Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes:
I'm running Jessie on an HP Pentium host that's a several years old.
Desktop software is Xfce4 and CUPS from a Debian repository, as is all
software on the box. Printing works for the LibreOffice suite, but not
for Emacs23-lucid, or for plain
Xuan Ngo xuanngol...@yahoo.ca writes:
Where can I find the definitions of all sections in the Control file?
Examples of sections: admin, cli-mono, comm, database, devel, debug,
doc, editors, electronics, embedded, fonts, games, gnome, graphics,
gnu-r, gnustep, hamradio, haskell, httpd,
On 12/16/2009 1:31 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:15:30AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
Folk,
Observations from bystander.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500 Brian Nelson wrote,
Some of the .rules files on your system are using
a deprecated syntax
On 12/16/2009 2:52 PM, Tom H wrote:
And yet the udev maintainer's response to the
'CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED syslog message is So do it.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560821
I assume that if you are using testing, you have to be prepared for
problems and to make system changes.
On 12/14/2009 10:16 AM, Rick Pasotto wrote:
The udev module in testing got updated this morning. As a result I got
these lines in my syslog:
Dec 14 09:51:02 niof udevd[15399]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev
version, please use ATTR{}= to match the eventdevice, or ATTRS{}= to match a
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:42, Chrisrac...@makeworld.com wrote:
web browser: Firefox (Not IceWeasel)
am curious: what's wrong with Iceweasel?
It fails to work in some cases where Firefox does work, due to it
reporting a different User-Agent string.
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 10:46:50 Wolodja Wentland wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:29 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
comply with recommendations, you can use the User Agent plugin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
to have Iceweasel report a
Dirk noi...@gmx.net writes:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Nobody forces you to do anything. You can compile patch X.org yourself,
run oldstable, switch to another distribution or throw your computer out
of the window. Or you could just accept HAL and go on with your life.
You suggest that everyone
David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il writes:
I mean, really stuck, with oops-like kernel messages complaining about the
process. How do I get rid of it?
Reboot?
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lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de writes:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:58:21PM -0500, green wrote:
lee wrote at 2009-06-23 14:13 -0500:
I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp
in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a
dependency with gman. But
Eike Lantzsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I attempted to compile kernel-2.6.15 with make-kpkg but I got this error:
gzip
-9qf
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15/debian/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/conf.vars
install -p -m 644
debian/buildinfo
Adam Fabian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Edward C. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why does Debian default to gnome? When I install a recent testing,
I believe GNOME sprang up partially in response to KDE using Qt, which
had a non-free license at the time.
s/non-free/GPL-incompatible/
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Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For the past month I have been trying to get a friends computer working
with Sylpheed-claws gaim, but libaspell has an ongoing error within
it.
I keep getting this error message;
sylpheed-claws: relocation error: /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15:
Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:00:35 -0500
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For the past month I have been trying to get a friends computer
working with Sylpheed-claws gaim, but libaspell has an ongoing
All Nicks Are Taken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just started to use Quod Libet, which is a really great jukebox style
music
player, but it doesn't seem to have a crossfade effect plugin.
I've googled for it, and the only useful thing I found was this link:
Josh Battles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I got something like that...
Here's the relevant information that dmesg outputs about the ipod, but it
doesn't seem to be doing anything with it.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi3 : SCSI emulation
Josh Battles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian Nelson said:
Josh Battles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I got something like that...
Here's the relevant information that dmesg outputs about the ipod, but it
doesn't seem to be doing anything with it.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c
Scott Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(noob)
I would like to know if and how it is possible to do a non-interactive
install of an .deb package. The pages I have read talk only of a 'yes to
all questions' option which is obviously useless if the package you are
installing has questions other
Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:38:58PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
golfer wrote:
The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back
on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade
Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
golfer wrote:
The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back
on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. For one or two packages,
this may be ok, but it's not something I want to waste time doing
routinely.
