Debian specific tools/apps

2019-03-01 Thread Josef Bailey
Hello I’m new to Debian and wanted to know what are some good Debian specific tools/apps I should know so I don’t write emails like this. I know of 1. Dpkg 2. Apt-file 3. Apt 4. Aptitude 5. I know how to use backports for stable Is there anything else I should know that can help me find

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/2/19, Teemu Likonen wrote: > riveravaldez [2019-03-01 23:09:12-03] wrote: > >> I've been rebooting with 'systemctl reboot' as a normal user in >> debian-testing (and even other distros) for a couple of years now, and >> never had no problem. > > "systemctl reboot" as a normal user should

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread Teemu Likonen
riveravaldez [2019-03-01 23:09:12-03] wrote: > I've been rebooting with 'systemctl reboot' as a normal user in > debian-testing (and even other distros) for a couple of years now, and > never had no problem. "systemctl reboot" as a normal user should work if Policy kit and Systemd components are

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread Jape Person
On 3/1/19 5:53 PM, Gian Carlo wrote: > Il 01/03/19 22:40, riveravaldez ha scritto: >> Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated), and found this issue: >> >> $ systemctl reboot >> Failed to set wall message, ignoring: The name >> org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files >> Failed

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread riveravaldez
On 3/1/19, deloptes wrote: > riveravaldez wrote: > >> Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated), and found this issue: >> >> $ systemctl reboot > > At this point it is advisable to read some linux basics ... I think there > are also videos in youtube - just like taking driving course or any kind of >

misterio con internet/red en usuario normal y root

2019-03-01 Thread Fran Torres
Buenas chicos, de nuevo mi amigo (el del XFCE) tiene problemas y esta vez, a mi no se me ocurre como soluconarlo. La situación es la siguiente: 1. Viene a mi casa, y mi dhcp le asigna una dirección ip, cuyos datos son los siguientes: ip: 192.168.1.x. netmask: 255.255.255.240. gw: 192.168.1.1

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread deloptes
riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated), and found this issue: > > $ systemctl reboot At this point it is advisable to read some linux basics ... I think there are also videos in youtube - just like taking driving course or any kind of course for operating a device. I mean you

Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread Gian Carlo
Il 01/03/19 22:40, riveravaldez ha scritto: > Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated), and found this issue: > > $ systemctl reboot > Failed to set wall message, ignoring: The name > org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files > Failed to reboot system via logind: The name >

Re: ntp-client does not sync with server

2019-03-01 Thread deloptes
Stefan K wrote: > Hi John, > > yes there are synced, if I run 'ntpdate timeserv.domain.ag' they syncd > everything fine, if I start ntp-server after 2-3Days I've an delay of few > seconds. Maybe I schould ask on the ntp-mailing list?! > > best regards > Stefan I have a similar problem. In a

Re: using swap when there is free ram

2019-03-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/03/2019 à 19:41, Reco a écrit : On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 07:34:50PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 01/03/2019 à 18:56, Reco a écrit : First, there's huge amount of unused (not to be confused with "free") memory on your host. And no, it's not a filesystem's cache (600M), it's really

systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

2019-03-01 Thread riveravaldez
Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated), and found this issue: $ systemctl reboot Failed to set wall message, ignoring: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files Failed to reboot system via logind: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service

Re: Can't install lightdm?

2019-03-01 Thread riveravaldez
On 3/1/19, Dan Ritter wrote: > riveravaldez wrote: >> >> Right now I can start Xorg (apparently) but can't start IceWM, so, I >> >> only have CLI. >> > >> > Use 'startx' to start X. >> > >> > Write a .xinitrc like this: >> > >> > --- >> > #!/bin/sh >> > exec icewm >> > --- >> > >> > Later,

Re: de VM ook echt op het LAN

2019-03-01 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hoi Geert, en anderen, Op 01-03-19 om 20:56 schreef Geert Stappers: > > Hoi, > > Welke methode gebruik jij > zodat een Virtual Machine helemaal op het LAN kan? > > > Zelf denk ik dat het met behulp van een bridge moet. > Die network bridge heeft dan een interface in het LAN > en de VM wordt

Re: Can't install lightdm?

2019-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
riveravaldez wrote: > >> Right now I can start Xorg (apparently) but can't start IceWM, so, I > >> only have CLI. > > > > Use 'startx' to start X. > > > > Write a .xinitrc like this: > > > > --- > > #!/bin/sh > > exec icewm > > --- > > > > Later, testing will be fixed and you can install lightdm

Re: Can't install lightdm?

