[gentoo-ppc-user] new world is a type of hardware or software?
Before I thought Mac OS X is new world, being a software thing. Mac OS 9 is old world. Now I am a bit confused. If I wish to run a 3-OS system with Mac OS 9 + Mac OS X + Gentoo Linux, should I partition my harddisk in old world? I suspect I should do the following (currently I am already using Gentoo Linux on my iBook/G3) 1. backup my Linux 2. Install Mac OS 9 3. Install Mac OS X. It should help me to configure it as dual boot. while leave some empty space; 4. restore the Linux backup and run yaboot. Is this correct? Best regards Zhang Weiwu
[gentoo-user] simple web server with content negotiation feature
Hello all. I am looking for a web server for my static website in-developing projects. I just want the basic features and easy-to-configure. However what I mean basic looks a bit different than other people's. I wish it to be able to do content negotiation (a.k.a. a browser asks for my_mom and gets my_mom.html.zh or my_mom.html.en depending on preferred language of the browser). I also wish it can handle HTTP 1.1. I could not find one. eix -S negotiation didn't get me any result. (on the other hand aptitude search ~dnegotiation did suggested me fnord can do content negotiation, although it's only partially implemented.) My question is: 1. Can you please suggest some web server that can do content negotiation, besides apache? 2. Can you please tell me how do you usually find out if some of the packages in portage can do content negotiation? -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 135 9950 2413 http://www.realss.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kompozer and arphicfonts
Hello. I was a Gentoo user some 2.5 years ago and was very fond of it because it updates frequently and includes newer versions of applications into portage faster than other distributions. Later I switched away to Ubuntu for working environment reasons (colleagues are using Ubuntu and I got support / communication easier). Now I just switch back to Gentoo and discovered, well, I am not sure but looks a bit lag behind on updating portage. I only noticed two examples: 1. Development for NVU wysiwyg editor has stalled for some years, the other project continued its development called kompozer. Ubuntu has it there but I cannot find it in Gentoo. 2. The other package arphicfonts are not developed for years neither, a continue effort is the CJK Unifont project. In Gentoo still there are only old packages. The new project produce Chinese font that is used as default Chinese font in Ubuntu. Both new projects started after I switched away from Gentoo some 2 years ago, so it seems Gentoo didn't catch up. Maybe I am completely wrong: I am sensative to these packages just because I am a Chinese user and these two packages happen to improved for Chinese users a lot; meanwhile there might be a lot other packages newly included in Gentoo but overlooked by other distributions. But just how do you feel generally? Is the portage keeping following up slower then before? By the way I can compile these packages myself and I can contribut ebuilds when I got some free time (e.g. in the coming holiday). I am just a bit curious on how everything is generally going on in Portage. Zhang Weiwu -- Real Softservice Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 135 9950 2413 http://www.realss.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] simple web server with content negotiation feature
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:20:10 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 January 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello all. I am looking for a web server for my static website in-developing projects. I just want the basic features and easy-to-configure. However what I mean basic looks a bit different than other people's. I wish it to be able to do content negotiation (a.k.a. a browser asks for my_mom and gets my_mom.html.zh or my_mom.html.en depending on preferred language of the browser). I also wish it can handle HTTP 1.1. I could not find one. eix -S negotiation didn't get me any result. (on the other hand aptitude search ~dnegotiation did suggested me fnord can do content negotiation, although it's only partially implemented.) My question is: 1. Can you please suggest some web server that can do content negotiation, besides apache? negotiation is not a recognised USE flag: # euse -i negotiation global use flags (searching: negotiation) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: negotiation) no matching entries found therefore I am not sure that any packages in portage use it. Dear Mick I looked up eix manual and found '-S' asks eix to search within description of the software. I noticed the description in portage is usually much shorter (1 line) than in Ubuntu, which means if the software has this feature, it's probably no space to write down all features list in description. Perhaps there is a 'long description' which I didn't discover yet. By 'eix -S negotiation I am trying to search all package description containing the word 'negotiation' uses the module mod_negotiation which is compiled in by default). Have you looked at www-servers/lighttpd, or www-servers/thttpd? Thanks for the suggestions. I just had a look on their websites and didn't see they support content negotiation. I think I will just use apache which is big but I knew it already. 2. Can you please tell me how do you usually find out if some of the packages in portage can do content negotiation? Sorry, can't help with this. Perhaps others more knowledgeable in the features of different http servers can advise here. I would think that it is a matter of searching in their respective project websites and then reading their documentation for each package under /usr/portage/www-servers/. Alternative, emerge, try it out, unmerge and so on. Thanks for your time on explaining this in detail:) BTW, I am not sure if some PHP scripting would offer this facility to simpler http servers, which do not support it natively like apache. You are right PHP can do it. I wished to avoid the overhead of having apache or php, but now I think I just take it. -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 135 9950 2413 http://www.realss.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kompozer and arphicfonts
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:30:23 +0100 Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zhang Weiwu wrote: | | Now I just switch back to Gentoo and discovered, well, I am not sure | but looks a bit lag behind on updating portage. I only noticed two | examples: | 2. The other package arphicfonts are not developed for years |neither, a continue effort is the CJK Unifont project. In |Gentoo still there are only old packages. The new project |produce Chinese font that is used as default Chinese font in |Ubuntu. Actually more people are using Simsun or Yahei from Windoze for pragmatic reasons. Also you can try wqy-bitmapfont. Yes I knew Simsun, Yahei. My suggestion is if there is an opensource Chinese font with reasonably wide coverage, it should be there for those who want to have it. ghostscript-gpl when added cjk USE flag, would depend on the years-old arpphic fonts, the best behavior is either tell users to use Yahei/Simsun or use the latest CJK Unifont, not providing the latest enhanced opensource font is pratcially encouraging users to copy propiertry fonts. I think CJK Unifont project has done a lot of hinting work to make it look nice on screen and now it's much more usable on desktop then old arpphic font, it's making sense to avoid user install an old font and say oh, opensource fonts looks bad and then go copy the Windows fonts, when they actually got the outdated fonts. wqy-bitmap is in an other category. It's usable on the screen but not on word processing. I am using it right now as my default screen font:) Thanks for having it in portage. | By the way I can compile these packages myself and I can contribute | ebuilds when I got some free time (e.g. in the coming holiday). I am | just a bit curious on how everything is generally going on in | Portage. AFAIK, Gentoo CJK team is short-staffed. It's better if you can join gentoo and become a developer, ;) If you want to know how everything is going on in portage, you can check either: http://packages.gentoo.org or: http://cia.vc/stats/project/gentoo Ad time, ;) If you have some Chinese related questions, you can easily get an answer here: http://groups.google.com/group/gentoo-china/ http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/forum59.html Also #gentoo-cn on freenode Thanks for the information. I'll see what I can do in the coming spring festival and see if I can help. Best regards Zhang Weiwu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] equery shows lyx didn't depend on qt, and emerge shows the opposite
