Re: Markdown viewer

2018-09-28 Thread Dave Cross
do you want it? I use this: $ pandoc -t plain some_file.md | less -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Where is Perl 5's "say" module?

2018-08-19 Thread Dave Cross
of Perl you have asked for). use 5.010; say 'hello'; 3/ You can use the -M command line argument to simulate the 'use feature' approach. perl -Mfeature=say -e'say "hello"' 4/ But using -E instead of -e will turn on all features for your c

Re: html to man page

2018-04-02 Thread Dave Cross
::POM (https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::POM) it's not particularly hard to achieve that. That is, after all, the basis of site like https://metacpan.org/. I once wrote a whole book in Pod - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004767.do Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org

Re: html to man page

2018-04-02 Thread Dave Cross
convert your HTML to Markdown and using that as your source - generating other formats from that. You might need to do quite a lot of manual clean-up of the Markdown files though. But you'd only need to do it once. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg __

Re: perl updates

2018-03-01 Thread Dave Cross
it says: if (@ARGV and $ARGV[0] eq '--version') { For bonus points, submit that fix back to the project. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
the working kernel RPM and new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still like to install new RPMs so that I can test them to find when my problem is fixed. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
[ email re-ordered to make more sense ] On 30 November 2015 at 09:28, Antonio M <antonio.montagn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-11-30 10:18 GMT+01:00 Dave Cross <dav...@gmail.com>: >> >> Currently I have problem with newer kernel RPMs on my Dell Dimension. >

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 November 2015 at 09:26, Frank Murphy <frankl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:18:03 +0000 > Dave Cross <dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and >> new updates will replace the secon

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 November 2015 at 11:24, Michael D. Setzer II <mi...@kuentos.guam.net> wrote: > On 30 Nov 2015 at 11:17, Dave Cross wrote: > > Date sent: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:17:41 + > Subject:Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels > From:

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 November 2015 at 09:26, Frank Murphy <frankl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:18:03 +0000 > Dave Cross <dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and >> new updates will replace the secon

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 November 2015 at 13:00, Kseniya Blashchuk <ksybl...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can also increase the installonly_limit in dnf.conf That an interesting idea. Thanks. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: updated f22->f23 using dnf system-upgrade, no significant issues

2015-11-03 Thread Dave Cross
On 3 November 2015 at 14:42, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > A boring update Yep. Completely uneventful here too. Which is good :-) -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Re: perl executable

2015-09-23 Thread Dave Cross
Perl program? http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq3.html#How-can-I-hide-the-source-for-my-Perl-program%3f Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: where do dnf plugins go?

2015-07-20 Thread Dave Cross
-plugins/local.pyc /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf-plugins/local.pyo /usr/share/man/man8/dnf.plugin.local.8.gz Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Frequent X Freezes

2015-06-20 Thread Dave Cross
if anyone here had any suggestions of other investigations I could carry our or other useful information that I could add to the bug. I'm happy to do all that I can to try and get this problem fixed. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list

Problems with journalctl

2015-06-18 Thread Dave Cross
. $ journalctl -- Logs begin at Fri 2014-12-12 07:55:40 GMT, end at Thu 2015-06-18 09:44:18 BST. -- ... I'd like to be able to see all of the system boots and easily access logs from a particular boot. Any suggestions as to how I can fix this problem? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d

Google Account in GNOME

2014-08-30 Thread Dave Cross
have any idea what's going on or how I can fix this? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code

Re: perl

2014-05-02 Thread Dave Cross
command and report back what you get. perl -MPDL -le'print $INC{PDL.pm}' rpm -ql perl-PDL | grep PDL.pm perl -le'print $_ for @INC' Hope this helps, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Dual Boot Problems

2014-04-22 Thread Dave Cross
Windows. Is there any chance that I install Fedora so that it uses this (but without disturbing the Windows boot files)? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F20/Windows 7 Dual Boot Problem

