Re: One jigdo file missing - cannot build ISO image DVD7.

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 06:46:36PM +1030, djs wrote: > When using jigdo-lite to download files for debian-9.8.0-amd64-DVD7 the > majority of the files download correctly. The procedure becomes stuck > at http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/afl/afl-doc_2.36b-1_all. > deb . One file missing!

Re: KDE madness again

On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 08:45:49AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Long time ago I stopped using KDE, because they started going insane. > > Two days ago upgraded to Buster and now wanted to check if all works fine. > > One of the things I need to use is qdbusviewer - unfortunately there is no > acce

Re: Kernel 2.4 on Etch

e, they've run into trouble every time. [0] http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070628.213246.7332ad07.en.html Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Why apache do not respct charset on web page ?

x27;s either something wrong at the client, or with your Apache config. See AddCharset and AddDefaultCharset in the Apache docs for some hints. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

RFS: disksearch

in/d/disksearch/disksearch_1.2.0-1.dsc Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: disksearch

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 01:20:18PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: [snip] Very sorry. This was meant for another list. Sory again! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Can not change Screen Resolution

gt; The entry just stayed blue and did not show the rest > of selections for the screen resolution. I was not > able to change it back. > Any idea? How about sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, and ensuring that the resolution(s) you desired are checked in the debconf configs? Kumar --

Re: Icons dissapears in gnome

anks... Ensure that the relevant icon package is installed. My guess is that package could have been removed in the process. You don't mention which desktop manager it is, but I am guessing you can find the KDE, GNOME icon packages. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Inst

Re: Non-free repo on DVD!

.org. See for yourself at: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/ But they are there at: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/ Replace ftp.debian.org with another mirror. But that doesn't seem to end your problems. Hope someone else can throw more light. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462,

Re: Debugging symbol packages (4 questions)

itory and use the debug packages without having to install them? HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Debugging symbol packages (4 questions)

an.org/debian-mentors/2007/07/msg00001.html Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

people.debian.org down?

Dear Debian user, Could someone confirm that people.debian.org is down? I am unable to reach it from here (Chennai, India). Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: people.debian.org down?

n. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lists down? or did I get dropped?

I think I am getting the mails. I got this one as well! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

t, on the install CD. I tried to search for the Debian take on this issue (mailing list discussion or bug report), but couldn't find the definitive discussion. Could someone please point me to it? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Che

Re: How to configure access thru proxy

or Konqueror. And for console applications and most other applications, you can hope that they honour the http_proxy environment variable, and either wrap calls to them in scripts which set this variable or add the setting to your .(bash|zsh|csh)rc. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel,

Re: NTLM APS not working after upgrade of Testing

> python /usr/share/ntlmaps/main.py -c /etc/ntlmaps/server.cfg Also, do check whether the server.cfg has not been replaced. There's a high chance that this has happened, and in that case, the port would have gone to 5865 (and you have to re-enter the username and password as well).

Re: dialup modem connection

t thing for this problem, but worth a shot. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Etch) flash player md5 fail

ains about no flash. I'd suggest getting the Flash plugin straight from Adobe's website and putting it in .mozilla/plugins. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: gtablix

t export LC_ALL=C gtablix Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A question of fonts

ve bad fonts! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: 'sensible-browser'

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:57:56PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > How do I add seamonkey to the list of alternatives? update-alternatives --install seamonkey x-www-browser /path/to/seamonkey 80 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 6

GTK+ File dialog hangs

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Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

the application, and am forced to kill it. The hard disk shows some activity initially, then the process uses the processor time sporadically increases and decreases for that application if I leave it running. Observed using top. I can't describe it better. Sorry if this doesn't help

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

;s hanging there (consistent with the earlier observation). Further hints anyone? Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:40:47PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > OK, here's a narrowed down clue. This happens only when the "File > System" option is involved. When I do Edit->Preferences and choose > "File System" as the default save location, it just hangs i

[solved] Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:40:47PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > OK, here's a narrowed down clue. This happens only when the "File > System" option is involved. When I do Edit->Preferences and choose > "File System" as the default save location, it just hangs i