2019-03-01 Thread riveravaldez
>> Right now I can start Xorg (apparently) but can't start IceWM, so, I >> only have CLI. > > Use 'startx' to start X. > > Write a .xinitrc like this: > > --- > #!/bin/sh > exec icewm > --- > > Later, testing will be fixed and you can install lightdm again. > > -dsr- > Thanks a lot, Dan. After

Re: de VM ook echt op het LAN

2019-03-01 Thread Bas Neve
mijn ervaring is dat als je ergens wifi hebt je ook een ipnummer toebedeelt krijgt. Graag ontvang ik een bevestiging retour. Met vriendelijke groet, Bas Neve bastiaann...@gmail.com 316 14 12 00 71 Op vr 1 mrt. 2019 om 20:56 schreef Geert Stappers : > > Hoi, > > Welke methode gebruik

Recognize Razer BlackWidow 2014 multimedia keys

2019-03-01 Thread Ruslan Kovtun
I'm trying to bind multimedia keys by their names: $ grep mpc ~/.config/i3/config bindsym XF86AudioPrev exec --no-startup-id mpc prev bindsym XF86AudioNext exec --no-startup-id mpc next Those bindings didn't work. `xev` didn't recognize "keypress" events when I'm pressing Fn+F5-F7

We both will be at SCALE 17x

2019-03-01 Thread nate . brady
Hey, My name is Nate Brady. Im with Purism. We are a social purpose corporation offering "security by default" in our hardware products and software services. We saw you were an exhibitor at SCALE 17x. We are also going to be an exhibitor at SCALE 17x. I would love for us to be able to have a

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Felix Rubio Dalmau
On divendres, 1 de març de 2019 10:45:48 CET Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 > > packages from testing). I have the following contents in > > /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: >

de VM ook echt op het LAN

2019-03-01 Thread Geert Stappers
Hoi, Welke methode gebruik jij zodat een Virtual Machine helemaal op het LAN kan? Zelf denk ik dat het met behulp van een bridge moet. Die network bridge heeft dan een interface in het LAN en de VM wordt vertelt op welke bridge ie moet inhaken. Maar dat blijkt toch wat lastig op een laptop

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 3/1/19 4:20 PM, Fabiano Ferronato wrote: > I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and > Nvidia video cards) and the resolution (probably 3840x2160)is > set in a way that the font size is so small that I have to > almost put my face on the monitor so I can read. And the >

Re: Can't install lightdm?

2019-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated). > > As far as I understand I can't install lightdm unless I update systemd > which presents 2 errors. So, what should I do? That's what happens with testing. > So, what should I do? > > Right now I can start Xorg (apparently) but

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 01/03/19 11:18, Alexander V. Makartsev ha scritto: This is something you have to decide for yourself and deal with unforeseen consequences. If you actually *build* packages from "stable" on "testing" system, using dependencies for building also from "testing" then it should be ok

Can't install lightdm?

2019-03-01 Thread riveravaldez
Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated). As far as I understand I can't install lightdm unless I update systemd which presents 2 errors. So, what should I do? Here are the terminal outputs (system is in Spanish, these are machine-translations): $ sudo apt-get install lightdm Reading list of

Re: using swap when there is free ram

2019-03-01 Thread Reco
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 07:34:50PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/03/2019 à 18:56, Reco a écrit : > > > > First, there's huge amount of unused (not to be confused with "free") > > memory on your host. And no, it's not a filesystem's cache (600M), it's > > really "nothing there"-unused

Re: using swap when there is free ram

2019-03-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/03/2019 à 18:56, Reco a écrit : First, there's huge amount of unused (not to be confused with "free") memory on your host. And no, it's not a filesystem's cache (600M), it's really "nothing there"-unused memory which amounts 1880M. This is the amount reported in /proc/meminfo as MemFree

Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns

2019-03-01 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-03-01 10:56 (UTC-0600): > (and you so much work). Was wondering for years. I think I'm over it now. :) -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/03/2019 à 18:30, Felix Miata a écrit : Including either nomodeset or nouveau.modeset=0 for installation is pointless, since the installer does not use KMS. Another key is the i7-6700HQ provides HD 530 Intel video. Intel + NVidia usually equates to "Optimus" which makes

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:49:11PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>nofail is intended for removable drives that could be missing on boot, > >>such as Thinkpad ultrabay drives/CF or SD cards. > > It is also, as he said, useful if you don't want a failure of > > a non-essential disk to

Re: using swap when there is free ram

2019-03-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 02:39:22PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:18 PM Reco wrote: > > > > Please post the contents of /proc/meminfo. And "sar -r ALL 1 10", for > > the sake of the completeness. > > $ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal:3975380 kB >

