Re: Debian v.9.2.1 DVDs - how long are they good for?

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot, my friends. I did not anticipate such a beautiful
set of responses!

Re: USB camera; was Re: Video input vs. systemctl enable.

[anonymous]

Hi.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 01:22:48PM +, Curt wrote:
> On 2017-09-20, Reco  wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 05:56:22AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> >> *  From: Reco 
> >> *  Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:20:18 +0300
> >> > What does 'lsusb' and 'lsusb -t' show for you?
> >> 
> >> peter@dalton:~$ lsusb
> >> Bus 001 Device 006: ID 045e:00f8 Microsoft Corp. LifeCam NX-6000
> >
> > I got that feeling that things won't be easy, but M$ webcam put this
> > right into 'hardcore entertainment' category. Marked AO for Adult Only.
> > Viewer discretion is advised.
> >
> 
> Wouldn't it be helpful to see the dmesg output when he plugs the device
> in? Or did we see that already upthread?

Probably not. lsusb -t is a viable substitute.
I.e. the device is plugged, but there's no appropriate kernel module.
Also I'm allergic to 'journalctl -foobar' output. Way too much noise for
my taste.


> I'm reading that this material requires a tweak:
> 
>  options uvcvideo quirks=0x100
> 
> in
> 
>  /etc/modprobe.d/uvcvideo.conf
> 
> http://www.linux-hardware-guide.com/2014-01-18-microsoft-lifecam-nx-6000

There's a catch. You can pass various options to a kernel module all day
long, but they won't do anything unless the kernel module is loaded.
And that one was not.
Moreover, loading the thing by hand and feeding it a correct USB ID did
not do anything of value.
*Maybe* if uvcvideo is loaded with this quirk *and* fed a USB ID there
would be some difference. An idea worth to check IMO.

Reco

Codecs and such? Like ubuntu restricted extras package?

[Anonymous]

Does something like this exist in Debian? A package which
brings in restricted extras? A repository for all these
extras? (without trusting some vague "unofficial" maintainer)

It's so easy with the various buntus and Mint, I'm searching
for similar functionality here.

[FWIW I ONLY WANT TO USE DEBIAN]

TIA

Tails: Failed InRelease - tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/

[Anonymous]

I'm seeing this in Tails when I refresh the package repositories:

Failed - 0B - InRelease - tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/ debian stretch 
InRelease

Why is this happening and how may I fix it please?

Feedback

[Anonymous]

Hello!


   Today I downloaded the latest release of Debian, the 9.1 i386 XFCE Live. I 
downloaded as a torrent by the earlier Debian 9.0.1 x64 XFCE. I experienced 
(sorry my poor english!) that the LibreOffice  Writer couldn't start and the 
system can give only 1GB free space (!). I don't like the mount other volumes 
or external USB tools when I use a live unsafe system because the safety, but 
for 1GB free space is good for nothing, sorry!

   Later I found an harmful "thing" on the machine, the system automatically 
logged out and asked my login names and passwords many times and not only in 
the Debian the problem was same in other linux too.Maybe this harmful "thing" 
caused the overmentioned problems (LibreOffice and fev free space), but I don't 
think. I don't know yet that my machine when infected, but maybe when I 
downloaded the new release? 
I knowing that the torrent client is checking the hash of the downloaded files, 
but I think this is not hundred percent :-)

Now, I would like to thank's your work! Greatings from Hungary!

Audio CD Ripper: Best which use multicore for encoding?

[Anonymous]

TIA

Dare to be stupid

[Anonymous]

You can be a coffee achiever
You can sit around the house and watch Leave It To Beaver
The future's up to you
So what you gonna do

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LXQT - Anyone using it?

[Anonymous]

Is anyone using LXQT? What do you think about it?

Bluray Debian ISOs: Which app(s) burns bluray images?

[Anonymous]

With downloaded Bluray ISO images, I need to use
a burning application in Linux which supports blank
Bluray medium. I know I could try Windows options
such as ImgBurn via Wine, but I'm hoping for a Linux
application. Thanks.

Custom Debian LiveCD?

[Anonymous]

I'd like to make my own custom Debian livecd for private
use. However, when I search for this on the web it's either
posts which talk about discontinued programs which have
been abandoned and/or no longer work, or pages with step by
step instructions, dozens of pages long, and usually followed
by posts with attempts to correct the tutorial, complain
about it being broken and so on. Thank you for the fish.

