Re: Bluray Debian ISOs: Which app(s) burns bluray images?

On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:35:32 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > but when I did, I used K3b or wodim from the command line. > > I omitted wodim from my answer, because it can hardly do DVD and would > do Blu-ray only by accident. One should use it only for burning CD. I never

Re: Bluray Debian ISOs: Which app(s) burns bluray images?

On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 12:25:59 -0400 (EDT) Anonymous wrote: > With downloaded Bluray ISO images, I need to use > a burning application in Linux which supports blank > Bluray medium. I know I could try Windows options > such as ImgBurn via Wine, but I'm hoping for

Re: wacky question

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:44:12 -0400 Greg wrote: Does anyone think that debian could participate in any programs like PRISM? Or could a lone (or group of) sympathetic DD or DM slip a backdoor or something that could collect private info in the binary packages distributed by debian? Everything

Re: Just a question...........

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:19:25 +1000 Charlie wrote: I don't know enough about this hope someone can help: My ISP CEO suggests that this address is BitTorrent: http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib Is that correct? No, that is a debian mirror. :) -- To

Re: /dev/dsp missing in Wheezy

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:16:15 -0400 amber gilchrist wrote: I want to throw out another problem I am having in this Wheezy upgrade: sound! I used to use ALSA with Squeeze, no problems. After the upgrade, I am able to get sound in my browser, I can play MP3 files, but I can't record and can't

Re: No cfdisk in Wheezy ??

On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:44:58 -0600 paul e condon wrote: I've just noticed that I don't have cfdisk in my recently installed Wheezy. Is this a matter of some mis-configuration on my part or is it really being dropped? What is the replacement? cfdisk is installed here. You may need to be root

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:04:59 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, After the release of Wheezy, I tried the Debian Sources List Generator (at http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/), and was surprised to see in the resulting sources.list: deb

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at deb-multimedia.org? Yes, it is, alas. I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister The deb-multimedia repository

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:14:51 -0500 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: It looks like a mirror. Is it listed

Re: Upcoming 7.1 (not 7.0.1?) release - upgrade from 6.0.7 possible?

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:32:49 -0700 David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote: There was just an announcement that 7.1 (not 7.0.1?) is going to be released June 15. where did you see that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: adding packages sources to the apt-get database

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:29:52 + Atar atar.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there!! Just wanted to know please what's the structure of the /etc/apt/sources.list file and how can I add more sources to this file in order to make the 'apt-get' program able to install packages from those sources

Re: Upcoming 7.1 (not 7.0.1?) release - upgrade from 6.0.7 possible?

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:51:29 -0700 David Guntner wrote: Alan Ianson grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:32:49 -0700 David Guntner deleted wrote: A request, if I may: Please adjust your mailing program to include the name, but not the E-Mail address on the attribute line

Re: Unusual behavior

On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:25:31 -0400 Verde Denim tdl...@gmail.com wrote: I've been running Wheezy for a few months now and lately (seemingly at random times) I get a dialog popping up telling me that Authentication is required to update packages. When I view the details in the dialog, it shows

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:55:59PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:14:00 -0400 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:14:00 -0400 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: My system is Wheezy. ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. cdir lists the tracks on the cd.

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:11:31 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 04 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote: Note that in DebianWheezy and beyond tasksel provides and uses dummy packages (known as meta packages) to pull required dependencies. but as there are 80 packages (seems

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:56:15 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. Obviously I'm not goint to

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:15:35 -0400 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: My system is Wheezy. ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. cdir lists the tracks on the cd. I'm not familiar with workbone but try loading snd_pcm_oss and

Re: Where is Jessie?

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:26:35 +0200 ha hiei.arh...@gmail.com wrote: I have trouble locating the link to download Jessie. Wherever I look for, sooner or later it redirects me to old testing (Wheezy). Could anybody please enlighten me. If your after testing or unstable you can also go here..

Re: Where is Jessie?

