Re: [Trisquel-users] If I install CentOS 6......
Yes! That would be nice i was struggling on mount/ after partitionioning...Thanks HuangLao xrote: PSS: completely unrelated, but there is a great way to install Parabola via an Arch specific GUI installer if anyone is interested I could post it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I install YAD?
Output of ./configure $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for intltool = 0.40.0... 0.50.2 found checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for perl = 5.8.1... 5.18.2 checking for XML::Parser... ok checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 gtk2 checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for GTK... no configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 = 2.16.0 gtk+-unix-print-2.0) were not met: No package 'gtk+-2.0' found No package 'gtk+-unix-print-2.0' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GTK_CFLAGS and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. What is the next step?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best choice for a Single-Board-Computer?
http://www.minnowboard.org/ http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/minnowboard-max-review
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google is talking in our campus...
I see..well..next time!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Proxy (Squid3) setup Error
I was able to sort this out. Line in the configuration was not allowing it: http_access deny all I changed it to http_access allow all Now it is working.
Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 7 weird spying voice
If you don't need it nor anybody that uses your computer you can remove it: sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-orca
Re: [Trisquel-users] i3wm on a Trisquel 7 and dual screen issue + intro
wheezy (Debian 7) comes with an older kernel and that kernel doesn't require the non-free firmware to display the native screen resolution with the ati graphics card. Same goes for Trisquel 6. But Trisquel 7 and Debian Jessie (which will be soon the new stable release of debian) ship a new kernel and that kernel requires a proprietary firmware to be enabled for my graphics card to achieve the native resolution. I installed Debian Jessie (Debian 8) on a USB key just to try it and try to modify some things in order to have the proper resolution but to no avail. I went to the debian irc chanel and several dudes told me that there is no way around it and that I need a non-free package for it to work properly.. :(
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I install YAD?
Make sure that that the dev version of the package is installed on the system: Debian, and therefore Trisquel, divide the package so you have to install the correct dev package to be able to compile the program. You can distinguish the development package from the rest because they end with -dev, for example: libgtk-3-dev.
Re: [Trisquel-users] release upgrade to trisquel 7 error
finally fixed it. if any one interest, i removed many packages from = grep Broken /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log
Re: [Trisquel-users] Project: Starfighter
Done. :) (Renaming it to Project Starfighter isn't really necessary, in my opinion; Starfighter is a legitimate short name for the game.)
[Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
I am new to linux and was wondering if I could give it to my nice young daughter.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Google is talking in our campus...
Yup!
Re: [Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
Hello and welcome! First of all, 'Linux' is just a part of a bigger system called 'GNU'. People often call this combination 'Linux', but properly it should be called 'GNU/Linux', since all the operating system like Debian, Blag or Trisquel are actually a part of GNU/Linux family. Now, to answer your question: I'd say yes. I'm not entirely sure what do you mean by 'fair to all women'. An operating system is a computer program; it's a tool used by the user. Free software will only be unfair to women if the user will use it to do things unfair to women. Personally, I don't know any software that would discourage fairness to any gender. In case you were worried by the software community and development, I think you will be happy with GNU/Linux. Like you probably already know, not all software is free. A lot of people develop and use non-free software, which is wrong, because freedom is a very important value. Most people don't realize that and use systems that disrespect people, such as Windows. Then we have GNU/Linux family; most of systems in it are only partly free, though. It's better if you use system like Fedora or openSUSE than if you used Windows, but it's best to use a 100% free system, like here Trisquel. Trisquel is the most user-friendly out of the 100% free systems. If you can make it work, I reccomend you to use it. If your hardware doesn't work with 100% free software and you can't afford new one, you can have a partly free system for now (I'm assuming you use a non-free system, so it would be an improvement for you.) Now, about the community. Communities are made of people who have something in common (As in, an artist community is made of people who make art, for example.) Free software community is usually very friendly and nice! That's because all of them care for human values. People who use non-free systems can be any way, but people who use 100% free systems do so because they care about freedom. And people who care about freedom also usually care about other important human values, such as respect, kindness and equality. If someone decides to use free software, they want to support something good in life. If you look at various free software projects, you can see that they are generally very friendly and open to everyone. As a great example, I'd like to use the GNOME project. They work on providing people with a free desktop environment, the project is participated in by both men and women alike, they make annual meetings and events, and they even participated in Outreach Program for Women! To sum it up: If you choose to use free software, you shouldn't run into any ethical problems at all. And if you do, they can be easily fixed, because it's free software and you have complete control over it. Community-wise, free software community is very helpful and friendly. So your daughter can go ahead and give it a try! :) I hope my lengthy post was helpful. If you run into any problems, I'm sure you'll be able to find help here. Also, have a nice day!
