Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

2012-06-05 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:01 +0100, rjc wrote: > > Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and subdirs' > > subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~', > > e.g.: > > `myfile~', and that I want to remove all of them recursively. Is there a >

Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

2012-05-31 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 00:37 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] > but they are for kernel 2.6. This one is really frustrating. > > $ apt-get source linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 [...] > Picking 'linux-2.6' as source package instead of 'linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64' [...] > Get:1 http://ftp.debian.or

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-03-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 13:04 +0800, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > I am actually looking forward to Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x. > As we all know, Debian 6.0.x is still using the old Linux Kernel > 2.6. > > When will Debian 7.0 be released? Debian with Linux Kernel 3.x > release seems v

Re: cut's counterpart: vcut ?!

2011-11-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 16:58 +, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hi all, > > a crazy ideia just crossed my mind ? > > Is there a command that allows me to "glue" to text files together line > by line ? more or like the inverse operation of 'cut' ... a vertical Something like "paste" ? babilen@

Re: Howto upgrade perl without removing everything

2011-11-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 15:03 +, Richard wrote: > Hi, > Playing dangerously with Sid, and I've reached the limit of what it will > upgrade to > without some help. > Nearly everything has a dependency on perl, the perl version has change, so > how do just upgrade the > perl base. > I can't see

Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:18 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > I have noticed that my own post to the list has been detected as spam at the > gmail. > Any way to avoid this ? It is because gmail does not send you your own messages. That is no problem though and easily solved: 1. Create a filter for

Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?

2011-11-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 10:56 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > I could be wrong :-), seems lkike the DM site upgrades versions quicker. I know nothing about Marillat's packages, but you have to update flashplugin-nonfree manually by running: update-flashplugin-nonfree --install The package itself

Re: wheezy konqueror - cannot download Adobe Flashplayer

2011-11-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 23:21 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Konqueror displays the following when I try to download Ubuntu APT version > --/cfusion/downloadcenter/flashplayer/otherversions/[object > HTMLAnchorElement]/ I am not quite sure why you want to install the flash plugin from Ubuntu be

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 22:47 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the > 'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it > actually serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation? You might be interested in: http

Re: [OT] Imperial measures

2011-10-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 15:25 -0400, Doug wrote: > The US pint is 16 ounces, and the US quart and gallon are based on that. > 32 oz. = 1 qt; 4 qts. = 1 gal. > That's why the British gallon is 5 US quarts, or 4 British quarts. > The ounce is the same size, or almost. (As wiki says, research is need

Re: wheezy after update significant slow

2011-10-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 20:47 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2011 schrieb Wolodja Wentland: > > On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:23 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > > 7. I reverted to xserver-xorg version before the last one, but although > > > it was

Re: wheezy after update significant slow

2011-10-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:23 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > 7. I reverted to xserver-xorg version before the last one, but although it > was > a little bit better, it was not good as expected. Reverted from to which version? Which driver (exactly) are you using? How is it installed? Please al

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hello Sthu, On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:16 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >Is it actually slower? What is the output of: > > Yes. Extremely slowly. > > >$ glxinfo | grep -e 'direct\|renderer' > > direct rendering: Yes > OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS480 That is the output I was ho

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 14:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: > > >> I have slow 3D rendering on ATI card after full upgrading to wheezy. > >> > >> Is there any strategy how I can investigate the bottle neck so that I > >> might file a bug report against it? >

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 21:32 +0800, lina wrote: > No primary partitions are marked bootable. DOS MBR cannot boot this. > reboot to updateToggle bootable flag of the current partitione(8), kpartx(8) > or > > if I just choose WRITE, it showed me above information in cfdisk interface. Don't wor

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 01:20 +1000, yudi v wrote: > Thanks for clarifying that. > One final question. What happens to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? It still > exits. Just delete or move it somewhere else. It is not needed anymore if all other devices are configured correctly when it is missing. --

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 20:46 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:14 +0800, lina wrote: > >> > > >> > Could you give us the output of > >> > > >> >    # fd

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:14 +0800, lina wrote: > > > > Could you give us the output of > > > >    # fdisk -l /dev/sda Sorry, I meant "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
> > On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:13:58 +0800, lina wrote: > It's surprisingly cool, when I tried to mount it on another computer > which is sid one, > > it works, I can copy and paste and also no problems create new folder. > > and the mount information is different: > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/FreeAgent

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 18:33 +0800, lina wrote: > > Run "mount" and put here the result. > /dev/sdb1 on /media/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive type ntfs > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,uhelper=udisks) Ok, you have a drive with at least one partition (/dev/sdb1) and a NTFS file s

