Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-12-16 05:14, Neal Becker wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. And I use it not just for p

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-12-16 16:45, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent: Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code complexity is in the creation and modification. The point is that as an

Re: recovering data from a preceding installation of Fedora..

2014-12-16 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-12-16 10:31, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/16/2014 09:05 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi, I I had to re install Fedora on my computer, I did it and now I have to restore the data from the old installation. Using an external support for the disc ("USB to SATA / IDE converter") I can access

Re: Won't stay on this page http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

2014-12-16 Thread Jim Lewis
> On 12/17/14 10:31, Jim Lewis wrote: >> Yes, when I couldn't find the full install DVD I settled for the >> Mate-Compiz spin and have been configuring it for the last few days. I >> now have to manually install a whole lot of packages that were just >> there by default before. > > FWIW, the ful

Re: Won't stay on this page http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

2014-12-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/17/14 10:31, Jim Lewis wrote: > Yes, when I couldn't find the full install DVD I settled for the > Mate-Compiz spin and have been configuring it for the last few days. I > now have to manually install a whole lot of packages that were just > there by default before. FWIW, the full (4.5GB)

Re: Won't stay on this page http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

2014-12-16 Thread Jim Lewis
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:10:27 -1000 > "Jim Lewis" wrote: > >> >> When I go to the above mentioned link I can see the page for a >> second or two, then it throws me into https://getfedora.org. It looks >> to be intentional. Happens on all my systems (including Fedora 21), >> and are all running

Re: Won't stay on this page http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

2014-12-16 Thread Ondřej Majerech
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:10:27 -1000 "Jim Lewis" wrote: > > When I go to the above mentioned link I can see the page for a > second or two, then it throws me into https://getfedora.org. It looks > to be intentional. Happens on all my systems (including Fedora 21), > and are all running relatively

Won't stay on this page http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

2014-12-16 Thread Jim Lewis
When I go to the above mentioned link I can see the page for a second or two, then it throws me into https://getfedora.org. It looks to be intentional. Happens on all my systems (including Fedora 21), and are all running relatively new versions of Firefox. Can anyone else get to that page (and st

Re: (fedora) Re: Fedora and Windows fighting for the bootsector

2014-12-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/16/2014 07:53 PM, Jouk Jansen wrote: Ralf wrote on 16-DEC-2014 19:16:02.04 On 12/16/2014 06:54 PM, Jouk Jansen wrote: Hi all, I have a Toshiba (Satelite C50-B-14C). Window 8 was preinstalled. I turned it into a dual boot by shrinking the Windows partition and installing F20. All was fin

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Paul Cartwright sent: > when I click on a PDF in a thunderbird email, it starts to open a > window, then crashes. once I save the attachment to my HD, > double-click opens it.. Fedora21.. As a test, you could try changing the default application to somethi

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent: > Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or > modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code > complexity is in the creation and modification. > > The point is that as any software becomes more c

Re: OT: disabling f produces a "find" menu.

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 08:28 +1030, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > > and once a jolly swagman to you :-) > > ;-) > > Shame is that most people only hear the Americanised marching band > version of that song. What's known as the Queensland version

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > > On 12/16/14 22:32, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > >> Hm, could it be due to 'kernel' missing here? >> > > Apparently not: > > "Moreover, the currently booted kernel package is always protected." > > (from

Re: selinux relabel at boot

2014-12-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:58:41 -0500 Daniel J Walsh wrote: > What version of Fedora was this? A brand new fedora 21 workstation install. > restorecon -p -R / > 7.4%^C > > Shows Percent done now. I'm not sure the actual percentage makes it through systemd though to the messages I was looking at du

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> Master PDF editor is quite nice but, strangely, when it comes to filling in > PDF forms evince works better I've found. However if you need to actually > fill in a PDF that doesn't have form fields master PDF editor is the way to > go Thanks a lot for the hint, the screenshots look definitivly

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/17/14 05:51, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 12/16/14 22:32, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: >> Hm, could it be due to 'kernel' missing here? > > Apparently not: > > "Moreover, the currently booted kernel package is always protected." > > (from >

Re: Can't play a Video

2014-12-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 December 2014, Sudhir Khanger sent: > How is KDE suppose to find codecs when we don't even ship the long > list of patent encumbered codecs? Are there any well supported open source codecs that are badly supported for Windows? The anarchist in me wants to put some files

Re: selinux relabel at boot

2014-12-16 Thread Daniel J Walsh
What version of Fedora was this? restorecon -p -R / 7.4%^C Shows Percent done now. On 12/16/2014 02:03 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:36:08 -0500 > Daniel J Walsh wrote: > >> There should be an indicator on the screen telling you the progress of >> the relabel. > I don't remembe

Re: OT: disabling f produces a "find" menu.