Hello. I wishes to emerge lyx and surprisingly found it depends on qt: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/zhangweiwu# emerge -pv lyx These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] app-text/opensp-1.5.2-r1 USE=nls -doc 1,486 kB [ebuild N] app-text/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-1.79 272 kB [ebuild N] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r3 55 kB [ebuild N] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.7.9 USE=X gs jbig jpeg lcms png svg tiff zlib -bzip2 -djvu -doc -fontconfig -fpx -graphviz -hdri -jpeg2k -nocxx -openexr -perl -q32 -q8 -truetype -wmf -xml 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/qt-4.3.2-r1 USE=cups jpeg opengl png ssl tiff xinerama zlib -accessibility -dbus -debug -doc -examples (-firebird) -gif -glib -mng -mysql -nas -nis -odbc -pch -postgres -qt3support -sqlite -sqlite3 INPUT_DEVICES=-wacom 42,445 kB [ebuild N] app-text/aiksaurus-1.2.1 USE=-gtk 908 kB [ebuild N] app-text/openjade-1.3.2-r1 874 kB [ebuild N] app-text/sgmltools-lite-3.0.3-r10 USE=-tetex 69 kB [ebuild N] app-office/lyx-1.5.4 USE=X cups nls -debug -latex LINGUAS=-he 8,923 kB Total: 9 packages (9 new), Size of downloads: 55,028 kB I thought it must not be true, because I used lyx on Ubuntu and it doesn't look like a qt application at all. Then I run equery depgraph to see which package required qt. again a surprise, according to equery, lyx did not depend on qt, nor indirectly. I attached output of 'equery depgraph =lyx-1.5.4' to this message. Do a grep and 'qt' is not found in the output. So my question is: 1. Is it true lyx really depends on qt? How do I find out? 2. If lyx doesn't have to depend on qt, how can I install lyx and avoid qt being emerged? Thanks in advance! Best regards Zhang Weiwu -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 135 9950 2413 http://www.realss.com app-office/lyx-1.5.4: `-- app-office/lyx-1.5.4 `-- x11-libs/libXrandr-1.2.2 `-- x11-libs/libX11-1.1.3 `-- x11-libs/xtrans-1.0.4 `-- sys-devel/automake-1.10 `-- dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r4 `-- sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1 `-- sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2 [ berkdb ] `-- dev-lang/tcl-8.4.15 [ tcl ] `-- sys-devel/autoconf-2.61-r1 `-- sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5 `-- sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 [ !build ] `-- sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r6 [ gpm ] `-- virtual/libintl-0 (virtual/libintl) [ !build nls ] `-- sys-devel/gettext-0.17 [ elibc_Darwin ] `-- virtual/libiconv-0 (virtual/libiconv) `-- dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.30-r1 `-- sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3-r1 `-- dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6 [ python ] `-- dev-lang/tk-8.4.15-r1 [ !build tk ] `-- x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 `-- x11-libs/libSM-1.0.3 `-- x11-libs/libICE-1.0.4 `-- x11-proto/xproto-7.0.10 `-- sys-devel/libtool-1.5.24 `-- sys-devel/gnuconfig-20070724 `-- sys-apps/help2man-1.36.4 `-- dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05 [ elibc_glibc nls ] `-- dev-util/pkgconfig-0.22 `-- x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5 `-- sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1 `-- sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4 `-- sys-apps/findutils-4.3.8-r1 [ userland_GNU ] `-- x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.3 `-- sys-libs/readline-5.2_p7 [ !build ncurses readline ] `-- app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1 `-- sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r3 [ !build gdbm ] `-- dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8g [ !build ssl ] `-- dev-libs/gmp-4.2.2 [ gmp ] `-- sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2 `-- sys-apps/man-pages-2.75 [ userland_GNU ] `-- sys-apps/man-1.6e-r3 (virtual/man) `-- sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1 `-- app-i18n/man-pages-zh_CN-1.5 [ nls linguas_zh_CN ] `-- sys-devel/bc-1.06-r6 [ test ] `-- sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r3 `-- app-misc/ca-certificates-20070303-r1 `-- sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.19 `-- sys-apps/sed-4.1.5 [ !build ] `-- sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 [ elibc_glibc ] `-- app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.16 `-- sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r9 [ caps ] `-- sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.23-r3 (virtual/os-headers) `-- dev-util/unifdef-1.20 `-- app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.4-r1 [ doc ] `-- app-arch/unzip-5.52-r1 `-- app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.70.1 `-- app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.2 `-- app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5 `-- sys-devel/automake-1.5
[gentoo-user] some OSS software that enable me make call to traditional telephone by using Internet?
Dear all I wish to be able to make telephone call from Internet to Traditional telephone, like I did with skyp out. But I am using Linux on ppc, and skype did not release ppc binary. Is there a solution for people like me? I think if there are OSS solutions they are preferable because then it tends to be able to compile on any kind of hardware. Actually any solution (including binary-release software) are fine for me, as long as they can run on Linux/ppc. Best regards -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 135 9950 2413 http://www.realss.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?
Dear all I just emerged lyx and it doesn't work. The issue is class files are missing (one example is scrbook.cls). It should be installed together with lyx but it didn't. I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this file belongs to? I googled around without luck Thanks. The complete description of the issue is as follows: G. Milde's suggestion on solving my lyx problem: On 6.05.08, Zhang Weiwu wrote: error message in opening tutorial with lyx. The opened tutorial is not printable. see below: ... Warning: Document class not available The layout file requested by this document, scrbook.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not available. ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate scrbook.layout /usr/share/lyx/layouts/scrbook.layout scrbook.layout is the LyX layout file, for printed output it requires the *LaTeX class file* ``scrbook.cls``: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp locate scrbook.cls /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls Looking at HelpLaTeXConfig, you can find out which LaTeX classes and packages are found by the latest ToolsReconfigure run. Here I have: Found: scrartcl: yes, scrreprt: yes, scrbook: yes Fix: Find out which Gentoo package provides the file scrbook.cls and install it (or install all classes that are marked as required, recommended or suggested by LyX). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?