2014-01-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 5 January 2014 15:06, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I've had my laptop set up for dual boot between Fedora and Windows 7 for a couple of years. Everything has worked fine. I updated from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 using fedup recently. After that, I was still able to boot into Windows

F20/Windows 7 Dual Boot Problem

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Cross
that Windows is missing from the boot menu. So some recent update seems to have removed it. Does that sound likely? How can I debug what has happened? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Fedora 20 - ssh keys

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Cross
keyring gnome-keyring-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 gnome-keyring-pam-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 libgnome-keyring-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 Is there something else I need to do in order to get this working correctly? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing

Fedora 20 Problems on Dell XPS 41z

2014-01-02 Thread Dave Cross
enough to go on here, but these kinds of problems are well outside my Linux experience. Tell me what diagnostics will we helpful and I'll provide them. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 20 Problems on Dell XPS 41z

2014-01-02 Thread Dave Cross
On 2 January 2014 09:51, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I realise that I haven't given you enough to go on here, but these kinds of problems are well outside my Linux experience. Tell me what diagnostics

Re: Fedora 20 Problems on Dell XPS 41z

2014-01-02 Thread Dave Cross
On 2 January 2014 10:44, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:36:43AM +, Dave Cross wrote: On 2 January 2014 09:51, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I realise that I

Smooth Upgrade

2013-12-18 Thread Dave Cross
and effort into making the upgrade process work so well. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct

Fedora 20 with UEFI/Secure Boot

2013-12-09 Thread Dave Cross
how I can do this, then that would be great. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code

Re: Speech to text on Fedora?

2013-09-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 5 September 2013 18:08, Jack Craig jack.craig.ap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Anyone doing this on Fedora? Have you looked at Festival? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/festival I don't know how actively maintained it is, but it works. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d

Re: Speech to text on Fedora?

2013-09-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 September 2013 09:53, Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2013 09:15, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 September 2013 18:08, Jack Craig jack.craig.ap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Anyone doing this on Fedora? Have you looked at Festival? https

Re: Fedora to Android

2013-08-06 Thread Dave Cross
if possible to use rsync. simple-mtpfs seems to work pretty well for me. See http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=286547 -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Tk-PlotDataset

2013-07-22 Thread Dave Cross
might consider raising a bug against the module too - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Tk-PlotDataset Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: perl-Math-GSL

2013-07-17 Thread Dave Cross
cpan-installed modules and rpm-installed modules in the same Perl installation. This presentation might be useful (but beware, it's five years old) http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users

Fedora 18 - 19 Upgrade

2013-07-08 Thread Dave Cross
. For the first time ever the transition was completely seamless. Both PCs are now running Fedora 19 with no problems whatsoever. I've been quick to complain about problems in the past, so I wanted to take the time to thank the Fedora team for making this upgrade so painless. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave

Re: Fedora 18 - 19 Upgrade

2013-07-08 Thread Dave Cross
On 8 July 2013 11:05, Maurizio Marini mau...@datalogica.com wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:54:47 +0100 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I've been running Fedora on both laptops and desktops since Fedora Core 1. Before that I used Red Hat Linux. I've been used to my six-monthly upgrades

Re: GNOME battery display doesn't agree with /sys data

2013-04-02 Thread Dave Cross
itself. But, yes, reporting a bug sounds like a good idea. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines

Missing Functionality in New Anaconda

2013-01-23 Thread Dave Cross
and missing an obvious way to this, then can someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what to do. Thanks, Dave... p.s. It seems I'm not the only person trying (and failing) to use this approach - http://mocktech.com/blog/2013/01/fedora-18-update-beginning-to-damage-my-calm/ -- Dave Cross :: d

Re: Missing Functionality in New Anaconda

2013-01-23 Thread Dave Cross
On 23 January 2013 14:10, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:59:37PM +, Dave Cross wrote: I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse the existing /home

Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-21 Thread Dave Cross
On 21 January 2013 11:04, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:48:25 +, Dave Cross wrote: Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem. But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1