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:53:58 -0700 Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:26:35 +0200 ha hiei.arh...@gmail.com wrote: I have trouble locating the link to download Jessie. Wherever I look for, sooner or later it redirects me to old testing (Wheezy). Could anybody

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:26:08 -0700 Joe Riel j...@san.rr.com wrote: Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:59:49 -0700 Joe Riel j...@san.rr.com wrote: Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 Joe Riel j...@san.rr.com wrote

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:26:08 -0700 Joe Riel j...@san.rr.com wrote: My /etc/default/grub file contained GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet vga=775 should I remove the vga=775 when adding GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep Yes! I've been trying different settings and

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 Joe Riel j...@san.rr.com wrote: After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. It didn't work (X didn't come up). I managed to revert to using the nouveau driver, by removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which mostly works. However, I'm having

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:59:49 -0700 Joe Riel j...@san.rr.com wrote: Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:13:52 -0700 Joe Riel j...@san.rr.com wrote: After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. It didn't work (X didn't come up). I

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

On Mon, 27 May 2013 20:22:45 +0200 Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Hi, Dňa 26.05.2013 21:08 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote / napísal(a): This bug is still not fixed. Building the packages from Nvidia installer however is working fine. i was using the Nvidia installer along time ago, and in this

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Alan Ianson: I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel and the debian packaged nvidia

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

On Sun, 26 May 2013 17:31:50 +0100 Dick Thomas xpd...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/05/13 07:21, Alex Moonshine wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de mailto:hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: This will not work. The problem is missing libxvmc1:ii386,

32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel and the debian packaged nvidia drivers. I used to install an ia32 (or somesuch) nvidia package to run 32 bit programs on amd64 with good results but wheezy is

Re: Troubleshooting apt-get -f install

On Thu, 23 May 2013 22:18:38 +0200 Alois Mahdal alois.mahdal.1-ndm...@zxcvb.cz wrote: Hi, I'm following instructions[1] from Debian Wiki to install Skype on Wheezy. [1]: http://wiki.debian.org/skype#Debian_7.0_.22Wheezy.22 In a nutshell: # dpkg --add-architecture i386 #

Re: Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD Installation: Desktop Environment Default?

On Wed, 22 May 2013 10:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Artur Conley open_ar...@yahoo.com wrote: Who uses XFCE?(rhetorical question) I use xfce! I switched to xfce when kde changed the whole desktop in kde4. I used gnome for a time as well and wouldn't you know it, they changed the whole desktop too! Both

Re: About installation DVD's

On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:49:12 -0700 Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: OK, Rupesh. Here's the process: 1) Debian releases the downloadable CD/DVD/Blu-ray disk images. For reasons already covered, they release the first three DVD as .iso images and the rest as '.jigdo templates. (As

Re: Video and sound in Wheezy: Howto?

On Wed, 08 May 2013 20:34:23 -0600 Paul Condon pecond...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Wheezy on a HP computer which had been running Squeeze about a week or two ago. I've done installs of Debian many times before on other hardware, and earlier versions of Debian. This install went very

Re: New distro

On Wed, 8 May 2013 22:49:52 +0300 Valaki Valahol ozolt...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello Sven... I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... It's not as simple for sure, but jigdo is not that hard to use and a very useful

Re: New distro

On Wed, 08 May 2013 16:19:59 -0400 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 05/08/2013 03:49 PM, Valaki Valahol wrote: Hello Sven... I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... Can I find it somewhere in these

Re: Xfce 4 + LXDM problem

On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:55:33 -0500 Patrick Thomas pwthoma...@satx.rr.com wrote: I installed LXDM. I could not get it to run it as the default display manager (yes, I had /usr/sbin/lxdm in /etc/X11/default-display-manager), I had to login and run it from tty. I managed to fix that by adding

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:47:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:21:54 +0100 Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:07:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Patrick, Sylpheed accepts plugins, too. To

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:27:41 -0400 Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com wrote: On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:20:04 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I use Firefox not with Debian, but other distros. I didn't notice that..I see Arch Linux listed among the multitudes:

Re: Nvidia Driver Working [Was: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, that was easy:  Just created, since there wasn't one by default, an xorg.conf per instructions in the Debian Nvidia wiki == Section Module     Load        glx EndSection

Re: On-going problems with flashplugin for IW

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:00:20 + AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: On 15/03/11 20:05, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-03-15, AGcomputing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all In Iceape and other browsers (e.g. Opera) I can watch embedded (streaming?) videos on-line. In

Re: Squeeze: Gnome icons missing

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:00:13 + (UTC) Zeissmann zeissm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! Recently I've installed Debian Squeeze with Gnome on a new laptop. Unfortunately I'm missing some of the icons. Namely missing are those under the System menu and all of those in the right-click menus.

