy" even with all options turned on isn't aggressive enough. Maybe
I will just end up doing lynx -dump|txt2html.
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Say if we spot a file,
# ls -l /root-n
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2004-03-24 00:31 /root-n
and we can't tell what package(s) made it,
# dpkg -S /root-n
dpkg: /root-n not found.
nor is it mentioned in debian-policy/fhs,
how do we know it is safe to remove it,
or must we just let it sit there for eter
Can't use my floppy drive in Linux 2.6.
G> As root in /dev type: MAKEDEV floppy
./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "floppy"
G> Another piece, is "udev" installed?
OK, I installed it and rebooted.
G> If it is, it should create those auto-magically.
No it didn't. ls /dev/f* shows none. Now tr
How does one use one's floppy under kernel 2.6?
$ mount /floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
I tired /usr/share/doc/fdutils/Fdutils.html#SEC7 's idea:
for i in /dev/fd0*; do dd if=$i of=/tmp/foo count=1 && break; done
I tried modprobe floppy ide-floppy.
I didn't change fstab from 2.4
> What's the right handheld computer for this particular person?
I was just thinking of copying some documents onto the handheld to
finish reading them there, to reduce wear and tear on the desktop
computer.
I understand handheld computers have no moving parts to wear out etc.
and don't fear ligh
What is the right handheld computer for a Debian user?
$ apt-cache search palm
$ apt-cache search pda|grep PDA
$ apt-cache search handheld
Seem to say the Palm brand is best supported.
But I suppose one could run Linux directly...
I will check The Linux PDAs Quick Reference Guide
http://www.linuxde
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2CGZM-La-1%40gated-at.bofh.it
says Debian is your OS, Linux is your kernel. So does http://www.debian.org/ .
However
$ uname --help
-s, --kernel-nameprint the kernel name
-o, --operating-system print the operating system
$ uname -s -o
Linux GNU/Lin
Recently in webland I was asked
> What is your OS?
I wanted a single command that would say Debian GNU/Linux,
$ uname -a #no "Debian"
Linux jidanni1 2.6.7-1-k7 #1 Thu Jul 8 06:45:35 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/debian_version #doesn't say GNU/Linux.
testing/unstable
$ grep free /etc/motd #kin
The problem is an ursine.ca user reads the debian-user list and sees a
message by from a jidanni.org user and sends an offlist comment
directly to that jidanni.org user. When the jidanni.org user tries to
email a response back to the ursine.ca user. His mail is blocked,
greatly disturbing the jida
egiance, Mary had
a Little Lamb, etc. Remember Rocky and Bullwinkle on TV? No no no
don't deport my email
Me? I am careful not to deliver faces slaps no matter how swarthy:
http://jidanni.org/comp/spam/index_en.html At worst they would get no
reply, auto or not.
Oh, the message:
From: Dan
On the Debian mirrors, each day there is a period, perhaps a few
hours, between the time the Packages files arrive, and the time
packages themselves arrive.
This is not a problem, because it happens early in the morning when
all Debian users are of course asleep... except for me.
It would seem to
> My messages were posted, but they didn't show up in the proper place
> in the threads in Mozilla. References and In-Reply-To looked correct
> so I don't know what happened
Note how you are currently reading uncorrupted Message-ID
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at gmane.org, and
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
http
> "F" == Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
F> I note that you post to "linux.debian.user" and get your postings
F> listed. Something that I have yet to achieve.
F> I have no wish to subscribe to the list and get 200 emails daily -
F> most of which are well beyond my understanding and
So we see that something alsa left in /etc/modprobe.d knocked out ppp etc.
# pppd ...
pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because
the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not
included in the kernel configuration. If PPP was included as a
module, tr
I can now compute what packages a low bandwidth computer needs, right
there on the high bandwidth computer. This surpasses some of the
capabilities of apt-zip and apt-rsync.
http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-offline/
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Weeks ago I installed and started using kernel 2.6.
As all was well, I decided to
apt-get --purge remove alsa-modules-2.4.26-1-k7
apt-get --purge remove kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7
as I hadn't used them weeks, right.
Well, now I can't call out on my modem with ppp:
pppd: This system lacks kernel suppo
Where is the mysterious HZ=100 documented that I see in the
environment of some accounts after login, and always after doing su?
# env|grep HZ
# su - nobody
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
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HZ=100
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It's my first DVD, and
# mplayer dvd://1
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.5 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
Does this mean the physical device,
# cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/m*
cdrom
Any last words before I
# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7
on my home (sid) PC?
Will things break that used to work in 2.4?
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I slide in a mobile disk. I then do
$ mount /mnt/backup/
mount: /dev/hda5 is not a valid block device
Does this mean that mobile IDE disks need a full reboot to be recognized?
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Upon boot, one sees
"ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx".
But upon reading e.g.,
http://storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/ide/modesUDMA.html
one feels their computer sounds more like the 100Mhz kind.
