Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Joel, Joel Rees wrote: > Anyway, what I'm looking for is something that will allow him to loop > through the equations and watch the results. Numbers are easy, of > course. Perl (his only language so far) gets us that far. > > He enjoyed playing with the graphical equation solver on the o

Re: Moving packets from one port to another

2012-08-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello James, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to route packets from ones from one interface to another, > without using NAT i.e. > > eth0: 192.168.1.31 (connected to rest of world and DHCP server) > eth1: 192.168.1.32 (connected to other computers.) > > The other computers would be on t

Re: Moving packets from one port to another

2012-08-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello James, please excuse the incomplete mail. Ctrl+Return did not do what I intended it to do. :\ James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to route packets from ones from one interface to another, > without using NAT i.e. > > eth0: 192.168.1.31 (connected to rest of world and DHCP server) > e

Re: Versioned vs. unversioned dependecies

2012-08-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Klaus, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > firs, please do cc to me as I have not subscribed this list. Done :) > But now it is not possible to deinstall libasound2 (well, it is and > everything except the package management work well without libasound2

Re: Using equivs to override task-desktop dependency on xserver-xorg-video-all

2013-06-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Andrei, dear Regid, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 02 iun 13, 03:45:05, Regid Ichira wrote: > > $ aptitude show task-desktop | grep -A1 Depends > > Depends: tasksel, xorg, xserver-xorg-video-all, xserver-xorg-input-all, > > desktop-base, menu > > Is craeting an equivs xse

Re: build-essential question

2013-07-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Πρεκατές, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: > first contains (dpkg-dev,gcc,make,libc) and another one with a longer list > with smaller utilities like (bash,coreutils,grep,gzip,...) . But the build- > essential package depends on package mentiononed only in the first list. So > how will the sec

Re: Remove file resulting from ls|tail -1

2013-07-19 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Oscar, what a surprising name… OECT T wrote: > I need to delete the file resulting from: ls | tail -1 In Bash, $(command) is replaced with the output of "command". For example, $ touch $(seq 1 4) will create files 1, 2, 3 and 4. So you likely want something like $ rm -i "$(ls | tail -1)

Re: ssh user@ipv6 address, connect: Network is unreachable

2013-07-23 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear basti, basti wrote: > ssh: connect to host port 22: Network is unreachable if is not in your local network, you will either need a tunnel or connectivity from your ISP to get IPv6. So this: > my ISP offers only ipv4, can this be the "error" ? is indeed the problem. Best, Claudius --

Re: notification of resume

2013-08-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > How would a script know that the system has just been resumed from > hibernation? assuming that you use the pm-utils to hibernate/thaw your system, you can use /etc/pm/sleep.d: /etc/pm/sleep.d, /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d Programs in these directories

Re: Wheezy upgrade - php5-suhosin missing?

2013-08-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear David, David Guntner wrote: > Anyone know why it was removed, and if/when it will be restored? the functionality of Suhosin was merged into core PHP, hence it is not ‘needed’ anymore and was removed. I doubt that it will be restored. Best, Claudius -- Please don’t CC me. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Setting locales on Debian

2013-08-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Fred, Fred White wrote: > I have to following errors > -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_GB.utf8) > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot

Re: How to create an m3u playlist containing mp3 and m4a files?

2013-08-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Sharon, Sharon Kimble wrote: > how can I create a .m3u playlist file with .mp3 and .m4a files in it > please? > > I tried this but the end-result is non-playable 'ls -w 1 *.m4a *.mp3> > ~/.mpd/playlists/beeb-radio.m3u' . > > It lists all the files with the correct extensions but when I try

Re: How to create an m3u playlist containing mp3 and m4a files?

2013-08-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Sharon, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:40:35 +0200 > Claudius Hubig wrote: > > This is only a guess: > > > > ls -w 1 *.m4a *.mp3 > > > > will only print the actual filename, not the full path to the file. > > However, MPD playlists

Re: How to create an m3u playlist containing mp3 and m4a files?

2013-08-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Sharon, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:46:57 +0200 > Claudius Hubig wrote: > > Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > music_directory "/home/boudiccas/Music" > > > target directory "/home/boudiccas/Music/beeb-radio"

Re: how to run xterm with nested bash shells, or screen nested inside bash

2013-08-31 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Zenaan, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >From an existing plain xterm, I want this command: > uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/screen > > or eg: > uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /bin/sh > > To result in a nested shell. Basically I want my xterms to open by > default with a screen session (which works fine)

Re: block a program from access the Internet.

