Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-04 Thread Loren M. Lang
ls/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html>, I > suppose. Not that I'll remember it by the next time this question is > asked again. Not without it being referenced from somewhere that > humans will actually look. > -- Loren M. Lang lor...@north-winds.org http://www.north-winds.org/ IRC: p

Re: Encrypted /boot partition gets decrypted twice during boot

2025-02-04 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 09:52:03AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 12:18:10AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 10:39:25PM +, Automætic wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm configuring a new Debian installatio

Re: Encrypted /boot partition gets decrypted twice during boot

2025-02-04 Thread Loren M. Lang
some kind of El Torito CD-ROM boot image and is likely more complex than is worth it. Feel free to prove my earlier assertion wrong. :-) -Loren > > Both devices are properly configured in /etc/crypttab with the UUIDs for > /dev/nvme0n1p2 and /dev/nvme0n1p3 respectively (as outputted

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 06:09:38PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM Loren M. Lang wrote: > > Basically, I want to identify any software that I couldn't reinstall on > > a fresh install of Debian from the official Debian archives. > > Will thi

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 11:09:58AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Loren, > > On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:29:45PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > I am looking for a way to find all packages that have been installed on > > my system according to dpkg, but don't ha

How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-02 Thread Loren M. Lang
possible. Just grepping the output of dpkg -l, for example, means I have to exclude headers and ensure that the column doesn't get truncated or otherwise mangled. -- Loren M. Lang lor...@north-winds.org http://www.north-winds.org/ IRC: penguin359 Public Key: http://www.north-winds.o

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Loren M. Lang
s like those ... > Also, instead of doing "ls -l /" which will stat() every child folder under root, try "/bin/ls -f /" and see if that is successful. That will only do a readdir() on root itself. Also, it might be interesting to get a log of "strace ls -l /" to confirm exactly where the hang happens. -Loren -- Sent from my Nexus 4 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Thank you for downloading Debian!

2022-09-30 Thread Loren
ading Debian!" I don't want to go to another computer to try to download it again, and I only have a 1/3 of the file right now. I have tried deleting the file, clearing my browser settings including the site settings. Now what do I do? Loren

Debian repository: no updates for PygreSQL package

2016-11-09 Thread Loren Dvid
Hello, In debian 6.0 and 7.0 the latest stable version of PygreSQL package is 4.0 http://www.pygresql.org/contents/changelog.html This version is from 2009. The newest stable version is 5.0.2 Why the repository is not being updated?  

I have problems with the last updating of debian jessie

2016-09-16 Thread loren carretero
Good Morning. I work to daily with linux debian jessie 8.1 Two days ago i updated my computer and suddenly the access to share folders with cifs has stopped working. I have installed and uninstalled samba and packages associated and I havent been able to connect to remote server by to share folde

sound popping on powerbook DVI

2008-09-07 Thread Jeffrey Loren Shaw
Dear Debian-ers, I've tried a few distributions of gnu Linux on my powerbook, and Debian is the best that I found. I'm now synced with the latest Lenny updates and it's working great. The only thing I had to configure manually was to put the line "snd-powermac" in /etc/modules to get sound to

Unable to run snaptic package manager or apt-get

2008-07-29 Thread Young, Loren R SGT NG NG NGB
Sirs/Madam, I attempted to download Ultimatix and now I am unable to use any of my package managers to install programs. I have tried several apt-get commands and receive the following error message: "Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock -open 13 permission denied." How might I corre

Gui interface ideas

2004-06-11 Thread Loren M. Lang
I have setup a series of programs for controlling/monitoring/testing some hardware through a serial port that are all command-line based. The engineers working on the project were fine with this, but as they go into production, they need a more dummy-proof interface since they will have many people

Good News Server

2004-06-09 Thread Loren M. Lang
Does anyone know of a good news server I could use? I'd like to post an article to the gnuplot newsgroup, but my isp seems to no longer be offering free usenet service. If I could just post articles to a mail->news gateway would be nice since I can read them without too much trouble. I'd prefer

Re: ALSA strangeness

2004-05-27 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:30:45PM -0700, Steven Yap wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:26, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > I had thought that all ALSA drivers had support for multiple audio > > streams. Is this not the case? > > Yes and no. On hardware with built-in multi-stream playback (like in