Re: F17 - F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-21 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 21:39, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.01.2013 22:37, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: Dave Cross writes: $ rpm -qa | grep fc18 nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64 java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.4.fc18.x86_64 nss-sysinit-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64 nss-3.14.1-3.fc18

Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
questions. 1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos? 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this? Please let me know if you need any more information or if there's a more useful place for me to report this issue. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk

F17 - F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to reuse the /home partition. Can anyone suggest a way forward for me? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list

Re: F17 - F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 20:12, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 01/20/2013 11:33 AM, Dave Cross wrote: So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash

Re: F17 - F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 485M 109M 352M 24% /boot But in my description made you think that was the problem? Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 18:19, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:03:06 +, Dave Cross wrote: Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to upgrade the PC to Fedora 18

Re: Fitbit on Fedora via Wine?

2012-12-18 Thread Dave Cross
. There's a community for Linux users on the Fitbit web site. http://www.fitbit.com/group/228R6L Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Bumblebee on Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Cross
if anyone knew of plans to make pre-built RPMs available in the Fedora repositories. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Bumblebee on Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 December 2012 17:48, John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com wrote: Quoting Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com: Bumblebee is a project to enable NVidia's Optimus technology on Linux. I have found a number of web pages explaining how to use Bumblebee on Fedora, but they all seem to involve

Re: Connecting a Android Galaxy SII

2012-11-12 Thread Dave Cross
of a shame given the appalling quality of MTP tools on Linux :-( Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-24 Thread Dave Cross
On 22 September 2012 15:04, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 14:45 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: I can't be the only person with this problem. I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of Android (like Jellybean) have removed support

MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Dave Cross
? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Perl programming related question.

2012-08-17 Thread Dave Cross
that are already there. Cheers. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 17 - Only one kernel

2012-07-10 Thread Dave Cross
around. Dave.. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Degraded Network Performance Under Fedora 17

2012-06-15 Thread Dave Cross
will be useful and report the results. As a start, here's my Smolt profile. http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_6a3d4007-5d06-4a17-af48-0fb9dc1225d9 Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Making sound from Perl - How?

2012-05-30 Thread Dave Cross
-PortAudio Looks like it hasn't been touched for five years though... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines

Re: Random Frequent Session Crashed

2012-05-15 Thread Dave Cross
On 13 May 2012 17:02, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 05/13/2012 04:55 PM, Dave Cross wrote: For about the last month I've been getting random frequent session crashes. They take one of three forms: * The PC reboots * The GNOME session freezes * The GNOME

Random Frequent Session Crashed

2012-05-13 Thread Dave Cross
, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have

Re: Dell p513w with Fedora 16

2012-04-17 Thread Dave Cross
On 16 April 2012 11:23, Dale Dellutri daledellu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: My new Dell laptop came with a free Dell p513w printer. I've been trying to set it up for use with Fedora 16. It's a wireless printer, so I've set it up

Dell p513w with Fedora 16

2012-04-15 Thread Dave Cross
... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask

Dell 14z Mini DisplayPort

2012-03-24 Thread Dave Cross
that I come across don't have HDMI inputs (perhaps I need a better class of client!) If anyone has any suggestions how I can get the DisplayPort working under Fedora 16, I'd love to hear them. Happy, of course, to supply any further information that might help. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d

Preugrade Stalled?

2011-11-13 Thread Dave Cross
. I've now watched it for an hour and it hasn't changed at all. So I have two questions. 1/ Is it possible that the process can take this long? Or has it stalled? 2/ If it has stalled, what should I do? How easy will it be to recover the system? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk

Re: Preugrade Stalled?