The dist-upgrade option is
Christopher L. Everett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maurits van Rees wrote:
snip
So if I would remove libmysqlclient12 then these packages would be
removed as well. Not all packages that you mention are in this list.
But there are packages that also depend on packages in this list, so
they
Christopher L. Everett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For various reasons (I believe a version conflict is causing selects
to return no rows when it clearly has data to return),
Yes, that can happen due to lack of versioned symbol support in all but
the most recent MySQL libs in unstable.
I want
Petr Mandys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is it possible to build deb package from package which is currently installed
in the system?
How to?
dpkg-repack
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belbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
my etch works very well, but the startup process takes too long... I can see
many useless probing scripts working during the startup.
I thought I could remove some autoprobing script from /etc/rc*, but I don't
know
which. Here's the list:
[...]
Which scripts
J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The KDE font size keeps changing randomly.
I set the font size to Arial 10 and use it for about a week or 2.
I shut down my desktop every night.
Then, the next morning, Arial 10 is huge and I can't fit 80 character
across on the screen. I switch it back to
Oliver Lupton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joey Hess wrote:
deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
Alternatively, replace
David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot and
the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every Evening.
In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. (By the bye, why doesn't
Debian have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
I find it easiest to just grab the vanilla sources straight from
kernel.org. The Debian ones tend to be crippled and patched, which
makes it a pain to apply new patches.
I always find it easier to use the Debian stock kernels. They have
all of the
Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have written some apps with Qt3 and I still work on them from time to
time. I have libqt3-mt-dev installed for this purpose. I'd like to start
working with Qt4, so I tried installing libqt4-dev. Of course, it conflicts
with libqt3-mt-dev. Is this a
Joe Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am running Sid, and I can use apt-get update just fine. However, when
I then run apt-get upgrade I see apt fail to get even a single file.
Each one yields the message about failed to open the file.
I thought that if the server was down, update would
Steve Å [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm having a devil of a time with Aspell. When I first installed Sarge
(Testing over 2 years ago), I had Aspell replace Ispell. It took some
work at the time to get Aspell spell checking for British English.
Over the past few weeks, (I think it was when
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
Steve Å wrote:
Obviously, I wasn't paying close attention to the messages aptitude
was giving me. 8(
:-)
I've spent time searching the archives, and checking that the needed
dictionaries are present, but I can't see the forest for the trees.
Any
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quoting Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
security team.
Are you sure i cannot go back to stable ?
I don't think so, at least not without reinstalling. You can upgrade
from
Woody (old stable) to sarge (current stable) or from stable to testing
or
unstable. But
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 04:16:26PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
hi,
I'm trying to upgrade from woody to sarge by following the release notes,
which state that I should first upgrade to sarge's aptitude.
However, when I do this, aptitude tries to update glibc and a lot of
other packages, and
Merijn Schering (Intermesh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi I updated unstable with apt and now I have two problems:
The new udev package removed a lot of /dev/* links. My mouse and sound
card stopped working because all the dev symlinks were gone.
http://bugs.debian.org/udev
The other
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:51:18PM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote:
I've been wondering the past few days why there are no updates via
apt-get update/upgrade (I have the correct entries in
sources.list!). A few days ago I was reading at heise.de
(http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61076) that
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:43:46PM +0200, wegner wrote:
After upgrading to the latest stable distribution of debian, aspell no longer
shows german umlauts in the upper window. It uses blanks instead. But it
shows
umlauts in the lower window with the suggestions.
I would like to have umlauts
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:10:55PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
SquirrelMail has released a security patch. Will that eventually show up
in a Sarge security update? As a new user of stable (previously
testing), I have no experience with security updates. Tnx - John
Normally, yeah, but...
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:47:16PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
[...]
I've looked at the contents of several release files, and see that in
these files the stable/testing/unstable value is in the 'Suite:'
field. In man apt_preferences, this is called the Archive, not the
Suite. This, I think,
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:40:24AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
I just discovered the oldstable distribution. What are the implications
of this? For example, for years I have used cbb (checkbook balancer)
which I find is in the oldstable distribution but not in Sarge.
