Re: Trixie - freeze? Questions

2025-05-24 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Hans wrote on 20/05/2025 16:44: Third question: Maybe some German speaking can answer this: I saw the term "keypackages for debian" in the doku. Does this mean what you say in German "Schlüsselpakete" (packages, which are necessary) or does it mean "Pakete mit Schlüsseln" (packages with som

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

2025-02-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In my experience, `cdrskin -eject` works more reliable than `eject`. Regards, Jörg.

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

2025-02-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Which fonts are used by the pdf file? You could try pdffonts PDF_FILE The command is contained in package poppler-utils. Regards, Jörg.

Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

2025-02-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Also, there is https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList . Regards, Jörg.

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
It's documented in the man page of apt-patterns. Regards, Jörg.

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, you could check for obsolete packages, depending on the apt version, with $ apt list '~o' Also looking for broken or garbage packets could help: $ apt list '~b' '~g' Of course, the output will depend on how your sources file (/etc/apt/sources.list, etc.) looks like. If you think the

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Michael Stone wrote on 06/12/2024 14:49: On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 02:26:23PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Should have been more clear. The drive should be idle for a longer time. This is assured by not mounting any partition of the SSD. I was able to "repair" unreadable se

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Michael Stone wrote on 05/12/2024 18:41: On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:26:18PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 05/12/2024 16:19, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: 1. SSD's have some self healing capacities (discarding defect sectors) which are performed when the drive is not mounted. Therefore,

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
There are two things which could be tried with the SSD 1. SSD's have some self healing capacities (discarding defect sectors) which are performed when the drive is not mounted. Therefore, enter the BIOS of the computer and let it running for ca. an hour. Then restart the computer. 2. After ma

Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

2024-09-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi Franco, Franco Martelli wrote on 25/09/2024 17:07: On 25/09/24 at 14:58, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: What is the output of sudo dmesg | grep -E '(microcode|model)' ? This should show information about your CPU model and if its microcode is actually updated. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

2024-09-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
What is the output of sudo dmesg | grep -E '(microcode|model)' ? This should show information about your CPU model and if its microcode is actually updated. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Brightness Control Hotkeys not working on Debian 12, Lenovo IdeaPad3

2024-09-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
First thing is to check if any events are produced by the keys in question. Try the 'xev' program from package 'x11-utils'. Regards, Jörg.

Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

2024-09-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe your account is missing some authorizations. What's the output of `id`? Is your account member of the groups 'video' and 'input'? Regards, Jörg.

Re: Which tool for upgrade in commandline?

2024-08-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
See also Debian Reference Chapter 2. Debian package management 2.2.1. apt vs. apt-get / apt-cache vs. aptitude https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_literal_vs_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Regards, J

Re: No $DISPLAY variable set over ssh

2024-04-19 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
allan wrote on 18/04/2024 13:37: Bug report submitted. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1069236 Hi, may I ask how you disabled IPv6 on these machines? Regards, Jörg.

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Henning Follmann wrote on 22/02/2024 08:43: You didn't answer where you read that. I would be interested in that. I do not claim to be an expert on this and I would like to understand it better. -H Concededly, I didn't noted that down. It was a discussion like in this blog: https://forums.li

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Henning Follmann wrote on 21/02/2024 14:16: On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 12:00:17PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Somewhere I read, for maintainance of an SSD all it's cells should be read from time to time like this sudo dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/dev/null bs=8M status=progress Where did you

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, did you take a look at the smartctl output? Somewhere I read, for maintainance of an SSD all it's cells should be read from time to time like this sudo dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/dev/null bs=8M status=progress where device is something like sda or nvme0n1, especially if it was switched off f

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Dan Ritter wrote on 03/02/2024 13:16: As far as I know, Logitech doesn't make a mechanical keyboard. Logitech now has, with and w/o ten key block: search for "Logitech MX Mechanical". They are wireless with USB adapter and have a configurable mono-color key light. I myself use the MX Mecha

Re: locate question

2023-11-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
If you just want to see files in /home/gene try locate -r 'home/gene/.*\.scad' In that way, regex syntax can be used to narrow down the search. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Greg Wooledge wrote on 07/10/2023 20:45: On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:27:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Yes, aptitude can do that. Quoting the manual[1]: , | ?provides(pattern), ~Ppattern | | Matches package versions which provide a package that matches the | pattern. For instance,

Re: List packages from non-default repositories

2023-10-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Thanks for the detailed inspection. I'll have a closer look into the apt abilities. Regards, Jörg.

