[CentOS] CentOS 8 updates

2020-05-12 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi Is it my imagination/impatience, but I don't seem to have received any updates to CentOS 8 recently. I'm thinking particularly of firefox which was updated in CentOS 7 for a critical security update. Is there a backlog of CentOS 8 updates behind the 8.2 release? I noticed on a few occasions

Re: [CentOS] Twin HDMI

2020-01-17 Thread Bill Maidment
On 18/01/2020 3:53 am, Mark (Netbook) wrote: Hello, I have an Intel NUC7PJYH running CentOS 6.8. This is a NUC with standard USB, 1GbE and 2*HDMI. Installation was no problem providing acpi=off. The problem is that by default the two displays are mirrored and I can’t seem to separate them. I

Re: [CentOS] State of CentOS 8

2019-12-22 Thread Bill Maidment
On 23/12/2019 12:07 pm, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 22.12.19 um 21:31 schrieb Michael Kofler: Hi, I have been a happy user of CentOS 7 in the past. I am now considering switching to CentOS 8. However, since end of Oct. 2019, I have not received any updates on my CentOS 8 test

Re: [CentOS] Using Pulse Audio--question

2019-12-22 Thread Bill Maidment
On 23/12/2019 11:06 am, Fred Smith wrote: I can find no way to do it with pavucontrol, nor the default mate sound tool. In my SL7 Mate system I use the Hardware and Output tabs in System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound Cheers Bill ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-10-28 Thread Bill Maidment
On 26/10/2019 11:07 pm, Fred Smith wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 07:08:02PM +1100, Bill Maidment wrote: On 26/10/2019 12:08 pm, David G. Miller wrote: >The corresponding system-config-printer rpm from Fedora 28 appears to >work.  Not the best solution but a solution. > But no longer

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-10-26 Thread Bill Maidment
On 26/10/2019 12:08 pm, David G. Miller wrote: The corresponding system-config-printer rpm from Fedora 28 appears to work.  Not the best solution but a solution. But no longer available that I can find. I presume it must be version 1.5.11-13 to match the -lib version -- Cheers Bill

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-10-25 Thread Bill Maidment
On 16/10/2019 9:17 am, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 10/16/19 12:07 AM, Fred Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 10:11:50PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 10/15/19 10:08 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: This is interesting and promising: "The official unofficial repository for MATE for

Re: [CentOS] Conky on CentOS 8

2019-10-24 Thread Bill Maidment
On 24/10/2019 11:31 pm, H Toms wrote: Although I would strongly recommend that you *do not* do this (installing fedora packages on CentOS is a bad idea) - this works: Download packages conky-1.10.8-2.fc29.i686.rpm imlib2-1.4.9-7.fc29.i686.rpm tolua++-1.0.93-24.fc29.i686.rpm

[CentOS] Conky on CentOS 8

2019-10-24 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi I've been using conky in conjunction with gcalcli on Scientific Linux 7 to display google calendar data on screen. In CentOS 8, I have set up the gcalcli part, but I can't find a conky rpm. Is anyone working on creating this for CentOS 8? There appears to be an rpm for fedora 28 onwards,

Re: [CentOS] deprecations leading up to C8

2019-09-19 Thread Bill Maidment
On 20/09/2019 9:04 am, Fred Smith wrote: Was reading the long list of things being deprecated in the RHEL 8 release notes t'other day, and saw my old friend sendmail on the list. I've stuck by her because I've learned how she likes to be stroked to get the best out of her, and quail at the

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-14 Thread Bill Maidment
On 14/08/2019 7:35 pm, Kay Diederichs wrote: if you exclude it in /etc/yum.conf then yum will not install it when you ask it to, depending on how you specify the exclude= pattern! Of course. Also there is no need to exclude because the LO6 rpms are labelled with 6.n appended to the name

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-11 Thread Bill Maidment
Since my posting, I've remembered that the last time I installed LO I had the same problem and my "solution" was to use rpm -ivh *.rpm instead of yum. that workaround works fine. Perhaps having moved over to the dark-side (rpm) you will be stuck using that, until redeemed by CentOS 8 with

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-10 Thread Bill Maidment
On 11/08/2019 1:25 pm, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:13 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: unpack all the rpm files, type "yum install *.rpm", or "yum localinstall *.rpm" and yum spews the list of filenames (with the word "examining" in front of each file) then says "nothing to do". Do

Re: [CentOS] multilib problem during "yum update"

2019-05-26 Thread Bill Maidment
On 27/05/2019 12:26 pm, Fred Smith wrote: I'm hoping someone can point me to what is wrong here, I can't figure it out. running "yum update" on my C7.6 box I get: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check -On 27/05/2019 12:26 pm, Fred Smith wrote: I'm hoping someone can point me to