Re: Help with my question, please.

2025-09-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/21/25 8:22 AM, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: It wants the password for "debian" on 192.168.0.213. What is 192.168.0.213? COMCAST writes: It's the address for my attached Rasperrypi. Ask on a RaspberryPi forum. Raspberry Pi OS is derived from Debian but they make changes. I suspect t

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/12/25 7:13 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Sep 12, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/12/25 5:36 AM, Roger Price wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager. SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser. While searching my disk for a one

Re: i have a problem with installation

2025-09-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/17/25 7:35 AM, leonardo tamagni wrote: can i send here the picture? I doubt photographs would be relevant. *What* are you trying to install? Onto *what* will you do an install [give name and technical description]?

Re: [HOWTO] Make your own Debian Live ISO with live-build (repos included)

2025-09-19 Thread Richard Lewis
Kirill Rekhov writes: > I recently dove into live-build to create > *KoruX* (https://github.com/KoruX-GNU-Linux/KoruX) - a minimalist Debian 12 > (Bookworm) Live/Installed system tailored for developers and > maintainers, I wonder if there is a wiki.debian.org page you could add some information

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/16/25 3:48 AM, Lister wrote: On 12/9/2025 19:38, Richard Owlett wrote: While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:   1. multiple copies of that file.   2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download. If you're looking for duplicate (content) files tha

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/13/25 5:05 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and sub-directories. Makes it very nice for for my case. I'm only interested in files under /home/richard . It would be almost perfect if it woul

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/13/25 3:40 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote on 12/09/2025 16:19: Using that database is suggesting that for *my particular case* "find" may be more appropriate as I'm only interested in files and directories under /home/ richard . It would be even b

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/13/25 5:48 AM, Roger Price wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: but BUT *BUT* ;/ locate NOT suitable for *MY* usage, database requires _refreshing_ The database is built and refreshed automatically every 24 hours

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/12/25 4:43 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 9/12/25 02:38, Richard Owlett wrote: My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager. SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser. While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:   1. multiple copies of that file.   2. copies of

Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-12 Thread Richard Owlett
My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager. SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser. While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had: 1. multiple copies of that file. 2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download. Caja's search function does automatically di

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/12/25 5:36 AM, Roger Price wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager. SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser. While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had: 1. multiple copies of that file. 2. copies of

Re: linux user groups?

2025-08-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/26/25 10:27 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 11:03:41PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: Someone mentioned SVLUG during the discussion. They have a website, but it doesn't look like they've had meetings in years, so I'd consider them dormant. And I don't personally know of any

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/18/25 9:20 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 8/18/25 04:02, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/25 4:52 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 8/16/25 04:41, Richard Owlett wrote: I currently have Debian 12.8 on a Dell Latitude [4GB RAM, 150GB disk] which I purchased as a refurbished machine years ago

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/17/25 4:52 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 8/16/25 04:41, Richard Owlett wrote: I currently have Debian 12.8 on a Dell Latitude [4GB RAM, 150GB disk] which I purchased as a refurbished machine years ago. The local Staples has a sale on of overstocked laptops. There is a selection of

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/17/25 2:12 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 06:27:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for an idea of what size disk would be pleasant/comfortable. Most people's disk space requirements are related to the kind of media they actually work with, not t

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/17/25 8:39 AM, Greg wrote: On 2025-08-17, Richard Owlett wrote: Such as the wifi or sound or the network in general works in the live version, but not in the installed one. Of course, one might posit that these are solvable conundrums by definition. Reported cases? I'm an octogen

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/17/25 7:37 AM, Greg wrote: On 2025-08-17, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/16/25 11:40 AM, Greg wrote: On 2025-08-16, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Ask if you can take a Debian Live image on USB and try it, maybe - unlikely but you won't know unless you ask. This is often suggeste

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/17/25 2:12 AM, Ralph Aichinger wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 06:41:41AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: 70's] machines. All have at least 8GB of RAM and suitably large disk capacity. My main laptop currently has 8GB, and only recently have I sometimes had problems with not enough RAM

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/16/25 2:55 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2025 07:41:41 am Richard Owlett wrote: The local Staples has a sale on of overstocked laptops. There is a selection of Lenovo [used the brand before] and HP [used their instrumentation in the 70's] machines. That HP

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/16/25 11:40 AM, Greg wrote: On 2025-08-16, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Ask if you can take a Debian Live image on USB and try it, maybe - unlikely but you won't know unless you ask. This is often suggested but sometimes leads to paradoxical results. Such as?

