Re: Mirroring apt repositories?

2003-03-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
nts, and http, rsync or ftp to the back-end server(s). Usually it is run on port , mainly because that is the default configuration, and people are lazy. [...] Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org |

Re: Download installed .debs??

2003-01-30 Thread Rene Engelhard
) If you really want to _download_ new, rm that deb from the directory and run the above command. Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID

Re: what is testing unstable and stable ?

2003-09-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Potato is stable > woody is unstable > sid is testing > sarge is ? wrong. potato = old stable woody = stable sarge = testing sid = unstable Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people

Re: getting unstable

2003-09-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Angelo Marcos Rigo wrote: > Wich lines i do add to make an apt-get for the debian unstable? If you need to ask this unstable is nothing for you... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `.

Re: installing nvidia - missing

2003-09-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Alexander Winston wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 08:32, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > Hello > > > > Paul William (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > > > When I try to install the nvidia drivers I get a compiler mesasge that > > > I am missing this file: > > > > > > nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modve

Re: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in > 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^^ please put your full name in here. > I am running unstable and apt-getted openoffice.org a couple of days > ago. The fonts in openoffice are awful - both the actual application and > fonts used when writing documents. My gnome deskt

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^^ You know that this is senseless? > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:25:18PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running unstable and apt-getted openoffice.org a couple of days > > ago. The fonts in openoffice are awful - both the actual application

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/09/03 13:44), Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > > why not just apt-get install'ing msttcorefonts if you want them? > > Have you any idea why msttcorefonts doesn't show when I dselect? > sources.list is as follows: > > deb http

Re: mkfs.vat seems to be missing

2003-09-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Kent West wrote: > This happens on two different Sid boxes. Where's mkfs.vfat? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search mkfs.vfat dosfstools: sbin/mkfs.vfat dosfstools: usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.gz dosfstools. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer :

Re: Openoffice install in sid (/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict)

2003-09-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Bill Moseley wrote: > Life with Sid -- dist-upgrade trying to update Openoffice.org: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict > -bash: cd: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict: No such file or directory > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/openoffice/share/ > autocorr basic dt

Re: Openoffice install in sid (/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict)

2003-09-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Martin Jungowski wrote: > Have you tried "apt-get -f install"? If so, what did that return, any > errors? apt-get -f install does not work in this case, it moreover would just remove all OOo pkgs... > It seems that the script is missing some directory in /usr/lib. right. > I did an apt-get dist

Re: make-kpgk with ccache or compilercache

2003-09-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Alex Polite wrote: > Does anyone here have experience with using ccache or compilercache > with make-kpkg? Will it work? How is it done? Sure. I do it every time with ccache. Just change the CC and HOSTCC variables in the kernel Makefile... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard --

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Is there a way for me to get a listing of all past versions of a > package? For example, I knew that I wanted "whatever python2.3 was > before 2.3.1-1", which turned out to be 2.3-4 -- and I found that out by > browsing through the pool directories. Is there an easier w

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > When I finally got around to the part of the HowTo on searching for keys > (of course I did not read through all the way before starting), I > searched for my key. It turns out that at some point all my keys (3 in > all) were exported. The problem is that I had alrea

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Alfredo Valles wrote: > The advice I always give is to install knoppix to your hard drive, then in 20 > minutes you'll have a fully functional debian testing/unstable. This is not a good advice. if he wants to upgrade there is only unstable as the option and Debian beginners should NOT use u

Re: diff arguments for building diff for dpkg-source

2003-09-30 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Micha Feigin wrote: > Currently I am trying to build the diff for the source trio > (orig.tar.gz/diff.gz/.dsc). The problem is that using the standard diff > arguments diff -ruN doesn't work. dpkg-source -x returns an error for > the diff line (the first one in the file) and for the file dates

Re: apr-get local files

2002-10-18 Thread Rene Engelhard
y help you can offer. dpkg -i Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19

Re: GPG Ascii-Armour Syntax please

2002-11-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
gpg key to put in my ".pgpkey" gpg -o ~/.pgpkey --armor --export Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerp

Re: (library qt-mt) not found

2003-08-31 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, ZekeVarg wrote: > I'm trying to compile a program but #./configure ends with this error: > > checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (library qt-mt) > not found. Please check your installation! > For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. > Make sure tha

Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-08-31 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Neal Lippman wrote: > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, > which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. However, Is that package needed to make a feature work or to make the whole program actually work? In the latter case this should be a De

Re: Problem compiling KDE

2003-08-31 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Colin Watson wrote: > > /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor > > -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings > > -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -DNDEBUG > > -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno

Re: Mutt: How to find new mail in mult. mailboxes?