Skype

[Anonymous]

Skype on Linux is terrible and crashes randomly, even after fixing the
Pulseaudio issue. No other software I've ever used on Linux causes as
many problems as Skype. Obviously this problem ultimately comes from
Microsoft, but nevertheless many of us need Skype for communications
with colleagues running a non-Linux OS since it is the overwhelming
market leader in VOIP; this is especially common in a business environment.

Skype needs to run on Linux with the same stability that it does on
Windows and MacOS, WITHOUT resorting to installing WINE, and preferably
without relying on WebRTC.

If you could develop a non-Skype Linux client with the ability to easily
communicate on the Skype platform --- something open source but which
has compatibility with Skype, coordinated with Microsoft --- that would
be ideal. But relying on Microsoft to develop good software for Linux
has proven to be a losing proposition and I'm sure is stifling the
adoption of Linux by a wider audience.

Re: Is my libpcap properly installed?

[anonymous]

On Mar 1, 1:00 pm, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 23:29 -0800, anonymous wrote:
> > I am trying to compile a package which requires libpcap. When I
> > do the following:
>
> *WHAT* are you trying to compile?
>
> Don't be ashamed to tell us. We can only help you if you give us info.
>
> more than likely you need the libpcap-dev package.
>
> You should also do upgrades on any security and major patches.
>
> Remember, when you compile... usually you need the "-dev" packages.
>
> "apt-cache search libpcap dev" will give you the package name.

Thanks a lot. This really helped. I installed libpcap0.7-dev and my
compilation proceeded smoothly.

Thanks again.

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Is my libpcap properly installed?

[anonymous]

I am trying to compile a package which requires libpcap. When I
do the following:

dpkg -l 'lib*' | grep libpcap

I get the following result:

ii  libpcap0.7   0.7.2-7  System interface for user level ...

I also checked this by using:

ls -l /usr/lib/libpcap*

and it produced the following result:

/usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.7 -> libpcap.so.0.7.2
/usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.7.2

However when I check for the header files associated with this library
i.e. pcap.h and bpf.h, they are no where on the entire system:

find / -name pcap.h -print

does not produce any result.

As a result, the program I am trying to compile produces errors when
trying to 'make'.

What is wrong with the installation of libpcap on my system which is
Sarge Debian 3.1r3.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

A.


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Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

[anonymous]

Steve McIntyre wrote:
> [ "anonymous" seems to be a silly name to be using, but hey... ]
>
> "anonymous" wrote:
> >
> >I still have not received a definitive reply to my question as yet.
> >Which, to repeat was:
> >
> >" I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15 regular and 3
> >for the update.  I would like to know whether all these CDs have
> >binary files or are these also include CDs with sources and
> >documentation. If so, which ones of them?"
>
> First of all, ignore the update CDs - they're designed to allow people
> with earlier CD sets to update their systems to 3.1r3.
>
> The 15 CDs for 3.1r3 (binary-i386) are laid out in the following
> order:
>
>  1) First come the installer and installation docs
>
>  2) Then the packages needed for the base system (kernel and other
> essential packages like libc)
>
>  3) Then the tasks listed in the installer (mail server, samba, chunks
> of Gnome, KDE, etc.)
>
>  4) Then the remaining packages, simply sorted in order of popularity
> using popcon results (see popcon.debian.org)
>
> I fact, the same ordering is used for all of the variety of CDs and
> DVDs. A businesscard CD just contains #1 above, a netinst contains #1
> and #2. CD #1 of the full set _should_ contain #1, #2 and #3
> above. DVD#1 will cover #1, #2, #3 and a large chunk of #4.
>
> The packages on these CDs are all binaries and the documentation
> packages to go with them, mixed by the popcon ordering. As they are
> ordered by popularity, most people don't need anything like the whole
> set; the first 5 or so will typically cover any common needs.
>
> The sources live separately, on the (cunningly-named!) source CDs and
> DVDs.
>
> If you want to see which packages are contained on each CD, look in
> the jigdo files that are also shipped from cdimage.debian.org. A jigdo
> file is basically just an index of the files contained in each iso
> image, along with some metadata and the checksums of those files.
>

This really explains everything. I have already downloaded 4 CDs and I
hope
this should help me get started with a decent system.

> Hope that helps...
>

Thanks for the detailed answers to my queries.