Justin said: www.portagefilelist.de could answer these kinds of questions. But the package you are looking for is dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2007. Ian Hilt wrote: On Tue, 6 May 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this file belongs to? I googled around without luck equery b scrbook.cls returns dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2007 (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls) Thanks:) -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 135 9950 2413 http://www.realss.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] join two tab-separate-value files without join field
Hi. I got a datasheet from my colleague in MS Excel format and I intend to process that file with my awk/sed knowledge. The problem is: he sent me two Excel files each with 2134 records, in fact there should be only one excel file with 2134 rows and 295 columns, but MS Excel can only handle 256 data columns, so he split the datasheet vertically so he can manage to send to me. Now I saved both file to tab-separated-value format, how do I join them? I could have used join(1) but that require a join field, an ID of some sort. I think of this: $ grep -n '' left.tsv | sed 's/:/\t/' left.forjoin $ grep -n '' right.tsv | sed 's/:/\t/' right.forjoin $ join -t left.forjoin right.forjoin result.tsv (note that for join's -t parameter somehow I need to manage to get a tab between the quotes) Yes I achieved what I want, but that looks complex. Is there a simpler way? Thanks in advance. I know OpenOffice 3.0 can handle up to 1024 data columns. It's difficult to convince anyone to switch to OOO because here in China MS Office costs only 0$. I also could use OOO3.0 for doing the join but I wish to know the commandline way:) -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 135 9950 2413 http://www.realss.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] join two tab-separate-value files without join field
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008, 12:08, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: If my understanding is correct, then paste -d, file1 file2 If fields are separated by tabs instead of commas, then it's even easier: paste file1 file2 since paste will use tab as default delimiter. Hi. This is exactly what I am looking for. Thank you very much! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] confused on join(1)
Dear all I am learning to use join to manage data processing easier. I got two data files, they should join on field No. 9. But such simple join doesn't work. The output of join is 0 bytes. Feel surprised I size down both file size to contain only two records. Still fail. $ join -t $'\t' -j 8 a b [no output] Expect: [output 2 rows] I attached my two test case, hope someone can guide me through this. It maybe very simple case but I had scratched my head half an hour now. 2 365 æ±è¥¿ç åå®å¸ å®ç¦å¿ é±å±±ä¹¡ æ²¹å¸ææå§ä¼ 36082920220636082920220629 å²©ä¸ 201 å丽é èµµéæ ¹ 9/18/2007 çæ¡å 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 35 10 4 61 32 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 4.4 0 4 10 0 0 0 4 4 0.4 0 10 1 4 40 2 20 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 25 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 21002 3 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 10331 86000 0 0 86001446600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 350 600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 846 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 720 12 432 11.25 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 285 100 100 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 927962290 1400 0 100 0 50 0 300 600 125 288 370 126 0 0 50 0 320 0 100 0 0 0 150 0 250 20000 10000 200 500 600 250 550 200 800 0 100 200 10031 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 365 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 5 8 10 39343 å丽é 3 379 æ±è¥¿ç åå®å¸ å®ç¦å¿ é±å±±ä¹¡ æ²¹å¸ææå§ä¼ 36082920220636082920220601 å ä¸ 101 å丽é èµµéæ ¹ 9/18/2007 å®çºªç 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 2 64 30 28 5 3 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 5.5 0.5 5 16 0 0 0 5 5 0.5 2 15 0 0 100 4 30 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 30 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 30002 3 0 0 4 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15630 85000 500 0 80006895410020003200125020000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 450 900 150 300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2795115 1400 67 800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 108018 680 28 315 19 215 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 235 1000500 500 0 0 500 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9300700012000 0 0 0 0 0 550 600 100 1000150 100 50 0 50 0 200 0 50 0 50 0 400 0 0 25000 800 0 200 500 800
Re: [gentoo-user] confused on join(1)
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Dear all I am learning to use join to manage data processing easier. I got two data files, they should join on field No. 9. But such simple join doesn't work. The output of join is 0 bytes. Feel surprised I size down both file size to contain only two records. Still fail. $ join -t $'\t' -j 8 a b [no output] Expect: [output 2 rows] I attached my two test case, hope someone can guide me through this. It maybe very simple case but I had scratched my head half an hour now. Looks like I simply didn't properly format the data, there perhaps are un-necessary trailing spaces at the end of certain fields. Should be my fault. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] help me choose a sound recorder
Hello. I am looking forward to use a sound recorder to record my telephone calls. These telephone calls are business phone calls that used for business purpose and all phone calls on my line should be recorded. I am looking forward to have a sound recorder that is: 1 record sound and save as speex format; 2 better be able to auto-start and auto-stop. E.g. when people are talking on the phone, start a track and save a speex file; when people stop talking (silence), stop recording and be ready to start recording the next track. Better one tracker per file; 3 we don't need gui, but I don't mind if it's console app or gui app; 4 I am using alsa in the kernel, if supporting alsa makes sense I perfer to have alsa recorders; 5 better allow scripting and meta info for saved sound tracks. But it's fine if it doesn't do so; 6 better also available in SuSE so I can run the same software at home or in my office; 7 I only need to record one line and not a full-power PBX software. Any suggestions? Looks audacity is a good option, last year I used it a while, but I think it is not perfect (for lack of requirement 2), but don't know its current status. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] when will seamonkey be available in portage?
Just curious, everytime I don't know where to look for progress of the update of certain software, I think of this question: How can I know when certain package (seamonkey) is going to be added to the portage? -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales:0086 10 84606011 Inland business:http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 Sent from Pine: http://www.washington.edu/pine/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:45:12 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I am monitoring ftp through a wireless LAN which max at 300KB/s, running X11-forwarding is not comfortable. running a desktop session on the server and run vnc seems overkill. What's wrong with looking at the server's log file(s) in a standard SSH session? Because that mess up with other user's ftp activities. Also because I don't get the knowledge which folder the user I am watching is in (I could tell this by looking at the log backwards and find his last 'cd' command, but it's more convenient to look it just on the UI). There are other functions that is convenient on the UI but not on the commandline, e.g. number of concurrent connection a user have is directly on the UI on Serv-U but with vsftpd I have to run some smart combination of grep/sed/awk to get this info, and can be difficult to get it in real time. Also consider information you cannot get from reading the log, e.g. find out who is taking the biggest share of download badnwidth right the moment your user complain being too slow.
[gentoo-user] how to use fonts installed in the printer
Hello. Years ago when I was using Windows there are several fonts always have a printer symbol with them, if I use these fonts, says the Windows manual, they are printed using the font installed in the printer. These fonts are usable in almost all applications, e.g. Word Pad (before was writer) and MS Word. My impression was, using the fonts installed on the printer would result faster printing and use less memory. My office LaserJet also has several embedded fonts, can I use them in OpenOffice and Firefox? How? I googled but embedded printer fonts always gets me articles on how to embed fonts into PS file or PDF file so they can be properly printed in any printer, which is a separate topic.
[gentoo-user] strange block issue
I was told virtual/jre-1.6, a package that I do /not/ have installed, is blocking another package. How do I manage to install dev-java/jdictrayapi? Thanks for hints in advance! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo emerge -av dev-java/jdictrayapi These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies waiting for lock on /var/db/.pkg.portage_lockfile ... done! [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r8 USE=berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl threads -bootstrap -build -doc -examples -sqlite -tk -ucs2 -wininst 9,606 kB [ebuild N] virtual/jre-1.6.0 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-java/javatoolkit-0.3.0-r2 [0.2.0-r1] 17 kB [ebuild N] dev-java/jdictrayapi-0.9.1-r3 USE=-doc -examples -source 925 kB [blocks B ] =virtual/jre-1.6* (is blocking dev-java/jdictrayapi-0.9.1-r3) Total: 4 packages (1 upgrade, 2 new, 1 in new slot, 1 block), Size of downloads: 10,547 kB !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!!at the same time on the same system. For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo emerge --unmerge virtual/jre --- Couldn't find 'virtual/jre' to unmerge. No packages selected for removal by unmerge
Re: [gentoo-user] strange block issue
Robert Bridge wrote: Try masking virtual/jre-1.6 Also, it might be worth checking if the jdictrayapi has be included in the Java 6 jdk, which would account for the block. You are right, I guess the software could not work with jre 1.5. I replaced my JRE 1.6 with JRE 1.5, but still hit a problem (could be a different one) # emerge borg Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Manifests... starting parallel fetching pid 17744 Emerging (1 of 12) dev-java/javahelp-2.0.02_p46 to / * javahelp2-src-2.0.02_svn46.zip RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking javahelp2-src-2.0.02_svn46.zip ;-) ... [ ok ] * Using: ibm-jdk-bin-1.5 * The ebuild phase 'setup' has exited unexpectedly. This type of behavior * is known to be triggered by things such as failed variable assignments * (bug #190128) or bad substitution errors (bug #200313). * Messages for package dev-java/javahelp-2.0.02_p46: * The ebuild phase 'setup' has exited unexpectedly. This type of behavior * is known to be triggered by things such as failed variable assignments * (bug #190128) or bad substitution errors (bug #200313). In fact I always got a feeling with gentoo I often emerge and pray...
