I'd like to upgrade Emacs to the 26.x series and only that and it's
dependencies. Is there a way to do that? A search on the web showed
some confusing instructions. Below are, hopefully, enough information
for any suggestions.
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Is there any documentation on how to do an automated install of debian
testing? I've done a manual install of debian in a VM and would like
to automate the process. I've read the debian admin manual
(appendices) and I'm afraid it's a bit over my head. Is there any
site/link that explains
Are there any repositories with prebuilt deb packages that can be
installed in sid? I had earlier posted that I was creating a sid VM
for people to use and I'd really like to avoid any manual download,
compile,install cycle. I'd prefer everything to be done by apt-get
and I think I'm pretty
On Fri, Sep 02 2016,David Wright wrote:
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> $ dpkg -l
> will list all the packages on the machine. The files
> /var/log/aptitude* track what you install with aptitude, and
> /var/log/apt/history* does likewise for apt-get.
> /var/log/apt/term* gives a dump of the screen during
On Fri, Sep 02 2016,Neal P. Murphy wrote:
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>> If there's a distribution aligned for scientific computing or
>> statistical tools along with the bells and whistles, it'd help.
>>
>> sivaram
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> Have you found Debian Science (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience)?
Thanks, I
Is there a distribution specced out for R/Python/Julia based tools
with all their related packages? I've been trying to do a custom VM
image with the packages installed along with a few editors and doing a
rank amateur muppet job at it. I'm close to giving up because I've
lost track of what I
On Thu, Dec 24 2015,The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2015-12-24 at 07:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote:
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>> [snipped 32 lines]
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> This is standard practice; you don't usually need to indicate that
> you've snipped at all (exc
On Wed, Dec 23 2015,Udyant Wig wrote:
> On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
>>
>> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the
>> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd
>> like to remove the doc packages
On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote:
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>> Minor note: I do not recall seeing signatures like yours.
>
> The standard for signature delimiters is a line consisting of '-- ', as
> the first line of the signature block. Software which knows what it's
> doing will see this
I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the
entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd
like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future installs
of the same type whenever I Upgrade TexLive.
Could someone please suggest a way? I'm on
On Mon, Oct 26 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-27 00:04:44+05:30] wrote:
>
>> I don't want to clone the whole repository, would a shallow clone also
>> work?
>
> You can use "git clone --depth 1" to get just the latest revision. Most
&g
On Sun, Oct 25 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-25 20:00:35+05:30] wrote:
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>> Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess.
>
> That's a good choice and nothing to be afraid of. In Debian 8 it would
> go like this:
>
>
> sudo apt-g
I'm running debian test and I'd like to use the latest Emacs snapshots
if anyone has built them at all. Is there a canonical website where I
can get deb packages of the same, please?
Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess.
sivaram
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On Sat, Oct 10 2015,Sven Hartge wrote:
> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it enough that I change all references to stretch to sid in
>> sources.list and do the dist-upgrade to switch to sid?
>
> This is correcnt.
Thank
Is it enough that I change all references to stretch to sid in
sources.list and do the dist-upgrade to switch to sid? Is there
anything else I need to watch out for?
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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux stretch-DI-alpha3 _Stretch_ -
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 29 June 2015 22:03:50 Arno Schuring wrote:
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intrastructure admin / manager / department, i.e. the network
overlords.
Thanks, Arno. I'm obviously too far out of the swing these days.
Sorry, that was typo from my side that
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote:
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IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions...
On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on
different technologies, those tools may help. But for single
(or very similar) VMs, some
I was making a debian VM to be used for a small teaching session on
shell scripting that I was planning. Our IT infra came up to me and
said, use Vagrant with it to make it easier. I looked at the Vagrant
page and I can't wrap my head on what its for.