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/16/25 10:30 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 06:41:41AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I currently have Debian 12.8 on a Dell Latitude [4GB RAM, 150GB disk] which I purchased as a refurbished machine years ago. The local Staples has a sale on of overstocked laptops

Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-16 Thread Richard Owlett
I currently have Debian 12.8 on a Dell Latitude [4GB RAM, 150GB disk] which I purchased as a refurbished machine years ago. The local Staples has a sale on of overstocked laptops. There is a selection of Lenovo [used the brand before] and HP [used their instrumentation in the 70's] machines. A

Re: How to _display_ disk partition info?

2025-08-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/11/25 9:30 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 09:36:46AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/11/25 8:58 AM, songbird wrote: remember that things can change between boots so any mentions of specific devices may be

Re: How to _display_ disk partition info?

2025-08-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/11/25 3:09 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 09:36:46AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/11/25 8:58 AM, songbird wrote: remember that things can change between boots so any mentions of specific devices may be out of date the next boot. as an example my /dev/sda

Re: How to _display_ disk partition info?

2025-08-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/11/25 8:58 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I run Debian 12.8 with MATE. I'm prepping to to do needed housekeeping prior to Trixie install. Current disk partitioning is *UGLY*! GParted displays desired information. *HOWEVER* I need something that facilitates doing a copy-n-

ONLY lsblk worked Re: How to _display_ disk partition info?

2025-08-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/11/25 8:42 AM, Ming Kuang wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 08:30:09AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I run Debian 12.8 with MATE. I'm prepping to to do needed housekeeping prior to Trixie install. Current disk partitioning is *UGLY*! GParted displays desired information. *HOWEVER* I

How to _display_ disk partition info?

2025-08-11 Thread Richard Owlett
I run Debian 12.8 with MATE. I'm prepping to to do needed housekeeping prior to Trixie install. Current disk partitioning is *UGLY*! GParted displays desired information. *HOWEVER* I need something that facilitates doing a copy-n-paste of the information to a straight text document. What is th

Re: How does bash interpret tilde character?

2025-08-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/10/25 7:00 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2025-08-10 at 07:51, Richard Owlett wrote: About 5 years ago the response I got was: Use the 'history' command, or 'cat ~/.bash_history'. I have two questions: 1. in context, what does " ~/ " mean? In the typic

How does bash interpret tilde character?

2025-08-10 Thread Richard Owlett
About 5 years ago the response I got was: Use the 'history' command, or 'cat ~/.bash_history'. I have two questions: 1. in context, what does " ~/ " mean? 2. what reference would answer a similar question? [ NOTE BENE: The search may be more beneficial than the answer ] TIA

Re: Extracting indiviual files or directories from XYZ.tar.xz - Possible?

2025-08-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/8/25 9:08 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2025-08-07 09:33:34 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 07:00:31 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: My questions: 1. Can individual files or directories be extracted from XYZ.tar.xz ? Yes. 2. Is there a compressed format that

Re: Nedit - forcing readable font size

2025-08-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/7/25 6:48 PM, Eben King wrote: On 8/2/25 10:11, Richard Owlett wrote: I need an editor with macro capability. I've looked first at editors already installed on my system. When launched, its menu bar hints it can do most{all?} of what I want. I went looking for an editor which

Re: Extracting indiviual files or directories from XYZ.tar.xz - Possible?

2025-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/7/25 10:48 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2025-08-07 10:01 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2025-08-07 07:00 (UTC-0500): 1. Can individual files or directories be extracted from XYZ.tar.xz ? 1: open mc (if not already installed

Re: Extracting indiviual files or directories from XYZ.tar.xz - Possible?

2025-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/7/25 8:34 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2025-08-07 07:00 (UTC-0500): 1. Can individual files or directories be extracted from XYZ.tar.xz ? 1: open mc (if not already installed: sudo apt install mc) 2: navigate to the location of XYZ.tar.xz 3: 4: navigate to the

Re: Extracting indiviual files or directories from XYZ.tar.xz - Possible?

2025-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/7/25 7:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm too acclimated to decompressing with single mouse-click ;/ Where would I find a good introduction to tar archives? [SNIP] My questions:   1. Can individual files or directories be extracted from XYZ.tar.xz ? Better prepared web search answers

Extracting indiviual files or directories from XYZ.tar.xz - Possible?

