Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello. To restart apache2, I simply use the command apache2 -k
restart, which works nicely. Does anyone know of a similar command
for proftpd?
Maybe /etc/init.d/proftpd restart
I haven't installed it ATM
Thanks,
Mark
Tom
Thanks
Hello. I set up a donated computer for homeless adults who live in a
warehouse, and I would like to secure the desktop. The computer is
using Etch, with Gnome.
The issue is that one of the residents will create hundreds of new
untitled folders on the desktop. Further, she'll mess around with
I guess it depends on what they use the computer for. If it is only
for browsing the web and using webmail, then you might want to
consider looking at kiosktool (for KDE) or pessulus (for GNOME).
I've not used either personally, but I have seen machines running KDE
in kiosk mode and the
Between those who post OT threads, and those who whine about the OT
threads, it's hard to say what's more annoying.
I dunno. I just ignore 'em all.
Mark
PS, I'm pretty excited about the Ottawa Senators/Buffalo Sabres game
this Saturday.
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Do I need any special repostory with a better version of ffmpeg?
Thank you for your attention.
Take a look here perhaps:
http://debian-multimedia.org/index.html
/Magnus
I added deb http://mirror.home-dn.net/debian-multimedia sarge main to
my repostories updated, removed and
On 05/10/07 19:38, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
I have decided that I prefer the KDE interface more than Gnome. Is
it ok to just uninstall the entire Gnome package? Is there an easy
way to remove them with just a single command at the command prompt?
I've done this before. It was pretty easy.
XFCE advertises itself as a fast window manager. But since both are
based on GTK, won't Gnome be equally fast? What is it that makes XFCE
faster than Gnome?
Good question. I've used xfce, and have not found it any faster, or
easier, on the system's resources, than gnome. The only window
The wmdrawer was a great application for the fluxbox slit. I used this
instead of trying to have icons on the desktop. It worked great.
Otherwise, the slit was not much use for me.
From what I could tell, the slit was where a program would be hidden,
until your mouse went over it. At this
although i have been having a bit of difficulty finding a good guide
that explains just the basics of debian. Can anyone suggest a good
guide?
The wiki is good. It's at http://wiki.debian.org There's lots of
specific information on this wiki. There is a general Howto as well,
at
part 2
cat /etch/apt/sourses.lists
#deb cdrom:[debian gnu/linux 4.0 r0_etch-official i386 cd binary-1
20070407-11:35/ etch contrib main # same as above
#line commented out by installer because it failed to verify::
#deb http:// security.debian.org...
#line commented out...
#deb-src
Greetings;
I upgraded from Sarge according to the instructions but I have
had all sorts of problems with it.
It seems to me that either something got corrupted during
the upgrade, there is something left over from Sarge that
shouldn't be, or there is the wrong version of a library
You would be well served to learn
to google-fu to help you with this stuff.
I prefer mailing lists myself. It's more human, rather than the
faceless, conglomerate google.
Mark
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Hi,
On 5/6/07, Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Man, I just tried OOo-Base, and it stinks. I used to use Lotus
Approach, and it was great.
I can't even cut and paste the table entries into Calc. I try
printing the forms, and it only prints half.
Okay, I did
Now here is the weird thing ... I did a Gnome - Places - Find Files
searching for ppd thinking that if there is an existing folder I should
use it ... well along with a few other files it found in the
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/linuxpriting.org-gs-builtin/Samsung folder a
file called
On 5/3/07, Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Man, I'm getting a bit annoyed with Epiphany. Very frequently,
when I visit http://www.thestar.com, and click a news link, it
crashes. What is up with that? After the initial crash, it's
usually fine, but the constant first crash when
It's basic thing but I don't remember how to setup printer.
In general user, I can't print any paper.
I tried 'lpr' command for test, it gives about permission denied
error.
I checked the Debian/GNU Linux System Admin's manual.
The printer setup section is blank. :-(
In addition, how do
Man, I just tried OOo-Base, and it stinks. I used to use Lotus
Approach, and it was great.
I can't even cut and paste the table entries into Calc. I try printing
the forms, and it only prints half.
Well, that ends my rant for today.
Mark
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Man, I just tried OOo-Base, and it stinks. I used to use Lotus
Approach, and it was great.
I can't even cut and paste the table entries into Calc. I try
printing the forms, and it only prints half.
Well, that ends my rant for today.
Mark
Okay, I did manage to figure out how I could
Man, I'm getting a bit annoyed with Epiphany. Very frequently, when I
visit http://www.thestar.com, and click a news link, it crashes. What
is up with that? After the initial crash, it's usually fine, but the
constant first crash when I'm browsing is a little annoying.