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

quot;never" open. And, as I have already pointed out, you have hit the jackpot, since that was the very problem I faced. :-) Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

ype "de" in Iceweasel, it shows me debian.org below. I use th arrow keys to come down to debian.org, backspace the org part and put net and Return. Is this all right or too much to ask? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai -

Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

ge, we can select that and edit it. But that doesn't seem to be the > >case in Epiphany. Is there a way to replicate that behaviour as well. > > IIRC that's a problem with the GTK+ widget. This question has been > asked before in the epiphany mailing list. Well, I guess i

apt-file behin HTTP proxy

Dear Debian user, Is there a way to use apt-file with a HTTP proxy server? I don't seem to be able to get it working with just an export http_proxy="..." and apt-file update. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 6

Re: Compile Question

up to date in sid. Of course, there could very well be a reason, such as inactive maintainer etc., but that should be reported to the BTS, IMO. Comments? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:37:55AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I tried: > bug http://bugs.debian.org/%s > wphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go OK, i got it. It's interchanged! :-) http://bugs.debian.org/%sbug http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:29:01PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Look at the Bookmark Shortcuts extension on this page: > > http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/ThirdPartyExtensions > > Many thanks for the pointer. I am still struggling with the format of the text file. I haven&#x

Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

uch shortcuts, I necessarily have to type out the shortcut, and then use the arrow keys or the mouse to come to the right option in the drop down menu. I find the method I asked for (which works now) mych faster. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

s, nothing beats the commandline. snownews for RSS, slrn for nntp. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dumb question about using php

ture-31835.html > > I unzipped it and three little files appeared. These are Matlab scripts. PHP is wrong information on the website you mention. Your best bet is to run in using GNU Octave on Debian GNU/Linux. apt-get install octave2.9 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian In

Re: Canon Powershot A640

is using Etch. Could you just mention which distribution and kernel you are running? I guess it'd be helpful to try that kernel out. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Canon Powershot A640

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: > I did mention that I was running Lenny. The kernel is 2.6.21 Foolish of me to miss it! Sorry. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: DHCP auto renew - not working

it always renews the IP correctly. > > Why does it not renew the IP automatically? Should I be using something > other than "allow-hotplug"? I am not sure about whether it is needed, but do you have auto eth0 somewhere in your interfaces file? man interfaces seems to suggest hav

Re: Python init

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:22:27AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > bash weighs in at 1.6Mb > > zsh comes in at 10.4Mb... This is an interesting observation. I guess it's just the price you pay for features; there doesn't seem to be any free lunch anwhere! :-) Kumar --

Re: DHCP auto renew - not working

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:57:35AM -0700, betty wrote: > The man page for interfaces states the following: > "allow-auto" and "auto" are synonyms Accepted. Thanks for the pointer. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras,

Re: Editing a text file with sed

paragraphs separate. Of course, that may not have been what you were looking for, but I just thought some might find it useful later. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Editing a text file with sed

have some very > strange characters in them, but they don't seem to show up when I cat the > file. OK, how about fill-region of emacs (and gq of Vim)? Would they be of use here? This is, of course, assuming your files show up well in Emacs and Vim. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 4

Re: Network problem.

he appropriate line of the output of the lspci command. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hi where can I get g++ package

s line: deb ftp://10.65.0.42/debian stable main contrib non-free 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get install g++ That's all! APT does all dependency resolution for you. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: /etc/grub.conf + /boot/grub/menu.lst

update-grub updates. I think a symlink will have the desired effect, but I am not sure. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

ight (or might not) want to do is, a straight dist-upgrade to unstable (sid) using apt-get dist-upgrade, but the choice is yours. Kumar P.S. I've been using sid for a long time, and am able to get work done with no problems! So, don't be afraid. -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, I

Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

could be happening? I could not pin down anything in particular which could cause this to happen. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

the stock kernel Debian provides were modular anyway, but if you think this'd help, I'll try it out. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Python2.4.4-1 examples usage?

