Re: running Linux without display

On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, John Hasler wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 09:00:10 From: John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running Linux without display Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 13:00:34 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Jude Da

Re: Flash update

If you have an old browser but vlc is installed, you may be able to get html5 playing by adding something like this to a .mailcap file: application/oggv; rvlc --quiet --novideo --key-vol-up 123 --no-skinned-playlist -I ncurses '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" The --no-video and

Re: running Linux without display

access bridge on windows and that worked as far back as Windows 7. On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 01:45:55 From: Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running L

Re: running Linux without display

thanks John, is apt-get useable inside of ash during a system install? For my current situation I would need this package installed on a machine before installation finishes. On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, John Hasler wrote: Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 18:06:53 From: John Hasler To:

Re: running Linux without display

screen reader does not start and I don't get to login prompt yet. One more thing I can try without xdummy or xvfb then it will be time to try those two packages and see if either help. On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote: Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 17:53:59 From: Stefan Monnier

Re: running Linux without display

For accessibility users, firefox if nothing else is pretty much essential or google chrome with chromevox for access to much of the web especially for commerce transactions. On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, John Hasler wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 15:16:21 From: John Hasler To:

Re: running Linux without display

org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running Linux without display Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:20:14 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Le 01/04/2016 17:14, Jude DaShiell a ?crit : Have you tried installing using orca and when finished how far did you get when you

Re: running Linux without display

Linux without display Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 15:04:46 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Le 01/04/2016 16:52, Jude DaShiell a ?crit : Wrong. Kalilinux Fedora sonargnulinux vinux and ubuntu I can install most linux distros on my headless online server, so I'm sure no m

Re: running Linux without display

rg Le 01/04/2016 16:09, Jude DaShiell a ?crit : What g.u.i. app or apps prevent graphical user interface Linux from running if no display can be plugged into the computer? -- none? jdd --

running Linux without display

What g.u.i. app or apps prevent graphical user interface Linux from running if no display can be plugged into the computer? --

Re: Sudo

Because in Debian you're probably not mentioned in /etc/sudoers. If your user account were frank, going to root using su you could do something like: echo 'frank ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >>/etc/sudoers . then type exit to get back to the frank account and type: sudo -H -i and see what happens.

Re: cd as much as possible

On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 22:45:09 From: kamaraju kusumanchi To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" , tliko...@iki.fi Subject: Re: cd as much as possible Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016

Re: wireless not working in strech

Would you be willing to install Kalilinux? I installed KaliLinux2.0 on a system and was shocked when it not only found my ralink wireless adapter but was able to configure it and go out on the network and install updates during installation. You may also have similar luck using that version

getting correct name on wireless card

Another type of instance happened to me earlier tonight where the wifi adapter did not connect. I was doing some configuration modification on sound card settings and rebooted the computer. No wifi adapter until after another reboot. Apparently touching anything in the usb domain

Re: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?

I've had two kinds of instances over here when a wireless wifi adapter wasn't picked up correctly. One of them happened when I accidentally changed the usb port the adapter was in and the network profile no longer matched. The second happened as a result of a brown out preparatory to a black

Re: View all Inboxes on a Debian mail app

Use of fetchmail with multiple poll account lines in a .fetchmailrc file can do that. On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Andrew Wood wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:19:02 From: Andrew Wood To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: View all Inboxes on a Debian mail app

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

I use a ralink adapter that came with an antenna I think about 4 inches long and it has no trouble communicating with a router two rooms away but I don't know far the router could be moved before the signal degraded. The connector for the antenna is a screw on type. On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Sven

Re: connect Ethernet to WiFi?

Look up asus: ea-n66 on the internet, one of those entries ought to be an wifi to ethernet adapter. Unfortunately windows will probably be required with a modern browser to set it up. I have one of these and couldn't do it using command line utilities even with javascript enabled. On Thu,

Re: How to tell the system to load right name for wireless card?

