I use Debian 8.0 (Jessie), amd64 port, and KDE.
Dragon Player has starting directory: ~Videos.
VLC has starting directory: ~
KPlayer starts at the last directory used.
KMPlayer starts at ~/Documents.
How do I change the starting directory for these video players? Which
config files contain
I have just installed Debian 8.0 (Jessie), amd64 port. I have a Samsung
E2420 monitor. The video board uses the AMD (ATI cedar) Radeon HD 5450
chip set. I had to install firmware-linux-nonfree to get the full 1920
x 1280 resolution.
In Jessie, a few pixels at the left and right of the
I use up-to-date Debian stable, amd64 port. Until recently, Firefox
/Iceweasel would display mathematical formulas with the size and shape
wrong. Repeated reloads would fix the problem. See the Terry Tao blog
at http://terrytao.wordpress.com/;. Recently, the formula sizing has
been working
I use up-to-date Debian testing (wheezy), amd64 architecture.
When I do a Google search, I sometimes get a window asking if I want to
do a search at monstermarketplace.com. For Windows, there is a piece of
malware with this name. Does this malware now exist for linux systems?
If so, how do
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:28:15 -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote:
I use up-to-date Debian testing, amd64 architecture.
For the last few days, the following message is sometimes displayed, for
a few seconds: cannot fetch install sources. Then it says something
like ftp.us.debian.org wheezy
I use up-to-date Debian testing, amd64 architecture.
For the last few days, the following message is sometimes displayed, for
a few seconds: cannot fetch install sources. Then it says something
like ftp.us.debian.org wheezy inRelease. What does this mean?
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I use up-to-date Debian testing (wheezy), amd64 architecture. I downloaded,
compiled and installed Python 3.3.0 alpha 3 (from python.org) using
altinstall. Debian wheezy comes with python3.2 (and 2.6 and 2.7). I
installed the Debian package python3-bs4 (BeautifulSoup4 for Python3).
I use up-to-date debian testing (wheezy), amd64 version, with kde.
I have just compiled and installed the old image viewer xv. In stable
(squeeze), there is an icon for xv that can be put on the panel. For
testing (wheezy), the system could not find an xv icon, so I installed a
blank icon.
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
..really??? _The_ xv icon? 8o) Please post the output
of dpkg -S /usr/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/xv.svgz.
dpkg -S /usr/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/xv.svgz
kde-icons-mono: /usr/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/xv.svgz
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My PC has up-to-date Debian stable on it. Although the CPU chip is
Intel, the kernel is AMD64. Here is an URL for a U. S. Weather Bureau
radar site:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=lwxproduct=N0Roverlay=1110loop=yes
This should show a time-lapse loop for the radar in Sterling,
Camaleón wrote:
Ensure your browser is giving preference to the Flash Player plugin over
Gnash.
I installed flashplugin-nonfree and the problem went away with no
changes in IceWeasel's settings. I suspect that the security update for
gnash had something to do with the problem.
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I use Debian stable linux (squeeze). echo $PATH gives (newlines added and
name replaced):
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:
/usr/games:/home//bin:/home//lib:/home//lib/python:
I have a PC with Debian 6.0 and the amd64 kernel.
When my system is booting I sometimes get the following message:
Setting up guarddog firewall... /etc/rc.firewall: line 390: logger:
command not found. Then the system hangs.
One time the boot procedure hung with the message Setting up
Edward C Jones said:
I can change the font size in an xterm by a menu brought up by
control-right-click. Unfortunately, I have to do this each time an xterm
is created. How can I permanently change the default font size for all
xterms? How can I change the window size (80x25 etc
I have just installed squeeze.
I can change the font size in an xterm by a menu brought up by
control-right-click. Unfortunately, I have to do this each time an xterm
is created. How can I permanently change the default font size for all
xterms? How can I change the window size (80x25 etc.)?