Replicating Debian Systems

2004-05-25 Thread Loren M. Lang
I may have to rapidly deploy multiple debian systems that will have the same software installed and be configured the same way. The ideal way to install debian would be to stick a cd into a computer, turn it on, and come back a couple hours later. If I could make a custom cd to do just that and m

Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-17 Thread Loren M. Lang
I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4 and I don't want to go back to Gnome 1.x just because I

[lorenl@alzatex.com: Procmail and Spam Filter]

2004-01-23 Thread Loren M. Lang
- Forwarded message from "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:55:39 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Procmail and Spam Filter User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye

Software Patents

2003-11-15 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm preparing a pursuasive speech against software patents for my class and I'm looking for information on patents that have had the biggest impact to inhibit the use of software like the patent on the lzw compression used in gif or the patent on xorin

OT: Linux 2.6.0-test9 Running for 24 hours!

2003-11-15 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just recently install a test kernel for linux 2.6 and I've had it running solid for 24 hours running in X!!! Sorry, but just had to let out the excitement as this is the first time I've ever tried running any kernel that was not considered an off

Inverse LCD Screen

2003-11-07 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any way to invert an LCD screen in X or console, preferably at least in X if not both. I have an old planar computer with a flat screen that is showing inverted color, in windows, before I had the oppurtunity to clense it, all the color was i

Unidentified subject!

2003-11-04 Thread Loren M Lang
While installing an updated fvwm2 from source, I decided to include gnome support using apt-get to install libgnome-dev and I got the following response: debian:/home/sttng359/fvwm/fvwm-2.4.17# apt-get install libgnome-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The followin

MBone

2003-11-02 Thread Loren M Lang
Does anyone have any information on MBone on where or how I can join? After some struggling I finally got all the software I think I need to participate including mrouted, sdr, vic, rat, wbd, and nte. I have successfully setup a conference between local computers, but I haven't crossed any subnet

Can't install both gtk and qt dev files?

2003-09-25 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently, I tried to compile and install an application that uses libqt3 and ran into this: # apt-get install libqt3-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libpng-dev The fo

Samsung usb gdi printer (ML-1710), system freezes periodically

2003-09-13 Thread Loren King
bmgr, and Gnome (including gdm) and sawfish L. Loren King [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: > The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages > seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant > language for most things Linux. So therein lies the question.

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-14 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:35:18AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > >> I found the hardware detection excellent! > >> > >> IMHO this is one area that Debian needs some work. > >

Re: nfs is very slow

2003-08-14 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Gregor Stößer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030808 00:37]: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:39:55PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 August 2003 14:01, Gregor Stößer wrote: > > > > I'm having some troubl

Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-09 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking for a good debian-based distro with a good and user friendly install program. I love debian much better than redhat based distros mostly for the packaging system, especially all those apt-* commands. Though for my less linux experienced fr

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-08-03 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Jul 2003, Dale Hair wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:38, Loren M Lang wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I have a flash card reader which is designed to read > > from 5 differ

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have recommendations about linux vs. openbsd? I have always used linux for everything and propably still will for the most part, but for security, would it be better to use openbsd? - From what I hear, openbsd is a variant off of netbsd,

All-in-one flash card reader.

2003-08-01 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a usb flash card reader I bought for my debian box and I tried to plug it in with a flash card to test it and couldn't get it to work. I know the flash card is valid, it works on linux with a different single type flash card reader, but not wit

NVidia drivers, X troubles (Debian 3, linux 2.4.18)

2003-07-31 Thread Loren King
Hi. I'm an end user with delusions of modest competence. I had debian 3.0 with linux 2.4.18 kernel set up on a hard disk from an old machine, and recently moved it over to a new machine: Shuttle XPC SN45G Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2500, 1.87GHz, 333MHz FSB Mainboard/Chipset: FN45, NVidia nforce2

All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-07-24 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a flash card reader which is designed to read from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying to get working with debian. I plugged it into my linux box with a flash card with some data on it and linux detected the device being attached a

Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-07 Thread Loren M Lang
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Marc Trudeau wrote: > Dear List, > > I¹m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had > trouble using Glimpse to filter out ³wheel mouse². I hope I¹m not belaboring > a well-covered point. If so, my appologies. > Please post as text as well as html for

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-06 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, cr wrote: > I've read the HOWTOs but I tend to get bogged down and confused in all the > details. And in the past I've found, when I've managed to get X-cd-roast > working (under previous Redhat installations), I've lost the ab

Dpkg seg faults.

