lsof outputs nothing

2020-05-17 Thread aprekates
In Buster lsof wont report anything $ sudo  lsof lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse file system /run/user/1000/doc   Output information may be incomplete. $ sudo  lsof -e /run/user/1000/doc $ Alexandros

Shouldn't a window manager has xserver as dependency ?

2019-12-09 Thread aprekates
sudo apt-cache depends twm twm   Depends: menu   Depends: libc6   Depends: libice6   Depends: libsm6   Depends: libx11-6   Depends: libxext6   Depends: libxmu6   Depends: libxt6 $ sudo apt-cache show twm Provides: x-window-manager Description-en: Tab window manager  twm is a window mana

Re: Running sudo without being in sudo group.

2019-12-09 Thread aprekates
eshed my wiki creds. I'll try to use it. Just wasnt sure for that. Alexandros On 9/12/19 12:03 μ.μ., Ansgar wrote: aprekates writes: In https://wiki.debian.org/sudo it says: In order for a user to run sudo, the user must belong to group=sudo. But i see that adding a line in /etc/sudoers

Running sudo without being in sudo group.

2019-12-09 Thread aprekates
In https://wiki.debian.org/sudo it says: In order for a user to run sudo, the user must belong to group=sudo. But i see that adding a line in /etc/sudoers can allow me execute sudo without being in the sudo group. Do i miss sth or the wiki miss sth? Alexandros.

Trying to uninstall xfce4

2019-12-08 Thread aprekates
In a fresh debian10 installation with xfce4 when i try:   $ sudo apt-get remove xfce4 will present me with a maybe a hundred of packages that 'were automatically installed and no longer needed' and that i should remove if i want with 'apt autoremove'. And the only packages that would be remov

Re: arch prefix in packages names.

2019-11-18 Thread aprekates
: Hi. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:35:56PM +0200, aprekates wrote: Looking at dpkg -l output i noticed: ii  binutils   2.31.1-16    amd64    GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities ii  binutils-common:amd64  2.31.1-16  amd64    Common files for the GNU assembler, .. why dpkg

arch prefix in packages names.

2019-11-18 Thread aprekates
Looking at dpkg -l output i noticed: ii  binutils   2.31.1-16    amd64    GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities ii  binutils-common:amd64  2.31.1-16  amd64    Common files for the GNU assembler, .. why dpkg -l adds the :arch prefix in some package names and not in others? a

Re: Middle click functionality as paste in KDE

2019-10-12 Thread aprekates
19 04:09:37 +0300 aprekates wrote: Does anyone know how can i make middle click workas paste? This is usually defined at the graphic system level (X or Wayland), not KDE. For me, it has always worked "out of the box". Does your middle mouse button work otherwise? e.g. if you middle

Middle click functionality as paste in KDE

2019-10-11 Thread aprekates
mysystem : Debian 10 plasmashell 5.14.5 KDE Frameworks: 5.54.0 Does anyone know how can i make middle click workas paste? alexandros

I support the founder of FreeSoftware

2019-09-19 Thread aprekates
I want to express my support to Richard Stallman amidst a smear attack on his person, on his right to speak, but mostly to what he stands for . I stand by Richard Stallman because expressing our thougths is not a crime but a human right. I stand by Richard Stallman because i need an uncompromi

From Buster RC2 to Buster stable

2019-07-05 Thread aprekates
I've installed Buster RC2. Do i have to do sth (except apt-get update / upgrade) when the official Buster is released? And before that. Is there a notion of upgrading to RC3 ? Alexandros

Re: Debian Buster RC 2 wont start GUI on a Radeon HD 5750

2019-07-04 Thread aprekates
vious debian 9 install . Also i'd like to see some hardware statistics of the debian users. Alexandros. On 1/7/19 7:30 μ.μ., aprekates wrote: Is that sth that can be corrected , or is happening due to legal issues ? But in the installer there is the option to use non-free packages. So should

Buster RC2 , KDE , icons's untuitive interactions.

2019-07-01 Thread aprekates
KDE Plasma 5.14.5 I drag and drop a menu entry (e.g: firefox) on the desktop and i choose a copy to be made. I notice that the icon will have a (!) on it until i execute it first. ( why is the '!' needed?) So : $ cd Desktop $ ls -rw-r--r--  1 chomwitt chomwitt 5,0K Μαΐ   2  2018 org.kde.kcalc.d

Re: Debian Buster RC 2 wont start GUI on a Radeon HD 5750

2019-07-01 Thread aprekates
-nonfree I had a similar Problem last week. Best Regards, On 01.07.19 12:19, aprekates wrote: I used the installer with the firmware included. I had to search it for an hour and the package that was needed is: firmware-linux-nonfree Alexandros

Debian Buster RC 2 wont start GUI on a Radeon HD 5750

2019-07-01 Thread aprekates
I used the installer with the firmware included. I had to search it for an hour and the package that was needed is: firmware-linux-nonfree Alexandros

Re: Debian9.6 upgrades to Debian 10 byitself.

