upgrading only Emacs in LTS

2019-11-07 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
I'd like to upgrade Emacs to the 26.x series and only that and it's dependencies. Is there a way to do that? A search on the web showed some confusing instructions. Below are, hopefully, enough information for any suggestions. --8<---cut here---start->8--

automated install using preseeding

2016-09-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
Is there any documentation on how to do an automated install of debian testing? I've done a manual install of debian in a VM and would like to automate the process. I've read the debian admin manual (appendices) and I'm afraid it's a bit over my head. Is there any site/link that explains somethi

installing spark and pyspark

2016-09-07 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
Are there any repositories with prebuilt deb packages that can be installed in sid? I had earlier posted that I was creating a sid VM for people to use and I'd really like to avoid any manual download, compile,install cycle. I'd prefer everything to be done by apt-get and I think I'm pretty much

Re: Debian iso for machine learning?

2016-09-03 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Sep 02 2016,David Wright wrote: [snipped 9 lines] > $ dpkg -l > will list all the packages on the machine. The files > /var/log/aptitude* track what you install with aptitude, and > /var/log/apt/history* does likewise for apt-get. > /var/log/apt/term* gives a dump of the screen during th

Re: Debian iso for machine learning?

2016-09-03 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Sep 02 2016,Neal P. Murphy wrote: [snipped 11 lines] >> If there's a distribution aligned for scientific computing or >> statistical tools along with the bells and whistles, it'd help. >> >> sivaram > > Have you found Debian Science (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience)? Thanks, I sh

Debian iso for machine learning?

2016-09-02 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
Is there a distribution specced out for R/Python/Julia based tools with all their related packages? I've been trying to do a custom VM image with the packages installed along with a few editors and doing a rank amateur muppet job at it. I'm close to giving up because I've lost track of what I in

Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

2015-12-24 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Dec 24 2015,The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-24 at 07:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote: >> >> [snipped 32 lines] > > This is standard practice; you don't usually need to indicate that > you've snipped a

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-24 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote: [snipped 32 lines] >> Minor note: I do not recall seeing signatures like yours. > > The standard for signature delimiters is a line consisting of '-- ', as > the first line of the signature block. Software which knows what it's > doing will see this line

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-24 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Dec 23 2015,Udyant Wig wrote: > On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd >> like to remove the doc pac

removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-22 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future installs of the same type whenever I Upgrade TexLive. Could someone please suggest a way? I'm on debian

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Oct 26 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-27 00:04:44+05:30] wrote: > >> I don't want to clone the whole repository, would a shallow clone also >> work? > > You can use "git clone --depth 1" to get just the latest revision. Mo

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Sun, Oct 25 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-25 20:00:35+05:30] wrote: > >> Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess. > > That's a good choice and nothing to be afraid of. In Debian 8 it would > go like this: > > >

any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-25 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
I'm running debian test and I'd like to use the latest Emacs snapshots if anyone has built them at all. Is there a canonical website where I can get deb packages of the same, please? Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess. sivaram --

Re: moving from stretch to sid

2015-10-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Sat, Oct 10 2015,Sven Hartge wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> Is it enough that I change all references to stretch to sid in >> sources.list and do the dist-upgrade to switch to sid? > > This is correcnt. Thanks > a) remove the references to secur

moving from stretch to sid

2015-10-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
Is it enough that I change all references to stretch to sid in sources.list and do the dist-upgrade to switch to sid? Is there anything else I need to watch out for? --8<---cut here---start->8--- # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux stretch-DI-alpha3 _Stretch_ - Offic

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: [snipped 8 lines] > IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... > > On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on > different "technologies", those tools may help. But for single > (or very similar) VMs

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 29 June 2015 22:03:50 Arno Schuring wrote: [snipped 10 lines] >> intrastructure admin / manager / department, i.e. the network >> overlords. > > Thanks, Arno. I'm obviously too far out of the "swing" these days. > Sorry, that was typo from my

slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
I was making a debian VM to be used for a small teaching session on shell scripting that I was planning. Our IT infra came up to me and said, use Vagrant with it to make it easier. I looked at the Vagrant page and I can't wrap my head on what its for. That and Docker too. Why and how does it sim

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-09 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Mar 09 2015,Brian wrote: > On Sun 08 Mar 2015 at 00:58:29 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: [snipped 20 lines] > But what do we think about this as a procedure? [1] > > apt-get update > apt-get -y upgrade > aptitude -y upgrade > apt-get -y dist-upgrade > aptitude -y dist-upgrade > ap