Re: grub

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:12:52 -0500 John Lindsay jcl...@sentex.net wrote: Recently I had to do a reboot. I get the following 'grub' screen titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 root(hd0,0) kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet initrd

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 13:55 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: This originally arose from a discussion on debian-live[1] (sorry to anyone who reads both lists, but it seemed more appropriate to continue this tangent here). I wanted to block installation of a couple of recommended packages in the

Re: failure of gnome baker

Francesco Pietra wrote: In my updated debian i386 sqeeze/gnome and debian amd64 lenny/gnome i have no more workable cd-dvd burners. Gnome-baker reports burning (CD data disk) OK, however the CD is unreadable. In contrast, k3b works fine for both CD and DVD data disks. However, installation of

Re: A question for the list:

On Fri November 5 2010 08:54:23 am ZephyrQ wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote: Drew writes: Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid. Good point. Also, don't feel that you should track Unstable. Upgrade individual packages

Re: Game online

On Tue November 2 2010 05:12:41 am Alex PADOLY wrote: Di you know a game online that I can play with firefox on Linux. Regards. I like quakelive.com. I haven't run it in a while but it is much like running quake III.. one of many.. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: help with rtorrent

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:35 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I'm new to bittorrent. I'm using rtorrent to download debian-506-i386-CD-1.iso. I set my firewall to forward TCP 6890-6999 to my bittorrent machine, per my .rtorrent.rc file. That sounds right for a classic bittorrent client. I used to open

Re: help with rtorrent

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 23:06 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:24:20 -0700 Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:35 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I'm new to bittorrent. I'm using rtorrent to download debian-506-i386-CD-1.iso. I set my firewall to forward

Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 06:57 +0100, godo wrote: Tools - options - openoffice.org - general - use openoffice.org dialogue boxes That's my best guess.. :) I also do not see anything else but don't see any difference if check box is checked or not. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic

Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

On Sun October 31 2010 11:56:46 pm godo wrote: It makes a difference on mine when I choose a new file to edit. If I uncheck that box I get the usual gnomey file chooser, and if I check it I get the openoffice chooser. I don't know is it because I use KDE, but in both case it's the same

Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 01:01 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:46:44 +0100 godo go...@dobosevic.com wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear; I'm interested in filename / path completion in dialog boxes, not word completion within documents. And I'd also just like to revert to the

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 02:52 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Allow me to ask a stupid question. Somewhere near this point in the dmesg messages, the console blanks and becomes a different resolution. [ 8.135936] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle [ 8.137762] processor

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #1688

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 06:52 -0700, Farid Ansari wrote: Please someone advise how to unsubscribe from the userlists. I tried to do so unsucessfully. I cannot cope with the mails. Any help given will be highly appreciated. Thanks. Farid You can try this web page to unsubscribe..

Re: Stopping sound preview

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 17:43 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/22/2010 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:21:47 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I am running latest Squeeze Gnome (2.30), it previews music files when you hover the mouse cursor over the file icon. While sorting out

Re: Question for users of OOo and/ or LibO

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 12:12 +0100, AG wrote: Dear all I want to poll Debian users for their experience of using OOo and, more recently LibO beta 2. It is a very small thing, but this apparently works on Ubuntu but not on my current testing machine, so I want to find out about Debian

Re: Question for users of OOo and/ or LibO

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 20:16 +0200, godo wrote: Thanks Goran. Are you using LibO beta 1 or 2? Also, as a matter of interest, did your LibO installation also install a quickstarter (like OOo does)? Cheers AG I didn't try LibO yet, I'm using ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Debian package

Re: Question for users of OOo and/ or LibO

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 20:20 +0200, godo wrote: Mine is where I saved it. My openoffice version is 3.2.1-7 and I ran it on gnome. That's interesting. My is not and have same version as you only on kde. I'm not sure what the difference is.. I don't have kde installed so I can't try it.