2011-11-13 Thread Dave Cross
On 13 November 2011 10:50, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my Dell desktop to F16 using preupgrade. I ran the download overnight and started the actual upgrade this morning. I started it running and wandered off for an hour and a half. When I came back

Turning Off GNOME Warnings

2011-10-17 Thread Dave Cross
where I'm only told about a problem once? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 29 August 2011 14:39, Tim Evans tkev...@tkevans.com wrote: On 08/29/2011 09:36 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:46:35AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 29/08/11 11:38, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1

GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Dave Cross
, Dave... [1] http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/08/hating-gnome-3.html -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines

Re: Obsolete RPMs

2011-07-10 Thread Dave Cross
On 7 July 2011 14:30, Germán A. Racca german.ra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:06:31 +0100 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I've upgraded a couple of systems from F14 to F15 using preupgrade. Everything seems to have gone fine. I'm slowly getting used to GNOME 3 and I'm sure

Re: Obsolete RPMs

2011-06-29 Thread Dave Cross
On 28 June 2011 17:40, Kam Leo kam@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I've upgraded a couple of systems from F14 to F15 using preupgrade. Everything seems to have gone fine. I'm slowly getting used to GNOME 3 and I'm sure that it will make

Obsolete RPMs

2011-06-28 Thread Dave Cross
. These will be the RPMs relating to features used in GNOME 2 but not in GNOME 3. I'm thinking of things like compiz and all of the applets. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just remove all of these RPMs? Are there any more that I can remove safely? Cheers, Dave -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk

Re: Preupgrade F14 - F15 Fails

2011-06-22 Thread Dave Cross
On 21 June 2011 23:06, Dj YB syehi...@t2.technion.ac.il wrote: On Tuesday June 21 2011 23:36:51 Dave Cross wrote: I have two Dell PCs - a Dimension desktop and an XPS laptop. They are both running Fedora 14 and I have tried to upgrade them both to Fedora 15 using preupgrade. In both cases

Preupgrade F14 - F15 Fails

2011-06-21 Thread Dave Cross
corner of the screen. Can anyone suggest where I should start to debug this issue? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Install Fedora on an android tablet or an iPad?

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Cross
to hearing more about this. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Cross
ones in my RPM repo - http://rpm.mag-sol.com/ Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Cross
On 26 April 2011 11:30, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/26/2011 03:59 PM, Dave Cross wrote: You might find some of the missing ones in my RPM repo - http://rpm.mag-sol.com/ I've discussed this possibility before. For reasons that I can't remember now it always seemed to be far

Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Cross
On 26 April 2011 12:36, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/26/2011 04:57 PM, Dave Cross wrote: I've discussed this possibility before. For reasons that I can't remember now it always seemed to be far more trouble than I wanted to put in it. The process is fairly simple especially

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-18 Thread Dave Cross
an operating system that has been unsupported for three years? I suggest you go back to them and insist they install a useful OS. It would also be helpful if you could name the company so that we could ensure that we avoid them in the future :-) Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 29 March 2011 18:29, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Are there any other tests I can carry out to work out what the differences are? Warnocked :-( http

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Cross
with ugly codecs, so you might get better support from the original source. That's a very good point. I'll speak to the people at RPMFusion. I use Fluendo's codecs, and hadn't seen this problem, sorry. That's also worth trying. Thanks. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Cross
here, http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/ and get the fedoraplus, the program formerly known as autoten.  Dangermouse, btw, is one of the admins for fedoraforum.org; you can trust his programs to be safe. Ooh. That looks interesting. I hadn't heard of that. Thanks. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Cross
that the MP3 file has DRM? Your android phone probably has a closed source decoder that can handle it. Can MP3s contain DRM? I didn't think that was possible. But I'm quite prepared to be corrected on that. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Cross
On 23 March 2011 16:35, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using Fedora 14 and I think I have the correct RPMs installed in order for Rhythmbox to play MP3s. $ rpm -q rhythmbox rhythmbox-0.13.3-1.fc14.i686 $ rpm -q gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.16-2.fc14.i686

Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Cross
just fine. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Are there any other tests I can carry out to work out what the differences are? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Dave Cross
|\[XYZ]| .. m|\[/XYZ]|) { next if m|\[/?XYZ]|; print; } } But I can't be sure as you haven't actually explained what you question is. For Perl questions, you might be better advised to try Stack Overflow or your local Perl Mongers group. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk

Re: F12 -amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-12 Thread Dave Cross
, as always, for your help. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: F12 -amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-12 Thread Dave Cross
On 12 November 2010 19:28, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com writes: On 10 November 2010 11:01, JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com wrote: JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... Once you do the above, please do the following: # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11

Re: F12 -amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-11 Thread Dave Cross
These Nvidia graphics drivers are little crazy, but we will overcome :-) Hope so :-) Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: F12 -amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 7 November 2010 18:49, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com writes: ... #boot=/dev/sda default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu Please modify /etc/grub.conf as below: default=0

Re: F12 -amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 9 November 2010 19:44, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 November 2010 18:49, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Give it a shot and reboot to start Preupgrade. About to restart. I'll report on the results as soon as I can. And we're back. But unfortunately the situation is exactly

Re: F12 -amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 9 November 2010 21:33, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com writes: ... Hi, I thought you were done and forgot about us :-) Yeah, sorry. I don't often have the free time to explore this. I won't, for example, be able to try out any more suggestions until

Re: F12 -gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-07 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 November 2010 14:35, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com writes: ... If it helps, my disk layout is as follows: $ df Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5            100790004   8666260  87003832  10% / tmpfs

F12 - F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Cross
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Re: Can I know which fedora is stable?

2010-09-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 September 2010 16:33, adrian kok adriankok2...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: Hi Can I know which fedora is stable? For future reference, the front page of http://fedoraproject.org/ is usually a good clue :-) Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing

Re: missing command

2010-09-30 Thread Dave Cross
install perl-libwww-perl should work. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Warning in update

2010-09-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 September 2010 14:31, sandeep Patel leosandee...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone,  When i installed update at the time of update it gives this warning... Warning in file /usr/share/applications/gnome-nautilus-folder-handler.desktop: usage of MIME type x-directory/gnome-default-handler

Re: Warning in update

2010-09-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 September 2010 15:05, sandeep Patel leosandee...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2010 14:31, sandeep Patel leosandee...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone,  When i installed update at the time of update it gives

F12 - F13. Preupgrade Error

2010-07-11 Thread Dave Cross
I'm trying to use preupgrade to upgrade my Dell Studio XPS from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13. It got through the bit where it downloads all of the required data from the internet and prompts me to reboot the PC. I reboot the PC and select upgrade to Goddard from the grub menu. After a while, I then

Re: F12 - F13. Preupgrade Error

2010-07-11 Thread Dave Cross
On 11 July 2010 16:50, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:  On 07/11/2010 09:03 AM, Dave Cross wrote: I'm trying to use preupgrade to upgrade my Dell Studio XPS from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13. It got through the bit where it downloads all of the required data from the internet and prompts me to reboot

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-24 Thread Dave Cross
On 10 June 2010 14:26, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word, and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines), where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines.

Re: [OT] Help with Perl Script

2010-04-23 Thread Dave Cross
On 21 April 2010 09:21, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I appreciate that this is off-topic and wholly understand if I don't get an answer, although one would really appreciate it if I do get an answer :) Basically to improve my perl scripting, I've given myself a challenge where

Re: perl or bash question [convert strings in a txt to html links]

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Cross
On 27 February 2010 17:12, Vadkan Jozsef jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.: $cat file.txt Hi, this is the content of the txt file, that contains links like this: http://www.somewhere.it/, and it could contain: http://somewhere.com,

Re: How to sort by date in descending order

2010-02-26 Thread Dave Cross
On 26 February 2010 13:40, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: Richard Cahilig wrote: Hi, Guys I need your help, I have a text file which contains these data below, and I want to sort it by date in descending order. I tried to use sort -rn command but it gives me different output. I

Re: BCM57780 in Dell Precision T1500 ?

2010-02-23 Thread Dave Cross
On 22 February 2010 09:51, Karl-Olov Serrander m11...@abc.se wrote: Hi ! I have problems configuring network in rescue mode in Fedora 12 on this machine, finds no network interface. Standard F12 x86_64 DVD does not recognise the chip. Booting F12 Unity respin x86_64 (kernel

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