Hi, this may be a problem on the kernel level having nothing to do with debian. Reason I write this is the computer I use has a ralink adapter card attached to it which is wireless and it's talkingarch linux and I have situations where sometimes the card gets loaded properly on talkingarch

Re: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4

Why not try: http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Martin McCormick wrote: Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 17:34:14 From: Martin McCormick To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Using vlc to Transcode mpeg2 File to mp4 Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

That, or use the escape key and it may be possible to restore that key binding for when emacs -nw is run so hitting alt works again. On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Nate Bargmann wrote: Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 22:28:50 From: Nate Bargmann To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Meta

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

e: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:23:08 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Op Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:10:27 +0100 schreef Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>: udev may be having adverse impacts on abilities to play sounds from certain cards after reboot. Anyone interested may find s

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:40:01AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 22 January 2016 07:44:49 Jude DaShiell wrote: That has to be done inside of udev, udev is the one ring that binds them all. Not nesessarily. When I rebooted sometime in late

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Floris wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 05:22:59 From: Floris To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:23:21 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Op

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

udev may be having adverse impacts on abilities to play sounds from certain cards after reboot. Anyone interested may find sound devices in black listed category they don't want to have black listed. Correcting such black listing for now is beyond my capability since I haven't done enough

Re: Fw: Books Inquiry

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, jdd wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:26:12 From: jdd To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Fw: Books Inquiry Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:26:32 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Le 20/01/2016 19:43, mohammad Harun a ?crit :

Re: About new mail client

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016, Jonas Hedman wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:41:22 From: Jonas Hedman To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: About new mail client On 15-12-18 11:12:29, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: My branch is sid and used to use icedove as

Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Gregor Zattler wrote: Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:22:45 From: Gregor Zattler To: debian-user Subject: Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 21:23:35 + (UTC) Resent-From:

Re: no wifi on jessie install

On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:22:00 From: Lisi Reisz To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: no wifi on jessie install Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:22:16 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Monday 18

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

unning Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G On 13/01/16 22:04, Jude DaShiell wrote: It sure is, and Acer Aspire computers generally are cut down AMD Athelon x64 clones. I proved this since I also have a real AMD K8 Athelon computer vintage 1994 that is still running (how old does it have to get

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

0:53PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: I tried running it on an acer aspire 5003 notebook and it worked okay until trying to configure my network with my rt2800usb wifi adapter. If I get a wifi extender I can plug ethernet into I'll try again it may work then. For rt2800usb, was the firmware-ralink p

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

n Acer Aspire E5-571G Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:47:29 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:27:54 + Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 08:53:46 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: I ran a netinst installation so no didn't have

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

n-user@lists.debian.org On Wednesday 13 January 2016 02:40:53 Jude DaShiell wrote: I tried running it on an acer aspire 5003 notebook and it worked okay until trying to configure my network with my rt2800usb wifi adapter. If I get a wifi extender I can plug ethernet into I'll try again it ma

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

I tried running it on an acer aspire 5003 notebook and it worked okay until trying to configure my network with my rt2800usb wifi adapter. If I get a wifi extender I can plug ethernet into I'll try again it may work then. On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Dikomodo wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:21:43

Re: Generating ssh key pairs

One thing that could be done would be to roll a bash script which would run ssh-keygen with acceptable parameters for the system in use and in that bash script have a note displayed telling users how and why to generate good pass phrases and collect the pass phrase from the user and have

Re: OT misunderstood crackers

That's being done with automated scripts. Some systems are not configured properly to do correct load balancing and I suspect on such systems those crackers would get through. They have malware to install on your system most likely. On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Glenn English wrote: Date: Sun, 10

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

Put each subaccount one per line into /etc/shutdown.deny then reboot. On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Floris wrote: Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:55:56 From: Floris To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Subject: Prevent shutdown with systemctl Resent-Date: Mon, 4

Re: Recommendation for FTP server

If I were setting up an ftp server, I would create a /pub directory in /home and would also create a /home/pub/incoming directory then lock any guest into the /home/pub and /home/pub/incoming directories. The /home/pub directory would be where I'd put files available for download and the

Re: Recommendation for FTP server

Look in the /etc/ssh/ directory or /etc/default/ subdirectory those configuration files likely will be in one of those two locations. On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura wrote: Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:32:34 From: Steve Matzura To: debian

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

Did you set message priority to low and set logs to save to a mounted partition? The first adjustment asks more questions and the second preserves logs if something blows up. I think you can even have the logs saved to floppy disk too. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura wrote: Date: Tue,

Re: is twitter useful for debian?

