Re: gnome-shell en testing (Sorry mixing lists)

2011-11-10 Thread Javier Barroso
Sorry I mixed debian-user-spanish with debian-user :( 2011/11/10 Javier Barroso : > Añado a la lista .. > > 2011/11/10 Jose Diaz : >> Saludos, muy buenas noches >> >> Referente al hilo, sobre Unity y Gnome3 veo que al abrir una ventana ej: >> /home/miusuario y mo

Re: gnome-shell en testing

2011-11-09 Thread Javier Barroso
so dentro > del sistema). Es solo cuestion de acostumbrarse y en el futuro sera mas > personalizable eso es seguro. > > Saludos. > > El 9 de noviembre de 2011 18:06, Javier Barroso > escribió: >> >> 2011/11/8 Javier Silva : >> > Hola lista, >> > aquí una no

Re: Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-09 Thread Javier Silva
2011/11/9 Joost Kraaijeveld : > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 20:29 +0100, Javier Silva wrote: >> Init computer in recovery mode and install firmware-linux. >> >> radeon driver need a package firmware-linux-non-free. > That is installed and loaded. I have Gnome3 running as Gnome3

Re: Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-09 Thread Javier Silva
2011/11/9 Joost Kraaijeveld : > Hi, > > I am trying to run Debian Testing AMD64 with Gnome3 and the Radeon > OpenSource driver, xserver-xorg-video-radeon. All are the latest > versions, updated today (9 november 2011). > > After some time and always after clicking on an icon or something else > on

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-06 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html > >  > epoch > >> This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer. It may be omitted, >> in which case zero is assumed. If it is omitted then the upstream_v

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Walter Hurry wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:27:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> >>>> GNOME Shell is the de

[OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-05 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Walter Hurry wrote: >> >> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:27:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>> GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 user experience. >> >> That's exactly the problem, and precisely why I have moved on to LXDE.

Re: go deep directories

2011-10-25 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:06 AM, lina wrote: > On Tuesday 25,October,2011 11:53 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:50:53PM BST, Raf Czlonka wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:23:51PM BST, lina wrote: a quick question, are there some tricks to go deep directori

Re: go deep directories

2011-10-25 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:23 PM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > a quick question, are there some tricks to go deep directories quickly, > > such as cd Atheone/ > > Tab is good. Just curious See autojump package in repo Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: wget 1.13 problem with https , while reading /etc/ssl/certs ?

2011-10-10 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi people, > > I have just asked in irc, but nobody has this issue ... do you have it ? > > I'm having trouble with wget 1.13-1 from sid, it take more than 15 > seconds starting to download the content of an https

wget 1.13 problem with https , while reading /etc/ssl/certs ?

2011-10-10 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi people, I have just asked in irc, but nobody has this issue ... do you have it ? I'm having trouble with wget 1.13-1 from sid, it take more than 15 seconds starting to download the content of an https petition. If use --ca-directory=/tmp/ , then instantanely it works: annotatte-output strace

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
since it avoids me to edit several things by hand. So I'd say you must take into account those that do not use "modern DEs"... Just in case we get forgotten, :-) -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: [debian-users] wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal.

2011-10-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
So, no one with experience on debian with this usb device? :-( Javier. On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > I sent this to another list, but apparently no one knows, or cares to > answer... > > Bad thing I'm not using debian in the x86-64

Re: Understanding aptitude search patterns

2011-10-04 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > I still have much to learn about aptitude, but in case anyone is > interested, I made some sense from the source code, which seem to be > ingenious at times: > > There are indeed two modes, but not what I thought. There is a "match > a

Re: Bug report

2011-10-04 Thread Javier Silva
2011/10/4 lina : > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Javier Silva wrote: >> >> 2011/10/4 Erwan David : >> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 10:10:39AM CEST, Javier Silva >> > said: >> >> 2011/10/3 Erwan David >> >>

Re: Bug report

2011-10-04 Thread Javier Silva
2011/10/4 Erwan David : > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 10:10:39AM CEST, Javier Silva > said: >> 2011/10/3 Erwan David >> > >> > On 03/10/11 18:39, lina wrote: >> > > Just curious, >> > > >> > > do I need to file a bug report cause

Re: Bug report

2011-10-04 Thread Javier Silva
"ATi Radeon HD3200 (DVI)" Monitor "IBM L150p (DVI)" DefaultDepth24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen"

[debian-users] wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal.