-examples So, there are no files in the package? Is this the sign of a bug? Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Python2.4.4-1 examples usage?

On 05/01/07, Michael Marsh wrote: $ apt-cache depends python-examples python-examples Depends: python Depends: python2.4-examples ^^ Examply goodness lives here. Sorry, goofed off. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel

Re: Root privilege

pplication, causing trouble. If you still want to do it, go to a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1 or F2 etc. to F6), login as root, close your display manager (/etc/init.d/kdm stop, where kdm may be replaced by kdm/gdm/xdm appropriately). Then, run startx to start X as root. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jam

Re: dial up connection

m this, if you adduser dialout, and adduser dip, you should be able to dial out as ordinary user. Please confirm if this works. Also, you may need to log out and log in again to effect the group addition. HTH Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chenna

Re: How to create a debian-Cd like a standard

ee of directories). To do it manually it is hard ( the copy and sort for alphabetic order, the md5sum,), I want the script which create the official. I get the feeling that making Debian CD images using jigdo is what you're looking for: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ Kumar -- Kumar Ap

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:16:05PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >> Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered? >> >> Ben >> > It says connection refused by 127.0.0.1 What is the output of mailq? Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

may be just the right balance you are looking for, but YMMV. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

oblem. I > still got exim: permission denied when I executed mailq as user tom. mailq > works for root. OK, I meant su;mailq or sudo mailq. You should be able to run mailq as root. Otherwise, you have a problem. For me, it's just a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/exim4. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

you want decides your choice. But I think it's just because you tried sid that you decided to stay with it. So, others can also try if they have the time (and a little courage :-). But believe me, it's NOT unstable! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technol

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

's stdin and stdout as pipes. The commands module might also be of interest. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

appears to come from Bangalore, India.] Though we have laws for unsolicited SMS on mobiles, I don't think we have any anti-spam laws. Tough luck on that front! :-( Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Help

ot; at the boot prompt, and it will boot into the GUI mode. Please read the Debian Installer manual fully to know the full steps to set Debian up. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Is it a BUG????

d. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get a list of installed packages

er answer would be dpkg -l|awk 'NR > 5 { print $2}' HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where to find missing documentation

setting package has it's doc in context-doc-nonfree, which is in pool/non-free/c/context-doc-nonfree/ So, you might want to add non-free to your sources.list, if you already haven't done so. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Re: Where to find missing documentation

the 'non-free' section so that maintaining current versions of the > documentation is taken care of. I agree with this. If not for MySQL (I don't use it), at least for bash, please provide the info files in non-free. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian

Re: exim4 maybe too complex to remain useful

of them. sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config Adn this is waay less complex than anything else I've seen for smarthost! This is also useful, even for non-GMail configuration: http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology M

Debian p.d.o stats

Dear Debian Users, Joerg has an interesting list of stats for packages.debian.org. Have a look at it: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2007/09/10#pdo_stats Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: need a pointer on emacs

you to the correct position in the correct file in the source code? Improves efficiency a lot! Of course, more experienced users can chip in with their tips. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Tool for document management

respect to the thread. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

ooks are typeset in TeX, which is what eh created TeX for. Besides, I am really surprised publishers won't want TeX, since a lot of books I've read have acklowledged that they were written in TeX. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:23:55PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > What is screen? http://packages.debian.org/sid/screen http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

sides, it is always better to trim replies and quote only the things related to context. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Cannot apt-get update

t; might sit at an OpenSuse machine. I like to learn distro-ambiguous > tools. This might be useful: http://chennailug.org/wiki/?title=Find_your_distro Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Best text

oo much myself, but I have heard good things about the Debian System by Martin "madduck" Krafft. http://debiansystem.info/ Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Listing packages

t nothing until now. With > > dpkg -l or apt-show-versions > > I can find the version number of the package, but not the repo. How about combining it with apt-cache madison ? That'll tell you the version and the repository. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel

Re: sshfs installation error

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 06:26:00PM +0100, michael wrote: > /etc/init.d/fuse: line 24: /lib/init/vars.sh: No such file or directory sudo touch /lib/init/vars.sh might help. It worked for me some time back. In any case, that script should be in the initscripts package. Kumar -- Kumar Appa