> Steve (debian-cd team, the guy who made the 3.1rX CDs)
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Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

[anonymous]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:23:11PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
> >
> > I don't know, but this has been discussed quite a lotta times in various 
> > fora.
> > Users often get stunned by the number of CDs and get confused what to
> > download and what not to.
>
> Perhaps http://www.debian.org/distrib/ should explicitly say
>
> If you have a decent internet connection, you only need the netinstall
> CD or the first regular CD.  The rest will be downloaded as needed
> and you won't waste bandwidth downloading packages you won't use.
>
> and the netinstall option should be the *first* on the list.  Definitely
> it should be presented before the option of downloading the complete set
> of CDs or DVDs.
>

Many thanks for your elaborated reply. I prefer to download the iso
image at least for the
first time install of the distribution as it would give me a better
*feel* about the distribution
and the packages included with it. Later, I can manage my machine even
when the
network is not available. May be installing next release of Debian, I
would go for a network
install.



> THen it should go on to explain:
>
> The other CD's are needed only if you are installing on a machine
> without a decent net connection, and you can install a very
> respectable Debian system using only the first few CDs, which contain
> the most popular packages.  The later CDs in the set contain less
> popular packages.
>

I still have not received a definitive reply to my question as yet.
Which, to repeat was:

" I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15 regular and 3
for the update.
I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or are
these also include CDs
 with sources and documentation. If so, which ones of them?"

In fact, I have received conflicting statements to answer this query.
Just compare the two
statements below.

 Samuel Bächler

AND

Amit Joshi

I am unable to decide which one of these is correct.

Having used Redhat and Slackware before which just use 4 CDs each for
the boot and
packages and a couple more for the documentation and sources, it is
difficult for me to take
15 CDs for the installation of packages alone.

IF this *is* really the case, there should be some good reason for
this: Does debian offer a
 lot of packages choices? Lot more than does either slackware or redhat
so as to need this
 much number of CDs?

OR the .deb packages are not as much efficient and do not use good
compression to
squeeze them all in a fewer CDs?


> That said, a list of which CDs contain which packages would still be
> useful.
>
> -- hendrik

Again, still awaiting some insight into the above issues.

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

[anonymous]

Samuel Bächler wrote:
> > A.
>
>
> First of all you should not call yourself anonymous, tell us your real name.
>
> > I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or are
> > these also include CDs with
> > sources and documentation. If so, which ones of them?
>
> As far as I know they include documentation and source code - thats in fact
> one key-feature of free-software.
>

That's what I also guessed. However, my real problem is that I would
like to first download
only the necessary and required CDs excluding those for sources and
docs. So, which
ones should I download? Strange enough, I did not find any mention of
what these CDs
 contain either on debian.org, installation manual or at any other
place on the Internet.
It would be much helpful if a list of files for each CD is made
available on the website.


I prefer to download iso images rather than a network install. I can
later use the CDs for
quick modifications to the installation rather than using network
everytime for this purpose.
May be, I also have to install on a machine which does not have access
to network.

> > How much would it need for a complete install on a P-IV 2.5GHz with 256
> > MB RAM?
> > And how much for the disk space?
>
> If you want to have a pretty installation create different partitions.
> Here is
> my partition table. I use my system just as a desktop-computer:
>
> directory; filesystem; size
> root; ext3; 100 MB
> /home; ext3; 10 GB
> swap; SWAP; 1 GB // for swap rule of thumb is twice your ram (2*256)
> /var; ext3; 1 GB
> /tmp; ext3; 1 GB
>
> Certainly there are *much* better setups. But at least it works for over one
> year now.
>

I am currently using Slackware. I have experimented with various sorts
of partitioning
schemes including similar to one given above.

> Cheers

Thanks for your reply. Hopefully, someone can help me figure out how
many CDs to
download for the binary files excluding sources and docs.

> Sam
>
>
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how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

[anonymous]

I was planning to download and test install Debian for the first time.
However, when I browsed the website below:

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/iso-cd/

for a download, I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15
regular and 3 for the update.

I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or are
these also include CDs with
sources and documentation. If so, which ones of them?

How much would it need for a complete install on a P-IV 2.5GHz with 256
MB RAM?
And how much for the disk space?

I tried to look up the answers in the online manual, but was unable to
find them. Any help would
be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

A.


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setting up partition before cryptsetup

[anonymous]

Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on
a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted
filesystem?


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encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?

[Anonymous]

I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive
encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able
to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the
encrypted FS mounted, then mount the encrypted partition in the SSH
session (from a trusted machine, of course) presumably by giving a
sort of mount command and entering the passphrase.