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Mar 06 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2015 19:43:35 Ric Moore wrote: >> It's probably more >> solid than it's Ubuntu counterpart. Ric > > Correction: it's CERTAINLY more solid than its Ubuntu counterpart. ;-) Thus starts the flame wars. :) sivaram -- -- To UNSUBS

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-05 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Mar 05 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: [snipped 7 lines] > A few weeks ago I used the Jessie RC1 Installer, the day after it was > released. I loved it. It was IMHO nicer than the Wheezy one, easier to use > for what I wanted it for (I did not want to install Gnome, but it looked as > though

Re: making KDE WM read my .xprofile

2015-02-18 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Feb 18 2015,Brian wrote: [snipped 24 lines] > Try ~/.xsessionrc. Thanks, that worked. sivaram -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87

Re: A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Feb 18 2015,Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [snipped 18 lines] > I'm amazed that a typo can bring such an emotional reaction - my email > was really not about systemd, but about the fact that "Debian Works" - > at least for me. I cannot speak for others. As a first time Debian user, the upgra

Re: making KDE WM read my .xprofile

2015-02-17 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Tue, Feb 17 2015,Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Feb 2015 at 00:05:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: [snipped 22 lines] > > What leads you to believe a .xprofile has any significance on Debian? > ouch! You mean, I can't trust some random page on google? ;) Well, that's

making KDE WM read my .xprofile

2015-02-17 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
For some reason that I haven't figured out yet, my screen estate is not used fully by Debian and I had some black bands around the edges of the WM. Reading around, I found a combination of gtf and xrandr with a rather painful way of discovering that my screen is 1366 x 652 in size. xrandr --new

Re: disabling unneeded services?

2015-02-17 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Feb 16 2015,Brian wrote: [snipped 13 lines] > You do not sound the least bit rude. /etc/init.d and /lib/systemd/system > are places to look for services which are started at boot time. The > files ending in .service given by systemctl are amongst the services > which are activated. > S

Re: disabling unneeded services?

2015-02-16 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Feb 16 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: [snipped 15 lines] > If he upgraded from Wheezy, as he did, will he have systemd? > I do seem to have systemd-blame installed and the above command worked. sivaram -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: disabling unneeded services?

2015-02-16 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Feb 16 2015,Brian wrote: > On Mon 16 Feb 2015 at 20:39:41 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> As I had earlier posted, I have recently upgraded to Jessie. During >> bootup I see lots of stuff being started like Exim, ldap etc. I'd >> like to disable lots

disabling unneeded services?

2015-02-16 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
As I had earlier posted, I have recently upgraded to Jessie. During bootup I see lots of stuff being started like Exim, ldap etc. I'd like to disable lots of these stuff if it doesn't interfere with KDE the environment that I currently use(I used a KDE live CD install). I have no idea what serv

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-11 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Feb 12 2015,Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 02:45:43PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> >> Why? Then how do I upgrade? I'm usually in the KDE desktop terminal >> when I try all this. If I'm supposed to do without X, how do I go to &

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Brian wrote: > On Tue 10 Feb 2015 at 14:45:43 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Reco wrote: [snipped 11 lines] > You really should read the release notes. :) > >In some cases, doing the full upgrade (as described below

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Reco wrote: > Hi. > [snipped 23 lines] > You'll want sources from the backports too probably: > > deb-src http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian jessie-backports main thanks for that. > > >> #jessie R packages >> #deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/bin/linux/debian

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 10 February 2015 08:13:11 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: [snipped 35 lines] > If everything installed swimmingly and is working fine, why? Well, everyone says move to Jessie. I thought once you get a clean system working, let's

jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
In for a penny, in for a pound. So I did get the libcurl4* install from backports done. And everything installed swimmingly. Emacs and Rstudio seem to work fine. Now, to the upgrade 1. Changed all wheezy to jessie in sources.list --8<---cut here---start---

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-09 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Feb 09 2015,Brian wrote: > On Sun 08 Feb 2015 at 18:45:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > [snipped 11 lines] >> 1. Do I have to uninstall & reinstall the cran packages, Rstudio before >> proceeding? And this needs to be done from backports? > > No unin

Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

2015-02-08 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Sun, Feb 08 2015,lostson wrote: > On 02/08/2015 07:22 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: [snipped 14 lines] > Here are the Debian Jessie images > > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > Thanks, found the kde iso too. sivaram -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