Re: List packages from non-default repositories

2023-10-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Max Nikulin wrote on 04/10/2023 04:22: On 04/10/2023 01:29, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Max Nikulin wrote on 03/10/2023 12:11: apt list '?narrow(~i, !~Astable|~Astable-backports|!~O^Debian$|~o|~c)' In my experience the only tool that gives correct answers, is apt-show-versions in t

Re: List packages from non-default repositories

2023-10-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Max Nikulin wrote on 03/10/2023 12:11: apt list '?narrow(~i, !~Astable|~Astable-backports|!~O^Debian$|~o|~c)' In my experience the only tool that gives correct answers, is apt-show-versions in the package of the same name: $ apt-show-versions | grep -v '/stable ' Beware, that it works with

Re: Printer HP LaserJet MFP M234sdw 5085B1

2023-09-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With this printer CUPS driverless printing works, see https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting . No need for hplip. Regards, Jörg.

dangling symlinks [ was: Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"]

2023-08-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 24/08/2023 14:00: A couple of days ago I was searching for dangling symlinks. find . -follow -lname "*" How about find -L . -type l Regards, Jörg.

Re: Hddtemp in Bookworm

2023-06-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The linux kernel has a module for reading the drive temperature called drivetemp. Therefore, using the package lm-sensors should also show the drive temperature. Regards, Jörg.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: After upgrade to bookworm: Keyboard layout

2023-05-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Could you show us the content of your /etc/default/keyboard ? Regards, Jörg.

Re: OpenCL with Radeon GPU

2023-04-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi Arno, Arno Lehmann wrote on 25/04/2023 12:54: Hi Jörg-Volker, Am 25.04.2023 um 11:19 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: Hi, which mesa packages do you have installed? None providing OpenCL capabilities at that time, but if you followed this thread, you are aware of this already: # LANG=C

Re: OpenCL with Radeon GPU

2023-04-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, which mesa packages do you have installed? In Debian testing I see the package `mesa-opencl-icd`. I have no experience with opencl and AMD graphic cards but are very interested how it works in Debian. Regards, Jörg.

Re: grep: show matching line from pattern file

2022-05-29 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jim Popovitch wrote on 28/05/2022 21:40: Not exactly Debian specific, but hoping that someone here can help. I have a file of regex patterns and I use grep like so: ~$ grep -f patterns.txt /var/log/syslog What I'd like to get is a listing of all lines, specifically the line numbers of the

Re: intel-media-va-driver segmentation fault in unstable

2022-03-24 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Is already in Debian BTS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007992 Regards, Jörg.

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Take a look at https://dotclear.org/ which is PHP based. Some time ago Debian also had it packaged. Regards, Jörg.

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
songbird wrote on 10/03/2022 14:44: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: songbird wrote: ... i did install the dummy package and uninstalled the intel but that did not leave me with a system that booted to the desktop so i put it back. Did you take a look into `dmesg -l err` and `Xorg.log` in this

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
songbird wrote on 08/03/2022 16:35: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: As far as I know, the xserver-xorg-video-intel is deprecated for modern Intel CPUs. With an Intel Core i7 7700 the kernel `modesetting` works well here: Something like Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graph

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
As far as I know, the xserver-xorg-video-intel is deprecated for modern Intel CPUs. With an Intel Core i7 7700 the kernel `modesetting` works well here: Something like Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "modesetting" EndSection in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-modesetting