I've never used an encrypted FS before. Is what I want possible? What
encrypted FS supports this?

Thanks.


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securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

[Anonymous Sender]

I know that anyone who can get into a computer can make it insecure
(by putting the hard drive in another machine or taking the mo/board
battery out to clear the bios password), but what are the steps I can
realistically take to make a computer in a shared office secure?  I
can only think of these two:

1. set a BIOS password

2. set a GRUB password so no-one else can boot it into single-user
   mode

Anything else?


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- Original Message - 
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 1:01 AM
Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #533



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Re: remove a page about us on your site please

[privacy.at Anonymous Remailer]

You wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Could you please remove this page from your site: 
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/09/msg03184.html

Could you please take your spam

> stepnewz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
>  
> Could you please remove this page from your 
> site: 
> 
>  
>  href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/09/msg03184.html";>http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/09/msg03184.html
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Regards
>  
> stepnewz

and your HTML e-mail

and shove them up your ass.

Then don't let the door hit you on your way out.

FOAD
HTH


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Re: Request to remove Information

[privacy.at Anonymous Remailer]

> Use where there is a real threat to one's person for convey information of
> importance that might be supressed by individuals of power.
> 
> Being an asshat on an anonymous remailer only gives them a taint in the
> eyes of individuals which might turn into such services being completely
> ignored and thus negated.

Well, according to your law of the capitalist jungle if we offend our
corporate masters^H^H employers we deserve to be fired and starve.


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Re: Request to remove Information

[privacy.at Anonymous Remailer]

You wrote:

> On (14/11/05 17:36), privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote:
> > > > Regardless, please come back in a few months and request its removal 
> > > > again.  I'd love to see that original email [2] climb higher in 
> > > > Google's results than the current #3 spot it holds now when searching 
> > > > for your name. ;)
> > > 
> > > It's at the number 1 spot at the moment :D.
> > > 
> > > http://www.google.com/search?q=Weissgerber,+Tom+L
> > 
> > Let's keep it there with lots of links!
> > Edit your web pages, everyone
> > 
> Indulging in schadenfreude is one thing; deliberately exacerbating the
> guy's misfortune is probably more than he deserves.
> 
> OK he's made a relatively common mistake and then compounded it with the
> the removal request; if Tom's following this thread, he'll be suffering
> anyway.
> 
> I don't see the mileage in being vindictive.

He didn't just make a "relatively common mistake," he posted
HTML-loaded mail to a mailing list. If he can't figure out how to set
his mail client to plain text ONLY, he has no business in IT. If he
can't figure out that his request to this list, TWO YEARS after the
fact, is meaningless, he has no business in IT. I say let him have it
with both barrels.


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Re: Request to remove Information

[privacy.at Anonymous Remailer]

> > Regardless, please come back in a few months and request its removal 
> > again.  I'd love to see that original email [2] climb higher in 
> > Google's results than the current #3 spot it holds now when searching 
> > for your name. ;)
> 
> It's at the number 1 spot at the moment :D.
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Weissgerber,+Tom+L

Let's keep it there with lots of links!
Edit your web pages, everyone


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Re: Request to remove Information

[privacy.at Anonymous Remailer]

> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>

Re: Request to remove Information

[privacy.at Anonymous Remailer]

> privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote:
> > WTF is all this crap? Set your mail client up RIGHT or FOAD.
> 
> Ah yes, another example of responsible use of an anonymous remailer.
> You know, I've been known to be a right asshole in my years on this list and
> other venues.  At least my name was attached to it and I'll own up to it.  If
> you're going to use an anonymous remailer use it responsible.  If you're going
> to be an asshole, use your real name or not at all.

No more irresponsible or being an asshole than the OP who posted an
HTML-loaded mail to this list asking for his previous spam to be
deleted.


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Re: Request to remove Information

[privacy.at Anonymous Remailer]

You wrote:

> Debian,
> 
> The following information should not have been made available to the
> entire public domain. Please remove the following links/files at your
> earliest convenience. 
> 
> *Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:57:42 -0700 
> *Message-id:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  > 

Maybe that will teach you not to spam us.


>  xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" 
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: How to look up the serial port in debian?

[Anonymous Sender]

> Could anyone show me how to look up the used serial ports in Debian?  I want
> to use a serial port terminal to connect to a target board.  But the
> terminal said that the port I chose was already in use.  So I came to ask
> for help.