2025-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm too acclimated to decompressing with single mouse-click ;/ Where would I find a good introduction to tar archives? My situation: I expressed dissatisfaction with the internal "HELP system" of my preferred browser. The senior maintainer pointed me to the source archive and identified the dir

Re: Any implications for default Trixie intall? - was [Re: Security: Be careful with StarDict!]

2025-08-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/5/25 7:51 AM, Greg wrote: On 2025-08-05, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been following this thread, probably without full comprehension. I currently have Debian 12. My practice is to do a default install to a fresh partition when a new release comes out. I'll use netinst, acc

Any implications for default Trixie intall? - was [Re: Security: Be careful with StarDict!]

2025-08-05 Thread Richard Owlett
I've been following this thread, probably without full comprehension. I currently have Debian 12. My practice is to do a default install to a fresh partition when a new release comes out. I'll use netinst, accepting all defaults. Will I have any of the vulnerabilities mentioned in this thread?

Re: Nedit - forcing readable font size

2025-08-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/2/25 9:28 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Richard Owlett (HE12025-08-02): How do I force it to launch with a visible font size? Have you tried reading the man page? I just checked, and it gives the answer to that question, and that answer works. *NOT IN ANY USABLE MANNER* I quote: -font

Nedit - forcing readable font size

2025-08-02 Thread Richard Owlett
I need an editor with macro capability. I've looked first at editors already installed on my system. When launched, its menu bar hints it can do most{all?} of what I want. *UNFORTUNATELY* I must say "hints" as it's GUI font size is no more than 1/2 the size necessary to be comfortably readable.

Re: Prospective New Laptop

2025-08-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/1/25 8:50 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 01/08/2025 13:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/08/2025 11:17, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/31/25 4:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:30 +0100 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Hello All, I'm being tempted by an ASUS l

Re: Prospective New Laptop

2025-08-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/31/25 4:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:30 +0100 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Hello All, I'm being tempted by an ASUS laptop - ASUS-Vivobook-M3407HA - and I'm wondering if anyone has experience with Debian and this product? It is supplied with Windows 11 pre-installe

corrected post -- Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/29/25 6:13 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/29/25 12:28 AM, Lee wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM Richard Owlett wrote: More explicitly: How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum? Why do I ask? In my

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/29/25 12:28 AM, Lee wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM Richard Owlett wrote: More explicitly: How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum? Why do I ask? In my read with PDF related questions, my

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/28/25 1:26 PM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:39:21 - (UTC) Greg wrote: On 2025-07-27, Anders Andersson wrote: The Debian user mailing list is one of the worse examples in my (limited) experience. Every question gets non-answered by a bunch of people who don't really know about

Re: Suitable-to-task Debian spreadsheet software

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/28/25 12:22 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I found a USDA published spreadsheet[1] [in xlsx format] containing needed data. I saved it to a local directory with no problems. I copied it to another directory to prevent accidents

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/28/25 12:03 PM, Ralph Aichinger wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:18:22PM -, Greg wrote: His question isn't complex, though. He has *this* PDF from which he wants to extract *that* data so that it is readily exploitable, legible, presentable, etc. If that isn't it, then the fault lies w

Re: Suitable-to-task Debian spreadsheet software

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/28/25 11:55 AM, Ralph Aichinger wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I tried to save it [unedited] to file2.xlsx. Got dire warning and suggestion to save in ODF format. I think you can configure away the "dire warning" and make LibreOffice sa

Re: Suitable-to-task Debian spreadsheet software

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/28/25 10:52 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Does Debian have a spreadsheet program that can competently read/write xlsx format? I have never had an issue with LibreCalc's xls support. If an xls file is so complicated

Suitable-to-task Debian spreadsheet software

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
I found a USDA published spreadsheet[1] [in xlsx format] containing needed data. I saved it to a local directory with no problems. I copied it to another directory to prevent accidents. I opened it - Debian defaulted to LibreOffice Calc. I tried to save it [unedited] to file2.xlsx. Got dire warn

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/27/25 6:06 PM, Michael Paoli wrote: Ooops, meant to send to (or at least include) list: -- Forwarded message - From: Michael Paoli Date: Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM Subject: Re: How to ask a question? To: Richard Owlett Why of course ask the smart way! http://catb.org

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/27/25 4:11 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM Richard Owlett wrote: More explicitly: How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum? Why do I ask? In my read with PDF related questions

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/27/25 9:09 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:33:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Now I have to relearn how to extract specific content from spreadsheets. Something I haven't done in close to two decades. What I usually ended up doing was opening the spreadshe

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/27/25 8:55 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Why do I ask? In my read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially "Why are you trying to do?" rather than an answer to to a narrowly focused question. Sometimes the "Why" you might get in return is misguided (e.g. paternalistic), but I

Re: How to ask a question?