From
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Now that Sarge has gone stable and I have done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
I am left with only a few packages held back. These are all, I believe,
due to the fact that I have put them on 'hold.' I don't think that any
of them are
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:27:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
Yesterday on the chat rooms it was claimed that using aptitude was more
successful and effective than using apt-get dist-upgrade. Apparently
aptitude is supposed to
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:57:30PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Questions for you and others now using Dvorak: I could change my own keyboard
to whatever I want, but I know I'll still have to use other keyboards, and
I've been using QWERTY for close to 30 years. So:
1) How hard is it to
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:11:51PM +0200, Dominik Epple wrote:
Hi list,
I have an empty /var/cache/apt/archives directory. For building
a custom CD, I want to have all packages that are installed on the
machine as a file on my computer, e.g. in the /var/cache/apt/archives
directory. Can I
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:28:58AM +0200, Daniel Déchelotte wrote:
[...]
I think that an history-independent behaviour makes senses for
meta-packages. Let's imagine a prerm script for package kde. On running
apt-get remove kde, the user would see this warning:
Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 2005-05-01, Paul E Condon penned:
In most cases this is good, but it can lead to aptitude doing really
bad things in some special situations. For instance, I once
installed kde by requesting the single over-all package that exists
only to bring
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:53:08PM +0200, Lars Roland wrote:
[...]
--
Configuration file `/etc/qmail/tcp.smtp'
== Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
== Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:31:59PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
On 2005-05-03, Brian Nelson penned:
Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ah, yes. I've run into that kind of obnoxiousness before.
I think the right thing to do here would be to mark all the
kde-related
Olaf Conradi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:42:36 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:20 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 15:04 +0100, Olaf Conradi wrote:
Most of the development work that is done in
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:42:31PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
servers, it's plenty stable
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:54:01AM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
On Monday 27 December 2004 12:32 am, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
I think the issue is that packages are not directly uploaded to testing.
So it is possible to have version X of package A installed in testing.
...
If a serious or
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:03:42PM +1100, James Foster wrote:
Hello,
I'm curious about why there isn't an MPlayer package in Debian. The
MPlayer website says that MPlayer is available under the GNU General
Public License v2, so I don't see why it wouldn't be considered free
software. Even
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:58:21PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote:
I've purchased an iPod (40GB) for Macs. I've mounted the hfs+ partition
to /media/ipod. Then i've had the *stupid* idea to rm -rf /media/ipod/*.
Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any
ideas how to
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:21:20AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thursday 23 December 2004 6:48 am, Bahadir Balban wrote:
just a simple question -
if I use dpkg -i option, does it do anything extra than resolving
dependencies and extracting the packages?
Yes, lots.
It calls debconf
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:01:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote:
Em Ter, 2004-12-21 ??s 20:23 -0200, Franz Gustav Niederheitmann escreveu:
Em Ter, 2004-12-21 ??s 17:08 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu:
Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote:
Em Ter, 2004-12-21 ??s 16:20
William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sarge installs ipchains by default.
Nothing that depends on ipchains is installed by default.
I don't use ipchains. I use less.
Can we have less in the base install and not ipchains?
It already is that way.
less is Priority: standard, so it
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:01:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
I've run debootstrap sid (it spewed an ungodly number of warnings and
failed to configure many packages, but it essentially worked) and I can
chroot into it.
Now what? Is there a way to run the rest of debian-installer
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:50:39PM +0800, ?? wrote:
I was reading the introduction about Conffiles in Debian Policy
Manual, section 10.7 and appendix E,
Don't trust anything in the appendix. That stuff tends to be way out of
date.
and modified conffiles of package debconf,
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:12:49PM +0100, J.Rinas wrote:
Is there a a logfile anywhere for the actions dpkg did
... like installation/deinstallation/update of packages?
No. See http://bugs.debian.org/957 (almost 10 years old!)
