Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-04-16 20:59:54) > On 16/04/2019 19:19, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > GTK > > * listaller > > * synaptic (but not in Buster) Synaptic seems targeted Buster again, since yesterday: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/synaptic - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & I

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/16/2019 12:36 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: On 4/16/19 10:32 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 06:27:34PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain this in the presentation as Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal) Gnome-

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-04-16 20:19:15) > Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-04-16 19:27:34) > > There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain this > > in the presentation as > > > > Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal) > > Gnome-packagekit - used for gnome desktop envir

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Hector (2019-04-17 03:55:44) > On 17/04/19 6:19 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > GTK > > * listaller > > * synaptic (but not in Buster) > > Just looked up listaller. > > It seems to be > * not in buster > * only on arm64? > * an installer for its own kind of packages, not de

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Richard Hector
On 17/04/19 6:19 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > GTK > * listaller > * synaptic (but not in Buster) Just looked up listaller. It seems to be * not in buster * only on arm64? * an installer for its own kind of packages, not debs. That's just from reading its page on packages.debian.org. Furt

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-04-16 21:00:04) > On Tuesday 16 April 2019 13:32:10 Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 06:27:34PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > > >There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain > > > this in the presentation as > > > > > >Apt - 1.8.0 -

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-04-16 20:59:54) > > > On 16/04/2019 19:19, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-04-16 19:27:34) > >> There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain this > >> in the presentation as > >> > >> Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:00:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: if you are damned carefull, I had it destroy 3 installs already, so badly I had to do a full reinstall. You have to really try, since it tells you what it's going to do before it does anything. But you have a history of odd problems

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 16 April 2019 13:32:10 Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 06:27:34PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > >There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain > > this in the presentation as > > > >Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal) > >Gnome-packagekit - used

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Paul Sutton
On 16/04/2019 19:19, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-04-16 19:27:34) >> There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain this >> in the presentation as >> >> Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal) >> Gnome-packagekit - used for gnome desktop environmen

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-04-16 19:27:34) > There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain this > in the presentation as > > Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal) > Gnome-packagekit - used for gnome desktop environment > Synaptic - 0.84.5 used for most other Desktop Envi

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:27:34 +0100 Paul Sutton wrote: Hello Paul, >I understand that KDE is going to be using Wayland too (Wayland >website), does this mean it will use synaptic or does KDE and use its Currently, I run Synaptic with KDE. No problems. There's also muon - a QT based package ins

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Matthew Crews
On 4/16/19 10:32 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 06:27:34PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: >> There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain this >> in the presentation as >> >> Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal) >> Gnome-packagekit - used for gnome deskt

Re: A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 06:27:34PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain this in the presentation as Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal) Gnome-packagekit - used for gnome desktop environment Synaptic - 0.84.5 used for most other Des

A few questions (buster and presentation)

2019-04-16 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi Just a few questions for clarity. There are 3 main ways to install packages,  I have tried to explain this in the presentation as Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal) Gnome-packagekit - used for gnome desktop environment Synaptic - 0.84.5 used for most other Desktop Environment(s) I

[Solved] Re: A few questions about cgroups in Debian 8 (Jessie)

2016-09-11 Thread mo
Hello Debian users :) I have googled a little bit and came to the conclusion that cgroups should be managed with systemd. (Thanks to Nicolas George for the systemd hint :^) ) For anyone who is interested here is a good guide from RedHat about resource management with cgroups and systemd: P

Re: A few questions about cgroups in Debian 8 (Jessie)

2016-09-11 Thread mo
I have found a Fedora guide to cgroups (I know this is Debian.. but i could really not find anything specific to Debian) They mention that there is a cgconfig service for systemd.. My problem is that i could not find a equivalent service for my Debian system. Listing all the units with "systemctl

Re: A few questions about cgroups in Debian 8 (Jessie)

2016-09-10 Thread mo
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, mo a écrit : Should i even attempt to manage cgroups this way? (Sorry, this must sound quite "noobish") Have you checked whether systemd can do the kind of control over users that you want to? I know it uses cgroups intensively, so perhaps it already has a n

Re: A few questions about cgroups in Debian 8 (Jessie)

2016-09-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, mo a écrit : > Should i even attempt to manage cgroups this way? (Sorry, this must sound > quite "noobish") Have you checked whether systemd can do the kind of control over users that you want to? I know it uses cgroups intensively, so perhaps it already has a

A few questions about cgroups in Debian 8 (Jessie)