I ran
apt-get -f install
The output was:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
network-manager-pptp-gnome libjs-jquery gs libmagickcore2-extra
ghostscript-x
I use Debian testing, i386 port, on a PC. Today (4/28/10), I tried to
update my system using synaptic. After the files were downloaded,
synaptic hung and had to be kill'ed. Synaptic left the message:
The gtk frontend needs a working python-gtk2 and python-glade2.
Those imports can not be
I am presently using a recent Debian Testing, i386 port, on a computer
with a Intel i3-530 chip. I installed KDE. Is there an easy way to
permanently change the font size in all xterms? My previous machine had
Debian 5.0 Stable where I could permanently change fonts and font sizes
in xterms
I have a new computer with an Intel DH55TC Motherboard. Attempts to
install the i386 stable distribution failed because the installer could
not find the DVD reader. I was able to install i386 testing. I have an
Acer AL2106W monitor with a length/width of 1.6. When I boot the system,
KDE and
I use the amd64 port.
Put
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid non-free
in /etc/apt/sources.list
Install sun-java6-bin and sun-java6-plugin. They bring in a few other
packages including sun-java6-jre.
Java5 cannot be used since sun-java5-plugin is not yet in unstable for
the amd64
I have a PC with an AMD chip using Lenny (stable), amd64 port.
When I try to run the weather bureau radar loop:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=lwxproduct=N0Roverlay=1110loop=yes
I get an error message: Java is necessary for radar looping and is best
optimized using Java version
AG wrote:
j j wrote:
sun-java6-bin
http://packages.debian.org/sid/sun-java6-bin
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Edward C. Jones edcjo...@comcast.net
mailto:edcjo...@comcast.net wrote:
I have a PC with an AMD chip using Lenny (stable), amd64 port.
When I try to run the weather
AG wrote:
j j wrote:
sun-java6-bin
http://packages.debian.org/sid/sun-java6-bin
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Edward C. Jones edcjo...@comcast.net
mailto:edcjo...@comcast.net wrote:
I have a PC with an AMD chip using Lenny (stable), amd64 port.
When I try to run the weather
I use the amd64 port of Debian. A while ago a big KDE update was put
into unstable. I have not done the upgrade because synaptic wants to
remove the following packages:
kaudiocreator
kcontrol
kde-core
kdeaddons
kdebase
kdebase-bin-kde3
konq-plugins
konqueror
libgvfscommon0
quanta
superkaramba
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
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Edward C. Jones wrote:
I use Debian unstable, amd64 port, on a PC with a 64 bit AMD chip.
The latest version of Iceweasel, iceweasel_3.0~rc2-1, sometimes fails to
display images. I suspect that javascript is involved
I use Debian unstable, amd64 port, on a PC with a 64 bit AMD chip.
The latest version of Iceweasel, iceweasel_3.0~rc2-1, sometimes fails to
display images. I suspect that javascript is involved. For example see
the url:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=lwx
which is a US Weather Bureau
I use up-to-date Debian unstable, amd64 port, on my pc. I use KDE. The
monitor is an Acer AL2016W. The graphics board is an nVidia GeForce FX 5500.
I usually do not reboot after running synaptic to update my system.
When I rebooted on 2/6, I found that much of the text in KDE was in huge
fonts.
I am installing Debian on a new hard drive I bought. I have a PC with an
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ chip. I installed Debian stable (4.0) amd64 port. I
updated it to unstable. I put xv-doc_3.10a-1duo1_all.deb and
xv_3.10a-1duo+etch1_amd64.deb into /usr/local/src/debian. The file
/etc/apt/sources.list
I have a PC with an AMD Athlon 64 3500x chip. I use Debian unstable,
i386 port.
For about the last week, synaptic has been unable to find the following
files:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Release.gpg
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg
What is the
I have a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip. I have up-to-date Debian
unstable, i386 port, on the system. Yesterday synaptic installed a new
version of icedove: 2.0.0.0-3. This version was badly broken: I couldn't
even press the buttons on the GUI. I replaced the broken version with
Ron Johnson said:
What's in /etc/init.d ?