If there is no logfile, Is there another chance to get this
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:09:07PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 8:30 am, Giorgio Raccanelli wrote:
I'm in trouble in the installation of the x-server. I have an ATI
Radeon 9600, so I installed the driver radeon as
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:23:48PM +0800, ?? wrote:
Just replace them with the original files. You may have a
/etc/deconf.conf.dpkg-dist file--this is the unmodified file from the
package.
I am sorry I did not find such file, this means I have to backup first
next time. But what
Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any formal requirement that a maintainer be responsive, or even
do his job at all?
No. Debian's Constitution actually states that you can't force a
developer to do any work he or she doesn't want to do.
Is there a procedure for taking a
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:47:07AM -0800, ken keanon wrote:
Hi,
This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e.
community-base, open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat.
Anybody has any opinion about it? Is it better than Debian?
I think this pretty much
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:03:33PM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
* Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041124 19:26]:
What about the practical implications? How can you have a GNU/Linux
distribution without gcc, make and especially coreutils?
If it's not possible to write free documentaion
Robert Cates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is it possible with apt-get to upgrade a Woody installation to Sarge?
If so, would that be with:
apt-get dist-upgrade
or is that just to completely upgrade the Woody installation.?
Read the release notes, available at:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:12AM +, michael wrote:
Michael Spang wrote:
Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails:
sudo install-info --quiet --section General commands General
commands /usr/share/info/sed.info
The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should be on the way.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:45:43PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:22:44PM -, michael wrote:
I initially went for 'stable' (woody) but it was too out of date for my
Ethernet card hard drive. I've now installed 'testing' (sarge) and have
followed recommendations in
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:14:42AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 01:54:19PM +, Brian Nelson wrote:
What dpkg does is broken. It has no business storing that stuff in the
status file.
Now you're echoing Colin Watson.
And we all know what a poor source of wisdom
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:23:16PM -0500, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
Hi all,
Hey, is now a good time to switch my sources from testing to sarge?
If you have to ask, you shouldn't even be running testing in the first
place.
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a case of putting
typing aptitude where you would have typed apt-get.
Now, wait just a second... Brian Nelson says no one is recommending
aptitude over apt-get for command-line use. :)
I never said that. In fact, the above entry in the reference contains
text that was added at my
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:26:07AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and
stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though
Marc is saying
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:41:04AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
I believe that the only things left in non-us are programs that infringe US
patents.
No, software that cannot be distributed because of patents (e.g. lame)
is not included in Debian.
AFAIK, non-us is not used for anything anymore.
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:20:02PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Debian isn't a true democracy. We elect our leader, and thereafter
the leader acts under his own accord.
It's a representative democracy, much like the US government. Except
Debian
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:01:14PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:13:05AM +, Brian Nelson wrote:
This is another good example of why apt-get should be avoided, since it
gave absolutely no indication as to the problem you correctly diagnosed.
Funny, I was able
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:50AM -0800, ken keanon wrote:
Read all the responses to Why debian.
My summary:
1. It is free, w/o any non-free components.
2. It can be easily updated and upgraded.
My questions:
1. Is it free because it is not popular?
You got it backwards. It's popular
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:12:47AM +, Brian Nelson wrote:
Aptitude does an OK job in this respect. It doesn't make conflict
resolution completely obvious, but the information is there.
Aptitude shouldn't be used until its
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:33:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:43:38PM +, Brian Nelson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:12:47AM +, Brian Nelson wrote:
Aptitude does an OK job in this respect
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:08:35PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:46:31PM +0800, cwinl-debian-user wrote:
But my mysql server shouldn't be remove.
how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?
Of course it should be removed. The 'mysql-server' package depends on
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:53:58PM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote:
On Friday 12 November 2004 02:11, ken keanon wrote:
Hi,
There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian
should be the preferred choice?
Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popularity of
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:15:26AM -0800, RituRaj wrote:
Any approx dates?