2016-09-10 Thread mo
Hello fellow Debian users :) First off, some general information regarding my Debian install: $ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 (jessie) Release:8.5 Codename: jessie Now to my problems: I'm currently looking into cgroups. (Planning to use

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:55:25PM +0100, ??. wrote: > Quoth Depo Catcher: > > Say I want > > to apply all the security patches [or to get all updates] for my version, > > is there an easy way to do that? > > Debian stable is already very secure, the mainta

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Depo Catcher: > During install there is an option to install to encrypted disk which is > pretty sweet sounding. > How does that work, I'm assuming everything but /boot is encrypted? Does > it use GELI or something else? I'll go down that road soon, too. I'm still on unencrypted fs' but

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Depo Catcher wrote: I've played around with this a bit and considering switching over my workstation to Debian. Currently I use FreeBSD - but the Virtual Machine software I use (VMWare) it's supported as well as on Linux. Few questions I have: During install there is an option

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Sam Leon
Depo Catcher wrote: > > I've played around with this a bit and considering switching over my > workstation to Debian. > Currently I use FreeBSD - but the Virtual Machine software I use > (VMWare) it's supported as well as on Linux. > > Few questions I have: > &

Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-20 Thread Depo Catcher
I've played around with this a bit and considering switching over my workstation to Debian. Currently I use FreeBSD - but the Virtual Machine software I use (VMWare) it's supported as well as on Linux. Few questions I have: During install there is an option to install to encr

Re: A few questions

2007-05-20 Thread Kelly Harding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X It seems so. However, according to this page, the DL380 G2 does, in fact, have 2 USB ports on it. Are they only v1.1? http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10902_div/10902_div.html Yes 1.1 only Kelly

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/07 23:02, Kelly Harding wrote: >> >> > If the DL380G2 has an open PCI slot, then you could buy a Firewire >> > > card. But I'd bet that the DL380 requires cards with a >> > proprietary >> > > form factory that only Compaq/HP sells

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Kelly Harding
> If the DL380G2 has an open PCI slot, then you could buy a Firewire > > card. But I'd bet that the DL380 requires cards with a > proprietary > > form factory that only Compaq/HP sells. > > > > > > It has 3 open PCI 64bit PCI slots. Before buying a Firewire card I > want > > PCI or

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Kelly Harding
> > > > Second question is regarding adding USB2.0 /Firewire to the > machine to > > enable use of USB2.0/Firewire external drives, which would allow me to > > move drives easily between machines. Does anyone have any > recommendation > > for combined USB2.0/firewir

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/07 20:04, Kelly Harding wrote: > > > On 20/05/07, *Ron Johnson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > On 05/19/07 19:39, Kelly Harding wrote: > > > > > Anyway, I used to have my old HP LaserJet 6L on my

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:56:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > If the DL380G2 has an open PCI slot, then you could buy a Firewire > card. But I'd bet that the DL380 requires cards with a proprietary > form factory that only Compaq/HP sells. > Actually, we have a bunch of DL380G2 machines at wo

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Kelly Harding
On 20/05/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05/19/07 19:39, Kelly Harding wrote: > > Anyway, I used to have my old HP LaserJet 6L on my Beige G3 PowerMac > running OS X 10.2. Worked fine till I retired the machine due to being > too old, the machine that replaced it (733Mhz G4 Quick

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/07 19:39, Kelly Harding wrote: > Hi, > > Having now got Debian 'etch' installed and working nicely on my compaq > DL380G2 (4*36Gb using RAID5 on the intergrated SmartArray 5i works > flawlessly and fast), I now am thinking about some of the t

A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Kelly Harding
Hi, Having now got Debian 'etch' installed and working nicely on my compaq DL380G2 (4*36Gb using RAID5 on the intergrated SmartArray 5i works flawlessly and fast), I now am thinking about some of the tasks I need this machine to ideally perform. One of them is as a print server. Unfortuately the

Re: few questions about xorg 7.1

2006-09-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:58:36PM +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: > i've switched to opensource ati drivers as proprietary ones are broken > in sid (conflicts with xorg 7.1). whatever... > > but you didn't answer ? is aiglx now part of debian ? will there be a > compiz package soon ? > > I didn'

Re: few questions about xorg 7.1

2006-09-24 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
i've switched to opensource ati drivers as proprietary ones are broken in sid (conflicts with xorg 7.1). whatever... but you didn't answer ? is aiglx now part of debian ? will there be a compiz package soon ? I didn't find the answer to this question with google so I'm asking here. thanks --