2011-10-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
ut perhaps the help you can provide is all I need to make any progress... So please keep reading the e-mail I sent below... Thanks a lot, Javier. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:01 PM Subject: wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal. Hi, I'm

Re: incredibuild for linux(debain).

2011-10-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Muhammad Fahad wrote: > can we use incredibuild for linux(debain). if no then is there any > alternative > Regards > Fahad Haven't ever heard of it... But quickly looking into it, wouldn't distcc be an option for the same purpose?

Re: IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-02 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, 2011/10/2 Ireneusz Szcześniak : > Hi, > > I'm planning to install an image of Debian to a number of computers. Each of > these computers will have the same configuration except the hostname and the > IP address.  The IP configuration has to be static. I can't use a DHCP > server. > > QUESTI

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:21 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Please notice these combinations require experimental besides >> unstable, :-)  And to make the dependency handling easier, I just use >> aptitude in ncurses mod

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:07 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Well, for me the next combination of packages just works well (at some >> point in the past I needed to add experimental to have the latest >> combination o

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
% aptitude search '~i' | 'grep' xulrunner i A xulrunner-1.9.1 - XUL + XPCOM application runner i A xulrunner-6.0 - XUL + XPCOM application runner % aptitude search '~i' | 'grep' iceweasel i iceweasel - W

Re: pdfedit

2011-08-21 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I guess I'm too stupid to figure it out. > > I have a pdf document that I would like to add two lines of text to > (different positions, different fonts). Under the 'Page' menu I see an > icon for adding text but it is greyed out. I don't see

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
w, it's NOT guaranteed that's what the kernel will do, it's just a hint. You can look on the web for swappiness, you'll find all kind of blogs and comments... That might help minimize the use of swap area... -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
f && rm -f ~/my_window.xwd 1st one to get a snapshot of whole screen, 2nd one to get a snapshot of just a particular window (you'll have to select it with the mouse). You might pipe xwd to convert if you'd like. I have those lines as part of my fluxbox usermenu since I rememb

Re: picture import from camera - gthumb

2011-07-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
s CLI: 'gphoto2 -P' > That dumps all te files in the dir. where it is executed. > > Hugo And on the same page, gphotfs, which combined with autofs, just works great, :-) -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

2011-07-07 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2011-07-07T07:13:24+02:00 * Javier Barroso wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi >> wrote: >>> Consider the following shell script > >>> #! /bin/sh > >> You

Re: OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

2011-07-06 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Consider the following shell script > > $cat manual_listing.sh > #! /bin/sh > > # stanza 1 > for i in "kama" "raju" "k a m a" "r a j u" > do >        echo $i > done > > # stanza 2 > names='kama raju' > for i in $names > do >        ech

Re: bash script fails in squeeze

2011-07-06 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > This script has been working flawlesly in Debian Etch and Lenny but after > upgrading to Squeeze it no longer seems to work and I cannot find out why. > > Below the full "defaultgw-test.sh" script which attempts to determin whethet > t

Re: Problem with autojump script - unsupported pickle protocol - Debian Testing

2011-06-30 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Stephane Duchesne wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:39:41PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:07:39 +0800, Stephane Duchesne wrote: >> >> > I'm running Debian Testing and I have a problem with a python script >> > called autojump: >> > >> > #d

Re: sed or awk: decode base64 string in passwd-like file

2011-06-30 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Denny Schierz wrote: > hi, > > I have a file with strings like: > > tes...@domain.foo:e0NSWVBUfVUx=:500:12002::/imap/spool/domain.foo/%1n/% > n:storage=50 > > I need to decode the second field (password field), with something like: > > echo e0NSWVBUfVUx= | openssl

Re: imapsync

2011-06-21 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:46:29 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>>> [1] http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync_list/msg00732.html >>> >

Re: imapsync

2011-06-21 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:09:39 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>>>       Have a look at >>>>       http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?