With at least ttytter, there is no 140 character limit. You go around that by sending multiple tweets each 140 or fewer characters and ttytter makes that easily done too. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Donald Norwood wrote: Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:48:14 From: Donald Norwood

Re: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

I get aptitude to resolve recommended upgrades just by using the -r switch on the command line. There's probably a way to do that using g.u.i. but don't know that one yet. On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, Stephen Powell wrote: Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:29:48 From: Stephen Powell

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

It may have, but the proprietary software is unnecessary if you use archlinux to install it and get it up and running. You need wpa_supplicant; iw, dialog and netctl packages installed. Now I have an rt2780 usb wifi adapter and have this working. Once those packages are installed, you run

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

And certainly not with debian since debian hasn't got netctl. I forgot one command in my last post. This is the first one to do after installing dialog and iw and wpa_supplicant since netcal comes pre-installed. The correct order of commands is: wifi-menu -o netctl list netctl enable

Re: Reporting Bug

Normally I would put a backslash character in front of that apostrophe since it's a special character to bash at least and I suspect several other shell envioonments. Perhaps try O\'Dell by way of an example. I suspect mint hasn't been modified at all and that you haven't interacted so far

Re: Google Chrome

Chromium has not supported chromevox for some time now. I wonder if it's even useable with orca turned on. On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, moxalt wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:25:45 From: moxalt To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Oct

Re: alsa troubles

To resolve this kind of problem I recommend finding each alsa package installed on that machine then have aptitude install each of them but put the -r switch on the end of that install command. That will install recommended packages and once done this problem may disappear. On Mon, 19 Oct

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

control-alt-f7 gets you back to graphical mode. On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, ray wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:17:52 From: ray To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:36:09 + (UTC) Resent-From:

what list to umail for this bug?

I have an acer aspire 5003 notebook I tried installing the debian firmware distro on since it only has wifi communication capability for now. The firmware disk acted like it didn't have any firmware drivers on it when it got down to detecting the network. In reality I had a usb rt2780 wifi

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Victor wrote: On 03/03/2015 18:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents? To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard drives, though if I could include documents I have elsewhere

Re: have we any twittering-mode users on the list?

On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Teemu Likonen wrote: Jude DaShiell [2015-03-04 23:30:44-05] wrote: I tried using the package and almost got everything working with the exception of one mystery for me. I use twittering-mode installed from MELPA package archive. I get the package authorized

have we any twittering-mode users on the list?

I tried using the package and almost got everything working with the exception of one mystery for me. I get the package authorized with twitter, then the encrypting personal information dialog comes up where I'm asked to enter a master password since I set that variable in my .emacs file.

Re: Painful BlueTooth Audio

This is a linux kernel problem created by whoever made the decision that speakers must connect through the quarter-inch jack on the sound card by default. A little more work must have been done to that end since though I was able to connect usb speakers to a linux box and configure alsa to

debian trend package deficiency

the package cannot work in a command line environment. The freeglut package which is one of trend's dependencies requires a display to be set. Has anyone managed to do what the trend package does using asciicharacters down in the printable set between 21H-7Fh for graphics and text labels

setting laserprinter as default destination help needed

Script started on Tue 04 Feb 2014 06:06:23 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ hp-probe HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.1) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

HP_LaserJet_4_Plus printer

Script started on Tue 04 Feb 2014 06:06:23 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ hp-probe HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.1) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

ttytter can't tweet

I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't figure it out yet. Script started on Wed 22 Jan 2014 07:16:36 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ cat .ttytterrc vcheck=1 autosplit=1 jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ttytter trying to find cURL ... /usr/bin/curl -- Streaming API disabled (no -dostream) (TTYtter will use REST

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

I wonder, in Debian does a path exist so that if a user wants to install a g.u.i. environment without gdm and with startX so that they can run in console mode by default and when they want to go g.u.i. they run startX to do it and have orca start up after that automatically? If so, I'd like to

Re: Toshiba Satellite C50d/A00L laptop, can't install Debian - any version......

hughesnet is so bad in my personal experience I can do things faster with a 57.6 modem. On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:34:05 +1100 Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au sent this: On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:03:57 -0600 Selim T. Erdogan sent: Further googling

Re: [OT] P* language web page (Was: Re: P* - New language for web programming)

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Alois Mahdal wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 22:55:33 +0100 Atle Solbakken a...@goliathdns.no wrote: Den 18. nov. 2013 10:06, skrev Sandro CAZZANIGA: You see my point ? Cheers. Yes, I see your point :) The manual page you saw was auto-generated docbook pages,

Re: Install Google Chrome

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, David Guntner wrote: erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Dear List - I have done the following - Downloaded chrome from site into /opt root@meow:/opt# ls google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb install - root@meow:/opt#

Re: Questions about new hardware Debian (or Linux in general)