They're usually on the back of the box.

Here's what to look for:
http://www.markallen.com/teaching/ucsd/147b/images/9%20pin%20serial%20port%20jack.jpg

HTH,
Bob


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meaning of this? gethostby*.getanswer: ... got type "39"

[Anonymous]

I sometimes find such messages in my syslog:
  mutella gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "gwc1c.olden.ch.3557.nyud.net IN A",
  got type "39"

Maybe two or three in a day, then nothing like it for weeks. What
does it signify? Should I concern about it?

Thanks.


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how to remount / correctly?

[Anonymous]

Last time I tried to umount / and mount it again with different
options I wedged my system and had to reboot. I think I even tried
editing /etc/fstab first then type "umount / ; mount /" all on one
line.

What's the correct way to umount and re-mount /?

Thanks.


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side effects of mounting ext3 with "mand" option?

[Anonymous]

The wipe.sf.net file wiping tool's man page says the filesystem should
be mounted with the mand option for mandatory file locking.

I notice that this is not a default in any Gnu/Linux installation I've
ever used. I also can't find much documentation about it. Are there
any harmful side effects or is it safe to put in all my /etc/fstab
entries for hard drive partitions?

Thanks.


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Re: ext2/ext3, sync/async filesystems, data hygiene

[Anonymous]

Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm the author of wipe, btw (the one at wipe.sf.net). Meta-data journaling
> alone isn't a problem (except for wiping filenames), but full data
> journaling is, and some journaled fs (like reiser) don't necessarily place
> data on the same blocks when you overwrite (log-structured and versioning
> filesystems, especially). To be sure you overwrite the old blocks, you have
> to overwrite the whole partition.

But that's not usually practical!


> That's why it's best to encrypt sensitive data in the first place. That way,
> there's no plain text left around.

True, but if you want to edit a file (with vi, gimp, openoffice or
anything else) you have to save it then encrypt it then wipe it. A
file you can't edit is not a useful file!


> If you do use my util, get the latest WIP version from sourceforge. There's
> a couple minor bug fixes.

Thanks for the information. Keep up the good work!


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ext2/ext3, sync/async filesystems, data hygiene

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking of switching from ext3 back to ext2 because the wiping
utilities (shred, srm) aren't supposed to work on journaled
filesystems. But I'm also thinking of mounting ext2 synchronously to
reduce the risk of data loss (power cuts, etc).

What will I screw up if I do this?


I notice that the BSD people normally use synchronous filesystems and
we GNU-Linux people normally use async. Why? Are they wrong or just
different, and how?


Alternatively, can anyone recommend a file-wiping tool that
purges/wipes the ext3 journal as well as overwriting the file?

Thanks.


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Re: encrypting the users' folders

[privacy.at Anonymous Remailer]

> You do have to trust the entity that provides your service, and its
> agents, at least to some extent.
> 
> For example, an encrpyted filesystem does you no good if you are
> using the hardware provided by the hosting company which can insert
> keyloggers and take copies of the private keys which must be
> available to decrypt the filesystem.
> 
> Naturally that they might wish to do this is ridiculous and most
> people could trust most companies not to do such a thing (although
> depending on jurisdiction they can be compelled to allow lawful
> interception).
> 
> Every day you trust your service providers not to do bad things to
> you so the suggestion that no one is to be trusted is in my opinion
> needlessly paranoid.
> 
> Or do you grow all your own food because you can't trust suppliers
> not to put razor blades in it?

Razor blades you would notice!

What about mind-control nano-implants?!?!


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pinning ssh to whatever is current in stable?

[Anonymous]

On a Debian testing system I want to pin the ssh package only to
whatever is the current version from the stable repository.

I've read the APT HOWTO and I think I want to put this stanza in 
/etc/apt/preferences:

Package: ssh
Pin: release a=stable,c=main,o=Debian,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 1001

Is that correct? Can I get away with not stating "v=..."?

The file is now full of automatically generated stuff by
apt-listbugs. Will apt-listbugs retain my manually added stanza when
it rotates the preferences file? Do I add my stanza at the top or
bottom of the file or does it matter?

Thanks.


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hipcrime?

[privacy.at Anonymous Remailer]

Where can I get the famous "hipcrime" software?

Thank you!


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which version of the ssh daemon is more secure?

