Re: Collecting information after installation
Since the 7.x version does my computer freeze; and that after installing GRUB and rebooting. Installing GRUB and rebooting is the last process of installation, but your information is not enough, so we can hardly help. Do you mean that, it cannot be shut down, or it cannot boot? What was the information on your screen? My system seem to work correctly but I thougth to inform you. Do you mean you have already found a workaround? If yes, how did you fix it? Like what Ralf Mardorf said, if you think it is a bug, you can consider to report it. For more information about bug reporting, please read: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Sincerely, Bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1387633719.24794.7.camel@debian-bo
Re: how to upgrade only from stable.
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 18:06 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thank Bo lan, You are welcome. actually i was assuming that if there is a command to install update package specifically from test or sid like apt-get install package name/repository name in same way i though i could run some thing like apt-get upgrade/stable you know just thinking my way :P never mind All right, let's thinking on your way. I am sorry that I don't know that apt-get command like your wish. I think you can try like this: go to this debian's official package website: http://packages.debian.org/sid/YOUR-CPU-ARCH/PACKAGE-NAME/download You will find a lot of mirrors, then choose the near one to download the package. use this command to install: dpkg -i PACKAGE-NAME.deb then use this command to fix the dependencies: apt-get install -f It does absolutely not guarantee that the stable version's dependencies would fit newer packages. However, don't worry about that, because this way will not danger your computer. actually few days back there is a package nethogs was up date in wheeze and old in squeeze. so instead of compiling from source i though i could install it from repo. and what i did i just add the link to repository deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main and i then i did apt-get update and finally apt-get install nethogs/wheezy and this works for me. but i didnt ran apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade Well, you are okay, because wheezy is stable version right now and it is save. Now the testing version is jessie. You can consider about updating to wheezy. however people on forums says it is not a right approach to install updates from wheezy, instead i should use testing and unstable repositories. They are right, your approach is not a good way. However, this post is old probably, because now the wheezy is stable and jessie is testing. Bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1387546731.15234.14.camel@debian-bo
Re: how to upgrade only from stable.
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:32 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i am using stable,testing and unstable repositories to get up to date packages. If you are using all three of these repositories, then your Debian version is unstable (sid), because every package would be updating to unstable. and i am using Debian squeeze, If you are using Debian squeeze, and have not run apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade, you would be okay. You are still in squeeze. However, if you already did, I am sorry, you are unstable. lets say if i want to upgrade my Debian from 6.0.4 to 6.0.7 only from stable. then how i could do it? If you only want to use Squeeze, you have to set your sources.list like: deb http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze main deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze main deb http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-updates main deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-updates main deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main actually i am confused a bit, lets say if i run apt-get upgrade and i have all the level of repositories, will it be upgrading from all the repo? what i want is to upgrade the OS only from stable however in future if i want to use any upgrade package then i could also use testing and unstable repositories with out changing /etc/apt/sourcelists and running the command apt-get update all the time. If you want to use some new packages but still in stable version, you should use backports. To do that, add the following line to your sources.list: deb http://YOURMIRROR.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports(-sloppy) main deb-src http://YOURMIRROR.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports(-sloppy) main Then, install your new packages: apt-get -t squeeze-backports install package There is not every package you like in the backports. For more information, please read this: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ and https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList Sincerely, Bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1387522279.31965.23.camel@debian-bo
Re: installation of debian