Re: few questions about xorg 7.1

2006-09-22 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx AIGLX only supported open source ATI and Intel drivers + new Nvidia drivers 1.0-9* are supported В Чтв, 21/09/2006 в 23:33 +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex пишет: > Hi everyone ! > > I've noticed that Xorg 7.1 is now in sid. > > I'm using ATI's propriet

few questions about xorg 7.1

2006-09-22 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
Hi everyone ! I've noticed that Xorg 7.1 is now in sid. I'm using ATI's proprietary drivers with a Radeon 9250 and i'm wondering if updating is safe. Has anyone tried ? I've read on Wikipedia that AIGLX is part of Xorg since 7.1 Does this mean that hardware accelerated desktop is now part of

AUTOMOUNT and SMBFS: A few questions

2005-10-17 Thread Brian
Hi, I had automount with SMBFS working with Suse, now I have installed Sarge and cannnot get it to work. In /etc/auto.master #/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60 /smb/etc/auto.smb -v -d #/misc /etc/auto.misc #/net /etc/auto.net In /etc/auto.smb (all on one line): test -fstype=smbfs

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Chris Lale
Steve Block wrote: Chris Lale wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made i

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Chris Lale
Steve Block wrote: Chris Lale wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made i

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:48 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:33:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wro

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:33:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Ru

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 16:17 -0600, Steve Block wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > > >> > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > >> > so don't c

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread gl34
> It depends, and this question demands another. What did you install, > Knoppix or Debian? ARRGH! I'm lost in a novel by Kafka! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Block
Chris Lale wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made it into sarge. I h

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Please use reply-to-mailing-list, not reply, when making an on-topic response to a list message. On Wednesday 08 December 2004 1:31 pm, you wrote: > > > That doesn't negate the fact that Knoppix isn't Debian. > > ok, but when the OS ignores changes to inittab and XF86Config is that > knoppix

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread gl34
> That doesn't negate the fact that Knoppix isn't Debian. It's based on ok, but when the OS ignores changes to inittab and XF86Config is that knoppix or debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Chris Lale
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, >> so don't care that much about Sarge. >> > I think about 4 days back it made it into sarge. I hav

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made it into sarge. I have it on my system. $ apt-cache policy gnome-session gnome-se

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:42 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > >>> > On Tue, Dec 07,

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: [snip] Hi Rich, I have met a few of the ubuntu D

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: [snip] > Hi Rich, > I have met a few of the ubuntu Devel

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The f

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > > > (IMHO) of main is that these are pac

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > > (IMHO) of main is that these are packages put together by individuals > > who have undergone a peer review

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > (IMHO) of main is that these are packages put together by individuals > who have undergone a peer review process before getting commit rights to > main. Knoppix, ubun

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Knoppix is not Debian - > > depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen has the > debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed > > searches for knoppix return with many references to de

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 4:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Knoppix is not Debian - > > depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen > has the debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed > searches for knoppix return with many references t

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread gl34
> > Knoppix is not Debian - depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen has the debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed searches for knoppix return with many references to debian near the top of search results for knoppix + list I find [EMAIL PR

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I migrated from slack8 to debian? via a knoppix3.4 livecd which I > installed on a K6 500 box. Knoppix is not Debian - it is a LiveCD that is a mixture of Stable, Testing, and Unstable that does not correspond to any actual Debian version. If you want an actual version

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where are the drivers? the c files? I looked everywhere. Found lots of > h files, no c's. On the CD there's a big knoppix file. Are the files > I'm looking for in there? How do I access them? Knoppix is not Debian. You'll probab

new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread gl34
Hi all, I migrated from slack8 to debian? via a knoppix3.4 livecd which I installed on a K6 500 box. I apologize if these seem obvious to you. Where are the drivers? the c files? I looked everywhere. Found lots of h files, no c's. On the CD there's a big knoppix file. Are the files I'm lookin

Re: Few Questions...

2004-01-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
* Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-29 12:10:54]: > Hello Debian User, > > Q1: > I am using GNOME and Debian woody updated from unstable distro. When I > right click on the date and time (displayed at the right-top of the > GNOME) I got error: > > "Failed to locate a program for conf

Re: Few Questions...

2004-01-29 Thread Katipo
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:53:16 -0700 Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"Failed to locate a program for configuring the date > >and time. Perhaps none is installed?" > > > >What kind of program should I install? > > Maybe ntp-simple would do it. > Try tzconfig. Regards, David. -- To

Re: Few Questions...