Re: imapsync

2011-06-21 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:01:05 -0700, dlists wrote: > >>> Would you know the reasons why "imapsync" has been in Lenny but no more >>> in "squeeze" nor "sid"? >> >> Hey Mihamina, >> >>       Have a look at >>       http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/02/11 at 08:15pm, tadziu wrote: >> i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to >> stable before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my >> second computer with squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get >> it work

Re: Automounting USB drives

2011-05-19 Thread Javier Vasquez
>> but I have not found anything yet. > > If you don't want to manually deal with udev and its rules, you could > consider "halevt" or "pmount". > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón Notice autofs is a light and pretty good option... -- Javier.

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

2011-05-12 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Javier Barroso: >> >> So, why not, simply wait one month without upgrading, remove sid from >> your sources.list (and keep only wheezy), and then aptitude update; >> aptitude safe-upgrade; aptitude full-upgrade

Re: Boot problem after crashed update

2011-05-12 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Simon Hoerder: >> >> Is there an easy way to remove all unstable packages? > > No, at least no easy way I could come up with. You could use aptitude > search to identify installed packages from unstable, remove them and > reinstall them from

Re: update from squeeze to wheezy

2011-05-07 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:21 PM, lina wrote: > 00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev > b1) > > so in wheezy there will be no support for the graphic card of above one? That is a audio device, not a graphic card For nvidia graphics cards you have xserver-xorg-v

Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2011-04-23 Thread Javier Vasquez
wn in the dpkg-reconfigure UI appear broken. It appears >> like this: >> >>  â”Œâ”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”€â”│ > > Use a terminal emulator that actually supports UTF-8 instead of mrxvt. > > Sven rxvt-unicode might be of help. -- Javier.

Re: Problems with autofs

2011-04-15 Thread Javier Vasquez
>> /var/autofs/removable   /etc/auto.removable >> --timeout=2,sync,nodev,nosuid,ghost >> > Both suggestions didn't work. If I understand correctly my config > files are correct? auto has never worked for me, as you're any ways mounting it through UUID, you can specify th

Re: Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

2011-04-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110413_202225, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Don J wrote: >> > For a week or more, I've been having problems with iceape and a few >> > other programs.  As far as I can se

Re: Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

2011-04-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
an someone interpret the warnings and critical stuff for me?  I'm not > a newbie, but I have little experience in this area. > > I do have two other problems that has recently popped up, and I do not > know if they are related to this problem or not, but I'll mention just > i

Re: something changed in unstable initramfs-tools?

2011-04-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:02:57AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It used to be until yesterday that nouveau (controlled by KMS) was >> automatically loaded by the kernel, as well as snd-hda-intel, and t

something changed in unstable initramfs-tools?

2011-04-06 Thread Javier Vasquez
he modules to /etc/modules, so not big deal, but I just wanted to make sure that's the way to go... Thanks, -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Looking for a parallel log viewer

2011-03-17 Thread Javier Barroso
> On Mi, 16 mar 11, 01:23:45, Malte Forkel wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm looking for a tool that can display multiple log files and scroll >> them based on their timestamps in a synchronized fashion. I'm not sure, but maybe log4tailer [1] could works for you (I want to test it) It is not exactly what

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-03-01 Thread Javier Vasquez
t; B FYI, fluxbox might be an alternative for that purpose as well (my choice), but there are others like fvwm2, pekwm, icewm, etc... I use fluxbox on coppermine (<=800MHz) , on penryn (2.20 GHz), on lemote mini-pcs, and it works pretty nice/light on all of them, besides being good looking if y