2013-09-09 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear atar, atar wrote: > Just wanted to know please if there's a way to block a specific program > from accessing the Internet while preserving at the same time the ability > of other programs to access the Internet, and if there's a way, so how? AppArmor and SELinux likely have such feature

Re: which package owns /usr/lib/vlc/plugins-04041e-28.dat

2011-11-20 Thread Claudius Hubig
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >$ls -al /usr/lib/vlc/plugins-04041e-28.dat >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 382472 Jul 4 16:57 >/usr/lib/vlc/plugins-04041e-28.dat I don’t have this file, however, I have: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 514787 2011-11-20 13:01 /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins-04081e-fe8.dat Googlin

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Cam Hutchison wrote: >I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried >xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. > >I don't like any of it. > >What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the way I >wanted it, and there was nothing w

Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Joel Rees wrote: >(Sigh. My son hates programming. He likes mucking around with the >source code for his customized Three Kingdoms MUD. Perl. I've tried to >teach him C and it's like he thinks I'm trying to brainwash him for >even mentioning it. Heh.) A MUD written in Perl? Sounds like an…interes

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-29 Thread Claudius Hubig
lina wrote: >Thanks, I do notice the PDF printer and also unchecked the "Print page >headers" >but after click print, >I don't know which/where the newly-printed PDF? >sounds silly, I checked the currently working directory and also the >possible directories, but none. Try ~/PDF, that’s where t

Re: Strange Mouse and Desktop Behaviour with X

2011-12-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Steve Kreyer wrote: >Hi all, > >some time ago I've encountered a strange thing: After login into X >(doesn't matter if e.g. Gnome or Fluxbox is used) and start of some >applications (e.g. Thunderbird, Firefox and Rhythmbox) the system can't >handle the focus of the windows correctly anymore. Fo

Re: fails to run

2011-12-31 Thread Claudius Hubig
Jim Lill wrote: >SLUG:~# php test.php > >- > >it just sits there, note the after the invocation > >Some other binaries do the same, but not all. What am I missing? I don’t know about the NSLU2 in detail, but maybe a # strace php test.php might help. If you don’

Re: fails to run

2012-01-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Jim Lill wrote: >On 12/31/2011 3:15 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> Jim Lill wrote: >>> SLUG:~# php test.php >>> >>> - >>> >>> it just sits there, note the after the invocation >>> >>> Some othe

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
"John A. Sullivan III" wrote: >1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still >sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly. > >2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but nothing >beyond that. > >3) GIMP - extremely powerful and consequently

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello richard, richard wrote: >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form >was blank. >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want. >Xpdf tells the truth, but its only a reader. You can try printing the filled-in form as PDF from w

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
richard wrote: >On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 >Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello richard, >> >> richard wrote: >> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form >> >was blank. >> >Always worth checkin

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Harry Putnam wrote: > >Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop > >I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in >linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a >bit extreme some how. > >But anyway I don't need it. > >aptitude remove pulseaudio > >Offers what a

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Harry Putnam wrote: >Claudius Hubig writes: > >>>Things like uninstalling gnome-core. Isn't that a bit dramatic just >>>to get rid of pulseaudio? >>> >>> Remove the following packages >>> 1) gnome-accessibility

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello lee, lee wrote: >Hi, > >is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating >(thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? Like something that instead >of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser does creates an >image file that can be saved to disk (and then be resized to

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Claudius Hubig wrote: >Hello lee, > >lee wrote: >>Hi, >> >>is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating >>(thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? Like something that instead >>of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser d

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Claudius Hubig
Camaleón wrote: >On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:13:01 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> I don't think that's true. I've run these many times in the past and >> they've run purely on my cpu, before direct rendering was enabled. > >Then the applications you run didn't require 3D hardware acceleration or

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Claudius Hubig
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: >(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation" >compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.1.0 >ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 >(II) Loading extension DRI2 >(II) LoadModule: "nvidia" >(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so >(I

Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-12 Thread Claudius Hubig
kei...@strucktower.com wrote: >Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm (i3 >at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various functions that >the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the user) so that I can >replace the Gnome-related-software to softw

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: >On 12/02/12 Claudius Hubig said: > >> Could you try without these options? > >That fixed the issue. I got those options from the Debian Wiki, specifically >the Compiz page. I took the freedom to add a corresponding paragraph to the

Re: "Gnome" package now requires installing "tracker"?

2012-02-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
Camaleón wrote: >Hello, > >Today I have run a dist-upgrade and tracker wanted to get installed. > >I didn't have it installed since I'm running wheezy. > >Why this hard dependency? Is tracker now a requirement for those who want >a full GNOME desktop? :-? > >P.S. "gnome" requires "gnome-documents

Re: Running 2 ssh instances

2012-02-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Sylvain, Sylvain wrote: >Right now I'm a bit confused by the way chroot seems to work with users. >I'd be grateful if someone had an idea on how to do have an ssh instance >running on a specific port and allowing only certain users. Check $(man sshd_config) and the AllowUser option. You

Re: Maintaining/resting gnome settings

2012-02-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
T o n g wrote: >Hi, > >My wife uses gnome, but the problem is that her gnome settings goes >berserk every now and then. It won't be long for her to find out this is >not working as expect, then that is not working as expect. I use fluxbox >instead of DM, so I don't know gnome well. So all I can

Re: Since I've installed Firefox in ~, every update results in a reset

2012-02-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
Merciadri Luca wrote: >Quite everything is in the title. I'm running Debian Lenny (yes, I >know, time to switch..., but haven't had time yet), and I precedently >installed Firefox in ~/ for various reasons. > >The problem is not here. The problem is that every time an update is >done, or even quit

Re: How to keep track of files installed from sources?