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Miller
>"Failed to locate a program for configuring the date >and time. Perhaps none is installed?" > >What kind of program should I install? Maybe ntp-simple would do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Few Questions...

2004-01-29 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hello Debian User, Q1: I am using GNOME and Debian woody updated from unstable distro. When I right click on the date and time (displayed at the right-top of the GNOME) I got error: "Failed to locate a program for configuring the date and time. Perhaps none is installed?" What kind of program sh

Re: Linux logical volume manager - a few questions

2003-08-12 Thread Corey Ralph
Hi Neal, On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Neal Lippman wrote: 1) Which lvm package to install? There are two obvious choices, lvm10 and lvm2. While lvm2 is the new rewrite, which is supposedly "stable", it apparently lacks some features and according to the debian.org description of the pa

Linux logical volume manager - a few questions

2003-08-02 Thread Neal Lippman
I am looking at installing the lvm layer on my file server, which is presently running woody. I have two 80GB hd's, one of which presently stores my /home partition (exported via both nfs and samba to the other systems on my home lan), and another which I just installed. (Actually, there's a third

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-20 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > 2.) How do I find out what resolution mode X is running in (i.e. 640x480, > 800x600, etc.)? xwininfo, and then click on the root window (the desktop, that is). > 3.) How do find out where programs are installed? > I ran "dpkg

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-18 13:35:05 -0400]: > -- Wathen, Metherion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 18 October 2002, 10:23 AM -0500): > > 2.) How do I find out what resolution mode X is running in (i.e. 640x480, > > 800x600, etc.)? > I'm sure there are other way

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hello all, > I have a few of config questions: > > 1.) How do I fix the problem of program windows that are too big for my > screen? > Whenever I open gmc, windowmaker control panel, or any other app the window > is huge,I mean

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-19 Thread ben
On Saturday 19 October 2002 03:35 am, Rupert wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:34:15 -0500 > > "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, I really appreciate for your help. > > I have limited space on my harddrive is there a way to see how much space > > a package is going to take bef

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-19 Thread Rupert
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:34:15 -0500 "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I really appreciate for your help. > I have limited space on my harddrive is there a way to see how much space a > package is going to take before installing it? > If you use aptitude (I'd recommend it) t

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
1.) How do I fix the problem of program windows that are too big for my screen? Whenever I open gmc, windowmaker control panel, or any other app the window is huge,I mean like off the screen big; using the resize command I can only make the windows wider or bigger not smaller. hold alt key. righ

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Wathen, Metherion wrote: Thanks, I really appreciate for your help. I have limited space on my harddrive is there a way to see how much space a package is going to take before installing it? Thanks again. mw. man dpkg i do not remember the exact options -sandip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread 'Matthew Weier O'Phinney'
-- Wathen, Metherion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 18 October 2002, 02:34 PM -0500): > Thanks, I really appreciate for your help. > I have limited space on my harddrive is there a way to see how much space a > package is going to take before installing it? apt-cache show shows all package

RE: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Thanks, I really appreciate for your help. I have limited space on my harddrive is there a way to see how much space a package is going to take before installing it? Thanks again. mw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Wathen, Metherion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 18 October 2002, 10:23 AM -0500): > 2.) How do I find out what resolution mode X is running in (i.e. 640x480, > 800x600, etc.)? I'm sure there are other ways, but if you look in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, you'll see an area towards the

A few questions about settings

2002-10-18 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hello all, I have a few of config questions: 1.) How do I fix the problem of program windows that are too big for my screen? Whenever I open gmc, windowmaker control panel, or any other app the window is huge,I mean like off the screen big; using the resize command I can only make the windows wid

Re: just a few questions!

2002-03-08 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Greg Murphy wrote: > Hello, > > I've got just a few questions that maybe someone can help me out with. Thanks > for any help. > > 1. What's the command line option to record mp3's (on my hard drive) to cds > (that can be played in

just a few questions!