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:04 +1000, yudi v wrote: > This is where the wiki gets confusing. It says I need to Install the NVIDIA X > driver and user-space libraries - step 3. > > I believe I read somewhere that the nvidia-kernel-dkms also installs the > driver > and user space libraries. > > Is

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 23:50 +1000, yudi v wrote: > I am trying to understand the difference between the following two methods > > First method > this taken from irc dpkg bot > "aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` > nvidia-kernel-dkms && mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.con

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to SID

2011-08-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:53 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > I want to upgrade my desktop Debian Squeeze to Debian SID. > > I'm serching for howto how can I achieve my goal on debian website > but without any success. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ > doesn't provide me with any information a

Re: Installing firmware not available in the kernel

2011-08-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 14:25 +1000, yudi v wrote: > I plan to install nvidia's driver and I had a problem before where every time > after a kernel update (this was under Ubuntu), nvidia driver would break. I > don't want to be in the same situation again. > > Once I setup the system I don't want

Re: which is the best alterative package for kbibtex

2011-08-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 21:58 +0800, lina wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Johann Spies wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 04:02:25PM +0200, lina wrote: > > > >> before I used kbibtex, but this time when I tried to install it, seems > >> lots of KDE staff, I use gnome desktop mainly? > >>

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-09 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 19:56 -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote: > 1. unetbootin is still broken (unable to make *any* image work on flashdrive) Yes, unetbootin is and has been broken. Why don't you follow the method outlined in the installation guide? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 21:12 +0800, lina wrote: > I noticed when make -j 8, the 8 cores can be fully occupied. > > can I use some way to enable 8 cores at the same time when I run > something, such as a bash script? Not sure what you really want to do, but GNU/parallel [0] might be of interest.

Re: I can't

2011-08-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:08 -0500, Kevin Williams wrote: > I can't go into single user mode. Do I need to reinstall Please try the method pointed out to you earlier. I would also kindly ask you to reply to a single thread and do not open a new one for every reply you send. It makes it unnecessar

Re: how to add debian repository to mac source.list

2011-07-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi Lina, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 18:50 +0800, lina wrote: > I tried simply added the debian repository into fink's sources.list, > seems not work. > ## Debian Main Repos > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable mai

Re: broken dpkg status

2011-07-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
| xargs aptitude --schedule-only reinstall; aptitude install;; Unfortunately that also means that the information about automatically/manually installed packages is lost. There are certainlt other ways, but I like this one. I will think about how you could get the manually/automatically instal

Re: console screen

2011-07-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:06 -0400, Tom H wrote: > "info grub" lists these variables in one of its sections (there's a > way of going straight to that section but I don't know it). $ info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration' -- .''`. Wolodja We

Re: get package name from file name

2011-07-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 13:39 +0100, kuLa wrote: > On 07/07/11 13:17, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > As always there are multiple to do this :) > > > > * dpkg -S /path/to/file > > * apt-file search /path/to/file > > * dlocate -S /path/to/file > >

Re: get package name from file name

2011-07-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
h you can search for: $ apt-file search -x "bin/foo$" which will find all files named "foo" that are in a bin/ directory somewhere. In particular this will not match "bin/foobar". dlocate on the other hand is a bit faster than "dpkg -S" and has other go

Re: Adobe flash sound issues

2011-06-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 21:25 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:50:13 +0100 > Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > >$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/iceweasel > >$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/chromium > >

Re: No input devices in wheezy

2011-06-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ot;wheezy" and "aptitude -t sid" them. FWIW - I recommend the first approach. If you have further question either come back here, or join #debian-next on irc.oftc.net. Good luck -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC

Re: Adobe flash sound issues

2011-06-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
nformed about this is you have apt-listchanges installed. If you don't install it and apt-listbugs with it. :) I recommend reading the bug report on RedHat's bugtracker, it is worth your time if you want to understand what is going on here. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlan

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:00 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > To see what was delivered:- > cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.list | less Much easier to just use (IMHO): dpkg -L PKG_NAME or (if installed): dlocate -L PKG_NAME -- .''`.

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
you are interested in pursuing this approach I would recommend to read [1] or to pop into #debian-next on irc.oftc.net to discuss your needs. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg01325.html [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
x27;t allow you to choose a different session. You are looking for the Gnome session, not the unity one. [0] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/ https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users -- .''`. Wolodja W

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
a new bug report if there is no applicable one already. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:24 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > > > (there were various l

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
stions? A list of the packages that were upgraded would help tremendously, but my gut feeling says udev. There were a couple of RC bugs against udev 169 (check the BTS) so it would be interesting to know which version you have installed. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :'

Re: How to get apt source code via VCS?