Re: [gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?
Matthias Krebs wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2008 10:37:48 Gildor Oronar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe I am stupid but #layman -L output doesn't contain the word 'arcon' or 'Acron'. A google with keyword 'Arcon overlay' doesn't find instruction how to install it neither. Could it be related to my platform (PowerPC)? A link with information related to how to install 'arcon overlay' would be very helpful. Thanks in advance. I am fine with installing an overlay, but I guess if the ebuild is in the portage then it's available for more people. For me now is only how to get overlay working. You have to build layman with subversion use flag to see svn repositories. Same goes for git. Hi it seems the layman package does not have 'subversion' use flag: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo emerge -pv layman These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-portage/layman-1.1.1 USE=-test 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB And because I can see a lot other subversion overlays it seems I do can access subversion overlays. As of 'Arcon overlay' I do not know how to look up whether it's git or subversion overlay (except using google which didn't provide the answer this time).
[gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process
Hello. In my daily us of computer any process that takes more than 50% of the memory (I read from top, not knowing if this is 50% of 384MB physical or 50% of having 800MB swap counted in) must have gone wrong, and usually drag performance down to such extent that killing it is impossible (because not possible to launch a terminal window to type kill -TERM). Examples are: 1. Firefox opens a broken website that wish to send 10M binary content to the browser window; 2. OpenOffice opens a document incorrectly; 3. Mistake in Java software (usually it keep eating memory); I hope I can configure the system so that any process uses more than 50% of memory are automatically killed. first I was recommend to use ulimit by googling around. However this seems doesn't work even if I set both -d and -m (here is my .xinitrc) ~$ cat .xinitrc #export [EMAIL PROTECTED] #fcitx ulimit -d 30 ulimit -m 300 exec /usr/bin/fluxbox Result: OpenOffice stands still even when it takes 80% memory (read from top). So: is ulimit the solution? If so, what option should I set? My current ulimit is: $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 30 scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 3072 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) 300 open files (-n) 1024 pipe size(512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 3072 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 159 7382 http://www.realss.com
Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Zhang, on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:24:00PM +0800, you wrote: I hope I can configure the system so that any process uses more than 50% of memory are automatically killed. first I was recommend to use ulimit by googling around. However this seems doesn't work even if I set both -d and -m (here is my .xinitrc) ~$ cat .xinitrc #export [EMAIL PROTECTED] #fcitx ulimit -d 30 ulimit -m 300 exec /usr/bin/fluxbox Result: OpenOffice stands still even when it takes 80% memory (read from top). So: is ulimit the solution? If so, what option should I set? I interpret the above as use a maximum of 300,000 KiB of memory, of which 300 may be resident (i.e. in physical memory) and 299,700 swapped out. That doesn't sound good, although I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly. Sorry, it seems I used these parameter without care. I guess I only need to set physical memory limit, a.k.a. resident memory. OT: I don't know why I have max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 But it has been like that before I set ulimit. What I do is use /etc/sercurity/limits.conf (from pam_limits) with a couple of entries like those: | @users hardnproc 1000 | mb hardnproc 5000 | @users hardas 2097152 | mb hardas 6291456 | mb hardnice-5 | mb hardrtprio 5 Meaning, everyone but me (mb) may use up to 1000 processes per login, with a max. address space of 2 GiB each; for myself the limit is 6 GiB and 5k processes. Myself I cannot accidentially set a negative nice-value because I left the soft limit at its default (0 for non-root users) but using ulimit I can set it to the hard limit of -5 and nice-up processes even as a normal user. I don't have a file called /etc/sercurity/limits.conf and neither can I find information about it by using 'man limits.conf'. Further I couldn't find a package called pam_limits to emerge. Can you give me some clue which package I should emerge in order to set limits.conf ? Thank you very much for prompt help!
[gentoo-user] chroot complain not able to find file/directory when it's actually there
Hello. Sorry for stupid newbie question: # cp /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/sh # chroot /usr/local /bin/sh chroot: cannot run command `/bin/sh': No such file or directory In theory it should work, right? This is the first time I run chroot not for rescuing a broken system (which means /dev/ and /proc/ are not mounted in chroot jail). However I guess /dev/ and /proc/ doesn't have to be mounted to run chroot. I am sure this is not because the executable is dynamically linked to a file outside of the chroot jail, because I also tried to run executables compiled with USE=static What could be the reason (for complaining an existing file No such file)? Thanks in advance. Using coreutils-6.10-r2 on ibook/ppc
Re: [gentoo-user] alternative arch?
Nick Rout wrote: I know nothing about the performance of the ppc machines mentioned in this GWN, I will leave it to you to investigate. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20041129-newsletter.xml With your help and googling around, I found this price list: https://www.pegasosppc.com/store.php?category=1 It says: Pegasos II with 1GHz G4 processor *$615.00* (499.00) Pegasos II with 600MHz G3 processor *$600.00* (489.00) I really wish to know who would by Pegasos II with 600MHz G3 CPU. it is only 15USD cheaper but the computation power (by looking at the performance compare using google) is less then half of Pegasos II with 1GHz G4 CPU. Are they crazy? Or the price is not correct? (Because I haven't find another Pegasos reseller yet, I think maybe I just happen to have visited a crazy shop.) On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 16:11 +0800, wrote: Hello? Just wish to know if there is alternative arch hardware product (non-x86 computer) that Gentoo Linux runs fine on it, also this product need to be as speedy as a typical 1GHz Pentium III, and it must not be secondhand/used product. I can find dozes of UltraSparc box that has similar speed, but they are all secondhand/used products. I am thinking if there are POWER CPU product (better not Apple) that has similiar speed and also have new units available for sale. We are looking for hardware to ship our pre-installed Linux product, and we need non-x86 solution. Thank you for suggestions:) -- Real SoftService http://www.realss.com.cn : 0086 592 2086411 Technical Contact: 0086 592 2086411 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternative arch?
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Nick Rout wrote: I know nothing about the performance of the ppc machines mentioned in this GWN, I will leave it to you to investigate. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20041129-newsletter.xml Quote from the above article: According to Genesi, the PowerPC-based ODW offers an anchor for the whole enterprise infrastructure. Optimized performance and lower price levels are the prime objectives Quote from online shop https://www.pegasosppc.com/store.php?category=2 Open Desktop Workstation with 600MHz G3 (750CXe)*$1299.00* (1059.00) Open Desktop Workstation with 1GHz G4 (7447)*$1399.00* (1139.00) ^ | | | | | Are they crazy or something? They were saying ODW is 'lowe price' when it costs 1,400 which is 3 times the cost of a usual Pentium 3GHz desktop! And even though ODW comes without monitor/keyboard/mouse. If you are not looking for new ways to spend money, I don't imagine anyone would buy it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] access an FTP server in another locale
I always find difficulty that, my local host locale is set to UTF-8 but I need to access ftp servers with differnt locales, e.g. ISO8859-1 or GB18030 I use gftp and ncftp. Both tool does not provide proper locale conversion. Does anyone know any ftp client that could set server locale and do conversion automatically? Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] logout a gnome session with commandline?