On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 21:49 +0100, HNP-Informatica wrote: Hi, I tried to install Debian LXDE 7.2 amd64 Desktop on a Toshiba Ultrabook Satellite Z30-A with a life DVD. But had difficulties. The Networkcard LAN was not detected. The same with the WiFi and Bluetooth The Ethernetcard is an Intel Ethernet connection 1218-V. This Ethernet card is a new product of Intel, it is actually called l218-V or L218-V. It needs e1000e, IIRC, which is not included in Linux-3.2.0 kernel. The Wifi is an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 You need the backport package of firmware-iwlwifi. My suggestion and solution: Step1: go to Intel website to download the latest driver by using other computer or your smartphone USB network tethering. I think the address is: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=15817 Step2: $ tar xzvf e1000e-2.5.4.tar.gz $ cd xzvf e1000e-2.5.4 $ make # make install # modprobe e1000e In this step, if you cannot compile, download and intall a dvd version of Debian, and do a full installation, so you can get the software -- make, gcc, and so on. Step3: Assume the step2 is good, and you have your Internet now. edit /etc/apt/sources.list It would look like: deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://http.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free Step4: # apt-get update apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi # modprobe -r iwlwifi ; modprobe iwlwifi Hope you can solve this problem, and good luck to you. Sincerely, Bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1386638803.10934.14.camel@debian-bo
Re: Re: Can't find cmake package
On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 20:21 -0800, Don Grimm wrote: Yes, I did apt-get update even before my first post. Sorry I forgot to mention it. Thanks anyhow. I know you did it before. However, every time you edit the /etc/apt/sources.list, you have to do it again. After editing, save the file, and then: # apt-get update apt-get install cmake If you still can't make it, could you paste your /etc/apt/sources.list? So we can figure out if it is correct. Bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1386658195.8062.7.camel@debian-bo
Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE
On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 16:46 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently no longer has a fallback mode for X drivers which don't support 3D acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is apparently unusable with such an X driver. Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the default desktop for the production jessie installer. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- Although I am not sure if XFCE or LXDE is good or bad, I am kind of agree with your opinion about the usability under such an free X driver. According to Debian's policy, Debian is an organization that highly respects completely free software, including kernel and firmwares. However, currently, most hardware which support 3D acceleration require non-free firmware or even non-free proprietary driver. I am still a new user, and don't know if we can report a bug to Debian to say that, GNOME SHELL or Foo Desktop Environment is not usable under 2D free video card driver or such. Actually, I hope Debian can patch those DE, free drivers, and so on, to keep Debian to be modern, beautiful, and also highly support free drivers. Bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1386285853.4951.11.camel@debian-bo
Re: Totem in stable cannot play any type of video, need your help.
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 00:10 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Bo Lan wrote: This is my first mail here. Welcome! I am debian stable user. My Totem cannot play any type of video, included free format such as webm, ogg, and mkv. When I open any video, it says, An error occurred: Could not determine type of stream. Need your help. I don't know about that particular error. But you say it can't play any stream. I guess that a dependency is not there. I would try: * Try a different player. Try vlc. Try mplayer. apt-get install vlc apt-get install mplayer Do you have recommends turned off? If so then one of the recommends for totem might actually be needed. I am not sure what would be the easiest way to suggest that you install the recommends associated with totem. Recommends: gstreamer1.0-libav, gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, totem-plugins, grilo-plugins-0.2 Not having a better way I would probably suggest this: apt-get purge totem apt-get -o APT::Install-Recommends=1 install totem But if someone else suggested something better then that would be a fine thing too. Bob Thank you for your answer and suggestion. My Totem finally works. Every dependency has been installed very well, including gstreamer. However, my computer's problem was that, some configure files had problem. So I deleted them by: rm -rf /home/MY-USER-NAME/.gstreamer* And then restarted totem so they can play stream now. This problem also influenced every gnome kit which needs gstreamer, included but not limited to cheese, totem, and even Nautilus(cannot see stream info). I am so happy can solve this problem, and also see your other solutions. Bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1385390745.6187.9.camel@debian-bo
Totem in stable cannot play any type of video, need your help.
Hello everybody, This is my first mail here. I am debian stable user. My Totem cannot play any type of video, included free format such as webm, ogg, and mkv. When I open any video, it says, An error occurred: Could not determine type of stream. Need your help. Bo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1385258903.6835.7.camel@bo-pc