Re: Question for users of OOo and/ or LibO

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 19:49 +0100, AG wrote: On 17/10/10 18:37, Alan Ianson wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 12:12 +0100, AG wrote: Dear all I want to poll Debian users for their experience of using OOo and, more recently LibO beta 2. It is a very small thing, but this apparently

Re: KDE Question

On Tue October 12 2010 07:38:31 pm Mike Bird wrote: On Tue October 12 2010 19:11:29 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:39, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget activities, return to the standard icons on the

Re: install lenny on Dell

On Sat August 28 2010 04:54:01 pm Tom Poe wrote: I bring up stuff on my computer, and it has an icon with CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. I downloaded a lenny i386 iso image, and used brasero to burn it to a Memorex DVD+RW disc. I shut down computer, started computer, got a blinking cursor for a few

Re: install lenny on Dell

On Sat August 28 2010 06:54:47 pm you wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat August 28 2010 04:54:01 pm Tom Poe wrote: I bring up stuff on my computer, and it has an icon with CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. I downloaded a lenny i386 iso image, and used brasero to burn it to a Memorex DVD+RW disc. I

Re: Broken deps?

On Wed August 25 2010 09:20:04 am B. Alexander wrote: I went to upgrade a sid box today and found that libapt-pkg-libc6.0-6-4.8 appears to be broken. I got a number of messages saying: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 which is a virtual package. Which means aptitude wants to remove things

Re: No Consoles???

On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using testing dist. I am VERY used to using a console screen to manage my

Re: No Consoles???

. Alan Ianson schreef: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using testing dist. I am VERY used to using a console screen

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 22:03 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 21:27:40 Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: Hi List! My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an ATI

xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

Hi List! My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration everything seems to run slowly. I have been using a minimal xorg.conf that

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: Hi List! My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks good on the desktop, but when I

Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 00:42 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/12/2010 12:13 AM, Alan Ianson wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 21:40 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin

Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 21:40 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin downloaded and installed. Currently, I see /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libjavaplugin.so, which is a link

Re: Lenny / Pidgin / Msn

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:21 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:41:24PM +, Frederic Robert wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:34:29AM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: If you are running stable, you need to install the pidgin from lenny-backports in order to get MSN

Re: Some clarification is needed on Debian repos.

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 21:51 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Could You please explain, should some security testing repo be specified for a stable + testing Debian, or stable, updates and testing repos is all that should be enabled for the stable, testing with all *for the repos* security

Re: Is volatile repo bad for secure stable version of Debian?

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 02:48 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I got a question, Should volatile Debian repository be avoided from servers running stable version of Debian for stability/security reasons? Thank You for Your time. No, it should be used for stability/security reasons. --

Re: Backports kernel

On Tue June 1 2010 12:20:43 pm Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello. One question: It is safe to use backported kernel in production? I seems to need to use 2.6.30+ kernel to have a fix in OCFS2. I use the kernel from backports for ext4 support on one of my boxes, never had a problem with it. I

Re: popularity contest : not sending email via HTTP

On Mon May 31 2010 06:27:37 am Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, ... How to send email to popularity contest ? Run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and set it up to use a smarthost, your usual email smtp address will probably be ok. Sorry I forgot to mention that this system is not

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

On Sat May 29 2010 10:16:16 pm T o n g wrote: Hi, How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? I haven't made a dos disk in ages but I think mkdosfs from the dosfstools package will do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: popularity contest : not sending email via HTTP

On Sun May 30 2010 01:57:47 pm Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I installed and activated the popularity contest package (note : goal of this package is to gather statistics about package usage and report them to Debian). Option http is activate to send the statistics (in place of email

Re: How to keep debian current??

On Fri May 14 2010 09:48:47 pm RyanJB wrote: Hi, With the latest apps keep pouring in, is there any way to keep debian in the cutting edge? I mean, how to keep debian as updated as, say, ubuntu or even sidux?? You know, latest iceweasel, openoffice, gnome, etc. Maybe using unstable or

Re: How to keep debian current??

On Fri May 14 2010 11:43:41 pm RyanJB wrote: If you want the latest I'd run either testing or unstable. I have both stable and unstable installed. Most of the time I run unstable. So considering that, the extra debian iso have practically no use since later I'll be upgrading packets from

Re: How to keep debian current??