Hello. I often remotely login to my other computer using XDMCP (run
gdom, select XDMCP chooser...) but the connection could be broken for
many reasons (connection down, or the host I am using gets down). The
next time I login, it would prompt me something like you are logined in
from another place, do you still wish to login , and if I click
'yes', I will see dozens of startup application crash because they
cannot run twice by same user.
Is it possible I logout my previous (connection broken) session by using
commandline? Thus I could ssh gets into the host, run the command, and
re-login.
The local administrator have a straight forward method of
#ps U zhangweiwu | awk {print $1} | xargs kill -TERM
This solves the problem instantly! I just feeling courious if there are
'better' methods. I remember when I was on Windows there is something
like 'session manager' where each logged in session can be manually 'log
out', is there similar thing on gnome?
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Re: [gentoo-user] logout a gnome session with commandline?
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi Zhang, I don't know for sure if what I'm going to say is true, but I believe that if you kill the gnome-session process being run by your user, it will shutdown the Gnome session and all the apps that are child processes of it. It is a wild guess, but might be worth trying. Hope this helps you out, No... I tried to kill gnome-session and is successful... all other processes are still running, some even takes cpu time. I feel it's dangerous if all session applications are children of gnome-session: suppose gnome-session crash, should all other application quit? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] very slow updating portage?
Hello. Untill today I begin to realize I am using aibiword 2.2 and gnumeric 1.4.3 I think they should be at least half a year old, or one year old. Are packages updated not so frequently? I think it's not very hard to port them into gentoo (but I am no developer) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] adding comment on pdf files?
Looks like if I wish to add comment to PDF files, the only thing I can do is to buy Acrobat. I don't mind buying one copy, but other people in the company will need it too, that's a lot of copies. Just come by this question and is there a free product for adding PDF comments? I need to add comment, nothing more (like stamping, audio clips and such things are not so useful). Looks like in Linux even a product that can READ pdf file correctly are lacking. I use gpdf, and a lot of eps embeded images looks corrupted but they were fine in acroread, besides, these (looking-bad-in-gpdf) pdf files are exported from Openoffice, another excellent opensource product. -- Zhang Weiwu CEO Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales:0086 10 84606011 Inland business:http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] adding comment on pdf files?
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:14 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Looks like if I wish to add comment to PDF files, the only thing I can do is to buy Acrobat. I don't mind buying one copy, but other people in the company will need it too, that's a lot of copies. Just come by this question and is there a free product for adding PDF comments? I need to add comment, nothing more (like stamping, audio clips and such things are not so useful). There are lots of libraries for dealing with pdf files. Take a look at reportlab. I hope you know I am talking about user tools, for use with office people. Looks like in Linux even a product that can READ pdf file correctly are lacking. What is wrong with acroread on linux? Ah, sorry, I wasn't considering Linux product = foss based on Linux, which is wrong of course. acroread is fine, gpdf fails. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] adding comment on pdf files?
Peter Gordon wrote: Zhang Weiwu said: Nick Rout wrote: What is wrong with acroread on linux? Ah, sorry, I wasn't considering Linux product = foss based on Linux, which is wrong of course. acroread is fine, gpdf fails. Have you tried evince? (part of GNOME 2.12) I quite like it. :-) --Peter Before I even begin to try solving the below problems, I wanna make sure that this product does have comment/annotation feature. I don't find this feature on their website. If it's plainly a PDF viewer, I will like to have a try but arrange it in the longer run, perhaps after 2.12 release. Joe zhangweiwu # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -av evince These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] x11-libs/cairo-0.2 (is blocking x11-libs/cairo-1.0.2) [ebuild N] app-text/poppler-0.4.2 +gtk +jpeg -qt +zlib 759 kB [ebuild U ] dev-util/gtk-doc-1.4-r1 [1.3-r1] -emacs 145 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/glib-2.8.2 [2.6.5] -debug +doc -hardened 2,502 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/cairo-1.0.2 [0.1.23-r1] +X +doc -glitz +png 1,424 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/pango-1.10.1 [1.8.1-r1] -debug +doc 1,158 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.6 [2.6.8] -debug +doc +jpeg +tiff 11,545 kB [ebuild U ] app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.4.2 [0.1.3] -debug 365 kB [ebuild N] app-text/evince-0.4.0-r2 -dbus -debug +doc -dvi -nautilus -t1lib +tiff 870 kB Total size of downloads: 18,772 kB !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!!on the same system. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?
Hello. I have got a lot (much more) ps files and PDF files since I start to use Linux. In the past there were mostly doc files but now I always prefer to have a PS or PDF copy to ease the compatibility pain. And looks linux people always prefer to send me a PS or PDF document. Because I always save two copies of every of my document, one in original format (eg. odt) and another in printable format for my colleagues in case they don't have the Linux fonts and software. Here comes the question should I keep a PS copy or PDF copy. I think PDF copy is absolutely the prefered format because: * easier to find acrobat reader; * can be 'Tagged', especially used with OOo; * possibility to 'copy and paste', though format will be lost; * not to take other people by surprise with unfamiliar PS extension; * different quanlity: I can save PDF in very high quanlity that I was told can be taken to press house * easy to convert to PS format when needed. Here comes the question: if the above all stands true, why do I ever need PS format at all? There might be some reasons to keep this format still existing. Perhaps in other areas, other then office work. So the conclusion: for typical office workers, we can forget PS format. Now welcome for suggestions. P.S. another quesiton I happen wish to have an answer: in one case, I have to keep PS format because, I can print booklet (brochure) in OOO2 right the way I expected, but if I carry this brochure to my colleague, and he doesn't have openoffice, then I try to export to PDF format, and found there is no 'brochure' option in exporting, also there is no 'brochure' option in Acrobat Reader printing dialogue box, so it's clear if I export to PDF format I will never be able to print it in brochure style on a normal PC, so I have to print to PS file and carry it. But so far this is the only case I think I need PS format. If I only exported PDF format, can I still print a brochure? The difficulty in printing brochure is you have to make correct page order. -- Zhang Weiwu CEO Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales:0086 10 84606011 Inland business:http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] IPv6, now what?
Hello. I recently got an IPv6 address for my small server (or perhaps I
recently got a lot of IPv6 address, I cannot tell) from my ISP. This is
what I did in attempt to activate this address (all following exactly
what is written on the ISP's manual)
server root # ip addr add 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2/64 dev eth0
server root # ip route add 2000::/3 via 2001:41c8:1:53ae::1
server root # ip -6 addr show eth0
5: eth0: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,ALLMULTI,UP qlen 1000
inet6 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2/64 scope global
inet6 fe80::fcfd:50ff:fe44:5d98/64 scope link
server root # ping6 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2
PING 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2(2001:41c8:1:53ae::2) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.077 ms
64 bytes from 2001:41c8:1:53ae::2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.069 ms
server root # ping6 www.ipv6.org
PING www.ipv6.org(igloo.stacken.kth.se) 56 data bytes
--- www.ipv6.org ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4024ms
Now what? Is my ipv6 address working now? I don't see a clue on how to
do testing.