How can one tell if one is taking full advantage of t
I have a file in the root directory, /.journal, big, but it hasn't
been written or accessed in years. I suppose this must be an early
ext3 artifact and today's ext3's journal is hidden. I suppose I'll
remove it. My other ext3 partitions have no such file.
While we're at it, there's an empty file,
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage as well.
I'm wondering just when it's OK to pull in and out those mobile disk
racks. (Where you can slide in and out one of your PC's IDE hard disks
with "the ease of a floppy"). It see
My electric company has entered the paperless age, but with
"vbscript", https://wapp8.taipower.com.tw . Any hope of me clicking
further without departing Debian?
$ apt-cache show gb
doesn't sound like part of a browser.
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How does one get ssh to not wait?
ssh somewhere <
Blemishing my spartan image,
for i in mail nail; do echo $i|mail $USER;done
seems to append an extra newline to the end of each message.
Why again is this newline invisible when doing
$ mail #[nail doesn't have the following problem]
p
or even
| cat
but shows up when one does
s file
q
$ cat fil
Does anyone use pdnsd on sid with resolvconf installed?
If so what did you have to change to get it to cache anything?
Is just uncommenting resolvconf and adding the semicolon in /etc/pdnsd.conf
enough for you?
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Here is a simpleminded listing of packages in the GNU directory but not in Debian yet.
$ lynx -dump http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/|
perl -wnle 'if(m@/GNU/.*.html@)[EMAIL PROTECTED] q{[./]}; print lc $F[$#F-1]}'|sort -o
/tmp/gnu
$ COLUMNS=222 dpkg-query -l \*|awk '/===/,EOF{print $2}'|sort -o /t
What file can one put "unalias ls", or anything in fact, in for it to
get read on the remote system upon interactive ssh? .bashrc,
.bash_profile are apparently not read.
At most I can do now is
$ ssh porky.simonds.net
porky$ unalias ls
I don't want the dotfile read on batch jobs preferably.
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More from me, Dan
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.postscript as well.
In gv, how does one page down?
Space bar is great, until we dare to choose magnification that put the
edges of the document beyond the window. Upon reaching the bottom of a page
we are the
tbm> [tempest] has been removed from Debian unstable because it has
tbm> never released with stable, upstream is dead, and there was only one
tbm> single upload.
Hmmm, BTW this brings up that if one just does apt-get dist-upgrade,
one will accrue lots of removed packages as the years pass.
Indeed
I was unable to figure out the right combination from the ippl.conf
man page to show me just what all the bytes streaming into my modem
were from, and nothing else.
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It's several minutes thru my modem connection, and the icewm ppp
traffic meter is still quite high even though my wwwoffle fetch is
over, noffle is over, exim, fetchmail are over, and mozilla is quiet.
How frustrating not to know what all they bytes streaming into my
computer are all about, or if
What package creates /var/log/faillog?
What is the recommended way of finding out next time without posting here?
$ strings /var/log/faillog
tty1
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> Why? It might change, and you don't need it. apt-get --print-uris
> gives you the URI and the filename. Since you have both, you can
> either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading,
> or rename things to the correct filename afterwards.
In http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-offl
> You could save it in the native format of Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org Calc,
> then convert it back to xls.
> That will likely strip out any nastiness hiding in the original xls file.
< You know you can set "Security Level = {Medium,High}" in Office right?
All along there is no tool to view all
But if I convert it to .cvs format, all the "=..." formulas of the
spreadsheet are lost. All I am left with is just a snapshot of what
it looked like on the face of it.
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Perhaps someone can resubmit http://bugs.debian.org/231776 so the
strategy behind
$ man apt-get
--print-uris
Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file
name on the remote site!
can get documented somewhere.
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How can one tell if anything evil is lurking in an .xls file?
Gnumeric, openoffice, etc. have selections to show properties, but
that doesn't give me confidence about all the mess that less(1) shows
exists. I wouldn't want to pass an evil .xls along to my MS buddies.
Also how can one reduce the b
Say, apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris makes lines with URL FILE SIZE MD5.
What are the bad things that might happen if I just use wget to get
the URLs, without using the FILEname? I intend to use
dpkg-scanpackages later.
Hopefully the URLs are OK on Windows and CDROMs too, which I might
need to
#Makefile
#We can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem,
#we must go to town to a pal's Debian machine and burn the
#files onto a CDROM to take back and install.
#Apt-zip like idea, without ignoring newer packages that
#appeared while our list is in transport.
#On one's poorly connected m
[Say] we can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem. We must go to
town to burn the files onto a CDROM and take them back to install it.
Sure, we could do apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or use apt-zip,
but that creates a list that gets stale in the few days it takes us to
get to town..
What are the minimal fields needed in a dpkg status file,
grep-status -vF Status 'purge ok not-installed' -s ??? >/tmp/status
for
apt-get -o Dir::State::status=/tmp/status dist-upgrade --print-uris -yqq
to give the same result as
apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris -yqq
(These are my first steps at
I bet there is no Debian tool to read this kind of file:
$ file wget.hlp
wget.hlp: MS Windows Help Data
Not that there is a burning need.