2019-06-29 Thread aprekates
In my main desktop box i've always upgraded to Debian stable. But i used to wait for a point release. Anyway since i made my system a mix .. i'll do it know to clear things up. I hope! On 30/6/19 2:26 π.μ., Matthew Crews wrote: ---- From: aprek

Re: Debian9.6 upgrades to Debian 10 byitself.

2019-06-29 Thread aprekates
h kde info reports: Plasma 5.8.6 and uname reports Linux 4.9.0-7 On 30/6/19 1:19 π.μ., Dan Ritter wrote: aprekates wrote: Having 9.6 i executed: $ apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade. And now /etc/sources/sources.list points to testing and $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor

Debian9.6 upgrades to Debian 10 byitself.

2019-06-29 Thread aprekates
Having 9.6 i executed: $ apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade. And now /etc/sources/sources.list points to testing and $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release:    10 Codename:   buster

Differences in the reported value of the Provides field in apt-cache

2019-05-31 Thread aprekates
I noticed the following difference in the reported 'Provides' value. $ sudo apt-cache show python3 Package: python3 Provides: python3-profiler $ sudo apt-cache showpkg python3 ... Provides: 3.5.3-1 - python3-profiler:i386 (= ) python3:any (= 3.5.3-1) python3-profiler (= ) python3-profiler:

amdgpu gpus support on debian 9

2019-05-12 Thread aprekates
How can i find what video cards are supported by package xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu (1.2.0-1)  in Debian Stretch? (i'm interested in RX470,RX570) The debian info is the same for all versions: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu 'This package provides the 'amdgpu' dri

Re: Emacs in GUI from two different users.

2019-05-06 Thread aprekates
That worked. Thanks. I'll try to make it permanent across session by putting the commands to bash profile files. On 6/5/19 4:54 μ.μ., An Liu wrote: Partly right, Debian 9.9 tested 'xhost' still works, while 'xauth' and 'ssh -X' fail foo> xhosts + goo> export DISPLAY=:0 emacs this could sta

Re: That command brake my pip3

2019-05-04 Thread aprekates
guy for the good explanation. - 1 for pip messing with deb -1 for deb assuming pip is dead :-) https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5221#issuecomment-382069604 On 4/5/19 10:32 μ.μ., aprekates wrote: debian 9.6 I've installed pip3 from $ sudo apt install python3-pip alexdev@enous:/var/w

That command brake my pip3

2019-05-04 Thread aprekates
debian 9.6 I've installed pip3 from $ sudo apt install python3-pip alexdev@enous:/var/www/virtpyapp-alx$ pip3 install pipenv Collecting pipenv   Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/13/b4/3ffa55f77161cff9a5220f162670f7c5eb00df52e00939e203f601b0f579/pipenv-2018.11.26-py3-none-any

Emacs in GUI from two different users.

2019-05-03 Thread aprekates
 hi. in debian 9 i start emacs as user foo from the terminal and the gui start up. i start emacs from the terminal as another user goo and the text version comes. Can both users have their own gui emacs sessions ? Alexandros

Re: Warning of packages that cant be authenticated during dist-upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread aprekates
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main deb http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de/deb-multimedia stable main On 30/4/19 10:17 μ.μ., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting aprekates (2019-04-30 21:09:16) Trying to upgrade from 9.6 i get: $ LANG=en sudo apt-get dist-upgrade WARNING: The

Warning of packages that cant be authenticated during dist-upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread aprekates
Trying to upgrade from 9.6 i get: $ LANG=en sudo apt-get dist-upgrade WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!   libbasicusageenvironment1 libgroupsock8 liblivemedia58 libusageenvironment3 libvlccore9 vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc vlc-plugin-qt vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-base vlc-data vlc-pl

Request for a Good Practice for webdev doc.

