Hi,
Is www.debian.org down?
Ionel
Someone care to test (taste) ISO-8859-16 fonts? It was
finally accepted.
Have a look at
http://httpd.chello.nl/s.ciobica/romanian.text
Ionel Ciobîcă
For some time now I have some errors when I upgrade some
packages. The error message is like that:
| Preparing to replace dpkg 1.9.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.9.16_i386.deb) ...
| Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
| dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.16_i386.deb
(--unpack):
|
Hi all,
I want to make a .deb package. In order to to that I try simply
to see if I can remake an existing one. I took the hello package
and I did 'dpkg -i hello_1.3-16.deb test/'. Then I went in the
test directory and I did `dpkg-deb -b --nocheck . hello_1.3-16.deb'.
I used --nocheck because I le
On 14/08/2001, 08:27:29, Nantenaina Tianarivo Ulrich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Try the tricks at this URL:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html#s-sourcebuild
>
> It's a step by step on building a .deb package.
>
Thank you. It is not usefull in my case:
| You will need all of foo_*.dsc,
On 13/08/2001, 22:41:41, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Ionel Mugurel [iso-8859-2] Ciobîc? wrote:
>
> > Which kind of documentation I should read?
>
> This is not as hard as it probably looks. Before jumping in at the deep
> end, I suggest sitting down and reading through the New Main
#x27;t know for potato.
I run locale (GNU libc) 2.2.3. You did not mention
what do you have.
For a better understanding of the format of the file
you may want to search the net for ISO 14652 (don't have
a reference handy).
You may want to drop an e-mail to bug-glibc@gnu.org
or to [EMAIL P
I have a problem with the X server.
I have a new PC, with P IV on a Intel 850 chip set
with a PS2 mouse and keyboard.
I run Xfree 4.1.0.1-3 and kernel 2.4.10ac12.
My problem is that I can't use the mouse and sometime the
keyboard. The error is not reproducible. By simply restarting
X I can have
On 12-10-2001, at 08h 27'18", Kurt Lieber wrote:
> I had a similar problem -- check to make sure you aren't also running gpm
> (General Purpose Mouse interfaces) It doesn't always play nicely with X.
>
I know, it was the first think I checked. After that I looked at
IRQ. Everything seams fine.
Hi all, I downloaded the intel compiler form Intel and I want
to check it on my pentium IV computer. I run unstable with 2.4.10
kernel.
The tar file from Intel contain 5 rpm packages (for RH 6.2) and an install
script. I can't run the install script. I try to make .deb out of .rpm
using alien, but
Hi all,
I would like to know if someone has a HP PSC 500
printer/scanner/copier
(http://www.hp.com/cposupport/prodhome/hppsc500ps18676.html)?
I have seen on http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml
that this is supported by linux.
If someone has already such all-in-one product,
I would like t
Hi,
Is someone using xmms under woody?
I can't make it work. It say:
| e164179:~> xmms /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav
|
| Segmentation fault
|
| You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit
| http://www.xmms.org/bugs and fill out a bug report.
What ever is the file I give it, or also
În data de 13/09/2001, 16:26:30, Hereward Cooper a scris:
> > Is someone using xmms under woody?
> >
> > I can't make it work. It say:
> >
> > | e164179:~> xmms /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav
> > |
> > | Segmentation fault
> > |
> > | You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit
> > | h
On 24-06-2018, at 21h 17'25", Hans wrote about "Beowulf gone?"
> Hi folks,
>
> I am interested in clustering a server for educacation purposes, Asd far as
> I
> remembewr, there had bbeen some debian packages called "beowulf" or so,
>
> However, I may be wrong and saw them in SuSE-linux not i
On 26-08-2018, at 01h 08'57", Roberto C. Sánchez wrote about "Re: df -h shows
insufficient precision"
> > > Have you looked at the -k and -B options? Also, di has the -d option
> >
> > I assume you mean "du"?
> >
> No. I actually meant 'di':
>
That is useful! I already made an alias df to po
Hi,
I change my work place and I can have a Linux computer at work. The network
at work is with proxy, so after reading about it I was able to make apt
from the netinstall disk to talk with proxy. I have now a working Debian
stable running. The proxy settings were in fact a *.pac file, which I
dow
seems to
work also for apt.