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I access my computer from anywhere in the world from another computer?
Sorry for my off-sheet comments, it was a big typo on my behalf. After all, Yes, you could use your smartphone LED lights to shine light through the fiber strands to check for continuity. Excuse me again, but my current response is only related to your fiber optic response. Call me Master optical fiber Troll. Sorry again!
Re: [Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
if she can type in a terminal sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get install name of application she's good to go! :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I access my computer from anywhere in the world from another computer?
Jodiendo has this way of posting here..so some people may think (and rightfully so) that he is troll! He is not! He is actually a quite normal and also kind old man. We spoke on irc several times and he is always cool and gentle. He likes to joke and btw his user name says it all.. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] If I install CentOS 6......
This deserves a seperate topic :) A seperate forum actually but name another libre OS with a forum!
Re: [Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
First of all, 'Linux' is just a part of a bigger system called 'GNU'
Nitpicking here but it isn't. It works with GNU('s components?), but it's not
part of GNU.
Re: [Trisquel-users] If I install CentOS 6......
Thanks for the replies! (by the way, I was specifically wanting to use CentOS, and not Fedora) So the answer's no, then.
[Trisquel-users] Re : FSF compliant UI mockup/sketch tool
What about this? https://github.com/prikhi/pencil (GPLv2)
Re: [Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
You can give Trisquel to your daughter. Just make sure the hardware works with Trisquel. Linux isn't an OS, though. It's a programme of a genre whose members are important for operating systems to run, but not quite an OS.
Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 7 weird spying voice
If the screen reader is on for the login greeter, use 'ctrl+s' key on dialogue, next time you login. On your desktop, use 'alt+super+s' to toggle the screen reader. If it is off, it should be off in future sessions. HTH, Dave (a user of Orca screen reader)
Re: [Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
Ah, yes, bad wording. Thanks for the correction, Linux is indeed not a part of the GNU project :)
[Trisquel-users] Re : How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
That really is not required: a window pops-up when security updates are ready to be installed. At least it does on my Trisquel 7 (with GNOME Shell). You might be kidding but if maybe im a lamp has never used Trisquel, he (she?) may not get it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
Yea, Trisquel GNU/Linux should work perfectly for your daughter. If she can point-'n-click, then she's OK.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best choice for a Single-Board-Computer?
I've fiddled with a A13-OLinuXino-WIFI last year. It wasn't mine, so I don't have it currently with me. I did various tests with it, to see how it works with free software. I'm very sure the WiFi did work without any non-free software. I also want to know why megurineturilli desoldered the WiFi. I manually compiled and installed everything. I used: Debian Wheezy Used debootstrap Tried both armel and armhf linux-sunxi-libre Compiled from source as provied by megurineturilli The link to the source is down (http://platen-software.de/linux-sunxi/) I have and can reupload the source U-Boot Compiled from source by the linux-sunxi project I'm guessing it's fully free, but I'm not completely sure fex2bin This is used for making a script.bin file, which is a config file used during boot Compiled fex2bin from source by the linux-sunxi project The board worked fine, so I'm guessing it works with a fully free GNU system, including USB, VGA and WiFi. I don't remember if checked how X.org or if LAN works. I didn't check audio out, microphone, GPU, VPU or GPIO. I mostly did text/console stuff. You should probably buy a USB-Serial-Cable-F. This cable is used to get text/console access with the device via USB and GNU Screen, including system during boot. As I remember the VGA output didn't work through the whole boot process, but I might remember wrong. I used this cable the whole time. I've made notes on the how I build everything: http://www.libtec.org/dev/notebooks/hardware/olinuxino.org https://www.libtec.org/dev/notebooks/hardware/olinuxino.org (For HTTPS I use CAcert, see: http://www.parabola.nu/https/) The notes are very concise, but I wrote all the steps and commands for building everything from source, minus Debian packages. I can further explain things that aren't clear. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best choice for a Single-Board-Computer?
IceCat in Trisquel presents is self as if it's running on Windows 7, so people can't track you easely. It's User-Agent header is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
[Trisquel-users] Can you install Trisquel without connecting to the Internet during install?