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With apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or apt-zip, I am able to
produce a list of the URLs I need to do a dist-upgrade. However, I
don't have the bandwidth to download all those files (which would fill
a CDROM).
So I beg someone in town, where there is lots of Windows machines, to
download the f
How can I make the left speaker a copy of the right with amixer?
Sound is coming out of the left, I want it to come out both [i.e. mono].
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> PS/2 mice - those with the mini-DIN plug - use a different device. You want
> /dev/psaux for the Device and probably PS/2 for Protocol (for a plain
> 3-button mouse) or ImPS/2 (if it's got scroll wheels).
OK, I'll try that. I thought if the manufacturer supplied it with a
RS-232 9 pin adapter,
In XF86Config-4, these work fine for my Trackman Marble+:
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"
Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
But when I instead attach the most common simplest 3 button mouses,
I get no response from the mouses at all. mdetect doesn't detect them,
moving around the mouse or not, yes with
Dan> Because of the broken Last-Modified, I am unable to get fresh
Dan> copies of
Dan> http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Dan> from my ISP's cache!:
Cristian> Please read my home page.
http://marillat.free.fr:
Since yesterday all packages uploaded got the nice 17
to get there we could likely loose all along the way,
plus mom needs to use it while we are gone.
>>>>> "G" == Giacomo A Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
G> Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Package: apt-zip
>> Version: 0.13.2
>> Severity: wishlist
&
M> I'm trying to get rid of a package here
M> or at least put it on hold, or just get apt
M> to shuttup about it already, and I'm at
M> a loss. Any ideas?
M> # dpkg --purge --force-all sysadmin-guide
M> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
M> Package is in a very bad inco
To us debian users, the most notable thing during this break in or
whatever episode, is how the communication structures crumbled.
debian-announce had one message on the 21st, five days ago, saying for
more information, see www.debian.org.
Nothing special there, so I checked http://www.debian.org
>> is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one
>> wants just to use the humble console? I know there is a startx
>> program, but no stopx.
Preston> "CTRL+ALT+Backspace" will kill the X-server.
Indeed it does, with no questions asked.
But then it just springs back to life again,
Instead of doing shutdown, I did init 1, doing away with X windows,
etc. and in maintenance mode, I did top(1). However it reported
total memory usage still as high as ever. How might that be?
P.S. is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one
wants just to use the humble console
After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new
thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user
Some of us low bandwidth users read via google, as gmane.org's search
isn't as good yet.
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Gentlemen, I have been send a CDROM with a television show on it.
What might be the right tool to view it? The CDROM's structure is:
$ tree -s
|-- [ 27] autorun.inf
|-- [ 2048] cdda
|-- [ 2048] cdi
|-- [ 2048] ext
|-- [ 155648] mpeg2dmx.ax
|-- [ 2048] mpegav
| `-- [
P> Possible. Could be a bad copy of files. Could be anything. Try manually
P> browsing the mirror using your webbrowser or lftp etc. to see if the
P> files are there.
Yes, http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/pool/main/f/file/ shows no Oct 03
additions, whereas
http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/dists
How do the mirrors work? Are the Packages files always copied last,
to ensure all the versions mentioned in them already exist on the disk
when you try to get them?
In what cases could an hours old Packages file mention packages that
apparently haven't been copied to the mirror yet? E.g.
http://d
Fellows, it's time for a dist-upgrade, but
The following packages have been kept back
python-gtk2 python2.3-gtk2
Could it be a fault of mine?
# apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade
Package perl-modules has broken dep on libcgi-pm-perl
Considering libcgi-pm-perl 0 as a solution
>> Let's assume it's Friday and one's primary mx server cannot be fixed
>> until Monday. Maybe I can write a standard procedure for other low
>> bandwidth users to use.
S> It has been around for years, and is called uucp.
and how does one use uucp to manipulate the exim queue on a remote
machine
Let's assume it's Friday and one's primary mx server cannot be fixed
until Monday. Maybe I can write a standard procedure for other low
bandwidth users to use.
Mail is accruing on the secondary, but not yet cleaned of spam, nor in
a mailbox fetchable. We copy our latest .procmailrc, and
.spamass
Just curious, why doesn't this make output every run:
$ ps axu|grep grep
jidanni 1163 0.0 0.2 2376 608 pts/1R02:26 0:00 grep grep
$ ps axu|grep grep
$ ps axu|grep grep
$ ps axu|grep grep
$ ps axu|grep grep
jidanni 1171 0.0 0.2 2376 608 pts/1R02:26 0:00 grep grep
Is
Regarding seeing obsolete Suggests fields when doing apt-get installs,
it turns out that just doing a daily apt-get update isn't enough,
one should instead do a dselect update, it turns out.
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Announcing apt-mature, which should supposedly tell you how long
upgradable packages have been on the mirror so you can pick older ones
etc., all offline. http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-mature
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What is the URL these days to just get a changelog?
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=somepackage
doesn't work. Aptitude's "C" won't work. Is
http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/somepackage.html and then browsing
news items there the best one can do without downloading any extra
fil
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