2019-04-28 Thread aprekates
Experimenting with wsgi and python webapp dev i came upon issues and roads to choose mainly regarding to installation , deployment and security related issues. sudo pip install ..   or  pip install is virtualenv secure or is just redicect trickery and not a real chroot enviroment ? Should i mak

Choosing an image for my cloud server,

2019-03-19 Thread aprekates
Probably little off topic. I have a cloud server , but my debian seems a cloned image and not a new installation. My provider doesnt provide a panel to choose an image at will to install. A choice that i had when i had a virtual server.. Is it standard for a cloud server provider to not giving

Re: Changing user while being root will leave you to the root homedir.

2019-03-19 Thread aprekates
Thanks. It worked. Although its still strange why debian 9.8 behaves differently when i execute su foouser as root. On 19/3/19 11:21 π.μ., Qiming Ye wrote: Have you tried: # su - chomwitt - Qiming On 2019-03-19 10:57+0200, aprekates wrote: In a new debian 9.8 installation i noticed that

Changing user while being root will leave you to the root homedir.

2019-03-19 Thread aprekates
In a new debian 9.8 installation i noticed that: root@s165:~# pwd /root root@s165:~# su chomwitt chomwitt@s165:/root$ ..and from there i cant even execute ls. $ man ls man: can't change directory to '/root': Permission denied man: command exited with status 255: sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N; /

Re: How can reportbug sends an email witthout an MTA installed ?

2018-12-25 Thread aprekates
Thanks! Your answer get straight to the ... source of things :-) I guess the python smptlib does the job in my case. On 25/12/18 2:36 μ.μ., Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, aprekates wrote: But reportbug can send emails to BTS . How does it do that ? In principle, i'd say by the SMTP int

How can reportbug sends an email witthout an MTA installed ?

2018-12-25 Thread aprekates
I dont find any email MTA in my system  , and dont recall ever using or configuring one. I use only thunderbird for my emails. But reportbug can send emails to BTS . How does it do that ? Alexandros

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

2018-12-24 Thread aprekates
Thanks. Thats also what the maintainer of dpkg answered me to my bug report. On 23/12/18 6:49 μ.μ., Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 22/12/2018 à 02:44, aprekates a écrit : Indeed some are virtual or pure virtual (although i dont know the diff) But also there are packages like 'ergo'

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

2018-12-22 Thread aprekates
2018 20:24, aprekates wrote: In a new installed system with Debian 9.6 $ dpkg -l will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'. But if i  run: $ dpkg -l w* i will get a dozen also of 'un' packages. So i dont understand the logic of altering the o

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

2018-12-21 Thread aprekates
any more. On 22/12/18 2:18 π.μ., Oliver Schoede wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 01:10:34 +0200 aprekates wrote: In my case both: $ dpkg -l w* and $ dpkg -l 'w*' will report the same list Hi! I'm getting the same sort of output and it seems to me these are packages, dpkg

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

2018-12-21 Thread aprekates
   (no description available) un  wordlist     (no description available) un  www-browser     (no description available) On 22/12/18 1:07 π.μ., Dan Ritter wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 21 de dezembro de 2018 20:24, aprek

Question on dpkg -l output.

2018-12-21 Thread aprekates
In a new installed system with Debian 9.6 $ dpkg -l will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'. But if i  run: $ dpkg -l w* i will get a dozen also of 'un' packages. So i dont understand the logic of altering the output when i use a pattern . I would expect to see only 'ii'

Trying to understand keymaps in virtual console.

2017-10-07 Thread aprekates
Trying to examine why i cant insert acute accent diacritic over greek vowels i come upon the console-common package. Trying to install it i get prompted: -Select keymap from arch-list // select one of the predefined keymaps specific for your architecture. // (recommended for non usb key

Re: request for a mono vote.

2009-07-26 Thread aprekates
O/H Gregory Seidman ??: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:06:31PM +0300, ?? wrote: As a dedicated debian user i want to express my concerns and worries regarding mono inclusion in main and i ask for a vote for mono in non-free/main because: 1) I feel like microsoft is not cle

Re: request for a mono vote.

2009-07-25 Thread aprekates
O/H Ron Johnson έγραψε: On 2009-07-25 12:06, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: As a dedicated debian user i want to express my concerns and worries regarding mono inclusion in main and i ask for a vote for mono in non-free/main because: 1) I feel like microsoft is not clear about the license issues

Re: request for a mono vote.

2009-07-25 Thread aprekates
O/H Michael Ekstrand έγραψε: Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: As a dedicated debian user i want to express my concerns and worries regarding mono inclusion in main and i ask for a vote for mono in non-free/main because: 1) I feel like microsoft is not clear about the license issues. 2) MS is a m