Further more I found the documents closest ('closest' by the means of
google) is surprisingly outdated. I was thinking IPv6 is a hot topic
untill I get these documents, e.g.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO mension 2.5 kernel as
something in the future (they say 2.4 kernel do not have full support of
IPv6 and they are looking forward to have a kernel with good IPv6
support). Another document says the latest kernel version is 2.1
(http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/systems/linux/faq/linux-ipv6.faq-4.html#ss4.2).
I am still going through the documents to find more knowledge.
One question important to me but I never understood well. If I have a
website only defined on IPv6 address, is this website accessible from
major platforms (e.g. Win2k+/modern Linux, IE 6+/Firefox 1+) without any
special configuration on the client side?
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[gentoo-user] esp ghostscript?
Hello. I am using cups and later I installed ghostscript-afpl. And later, I bought a new printer and found later it's not working. By other people's suggestion, it seems that's because I should be using ghostscript-esp but I don't find this package on gentoo! I don't know why qpkg -f -I told me my /usr/lib/cups/filters/pstoraster is a part of ghostscript-afpl but actually it is supposed to be part of ghostscript-esp Any hints on how to get ghostscript-esp working on my box (at least for cups part)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is it just me? Or everyone has this openoffice2 problem?
After successfully merged, it goes like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ oowriter2 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/javaldx: error while loading shared libraries: libuno_sal.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libvcl680li.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ locate libuno_sal.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ locate libvcl680li.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ qpkg -i -I blackdown-jre dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.02 * Blackdown Java Runtime Environment [ http://www.blackdown.org ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ qpkg -i -I openoffice app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 * OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite. [ http://go-oo.org ] looks to me this file libuno_sal.so.3 does exist on another machine OpenOffice installation where it is installed by the 1.9 installer, under programs folder. Looks like a very obvious problem, why seems no discussion about it? Is it just me who have this problem? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is it just me? Or everyone has this openoffice2 problem?
Richard Fish wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: After successfully merged, it goes like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ oowriter2 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/javaldx: error while loading shared libraries: libuno_sal.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libvcl680li.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ locate libuno_sal.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ locate libvcl680li.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ qpkg -i -I blackdown-jre dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.02 * Blackdown Java Runtime Environment [ http://www.blackdown.org ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program $ qpkg -i -I openoffice app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 * OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite. [ http://go-oo.org ] Did you emerge the bin, or build from sources? It took me one day to emerge from source. I tried SEARCH_DIRS_MASK but that doesn't work for me. I emerged openoffice with -java, so I don't have any javaldx as part of my openoffice installation. But I do have libvcl680li.so, and libuno_sal.so: carcharias program # ls -l libuno_sal.* libvcl680li.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 2 14:28 libuno_sal.so - libuno_sal.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1814568 Oct 23 18:12 libuno_sal.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3402428 Oct 23 18:12 libvcl680li.so carcharias program # pwd /usr/lib/openoffice/program carcharias program # emerge -Dv --pretend openoffice These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 +curl -eds -gnome +gtk -java +kde -ldap -mozilla -nas +xml2 +zlib 0 kB -Richard More helpful debug message: Joe /usr/lib/openoffice/program # ls -l libuno* libvcl* ls: libvcl*: No such file or directory. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 11月 1 23:52 libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so - libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 11月 1 23:52 libuno_cppu.so - libuno_cppu.so.3 Joe /usr/lib/openoffice/program # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -Dv --pretend openoffice These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 +curl +eds +gnome +gtk +java -kde +ldap +mozilla -nas +xml2 +zlib 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] syntax colorful highlight printing tool?
Hello. I just tried enscript --color to print my php source. The result is simply no color: looks they don't have good color schema for php. I also had a look at a2ps and it doesn't even have a color option (or did I miss it?) How do you print your php source in color? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: syntax colorful highlight printing tool?
Looks like enscript did a good job in coloring C source code, simple need someone to put up a color schema for php. They also have color syntax file for perl, python, fortran, delphi.. I thought php is a bit more popular then fortran. I think I can just use C syntax for php On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I just tried enscript --color to print my php source. The result is simply no color: looks they don't have good color schema for php. I also had a look at a2ps and it doesn't even have a color option (or did I miss it?) How do you print your php source in color? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is it just me? Or everyone has this openoffice2 problem?
Richard Fish wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: It took me one day to emerge from source. I tried SEARCH_DIRS_MASK but that doesn't work for me. Yes, the SEARCH_DIRS_MASK is only for revdep-rebuild and for those who merged the binary package. You do not need it when merging from source, and has no effect on your ability to start OOo. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 +curl +eds +gnome +gtk +java -kde +ldap +mozilla -nas +xml2 +zlib 0 kB Well, these USE flags are quite different than what I use, so comparing to my system is probably not useful. But, could you try an equery check openoffice, and see if it reports any problems? I remember that when I compiled OOo2, it took over 3Gb of space in /var, and my /usr/lib/openoffice directory is using 228M. Maybe you ran out of disk space at some point during the merge, which is why you are missing files??? -Richard I don't understand: if it run out of space, how comes the package marked as installed. I have about 3.8G free hdd space though. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery check openoffice [ Checking app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 ] * 880 out of 880 files good I think I can try compile with your USE flags later. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?
W.Kenworthy wrote: Open the print dialog, tick the Print to file box and then print. A file save dialog pops up. It prints in ps format. OO has done it this way for years ... I just wish to further know if this PS file contains anything related to the printer, anything printer-specific. E.g does it make difference if I choose printer A or printer B before I click 'Print to fiile' and get the PS file. As far as I know doing things this way on Windows is dangerous. E.g. print to a random PS printer (a laserject for example) and get the print-to-file PS file, chances these files are very specific to that PS printer and opens wrongly in gsview. You have to use the 'Adobe PS Printer' which produce 'standard' PS file. BillK On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 19:32 -0800, John Myers wrote: On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:18, 張韡武 wrote: Hello. So far openoffice is the only application that I know that could not directly export PS format, or print to a 'generic PS printer'. I am having a lot of troubles trying to generate PS file for my documents. Usually I have to go to a Windows computer and print to the 'Adobe PS Printer', and take the file back in a usb stick to my Linux computer. The usual gnome 'generic PS printer' simply does not exist as a printer of choice in the print dialogue box. How do you guys manage to make PS files? You could try exporting as a PDF, then running pdf2ps (from app-text/ghostscript) on it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?
W.Kenworthy wrote: This is a gentoo list - nobody here really cares what OO on windows does :) However, I produce pdf's all the time using standard tools from the linux OO generated postcript files and the doze users seem happy. The postscript is pretty standard it seems, my only beef is that more control (resolution, DPI etc) isn't available. after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo there is only one printer installed on cups that is a LaserJet. Later I discovered all PS files I provided are grayscale, and there is no possibility to switch to color. On one other gentoo computer the PS output is colorful thanks to the color printer installed. This is not perfect but nevertheless I managed to make PS files. I only need to take the ODT file to my another gentoo computer who has color printer and make the PS, this is much simpler then asking Windows user for help. Certainly I could share my color printer. Is there an even better (perfect) way? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?