[SOLVED] Error in the certificate verification

2021-10-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Solution was to sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates and trust the certificate `ISRG_Root_X1.crt`. I read about it here: https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-old-root-expiration/ Regards, Jörg. Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/10/2021 13:56: Hi, on Debian testing, when trying to update

Error in the certificate verification

2021-10-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, on Debian testing, when trying to update package lists with `apt update`, the following error message show up: W: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/InRelease Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate chain uses expired cert

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

2020-11-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In Germany (Europe probably) it might be a Fransenflügler or thrips. See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fransenfl%C3%BCgler#Fransenfl%C3%BCgler_und_TFT-Monitore for some suggestions. It's a german text. The english Wikipedia page doesn't have this section. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Upgrading python3.8 from 3.8.3-1 to 3.8.4~rc1-1 breaks xpra

2020-07-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
S. Dash wrote on 15/07/2020 10:02: > 2. > > Apart from this issue, I just realized that I was unable to downgrade to 3.8.3 > if I had not cached the deb files. All mirror sites I could find were all > updated to have only 3.8.4~rc1-1. Is there an archive that keeps older > versions? > Yes, ther

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In this category of computer aided mathematics or computer algebra systems, there are also the packages sagemath, octave or scilab. octave and scilab bring there own GUI. sagemath and also python 3 or R can be used via jupyter notebook which is a kind of browser based GUI. But these are all way to

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
As far as I understand, kernel 5.4 supports your GPU. What is the outcome of the two commands $ lsmod | grep amdgpu $ find /lib/modules -name 'amdgpu*' The packages you try to install are not from Debian, maybe they are not up to date. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
>From which repository did you get your kernel? In case of a missing file I consult https://packages.debian.org/ "Search the contents of packages". There is also the package apt-file. The package linux-headers-5.4.0-4-common from bullseye contains a file /usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-4-common/includ

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Try it without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and read the Debian Stretch part in the Debian wiki. What's the output of the "xrandr" commands listed in the wiki? Regards, Jörg.

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Keywords are "hybrig graphics" and "PRIME". Maybe, these links can be helpful: https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME Regards, Jörg.

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Miguel A. Vallejo wrote on 11/02/2020 22:15: > > I always ran the intel microcode package, tried every bios update, and > I even changed the whole computer, so this is not the solution. Do you also use the skylake GPU firmware which should be located in /lib/firmware/i915/ (from package firmware

Re: cpu frequence

2020-02-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Then, take a look at the available governors: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy?/scaling_available_governors or using cpupower, if available. As the name says, "powersave" would be the better choice. Take a look at https://wiki.debian.org/CpuFrequencyScaling as how to change the cpufre

Re: cpu frequence

2020-02-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
what is the outcome of the following command: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy?/scaling_governor Regards, Jörg.

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Stephan Seitz wrote on 16/12/2019 20:50: > On Mo, Dez 16, 2019 at 08:32:01 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> Does anybody else see such a /pulse directory? > > Yes, here as well (two testing systems). > > Shade and sweet water! > > Stephan > Thanks for confi

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 16/12/2019 20:32: > Greg Wooledge wrote on 16/12/2019 17:29: >> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 10:04:34AM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >>> $ dpkg -S /pulse >>> dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /pulse >>> >>> fails to giv

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Greg Wooledge wrote on 16/12/2019 17:29: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 10:04:34AM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> $ dpkg -S /pulse >> dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /pulse >> >> fails to give any clue. >> The directory is generated at boot-time. But I wa

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Brian wrote on 13/12/2019 21:29: > On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 20:26:32 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> does anybody know which package generates the directory /pulse ? This is a >> bug >> in unstable I think, but I can't find which package is

unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hello, does anybody know which package generates the directory /pulse ? This is a bug in unstable I think, but I can't find which package is the culprit. Regards, Jörg.