[Anonymous]

I'm running an "unstable" system and I need remote access by
ssh. "Stable" is considered better for servers (but I need
unstable for newer versions of a lot of packages on my
workstation), "testing" gets security updates last, but
"unstable" has a higher version number of ssh. it safer to
run the stable ssh (1:3.4p1-1.woody.3) or the unstable one
(1:3.8.1p1-8)?

Thank you.


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Man page issue

[Anonymous]

I installed the uisp package in Debian stable. 

I did 'man uisp' and was given the undocumented(7) man
page, which asked me not to report the lack of man
page as a bug. 

However, the uisp tarball, in the same version as the
one in Debian stable, does come with a man page. The
package just doesn't install it for some reason (that
reason being 'not-a-bug' according to the undocumented
man page).

I am hereby reporting this not-a-bug.

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2.2.17 and ReiserFS

[Anonymous Luser]

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I am going to give it a
shot anyway... I've been trying to compile all the pre-releases of the 2.2.17
kernel on ReiserFS, and none of them worked.
I am wondering if anyone knows what nesessary steps do I have to take, to make
it work?

libjpeg6a, libjpegg6a, kde

[Anonymous Coward]

ok i d/led the hamm version of kde from ftp.kde.org because the only
other was potato and i am running slink.  so i try to install the
kdelibg thing or whatever and it complains about no libjpeg6a so i find
the closest thing which is libjegg6a and libjpeg6b and install both of
them and neither of them work.  where can i find libjpeg6a with *one*
"g"?!  i also realized the alternative of doing --force-depend to
install kdelib but i'm no expert and that's the man dpkg said you should
be so can anyone help?  thanks

enlightenment, rpm

[Anonymous Coward]

ok i wanted the latest version of enlightenment on my debian 2.1 so i
took the rpm off of the RH6 cd and copied it to /.  then i did alien -d
theenlightenmnetrpm.rpm on the rpm and it generated it.  i also did it
on the enlightenment-conf rpm.  then i used dpkg -i on the .deb files
and everything went smoothly except for warnings about libungif.  then i
attempted to start enlightenment but it said no libungif so i got that
off of the RH6 cd also and did alien, dpkg etc. and installed it
everything went smoothly also.  then i try to start enlightenment and i
get "segmentation fault".  can anyone tell me either how to fix this or
how to get the latest (latest being 15) ver. of enlightenment on my sys
using apt or dselect or something like that (either of which i do not
have much knowledge).  is there a way i can get it on there without
installing it from tarballs?  i'd like to keep my system homogenous of
debian packages.  thank you

X, netscape

[Anonymous Coward]

now i am getting very, very annoyed.  with all the talk about how stable
etc. debian is then i try it and all the claims are invalid.  first with
the default everything on X etc. mozilla comes up with errors (actually
they are X errors, like "error invalid ButtonX call" etc. you get the
idea).  on mozilla also i can not hit enter in the location box to goto
a page, i must do file:open.  so then i use dselect to get a newer
version of navigator to see if it'll solve the problems i find out i
have to d/l the archive i do that ( i d/led ver. 4.51) and installed it
etc. only to get an error about missing libraries when netscape starts
up i've had library errors on the other distro's so this was one
reason i wanted to try debian.  from expierence i know that ldconfig
sometimes works although i have no idea why (it worked on SuSE one time
when i upgraded GTK).  is this a normal thing on slink (an official
CD-ROM ordered from cheapbytes)?  will upgrading X help?  man how do i
fix these errors?  man without netscape linux really is useless for a
home user

slink and netscape/mozilla

[Anonymous Coward]

   ok this is all on default slink install stuff from a 4-cdrom set
purchased off of cheapbytes.  netscape/mozilla gives errors in X just
various stuff as well as hitting "enter" in the location textbox at top
does nothing.  i have to goto file->open to goto a webpage.  i did not
have to do this on the other 3 distro's i've tried so what could the
problem be with that as well as the errors (errors are from X-windows
like error on Button bullcrap etc.)

kernel 2.2.6

[Anonymous Coward]

i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user.  i just got
slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it.  i downloaded kernel
2.2.6 to upgrade the first time it said a86 command not found so i
searched mailing list archives and found out i needed the bin86 package
so then that worked.  now i try to compile and i get this message at the
end after everythings all done:

Root device is (3,5)
Boot sector is 512 bytes
Setup is 1286 bytes
System is 526 kB
System is too big.  try using bzImage or modules.


bzImage does not work and my kernel is in no way bloated.  i only
included standard stuff and it was practically the same as i had 2.0.36
except for joystick support.  what can i do?