Does anyone else use Bibus

er issues and I'm not competent with python). Any ideas, or direction to other sources of help would be most welcome. Thanks heaps, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobile: +61 417 293 603 (Australia) Telephone: (02) 6236 3895 28 Mirrormere Rd, Burra, NSW 2620, Australia

Re: How to write in Chinese

I use Debian 9 and have installed iBus. It is possible to type Vietnamese, Chinese (in pinyin and/or characters) and English. Many other languages are available as input methods. The method of swapping between the language is configurable (I use alt/space). Been very reliable. 你 好 Rob Hurle

Re: Kernel problem?

e off because I don't want any automatic update to clobber my only working kernel - the 4.9.0-4-686-pae. The updating system only seems to keep 2 generations of kernel? Any further ideas would be very welcome. Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@g

Kernel problem?

Will this break something else for a future upgrade? Any help much appreciated. Thank you. Cheers, Rob Hurle ----- Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobile: +61 417 293 603 (Australia) Telephone: (02) 6236 3895 28 Mirrormere Rd, Burra, NSW 2620, Australia

mate and ibus

change to English ( blank in the default case, but nothing else works when any other combination is chosen). ibus-unikey works correctly for gnome. Anyone else had this problem? Cheers, Rob Hurle ----- Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobile: 0417 293 603

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

You should be able to use the CUPS interface: http://localhost:631 I use this for my Canon LBP7200Cdn printer, but I haven't gone to Jessie yet. It handled the setting up in the change from squeeze to wheezy. Rob Hurle ----- Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmai

Re: Canon lbp6020

i386 system running Wheezy, but it's untested for other printers and systems. I've packaged up my version (as a tar gzipped file) but I don't have a blog or other facilities to make it publicly available. I'll send you a copy. Cheers, Rob Hurle ---------

Canon printers on wheezy (solved)

If anyone else is having similar troubles, you are welcome to get in touch and I'll give you the details of what you need to do. Cheers, Rob Hurle --------- Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobile: 0417 293 603 (Australia) 0948 243 538 (Vietnam) T

How to make more space available for /

e) put a new /usr partition on the new disc and alter /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as /usr, safely without disturbing the existing system? In these days of udev and UUIDs, can we just alter /etc/fstab and still expect partitions to be mounted? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

keep pestering Kobo until they "fix" it. > If you use Calibre (download it from the calibre site, don't use the Debian package version as it's too old) then your kobo will be recognised. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of As

Re: mp280

a driver before you buy. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- --------- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Mobile (in VN):  +84 948 243 538 Mobile (

[SOLVED] Re: Dependency based boot sequencing and printers

Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS" > ... This was all correct, but, at the end of it all, I needed to do: insserv ccpd to register the new script. I found this on the novell web site where the manual entry for insserv(8) specifically points this out for slow learners like me :-) Cheers, Rob

Re: Dependency based boot sequencing and Canon printer

already? Cheers, Rob Hurle -- --------- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Mobile (in VN):  +84 948 243 538 Mobile (in OZ):

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

Hi Bob, Thanks for this information: On 6 February 2012 19:03, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Hurle wrote: >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >>  xulrunner-10.0 : Depends: libnss3-1d (>= 3.13.1) but >> 3.12.8-1+squeeze4 is to be installed > > What does

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

On 6 February 2012 12:41, Ashton Fagg wrote: > On 6 February 2012 11:31, Rob Hurle wrote: >> I definitely don't have Wheezy or Sid repos enabled.  My sources.list is: >> >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free >> deb http://ftp.au.debian.

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

ttp://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release >> to your /etc/apt/sources.list > > Yep, same here. > > I suspect somebody has got some erroneous repositories installed. > > Rob Hurle: Can you please verify that you don't have Wheezy/Sid repos > active an

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

The following packages have unmet dependencies: xulrunner-10.0 : Depends: libnss3-1d (>= 3.13.1) but 3.12.8-1+squeeze4 is to be installed E: Broken packages> ?? Any ideas? Cheers, Rob Hurle -- --------- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture,

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

> installed.  Click okay, and xulrunner is then listed as broken package. > So, a no go on the upgrade.   :-( Yes, I'd already done that. My experience is the same as Brad's - no go on the upgrade because of xulrunner. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob

Latest iceweasel - package kept back

ports squeeze-backports main deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release Thanks for your help. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- --------- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:     

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

t and found it very helpful. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- ----- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN):  +84 948

Re: A quick Q: how do I link LS or Ls to ls

sure where else you could use `ls` apart from the command line. Cheers, Rob -- --------- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169

Re: iceweasel and gmail

nt them, then this is not a worry. Question is: how can we upgrade to Iceweasel 3.6+ if we want to? Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              ro

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

How about 64-bit kernel Mac OS X? Sorry, no experience, but I would be surprised if it did not work. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1..