No. Subscribe to debian-devel-announce if you want to receive the
latest release info. The most recent announcement regarding the release
is: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/09/msg5.html
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:39:55AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
* Alexandros Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041107 23:51]:
Following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I
filed a couple of bugs. Now one of them has been resolved, how can I
report this and
Nori Heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the iPod itself shows that i have no music, no artists, no anything.
it also shows that i have 18.5G used, and 2.8G available. all
consistent.
so what i need to do is recreate the table, if possible. my only
other option, afaict, is to delete all
Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
our cd player died so I'm converting my old laptop to a part-time
mp3-player/ cdp player. I usually use xmms groovycd to play music,
but that combination is a little clumsy for my family members. here's
what I want:
-an mp3 organizer that makes it
ROBERTOJIMENOCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to know if there's a formal process where defaults like the
ones I proposed can be voted to please the majority of the users.
Good God, NO! We've already seen how poorly the majority choose things,
like the President of the US for example.
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:03:30PM +, Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
What's the best way to remove Remove Config-file packages?
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge
Jeez. Save yourself that pain and just run aptitude,
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:40:00PM +, Nick Smith wrote:
i use gentoo primarily now because i like the feeling that every piece
of software on my system from the bootstrap up is compiled for my
hardware aka p4, every debian binary is built for a 386 machine to keep
compatibility! and on
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs
in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development
machine running mostly woody with some packages from sarge, including
g++-3.4 of course.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:08:44PM -0400, ted wrote:
I'd really like to use Mozilla 1.7.3 on my powerpc, but either the
documentation I've read on how to do so is wrong or I don't understand it.
I've tried editing my /etc/apt/sources.list to include unstable, and
then gave the command
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:40:27PM -0500, Rich Wellner wrote:
The photo questions reminded me I have an outstanding issue. I fequently
resize hundreds of photos at a time and it takes a heck of a long time under
convert. I know from experience that convert can be dog in some circumstances
so
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Francois Cerbelle wrote:
Le Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Ed Sutherland ecrit :
had to log-out and reboot in order to regain control. Is there a
secure, solid and stable e-mail client built for linux? I don't want
applications to have a
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Douglas G. Phillips wrote:
It might not complain, but it'll take its sweet ass time loading a large
mailbox.
It's a lot faster than some others, especially Evolution with huge mbox
files, IMHO. If you have issues with the speed, try switching to
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:
Is there a secure, solid and stable e-mail client built for linux?
No. Every mail client in existence is utter crap, including mutt and
gnus. The best you can hope for is something that is barely tolerable,
and I'm still searching
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:34:25PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:17:23AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated:
i just got an iPod(!), and i'm very excited to start using it.
however, i can't figure out how to mount it. i'm not even trying to
set up automounting or
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:19:20AM -0300, JAIME GIMENEZ JR wrote:
I?m brazilian and I need your help to understand a
english word:
What means this word.nasally-insertable
You can stick it in your nose.
It?s usual find this words...
But what we need to know is, do people
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is
Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from
Unstable to Testing?
Testing becomes frozen, which
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:21:00PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
because the final Sarge will be ready when it will be ready, and it will
be
_good_ and _stable_
That's what's really important, no?
Really naive question - Could recently-released SpamAssassin 3.0 still make
it into Sarge, or
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:36:22AM -0700, Jianbo Wang wrote:
Does anyone know the frozen, release data of sarge? Thanks!
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/09/msg5.html
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:51:27PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:
The changelog entry for aptitude says new upstream release. I know
Debian is trying to be Kernel-neutral, but isn't aptitude a
Debian-native package which might happen to run on things like Redhat?
It just means the source and
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:03:45PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
Trying to load about:config results in
XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: jar:resource:///chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/config.xul
Line Number 1, Column 1:ig.xulUT
Is it just me, or is this a problem with the
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:56:20PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
I was wanting to install KOrganizer, since the version currently
installed crashes. However, when I do apt-get install korganizer, I am
informed that kde is to be uninstalled? Why is that?
Why use apt-get, which gives absolutely
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