README installation-reportprivoxy
acpid kdmprocps.sh
atdkeymap.sh rc
avahi-daemon killprocs rc.local
bootclean klogd
Roberto C Sanchez asked about lights on the motherboard lan connector
for the cable modem. This lan connector is the type of connector used on
US telephones which has a lever that must be pressed to release the
connector. There is a light on which is just counterclockwise of where
the lever
Andrei Popescu said:
Do you have the packages 'zeroconf' or 'network-manager' installed?
Neither one is installed. I have Debian unstable updated to
approximately 5/15/07. What network programs should be installed? Where
are they started in the init files?
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Andrei Popescu said:
please post the output of runing 'dhclient' as root.
I got the following (replacing the IP numbers with x):
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Please contribute if
I use Debian unstable (i386 port) on a PC with an AMD Athlon 64, 3500x
chip. Debian is up to date as of about 5/15/07. I get the Internet over
a cable modem.
For the last two days I have been unable to access the Internet. When I
reboot with an old Kanotix live-cd, the Internet is accessible.
What output do you get from '/sbin/ifconfig' and '/sbin/route -n' ?
/sbin/ifconfig find only the local loopback. /sbin/route -n shows nothing.
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What do you have in /etc/networking/interfaces ?
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
mapping eth0
script grep
map eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
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I Googled on iceweasel user-agent string. I followed a suggestion at
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/3595: go to the url about:config and
change general/useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/2.0. My problem did
not go away.
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I use an AMD64 computer with up-to-date Debian unstable, 1386 port. I
use the old Yahoo email interface.
I use Yahoo email to read messages sent from Yahoo groups. The messages
often contain thumbnail images and links. Recently Iceweasel (aka
Firefox) has not been displaying these images and
What is the title of the user-agent string thread?
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I use up-to-date Debian unstable, i386 port, on a PC with an AMD
Athlon64 +3500 chip.
Yesterday and today, when I tried to update my system using Synaptic, it
wanted to remove gimp and update gimp-data. What is the problem?
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I use up-to-date Debian unstable, i386 port, on a PC with an AMD
Athlon64 3500+ chip.
There is a package on my system called ksim. How do I use ksim?
How do I find out which processes are accessing my hard drive or the
Internet?
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rkhunter complains about the directory /dev/.initramfs. This directory
contains the file progress_state which contains the line
PROGRESS_STATE=6. A search didn't find much except a hint that this
might have something to do with package sysvinit.
Is /dev/.initramfs supposed to be in my system?
I use a PC with a AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and up-to-date Debian unstable
i386 port.
Each day I get an email from cron that says:
/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink
I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port.
At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my
system. When I enter startx I now get some simple window manager
instead of KDE. An article in debian-user suggested that X was using
I use a PC with a AMD Athlon64. 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386
port. At about 1800 ESt today, I used synaptic to update my system. Much
of X is being upgraded. I got a error message about x11-common. So I
tried to reinstall x11-common. I get the message
E: x11-common: subprocess
I have a PC with an AMD Athlon64 chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. My
monitor is 1024x768. It is 328mm by 246mm (17 in).
Today (April 11 2006) X was upgraded in unstable. Now all my fonts are
much bigger.
Some of the lines returned by xdpinfo are:
version number:11.0
X.Org version:
When Privoxy is running, there is an pseudo url
http://config.privoxy.org/;. This url displays a Privoxy Menu which
includes the option Toggle Privoxy on or off. If I try to turn Privoxy
off, I get an error page with the message:
Privoxy Configuration access denied
The feature you are trying
I have a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip. I use the i386 port of
Debian unstable. I use KDE. Today I used synaptic to upgrade my kernel to
kernel-image-2.6-k7, version 2.6.15-4
linux-image-2.6-k7, version 2.6.15-4
linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7, version 2.6.15-4
I got a message advising me to
I have a PC with an AMD64 +3500 cpu chip. I use up-to-date debian
unstable, i386 distribution. I have two vmlinuzs:
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-386 and /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2-386. The
installed packages are linux-image-2.6.12-1-386, version 2.6.12-10 and
linux-image-2.6.14-4-386 version 2.6.14-7.