2003-09-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mutt is working fine under fetchmail/procmail/nbsmtp, but it bothers me > not being able to find any indications of new email on each mailbox I > have. All I see is some kind of filesize for the mailbox beside each > mailbox, I can't just memorize it's size and compa

Re: Mutt: How to find new mail in mult. mailboxes?

2003-09-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
[ your clock goes wrong ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Looks like I've already setup that one on .muttrc: > set folder = $HOME/MuttMail > mailboxes = compsci-digest > mailboxes = justlinux > mailboxes = ph-linux-newbie > mailboxes = zdnet-html > mailboxes = friends > mailboxes = spam > mailboxes = h

Re: Where is gtk-config ?

2003-05-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [ could you warp your lines after 72 chars? The fourth is a little bit too long; I let it as it was to show the effect ] Joerg Johannes wrote: > A short search on > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents > would have turned out: He needs libgtk1.2-dev. > It is always a better

Re: Where is gtk-config ?

2003-05-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Joerg Johannes wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 22:41, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > [ could you warp your lines after 72 chars? The fourth is a little > > bit too long; I let it as it was to show the effect ] > > It is set to 78, which should still be in the "green are

Re: make-kpkg, where is it?

2003-05-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > My dselect couldn't found make-kpkg package, where can I get it? kernel-package. Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 2

Re: Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work in Debian

2003-06-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Hamid wrote: > But in this specific case, i.e. kdevelop, I still have problem. > I have installed all the necessary packages for Qt (binary and headers) > using debian packages and I use a lot of "--with-qt-" to pass the right > directories to the script and it still does not feel like helpi

Re: Spell checker in mozilla? or switch to netscape

2003-06-02 Thread Rene Engelhard
hi, J F wrote: > Is there a spell checker in mozilla? or switch to netscape yes. http://spellchecker.mozdev.org Not packeaged yet. I am working on it and have working debs ready but some points need to get ironed out before uploading them... The needed dictionaries (when you want to use sth oth

Re: kernel compile trouble after upgrade

2003-06-02 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > -- is this normal (so many different gcc's)? yes. > -- isn't this a PITA? no. > -- what documentation should an ordinary user have read, in order >to know about this? > -- what should I leave the symlink at? 3.3 And edit HOSTCC in Linux' Makefile. (or if y

Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?

2003-06-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Joerg Johannes wrote: > I use kmail/IMAP protocol to read mails for one of my accounts. Today I > recognized that I can only read the mails when I am connected to the > net. I see the folder contents, but the message bodies are not > displayed. Is there a way to get a local copy of those ma

Re: graphical mode in chrooted sarge

2002-12-13 Thread Rene Engelhard
ry? > For example while in woody/fluxbox make my sarge/gnome run without conflicts > in ctl+alt+F8? Yes. http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debi

Re: Hinting msttcorefonts--any defoma experts?

2002-09-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
t; the fonts after they're installed, without hand-hacking the X server > > and/or font server config files. > > Why bother, since nobody can distribute those fonts anymore? That sounds not like that what I read on http://corefonts.sourceforge.net Regards, Rene -- .'

Re: Hinting msttcorefonts--any defoma experts?

2002-09-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi again, Rene Engelhard wrote: > [ late answer, I know ... ] > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Paul Smith wrote: > > > There've been bugs opened against the msttcorefonts package for quite a > > > while asking that it be defom

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
HI ' 'DVD-ROM GD-7500 ' '0008' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CD-R/RW SW-208F ' 'FN03' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) *

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
here (I have not >checked). > http://freebits.de/magma/ Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
#x27;HP ' 'C1537A ' 'L105' Removable Tape > 0,6,0 6) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 9200 ' '1.0c' Removable CD-ROM > 0,7,0 7) * Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Devel

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, the next one... (why can't people answer to the mailing list, espacially because I've not asked the question...) Amir Tal wrote: > On Monday 23 September 2002 12:08, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > here's mine : > > # cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i686

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi Amir, sorry for my comment. I haven't seen the Cc: of you and I got some mails only me in To: Sorry... Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMA

Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore

2004-08-09 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:15, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > My OpenOffice printing just broke after a testing upgrade also. > > As of today, it's fixed on my machine. I haven't checked for the last > few weeks, but today's upgrade replaced the whole of cups and O

Re: server version, stable or testing?