2014-12-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > and once a jolly swagman to you :-) ;-) Shame is that most people only hear the Americanised marching band version of that song. What's known as the Queensland version has a nicer melody. For those unaware of this, you can pro

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/16/14 22:32, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: Hm, could it be due to 'kernel' missing here? Apparently not: "Moreover, the currently booted kernel package is always protected." (from ) So, still strange that

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/16/14 22:23, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: Nah, still wants to remove the running kernel... Hm, could it be due to 'kernel' missing here? # ll /etc/{yum,dnf}/protected.d/* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4 Dec 9 12:36 /etc/dnf/protected.d/dnf.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8 Nov 27 15:07 /etc/yum/pro

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/16/14 22:16, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Upgrades to Fedora 22 should get it. I have added both dnf and the core plugin as default packages to the base group. Good! What I was suggesting is to Lars is to install the plugin manually now and test whether that explains the difference. Nah, st

Re: F21 minimal install?

2014-12-16 Thread Andras Simon
On Dec 16, 2014 6:58 PM, "Ian Pilcher" wrote: > > Do any of the F21 installation media provide a minimal install option > anymore? IIRC, the "basic server" (or whatever it's called) now > installs more than 600 packages, around twice as many as the F20 minimal > install. If you use a netinstall

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 09:39:29PM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > > >How come our systems behave differently? > > >Make sure you have dnf-plugins-core installed > > Shouldn't that package be a requirement of dnf, and due to tha

Re: Oracle VirtualBox for F21

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >> rpmfusion version of VirtualBox-guest gives this strange error: >> >> sudo dnf install VirtualBox-guest >> Error: package VirtualBox-guest-4.3.20-1.fc21.x86_64 conflicts with >> VirtualBox >> <= 4.3.20-1.fc21 provided by VirtualBox-4.3.20-

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/16/2014 12:58 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: OK. That would mean that there are situations where the 'dnf erase kernel' safeguard doesn't work either. Perhaps it would be better to move this particular safeguard into dnf? I know from experience that yum has that safeguard. (It came in ve

Re: Can't play a Video

2014-12-16 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Dec 16, 2014 5:41 PM, "Temlakos" wrote: > > On 12/16/2014 07:07 AM, Mickey wrote: >> >> F20/KDE >> >> This is a new install of Fedora 20. >> >> When I open a Video file with Dragon player or VLC they will play Audio but no Video, black screen. >> >> Is there a possibility that I don't have a ce

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/16/14 21:53, Matthew Miller wrote: There are some situations where it'd be nice to have DNF but the plugin behavior isn't necessary. So a hard dependency isn't ideal. And we OK. That would mean that there are situations where the 'dnf erase kernel' safeguard doesn't work either. Perhaps

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 09:39:29PM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > >How come our systems behave differently? > >Make sure you have dnf-plugins-core installed > Shouldn't that package be a requirement of dnf, and due to that be > installed automatically if dnf is installed? There are some si

Re: (fedora) Re: Fedora and Windows fighting for the bootsector

2014-12-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Optional: > > $ rm -rf boot/efi/EFI/grub DOH! rm -rf /boot/efi/EFI/grub That leading / should be there or it will fail. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/16/14 21:34, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: How come our systems behave differently? Make sure you have dnf-plugins-core installed Shouldn't that package be a requirement of dnf, and due to that be installed automatically if dnf is

Re: (fedora) Re: Fedora and Windows fighting for the bootsector

2014-12-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Jouk Jansen wrote: > BootCurrent: 0005 > Timeout: 0 seconds > Bootorder: 0005,0003,,0001,0002 > Boot* Fedora > Boot0001* UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller > Boot0002* UEFI: IP6 Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller > Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager >

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > > > How come our systems behave differently? > > Make sure you have dnf-plugins-core installed Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/16/14 09:31, Jan Zelený wrote: On 15. 12. 2014 at 13:03:54, Chris Murphy wrote: ... I suggest being really skeptical of dnf erase suggestions. It can be brutal (don't try dnf erase kernel for example, it'll remove all kernels including the running one). This is not true, the issue was f

Re: Oracle VirtualBox for F21

2014-12-16 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > rpmfusion version of VirtualBox-guest gives this strange error: > > sudo dnf install VirtualBox-guest > Error: package VirtualBox-guest-4.3.20-1.fc21.x86_64 conflicts with VirtualBox > <= 4.3.20-1.fc21 provided by VirtualBox-4.3.20-1.fc21.x86_6

Re: (fedora) Re: Fedora and Windows fighting for the bootsector

2014-12-16 Thread Jouk Jansen
Chris Murphy wrote on 16-DEC-2014 19:53:19.22 16-DEC-2014 19:53:19.22 >On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Jouk Jansen > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a Toshiba (Satelite C50-B-14C). Window 8 was preinstalled. I turned >> it into a dual boot by shrinking the Windows partition and installing F20. >

Re: selinux relabel at boot

2014-12-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:36:08 -0500 Daniel J Walsh wrote: > There should be an indicator on the screen telling you the progress of > the relabel. I don't remember for sure, but I think there was just a cylon eyeball bouncing asterisks, not anything telling me about progress. > DId this machine ha

Re: (fedora) Re: Fedora and Windows fighting for the bootsector

2014-12-16 Thread Jouk Jansen
Ralf wrote on 16-DEC-2014 19:16:02.04 >On 12/16/2014 06:54 PM, Jouk Jansen wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a Toshiba (Satelite C50-B-14C). Window 8 was preinstalled. I turned >> it into a dual boot by shrinking the Windows partition and installing F20. >> All was fine until I installed some Windows

Re: Fedora and Windows fighting for the bootsector

2014-12-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Toshiba (Satelite C50-B-14C). Window 8 was preinstalled. I turned > it into a dual boot by shrinking the Windows partition and installing F20. > All was fine until I installed some Windows-updates the other day. The > mach

Re: selinux relabel at boot

2014-12-16 Thread Daniel J Walsh
On 12/13/2014 11:42 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:52:35 -0500 > Tom Horsley wrote: >> Just a note for someone who might care about this: >> >> I foolishly forgot to disable selinux in a system >> I created by copying all the files from a virtual image. >> >> When it booted,

Re: Fedora and Windows fighting for the bootsector

2014-12-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/16/2014 06:54 PM, Jouk Jansen wrote: Hi all, I have a Toshiba (Satelite C50-B-14C). Window 8 was preinstalled. I turned it into a dual boot by shrinking the Windows partition and installing F20. All was fine until I installed some Windows-updates the other day. The machine then only booted

Re: F21 minimal install?

2014-12-16 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Hi, 2014-12-16 19:57 GMT+02:00 Ian Pilcher : > Do any of the F21 installation media provide a minimal install option > anymore? IIRC, the "basic server" (or whatever it's called) now > installs more than 600 packages, around twice as many as the F20 minimal > install. At least with a kickstart c

Fedora and Windows fighting for the bootsector

2014-12-16 Thread Jouk Jansen
Hi all, I have a Toshiba (Satelite C50-B-14C). Window 8 was preinstalled. I turned it into a dual boot by shrinking the Windows partition and installing F20. All was fine until I installed some Windows-updates the other day. The machine then only booted windows. I made Fedora boot again by grub2-i

F21 minimal install?

2014-12-16 Thread Ian Pilcher
Do any of the F21 installation media provide a minimal install option anymore? IIRC, the "basic server" (or whatever it's called) now installs more than 600 packages, around twice as many as the F20 minimal install. -- Ian

Re: recovering data from a preceding installation of Fedora..

2014-12-16 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/16/2014 09:05 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi, I I had to re install Fedora on my computer, I did it and now I have to restore the data from the old installation. Using an external support for the disc ("USB to SATA / IDE converter") I can access the old drive, and using Nautilus to see a

Re: gnuplot

2014-12-16 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/16/2014 04:34 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > In fedora 20, I have gnuplot-4.6.3-6.fc20.x86_64 > which gives me error: > ';' expected > while it used to work fine before. > > I though that I should try the version for fedora21: On my box: --

Re: fedora web site

2014-12-16 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Patrick Dupre : Hello, from firefox, when I go on fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora I am quickly pick off and move to https://getfedora.org/ and then I am stock and cannot access to useful information. How can I get to the fedoraproject.org website and stay there? Thank That doesn't

recovering data from a preceding installation of Fedora..