Re: The font and themes used in terminal and editor

2019-09-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
f, YCM core for Swift." Regards, Jörg. Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 22/09/2019 09:52: > Searching for "sadbart lesson" with startpage gave me these two links: > > better completion for c++ > http://nosubstance.me/articles/2015-01-29-better-completion-for-cpp/ > > G

Re: The font and themes used in terminal and editor

2019-09-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Searching for "sadbart lesson" with startpage gave me these two links: better completion for c++ http://nosubstance.me/articles/2015-01-29-better-completion-for-cpp/ GitHub - oblitum/YouCompleteMe: A code-completion engine for Vim (fork featuring hints for C/C++ and an experimental Swift complete

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Thank you Greg for the clarification. I find your third link https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles very worth reading. Regards, Jörg Greg Wooledge wrote on 05/06/2019 14:52: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:18:55AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> As user of thunderbird you best set the en

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
As user of thunderbird you best set the environment variable LC_TIME in your profile, e.g. via ~/.bash_profile . Check it with the command $ locale You have to log out (from desktop and from computer) before changes in .bash_profile get applied. Regards, Jörg.

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe you could then try some of the switches for ps2pdf, for example $ ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer old.pdf new.pdf "/printer" makes it 300dpi, "/ebook" 150 dpi, and "/screen" 72 dpi, the documentation can tell you more. Regards, Jörg.

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With the pdf-files from my Canon scanner, I did shrink them with the help of ghostscript: $ ps2pdf old.pdf new.pdf Documentation can be found in ghostscript-doc. Regards, Jörg.

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
There is a "perf" package complementing the linux kernel package, for example if the kernel package is linux-image-4.17.0-3-amd64 the perf package is linux-perf-4.17. Also, take a look at this web page http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html about profiling by Brendan Gregg. Re

Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable

2018-10-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The locale en_GB.utf8 uses 24 h time format. Regards, jvp.

Re: [Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote on 06/14/18 17:44: > On 6/14/18, Siard wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:40 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >>> Siard wrote on 06/13/18 17:28: >>>> >>>> I took a try and upgraded the xserver-*** packages in testing to >>>

Re: [Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Siard wrote on 06/13/18 17:28: > I took a try and upgraded the xserver-*** packages in testing to version > 2:1.20.0 taken from unstable. > It did work; X (started with 'startx') is back, despite the systemd > packages having version 238. > It looks like things will be back to normal after the nex

Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Which version of the systemd packages (udev, libsystemd0, etc.) is installed? On my testing/unstable systems X can be started using "startx" with xorg-server version 2:1.20.0-2 but systemd packages in version 237. systemd 238 is not working. Regards, jvp.

Re: on-screen artifacts (red pixels) at high resolution with Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake)

2017-12-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Alexandre Rossi wrote on 12/11/17 10:05: >> could you show your Xorg.0.log files? > > Here it is attached. > >> The Kaby Lake GPU needs some firmware. Therefore, what is the print out of >> grep firmware /var/log/dmesg > > $ sudo dmesg | grep firmware > [9.165601] i915 :00:02.0: firmwa

Re: on-screen artifacts (red pixels) at high resolution with Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake)

2017-12-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, could you show your Xorg.0.log files? The Kaby Lake GPU needs some firmware. Therefore, what is the print out of grep firmware /var/log/dmesg ? Regards, jvp.

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 10/30/17 15:54: > Richard Hector wrote on 10/30/17 11:13: > >> imagemagick-6.q16 Provides: imagemagick, but not a specific version >> >> cups-filters Depends: imagemagick (>= 6.4~) >> >> The real imagemagick package is at 8:6

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Richard Hector wrote on 10/30/17 11:13: > imagemagick-6.q16 Provides: imagemagick, but not a specific version > > cups-filters Depends: imagemagick (>= 6.4~) > > The real imagemagick package is at 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1 (on my > machine anyway), which satisifies the cups-filters dependency. >

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-29 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Celejar wrote on 10/24/17 15:09: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:52:46 +0200 > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> I forgot that you showed the dependency on cups-filters in your original >> mail. >> On testing cups-filters 1.17.9-1 does not depend on imagemagick, it only >