That and Docker too. Why and how does it
On Mon, Mar 09 2015,Brian wrote:
On Sun 08 Mar 2015 at 00:58:29 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
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But what do we think about this as a procedure? [1]
apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade
aptitude -y upgrade
apt-get -y dist-upgrade
aptitude -y dist-upgrade
apt-get -y
On Thu, Mar 05 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote:
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A few weeks ago I used the Jessie RC1 Installer, the day after it was
released. I loved it. It was IMHO nicer than the Wheezy one, easier to use
for what I wanted it for (I did not want to install Gnome, but it looked as
though it
On Fri, Mar 06 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 05 March 2015 19:43:35 Ric Moore wrote:
It's probably more
solid than it's Ubuntu counterpart. Ric
Correction: it's CERTAINLY more solid than its Ubuntu counterpart. ;-)
Thus starts the flame wars. :)
sivaram
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On Wed, Feb 18 2015,Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
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I'm amazed that a typo can bring such an emotional reaction - my email
was really not about systemd, but about the fact that Debian Works -
at least for me. I cannot speak for others.
As a first time Debian user, the upgrade
On Wed, Feb 18 2015,Brian wrote:
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Try ~/.xsessionrc.
Thanks, that worked.
sivaram
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On Tue, Feb 17 2015,Brian wrote:
On Wed 18 Feb 2015 at 00:05:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
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What leads you to believe a .xprofile has any significance on Debian?
ouch! You mean, I can't trust some random page on google? ;)
Well, that's what I did; the first
On Mon, Feb 16 2015,Brian wrote:
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You do not sound the least bit rude. /etc/init.d and /lib/systemd/system
are places to look for services which are started at boot time. The
files ending in .service given by systemctl are amongst the services
which are activated.
So I
For some reason that I haven't figured out yet, my screen estate is
not used fully by Debian and I had some black bands around the edges
of the WM. Reading around, I found a combination of gtf and xrandr
with a rather painful way of discovering that my screen is 1366 x 652
in size.
xrandr
On Mon, Feb 16 2015,Brian wrote:
On Mon 16 Feb 2015 at 20:39:41 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
As I had earlier posted, I have recently upgraded to Jessie. During
bootup I see lots of stuff being started like Exim, ldap etc. I'd
like to disable lots of these stuff if it doesn't
On Mon, Feb 16 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote:
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If he upgraded from Wheezy, as he did, will he have systemd?
I do seem to have systemd-blame installed and the above command
worked.
sivaram
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As I had earlier posted, I have recently upgraded to Jessie. During
bootup I see lots of stuff being started like Exim, ldap etc. I'd
like to disable lots of these stuff if it doesn't interfere with KDE
the environment that I currently use(I used a KDE live CD install).
I have no idea what
On Thu, Feb 12 2015,Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 02:45:43PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
Why? Then how do I upgrade? I'm usually in the KDE desktop terminal
when I try all this. If I'm supposed to do without X, how do I go to
terminal only login?
CTRL-ALT
On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Brian wrote:
On Tue 10 Feb 2015 at 14:45:43 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Reco wrote:
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You really should read the release notes. :)
In some cases, doing the full upgrade (as described below)
directly might remove large
In for a penny, in for a pound. So I did get the libcurl4* install
from backports done. And everything installed swimmingly. Emacs and
Rstudio seem to work fine.
Now, to the upgrade
1. Changed all wheezy to jessie in sources.list
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On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 08:13:11 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
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If everything installed swimmingly and is working fine, why?
Well, everyone says move to Jessie. I thought once you get a clean
system working, let's get on the bandwagon
On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Reco wrote:
Hi.
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You'll want sources from the backports too probably:
deb-src http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian jessie-backports main
thanks for that.
#jessie R packages
#deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/bin/linux/debian
On Mon, Feb 09 2015,Brian wrote:
On Sun 08 Feb 2015 at 18:45:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
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1. Do I have to uninstall reinstall the cran packages, Rstudio before
proceeding? And this needs to be done from backports?
No uninstallation is necessary when you get
On Sat, Feb 07 2015,Bob Proulx wrote:
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Why? Now that we understand that it was dependencies that were pulled
in for emacs the answer is easy. Simply install it using backports to
backfill the dependencies.
apt-get -t wheezy-backports install r-base
OK, here's the
Hi,
Is there an official jessie cd with only kde/xfce? I'd like to use only
kde or xfce and currently I can't seem to find an iso for it. The
last one I downloaded had 7.7_amd64-kde-iso or something of that
sort.