2014-12-16 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi, I I had to re install Fedora on my computer, I did it and now I have to restore the data from the old installation. Using an external support for the disc ("USB to SATA / IDE converter") I can access the old drive, and using Nautilus to see all the data that I would recover, but I do not hav

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Kevin Martin
On 12/16/2014 06:13 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Joe Wulf wrote: > >> evince has worked well for me for a good number of years now, and I use >> cups-pdf for 'printing' pdf's of web pages and such. No issues here with >> either. >> From: Robert Moskowitz >> To: Community support for Fedora us

Re: gnuplot

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello,   Thank for the advice. However, I used to wait a while before moving to the next version because of the glitches not solved yet!   === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'At

Re: gnuplot

2014-12-16 Thread Derrik Walker v2.0
On 12/16/14, 10:34, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, In fedora 20, I have gnuplot-4.6.3-6.fc20.x86_64 which gives me error: ';' expected while it used to work fine before. I though that I should try the version for fedora21: Unfortunately, I cannot get the file gnuplot-4.6.5-4.fc21.src.rpm Why c

fedora web site

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, from firefox, when I go on fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora I am quickly pick off and move to https://getfedora.org/ and then I am stock and cannot access to useful information. How can I get to the fedoraproject.org website and stay there? Thank ==

gnuplot

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, In fedora 20, I have gnuplot-4.6.3-6.fc20.x86_64 which gives me error: ';' expected while it used to work fine before. I though that I should try the version for fedora21: Unfortunately, I cannot get the file gnuplot-4.6.5-4.fc21.src.rpm Is there a way to build the rpm from a tgz file f

Re: Converting from the workstation product to the XFCE spin?

2014-12-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 08:21:11AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > That doesn't make any sense to me. What's the point of offering one > a choice of desktop environments, at the login prompt, if choosing > Gnome once ends up hopelessly corrupting all other desktop > environments, in perpetuity? >

Re: Converting from the workstation product to the XFCE spin?

2014-12-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Sudhir Khanger writes: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Fortunately, creating a new user results in a clean Xfce desktop that works, > so that's what I'll be doing. That's to be expected. Even if you remove gnome packages, those config files are there to stay fore

Re: Converting from the workstation product to the XFCE spin?

2014-12-16 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Fortunately, creating a new user results in a clean Xfce desktop that works, > so that's what I'll be doing. That's to be expected. Even if you remove gnome packages, those config files are there to stay forever until manually removed. -

Re: Converting from the workstation product to the XFCE spin?

2014-12-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Sudhir Khanger writes: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Is it possible, with a minimum of fuss and pain? Have you tried? sudo yum group install "Xfce Desktop" --exclude fedora-release\* See this if that doesn't work https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11609

Re: Oracle VirtualBox for F21

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Chad Kellerman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> Does somebody know when will Oracle make VirtualBox available on its >> repository for Fedora 21? >> >> At the moment, no package for F21 is available: >> >> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/16/2014 12:33 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/16/2014 12:44 AM, Doug wrote: Have you looked at Master PDF Editor, as I mentioned in a previous post to this list? --doug running fedora21.. tried to install Master-pdf-editor: # rpm -i master*.rpm file / from install of master-pdf-e

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/16/2014 08:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2014 08:03 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: # dnf install libreoffice Install 85 Packages Total download size: 126 M Installed size: 393 M Yes, ... this is an issue, as well. Well that's

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Kevin Martin wrote: > Master PDF editor is quite nice but, strangely, when it comes to filling in > PDF forms evince works better I've found. However if you need to actually > fill in a PDF that doesn't have form fields master PDF editor is the way to > go. > > Regards, > > Kevin Martin > > Se

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/16/2014 06:52 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 16.12.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> I have an annoying issue with PDF. I have evince installed, but when I >> click on a PDF in a thunderbird email, it starts to open a window, then > Just tried it out of curiosity on a Lenovo laptop with bog sta

Re: Converting from the workstation product to the XFCE spin?

