Can I pack a binary .deb from an installed package?

2009-12-08 Thread Luis Maceira
I need to pack a .deb binary package from an installed package to installon another partition,as it is a special purpose built package I cannot getit from anywhere.Is there a way to do it?

Need advice analyzing S.M.A.R.T data of HDD in "Imminent disk failure".

2009-11-03 Thread Luis Maceira
In Ubuntu9.10 I have received warnings that a HDD is in pre-failure.The disk(Iomega Prestige mobile USB external) has 1 month.In Debian Testing and OpenSolaris(installed on the same HDD I have no warnings.).Using smartmontools (this disk is not in its database) I get below: m...@mycomputer:~$ su

Where are the weekly builds of testind .iso CD/DVD?

2009-10-07 Thread Luis Maceira
Right now,the weekly builds of testing ISOs are not in the cdimage website or any mirrors.Only a blank directory in the place where they should be.So, what is the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Need advice from experts in complex multi-boot setups.

2009-10-02 Thread Luis Maceira
The case: I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning to install on it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8(Hackintosh),Solaris10,OpenSolaris, Debian,OpenSuse,Fedora,BSDs(FreeBSD and OpenBSD).The computer is a Dell netbook Mini9 which supports all these operative systems very well(with the Solar

Mouse,three button emulation,kernel variables,one button mouse.

2009-08-02 Thread Luis Maceira
I run Debian Lenny om my iMac PPC and to emulate a three button mouse I set up the following code in sysctl.conf file: dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1 dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87 dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88 for the F11 function key to emulate the middle button,and F1

HDD,SSD,diagnostic,integrity verify tools.Free,Opensource.

2009-07-25 Thread Luis Maceira
What is the best tool available in the free,OpenSource world to verify the integrity of HDD but,specially SSD drives(the fading capacity problem with too many writes to the same blocks).It is not only a problem of filesystem check,it is more physical of the drive itself.Right now,I do not remember

New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Luis Maceira
As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs that come with the netbook.Is there any standard password that we use in t

Gnash-0.8.5 in Unstable installed in 5.0.1Stable.Message with error.

2009-04-30 Thread Luis Maceira
I manually upgraded gnash-0.8.4 to gnash-0.8.5(in Sid-Unstable).It took me several hours to get it done,I run DebianPPCstable5.0.1 and gnash-0.8.5 is yet in Sid-Unstable.Everything is right with the packaging system: with aptitude and apt-get the system has all dependencies satisfied,I make apt-ge

dist-upgrade to linux-image-2.6.26-2(Lenny5.0.0 to 5.0.1).Disk space question.

2009-04-16 Thread Luis Maceira
apt-get tells me that to dist-upgrade to the new linux-image-2.6.26-2 (lenny5.0.1) an additional of more then 70MB disk space will be used.Why is that? Doesn't the previous linux image be replaced by the new one,maintaining approximately the same disk space? Or can I get rid of the old one after

Restrict Internet Access and User-Groups Management.

2009-03-04 Thread Luis Maceira
A normal user( adduser "normaluser") belongs automatically to the group normaluser,and only to this one,but he/she can also automatically connect to the Internet.How can the system administrator restrict the Internet access to specific users and block all others.With commands like adduser addgroup

Sound system in Lenny.How can I improve performance-quality?Is it possible?

2009-02-02 Thread Luis Maceira
My computer has an Apple PowerMac Burgundy sound card,which supports 16 bits and 44.1 kHz.In MacOS9.2.2 performs quite well,its output has 3D-Stereo of SRS Labs.With headphones a 20% volume is enough for good stereo sound. The more recent Lenny is much more stable in terms of the sound system,8 mo

HPLIP(install Qt4 libs) and I ended up with awful fonts-colors in browser.How to revert?

2009-01-09 Thread Luis Maceira
The fonts in Opera are awful(size and font),the only thing I did,was install HPLIP for printing(which installed Qt4 libs) and the fonts I had in Opera9.63 (compiled dinamically with Qt3) were arbitrarily changed, the fonts I had were O.K. for me.I have not experimented with other programs(except Ic

Novelty:Error(first time in several) with harddrive partition booting installation.

2008-12-22 Thread Luis Maceira
Trying to install DebianPPC after changing my harddrive partitions I am unable to continue,I have done this several times with no problem so I am a little bit astonished. I downloaded the needed files vmlinux,initrd.gz,yaboot.conf from the right places,booted from BIOS(OpenFirmware)to a HFS partit

Firefox-Iceweasel3.0.1 needs to be polished a lot.Strange behavior.

2008-07-28 Thread Luis Maceira
Running testing,only because of security problems with iceweasel-2.0.0.14 I do not get rid of iceweasel-3.0.1.It shows a strange behavior that 2.0.0.14 did not show: Doing even banal things in 3.0.1 (selecting an icon in Preferences screen,closing iceweasel etc. etc.) when we thing the task was

Extended numeric keyboard partially not recognized in Testing.

2008-07-08 Thread Luis Maceira
With Etch my keyboard was completely recognized.I upgraded to Testing and the numbers 0-9 on the keyboard part(on the right) are not recognized,I need to use the numbers on top of the main board part.However,on the right part of the keyboard the numbers are not recognized but the signs +,-,*,/,=

Help interpreting nmap scan on localhost running Lenny.Strange port?

2008-07-02 Thread Luis Maceira
I recently installed Lenny(testing) and I have very few software installed,yet. I did a nmap scan which showed this: Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): Not shown: 1710 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE  VERSION 25/tcp   open  smtp Exim smtpd 4.69 111/tcp  open  rpcbind 113/tcp  open

Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Luis Maceira
How can I see all the messages generated by a bash command (configure make make install, for example) to standard output(computer screen), and at the same time make sure that all is written to a text file for later analysis. It is a redirection but I don´t know how to make both things happen at the

Questions related to voice/sound recording in Debian.

2006-07-06 Thread Luis Maceira
I need a program to record and play my voice in high quality sound for training/improving my accent of foreign languages.With a iMac PPC first generation with built-in microphone and output for headphones.I have DebianPPC 3.1. Does the program ARDOUR is adequate for this? or is there some utility

aptitude and apt-get refuse to upgrade a package.

2006-03-22 Thread Luis Maceira
aptitude and apt-get both don´t upgrade the packages libsigc++-2.0-0_2.0.10-1 and libsigc++-2.0-dev_2.0.10-1 to the corresponding packages of the version 2.0.16-3. I built the packages of the 2.0.16-3 version in my own computer using the debian sources and all went O.K.,and the packages files exact