Re: So, now it looks like we will never get a phone, ever

2017-04-07 Thread Neil Jerram
If a free (libre) smartphone is your interest, the place to be is the GTA04 community (http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/). On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:50 PM Fòram na Gàidhlig wrote: > Hi all, > > Canonical is axing the developement of the phone and tablet: > >

Re: So, now it looks like we will never get a phone, ever

2017-04-07 Thread Fòram na Gàidhlig
Well, that's a tinker phone. Nice for geeks like us, but for the average user, not so much. I am talking about a phone for the average computer-illierate who doesn't know any more about computer than swipe & tap. We really need something out-of-the-box. Even as a computer literate, I estimate

Re: So, now it looks like we will never get a phone, ever

2017-04-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Can a fairly long-term non-geeky Ubuntu user, such as myself, install the OS on a tablet? I'm not great at rtfm but i'm not completely useless on the command-line and i have a spare device that i can relax and take my time figuring it out. With 2 big projects shelving this project is it

Re: Source file bind9

2017-04-07 Thread Nils Kassube
Alexandre Vilarinho wrote: > I'm trying to get the source file for bind9, This is a sopport question. you should better ask on the ubuntu-users list . Nils -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: What happened to the *-dbg packages in Ubuntu 17.04?

2017-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 08:45:09PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > I know a little work happened to make Ubuntu build debug packages as > does Debian now, I guess this work will (very) slowly make them > converge. Kind of. I think you're referring to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623256

Paging yannubuntu (Re: How to boot a win 7 hard drive that was in Ubuntu system?)

2017-04-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Jim wrote: > On 04/06/2017 06:05 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> [...] >> So he actually should be thinking in terms of restoring a Microsoft >> MBR on that drive, after copying off the MBR that grub seems to have >> overwritten it with. >> > >

Source file bind9

2017-04-07 Thread Alexandre Vilarinho
Hello all I'm trying to get the source file for bind9, so I can compile it to support MySQL, but when I run the following command I get an error informing that the source code wasn't found. root@Linux-Services-Server:/usr/local/src/bind9# apt-get build-dep bind9Reading package lists... DoneE:

Re: What happened to the *-dbg packages in Ubuntu 17.04?

2017-04-07 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 11:31:07AM -0700, Nathan Osman wrote: > I recently switched to the second beta of Kubuntu 17.04. I attempted to > install the qtbase5-dbg package, only to discover that it was absent. In > fact, not only was this package missing but all of the *-dbg packages for > Qt

What happened to the *-dbg packages in Ubuntu 17.04?

2017-04-07 Thread Nathan Osman
Hi, I recently switched to the second beta of Kubuntu 17.04. I attempted to install the qtbase5-dbg package, only to discover that it was absent. In fact, not only was this package missing but all of the *-dbg packages for Qt components were missing. Is there another package that provides the