2003-07-05 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was trying to upgrade libxml2 to the latest 2.5 version recently so I could install ardour. I created a dummy libxml2 package using equiv-control and equiv-build. The package installed ok, but ardour still failed and I discovered I also needed to re

Re: live video device in internet

2002-06-27 Thread Loren Jordan
on Woody, apt-get install webcam it has worked great for me At 12:10 AM 6/27/2002 +0200, miguel wrote: how i can share my webcam or bttv device to internet, i have found many soft to make captures from it or to show me at live in desktop, but i cant find soft to share it with internet? anyone

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Loren Jordan
ile of slag to be secure again... :) Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Loren Jordan Network Security Admin National White Collar Crime Center Internet Fraud Complaint Center Phone (304)363-

Re: SMP working

2002-06-07 Thread Loren Jordan
install" of a custom kernel will put it in / and not /boot while lilo.conf was looking in /boot. This bit me a while back. If you are using the debian kernel image, make sure you got the SMP version, There is a 2.4.16-686-smp and 2.4.18-686-smp kernel image available. Hope this helps, Lo

Re: ORBit help

2002-05-31 Thread Loren Jordan
and I think you only have to pay for it if you use it for "comercial" purpaces... (don't quote me on that) I exclusively used the perl section and another person used the java and c++ side. Hope this helps and doesn't run you broke! Loren At 12:08 AM 5/31/2002 -0700

Re: Watch TV Card over remote X?

2002-05-28 Thread Loren Jordan
At 04:37 PM 5/27/2002 -0500, Kent West wrote: I've got a small home LAN. One box has an ATI All-In-Wonder card. I can watch TV on it no problem with xawtv. I can "ssh -X firstbox.ip.address" into it and run xterm remotely, but when I try to run xawtv it complains that there's no such device as

top and smp

2002-05-21 Thread Loren Jordan
machines (Debian and red hat) are running "top (procps version 2.0.7)" What do I need to do to get top to show this extra bit of info? Thanks, Loren -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody & ditching HD

2002-05-13 Thread Loren Jordan
Just follow the normally expected "rescue" procedures and it should work just fine. This is how I have done it many times when changing out drives. Good luck, Loren At 09:48 AM 5/13/2002 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE dr

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Loren Jordan
t;) if you want it to, not that a vcr or tivo can't do these for you... Hope this helps. Loren The next step was At 09:25 PM 03/07/2002 +0100, Timo --Blazko-- Boewing wrote: Hello everyone. This question is not meant that serious, but nevertheless with interest: in my LAN i have runni

Debian on Compaq ProLiant DL380

2001-12-21 Thread Loren Jordan
ct root and rescue boot disks. I don't see any error messages while booting, however I also don't see the "discovering" of the array. Am I missing something? boot command line for the kernel? or do I need to make a new custom kernel boot disk? Thanks, Loren

Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Loren Hoffman
you could help me out today, I'd be very grateful. Thanks! Loren ### # Loren Hoffman # # Junior, Physics # # 204 Marks # # MSC 515 # ###

remote backspace/delete problems

2000-09-13 Thread loren jan wilson II
maybe i should just stop using the backspace and delete keys if i've decided on using debian and X. :) ctrl-H, anyone? thanks in advance, loren

Re: booting from an ext2 HD when Linux is on a second HD

1999-12-03 Thread Loren King
A quick follow-up to my own query, with a bit more info. I wrote: > I have two HD's, /dev/hda is the master, but Linux is installed on > /dev/hdb. ... I can't seem to figure out how to get LILO to put the > boot stuff on /dev/hda and then start up Linux on /dev/hdb. The partition info for my d

booting from an ext2 HD when Linux is on a second HD

1999-12-03 Thread Loren King
I have two HD's, /dev/hda is the master, but Linux is installed on /dev/hdb. Originally, the master drive was DOS, and I used loadlin to start Linux on the second HD. Something fatal happened to my original DOS HD, so now I've put a new HD in its place, made it ext2, and mounted it as extra spac

Emacs without X in Debian?

1999-06-10 Thread Loren King
ng stuff myself isn't an option. Does anyone know where I could find a Debian emacs package that doesn't depend on Xlib, etc? Thanks in advance. Loren. ------ Loren King [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mit.edu/lking/www/home.html