2014-12-16 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Is it possible, with a minimum of fuss and pain? Have you tried? sudo yum group install "Xfce Desktop" --exclude fedora-release\* See this if that doesn't work https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160917 -- Regards, Sudhir Khan

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than >> evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? > > Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. > > And I use it not just for pdf, but a whole assortme

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Joe Wulf wrote: > evince has worked well for me for a good number of years now, and I use > cups-pdf for 'printing' pdf's of web pages and such. No issues here with > either. > From: Robert Moskowitz > To: Community support for Fedora users > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 9:15 PM > S

Re: Can't play a Video

2014-12-16 Thread Temlakos
On 12/16/2014 07:07 AM, Mickey wrote: F20/KDE This is a new install of Fedora 20. When I open a Video file with Dragon player or VLC they will play Audio but no Video, black screen. Is there a possibility that I don't have a certain RPM installed ? I see another possibility: you don't have

Re: OT: disabling f produces a "find" menu.

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 17:33 +1030, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> /me sings Old MacDonald had an accent... > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > Well, not all of those are accents. There are other diacriticals (ñ for > > example is not an accented n, it's a different character) and some > > special symbols. > > S

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 10:11 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 12/16/2014 10:03 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> This probably doesn't matter much to kde users, but pulling in 50 > >> additional > >> >packages and 176 M to me is a serious issue. > > Just as point of comparison, ... LibreOffice

Can't play a Video

2014-12-16 Thread Mickey
F20/KDE This is a new install of Fedora 20. When I open a Video file with Dragon player or VLC they will play Audio but no Video, black screen. Is there a possibility that I don't have a certain RPM installed ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.12.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have an annoying issue with PDF. I have evince installed, but when I > click on a PDF in a thunderbird email, it starts to open a window, then Just tried it out of curiosity on a Lenovo laptop with bog standard F21 and thunderbird. No problems here. --

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/16/2014 12:44 AM, Doug wrote: > > Have you looked at Master PDF Editor, as I mentioned in a previous > post to this list? > > --doug running fedora21.. tried to install Master-pdf-editor: # rpm -i master*.rpm file / from install of master-pdf-editor-2.1.90-2.x86_64 conflicts with file f

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/15/2014 11:12 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/16/2014 03:15 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> So here I am setting up my new F21 system and of course pdf processing >> is a must, and on F20, I had many problems with evince. > I have an annoying issue with PDF. I have evince installed, but w

Re: Oracle VirtualBox for F21

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/15/2014 10:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/16/14 10:43, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:38:58PM +, Paul Smith wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> Does somebody know when will Oracle make VirtualBox available on its >>> repository for Fedora 21? >>> >>> At the moment, no package

Re: Converting from the workstation product to the XFCE spin?

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/15/2014 08:54 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Is it possible, with a minimum of fuss and pain? > > Because of bug 1174530, I can't use Gnome any more. > I love Mate desktop... http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download - -- Paul Cartwright Registered

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Butrus Damaskus
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:47 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than > > evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? > > Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. > > And I use it not

Re: How to install MATE on fedora workstation

2014-12-16 Thread Pasha R
Thanks, didn't see that before. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > > > On Dec 15, 2014 6:44 AM, "Pasha R" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I installed fedora 21 workstation, and trying to install MATE desktop on > it. Command "yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop"" attempts to resolve >

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Jan Zelený
On 15. 12. 2014 at 22:10:21, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Monday, December 15, 2014 10:34:30 AM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Question: why do stuff like createrepo, fedup, livecd-tools, etc still > > depend on yum? Should they be made to depend on dnf now, in which case, > > should there be a bug report

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Jan Zelený
On 15. 12. 2014 at 10:34:30, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Because (from what I understood, perhaps incorrectly) yum is going away in > favor dnf, I was trying to get used to the latter. Because the former is so > ingrained in me, I was trying to get rid of it from the system so that not > having it avail

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Jan Zelený
On 15. 12. 2014 at 13:03:54, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Ranjan Maitra > > wrote: > > Because (from what I understood, perhaps incorrectly) yum is going away in > > favor dnf, I was trying to get used to the latter. Because the former is > > so ingrained in me, I was tr

Re: getting rid of yum

2014-12-16 Thread Jan Zelený
On 15. 12. 2014 at 17:23:48, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:46:53 + > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 10:34 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Because (from what I understood, perhaps incorrectly) yum is going > > > away in favor dnf, I was trying to get