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>nofail is intended for removable drives that could be missing on boot, >>such as Thinkpad ultrabay drives/CF or SD cards. > It is also, as he said, useful if you don't want a failure of > a non-essential disk to make the system drop to single user on boot. Yup. `nofail` corresponds to the

Re: using swap when there is free ram

2019-03-01 Thread Bruno Schneider
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:18 PM Reco wrote: > > Please post the contents of /proc/meminfo. And "sar -r ALL 1 10", for > the sake of the completeness. $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal:3975380 kB MemFree: 1886004 kB MemAvailable:2307332 kB Buffers: 49840 kB Cached:

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:00:06 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 10:52:00AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 01:30:47 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > That's what I'd been thinking, too. Because of your question, I just > > > tried a search for... >

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Felix Miata
Fabiano Ferronato composed on 2019-03-01 16:20 (UTC+0100): > I don't know if this is the wright place to ask, but I'm searching a lot > trying to find a way to this problem. > I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and Nvidia video > cards) and the resolution (probably

Re: using swap when there is free ram

2019-03-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 02:12:06PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > My system started using swap space even when there is available RAM: > > $ free -m > totalusedfree shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 388210042303

Re: using swap when there is free ram

2019-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Bruno Schneider wrote: > My system started using swap space even when there is available RAM: > > $ free -m > totalusedfree shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 388210042303 63 573 > 2598 > Swap:

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 07:30:15 (+), Dekks Herton wrote: > David Wright writes: > > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 15:45:47 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > >> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > >> # > >> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a > >> # device;

Re: using swap when there is free ram

2019-03-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 02:12:06PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: My system started using swap space even when there is available RAM: $ free -m totalusedfree shared buff/cache available Mem: 388210042303 63 573

Re: grisbi ne se lance plus

2019-03-01 Thread Bernardo
Bonjour, la liste de Grisbi : user-fre...@listes.grisbi.org Le dev est très présent. Le 01/03/2019 à 18:10, Norbert Ponce a écrit : > Bonjour, > > Suite à une réinstallation de Grisbi sur Debian 9.8, le programme ne se > lance plus. > Message d'erreur: > > norbert@serveur:~$ grisbi > Fri Mar 

using swap when there is free ram

2019-03-01 Thread Bruno Schneider
My system started using swap space even when there is available RAM: $ free -m totalusedfree shared buff/cache available Mem: 388210042303 63 5732598 Swap: 956 239 717 Can anyone

grisbi ne se lance plus

2019-03-01 Thread Norbert Ponce
Bonjour, Suite à une réinstallation de Grisbi sur Debian 9.8, le programme ne se lance plus. Message d'erreur: norbert@serveur:~$ grisbi Fri Mar  1 17:17:34 2019 : 9 elements in stack.     grisbi(+0x28cbe) [0x55e731c64cbe]     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x33060) [0x7f7446ca6060]    

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 10:52:00AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 01:30:47 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > That's what I'd been thinking, too. Because of your question, I just > > tried a search for... > > > > "defaults,rw" /etc/fstab > > You've really limited what can

Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns (was: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive)

2019-03-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 02:51:33 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey composed on 2019-03-01 01:30 (UTC-0500): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): > >>> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. > > >> English can

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 01:30:47 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/28/19, Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): > > > >> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. > > > > English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-01, Fabiano Ferronato wrote: > > Hi all! > > I don't know if this is the wright place to ask, but I'm searching a lot > trying to find a way to this problem. > I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and Nvidia video > cards) and the resolution (probably 3840x2160)is

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Re: ecran qui s'eteint toutes les 10 mn

2019-03-01 Thread hamster
Le 01/03/2019 à 15:36, Rom1 a écrit : > Je ne me souviens plus vraiment à quoi servent ces paramètres. J'avais > trouvé la réponse ici: > http://forum.lemaker.org/thread-11027-1-1.html > > J'avais juste fouillé mes notes pour retrouver les 3 commandes. Je suis > désolé, je t'ai juste balancé comme

Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Fabiano Ferronato
Hi all! I don't know if this is the wright place to ask, but I'm searching a lot trying to find a way to this problem. I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and Nvidia video cards) and the resolution (probably 3840x2160)is set in a way that the font size is so small that I

Re: MYSQL

2019-03-01 Thread Alexandre Goethals
Bonjour, il est possible que le répertoire de stockage mysql ait changé. Vérifiez le datadir dans le fichier de configuration (usuellement /etc/mysql/my.cnf). Vérifiez à l'endroit indiqué par datadir si vous avez un répertoire portant le nom de vos bases manquantes. Si elles n'y sont pas,