Next step try to ssh out via proxy...
Kind regards,
Ionel
În mie., 12 sept. 2018 la 13:22, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <
i.m.ciob...@gmail.com> a scris:
> Hi,
>
> I change my work place and I can have a Linux computer at work. The
> network at work is wi
On 28-09-2018, at 17h 52'07", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: question about ls"
>
> Eww. Tab completion also gets screwed up by this:
>
> richard@zircon:~/test$ rm
> file isone this
>
> .. but you can't actually complete from any of those.
>
Hi,
I am not a bash user, but if I try wha
On 27-11-2018, at 13h 33'55", Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote about "issues with
stretch, part 1 of many"
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have many issues with stretch which I cannot figure it out. I will
> post one at the time, to keep it clear and simple.
>
> I
Dear all,
I have many issues with stretch which I cannot figure it out. I will
post one at the time, to keep it clear and simple.
I use Debian since 1997. I never had an issue with any release, except
stretch. I installed fresh using net install disk. The install went OK
(except I was forced t
Dear all,
I have issues with stretch, to many to count...
This one will focus on the window manager startup.
I did a fresh install of Debian stretch using net install disk.
I use Debian (and Linux) from 1997. In all this time I used fvwm2 as
windows manager. I also used Unix in 1995-1996 with fvw
On 27-11-2018, at 13h 33'55", Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote about "issues with
stretch, part 1 of many"
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have many issues with stretch which I cannot figure it out. I will
> post one at the time, to keep it clear and simple.
>
On 27-11-2018, at 13h 52'25", Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote about "issues with
stretch, issue 2 from many"
> Dear all,
>
> I have issues with stretch, to many to count...
> This one will focus on the window manager startup.
> [...]
> Question 2.1: Why .xsessi
On 30-11-2018, at 10h 25'17", Greg Wooledge wrote about "Re: issues with
stretch, issue 2 from many"
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:20:15PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> > @ Brian, here is my formal .xsession (currently .xsessionrc) file:
>
> I assume yo
On 8-12-2018, at 13h 59'28", Stefan Krusche wrote about "Re: issues with
stretch, part 1 of many"
> Good day, Ionel,
Hi Stefan,
>
> This is just a guess. Maybe you are looking for this option
> in /etc/ssh/ssh_config:
>
> # StrictHostKeyChecking ask
Mine is set to no. I did it way befor
On 27-11-2018, at 13h 52'25", Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote about "issues with
stretch, issue 2 from many"
> Dear all,
[...]
> Question 2.1: Why .xsession is not read and .xsessionrc is read?
> Question 2.2: Who starts the second call of fvwm? If I comment out the
>
On 30-11-2018, at 21h 22'48", Étienne Mollier wrote about "Re: issues with
stretch, part 1 of many"
>
> Good Day Ionel,
Salut Étienne,
>
> I haven't checked in Debian 8 how the thing behaves, but it
> sounds like a change of default value in a configuration option.
> More specifically, I have c
On 28-01-2019, at 06h 48'00", Richard Owlett wrote about "Re: Partition
information as text file?"
> On 01/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote:
> >On Sat 26 Jan 2019 at 15:10:55 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> >>On 01/26/2019 01:32 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> >>>Richard Owlett composed on 2019-01-2
Hi,
I just migrate my desktop from lenny to squeeze and after installing all
new packages and reboot the system hang at the boot process asking for
the root password because it can't find /dev/sdaX, where X=2,6,7,8,9.
All are valid partitions. root is /dev/sda5 and it is the only partition
mo
Stephen Powell wrote:
If you've been around that long, then why is it that you didn't know to
reply to the list instead of to me personally? Please post *and* reply
*only* to the list. You can CC someone if they ask for a CC, but always
include the list as one of your recipients.
As I said m
Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
I think I know what went wrong. I used an older net-install disk from
testing when lenny was not stable. I misslabeled the CD. My bad!
Sorry, that was about another problem I had. It was late when I wrote
the above message. While installing a new system
jeremy jozwik wrote:
im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read
power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page,
the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a
dpkg-reconfigure locales issue?
how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2?
Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
Hi,
I just migrate my desktop from lenny to squeeze and after installing all
new packages and reboot the system hang at the boot process asking for
the root password because it can't find /dev/sdaX, where X=2,6,7,8,9.