I use Etch.
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Hello,every body
My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or
Debian,the quality is to bad.
Any software or driver can solve?
xmms gives good sound, and has an equalizer and playlist (displayed
when the eq and pl buttons are pressed).
Mark
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There are also programs such as cinelerra and LIVE and things like
Blender that could be used to edit camcorder footage and enhance it.
In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into
packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines
them all into one
Hello list,
I just upgraded from sarge to etch using apt-get dist-upgrade. I have
a few problems. The OS won't completely start.
Well, just a couple of guesses below:
I had problems getting x to run after upgrading. Issues with the
xfree86 to xorg transition.
Try dpkg-reconfigure
Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select Actions, and
then select Cancel pending actions, when running aptitude. I've only
been able to select this using a mouse.
Mark
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Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select Actions,
and then select Cancel pending actions, when running aptitude.
I've only been able to select this using a mouse.
Mark
I don't understand what you mean. You want to tell Aptitude to do a
bunch of stuff, and then tell
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:01:45 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hi. I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select Actions,
and then select Cancel pending actions, when running aptitude.
I've only been able to select this using a mouse.
You can access the menu by pressing CTRL
The article includes screenshots and original artworks. Do you like
the redesign? You can read the article here.
It looks good. I may try it myself. I'm curious about the panels of
your xfce setup. In mine, when I installed xfce, there was both a top
and bottom panel (it was a while ago
Keep the following packages at their current version:
fam [Not Installed]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
libgnomevfs2-0 recommends fam
nautilus recommends fam
Score is -341
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
end
I chose not to accept this right now. Do I need to add these
I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the
icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and
some launchers I had set up are gone.
Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was?
Some easy suggestions: Perhaps starting nautilus, via the keyboard,
might help
So I'd say that maybe Stable is really not for Desktop use.
Testing is the best choice because it is neither too dangerous
nor too old.
What do you think about adding a new release type maybe called
current?
I think we already have that middle ground, with Debian backports.
When
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 13:01 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
Has anybody gotten direct rendering to work with the legacy mach64
Rage Pro Mobility card .. with the etch version of Xorg?
The ATI web site does not provide drivers for this antique so I'll
have to use the one that's provided with Xorg.
$
hi,
I tried to record sound, using the standard grecord on gnome
(testing), although it is running correctly on a PC, it didn't record
on my laptop which is a new one ( compaq dual core). The sound card is
good since I can hear sound and play video.
so I want to check that the recorder is
I did manage to get this working with a former linux kernel image of
Etch, but I've had no luck with the more recent kernel image of
Etch.
Would that be 2.4.27?
I got direct rendering, with the aforementioned driver, running on
2.6.16-2. I currently have 2.6.18-4, and for some reason
Would it be possible that you could tell me how to get the 3D
acceleration operational so that I can use the whole potential of the
Notebook?
Perhaps at http://dri.freedesktop.org you'll find some helpful hints.
There's details on http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building for
building drivers
Hi. Has anyone seen and checked out elive. Someone told me about it
today, and it looks pretty good. It's a distro for low end computers
using enlightenment, that is completely compatible with Debian.
Their wiki doesn't seem to work, however. I tried to register, so that
I could help out
So, has anyone else had this issue recently? I tried running
alsaconf, and installing various gstreamer stuff, but to no avail.
Mark
Hi Mark,
What was the result of running alsaconf? Did it claim to have
installed the sound module?
What sound card are you using? Do you see its
Hi Mark,
Have your tried doing aplay from a commandline just to eliminate Gnome
as the source of the problem. I don't use gnome so I can't help you
there. Can you get the alsamixer to work? Or does it also complain
that it can't find any device?
Cheers,
Jonathan
Alsamixer only works right
Hi,
I don't see what change in Debian Sid (some dist upgrede, suposse)
makes that the Palm sync doesn't work.
Seems that the reason is that the system doesn't create
the /dev/ttyUSB0 --when the 'sync' button push.
I have had very similar issues recently when using jpilot, and
pilot-link.
Firstly: Are you a part of the audio group? If not, that will make
everything cranky. You can fix this by adding yourself to the audio
group. It'll just say The user user is already a member of audio
example:
princess:~# adduser greg audio
The user `greg' is already a member
Hello. After a recent upgrade of Etch, I find I have no sound. The
volume control thingy on the top panel of gnome suddenly had a red x
beside it, and, when I pressed it, it gave me the following error:
The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control.