Any links or recommendations?
sivaram
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On Sun, Feb 08 2015,lostson wrote:
On 02/08/2015 07:22 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
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Here are the Debian Jessie images
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Thanks, found the kde iso too.
sivaram
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On Sun, Feb 08 2015,songbird wrote:
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
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https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
the word Official on that page is unfortunate because it
has a specific meaning with respect to the actual released
images of Debian.
at the moment
On Sat, Feb 07 2015,Bob Proulx wrote:
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In for a penny, in for a pound. I think this is just a natural
consequence of using backport software. Sivaram should keep going
with backports.
Since the goal is to get emacs24 installed I would keep going.
Insteall
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,David Wright wrote:
Quoting Sivaram Neelakantan (nsivaram@gmail.com):
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Brian wrote:
On Fri 06 Feb 2015 at 14:04:25 +, Brian wrote:
As far as I can see, purging emacs24 may be the only solution.
Oh well, that's not something I want to do
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Brian wrote:
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I'd be prepared to report it (if Sivaram Neelakantan doesn't) but is it
in the emacs package? Also, what severity? If it is seen as breaking
unrelated software on the system it would be critical.
If it is a bug, please go ahead
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote:
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Unfortunately, it looks as though you may have to but had you thought of
Jessie?
The missus is asking who's Jessie and why are you thinking of her? ;)
Sure, I'd upgrade to Jessie
That might let you have both! Or is there a
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Brian wrote:
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It is good that you have provided sufficient information in this thread
to be able to follow in your footsteps as I am now able to reproduce
your problem.
My sources list has the security entry followed by kartolo lines for
wheezy and
On Fri, Feb 06 2015,Brian wrote:
On Fri 06 Feb 2015 at 14:04:25 +, Brian wrote:
I never use backports so am not overly familiar with its operation or
how it fits with the rest of the archives. However, this does not look
like something that should happen. If we understood what is
On Thu, Feb 05 2015,Bob Proulx wrote:
Brian wrote:
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Do you have an /etc/apt/preferences file? Or /etc/apt/preferences.d/*
files? If so what is in it? Remove it and try the apt-get update and
apt-get install again.
No, I don't have any preferences or anything in
On Thu, Feb 05 2015,Brian wrote:
On Thu 05 Feb 2015 at 01:17:04 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
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Perhaps the OP can have a single line as I did and try
apt-get install librtmp-dev
If there is any failure we would want to see the complete output
On Thu, Feb 05 2015,Bob Proulx wrote:
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
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When tracking down installation errors I am always suspicious of third
party repositories. They tend to be the problem. I would comment
that out while you are debugging the current problem.
Done
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Ric Moore wrote:
On 02/04/2015 02:13 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
How does one go about fixing broken packages? I've recently started
using debian and apart some fiddling to get the latest emacs24.4 on
wheezy I have not done anything on the system. When I tried
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Ric Moore wrote:
On 02/04/2015 02:13 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
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As root user, apt-get install synaptic
Let it install your programs for you. It's a great GUI package tool,
that most use. It's point n
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Bob Proulx wrote:
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
How does one go about fixing broken packages?
Double check every entry being used in /etc/apt/sources.list and any
additional file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*. You said you were using
Wheezy. In that case you should have *only
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 11:41:53 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Dejan Jocic wrote:
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Do you need libcurl4-openssl-dev? If not, have you tried just uninstalling
it?
erm...yes, that's what I need to install
On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Dejan Jocic wrote:
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aptitude why-not libcurl4-openssl-dev
i task-kde-desktop Recommends system-config-printer
i A system-config-printer Dependspython-cupshelpers (= 1.3.7-4)
i A python-cupshelpersDependspython-pycurl
How does one go about fixing broken packages? I've recently started
using debian and apart some fiddling to get the latest emacs24.4 on
wheezy I have not done anything on the system. When I tried to
install libcurl4, I get the following error.
apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
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