On Fri May 14 2010 11:22:54 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/15/2010 01:14 AM, Alan Ianson wrote: On Fri May 14 2010 09:48:47 pm RyanJB wrote: Hi, With the latest apps keep pouring in, is there any way to keep debian in the cutting edge? I mean, how to keep debian as updated as, say

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

On Fri May 14 2010 07:25:34 pm ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. I don't think there is a

Re: KDE4 KDE3 || Gnome2 Gnome3

On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not the way kde4 is pushing it to the end user. If there was enough interest, kde3 could continue to be developed as it's own project. I would support the project but I can't

Re: KDE4 KDE3 || Gnome2 Gnome3

On Tue May 11 2010 12:11:42 pm Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 18:10:32 Alan Ianson wrote: On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not the way kde4 is pushing it to the end user. If there was enough interest

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

On Sun May 9 2010 02:35:02 pm Lisi wrote: I am, however, very sad that KDE 3.5, which I regard as the pinnacle of DE's, is being laid to rest. We are in agreement here Lisi. It's not that I don't like kde4 it's just that I'd like to keep what I have since it does just what I want/need it to

[update] Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:25:11 -0400 (EDT), Alan Ianson wrote: I've noticed the same things. I've stuck with epiphany because it worked so well for so long but there are times recently when I need to use iceweasel. I think it's

Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: and it will work. Then, in theory, restarting the X server again (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server to restart on vt 7. This used to work, but the last time I tried it I ended up with two X servers, one

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 00:00 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-19 16:19, Clive McBarton wrote: [snip] How come there is no link anywhere on debian.org pointing to debian-multimedia.org? Anything to establish a

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 20:34 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Alan Ianson writes: All the stuff at debian-multimedia can't be included in debian for various reasons, mostly freedom I think, so you won't find it in debian at all. It's made for debian but it isn't debian. Most of it is Free

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 06:10 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia on Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error. I reinstalled Lenny on the same machine tonight, without adding debian-multimedia to /etc/apt/sources.list, and

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 13:17 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I am continuing to suffer the on-going de-volution of the once-decent epiphany browser under Debian Squeeze. First they broke file downloading. They still haven't fixed that. I'll bet it's been six months or more. Now I can't reply

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:25:11 -0400 (EDT), Alan Ianson wrote: I've noticed the same things. I've stuck with epiphany because it worked so well for so long but there are times recently when I need to use iceweasel. I think it's

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 11:01 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 06:10 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia on Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error. I reinstalled Lenny on the same machine

Re: acroread not seeing printers

On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 05:56 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers like all the other

Re: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 dependency on Squeeze

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 10:45 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I have recently downloaded a binary file which depends on libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 , an old version of ibstdc++-libc6 : I can run it on an old computer, but I would like to run it on my amd64 Squeeze box ( which has

Re: OOo 3 dependency hell in Lenny backports

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 06:00 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu January 14 2010, Zhan wrote: For me, I have set backports with the highest priorities, so anything at backports.org with a higher version number will be automatically installed. I've never used backports. What packages are

Re: Squeeze vs. Lenny update frequency?

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:05 -0800, Mark wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Stable release only have security updates. Testing has much more updates. Probably a dumb question, but...if a person uses Squeeze for pretty much nothing but web

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:52 -0800, Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:30:32AM +, s. keeling wrote: I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the first time. I just installed both

Re: Gnome apps in KDE

On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:55 +0330, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me why Gnome applications look so ugly in KDE and if something can be done about it to make them look as in their native Gnome environment?! ;) I don't use kde anymore so I'm going from memory.. As someone else

Re: alternate web browser etc...

On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone, I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have something else

Re: LAME for Lenny

On 24/12/09 11:19:12 AM, Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone, On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3. However I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where to find the appropriate package ? Add debian-multimedia to your /etc/apt/sources.list. More info

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

On 23/12/09 12:28:34 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: Hi all, my new drive comes with LightScribe support. From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. LaCiE seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on Linux, but I am loath to try it for the simple

Re: torrents for testing

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:27 +0100, Jean-François Pirlet wrote: I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? Hello. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ for weekly builds. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ for daily

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