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I forgot that you showed the dependency on cups-filters in your original mail. On testing cups-filters 1.17.9-1 does not depend on imagemagick, it only recommends it. And I use APT::Install-Recommends "false"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Therefore, on this system imagemagick could be removed. Regards, j

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

2017-10-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote on 10/23/17 04:12: > I have tried two different things. First, I added this directive to > /etc/network/interfaces under the eth0 stanza: > > dns-nameservers 127.0.0.1 > > That did not appear to have any effect because taking eth0 and eth1 down > and then bringi

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Since I use a pure 64-bit system, I overlooked that only one of imagemagick-6.q16 or imagemagick-6.q16:i386 can be installed. I think it's better to re-install imagemagick-6.q16. And then show the output when trying to purge imagemagick, please. I think there must be involved a i386 version of some

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Celejar wrote on 10/20/17 19:05: > Thanks. Okay, I did that, and I was then able to remove imagemagick, but only > if imagemagick:i386 is installed instead - and that's also marked as a > dummy package that can be safely removed or purged. > > At this point: > > ~$ aptitude search '~iimagemagick'

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Take a look which imagemagick packages are installed: $ aptitude search '~iimagemagick' Probably there is a line beginning with i A imagemagick-6.q16 which shall replace imagemagick. Also see the dependencies of package imagemagick: $ dpkg -s imagemagick So before purging imagemagick you ha

Re: Redmine on server in DMZ

2017-08-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Johann Spies wrote on 08/02/17 11:56: > A few years ago we got redmine working on a server in the DMZ on our > network using ruby gems copied there from another computer with access > to the internet. > > This server has now been updated to Debian Stretch - which broke the > redmine installation.

Re: Power draw from UPS

2017-07-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe this is helpful APC UPS - ArchWiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/APC_UPS Please report back if and how it works. Regards, jvp.

Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

2017-07-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 07/17/17 10:06: > Maybe, the output of "pactl info" can shed some light? > Or try "pacmd dump-volumes". Regards, jvp.

Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

2017-07-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe, the output of "pactl info" can shed some light? Regards, jvp.

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote on 07/14/17 14:10: >> Am 13.07.17 12:13 nachm., schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: >>> there's this nice blog in German: >>> https://blog.dafb-o.de/neue-firmware-fuer-garmin-devices-unter-linux/ >>> where the firmware update procedure from L

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi Joerg, I use an older Garmin device, so have not tested what follows: there's this nice blog in German: https://blog.dafb-o.de/neue-firmware-fuer-garmin-devices-unter-linux/ where the firmware update procedure from Linux is detailed and a link to the firmware files for your device is given http

Re: How did you update to stretch?

2017-06-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
For every release the Debian developers take the trouble to write down an upgrade guide https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgradingpackages . Did you take a look at it? In my opinion it's written very clear and easy to read. Many thanks from me for all

Re: is there a firewall which blocks the connection

2017-05-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, openssh-server is linked against libwrap0 which in turn is controlled by the files /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow. What is the content of these files on your system? Regards, jvp.

Re: BUG or OPERATOR error? - was [Re: Measuring aggregate internet useage?]

2017-04-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote on 04/26/17 16:46: > On Qua, 26 Abr 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I would go further saying iproute2 is non-functional due to being >> functionally >> un-documented. >> >> https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/iproute2/ip.8.en.html is useless. >> >> Functional commands, fo

Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application?

2017-03-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Harry Putnam wrote on 03/11/17 13:03: > Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > >> Do Synaptic, Aptitude, and possibly anything else of that family have >> similarly close but still different flags/commands? > > I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread... but may have missed it. > > I've noticed that som

Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts

2017-03-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Greg Wooledge wrote on 03/06/17 14:38: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 05:25:49PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> If you need floating point numbers, bc (or dc) are your next stops. > > Or awk. For some problems, awk is fantastic. > Yes, it helps to sample the number of "bytes" like so: owl1=$(awk