2025-07-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/27/25 7:53 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Hi Richard, On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:33:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: More explicitly: How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum? Asking good questions is not

How to ask a question?

2025-07-27 Thread Richard Owlett
More explicitly: How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum? Why do I ask? In my read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially "Why are you trying to do?" rather than an answer to to a narrowly

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/24/25 9:06 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 24/07/2025 22:31, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/24/25 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length S

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/25/25 6:58 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 06:41:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/24/25 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote: Have you tested poppler with trixie, because bookworm's is now three major versions behind. Bookworm(Debian 12) is the current *major* ve

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/24/25 4:15 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM Richard Owlett wrote: Are pdfseparate error messages documented? If so, where? I don't know about the "if", but the "where" would be < https://poppler.freedesktop.org/>. Jeff Not a

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/24/25 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 12:46:29 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: Are pdfseparate error messages documented? If so, where? Have you tested poppler with trixie, because bookworm's is now three major versions behind. Bookworm(Debian 12) is the cu

Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Are pdfseparate error messages documented? If so, where?

Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages

2025-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/24/25 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for later editing. I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current and future goals. Doing

Understanding pdfseparate error messages

2025-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for later editing. I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current and future goals. Doing "pdftotext -layout -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-a.txt"

Re: Suggested tools - [Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?]

2025-07-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/23/25 11:23 AM, Greg wrote: On 2025-07-23, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. I wish to edit those 2 files. How? [Simple question

Suggested tools - [Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?]

2025-07-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. I wish to edit those 2 files. How? [Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple.  What I've read confuses

Re: Restating question "How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?"

2025-07-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/22/25 1:31 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 13:17:52 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 12.8 and package install failed with Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-17/openjdk-17-jre There's no vers

Re: Restating question "How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?"

2025-07-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/22/25 11:19 AM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 22 Jul 2025 at 10:14:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. [ … ] I should

Restating question "How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?"

2025-07-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. I wish to edit those 2 files. How? [Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple.  What I've read confuses

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/20/25 9:29 AM, Roger Price wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. For a simple graphical solution, try xpdf. The print option allows you to print specified pages to file. We

EXCELLENT solution was [Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?]

2025-07-21 Thread Richard Owlett
"pdfseparate" is the tool I need. I need to tweak content of some tables in a large PDF document. Wish I had known about it ~2 years ago. *THANK YOU* On 7/20/25 9:19 AM, Roger Price wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/20/25 7:24 AM, Roger Price wrote: mutoo

Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/20/25 7:24 AM, Roger Price wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. How about mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n where <100-page.pdf> is the original file

How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?

2025-07-20 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm running Debian 12.8. I have a 100+ page PDF document. I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file. I wish to edit those 2 files. How? [Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple. What I've read confuses me.] TIA

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/13/25 8:33 AM, Greg wrote: On 2025-07-11, The Wanderer wrote: I am not aware of any potential solution for this that has seemed to me as if it would actually be viable. If I'm missing any that would, or if I'm wrong and some of the ones I've dismissed as non-viable actually would be viab

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/30/25 8:46 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Federico Kircheis wrote: I could not use tasksel and install only what I want, but then I have to learn/verify all programs that are required for a functional environment. Don't use a tasksel desktop. Install one of these metapackages for KDE: kde-full

Re: More effective searching

2025-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/30/25 6:42 AM, Loris Bennett wrote: Jan Claeys writes: On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 07:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Side Issue -- Google and DuckDuckGo seem more interested in quantity rather than quality. Any pointers to search engine with friendly Boolean search? TIA "You"

Re: More effective searching

2025-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/30/25 5:59 AM, Jan Claeys wrote: On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 07:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Side Issue -- Google and DuckDuckGo seem more interested in quantity rather than quality. Any pointers to search engine with friendly Boolean search? TIA "You" "can" "try&qu

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 7:53 PM, Van Snyder wrote: On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 06:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd al

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/24/25 7:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 6/23/25 9:00 AM, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 9:00 AM, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd al

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 9:28 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12

Re: Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record

Linux friendly FM tuner on USB device - available?