Hi! I am a growing fan of free software, have been starting off with Debian but I would love to now try Trisquel and see what it's like. The reasons for having freedoms include security and privacy also (no back doors, no binary blobs, 'free hardware' one day I hope too), so I have a lot of incentives for going 'free', aside from autonomy! I have a strong desire to be able to install Trisquel without connecting to the Internet. I do not want my real IP address downloading packages and connecting to a single server until I am running a vpn client within Trisquel, after which I can download further packages and/or updates past that point. Is this possible? So to relay what I've done so far: I've got a spare laptop, an old Dell, and I've downloaded trisquel_7.0_amd64.iso, the main 'full' ISO from https://trisquel.info/en/download from the looks of it. I burnt it to a bootable USB in Debian, and all seemed to go well, when: - First attempt - graphical installer. I get all the way to selecting encrypted home folder option (right after partitioning and I chose encryption with LVS), and a big crash happens. Says either CD/DVD has got problems or HDD is old/etc. (the HDD was recently DBAN'ed and I don't think HDD is the problem). - Second attempt - this time, text installer. I'm fairly comfortable with that anyway, so away I go - well, this time I'm stuck at this 'Bad archive mirror' error, and I'm not sure how I can get past it and install the basic OS packages without needing Internet connected. I '', choose 'Download installer components', and it forces me to 'Choose a mirror of the Trisquel archive' and even with 'enter information manually', I'm taken to 'Bad archive mirror' (and I assume because of 'mirror is not available' reason in the error). It would be a massive shame if there's no way to install Trisquel without compromising one's privacy on the Internet. I mean, I COULD probably work out some complicated gateway setup where I 'Torify' or 'VPNify' the Ethernet connection coming in to the laptop for the Install, but that's really prohibitive (I may not have the hardware to do that anyway, my router's not DD-WRT'able etc and I have no PC with more than one Ethernet jack to try and make into a linux gateway, and I do NOT use Wifi so hotspot option is out), and even make a passionate Trisquel potential like myself not to be able to do this. We really need an offline install option (for users with anonymity concerns or poor Internet), even Windows and OS X can do that! Is there a way I can work around the mirror error and continue on with installation from the disc? Does the disc even HAVE a local repo of packages or is the bulk of the 1.5GB taken up by the live OS on the disc? HANG ON, what am I thinking - of course it doesn't, does it? It would need WAY more size on the disc right? :( Thanks for your help... If there's anything I can do like create my own mirror on the disk from copying from another mirror (and make the mirror hostname /sda, or some LAN IP like the debian PC I write this from now), or other ISOs available somewhere, I'm all ears! I'm really pretty determined, and willing to get my hands dirty, but not spend money buying extra hardware when one shouldn't have to just to be able to do an offline install of a worthy OS! :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can you install Trisquel without connecting to the Internet during install?
Hmm after trying the graphical install again I'm thinking that offline install IS fine with this (it must be small but hey, I like that), but again, I'm getting this frustruating 'error while copying files to disc' error once the step for that starts. As an experiment I'm going to see if ubuntu (then if that fails, debian) installs just fine to the same hardware (fully offline of course, and with all the normal encrypted LVM options, I know at least this'll all work with debian), and if either of them work (or certainly if debian does) then I'll know there's some bug with the Trisquel installer :/. I'll update you once I have news from this, either way...thanks!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can you install Trisquel without connecting to the Internet during install?
Man, I've now learnt to check MD5sums of all ISOs I download from now on, it had a different MD5! Now downloading the ISO from a direct link based on the MD5 url you gave (so http://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/trisquel_7.0_amd64.iso), on my - you guessed it - fairly slow VPN... :) Thank you! I think that was obviously it, data corruption of some kind. Indeed I DID have an Internet disruption during the download now that I remember it, and a dl resume across an entire reboot and everything. Maybe not the best idea in Firefox, that! And actually, I probably will remember to TORRENT as many ISOs as I can too, now...may take longer to download if not the most popular ISO but worth the wait since you're guaranteed to not have to re-dl it at least. That's an excellent idea about VPN'ing the Internet ON the Live OS and launching the installer on its Desktop there, though - indeed, not complicated. (But clearly I need to re-download the ISO in case of other issues anyway.) However, wouldn't there be some 'restart' at some point in the install process and thus possible downloading of packages/connecting to random servers which after restart from the live OS obviously means your real IP is involved? That's the issue facing that idea (which is still, good to know about) - it may not be 100% robust - I mean you can probably unplug Ethernet once the 'now rebooting' part happens, but I still want to keep Ethernet unplugged until the first thing I do is connect to my VPN in the installed OS, all controlled by me, no unpredictable surprises. This is pretty important for someone serious about their anonymity/privacy, where they don't intend to make mistakes if they can help it. o, I'll try a correct ISO offline install, and if nothing goes wrong I won't reply (about it if I have nothing else to reply about), and you can assume the offline install went as well as the test Ubuntu one I just did, which yes, worked without a hitch. Thanks again :).