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian

2017-03-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Richard Owlett wrote on 03/01/17 00:45: > On 02/28/2017 05:06 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: >> On Monday 27 February 2017 13:17:56 Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I looked at at LibreOffice Base. It was unusable as its "help" system >>> provided no intrinsic way to increase fonts to a legible size. >> >> Wou

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/25/17 16:40: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/18/17 10:32: >> Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/16/17 15:14: >> >>> Thanks for sharing your experience. It would be good to know if it >>> remains stable after several days. I just applied the

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/18/17 10:32: > Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/16/17 15:14: > >> Thanks for sharing your experience. It would be good to know if it >> remains stable after several days. I just applied the change suggested >> by Benjamin in another message in

Re: stretch apt-get -u dist-upgrade does not result in sid

2017-02-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Felix Miata wrote on 02/18/17 06:10: > I changed sources.list to point only to sid, then apt-get clean, then apt-get > update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade. /etc/debian_version and /etc/issue still say > I > have 9.0. Can held back non-essential packages stonewall a dist-upgrade? mc > and > mc-lang 4.

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/16/17 15:14: > Thanks for sharing your experience. It would be good to know if it > remains stable after several days. I just applied the change suggested > by Benjamin in another message in this thread. > > Kind regards, > Daniel > Meanwhile I had the first crash of t

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/15/17 23:52: >> I wonder if stretch has thunderbird packages? (no time to check right >> now) > > It looks like it's currently in Sid. Has anyone tried it? > > https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=thunderbird > I'm using a mixed testing/sid syst

Re: sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9

2017-02-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, on a laptop with testing, updated init packages, and freshly rebooted, the priority of the packages is still "required": # cat /proc/1/comm init $ mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,lazytime) /dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,lazytime) $ dpkg -s sysvinit-utils | gre

Re: detecting hardware for custom kernel

2017-01-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
deloptes wrote on 01/11/17 09:50: > HP Garcia wrote: > >> Is there a command to detect hardware for a custom kernel? I would like >> to take advantages of the newer kernels. > > It is not clear what you want to achieve. > Most probably your current kernel has already detected the hardware for you

Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How?

2017-01-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In order to separate reading from writing or to store the directory structure for several writings one can use find and tar: find PATH -xdev -type d -print0 \ | tar cf FILE --no-recursion --null --files-from - The directories will be stored in the file FILE. It can be extracted with tar

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-01-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
David Wright wrote on 01/02/17 15:41: > On Sun 01 Jan 2017 at 12:39:26 (+0100), Xen wrote: >> rhkra...@gmail.com schreef op 31-12-2016 15:12: >> >>> But, info pages could work. >> >> Yes, let's propose that. They are just impossible to navigate if you >> are not an insider. > > I don't know what a

Re: [repost] Equivalent of "aptitude --without-recommends" OR "apt-get --no-install-recommends" in preseed.cfg?

2016-12-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 12/26/16 15:49: > > Try something like > > aptitude -R search '~pstandard' mate-desktop-environment synaptic pluma > gparted Thinking about it, I would even reduce it to aptitude -R search '~pimportant' mate-desktop-environme

Re: [repost] Equivalent of "aptitude --without-recommends" OR "apt-get --no-install-recommends" in preseed.cfg?

2016-12-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Richard Owlett wrote on 12/26/16 14:54: > I had gabled the subject line and some of the text. > > On 12/26/2016 7:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> When doing my version of a minimalist install, I use lines >> similar to: >> tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard >> d-i pkgsel/include string mat

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Rodolfo Medina wrote on 12/04/16 12:54: > Jörg-Volker Peetz writes: >> aptitude -F '%p %I %d' --sort installsize search '~i' > > > What about reverse (descending) installsize order? > > Thanks, > > Rodolfo > For that purpose, the un

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 12/04/16 10:40: > Greg Wooledge wrote on 12/01/16 20:06: >> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> >> P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by >> size for you. As you can see, ma

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Greg Wooledge wrote on 12/01/16 20:06: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by > size for you. As you can see, many of us have been there, done that. > Yes, e.g., aptitude can do this sorting (

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