2015-02-08 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Sun, Feb 08 2015,songbird wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: [snipped 17 lines] > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > the word "Official" on that page is unfortunate because it > has a specific meaning with respect to the actual released > im

Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

2015-02-08 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
Hi, Is there an official jessie cd with only kde/xfce? I'd like to use only kde or xfce and currently I can't seem to find an iso for it. The last one I downloaded had 7.7_amd64-kde-iso or something of that sort. Any links or recommendations? sivaram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-08 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Sat, Feb 07 2015,Bob Proulx wrote: [snipped 15 lines] > Why? Now that we understand that it was dependencies that were pulled > in for emacs the answer is easy. Simply install it using backports to > backfill the dependencies. > > apt-get -t wheezy-backports install r-base > OK, here's t

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-07 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Sat, Feb 07 2015,Bob Proulx wrote: [snipped 36 lines] > In for a penny, in for a pound. I think this is just a natural > consequence of using backport software. Sivaram should keep going > with backports. > > Since the goal is to get emacs24 installed I would keep going. > Insteall libcurl4

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-06 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Brian wrote: [snipped 18 lines] > > I'd be prepared to report it (if Sivaram Neelakantan doesn't) but is it > in the emacs package? Also, what severity? If it is seen as breaking > unrelated software on the system it would be "critical". If

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-06 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: [snipped 7 lines] > Unfortunately, it looks as though you may have to but had you thought of > Jessie? The missus is asking "who's Jessie and why are you thinking of her?" ;) Sure, I'd upgrade to Jessie >That might let you have both! Or is there a

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-06 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,David Wright wrote: > Quoting Sivaram Neelakantan (nsivaram@gmail.com): >> On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Brian wrote: >> > On Fri 06 Feb 2015 at 14:04:25 +, Brian wrote: >> > As far as I can see, purging emacs24 may be the only solution. >> &

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-06 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Feb 2015 at 14:04:25 +, Brian wrote: > >> I never use backports so am not overly familiar with its operation or >> how it fits with the rest of the archives. However, this does not look >> like something that should happen. If we understood what is

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-06 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Brian wrote: [snipped 17 lines] > It is good that you have provided sufficient information in this thread > to be able to follow in your footsteps as I am now able to reproduce > your problem. > > My sources list has the security entry followed by kartolo lines for > wheezy

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-05 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Feb 05 2015,Bob Proulx wrote: > Brian wrote: [snipped 12 lines] > Do you have an /etc/apt/preferences file? Or /etc/apt/preferences.d/* > files? If so what is in it? Remove it and try the apt-get update and > apt-get install again. No, I don't have any preferences or anything in pref

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-05 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Feb 05 2015,Brian wrote: > On Thu 05 Feb 2015 at 01:17:04 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: [snipped 16 lines] > Perhaps the OP can have a single line as I did and try > > apt-get install librtmp-dev > > If there is any failure we wou

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-05 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Feb 05 2015,Bob Proulx wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: [snipped 36 lines] > > When tracking down installation errors I am always suspicious of third > party repositories. They tend to be the problem. I would comment > that out while you are debugging the current p

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-04 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Bob Proulx wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> How does one go about fixing broken packages? > > Double check every entry being used in /etc/apt/sources.list and any > additional file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*. You said you were using > Wheezy. In

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-04 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2015 11:41:53 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Dejan Jocic wrote: [snipped 15 lines] > > Do you need libcurl4-openssl-dev? If not, have you tried just uninstalling > it? erm...yes, that's

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-04 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Dejan Jocic wrote: [snipped 57 lines] > aptitude why-not libcurl4-openssl-dev > i task-kde-desktop Recommends system-config-printer > i A system-config-printer Dependspython-cupshelpers (= 1.3.7-4) > i A python-cupshelpersDependspython-pycurl

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-04 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 02/04/2015 02:13 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >>> [snipped 5 lines] >> As root user, apt-get install synaptic >> Let it install your programs for you. It's a gr

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-04 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/04/2015 02:13 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> >> How does one go about fixing broken packages? I've recently started >> using debian and apart some fiddling to get the latest emacs24.4 on >> wheezy I have not done

unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-03 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
How does one go about fixing broken packages? I've recently started using debian and apart some fiddling to get the latest emacs24.4 on wheezy I have not done anything on the system. When I tried to install libcurl4, I get the following error. apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev Reading packag