Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Hubert Chathi
kage source, you shouldn't install their packages. -- Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: cups or cupsys

2008-07-09 Thread Hubert Chathi
on't have cupsys, cupsys-bsd, > cupsys-driver-gutenprint any more and I have both cups-client & > cupsys-client. > How do I get myself out these chaos now? cupsys-* has been renamed to cups-*. No need to panic. -- Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL P

Re: A symlink that stays

2008-06-19 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:50:41 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 06/18/08 21:25, Hubert Chathi wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:00:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> >>> Hi. I am installing ewire on a customers server and it needs a >>> sy

Re: A symlink that stays

2008-06-18 Thread Hubert Chathi
o keep track of this? Or another clever > solution? The symlink should be installed in the libssl-dev package. > I am going to forget about this symlink in 5 month from now. -- Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA

Re: how to clean off dummy packages?

2008-06-11 Thread Hubert Chathi
ms not to systematic. No, it isn't. Finding dummy packages is mostly guesswork. > OK, I just tried that here on sid > # apt-get purge libcupsys2 > ... 50 to remove > It wanted to take 50 packages along with it... no dummy! Just because it's a dummy package doesn't

Re: [OT] signing a pdf document

2008-06-11 Thread Hubert Chathi
true signature in the legal sense > Amazingly, even typing your name into a form is considered a legal > signature in some countries. Schneier has an interesting blog post on fax signatures, which is similar: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/fax_signatures_1.html -- Hubert Cha

Re: Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?

2008-05-05 Thread Hubert Chathi
hould note that that site only applies to inkjet cartridges, and not laser printer cartridges. I would not suggest anyone try to refill a laser printer cartridge by themselves. However, you may be able to find a local shop that can do it for you. -- Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- J