This means either
Since I could not apt-get install skype on my debian stable system. I
downloaded skype 1.3.0 debian source from skype.com and use dpkg
installed the skype.
To install skype with apt (or aptitude, or synaptic), just add the
following repository to your sources.list:
deb
Scheduling an audio recording with sound-recorder failed on my etch
box. Only about the first 3 hours were recorded, resulting in a file
just 2.0 GB large. (This was a recording of an opera production, so
it is difficult / impossible to predict suitable breaks in order to
record smaller
Hello. I'm wondering if there is a similar utility to konqueror's
audiocd:/ utility in gnome? Does nautilus have a similar utility?
If not, I'll just install konqueror, and use it.
What does audiocd:/ do? I'm guessing it plays audio CDs. If so,
then you run Foot-Sound Video-CD
Mark Grieveson wrote:
More teeth grittin' sound issues, which are a plenty with good ol'
Linux!
I bought a cheap microphone, to record my voice on a wav file. I
opened gnome-sound-recorder (of the gnome-media package), and, under
Record from input:, I selected microphone. However
Hello. I'm wondering if there is a similar utility to konqueror's
audiocd:/ utility in gnome? Does nautilus have a similar utility? If
not, I'll just install konqueror, and use it.
Mark
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Hello:
I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit
machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find
essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask
for your help one issue at a time.
The first, and most annoying thing is
More teeth grittin' sound issues, which are a plenty with good ol' Linux!
I bought a cheap microphone, to record my voice on a wav file. I opened
gnome-sound-recorder (of the gnome-media package), and, under Record from
input:, I selected microphone. However, it kept switching to AC97, and
Etherconf disappeared in Etch - I don't know why.
Does any utility exist in Etch for [re]configuring the basic network
settings?
Not a Gnome or KDE utility, because I don't install X on a lot of my
boxes.
None that I am aware of. You have to do it by hand.
Interesting trend. I
OK, so I installed Sarge on my machine. The other day, I decided to
upgrade to Etch. I modified the sources file, changing stable to
etch, and ran `apt-get --ignore-hold dist-upgrade`. After sorting out
one minor issue with inetd, apg-get reports everything's OK, and the
/etc/debian_version
Greetings Mark:
This script would set your on-board card (CS46xx) to be your default
card for alsa regardless of which card it is in the system (0 or 1):
#!/bin/bash
#
# The awk statement should get the first word (the card number)
# from the line which contains the text (the card name)
Hi,
I have just installed debian 3.1, and have all the 14 cds. however, i do not
know which one the GUI is on, and how to load the cds from the text
interface for that matter. Can you help me please?
Thanks
Toshko
There are several different choices of gui, some of which are likely
Greetings Mark:
As others have said, it sounds like the cards are not always getting
recognized in the same order, so sometimes your sound card is card 0 and
sometimes it is card 1. That used to happen to me once in a while, but
it hasn't lately.
In any event, you can verify that this is
look at the /dev file for the scanner and make sure you are in its
group. (you'll have to log out and back in to recognize your new
group)
Thanks. I had put myself in the scanner group, but had not restarted.
Restarting worked.
Mark
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Hello. I have a scanner, HP ScanJet 6200C. There's also a TV Card on my
computer (Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture), which I don't use. When I start xsane, as regular user, it only
allows me the choice of the Bt878 device, and not the HP ScanJet.
Thanks for the help - have fixed it. It was a combo of not having the
latest flash plugin (now fixed with flashplugin-nonfree) and adjusting
the /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc file as was suggested with reference to
Mozilla.
Now fixed, except for when the site requires something proprietary.
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hi. I have a cheap usb audio device for Skype, and a regular sound
card for the rest of the computer. I'm using Etch. I would like to
be able to get sound when browsing the internet, or listening to
music, or watching movies, from the soundcard, while
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hi. I have a cheap usb audio device for Skype, and a regular sound
card for the rest of the computer. I'm using Etch. I would like to
be able to get sound when browsing the internet, or listening to
music, or watching movies, from the soundcard, while
Hi all
My wife has run into a problem using iceweasel to access a site like
123greetings.com - none of the cards are playing a sound. She is using
KDE. When she's tried using konqueror it simply borks and displays a
dialog box asking whether she wants to use gxine to load the swf file.