2011-05-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ntrol file) > then they are displayed here. If not, you could try checking the > copyright file and/or the homepage of the software project in question, > if available. … and you can easily checkout the code with "debcheckout PACKAGE" -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland

Re: xorg "freezes/sticks" under kernel 2.6.38

2011-05-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
od idea to follow the instructions on: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/XserverDebugging Good luck and happy hunting! -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: I am not receiving my discussion mail.

2011-05-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
nd to spam" action. --- [0] http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=737a9de8dc7f8cb7 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

#debian-next - channel for testing/unstable discussions

2011-05-09 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Wolodja (a.k.a. babilen) [1] http://bit.ly/8Xb0Lg [2] http://bit.ly/kT6hpV -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
You will still have to send a bunch of confirmation back and forth. I hope this helps and you will succeed in changing your email address. [1] http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe [2] http://www.infodrom.org/projects/majorsm

Re: Suggestions for bayesian network software

2011-04-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
y you might want to tell us which programming language(s) you are planning to use. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ms to me as if the init script of udev is buggy in that it does not fall back to /dev if /run is not writable. What would be, in your opinion, to be the best way to deal with it? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
See #620995, #620191, #621036 and [0] for details. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg00353.html -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: My posts to list not echoed

2011-04-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
age, presumably on the logic that you know what you said - > but you do not then know whether your post ever reached the list. It is > presumably meant to be a "feature", but I find it very annoying. You might try the solutions in the last comment: http://www.google.co

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
nf.d # echo -e 'Section "Device"\n\tIdentifier "My GPU"\n\tDriver "nvidia"\nEndSection' > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf 6. Restart the system Hope that works out for you. Have fun! -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ons? That would be "aptitude keep-all", see the description in the manpage: Cancels all scheduled actions on all packages; any packages whose sticky state indicates an installation, removal, or upgrade will have this sticky state cleared. Have fun -- .''

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
tion just ask about it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619019 Looks as if downgrading the kernel (as you did) is a workaround for the time being. You do have an intel card, don't you? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Aptitude safe-upgrade..........

2011-03-18 Thread Wolodja Wentland
929; closed: 16283; defer: 97; conflict: 8 You almost certainly want to run "aptitude full-upgrade" in this case, in order to allow the removal of packages that is needed in this case to come up with a solution. Please read "man aptitude" to learn about the differences of s

Re: Help needed

2011-03-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
tp://backuppc.sourceforge.net http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/BackupPC [3] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found SOLVED

2011-02-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 16:40 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 15:17 +0000, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:37 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: > > Which version of libc-bin do you have installed (dpkg -l libc-bin). If you > > have 2.11.2-12 yo

Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ht have run into [0], but you probably would have mentioned the other symptoms that accompany that bug as well. As always: It is a good idea to have apt-listbugs installed. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23615806#10 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :'

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
the module will be compiled whenever you install a new kernel. I can understand that you find the wiki page a bit confusing, but hope that you can follow my instructions. This is the procedure we typically recommend in #d these days. Have a nice day [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipe

Re: bug in the install

2011-02-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
/ch06s04.html.en http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
bit.ly/2LWxkr (ibm.com) http://bit.ly/eI1Smo (ibm.com) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
R-62733.html [1] http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-62741 http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-50278.html -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F

Re: help

2011-01-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 17:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:33:45 +0000, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > Isn't the lenny version 32bit only? IIRC you have to install the Ubuntu > > 64bit versions and a couple of ia32-* packages. (ia32-libs, > > ia32-libs-gt

Re: help

2011-01-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
x/post-download/ > > Not a "repo" but a "deb" file and tagged for "lenny". Isn't the lenny version 32bit only? IIRC you have to install the Ubuntu 64bit versions and a couple of ia32-* packages. (ia32-libs, ia32-libs-gtk) to get skype working on amd64.

Re: editing /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-01-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
t is *very* easy to recreate it either from backups or with the commands I told you. Be that as it may, good that you solved your problem. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 C

Re: editing /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-01-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
e is mostly useless if you don't use dselect but an APT-based frontend: APT has its own system to keep track of available packages. OR (alternatively) 1. rm /var/lib/dpkg/available 2. dselect update Hope that solves your problem. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-01-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
.0 over instead. Does that solve your problem? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: Lenny or Squeeze?