Zac Medico wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo there is only one printer installed on cups that is a LaserJet. Later I discovered all PS files I provided are grayscale, and there is no possibility to switch to color. On one other gentoo computer the PS output is colorful thanks to the color printer installed. This is not perfect but nevertheless I managed to make PS files. I only need to take the ODT file to my another gentoo computer who has color printer and make the PS, this is much simpler then asking Windows user for help. Certainly I could share my color printer. Is there an even better (perfect) way? You shouldn't need a physical printer attached in order to configure a dummy postscript color printer driver for cups. Zac In the beging I am not sure of what port to use for my dummy printer, and there seems no file port like in Windows (kill me if you don't like to hear that word so much). Later I discovered I better install this package: cups-pdf This is a very interesting package: it provide a virtual printer that outputs PDF files. I think no other virtual printer is better then this one, because if you use it and print-to-file it seems to be generating standard PS file with good color at level 3, and if you do not use print-to-file it generate good PDF document. So it works both ways, helps in more situations then other PS printers. this is obviously my recommendation for a dummy printer (point me a better one if you know). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo there is only one printer installed on cups that is a LaserJet. Later I discovered all PS files I provided are grayscale, and there is no possibility to switch to color. On one other gentoo computer the PS output is colorful thanks to the color printer installed. This is not perfect but nevertheless I managed to make PS files. I only need to take the ODT file to my another gentoo computer who has color printer and make the PS, this is much simpler then asking Windows user for help. Certainly I could share my color printer. Is there an even better (perfect) way? You shouldn't need a physical printer attached in order to configure a dummy postscript color printer driver for cups. Zac In the beging I am not sure of what port to use for my dummy printer, and there seems no file port like in Windows (kill me if you don't like to hear that word so much). Later I discovered I better install this package: cups-pdf This is a very interesting package: it provide a virtual printer that outputs PDF files. I think no other virtual printer is better then this one, because if you use it and print-to-file it seems to be generating standard PS file with good color at level 3, and if you do not use print-to-file it generate good PDF document. So it works both ways, helps in more situations then other PS printers. this is obviously my recommendation for a dummy printer (point me a better one if you know). Just to mension, the PS generic drive used for cups-pdf can print up to 2400dpi. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] failed to install tinyERP: how to fix?
Hello. When I emerged tinyERP server I was told I should run the below
command to configure it. But it doesn't work.
emerson files # emerge --config =app-office/tinyerp-server-4.0.2
Configuring pkg...
* In the following, the 'postgres' user will be used.
* Creating database user terp ...
createuser: unrecognized option `--no-createrole'
Try createuser --help for more information. [ !! ]
!!! ERROR: app-office/tinyerp-server-4.0.2 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1527: Called pkg_config
tinyerp-server-4.0.2.ebuild, line 69: Called die
!!! Failed to create database user
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
I first think maybe having --no-createrole is not important so I
modified /usr/portage/app-office/tinyerp-server/tinyerp-server-4.0.2.ebuild,
replacing this line:
createuser --quiet --username=postgres --createdb --no-adduser
--no-createrole ${TINYERP_USER}
with this line
createuser --quiet --username=postgres --createdb --no-adduser
${TINYERP_USER}
My modification doesn't seem to work, I run emerge --config again but
still exactly the same error message.
How do I proceed on? Any suggestions?
Best Regards
Zhang Weiwu
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[gentoo-user] VOIP solution?
Dear List We are a tiny business running in China. In China ISP competition is not very healthy, 2 major ISPs: China Telcom, China Netcom both defend their own business by limiting network access to other ISP. We have an office in Beijing, in Beijing there is only one ISP company (monoplay business) that is China Netcom so they choose to use it. We have an office in Xiamen, in Xiamen there is only one ISP company (monoplay business) that is China Telcom, so we choose to use it. We also have a server hosted by a hosting company, that company is very smart, using some very special technology to connect both ISP. Transfer data from our Xiamen Office to Beijing = 3 ~ 10 KB/s, no connection can maintain 10 minutes. Transfer data from Beijing to Xiamen is the same slow. In Xiamen, transfer data from / to our server is 100KB/s; in Beijing exactly the same. We used to use skype, but quality isn't very high nor very realiable because only a few super-nodes have fast access to both ISP. Besides we got a few other problems too related to skype / gizmo. I am thinking perhaps it's not difficult to set up some software on the server that do the routing, e.g. it serve as a call center that both office login to a VOIP software and it connects to the server, the server talk to both sides. This is the fastest solution and it should work. That's only my imagination, I am still searching for such software. Both offices use OpenSuSE as desktop computer and the server runs Gentoo Linux. Both offices are behind each one's NAT firewall. Any suggestions on a VOIP solution for our office? P.S. Certainly THIS would work: set up VPN on the server and both office dial into the VPN before they start to use some SIP software. This can solve the problem, but I think it's over complicated. Besides, I never tried VPN on Linux, only did it on Windows: on windows the downside is once a host has dialed up VPN, local network connection is hidden for it, that I can no longer access the hosts in the same office that has not yet dialed in the same VPN. This is not acceptable for us. -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice http://www.realss.com +86 592 2091112 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: VOIP solution?
于 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:40:08 +0100，deface写到： Your better off to use a VPN device to hold the connection across the 2 offices. If your connection is extremely crap; then you'll need to upgrade to a better service provider. As far as your windows vpn issue, the device is not hidden; you just built your vpn connection wrong. you need to remove the option to use the remote host as a gateway, this will allow you to use your local interface for dns routing, not the other side. Thanks!. I'll carefully think and check your suggested solutions. However upgrade to a better service provider is absolutely impossible. Everyone who had been in China know this is a joke. We hope this (lack of competition in ICP business) can be solved in next 5 years. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] tweak console (fb) color:
-- Zhang Weiwu CEO Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales:0086 10 84606011 Inland business:http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 Sent from Pine: http://www.washington.edu/pine/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VOIP solution for dump terminals?