All are valid partitions. root is /dev
Thierry Chatelet wrote:
So, I guess you are better to switch now to UUID, it should solve your
problem, and give you a head on future changes.
Thierry
As I said in one of my previous posts, udev will not create
/dev/sdaX, nor their counterpart using names or uuid. So I
can't do that.
I still have this problem...
Renaming all dot-files in $HOME I can only login if I use icewm as window
manager. All the other will fail. With icewm I can run some programs, while
attempting to open others will log me out. Again, this is for all users.
Programs that will crash the window manager ar
g that come close to my situation.
I am out of ideas. Anyone?
Thank you for any hint.
Ionel
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Thank you, renaming .config doesn't change anything. The folder is not
even re-created. I was not aware of the existance of this .config
folder. There are not new files in there...
Ionel
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Hi all,
I performed a dist-upgrade from jessie to stretch on my desktop. It
did not went well. I manage to solve many problems except the texlive
issue. I finally remove anything tex related and try to slowly install
it back. I started with tex-common. That went well. Then with
texlive-base. That
Hi All,
After jesse -> stretch upgrade my DYMO label printer is using a
different font. Before I could fit 6 lines on a label, each line with
18 characters.
Now it fits only 5 and a half lines and 16.25 characters in a funny
way. The first 3.25 characters do not show up, only the following
ones.
On 14-07-2017, at 17h 22'40", Brian wrote about "Re: jesse->stretch for DYMO
label printer"
> On Fri 14 Jul 2017 at 16:26:30 +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
>
> > After jesse -> stretch upgrade my DYMO label printer is using a
> > different font.
On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a
PDF-Printer from the command line"
> >
> >How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line?
>
> Step 1. Make sure the text file is also a latex document.
> Step 2. Use latex.
Assuming step 1 is reached, step
On 9-01-2018, at 13h 06'44", Curt wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer
from the command line"
> On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote:
> > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "R
On 9-01-2018, at 07h 35'28", David Wright wrote about "Re: How to create a
PDF-Printer from the command line"
> On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 13:06:44 (+), Curt wrote:
> > On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote:
> > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> &g
On 10-01-2018, at 10h 46'43", to...@tuxteam.de wrote about "Re: How to create a
PDF-Printer from the command line"
>
> But for me, (La)TeX *are* text :-)
>
+1
Ionel
On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright wrote about "Re: Frustration over
Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)"
> [...] People use names, computers like numbers.
>
I do not take sides here, but I can't accept this statement. Numbers
are universal, Debian release names ar
On 13-01-2018, at 09h 07'58", bw wrote about "Re: Frustration over Debian
naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)"
> > On Friday, January 12, 2018 11:14:37 PM Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> > > On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright w
On 14-01-2018, at 09h 26'27", pe...@easthope.ca wrote about "IAX VoIP in Debian
9."
> Hello,
>
> Can VoIP be achieved using IAX in Debian 9? If so, can any notes
> about installation and configuration be recommended?
>
> Thanks, ... Peter E.
>
I do not know about IAX, but I
On 22-01-2018, at 18h 28'13", Greg Marks wrote about "PDF displayed incorrectly
by certain software"
> I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as
> gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others.
> [...]
> numerous "Missing or bad Type3 CharProc ent
On 23-01-2018, at 13h 55'49", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: PDF displayed
incorrectly by certain software"
> 3) the stderr out from (at least) okular and xpdf look like they might
> be useful to someone who understands the topic better, but do look like
> something is missing.
See attachments.
On 23-01-2018, at 11h 18'26", Michael Lange wrote about "Re: PDF displayed
incorrectly by certain software"
> Hi again,
>
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:03:24 +0100
> Michael Lange wrote:
>
> uh no, appears to be rather this bug in libpoppler:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=88
On 23-01-2018, at 10h 11'43", Curt wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly
by certain software"
>
> Same problem here with bank statements (recent bank statements unviewable in
> xpdf but viewable in evince).
>
> (Actually it appears the pdfs viewable in xpdf are 'PDF document, version 1.4'
>
On 8-02-2018, at 09h 10'56", Michael Fothergill wrote about "Re: I do not want
to install Linux"
> > > > In any case, "Thank you for reminding me of Kali. It may be a tool I
> > > > need."