2003-07-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Johann Koenig wrote: > I was wondering what version of Debian people prefer for servers? > Stable, or testing. I understand that unstable is right out for this stable. testing has the disadvantage that it could be broken and you could wait for security updates _much_ longer than people with stabl

Re: mozilla

2003-07-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Jianan Huang wrote: > need to solve this. Mozilla open out to a Local Debian Start Page. How to > make it open to a page which will allow me to login to my dial-up ISP and > surf the net? IIRC you could specify the start page in mozilla's preferences. Grüße/Regards, René -- To UNSUB

Re: Firestarter 0.9.3

2004-05-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
NSTALL=1 before > executing $(MAKE) install... > > -- Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 7 May 2004 01:00:45 +0200 Maybe. The problem why I did that was that it tried to install several schema stuff directly into /etc instead of debian/firestarter/etc, which of course do

Re: Firestarter 0.9.3

2004-05-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Looks like it :/ [...] > Maybe. Got an idea. Hope to fix it RSN. Grüße/Regards, René - -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://pe

Re: Mplayer reinstall????

2004-05-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > I'm trying to reinstall mplayer but the /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf, input.conf > and menu.conf will not install? After I do reinstall with kpackage I look at did you remove them manually? removal of conffiles are preserv

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 01:03:10PM +0200, Pavel Vlček wrote: > I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to install > Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What to use, raid or lvm? I Depends. Do you want to have 1.5 Gigs combined? (LVM) [...] > doing something

Re: KDE file dialog in Libreoffice

2020-01-18 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 06:49:23PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > is there a way to get the KDE file dialog in libreoffice (buster-backports) ? > > Installing libreoffice-kde does not seem to be sufficient for me... libre

Re: Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 03:30:40PM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: >that of my original question. I was just looking for an advice about >solving such situation without removing anything from my system because >applying 'apt --reinstall install force3' did not restore the removed >conf

Re: OpenOffice Calc interface uses huge font size

2006-06-17 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, George Borisov wrote: > I've just installed OpenOffice Calc on Debian (unstable) for the first time. > > The problem is that the interface font used it simply huge! > > I am running Xfce4. I have checked my DPI settings and these are set to > 96x96. I have also tried the font replacement thi

Re: OpenOffice Calc interface uses huge font size (SOLVED)

2006-06-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, George Borisov wrote: > > .oO ( Maybe I should really merge Ubuntus's split between -gtk/-gnome > > (which they did also for xome xfve reasons) - but fixed up.. ) > > Yes please. OK. I'll look. It probably won't be in the next upload (2.0.3rc6-1), though, but maybe afterwards. Regards, Re

Re: OpenOffice Calc interface uses huge font size (SOLVED)

2006-06-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Rene Engelhard wrote: > George Borisov wrote: > > > .oO ( Maybe I should really merge Ubuntus's split between -gtk/-gnome > > > (which they did also for xome xfve reasons) - but fixed up.. ) > > > > Y

Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

2009-03-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Mr. Wang Long wrote: > After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1, > with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's > splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line. Did it work before with other 3.0.x? > Any ideas? Thanks

Re: OOo 3.0 still not ready?? (was Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages)

2008-10-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:06:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > You say that OOo3 is "Experimental 3.0.0-3", but evidence shows that the > > ftp.debian.org experimental branch is still at 3.0.0~rc4-1. > > $ rmadison openoffice.org > openoffice.org | 1.1.3-9sarge8 |

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Aniruddha wrote: > Hmm that is weird, I just checked and apparentley Lenny uses the regular > openoffice. I think it is best to email the people of go-oo and ask them I've no idea how you checked, but we use go-oo. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: OOo 3.0 still not ready?? (was Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages)

2008-10-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Paul Cartwright wrote: > so on my Lenny system, if I run this command: > > apt-get install -t experimental openoffice.org > > will it overwrite my existing 2.4 installation, or will I have 2 OOs > available ? think a bit... Same package names -> overwrites 2.4. And you won't be able to ins

Re: New OpenOffice-3.05 on experimental

2008-12-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, David Baron wrote: > I have Sun Java1.6-se on my machine using Sun's installer. > I have the previous OpenOffice 3 version running just fine. > > The latest-and-greatest now wants to install a Debian sunjava version. I Probably because it depends on liblucene2-java which needs a JVM. > cer

Re: virtualbox-ose problem: how to run "modprobe vboxdrv" automatically

2008-12-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, sal...@t2.technion.ac.il wrote: > i installed virtualbox following advices in previus treads. it's working ok, > but > my problem is that modprobe don't seem to be presistant i.e i need to > run "modprobe vboxdrv" as root every time i restart. is there any way to > make it load the module aut

Re: testing upgrade issues with OpneOffice

2010-03-31 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 07:54:41PM -0500, JW Foster wrote: > I,m getting this error message for several days now. > > E: Couldn't configure pre-depend openoffice.org-java-common for > openoffice.org-report-builder, probably a dependency cycle. Yes. See the BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi

Re: wheezy freeze

2012-12-18 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:02:54AM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > _ The freeze started less than 4 months ago (I do not have the exact > date), and I do not think things will be frozen for more ages... FWIW without any opinion enclosed herein: That is wrong. https://lists.debian.or

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:47:50AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Personally I like the about two-year stable release schedule. It is > > long enough > > I appreciate knowing that our setup will not break due to this but > also compile and download various packages like libreoffice and > xfce-4

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:43:39AM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > This rather highlights why I like Arch's package manager (Pacman.) more than > APT. Pacman features a command (pacman -Qo ) that explicitly checks a > file > you specify for package ownership. Interesting. "I don't have a

Re: No live CD ISOs without GUI desktops?

2017-06-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 03:27:10AM -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/ > lists many ISOs, but all have graphic desktops, so none would fit on > a 650 MB CD-ROM, of which I have lots; I don't have larger media. > The situation for the amd

Re: LibreOffice5 Writer will not load

2017-07-02 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:05:20PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > I have LibreOffice5 installed on Debian Stretch on an Asus EeePC > notebook which uses an Atom N455 processor. i386? > This same problem occurred before I upgraded to Stretch from > Jessie. I have several desktop computers with othe

Re: Problem reserving enough space for Java object heap since stretch upgrade

2017-07-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 10:49:53AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > On 7/1/2017 9:50 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >On 01-07-2017 10:47, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > >>I have been unable to execute Java with >=2048M memory allocation > >>since upgrading to stretch. I've changed nothing in my

Re: Problem reserving enough space for Java object heap since stretch upgrade

2017-07-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Joe wrote: > The amd64 software versions were not all identical to the i386 ones, but > I got away with it. The major configurations, samba and exim4, went in Shouldn't happen on stable. > without a hitch, and this was a server, so no faffing about w

Re: LibreOffice5 Writer will not load

2017-07-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:28:42PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 01:00:33PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:05:20PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > > > I have LibreOffice5 installed on Debian Stretch on an Asus EeePC > > >

Re: WARNING: Libreoffice - Do not remove ~/.config/libreoffice

2017-07-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:35:53PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Sounds weired. I am running debian/testing , i386. It is an EEEPC. Maybe this > is the difference. Let's see, if others can confirm or deny this. LO on i386 is broken when starting. What I'd bet here is that your config contains "disable Jav

Re: WARNING: Libreoffice - Do not remove ~/.config/libreoffice

2017-07-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:00:01AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi Rene, > > LO on i386 is broken when starting. What I'd bet here is that your config > > contains "disable Java". Wheres a clean config of course would not. > > > yes, I am running i386 at the moment only, as my other notebook has died

Re: WARNING: Libreoffice - Do not remove ~/.config/libreoffice

2017-07-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
{ and what is so private here that this can't be on-list so that peole except you know? } Hi, Fullquoting: On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 12:51:32PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I now installed kernel 4.11 now, removed ~/.config/libreoffice and - > worked! > Thanks for the hint with related to the kernel.

Re: WARNING: Libreoffice - Do not remove ~/.config/libreoffice

2017-07-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 01:12:56PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Am Montag, 10. Juli 2017, 12:57:44 CEST schrieben Sie: > Ahem, maybe you misunderstood my mail. What I wanted to express, is, if > people > do just an upgrade and never delete their ~/.config/libreoffice, they will > never > notice th

Re: WARNING: Libreoffice - Do not remove ~/.config/libreoffice

2017-07-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 01:28:54PM +0200, Hans wrote: > only once! After stopping and restarting LO again, it will not start again. bt? Is that the same Java crash? See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865303 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865866 > Sorry,

Re: WARNING: Libreoffice - Do not remove ~/.config/libreoffice

2017-07-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 09:47:09AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On seg, 10 jul 2017, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 01:28:54PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > only once! After stopping and restarting LO again, it will not start > > > again

Re: LibreOffice calc - slowdown

2016-08-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 05:35:36PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > Since v5.1.5 (I think, may have been 5.1.4) LibreOffice Calc has > exhibited a marked slowdown here. I can load a quite simple > spreadsheet LO takes an appreciable time (ten or more seconds) to load > and parse it before I can pe

Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB

2017-09-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 09:21:00AM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:00:49 +0200 > Flo wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > Libreoffice is working for me except for Base. > > > > This means when I want to create a (or use an existing) database > > libreoffice crashes immediately without giv

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 06:36:52PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > Someone will have to step up and put the work in to package AOO, for the > > choice to exist "in Debian". > > The Apache OO folks do provide .deb files with desktop integration. In my > tests > these work well enough on a Debi

