Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:00:45PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Sunday 29 April 2007 16:19, somethin2cool wrote:
even though i'm not running anything.
in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc
dependencies.
in
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
search). One of these is the ability to
Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote:
On 29/04/07, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
even though i'm not running anything.
[snip]
This is a paste from my laptop, running with a good 2gb of RAM
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt$ free -m
total used free shared
Joe Hart wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
Use KDE. Right click on somewhere on the desktop, choose new, choose
link. Hmm, sounds like windows to me, except they call it a shortcut.
Actua
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
Use KDE. Right click on somewhere on the desktop, choose new, choose
link. Hmm, sounds like windows to me, except they call it a shortcut.
Actually, the windows "shortcut" is *not* a symlink. It is something
Andreas Janssen wrote:
somethin2cool (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
even though i'm not running anything.
in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc
dependencies.
in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally
minimal system i believe the
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Sunday 29 April 2007 16:19, somethin2cool wrote:
even though i'm not running anything.
in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc dependencies.
in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally minimal
system i believe
even though i'm not running anything.
in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc dependencies.
in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally minimal
system i believe the later.
however, even if i was to open every gui ap, it shouldn't use that much.
what
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Try
apt-get sources list debian format
into google: first hit is APT Howto, second is the Debian tutorial, both
on www.debian.org or its mirrors.
Yeah, you cheated by finding the page then searching the key words you
saw on it to bring it up.
--
To UNSUBSC
Michael M. wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:13 +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
Amy Templeton wrote:
somethin2cool wrote:
Well, If I type "lynx" into I expect
it to launch lynx. ie, launch a terminal with command
lynx.
xterm -e lynx
Amy
Well, can't it just know that Lynx is in
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
What basic feature like search? Search what? Try apropos symlink. Or
just man symlink.
Good luck.
Doug.
The ability to search for files. I now have catfish. There were errors
when running make install, but it seems fine. more than fine infact:
brilliant.
Given that aptitude is awesome and that all the stuff I want is missing
from all the repositories, is there anyway for me to use .deb files and
dpkg in conjunction with aptitude. I'm sure they have the dependencies
listed inside them somewhere, and it would be brilliant. I'd settle for
apt of c
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:13:26PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
Well, can't it just know that Lynx is installed and run it in a
terminal? It can't run anywhere else, so one would think this would be
the default action. And it should be possible
How do y
*paste
cp -rf locale //usr/local/share
cp: cannot stat `locale': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
debian:/home/dave/Desktop/catfish-0.2.3#
google is littered with posts about how to fix install error 1. none of
them are answered. Still, at least I got past the dependencies.
not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has
it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in bin
ought to suffi
Joe Hart wrote:
I warn you again though, this is not a good idea. You'd be better off
downloading the tarball from the developers' web site and compiling it
that you would by trying to use apt to pull in a package from sarge.
The packages there are old, and have very different dependencies.
J
Joe Hart wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
somethin2cool wrote:
[snip]
It seems there are no perfect methods, but that apt works perfectly IF
you have all the repositories in there (although sucks at uninstalling).
Many many things I want are not in repositories for some
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
No, it isn't too obvious to bother writing anywhere: it may be obvious
to many that some users don't bother _READING_ anywhere.
Google is your friend, as is browsing the archives of the mailing list.
Hope this helps,
Andy
Andrew I'm sure you get a lot of threads
Amy Templeton wrote:
somethin2cool wrote:
Well, If I type "lynx" into I expect
it to launch lynx. ie, launch a terminal with command
lynx.
xterm -e lynx
Amy
Well, can't it just know that Lynx is installed and run it in a
terminal? It can't run anywhere else, so
Amy Templeton wrote:
This is true, but a bad attitude does come out in the
presentation of that thought. Comments like "Apparently this
is too obvious to bother writing anywhere" when complaining
about a lack of documentation aren't productive--if taken at
face value, this particular example is
I think the point might have got lost in there:
So can anyone tell me how to add a Sarge repo, and also the Etch one.
Yes they ought to be set up already but they aren't and the information
is not on any link in Google's first 5 pages. I have looked of debian
man, which tells me how to make on
Joe Hart wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
somethin2cool wrote:
Answer to this one: ntfs-3g. It works. But, never trust anything to
work with an undocumented file system. Frequent backups are a good idea.
Reformatting the ntfs drive is a better idea, but your Windows
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
similarly, if i type a command like "lynx" into my panel aplet, nothing
happens. I have to type it into terminal. so what is the point of the
aplet (xfce, default aplet).
Lynx is a text interface. Why would you _not_ need a terminal for it?
Doug.
Well, If
Joe Hart wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
somethin2cool wrote:
[snip]
Well things are going well now. I have ethernet internet (so i have to
sit by the router) and can install from DVD.
But lots of things are still a royal pain when it comes to installing.
It seems there
You can easily remove gdm: apt-get remove --purge gdm.
The function of a Desktop Manager is to log in graphically and start the
appropriate x session. If you don't like gdm, then perhaps xdm is more
to your liking, or you can just get rid of all desktop managers and boot
to a standard login
Answer to this one: ntfs-3g. It works. But, never trust anything to
work with an undocumented file system. Frequent backups are a good idea.
Reformatting the ntfs drive is a better idea, but your Windows might
complain ;)
Joe
Good advice, but a good tool to have around nonetheless.
You
it would be useful to be able to copy files onto ntfs external hds. (i
like reiser 4, but lets not get into alternatives)
I know about captive and have never got it to work. Fuse seems new, and
somehow related. I read a review which showed excellent stats, but it's
just a review.
now captive
what do people think? Any reasons to avoid it?
there seems to be little info available, and their website is badly
broken if you click a link. (all pages are the same).
It seems to be a backend? because it looks like OMS is the player. As
long as I can avoid mplayer and xine that's fine.
Th
this starts up as the last thing when I boot up. But why? I don't have
Gnome, and haven't had it at all on this installation. XFCE has its own
which I would like to use (it doesn't seem to do anything anyway)
instead as this is what my sys prefs refers to (and i'm trying to keep
everything XF
not the only case, but a good example. I installed the program. it has
menu shortcuts. they don't do anything. This happens a lot. Why oh why?
similarly, if i type a command like "lynx" into my panel aplet, nothing
happens. I have to type it into terminal. so what is the point of the
aplet (xf
Hey, I already replied to this.
Well,
debian:/home/dave# ifconfig
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I added the lines:
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-2
20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch
debian:/home/dave# thunar
Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: Did not receive a
reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a
reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply
timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
exit
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I find out the speed of my RAM, and the interface that it uses?
I figured there would be a terminal command along the lines of:
sysinfo -ram
try 'dmidecode'
Johannes
Thanks. Here is what I tried
dmidecode
bash: dmidecode: comm
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:14:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to save me doing a bunch of formats and re-installs, can someone
tell me off the top of their head what media player would have been the
default for AVIs if i installed Debian 4 binary 1 (gnome)
36 matches
Mail list logo