Re: bash variables

2011-02-25 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi Mike, Please add OT to subject ;-) On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > I occasionally have problems with bash variables, for instance > the following command lists (along with everything else) >  2 *.deb files in /home/mike/ > > root@/deb40a:~> FIND1="-maxdepth 1 -type f -

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list

2011-02-12 Thread Javier Vasquez
ninstalled automatically from the box. BTW, the times I've seen packages being removed from unstable, they have really gotten out of the repos, so instead it had help me educate the reasons why (I go look the web, or ask the list), and if there are alternatives under the repos...

Re: fluxbox window buttons lost after move to testing

2011-02-11 Thread Javier Vasquez
; > Thanks for any suggestions, > > Tyler Could you try moving .fluxbox to .fluxbox.old, and see if defaults work? -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim3tz_eyny_nktjx3bgc41fyl1itwbo0hvh2...@mail.gmail.com

Re: new first for Sid

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
I've been using aptitude for quiet a while under unstable, and I didn't have a single problem with safe-upgrade, even Today, but I do weekly upgrades... The only problem was not able to upgrade xserver-xorg-core + xserver-xorg, but that's already commented in different threads... I&#

Re: Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-07 19:11 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> ... >> Xorg failed to start indicating no devices found when usign >> nouveau driver as prior to the update.  However using >> fbdev instead worked out. >>

Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
So perhaps that's the way of noveau now, though if so, it's confusing the driver nouveau is still avialable. Perhaps just a bug on the new driver, :-) Thanks, -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-07 17:45 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver >>> packages. Wait a bit?

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
org-core at this moment. I'm not sure if this is due to new versions of the drivers are waiting to be included in the repos, or because now all of them now come with just one bigger/bloated package. -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

New version of midori with more problems?

2011-02-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
spent and not getting into... Has anyone noticed any misbehavior from midori on latest unstable version? 0.3.0-1.1 (according to aptitude) Thanks, -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: aptitude update 255 exit status, no errors/warnings

2011-01-29 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-28 21:07 +0100, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > >> Attempting my usual aptitude update and package download today: >> >>     aptitude update && aptitude -dy full-upgrade >> >> ... I noticed that the full-upgrade didn't run. >> >> Checking a

Re: sequence of screenshots?

2011-01-23 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I want to capture a rotating figure in a window and make a movie of it. > I've Googled several ways to take screenshots with programs (gimp, > shutter, imagemagick, etc.) but have seen no way to do this consistently > every 0.X seconds...

Re: Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:44 AM, S Mathias wrote: > ... > > I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ? > ... FYI, archlinux is already using xz by default on their packaging system, and for kernel lzma, which at least improves compression ratio a bit. --

Re: [OT] Re: Evolution 2.30 (squeeze) with exchange

2011-01-18 Thread Javier Vasquez
ting to the exchange server which requires some info... Any ways, just to provide my experience exchange-provider now that it was mentioned, :-) -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: How do I install PHP together with Trac?

2011-01-17 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Daniel Andersson wrote: > Hi all > > What is the best way to install PHP5 on my Debian 6 Squeeze system that I > use for Trac? > > When trying to do a simple installation I get: > > # aptitude install php5 > The following NEW packages will be installed: >  apache2-

Re: [really solved] Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 15 ian 11, 19:42:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> Actually this only helps cleaning the system of unneeded packages, but >> still leaves me with a lot of packages not marked auto, so I had to >> apply Javier's hack after all. > > Ok, t

Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 15 ian 11, 12:25:26, Javier Barroso wrote: >> >> If you have a packages.txt file with a package by line, do it with awk: >> >> aptitude markauto '~i'$(awk '{printf "!~n^"$1"$&

Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My usual method of 'cleaning' the system was to set all installed >> packages to auto-installed and then mark

Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-15 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hi, > > My usual method of 'cleaning' the system was to set all installed > packages to auto-installed and then mark one by one the ones I need to > keep. I even have a good list generated with: > > aptitude -F '%?p' search '~i!~M' > b

Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Adrian Levi wrote: >> I have the following bash script and it fails at line 14 and 15 >> (7zparameters= and 7zfilename=) I have tried everything i can think of >> to get it to work,

Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Adrian Levi wrote: > I have the following bash script and it fails at line 14 and 15 > (7zparameters= and 7zfilename=) I have tried everything i can think of > to get it to work, the answer has to be simple but i can't figure it. variable names can't start with a

Re: Basic questions about Debian package tools

2011-01-10 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:04 PM, pt3...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a Debian Squeeze new user and have some basic questions about > Debian package tools. > > Is it true I should avoid APT and use some other frontend or, better, > dpkg directly? > I tried aptitude, but I don't like ncurses-ba

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
hould come with alsa-utils: % apt-cache search 'arecord' alsa-utils - Utilities for configuring and using ALSA -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 02:27 -0800, S Mathias wrote: >> cat asdf.txt >> bla-bla >> bla-bla >> bla[XYZ] >> importantthing >> another important thing >> [/XYZ] >> bla-bla >> bla-bla >> [XYZ] >> yet another thing >> hello! >> [/XYZ] >> bla-

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

2011-01-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
xample /dev/sda1, the partition already existed. If you want to re-partition your drive, you have to use whether cfdisk, or parted, or gparted, or whatever other tool for that puspose. Once you create the partitions of your liking, then you format them... -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
tools as well, and several other ones. I just prefer using acpitool, which I have for years... -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
ough I don't use any, so I can't recommend... -- Javier. [1] http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: dist upgrade nightmare!

2010-12-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it turned into a > disaster.  As a consequence of the attempt his entire package update and > repair systems are broken.  apt-get -f install can't fix anything and dpkg > --configure

Re: why my sound card doesn't work

2010-12-13 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Long Wind wrote: > My motherboard is asus p4bmx > I have installed alsamixergui > It has many controls > but none of them seem to help > IMHO none of replies seem brilliant > Thanks anyway! > I'd rather give up > I remember the intel audio chip work with kernel 2.4

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-12-09 18:55 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > >> I basically see two issues here: >> >> 1/ We lack? for a "recommended way/Debian way" for disabling scripts >> (this thread is plenty of alternatives and tips for doing it but >> documentation is

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-12-07 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > > >> A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so >> it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) >> but preferred to use the old "ifup" network

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-12-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
; Paul Cartwright > Registered Linux user # 367800 Also, Midori? just kidding, :-) Midori doesn't have support for everything Iceweasel and Chromium do, :-) -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: TB for amd64?

2010-11-30 Thread Javier Barroso
Sorry again for private mail, turning on undo send email feature in gmail labs :-) .. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Also if you are like me and prefer the older 64bit version 2.0.0.24 you can > get the deb from Ubuntu and install it using 'gdebi', works swell. >From le

Re: how to determine the interpreter

2010-11-28 Thread Javier Barroso
Anand, sorry for the private .. On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > Install "realpath" package. > Then try > realpath /proc/$$/pid > Or without installing that package: "readlink -f /proc/$$/pid" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: edit multiple files under multiple directories/folders

2010-11-27 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > In my home folder I have 6 tomcat directories under > /home/kaushal/tomcat0..6 > Under each of these tomcats there are sub folder conf and inside these conf > there is a file by the name server.xml so for example I have > tomcat0,

Re: Reg: Shared calendar application

2010-11-23 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Hi list, > Can anybody  suggest me a shared calendar application for Intranet which is > light weight and easy to configure. > Thanks in advance. Maybe calidav like server + lightning for icedove 2 (or icedove-3 which is integrated with) ? Re

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-20 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 11/20/2010 3:12 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Mark Allums  wrote: > >>> >>> I'm unsure whether I have ever fully grasped the whole apt system, in all >>&

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-20 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 11/20/2010 4:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >> On Saturday 20 November 2010 02:58:32 Jason Heeris wrote: >>> >>> On 20 November 2010 07:58, Javier Barroso  wrote: >>>>> >>>

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-19 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:25:27 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > >> On 19 November 2010 14:03, Alan Ianson wrote: >>> Aptitude installs recommends by default. That can be turned off in >>> "Options -> Preferences -> Dependency handling -> Install recom

Re: DebTorrent status and apt-p2p howto...