Hi. I have a cheap usb audio device for Skype, and a regular sound card for
the rest of the computer. I'm using Etch. I would like to be able to get
sound when browsing the internet, or listening to music, or watching movies,
from the soundcard, while simultaneously being able to use the usb
Subject: Firefox drop-down menus problem
Running Debian stable, with Foxfire 1.04. In Firefox, there is a
problem with the drop-down menus. Unhighlighted items show as black text
against a grey background (as expected). But items highlighted by moving
the mouse cursor over them show as
I think you should. The current version is 9.0.31.0.1. Your version is
trying to fetch a file which is no longer hosted by Adobe.
Thanks. My sources were in fact the problem. I changed the sources to:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
and then I updated it,
What version of flashplugin-nonfree is installed? I ask because your
machine is trying to fetch a beta version of Flash. It should be
looking for Flash 9 final. Have done an 'apt-get update apt-get
upgrade' recently?
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Hi. I use aptitude, and yes, I have run both aptitude update,
Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. Both
installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts to download an
older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the recent file from the
adobe site, but the flashplugin-nonfree package did not recognize
I have a webserver, using apache2. I've got gnome-power-manager running too.
I'm wondering if suspend via gnome-power-manager affects a website being
served. Or, does hibernate via gnome-power-manager affects a website being
served? I'm using Etch.
Mark
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Hello. Yes, I did search the mail archives, and found lots of potential
answers in the search results. However, the web-server could neither find nor
display them; so, I am putting forward this (sadly) common question here: is
there a way to just have good ol' debian load the sound drivers
After upgrade to etch , the abiword won't start anymore.
(I've tried to reinstall it , but that doesn't help)
Perhaps purging it, and then reinstalling, would work.
Mark
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Thanks for all the great suggestions for the dial up connection. The computer
is an old laptop that I'm setting up for my mom (an IBM Thinkpad 770, with
MS-DOS and Mom's beloved WordPerfect 5.1 on one partition, and Abiword, with
xfce4, on the other partition), with a dial-up connection. I
Hello. Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for
xfce? I don't wish to use kppp, or gnome-ppp.
I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root. As a regular user it
states that it cannot access pppd, instructing me to check my permissions.
I've checked,
I've noticed that when I play quake2 in xfce, that it briefly freezes every
once in a while. This does not happen if I'm using Gnome, or Ion3. Anyone
else noticed this? I'm using Etch, on a Pentium III with 450 MHz, and 384 MB
ram.
Mark
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Hello. I tried installing jre-6 from
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp, using java-package and
fakeroot, but it did not work. Is there a way to install jre-6?
Mark
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Hello. I'm looking for a command line iso cd-burner application to use instead
of nautilus-cd-burner. I tried the package burn, but it does not work.
I'm hoping to find one so that I can switch from using Gnome, to using a
desktop that is less demanding of resources (hence, I'm also looking
Hello. I'm looking for a command line iso cd-burner application to
use instead of nautilus-cd-burner. I tried the package burn, but it
does not work.
What does not work? Maybe I can help. I am using it, too, and have
looked at the (quite ugly) source a few times.
First, thanks to
Let me get this straight, you want to use a WM that is less resource
hungry, but want an alternative to nautilus. You know you can install
nautilus and run it on any window manager right?
You may be right about there not being a significant difference between one WM
and/or desktop
What about cdrecord (in stable) or wodim (in testing/unstable)?
Thanks for the suggestions. However, too steep a learning curve for me, I'm
afraid.
Mark
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==Also - how can I 'rip' a DVD into an mpeg or avi file?==
Acidrip works well for creating an avi file.
Mark
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I'm looking for a music player in Debian with some features, I
did not yet find in the ones I tried
xmms gives some additional options for playing music, such as an
equalizer. Also, a good website for finding music applications is
http://sound.condorow.net/
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1st question is, how do I start the GUI (KDE, Gnome, whatever) that I
assume is bundled with the distro?
Sometimes, following the initial install, a user needs to log in, and then
enter the command startx to get the gui going. Afterward, gdm (gnome display
manager) should just work on it's
Hello. Has anyone, when using a generic usb phone for skype, had any luck
getting the keys on such a device working? I can hear, and talk, but I cannot
dial using the keys the device I have.
Mark
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It's avaible in contrib in all Debian flavours. Remember that the
command you've to call is make-jpkg.
Hmm. Perhaps that's the problem. Maybe I don't have contrib listed in my
repositories. I'll check that when I'm back to work on Monday.
Thanks,
Mark
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Hello. I tried to install java-package, so that, via fakeroot, I could install
sun's java runtime environment. Java-package did not exist, however. Has
something new happened that I'm not aware of?