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Murphy
Hello, I've got just a few questions that maybe someone can help me out with. Thanks for any help. 1. What's the command line option to record mp3's (on my hard drive) to cds (that can be played in cd players) using mkisofs, cdrecord, mpg123, etc? I have tried a couple fronten

Re: Few Questions From a New Debian User

2002-02-20 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi, > 1. What is the user base targeted? Is it simply geared towards the > home-user looking for a free OS? Or is it geared more towards the > power-user? Definately more power user oriented. While my opinion may not be popular on here, I would probably recommend going with Mandrake Linux 8.1

Re: Few Questions From a New Debian User

2002-02-20 Thread jeff
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:18 am, Francis Pineda wrote: > Greetings Debian Community! > > I am currently a computer networking student researching > different flavours of Unix/Linux. From the advice of my > instructor, I have shosen to research Debian. He says > it's, "Really Cool" I find

Few Questions From a New Debian User

2002-02-19 Thread Francis Pineda
Greetings Debian Community!   I am currently a computer networking student researching different flavours of Unix/Linux.  From the advice of my instructor, I have shosen to research Debian.  He says it's, "Really Cool"  I find it very appealing and hope to install it as soon as my system is

Re: Exim and its periodic calls to internet - A few questions

2001-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:49 am, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I usually use kmail for my e-mail, but I have exim installed too. I mean to > learn about it some day. I'm getting some puzzling internet connections > that appear to be initiated by exim, bu

Re: Exim and its periodic calls to internet - A few questions

2001-12-11 Thread Randy Orrison
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:49, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I usually use kmail for my e-mail, but I have exim installed too. I mean to > learn about it some day. > I'm getting some puzzling internet connections that appear to be initiated by > exim, but I can't see where it's doing it. > The syslog sho

Exim and its periodic calls to internet - A few questions

2001-12-11 Thread Dougie Nisbet
I usually use kmail for my e-mail, but I have exim installed too. I mean to learn about it some day. I'm getting some puzzling internet connections that appear to be initiated by exim, but I can't see where it's doing it. The syslog shows: >Dec 11 10:23:01 tbird2 /USR/SBIN/CRON[29960]: (mail) C

Re: few questions about .deb

2001-04-03 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth M G Berberich, > Hello, > > I have a few questions about Debian-packages: > > - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe` less filenam

Re: few questions about .deb

2001-04-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hello, > > I have a few questions about Debian-packages: > > - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) > More then one. For example: dpkg-deb -c &

Re: few questions about .deb

2001-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
M G Berberich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) Yes, 'dpkg -c foo.deb' (--contents). 'dpkg -I foo.deb' (--info) shows you some other information about the package.

few questions about .deb

2001-04-02 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, I have a few questions about Debian-packages: - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) - If I build a debian-package for a program that needs p.e. /var/log/ppplog. Should '

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
Dwayne C . Litzenberger said: > LYE-nucks is totally unfounded (you just don't > pronounce his name that way). Don't know where you're from, but, yes, in the US, "Linus" _is_ normally pronounced "line-us". True, it's not the way Mr. Torvalds is likely to say his name, but it's no more incorrect t

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> Rotten >4. How is "Linux" pronounced: "lih-nucks" or "lie-nucks"? > > lih-nucks i think is the 'real' way but i always say LIE NUCKS. some hate > me for it..but i dont care :) > > nate "Linux" is based on "Minix", and Linus' name (which is not pronounced LIE-nus, but the finnish LEE-noos). Yo

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
Tom Gray said: > 4. How is "Linux" pronounced: "lih-nucks" or "lie-nucks"? Linus's name is pronounced (in Finnish) "lih-nus", so the 'offical' pronunciation is "lih-nux". However, he has said that, since his name is pronounced "lye-nus" in English, it is appropriate for English-speakers to pronou

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Tom Gray wrote: Rotten >I have a few questions about installing Debian Linux 2.0 (NOTE: I am using the Debian CD, and am currently running Windoze 98): Rotten > Rotten >1. When I run the boot.bat file it always says that I don't have enough memory available. I

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
> Tom Gray wrote: > > 3. Should I defragment my hard drive? If your Windows C: is using the whole drive and you want to break it up to let Linux use some, then yes. > 4. How is "Linux" pronounced: "lih-nucks" or "lie-nucks"? Why not listen to Linus himself say it? ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/

A few questions.

1999-11-04 Thread Tom Gray
I have a few questions about installing Debian Linux 2.0 (NOTE: I am using the Debian CD, and am currently running Windoze 98):   1. When I run the boot.bat file it always says that I don't have enough memory available. I find this odd, considering that I have 256MB of RAM.   2. I

Re: gnome panel... a few questions

1999-09-10 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I have the panel starting in my windowmaker environment via > (GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart) panel &. > I also load the gen_util_applet and gmc the same way. > > Question 1) Very often when I load windowmaker it says there is already > a panel

gnome panel... a few questions

1999-09-09 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have the panel starting in my windowmaker environment via (GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart) panel &. I also load the gen_util_applet and gmc the same way. Question 1) Very often when I load windowmaker it says there is already a panel running, and do I want to continue. I can see that the

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