Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:45:00 -0400 (EDT), rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: [snip] no, i want to go the *other* way -- to ask what currently-installed packages depend *on* a given, currently-installed package. actually, even though i was asking in the context of a system in the process of upgrading on which there is all kinds of historical cruft so i fully expect to find older versions of packages lying around, i just noticed that the same thing happens on a fresh (and updated) version of lenny (5.0.2). here are two currently installed packages (according to dpkg -l): gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3-base my immediate thought is -- why do i need both? it's quite possible i *do*, but i don't know how to verify that. hence my question: how can i display what installed packages allegedly depend on gcc-4.2-base, so that i know it's actually required to be on my system. i realize i can simulate trying to remove it to see what would happen, but that strikes me as messy and overkill. Hi, Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the command you're after is apt-cache rdepends packagename d...@subspace:~$ apt-cache rdepends gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1 Reverse Depends: linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 gcc-doc-base gcc-doc-base gcc-4.1-doc gcc-4.1-doc gpc-4.1 gcj-4.4-jdk gcj-4.3 gcj-4.2 gcc-4.1-multilib gcc-4.1-multilib gcc-4.1-locales g++-4.1 It appears not all of those packages will be removed if you remove the gcc-4.1 package. d...@subspace:~$ sudo apt-get remove gcc-4.1-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: cpp-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 394 not upgraded. -- Dean Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Evolution mail; Dumb question but I need answer
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:01:36 -0500, jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Evolution mail; Dumb question but I need answer Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:24:55 -0500 In 4a8d8e01.1080...@cox.net, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-20 12:25, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] Evolution, KMail, and Mutt are first worlders. Thunderbird and IceOwl are first world translators. Outlook and Outlook Express are second worlders first world translators??? They live in the first world but try to speak with second worlders. I'll admit my analogy is not great[1] and perhaps I was being a little... opaque... when I wrote that. -- Well thanks for at least confirming that I'm marginally sane not the only one with this issue. I think I'll send a query to the evolution developers. They claim it's a drop in replacement for exchange it's not quite. BTW Boyd attachment does work as long as the image was inline to start with. Otherwise no go. Thanks All! Hi John, Have you tried: Select Message - Forward As - Inline [1] or edit--- preferences-- composer preferences--- forward style and change it for the drop down and choose inline [2] ? [1] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+question/61590 [2] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+question/73036 -- Dean Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Sound preview w/Nautilus
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 02:34:27 -0600, Chris wrote: Greetings, Oh buggers... What must I have installed/running to have sound preview of mp3's within Nautilus (Lenny). Hi Chris, Were you trying to disable sound preview in Nautilus? Sound preview is built into Nautilus and can be disabled in Edit-Preferences-Preview. Hopefully if you were trying to disable it you have already, if not try the above. Dean Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bittorrent client with server/client relationship
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:40:02 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: 2008/11/15 Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:31:34PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: Is there such a client that has a server backend that can be left running on one box left running 24h and a gui loaded and connect to the backend from another computer? rTorrent is excellent. It's still a client, but you can leave it running in the background with GNU screen. I think there are web interfaces for it too. Screen is one of those packages I had been putting off, I guess it's now time to learn. Most of the stuff I wanted to background I had been using nohup for, Interactive sessions I had no need to suspend. rTorrent looks good, thanks for the suggestion. Adrian If you are interested in a bittorrent 'client' with a web interface there is b4rt-torrent and torrent-flux (b4rt-torrent is based upon torrent-flux with some ajaxian modifications) which is what I have used in the past, apologies if this is not what you're after. Screen is definitely something you should learn none the less, it is amazingly powerful and well worth the short learning curve, one of my favourite apps. Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Midi player volume control
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:49:19 +0100, pch wrote: Hi, I check a few midi player available in debian repository and only one work - xmms-midi (xmms plugin). But it play one midi file and can't work correctly. What can I do to play midi music? How can I change volume master PCM from console? Thank, Pawe? When I did a little experimenting with playing midi files I used timidity, but I can't recall what I used for the sound files. To change the sound volume levels you can use alsamixer or amixer, the former uses an ncurses interface. Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
| Category | | |---+-| | audio player | mpd/sonata | | desktop OR window manager | gnome/xfce | | development | Emacs | | disc burner | Brasero | | e-mail client | claws-mail | | file manager | nautilus| | ftp client| filezilla/lftp | | mathematics | gcalctool | | misc utilities| screen/wget | | package manager | DPKG/APT| | pdf-reader| | | spreadsheet | Gnumeric| | terminal emulator | rxvt/gnome-term | | text editor | Emacs/gedit/nano| | video player | VLC/MPlayer | | web browser | Iceweasel (Firefox) | | word-processor| OpenOffice.org | |---+-| | any organisation/community| Debian | | deserving great honours | | |---+-| | any FLOSS developer deserving | Richard M. Stallman | | great honours | Linus Torvalds | | | Guido van Rossum| |---+-| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: numlockx works?
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:42:51 +, T o n g wrote: could you post the result of the following commands please? $ grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) LoadModule: dbe (II) LoadModule: dri (II) LoadModule: glx (II) LoadModule: freetype (II) LoadModule: extmod (II) LoadModule: record (II) LoadModule: xtrap (II) LoadModule: radeon (II) LoadModule: mouse (II) LoadModule: kbd (II) LoadModule: vgahw (II) LoadModule: int10 (II) LoadModule: ddc(II) Module ddc already built-in (II) LoadModule: i2c(II) Module i2c already built-in (II) LoadModule: fb (II) LoadModule: ramdac(II) Module ramdac already built-in (II) LoadModule: xaa (II) LoadModule: theatre_detect (II) LoadModule: GLcore $ grep -A5 'kbd' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) LoadModule: kbd (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so (II) Module kbd: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.3.1 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0 thanks Hi Tong, The output: $ grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) LoadModule: ddc(II) Module ddc already built-in (II) LoadModule: dri (II) LoadModule: extmod (II) LoadModule: freetype (II) LoadModule: int10 (II) LoadModule: vbe (II) LoadModule: synaptics (II) LoadModule: dbe (II) LoadModule: glx (II) LoadModule: record (II) LoadModule: neomagic (II) LoadModule: kbd (II) LoadModule: mouse (II) LoadModule: synaptics (II) LoadModule: vgahw (II) LoadModule: ddc(II) Module ddc already built-in (II) LoadModule: vbe (II) LoadModule: int10 (II) LoadModule: ddc(II) Module ddc already built-in (II) LoadModule: i2c(II) Module i2c already built-in (II) LoadModule: fb (II) LoadModule: xaa (II) LoadModule: ramdac(II) Module ramdac already built-in (II) LoadModule: GLcore $ grep -A5 'kbd' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) LoadModule: kbd (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so (II) Module kbd: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.3.1 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0 If you would like any more data I will happily post it. HTH, Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: numlockx works?
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:24:09 +, T o n g wrote: Hi, Quick question since I can't check bugs.debian.org, does numlockx work for you? I'm using the latest version under Lenny: $ apt-cache policy numlockx numlockx: Installed: 1.1-9 Candidate: 1.1-9 However, neither numlockx on, nor numlockx off works for me. PS. My X: $ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg xserver-xorg: Installed: 1:7.3+17 Candidate: 1:7.3+18 thanks numlockx works here running lenny: apt-cache policy numlockx numlockx: Installed: 1.1-9 Candidate: 1.1-9 $ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg xserver-xorg: Installed: 1:7.3+18 Candidate: 1:7.3+18 Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