Mark
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Hello. I set up a computer in a homeless shelter, with access to the
internet. It's KDE, with launchers on the desktop (I find that people
with little computer experience do not like the start button; so, a
set up reminiscent of a Windows 3.11 desktop is best, where everything
is plain to
I like sid but is to much *unstable*.
Perhaps testing (aka Etch) would better suit you. I'm using Etch, and
it is now quite good.
Mark
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Is there a way to have applications that are opening ignore subsequent
requests to open?
Sure. Change the icon to run a wrapper shell script which checks
first to see if the binary's running. The script would grep the
process table:
#!/bin/sh
#
if [ $(/bin/ps fax |
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Is there a way to have applications that are opening ignore
subsequent requests to open?
Mark
Using Sarge here. May be different if you have Etch...
Right-click on the icon.
Click on Properties. Open the application tab.
Open Advanced Options.
At the bottom
You're probably not going to be able to fix this social problem through
technological means. Probably going to need to educate your users about
proper use.
Neither they, nor I, have the patience for that, though. Hence, my
quest for a technological fix.
Mark
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This is all goblygook to me; my current box has a SB16
...Note that I don't run gnome. I have been using icewm since my current
box has a 486.
Coming here is a good place to start when having issues getting sound.
Some suggestions: try installing alsa-base, alsa-utils, and alsa-oss.
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hi everyone. I have a usb-audio-device (aka a skype phone), and a
couple of speakers plugged into my regular soundcard. I can get
sound out of either device separately, but not both. I feel that I
should be able to use both the soundcard, and the usb-audio-device
When using KDE, sometimes the rendering of the desktop will become too
large, making things unusable, and requiring a reboot to fix. This
occurs, usually, when I open a fullscreen game such as defendguin or
supertux. In particular, if I've accidentally doubleclicked the mouse,
when only a
Hi everyone. I have a usb-audio-device (aka a skype phone), and a
couple of speakers plugged into my regular soundcard. I can get sound
out of either device separately, but not both. I feel that I should be
able to use both the soundcard, and the usb-audio-device at the same
time (chat
Ir could I e.g. run a very simple wondow manager
that doesn't depend even on gtk?
Ion3 is my recommendation.
Mark
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I changed the location line: report_location=CYYZ (I also tried lower
case). This too failed.
That's what I do to get my location. On first run I add the applet to the
panel to create that config file then remove it from the panel, change the
report location manually and add the applet
Anyone know how I can get konqueror to start up with google.ca, instead
of this irritating Konqueror: Conquer your desktop! page that keeps
popping up? I changed the homepage setting, but when I start it, I
still get the irritating, practically an advertisement, cover page.
Mark
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Okay, I did figure this out. Setting the homepage in konqueror
apparently involves the extra step of set view-profile under settings.
Mark
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Hello. I decided to give KDE a try. I cannot get the kweather panel
applet to work, however. Does anyone have any clues as to what I should do?
Thanks,
Mark
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and/or a Debian version of EasyUbuntu:
For Sarge, there was GenieOS, but I don't think a version of that has
been released for Etch. The other option is Knoppix, which is as close
to EasyDebian as you're going to find.
Mark
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On Wed November 29 2006 12:04 am, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello. I decided to give KDE a try. I cannot get the kweather panel
applet to work, however. Does anyone have any clues as to what I should
do?
It works for me here although with the testing/unstable version I need to edit
I got the following error message:
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.debian-multimedia.org
etch/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/www.debian-multimedia.org_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
Cheers,
Brian
If you just added this
There are, I understand, problems that come up when you mix apt-get
with aptitude. Does switching to aptitude preclude using those
graphical tools? ... but update-notifier and synaptic are examples of
fantastic GUI programs that I would not want to give up.
Can anyone clear this up?
I'm
Any suggestions for how to fix this mess? At the moment, the best
thing I can think of would be to reinstall, with tasksel/kde-desktop.
I'd prefer something a little less drastic.
If you have the metapackages gnome, or gnome-desktop-environment,
installed, then mark these for removal. If
As you implied I took it one step at a time, making sure I still had
connectivity after each one of them:
1. Did a minimal Sarge install
2. Installed the 2.6.8 kernel alongside the native 2.4.27
3. Upgraded to testing/etch via a dist-upgrade
4. Installed the etch 2.6.17 kernel alongside his two
Hello. I set up Skype, with a usb audio device, for the homeless in a
shelter that I work in. This is useful, because people can contact
family and/or friends whom they may otherwise not have been able to
contact. I set this up on Debian Etch.
However, I find the volume settings are
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