Hello. In an office we helped set up, there are a lot of X terminals for the clerks. (These X terminals are the old computers from school's lab, installed simple Gentoo Linux only to start X). Now they need VIOP, is it possible? I mean, is it possible the clerks use VOIP on X terminals, when the terminal equiped sound card, microphone but what they see on the screen is actually produced by the powerful server (which has only one sound card)? Ideas welcome! Thanks. I tried searched the portage and didn't discover a VOIP solution that can work on console which might solve this problem. (a.k.a when you make a VOIP call, please use this shortcut to connect to your own X terminal with telnet and operate the VOIP software) -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales:0086 10 84606011 Inland business:http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 Sent from Pine: http://www.washington.edu/pine/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] no longer able to print to inkjets after upgarde cups
Hello. I was using GutenPrint 5.0.0, ghostscript-esp-8.15.3 and cups 1.1.23 on my Ultrasparc U5 (Gentoo 2006.0). After I upgraded cups to 1.2.6 the inkjets no longer work. Check cups' error log on 'debug' log level, it shows something went wrong with ghostscript-esp D [27/Dec/2006:00:54:47 +0800] [Job 1608] HWMargins = [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 ] D [27/Dec/2006:00:54:47 +0800] [Job 1608] matrix = [ 10.000 0.000 0.000 -5.000 -0.000 4210.000 ] E [27/Dec/2006:00:54:47 +0800] PID 21443 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster) crashed on signal 10! D [27/Dec/2006:00:54:49 +0800] cupsdAcceptClient: 7 from 218.193.55.195:631 (IPv4) D [27/Dec/2006:00:54:49 +0800] cupsdReadClient: 7 POST /printers/epson_stylus_r350 HTTP/1.1 D [27/Dec/2006:00:54:49 +0800] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. There are no other information about PID 21443 in the log. Should I try to re-emerge ghostscript-esp again or try other versions of ghostscript? I heard that other versions of ghostscript won't work well for inkjet printing. I also attached the error log here error_log.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
[gentoo-user] cups doesn't work (pstoraster crash)
Hello. uname -a is: Linux sappho.realss.com 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 #21 Thu Dec 21 10:12:23 HKT 2006 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre) GNU/Linux cups version: 1.2.6, ghostscript-esp version: 8.15.3 (all are latest stable on Gentoo Sparc). Printing anything to my inkjet printer gets this error messag: /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster failed The hardware is Okay (tested by 'cat text_file /dev/usb/lp0' as well as 'escputil -uc -r /dev/usb/lp0'). This printer also prints if it's connected to Windows, so printer is okay too. I checked cups error_log but I simply cannot find out a clue (this log is too difficult to understand for my level of knowledge, it simply says pstoraster crashed on signal 10. Here is my error_log (LogLevel = debug): I catch this log by: first run 'tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log cups_errorlog' and then print a test job (standard cups test page) gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/0/users/weiwu/cups_errorlog Thanks a lot in advance! Zhang Weiwu Xiamen, China -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla consume a lot of X resource and made our company in difficult situation
Forgot to mension the X-terminal server (X-client machine) is running Gentoo. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] confusing RE doesn't work in diff
My RE must be wrong but I can hardly successfully match a whole line like the below example: This works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep \b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b* Calendar.php /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.1.1.1 2005/03/18 09:17:36 dawnlinux Exp $ */ /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.11 2004/05/23 14:51:27 ralfbecker Exp $ */ This doesn't work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep ^\b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b*$ Calendar.php any hint? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] confusing RE doesn't work in diff
Mariusz Pękala wrote: On 2005-07-25 17:50:37 +0800 (Mon, Jul), Zhang Weiwu wrote: My RE must be wrong but I can hardly successfully match a whole line like the below example: This works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep \b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b* Calendar.php /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.1.1.1 2005/03/18 09:17:36 dawnlinux Exp $ */ /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.11 2004/05/23 14:51:27 ralfbecker Exp $ */ This doesn't work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep ^\b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b*$ Calendar.php any hint? man grep: The symbol \b matches the empty string at the edge of a word It seems that '/' is not considered to be a part of a word. I suppose you may use ^[[:space:]]*/[*].*[*]/[[:space:]]*$ Calendar.php Thank you! Your RE suggested does work and I discovered this [[:space:]] pretty useful. I missed it in man grep. However there is another strange behavor. This works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cat header.inc.php ?php /* $Id: header.inc.php.template,v 1.58 2005/07/08 05:00:14 milosch Exp $ */ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ grep ^[[:space:]]*/[*].*[*]/[[:space:]]*$ header.inc.php /* $Id: header.inc.php.template,v 1.58 2005/07/08 05:00:14 milosch Exp $ */ And this doesn't work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ :empty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ diff -I ^[[:space:]]*/[*].*[*]/[[:space:]]*$ header.inc.php empty 1,2d0 ?php /* $Id: header.inc.php.template,v 1.58 2005/07/08 05:00:14 milosch Exp $ */ in man it's being said, -I RE --ignore-matching-lines=RE Ignore changes whose lines all match RE. I read man grep and it seems there are two sets of RE, extended and basic. But it's not mensioned in diff(1) wheather or not diff(1) takes extended or basic RE. I am using Debian so it should be gnu diff. Any thing more to teach me? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] why I cannot compile gsview? don't have idea what is this error message?
bash-2.05b# emerge gsview Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) app-text/gsview-4.6 to / !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. !!! File: files/digest-gsview-4.5 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] fontconfig question: mozilla and gnome behave differently?
Hello. Here is my situation. I love to use the font 'Bitstream Vera Serif' as the default font for my Gnome 2.8 desktop for every situation except mono. Actually I wish to use it exclusively as default, for example, mozilla use 'serif' font as default, and I wish Bitstream Vera Sans is used as 'serif'. This seems to be default in gentoo, that is okay. I also wish to use 'Bitstream Vera Sans' as 'sans'. But I wish when the character being displayed does not exist in Bitstream Vera Serif (example, Chinese characters), the character from 'AR PL ShangHeiSun Uni', which is a font I installed by myself, is used in place. I also wish 'AR PL ZenKai Uni' is used in place of 'sans' when the character does not exist in Bitstream Vera Sans. I found it pretty difficult to set it that way. For example, I set this in my fonts.conf alias familyserif/family prefer familyBitstream Vera Serif/family familyAR PL ShanHeiSun Uni/family /prefer /alias alias familysans-serif/family prefer familyBitstream Vera Sans/family familyAR PL ZenKai Uni/family /prefer /alias The result is: my locale is zh_CN.UTF-8, in Gnome applications the apps work as expected, but if using epiphany, interface is using correct Bitstream / ShangHeiSun mixed font, browse a webpage encoded in UTF-8, the whole webpage is displaed in 'AR PL ShangHeiSun Uni' font even if all the pages are English. Also, mozilla display all webpages encoded in UTF-8 as well as its own user interface (menu, button, location bar) in 'AR PL ShangHeiSun Uni' font. It seems when things comes to mozilla related (epiphany uses gecko), only the font that is encoded in Unicode will be used to display UTF-8 content? Is ShangHeiSun used exclusively because it is a unicode font? -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales:0086 10 84606011 Inland business:http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] backup tool for my Windows 98 desktop?
Hello. Most of our computers in the Office runs Linux, however we have to keep a Win98 desktop (dual-boot with Linux) so that we can test several software. This is a purely testbed machine that need regular re-install. e.g. once a month, because it's placed publically and breaks frequently. I am tired of re-installing Windows 98, and then complete with other software (filezilla, 7-zip, extra editors..., OOO). I think perhaps it's easier after I re-installed everything I make a backup of the Windows partition onto a CDROM and later use that CDROM to restore the partition. The partition is 5GB but actual data on it is smaller then 600MB right after Win98 and complementary software installed. First I thought using gentoo live CD, use dd(1) to copy the partition to a file and burn it on the live CD. However the file must be too big to fit on CDR (en I think perhaps I can compress it), and yet how do I add it to the live CD iso image so that cdrecord(1) can burn it? I think perhaps I should first try borrow experience on gentoo user list. How do you think is the best approach? P.S. I know norton Ghost can do this but I don't think it's worth to buy a copy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