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:00:26AM +, Chris Davies wrote: > documents. At one point I found that I could open templated documents > with LO but in order to print them I had to save then in native OOo > format and reload them in AOO. Fortunately that state of affairs lasted This is nonsense. Th

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-07 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 11:52:48PM +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Any suggestion how to solve this problem? Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's what we ship)? Though the question is what is different between the OOo 3.2.1 in backports and the OOo 3.2.1 in sq

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-09 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 06:55:38PM +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > solution ... (For instance some people with amd64-systems and squeeze > seemed to need the odf-converter ... only it worked for them: > http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/open-microsoft-office-2007-docx-files-in-amd64-debian-squeeze-

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:54:15PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm using Sid. After OpenOffice broke during an upgrade I purged it and > reinstalled, after which it returned to life as LibreOffice. There define "broke", please. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Li

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick. Was: Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 07:08:55PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I wrote a page with a footer containing a page number. I had no trouble > saving it as an .odt file, but OpenOffice 3.0 crashed when I tried to Really 3.0? Umm. what? We're at 3.2 now since months. (And note vanilla OOo versi

Re: LibreOffice repositories

2010-10-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
ename and try to get upgrades to work. > I could be wrong about this :-) Ah, you're right :) > LibreOffice is using Go-oo builds to start, which is what Debian uses. > > Rene Engelhard, Debian developer for our OO builds, is part of LibreOffice, > looks > like the path f

Re: anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > Using Testing/Etch > > > > Wait for it to propogate. A new version was just uploaded to Sid > tonight. If there are no RC bugs filed against it, the propogation to > testing will happen in 10 days. Well, there's still some transiti

Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome

2006-01-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > It is possible that I overlooked something while debugging OpenOffice, > but I am pretty sure this _is_ a bug. Feel free to report it, otherwise > I will do it. It's not. GNOME -> GTK UI KDE -> KDE UI Rest -> normal UI unless forced. That even is said in the approp

Re: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2002-05-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Shawn Lamson wrote: > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free > > I havent seen any updates for weeks - is this a sign of woody goi

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Mike Egglestone wrote: > APT has to be the greatest thing ever. Jes, it is. > All you really need to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file > to point to either stable, or testing, or unstable and then > run > #apt-get update > #apt-get dist-upgrade > > Obviously, you want woody, so you w

Re: CD Labelling Software

2002-06-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 07:56:49PM +, Simon Read wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Can any one suggest some CD label printing software and stationery > > that can be used under Debian GNU/Linux? > > > > If it makes any different I have an HP LaserJet and a HP DeskJet > >

Re: mozilla 1.0

2002-06-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi Bryan, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Now that Mozilla 1.0 has been released, and Debian 3.0 is stuck in a > frozen state, is there anyway that we can sneak Mozilla 1.0 into the > release? It would be a shame to release Debian 3.0 in the next couple > of weeks and not include Moz 1.0. No way. wood

Re: Spellchecking fails in OpenOffice 2

2005-10-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, csj wrote: > After building the Debian source for over 10 hours on my AMD > Sempron 2500+ and using up nearly 10GB of hard disk space, I now > have OpenOffice 2 up and running. The only problem is that why were you building it? > spellchecking no longer works (i.e., it used to work under > O

Re: php5-mysqli still missing in packages?

2005-10-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, The Gimper wrote: > Could it really be that php5-mysqli is still missing in packages even now > when > mysql5 is stable? If so... why on earth!?!?!? Because stable isn't changed with new packages anymore when it is released. And since stable didn't contain php5 because it was not really sta

Re: openoffice 2.0 fail on start (debian unstable)

2005-11-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, yzhh wrote: > Thanks for all your answers. > There is an update today in unstable dist. I installed it and all > things seem ok now. Only chinese chars displayed badly. But I think You are using sid, why are you not looking in the BTS? The problem was described there: see http://bugs.debian.o

Re: Disabling scripts in init.d *permanently*? apt-get dist-upgrade re-enables them! (did RTFM about update-rc.d)

2005-11-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: > # update-rc.d -f nessusd remove > > But then, two weeks down the road, a new version of nessus comes along, > and after a dist-upgrade, the service is started automatically again, > because the nessus package calls update-rc.d to have the nessusd daemon > start

Re: Install package from oldstable.

2005-12-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Andrew Nelson wrote: > libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 > > This package is only available in oldstable. I know I can download the deb > and > install with dpkg but I was wondering if there was a way to get the package > using apt. I want to do this so my apt-get update && apt-get upgrade cron job > will