Avoid the mistake I made. Along with your install media, get all the firmware drivers for your flavor of hardware and have them on hand expecting to use them to install your system. I didn't earlier and couldn't wipe windows vista off a dell laptop. Some ambiguity in terms of firmware

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

If you have your original debian net-inst dvd, it's probably time to put the dvd into the drive then reboot the computer into rescue mode. Then run fsck.ext4 -c /dev/sda1 enter and watch the fun. This will use badblocks nondestructively and set off a repair operation which should end up with

Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

Okay, your bios settings are messed up on that computer. You need to go into bios settings and give them some clues about what's actually on the computer in terms of hardware. The bios settings on your machine have lost their mind somehow. On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Ray Dillinger wrote: I have

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

Yes, I meant apt-cdrom, actually what you're wanting to do is to make a local mirror of a repository. On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Richard Owlett wrote: Jude DaShiell wrote: The apt-cd package may help here. I don't find apt-cd. Do you mean apt-cdrom which is used to add a new CD-ROM to APT's

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

The apt-cd package may help here. Also when searching for tutorials I find it useful to append tutorial OR howto to google searches for problems like this. The howtos get you into another probably useful category. On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Richard Owlett wrote: Joe wrote: On Mon, 04 Nov 2013

Re: [SOLVED] Messed up audio settings

Earlier youtube had muted sound on its videos. I found that out as a result of reading some other blindness-related e-mail lists and I wrote about it earlier on this list. So, did you unmute the video? You need to do this with each video you visit. If you did that and are still having

Re: no sound with youtube

On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Bernhard Kuemel wrote: Hi! I have no sound with youtube.com and chatroulette.com in iceweasel. I found pages where flash sound works: http://www.crackle.com/c/comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee http://www.songsofinsects.com/flashtest/index.html Otherwise I can play

Re: just released Grml 2013.09

I tried installing that from an iso for accessibility and noticed the boot up sounds are not four different musical notes any longer. There are several of them and hitting q followed by modprobe speakup_soft enter followed by espeakup enter did not enable any screen reader on the sound card

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 14:41 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 13:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf

Re: quit out of olive?

On Sat, 21 Sep 2013, Josef Bailey wrote: On 09/21, Jude DaShiell wrote: How is this possible? On the amd64 machine I use the q key does nothing and what's worse the program also has control-c and control-d blocked as well so they cqan't disrupt program operation. Hello Jude I

quit out of olive?

How is this possible? On the amd64 machine I use the q key does nothing and what's worse the program also has control-c and control-d blocked as well so they cqan't disrupt program operation. --- jude

nrss in jessie

simply doesn't work even using sample config in man page. That package ought to be removed from debian archives. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

rvlc dvd syntax

I've tried: rvlc --quiet --novideo --volume 300 3 dvd:///dev/dvd1 and I got the loop intro music but can't get rvlc to do anything else with the merlin's apprentice dvd. What syntax can I use with rvlc to listen to the movie? I know: mplayer dvd /dev/dvd1 does get the movie to play in mplayer.

wodim and LITE-ON dvd

I can provide a little help for anyone using one of these internal dvd writers and wodim but I'm not sure it'll be worth it. Wodim is too brain-damaged to even detect the model of LITE-ON DVD I have installed however since it's on /dev/sr0 when wodim is given a pointer to the drive it does

had to remove tin

I installed tin and once I got it connected to my news server and got all of the preliminaries out of the way I used rtin and tried to do a search for alt.astrology-moderated. I tried with the (/) and later with the (s) to search for and subscribe to that newsgroup. I couldn't do it since as

Re: Backup/Restore software?

add -z to that rsync command and you get your data compression. Also, it's the source and destination that count here. If your source is backed up and compressed then all you have to do to effect a restore operation is use the original destination as the next source and the original source as

Re: Strange behavior with pdf docs

The newer versions of pdf reader open all documents in protected mode. There's supposed to be an enable-all-features button in adobe you can hit with your mouse to unprotect these documents at least on windows. This protected mode also disables screen readers and if the screen reader user

Re: how to avoid download during debian installation.

Easy, run in expert mode and key in your mirror selection manually when the list of ftp sites comes up. Also, choose not to download anything from security.debian.org during the install process.On Sat, 11 May 2013, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i am frequently installing Debian on our systems

Re: anyone using shell-fm?