[Trisquel-users] Re : Can you install Trisquel without connecting to the Internet during install?
However, wouldn't there be some 'restart' at some point in the install process No, there wouldn't. You only restart once the install is over. You can even delay this restart if you started some work/game on the Live system (while installing) and want to end it first.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why are some packages not trustworthy?
I was also having this problem (when installing software, warning saying the packages cannot be authenticated). This was on Trisquel 7. I had not made any changes to the default software sources, mirror, trusted signing key, or any other Software Updates settings. The default mirror was in.archive.trisquel.info. I don't know why; I am not in India. Changing to the main server fixed the problem. In case anyone is having this problem, reading this thread, and doesn't know how to change mirror, here's what to do: Click on the Trisquel symbol in the lower left of the screen. Go to System Settings. Go to Software Updates. In the Trisquel Software tab, there will be a pulldown menu called Download from:. Change it to something else (this is referred to as changing to a different mirror). Close the settings window, and see if this has solved your problem. As I said before, the main server is working for me as of the date of this post.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Files slow to load network locations, sometimes
Hello, Any thoughts at all will be greatly appreciated. This is causing me significant problems. Thanks!
Re: [Trisquel-users] If I install CentOS 6......
No for Freedora, however, rmmmusical's reply seems very interesting and should work with little trouble.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
Does this not seem a little trollish to anyone?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Can you install Trisquel without connecting to the Internet during install?
Says either CD/DVD has got problems or HDD is old/etc. Sum-check the ISO: $ md5sum trisquel_7.0_amd64.iso It should be ef6b33d2959dbbb6016188868975091f according to http://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/trisquel_7.0_amd64.iso.md5 I mean, I COULD probably work out some complicated gateway setup where I 'Torify' or 'VPNify' the Ethernet connection coming in to the laptop for the Install According to http://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/trisquel_7.0_amd64.iso.manifest the Live system has everything to setup OpenVPN from the NetworkManager applet (the package network-manager-openvpn-gnome is listed). If you need another VPN client, then you could separately download the related packages from http://packages.trisquel.info (using a secure connection) and install them in the RAM of the live system with 'sudo dpkg -i'. You should then be able to set the VPN up from NetworkManager. It is not that complicated.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How Does linux work? is it fair to all women?
No, it doesn't. I like to assume good faith, so I assume that this was a sincere question. To which my answer would be, if your daughter is capable of using Microsoft Windows or Mac OS, then she is most likely capable of using Trisquel and will most likely find it satisfactory.
Re: [Trisquel-users] IceDove replaced Thunderbird.
This is such a terrible attitude. The vast majority of computer users will *never* type anything into a command line, ever. The vast majority of computer users simply will not use an operating system the use of which requires them to type anything into a command line, and nothing anyone has to say about it will ever change that. The Trisquel project holds Trisquel out as an operating system suitable for use by the general public. Do you beleive in the virtue of software freedom? If you think it's okay for free software to be useable only by a small minority of people, then in effect you're saying most people should use proprietary software, and ultimately you do not beleive in the virtue of software freedom. Besides: Add/Remove Applications ships with Trisquel, hence it should work.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Project: Starfighter
I am trying to compile the game on Trisquel 6, but it fails because I don't seem to have the right libraries installed. ~$ make g++ -O2 -Wall -g `pkg-config --cflags sdl2 SDL2_image SDL2_mixer` -c -DVERSION=\1.3\ -DDATADIR=\/usr/share/games/parallelrealities/\ src/alien.cpp Package sdl2 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `sdl2.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'sdl2' found Package SDL2_image was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `SDL2_image.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'SDL2_image' found Package SDL2_mixer was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `SDL2_mixer.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'SDL2_mixer' found In file included from src/alien.cpp:20:0: src/Starfighter.h:31:17: fatal error: SDL.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make: *** [alien.o] Error 1 This doesn't give me any useful hint on which packages to install. I already have libsdl1.2-dev installed. Thank you for continuing the development of this game. I hope to play it soon.
Re: [Trisquel-users] IceDove replaced Thunderbird.
By the way, I did indeed install Icedove using the terminal. My original post was a general commentary about the transition to Icedove, not a request for help. Perhaps that was not clear and if so I appologize. My point here is that just use the terminal is not a good answer from a overall policy perspective because, if that's the only answer the community has to offer, most users potential users will simply give up on the software. I can't even count how many people I know have completely given up on linux because they beleive it requires use of a terminal.