2025-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties. I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record as MP3 for listening at a more convenient time. My web search turned up little relevant

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/2/25 2:25 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses might help. I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about reading glasses. 🙂 ROFL - Been wearing tri-focals since my 30's. Also have wicked astigmatism correct

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/2/25 2:03 PM, Van Snyder wrote: On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 13:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm over 80. My only phone just died. I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set which came with minuscule 5"x7" manual. Fortunately an ATT site has PDFs of manuals. *HOWEVER* only BO

PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm over 80. My only phone just died. I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set which came with minuscule 5"x7" manual. Fortunately an ATT site has PDFs of manuals. *HOWEVER* only BOLD text is in a saturated image. All other text is in a marginally readable pale grey. Is the a PDF reader in Debian

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/31/25 3:00 AM, rob stone wrote: Hello, if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, I have a Dell Latitude E6410 what values are in /etc/default/keyboard? I see: > # KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE > > # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page. > > XKBMOD

Re: retry at email Security problem with deian12.10.0

2025-05-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/30/25 6:26 AM, Donald MacKinnon wrote: mail.txt Dear Debian, I am having difficulty in attempting to access your facilities. [SNIP] In *NONE* of your posts to debian-user do you state the _address_ you are attempting to contact.

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/26/25 3:32 AM, riveravaldez wrote: Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I can use in any desktop/laptop) with persistence and some way to upgrade it when next Stable gets published.

Re: silent mail drops

2025-05-08 Thread Richard Owlett
I don't know what email program you are using, but SeaMonkey has an option to request "Delivery Status Notification". Try your application's equivalent. I've sent this reply to both you and the list so I'll have an example tracking message available for working connection message for both. H

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/21/25 7:17 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Em 21/04/2025 08:50, Richard Owlett escreveu: That does *NOT* express *MY* question!!! Then you should have stated your question more clearly. It was evidently clear enough to *YOU* that you could [and *did] explicitly answer my explicit

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/20/25 10:40 AM, David wrote: On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 14:17, George at Clug wrote: Sorry, but I do not understand the meaning of your words: "universe of discourse" "entity goals" And I am confused by this sentences: "A significant number of which mention Kate *or* Kwrite *or* Katepart."

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/20/25 7:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using "regular expressions". I had stated using Kate for the project. I'm reviewing my regular ex

Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using "regular expressions". I had stated using Kate for the project. I'm reviewing my regular expression related web searches. It would be helpful if I could find a _single_ document that made comparison between/among Kate, Kwrite

xdf IS solution to "How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?"

2025-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/18/25 5:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/17/25 9:45 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 14:24:35 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/16/25 8:35 AM, David Wright wrote: Ironically, a copy/paste from xpdf seems to do a better job than -layout at preserving the columns widths

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/17/25 10:09 PM, jeremy ardley wrote: On 15/4/25 22:19, Richard Owlett wrote: I don't know how to approach the problem. What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of [ https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/site

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/17/25 9:45 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 14:24:35 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/16/25 8:35 AM, David Wright wrote: Ironically, a copy/paste from xpdf seems to do a better job than -layout at preserving the columns widths over the page break. (Perhaps the text at the

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Thank you for the link to https://useplaintext.email/ . It may help me explain why I have SeaMonkey set to disable JavaScript, cookies, and ignore site specified images/background when surfing. [I date back to days of Netscape Navigator ;]

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/16/25 8:35 AM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Apr 2025 at 07:21:07 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/15/25 11:01 AM, Kent West wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM Nicolas George wrote: Richard Owlett (HE12025-04-15): I don't know how to approach the problem. What I would li

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/17/25 8:19 AM, Nicolas George wrote: to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-04-17): Now it depends on how vengeful you are: you might end up with RTF (out of categoty 3), or you might explain to your president that, when the mails are all blue, people with a monochrome monitor will be incapable to read

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/15/25 12:56 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 4/15/25 07:19, Richard Owlett wrote: I don't know how to approach the problem. What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of [ https://fns-prod.azureedge

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/15/25 11:01 AM, Kent West wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM Nicolas George wrote: Richard Owlett (HE12025-04-15): I don't know how to approach the problem. What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&am

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