2010-11-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
To my surprise debtorrent is pretty functional... Bad thing it doesn't work under proxy (firewall), so I can't take advantage of it at work... Still is pending for me a set of good practices, how much disk space would be decent, etc... Javier. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Javi

DebTorrent status and apt-p2p howto...

2010-11-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
pt-p2p, including how to keep just the latest version of packages downloaded? And if debTorrent is already functional and ready for testing, are there similar guides for it as well? Thanks, -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Graphical diff/patch viewer

2010-11-03 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Rob Gom wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Rob Gom writes: >>> do you know/is there any graphical patch/diff viewer in Debian (or for >>> Linux in general)? Such a tool would produce side by side view of >>> c

Re: what is the use of -c parameter of column(1), can you demonstrate with an example?

2010-11-03 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: >  On 11/03/2010 01:44 PM, Phil Requirements wrote: >> >> I find that the column utility belongs to bsdmainutils package, so >> it's a BSD application, not a GNU one. I think it would make sense to >> file a bug, since you want to offer an improve

Re: removing postgres

2010-11-02 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I can not remove the following: > > $ sudo /usr/bin/dpkg -r postgresql-8.3 postgresql-client-8.3 > Removing postgresql-8.3 ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-8.3.prerm: line > 17: /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions:

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
d the loongson 2f soc comes with 2 64-bits mips, and they have both Europe and USA dealers if that's to be considered. Bad thing is that their batteries are not that good, but in terms of processing I think these got in better shape than the alwaysinnovating ones which include a beagleboard...

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
l > display's actual DPI? > How about setting in your ~/.Xresources or/and ~/.Xdefaults: Xft.dpi: 107 See: http://scanline.ca/dpi -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: lazarus & fpc - absent

2010-10-10 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Johan wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: >> >> On Sunday 10 October 2010, Johan wrote: >> >>> >>> Good day, >>> >>> I am new to debian - starting to like it - in place of suse. >>> I do a bit of programming in lazarus & fpc. >>> >>> Seem to be absent from the sources

Re: lazarus & fpc - absent

2010-10-10 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Johan wrote: > Good day, > > I am new to debian - starting to like it - in place of suse. > I do a bit of programming in lazarus & fpc. > > Seem to be absent from the sources. > > How can I get it please. You can search within package descriptions with aptitu

Re: laptop-mode-tools

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
I'd rather have the original tool working right, than some other replacement, but that's just me, :-) -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikjg6x1hpu8s6lz4ap+ztj7-qaum4=lnrcro...@mail.gmail.com

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
are of is /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf, and on sqeeze and unstable it by default comes enabled through the following line: ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_TOOLS=1 So I am not aware of it coming disabled by default in my experience... For me it just came enabled at once, :-) I tweaked some things to mi

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
> Lots of useful info in there Javier. Also worth mentioning, though it > doesn't seem you use it, is laptop-mode-tools. I did include it in the ones I have installed, :-) The original list had it with some words as well, so I thought it was not necessary to make additional comments..

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Javier Vasquez > wrote: >... > > If you have couple of minutes, would you, please, to expand your > comments about a system without desktop environment? Targeting a > laptop.

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:49 AM, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:37:55 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> ... > > Thanks. I use fluxbox and don't use desktop environment myself as well > (my wife does). > > Thank you for your detailed explanation to disen

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