I don't mind building from source. I've had to do it several times already. One of these days I'll learn to build my own kernel too, but I'm not yet that advanced. On Tue, 7 May 2013, Peter Tynan wrote: Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 18:46:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jude DaShiell jdash

anyone using shell-fm?

I'm having no luck setting this package up to work on Debian and really would prefer to avoid windows for use of lastfm. The problem I'm having is when shell-fm tries to connect, the site it uses generates an error 403. Is the site that shell-fm tries to connect to the only possible

Re: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

It's usually possible to have wheezy netinst image ask about nonfree packages but a couple things need doing first. Either use expert as a boot parameter or a ways down into install hit () followed by enter a few times and get back out to the main menu where you'll have to key in numbers to

Re: Wget difference

I suspect wget debian version has some kind of problem it doesn't happen on slackware current either. Also, you may find using wget with the -b switch makes life better. When wget-log or wget-log.x is created after issuing that command with the url after the -b, you can monitor growth of the

Re: Wget difference

Forgot to mention, once wc -l wget-log or wc -l wget-log.x is issued, hitting up arrow followed by enter gets you further line counts of wget-log for monitoring progress of file download. On Thu, 2 May 2013, francis picabia wrote: I often download packages to servers using wget and the Direct

Re: rootfs

It's probable that the dental work that was done has misaligned several teeth which would account for the pain spreading to places it had not been before, everything either is connected or connects in the mouth by way of contacts when we eat which is why I suggested a follow up visit to find

Re: rootfs

Sorry, wrong list for reply. On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/4/19 Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk That seems correct. Device nodes don't tend to take up any space. Now try it again on the filesystem (like I showed you). Ok, here follows the relevant ouput.

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

Buy a dvd burner, not blue ray either and replace that cdrom in the old computer. It should cost less than the new hard drive or about the same amount of money to do that. On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found the

re: checkrestart results

That's interesting since I have perl on this system checkrestart didn't mention it. What checkrestart did mention was: These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to restart them: postgresql-9.1: 2578/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/postgres 2582

re: checkrestart results

What I do for perl when I remember is to run cpanp and do a s selfupdate all command inside of cpanp. That may help Arnold's perl problem I hope. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do

Re: possible in lynx file download?

have you highlighted the md5sums file then tried hitting the (d) key? With lynx I notice on certain sites different behavior depending on whether the (d) key is used or the enter key is used to start a download. On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Rick Thomas wrote: On Macs (an apple macintosh G4,

Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian

Could debian be installed over skype from a remote location? On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:10:40PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i am living in a remote country and our main branch is in US where hosting is very expensive. it is almost costing us

Re: using microphone

lspci -v | grep -i mic may help. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

Have you updated all of your usb drivers on that trouble machine yet? If memory serves update-usb-ids ought to do that for you. Run by root or something like root it's a script. Also, shut the trouble box down and leave it off for an entire minute then reboot. Finally maybe download the

Re: choosing a web browser

the seamonkey package may be what you're looking for. It combines firefox with thunderbird in a single package and uses less system resources. It also doesn't update constantly either. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net

Re: gcalcli - commandline for google calendar

ttytter works using oauth. Why not download the ttytter package and install it, then run it from the command line. Once you see the pin come up which twitter.com sends you copy it then hit control-z to drop out of your browser and back into ttytter and type the pin and hit the submit or

Re: (no subject)

Maybe usbmount package might help you out. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: debian CD repository

There is an apt-cd package to be used for what you want to do and you may need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list as well. On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i have downloaded all the Debian 6 DVDs from the repo. but as per my knowledge when i run apt-get install packagename it

Re: BSD more secure? was: Re: 10 top myths of debian

On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Morel B?renger wrote: Le Sam 2 mars 2013 4:44, Miles Fidelman a ?crit : Yaro Kasear wrote: I don't know if Debian's the most SECURE distribution. It doesn't really have a hardened profile or anything like what Gentoo offers. (Gentoo isn't a prime example of a secure

elpa install failed

I tried installing elpa on wheezy emacs and the install failed. It appears the control-j key when pressed after the piece of code is put into the scratch buffer and the cursor is positioned just after the last right parenthesis does nothing. Was this some kind of security fix put into the

emacs elpa install failed

It turns out I wasn't in the scratch buffer when I tried the eval. I thought I was in that buffer after trying to enter it in the wrong way but that wasn't the case. Also I found el-get package and since that supports more than elpa, I installed that package and made evaluate run on it

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