I have a PC with an AMD64 chip in it. I use up-to-date Debian unstable,
i386 version. Recently synaptic has been holding back locales. I
discovered that the package base-config was the problem. I
successfully upgraded locales after I removed base-config. Is this
problem a bug? Should an empty
I was getting the following message:
W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
Here is worked for me:
1. Use su to become root.
2. Run apt-key list.
3. If key
The suggestion by florian worked. Thanks.
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You should be able to change this behavior by modifying the file
/etc/init.d/klogd. Find the line which reads
KLOGD=
and change it to
KLOGD=-c 4
Then the messages on the console should
I am getting the following message from synaptic:
W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
From what I have read, this is going to happen every January. What do I
I have a PC with an AMD64 chip in it. I have cable broadband which is
connected via a cable modem and a network card. I have two versions of
Debian unstable on my box. The first one is Kanotix (call it K). The
second one is pure Debian unstable (call it U). Both are almost up to
date. When I
I was working at compiling xv-3.10a-28 with its 37 patches when I
stumbled across a Suse source rpm xv-3.10a-1079.src.rpm at
http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/;.
Create an empty directory and put xv-3.10a-1079.src.rpm in it. Then
rpm2cpio xv-3.10a-1079.src.rpm | cpio --extract
Unpack the bz2
My problem with the bad cable broadband connection went away when I
installed with the Dec 19 testing Net Install instead of the Dec 12
testing CD set.
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The unofficial packages for the image viewer XV are getting old. When
I try to install them it fails because XV requires libtiff3g which
cannot be installed because of conflicts. Is there some way of
installing XV and libtiff3g so that only XV sees libtiff3g? Some sort of
renaming or
After I install the firefox and mozilla-thunderbird package, mailto
links in firefox and http links in thunderbird do not work. The
well-known fix is
In the prefs.js file for firefox put the line:
user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, mozilla-firefox);
and in the prefs.js file for
I have a PC with an AMD64 chip. I have two disks with different versions
of debian on them. The first system (which I will call K) is Kanotix
which I regularly update from Debian unstable. It has been working well
for quite a while. The second system (which I will call T) is Debian
testing
Why does Debian default to gnome? When I install a recent testing, if
I choose a desktop system, both kde and gnome are installed and gnome is
used. Is there a Debian document somewhere explaining why gnome ws chosen?
The default gnome theme is first rate but kde seems to be more
I installed stable (3.1) and got a mix of KDE and Gnome. I removed most
of Gnome and upgraded (easily!) to unstable. I still get the mix. Why
are KDE and Gnome mixed together? Where is this mix and its
configuration documented? Why was this done?
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I removed X and everything that needs X. Then I reinstalled X and KDE.
So I presume I am running KDE. But why gnome menus, themes, fonts, etc.?
Where are the docs for this? Configuration program? Configuration files?
I use Debian unstable on a PC.
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Edward C. Jones said:
Anyone know where I can find a list of the status codes returned by
djpeg? I have looked in the djpeg source at jerror.h. But the status
code for Premature end of JPEG file is 512. But the enum in
jerror.h does not have 512 lines. So the interpretaion of this enum
may
Anyone know where I can find a list of the status codes returned by
djpeg? I have looked in the djpeg source at jerror.h. But the status
code for Premature end of JPEG file is 512. But the enum in jerror.h
does not have 512 lines. So the interpretaion of this enum may be be
trivial.
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I use a PC with Debian unstable. synaptic has been giving me many
messages like:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/libice-dev_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb
404 Not Found [IP: 216.37.55.114 80]
My browser showed the file and wget downloaded it. What is the
I have a PC with an up-to-date installation of Debain unstable.
Two days ago, a large number of packages in unstable were updated,
mostly gcc and X related. The Synaptic Smart Upgrade did not accept
the x-window-system-core, xbase-clients, or xutils packages. Anyone know
what the problem is?
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