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

be aware of it. 3rd party toner cartridges are not always satisfactory - particularly for alignment and for evenness of colour. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- ----- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the P

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

nd 10% of the toner in the cartridge at failure point. The design of the printer is such that dust falls on to the mirrors in the (Canon!) printing engine and the whole thing has to be dismantled to clean them - a half-day job for the experienced. Never again HP! Cheers, Rob Hurle -- --

How to get a camera working?

itful so far. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks to all. Rob Hurle -- ----- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mo

fopen when using apt-get

... fopen: Permission denied Setting up [whatever the package is] ([version information]) ... This happens with all updates. Anyone know what causes the error when fopen is called, and is it serious? Is it possibly something to do with my man pages configuration? Thanks for any help, Rob Hurle

A word of appreciation

ery helpful and friendly, and thanks to those who've answered questions for me. Cheers to you all, Rob Hurle -- --------- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...

Re: Re (2): EeePC and Debian

Hi Peter, On 11 April 2011 05:30, wrote: > Rob, > > From:   Rob Hurle > Date:   Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:27:48 +1000 >> ... [press TAB ... avoid ... vga= parameter]. >> ... worked, and I booted and installed Squeeze. > > What adjustment did you make after , by th

Re: EeePC and Debian

Thank you very much to everyone who answered my query: On 8 April 2011 11:18, Chen Wei wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 05:52:25PM +1000, Rob Hurle wrote: >>   I have an EeePC 4G (the 701) and I'm trying to put Debian Squeeze on >> to it.  I've RTFM and read the wiki

EeePC and Debian

.386 directory. Do I need to boot into the old EeePC linux system and then run this? What am I missing? (Yes, I did read the READMEs). Thank you, Rob Hurle -- --------- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories o

Re: Input methods and terminal - any ideas?

Hi Michael, Thanks for the reply: On 1 March 2011 16:03, Michael Tsang wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2011 08:16:31 Rob Hurle wrote: >> (UTF-8) and the locale is set appropriately.  To my surprise, I find >> that Gnome terminal already has all of the input methods that I need. &g

Input methods and terminal - any ideas?

know if I can re-jig the input methods of terminal so that I can access them directly through OpenOffice, Iceweasel or KDE applications (apart from copy and paste)? Any ideas would help. Thank you. Rob Hurle -- ----- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific

Re: setting up a network printer

isplay and the IP and mask can be set there. Once you've got the IP you need to set CUPS up with that URI - socket://192.168. Should work then. Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Hi

Packages - what's the best way?

wo small things (gcc and gnu make) using dpkg, but I wondered if there was a better way to do this. I've just downloaded opera and it comes in a .deb package, so this is my next task. apt or dpkg - or even synaptic? Thanks for any help. Rob Hurle -- --------- Rob H

Re: HP Laserjet not printing.

[09/Nov/2010:08:12:25 +1100] PID 2494 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocapt3) crashed on signal 9! E [09/Nov/2010:08:12:25 +1100] PID 2496 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket) crashed on signal 9! Same if we use ipp. Some dill from Canon support here in Australia claimed that Canon does not support Unix or Li

Re: [OT] Re: Toner refill

(a) the calibration does not work properly so the colours don't line up, (b) toner gets spread over each page (especially in duplex mode) so each page comes out with a delicate mottled effect (cleaning the belts does not help). Third, the printer signals to replace all cartri

Fwd: Canon Support Centre - Ref # 00066023

with Linux (Debian and Red Hat) (see below). This same software seems to be provided for all of the Canon LBP series printers. Cheers to all, Rob Hurle -- Forwarded message -- From: Techsupport Date: 7 October 2010 14:19 Subject: Canon Support Centre - Ref # 00066023 To: "

Re: Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

T, the Canon printer driver.  The software > provided by Canon puts "pstocapt3" in /usr/lib/cups/filter.  I notice > that there is a report of /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocapt3 and > /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket both being killed by a 9 signal in > /var/log/kern.log.  I wonder wha

Re: Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

ort of /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocapt3 and /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket both being killed by a 9 signal in /var/log/kern.log. I wonder what this means? Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia

Re: Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

On 3 October 2010 14:15, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2010-10-03T13:53:31, Rob Hurle wrote: >> But, nothing prints from debian, Windows computers have no trouble. >> CUPS (http://localhost:631) shows "printing since..." but nothing >> appears. > > What is your Co

Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

error messages. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. Rob Hurle -- --------- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125

Lenny and Vietnamese input

: debian [21:44] ~>uname -a Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu May 28 15:39:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Thank you, Rob Hurle -- ----- Rob Hurle Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU e-mail: rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 M

Re: Installation problems

Hi Stephen, Thanks for your wonderful suggestion: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On Sunday 16 July 2006 01:50, Rob Hurle wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I am trying to set up Debian 3.1r1 (Sarge) on a box with an > > Intel D945GNT motherboard

Installation problems

ation, from the CD, but then, nothing can be seen ("No media to partition" is the final message). Any ideas would be welcome. Thank you. Rob Hurle --------- Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home addre