2011-01-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
devel/debian-installer/ [2] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Ed

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ounce/2011/01/msg3.html [1] http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ [2] http://live.debian.net/ [3] http://grml.org/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description:

Re: transition from Ubuntu -> Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
come and may you enjoy your stay! Further information on Debian can be found in the Debian Reference [3]. [1] See http://www.debian.org/releases/ for a short overview of "stable", "testing" and "unstable" [2] http://pkg-dkms.alioth.deb

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Wolodja Wentland
een upgraded and how many are still in some kind of limbo. Once we are sure that you have indeed upgraded your complete system to sid (why sid anyway?) we can start working on your performance problems. Best [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes -- .''`. Wolodja We

Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

2010-12-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:34 -0800, S Mathias wrote: > I just can't google for it: > I'm searching for a "bash" "one liner" (awk, perl, or anything) for this: > there are text files, in several directories: […] How do you define a

Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

2010-12-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
; before you had your coffee. I would therefore *strongly* recommend to use the actual names in your sources.list and upgrade once you are ready and have read the release notes. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: Can't find latex

2010-12-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ion you should be able to install LaTeX with the following command: # aptitude install texlive-latex-base Note that there are a bunch of frontends for Debian's packaging system, most notably synaptic and aptitude-gtk (not in Lenny). -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :'

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 13:08 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:51 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > by US native speakers of English. I was taught that "it" refers to > > the most recent prior noun. > ii. Takeshi parked his car in the ga

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
hen written in English, should avoid > the use of pronouns, as is suggested above. I do not think that the quoted sentence is ambiguous and would rather consider it to be a fine example of a very concise and elegant statement. YMMV :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :'

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
your objectives in more detail. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered

Re: lotsa udev warnings after lenny->squeeze upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread Wolodja Wentland
the specific errors. Have fun -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, register

Re: Search application for desktop in Squeeze?

2010-11-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
/tracker/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

2010-11-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
mand? > > > No magical command this time... but GUI :-P > Dont know if these commands are magic but they work quite good. ;) […] > Shows only the installed one: > $ aptitude search ~Omultimedia |grep ^i Or combined: $ aptitude search ~i~Omultimedia Have fun -- .''`

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
imate it convenient. Exactly. Given that we do not know what causes this bug, we have no way to assign it to the correct package. I would therefore file a bug against the package that ships the program that exhibits the buggy behaviour. Kind Regards -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
to d-d - but rather by executing "reportbug passwd". Regards Wolodja ¹ There might be use cases though ?-) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc De

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
st to purge already removed packages: aptitude purge ~c will take care of that. Another good way to find unused packages is 'popcon-largest-unused' from the popularity-contest package. /me is removing some packages now :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :'

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
supported in wicd, but the aforementioned WPA2/TKIP with MSCHAPV2 is already offered as a choice in wicd. > At that point I gave up and said why learn it twice? The > wicd forums can probably give you a more definitive answer. You might want to try wicd again. :) -- .'&

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 22:48 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > It works perfectly with eduroam and Let me elaborate on the eduroam configuration. For eduroam you choose "PEAP with TKIP/MSCHAPV2 Identity: u...@host.tld Password: YourPassword You should also obtain the "G

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ng mode if you are not happy. It works perfectly with eduroam and provides a ncurses as well as a gtk gui. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Descriptio

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of

Re: 03:02.0 Unassigned class [ffff]: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI [1814:0301]

2010-08-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
oblems like this yourself in the future, or? Just go to [2] and/or [3] to gather information about specific devices. Have fun! [1] http://wiki.debian.org/rt61pci [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DeviceDatabase/PCI [3] http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ -- .''`.

Re: Anti virus and Firewall

2010-08-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

2010-08-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
.rules and verify that the rule for your card (check its MAC) is consistent with the naming scheme you want. You can easily edit that file or even remove it if you want to regenerate it from scratch. good luck Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'`

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
particular no need to mount them to /var/local. Your /etc/fstab would contain lines like: # /dev/sda1 / ext3? 0 1 /dev/sda2 /home ext4? 0 2 Good luck -- .''`. Wolo

Re: [aptitude] reinstall configuration files

2010-07-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:10 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files? IRC it will not replace those. Kind regards -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 0

Re: [aptitude] reinstall configuration files

2010-07-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ed configuration files will be installed again. Kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Old package for bluez?

2010-07-26 Thread Wolodja Wentland
snapshot.debian.org/binary/bluez/ have fun Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-26 Thread Wolodja Wentland
I am deeply grateful for everything Kenshi has done for the Debian community and don't think we have to delve any deeper into this. Kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-26 Thread Wolodja Wentland
hat I still will need probably, to have /boot at ext3 - the > thing I do not want, so I want to know a lot on this before I try to > have ext4 again. Using ext4 for /boot is discouraged but you can give it a try. Why do you need /boot to be ext4? Kind regards Wolodja -- .''`.

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-24 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ecurity team > supported? Why don't you just use the images provided by kmuto? They are exactly what you are looking for. I don't get your resistence ... so long Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `-

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-20 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Debian stable releases with up-to-date kernels provided by a Debian developer. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-20 Thread Wolodja Wentland
m http://www.backports.org as you will receive kernel updates then. kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 16:38 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Wolodja Wentland > wrote: > > Debian provides stable installers with newer kernels at: > > http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ > That's great ! Is this officially part of debian ?

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