Re: ecran qui s'eteint toutes les 10 mn

2019-03-01 Thread Rom1
Je ne me souviens plus vraiment à quoi servent ces paramètres. J'avais trouvé la réponse ici: http://forum.lemaker.org/thread-11027-1-1.html J'avais juste fouillé mes notes pour retrouver les 3 commandes. Je suis désolé, je t'ai juste balancé comme ça les commandes. Je viens d'ouvrir mon ancien

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Felix Rubio wrote: > Hi all, > > I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 packages from > testing). I have the following contents in /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing >

Re: I need to help

2019-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Curt wrote: > On 2019-03-01, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Ultra Foundation wrote: > >> Hello، I am Aymen from Algeria and I would like to create a my new > >> operating system and I want to build it using Debian How to get a version > >> of debian adjustable and thanks. > > > > > >

Re: I need to help

2019-03-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-01, Dan Ritter wrote: > Ultra Foundation wrote: >> Hello، I am Aymen from Algeria and I would like to create a my new >> operating system and I want to build it using Debian How to get a version >> of debian adjustable and thanks. > > >

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 07:30:15AM +, Dekks Herton wrote: David Wright writes: I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. With systemd, I add nofail to any filesystems that aren't vital for the system to run, which means the system will still boot fully without

Re: I need to help

2019-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Ultra Foundation wrote: > Hello، I am Aymen from Algeria and I would like to create a my new > operating system and I want to build it using Debian How to get a version > of debian adjustable and thanks. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual Instructions are available in French,

Re: I need to help

2019-03-01 Thread Paul Sutton
On 01/03/2019 13:29, Ultra Foundation wrote: > Hello، I am Aymen from Algeria and I would like to create a my new > operating system and I want to build it using Debian How to get a version > of debian adjustable and thanks. As far as I under stand things, if you install the net-install

Re: Mon renouvellement de mon certificat multidomaine continue de me faire des blagues.

2019-03-01 Thread G2PC
> Non, il se cré lorsqu'il n'existe pas et est vide une fois la > manipulation terminée > > Tu affiches bien les fichiers cachés lorsue tu vérifie ;) Sinon, c'est > bien www-data:www-data (ou l'UID & GID sous lesquels tournent apache) > à qui appartient les répertoires ? Il se crée quand ? A

Re: ecran qui s'eteint toutes les 10 mn

2019-03-01 Thread hamster
Le 26/02/2019 à 11:00, romain a écrit : > Bonjour Hamster et la liste, > > Pour un projet avec un RPi, je me suis retrouvé face au même problème. > J'ai utilisé ce jeux de commande: > > `xset s` > `xset -dpms` > `xset s noblank` > > Je te laisserai consulter la documentation pour voir en détail

Re: MYSQL

2019-03-01 Thread Zuthos
G2PC a écrit : > Le 27/02/2019 à 18:30, Zuthos a écrit : > > Bonjour, > > > > J'ai un gros soucis avec MYSQL. > > > > Impossible de me connecter à cette dernière. > > Tous les services utilisant cette derniére ne fonctionne plus. ;-( > > > > Tous les utilisateurs, y compris administrateur sont

Re: MYSQL

2019-03-01 Thread Zuthos
> On pourrait avoir les messages d'erreur lorsque tu essayes de redémarrer > MySQL ou un extrait des logs ? Voici le message losque j'essaye de me connectyer a roundcube: DATABASE ERROR: CONNECTION FAILED! Unable to connect to the database! Please contact your server-administrator. Avec

I need to help

2019-03-01 Thread Ultra Foundation
Hello، I am Aymen from Algeria and I would like to create a my new operating system and I want to build it using Debian How to get a version of debian adjustable and thanks.