Re: (mod-) ssl for apache 2.2.x

ges for Debian etch. > You don't need a separate package for that as it was with apache 1.3. > You just need to enable the module. Moreover, libapache-mod-* packages are for Apache 1.x. One should always look for libapache2-mod-* for the current apache2. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah,

Re: Where is linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb?

e can I find linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb? Use linux-headers-*. For example: http://packages.debian.org/sarge-backports/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-486 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: online sourcecode viewer

e: > http://gpc-qt.sourceforge.net/ While you're at it, try this (scroll down): http://pygments.org/ HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

configuration http { Proxy "http://:"; }; }; HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

quot; urlview" # simulate the old browse-url function HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bootsplash ramble

, it has worked for me earlier: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

\ > set my_pipe_decode=\$pipe_decode pipe_decode\ > urlview\ > set pipe_decode=\$my_pipe_decode; unset > my_pipe_decode" \ > "call urlview to extract URLs out of a message" You are right. Thanks for pointing this out. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Ins

Which TeX distribution to use?

Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:08:17PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday. > > > Virtually all the stock kernels provided by several

Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel

it specific to x86 (not x86_64) as the exploit contains x86 code, > or are other architectures also vulnerable in some other way? You can get the list of architectures for which built kernels were uploaded here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=72;bug=464945 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar

Re: How to compare the package version?

w version or not? I have read the debian policy manual, but no > version compare tool or command is mentioned. if dpkg --compare-versions 4.1.2-18 gt 4.1.2-15;then echo 4.1.2-18 is more than 4.1.2-15;fi This prints: 4.1.2-18 is more than 4.1.2-15 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna

Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

e else could probably suggest something better... HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Basic bash question.

output and files HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Basic bash question.

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:10:25PM +0800, hhding wrote: > Any method to redirect any fd to the pipe? > Not only stdout,stderr. If you mean both stdout and stderr ./configure 2>&1 | tee log.txt would work. But I don't know if that is what you meant. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Ap

Re: rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

request you to try imagemagick convert. convert image.png -rotate 90 image_rotated.png Though, of course, you might have a reason to use Gimp. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to create an ssh chain A->B->C to do http over ssh across the chain?

d on B through using C via a ssh tunnel > from B to C. In case you want to set up a multi-level ssh connection for port forwarding etc., the following helped me: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2007/12/15/using-a-ssh-jumphost.html HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian In

Re: Debian is losing its users

ile less people are Googling for Debian, if the activity in the Debian user and developer lists are something to go by, Debian is not doing too bad. Granted that we could do with popularity boosts, but I guess the loyal followers will always remain and keep trying to pull in more people. :-) K

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and xorg.conf

place it. I also don't know why this happens. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Insititute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: google earth error (opengl error)

e i810 Xorg/XFree86 driver, depending on your distro, X etc. Also, if you are using Xorg 7.0 on Debian (Etch or Sid), DRI is broken, and I had to get the latest version at dri.freedesktop.org and replaced the Debian package's vrsion, but I don't know whether that bug still exists. Kumar

Bitstream Vera size in XTerm

Dear Debian users, I am using Sarge (3.1r2), and am trying to get the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font to work. I have installed x-ttidfont-conf and fontconfig, and set fontconfig to the "native" setting in debconf. Now, when I do xlsfonts, I see the vera fonts, and xterm -fn "" allows me to use the

Re: Bitstream Vera size in XTerm

On 16/06/06, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Debian users, I am using Sarge (3.1r2), and am trying to get the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font to work. I have installed x-ttidfont-conf and fontconfig, and set fontconfig to the "native" setting in debconf. Now, when

Re: Bitstream Vera size in XTerm

On 16/06/06, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ctrl+ displays xterm's "VT Fonts" menu. That doesn't work for TrueType fonts in XTerm. It switches to "fixed" ot something. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Insititute of Technol

Re: Installation Python 2.3 with Debian Testing

ttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373856 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Insititute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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