> > >
> > > It sounds like a dietary supplement.
> >
> > I prefer to drink the estonian Kali.
> >
>
> It'
Anyone care to explain what exactly means the -g option of sort? The
fine manual only says "general numerical", but I doubt that is true,
because -g (and all other options I have tried, -n, -M, -h, -V) will
all put Roman numeral 9 in between 4 and 5. See here:
# echo "III\nII\nI\nV\nIV\nVII\nVI\n
On 18-02-2018, at 14h 44'27", David Wright wrote about "Re: sort (-g)
[offtopic]"
> Any script that reads stdin and writes stdout can be used in a pipe.
> That's one of the guiding principles of unix.
I change the scripts to use read if $# is zero. I could use them in
pipes now. But that is not h
On 19-02-2018, at 03h 23'27", Will Mengarini wrote about "Re: sort (-g)
[offtopic]"
> * Ionel Mugurel Ciobica [18-02/18=Su 16:55 +0100]:
> > [... How can something like
> > "III\nII\nI\nV\nIV\nVII\nVI\nVIII\nX\nIX"
> > [be sorted? ...]
>
> See `aptitude show msort`; it probably does what you ne
On 27-02-2018, at 08h 36'51", Greg Wooledge wrote about "Re: sort (-g)
[offtopic]"
> > Did I miss anything?
>
> Well, this program certainly is ... unusual. Doesn't just *work* by
> default. No examples in the man page. Anyway, it looks like you
> forgot to specify numeric comparison.
>
> woo
On 27-02-2018, at 07h 31'11", David Wright wrote about "Re: sort (-g)
[offtopic]"
> Yes, you need to read §3.4.2.8 over again:
> [...]
> IOW you should write a file containing
>
> I i
> II ii
> etc.
>
> and feed it to -s.
I can do that.
>
> > Besides, how this msort will work in a pipe, when
On 1-04-2018, at 16h 05'41", mess-mate wrote about "utf"
> Hi,
>
> howto change the system utf to eu character set ?
>
> regards
What is "eu character set"?
None of the Latin-x or iso8859-y can cover all the gliphs of all the
countries in Europe. So, without knowing what do you think is "eu
On 18-09-2017, at 20h 47'28", Pol Hallen wrote about "languages"
> Hello all :-)
>
> studying russian language I've some files with cyrillic file name: using
> caja (mate file manager) I see correct file name, but using the shell I see:
>
> ?? - ?? .txt
>
On 7-09-2017, at 10h 24'04", Mike Stroud wrote about "BOINC Screensaver"
> I've just installed the BOINC screensaver as well as the BOINC Manager using
> Synaptec, and I've upgraded them from the stretch-backports repo. I've got
> the BOINC Manager running SETI@home. I installed xscreensaver, and
On 18-10-2017, at 22h 17'14", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: removing of sddm
(debian 9 -kde5) to start in console mode then startx to start kde5"
> >
> > Did they simply throw every window manager under the bus and say "Nope,
> > sorry, you gotta run a desktop environment now"?
>
> Now I'm cur
>
> [ It might be clearer to write "Desktop Environment" (or DE) instead
> of "desktop manager" because of the latter's having the same initials
> as Display Manager (or DM). ]
You are right.
> That said, what are the advantages of running a DM in your case,
> compared with using startx? One big
On 1-11-2017, at 02h 01'08", Will Mengarini wrote about "Re: Another Devuan
annoyance: CLI default apps"
> * Ron OLGIATI [17-10/31=Tu 19:11 -0300]:
> >> [...] Devuan Jessie, I tried to use crontab [...]
> >> under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano [...]
>
> * deloptes [17-11/01=We 09:23
On 1-11-2017, at 12h 52'17", to...@tuxteam.de wrote about "Re: Another Devuan
annoyance: CLI default apps"
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 12:28:51PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > What is a "Devuan"?
>
> Devuan is a for
On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian
won't boot"
> I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went
> wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and
> then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then noth
On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please help!
debian won't boot"
> Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit :
> >On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian
> >won
On 13-12-2017, at 23h 02'29", Jason Brenkus wrote about "Re: please help!
debian won't boot"
> By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling
> grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now
> I'm getting more then a blinking cursor. The scre
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