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:34:45 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-03-01 12:24, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:21:05 +, Brian wrote: > > > > > On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:09:16 +, mick crane wrote: > > > > > > > On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > > > > on client PC >

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:26:23 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-03-01 12:16, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:09:16 +, mick crane wrote: > > > > > On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > > "systemctl start lpd.service" > > > > > > > > Eh? You would have to explain. For a

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 12:24, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:21:05 +, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:09:16 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: > > > > on client PC > > > $ lpstat -t > > > scheduler is running > > > system default destination:

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 12:16, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:09:16 +, mick crane wrote: On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: > > "systemctl start lpd.service" > > Eh? You would have to explain. For a start, the service file does not > seem to exist in Debian. clutching at straws Which

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:21:05 +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:09:16 +, mick crane wrote: > > > On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: > > > > > > on client PC > > > > $ lpstat -t > > > > scheduler is running > > > > system default destination: HP_LaserJet_4000_Series > > > >

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:09:16 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: > > > > on client PC > > > $ lpstat -t > > > scheduler is running > > > system default destination: HP_LaserJet_4000_Series > > > device for HP_LaserJet_4000_Series: socket://10.0.0.108 > > > > This is

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:09:16 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: > > > > "systemctl start lpd.service" > > > > Eh? You would have to explain. For a start, the service file does not > > seem to exist in Debian. > > clutching at straws Which package is lpd.service in?

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 11:49, Brian wrote: on client PC $ lpstat -t scheduler is running system default destination: HP_LaserJet_4000_Series device for HP_LaserJet_4000_Series: socket://10.0.0.108 This is not a connection to the server. socket://... indicates a direct connection to the printer. with

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 11:55:20 +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:43:58 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > > Brian (12019-03-01): > > > If installing the cups-bsd package was the solution, why didn't the use > > > of lpr give a file not found error? > > > > Probably because of this,

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Nicolas George
Brian (12019-03-01): > I doubt it. This simply says that cups cannot exist on the same system > if either the lpr or lprng *packages* is installed. And therefore, if one of these packages was previously installed, as mick just told us, and provided the lpr command, it was removed to make way for

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 11:42, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 11:35:18 +, mick crane wrote: On 2019-03-01 11:15, Curt wrote: > I believe the lpr that works with cups is the one provided by cups-bsd. > success ! ta ever so much If installing the cups-bsd package was the solution, why didn't

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 12:43:58 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Brian (12019-03-01): > > If installing the cups-bsd package was the solution, why didn't the use > > of lpr give a file not found error? > > Probably because of this, that caused the removal of packages: > > Conflicts: lpr, lprng I

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 09:58:08 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-02-28 18:59, mick crane wrote: > > hello > > is buster > > I can print from command line with > > "lp filename" > > but not with "lpr filename" > > when printing from terminal the font is a bit big and uses too much > > paper. > >

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Nicolas George
Brian (12019-03-01): > If installing the cups-bsd package was the solution, why didn't the use > of lpr give a file not found error? Probably because of this, that caused the removal of packages: Conflicts: lpr, lprng Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 11:35:18 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-03-01 11:15, Curt wrote: > > > I believe the lpr that works with cups is the one provided by cups-bsd. > > > success ! > ta ever so much If installing the cups-bsd package was the solution, why didn't the use of lpr give a file

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-01 11:15, Curt wrote: I believe the lpr that works with cups is the one provided by cups-bsd. success ! ta ever so much -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-01, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-02-28 18:59, mick crane wrote: >> hello >> is buster >> I can print from command line with >> "lp filename" >> but not with "lpr filename" >> when printing from terminal the font is a bit big and uses too much >> paper. >> apparently "enscript

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Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread Nicolas George
mick crane (12019-02-28): > Can try to get lpr to work Leaving something that does not work is rarely a good idea. You neglected to give some very important information, in particular which packages provides the various commands you are trying to use and their respective versions. Regards, --

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
$ enscript -d filename lpr: test: unknown printer sorry that is a typing error, the actual file was called "test". tried the printer name after "-d" but put this here because shows enscript is using lpr -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.03.2019 15:07, Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Il giorno ven 1 mar 2019 alle ore 10:46 Alexander V. Makartsev > mailto:avbe...@gmail.com>> ha scritto: > > On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: >>     I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 >> packages from testing).

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread john doe
On 3/1/2019 11:07 AM, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il giorno ven 1 mar 2019 alle ore 10:46 Alexander V. Makartsev < > avbe...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: >> >> I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 packages >> from testing). I have the

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il giorno ven 1 mar 2019 alle ore 10:46 Alexander V. Makartsev < avbe...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: > > I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 packages > from testing). I have the following contents in > /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning:

Re: font size printing from terminal

2019-03-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-02-28 18:59, mick crane wrote: hello is buster I can print from command line with "lp filename" but not with "lpr filename" when printing from terminal the font is a bit big and uses too much paper. apparently "enscript -FCourier10 filename" for example is supposed to work but that

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: > Hi all, > >     I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 > packages from testing). I have the following contents in > /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: > This is something you should not do in first place. [1] The right and safe way to run

prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Felix Rubio
Hi all, I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 packages from testing). I have the following contents in /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 200 Package: * Pin: release