2012-02-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Csanyi Pal wrote: >Hi, > >I want to install GNUstep from sources on my Debian GNU/Linux SID >sytem. > >How can I know where come installed files after I did run: >./configure && make && sudo -E make install > >commands? > >this is important if I decide later to uninstall files installed from >sou

Re: Question about APT's config on Debian (not an actual issue)

2012-02-19 Thread Claudius Hubig
"Christofer C. Bell" wrote: >I'm wondering how the following Ubuntu-isms made it into Debian's APT >configuration: > >cbell@circe:~$ apt-config dump | egrep 'verse|ubuntu' >APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*"; >APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; >APT::Never-MarkA

Re: quick and dirty backup

2012-02-20 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hey, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude > /proc --exclude /sys >Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 >it seems my backup is running "forever" I would suggest also excluding /dev, /tmp, /var/

Re: [OT] GUI handler for executeable scripts.

2012-02-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >An executeable script /home/peter/Desktop/script.sh appears >as an icon in the LXDE desktop. A double-click on it, >starts it executing. In a Fedora system I use, a double >-click on such an icon produces a dialogue offering choices: >[Run in Terminal] [Display] [Can

How to let Alsa actually mix the PC speaker beep with other sounds?

2011-08-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello, I recently switched to playing music directly on my notebook instead of another computer somewhere else. This notebook runs Debian Testing with Xfce 4.8 and a self-compiled kernel 3.0. I can set the volume level of the system beep (which occurs, for example, if you open a terminal and pres

Re: Expanding undefined variables within a shell

2011-09-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
Regid Ichira wrote: > Within a shell, what is the difference between [ -n undefinedString ] and [ > -n "$undefinedString" ] ? >With bash I get: > >$ unset undefinedString >$ [ -n undefinedString ] && printf "$undefinedString" | od -c >000 You are just testing for the length of

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Stan Hoeppner wrote: >On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: > >> And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. > >Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a GUI >workstation I'd think /var/cache or /usr would be more likely, assuming >the problem is a hosed/misconf

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >Hi, > >Claudius Hubig wrote, on 09/22/11 00:05: > >> b) check not only the size of specific directories as given above but >> the size of _every_ directory in /: >> >> # cd /; du -shcx * >> >> The "x" option

Re: Alt+smth Shift+smth

2011-09-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Роман Новиков wrote: >hi, all. > >in a pure console (wheezy) i am trying to use org-mode (emacs), a lot of >actions are performed with hotkeys like "Alt+smth" "Shift+smth". It does >work in GTK-window of emacs, but not in a pure console: for example >Alt+right arrow changes tty (instead of changin

Re: Mailers

2011-10-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Richard Bown wrote: >Hi >me again >Up to about a year ago I was using Claws Mail which has some very nice >filter capabilities, expire on age in folders for instance. >I moved to Evo as Claws would crash and freeze the whole machine, That >was using Fedora, >Has anyone had any problems with Claws

Re: Mailers

2011-10-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
[resent to the list] Hello Richard, Richard Bown wrote: >On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 17:11 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> I am currently using Claws Mail 3.7.10 on Testing and don’t see any >> crashes whatsoever. There have been a few problems with libgnutls >> breaking POP s

Re: LXDE-related diver questions

2011-10-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Sthu Deus wrote: >3. How I can configure konsole to start w/ multiple tabs in LXDE? - In >KDE it saves session and starts as wanted but in LXDE - not - just >single tab. I have searched the web and found that it is possible to >specify additional tab by issueing > >konsole --new-tab > >but want mo

Re: Hard drive failing? [OT]

2011-10-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Mark Panen wrote: >Hi My 1.5 TB WD HDD has 384 bad sectors according to "fsck.ext4 -cvf >/dev/x" Is this bad? Since last year October the HDD has been very >slow to browse the folders. Probably, yes. The output of dmesg and smartctl -a /dev/x would be helpful. In any case, you should quickly back

Re: When was Debian installed

2011-10-09 Thread Claudius Hubig
Tomas Volka wrote: >root@debian # passwd -S bin >bin L 11/23/2010 0 9 7 -1 Excellent. >root@debian ~ # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda3 | grep -i creat >dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) >Filesystem created: Tue Nov 23 21:11:56 2010 Please note that this will fail if the system was copied from one

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Stan Hoeppner wrote: >~$ aptitude why apache2 >i phpsysinfo Depends apache2 | httpd > >phpsysinfo seems to have a false dependency--appears the package >maintainer assumes the only httpd server on earth is apache2... This shows that the phpsysinfo dependency is also fulfilled by httpd, which is

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Claudius Hubig
Raf Czlonka wrote: >On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:52:14PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I don't understand why a few people have passed over ssh as being >> overkill. > >SSH (Secure Shell) - you don't need security on home-only network. That at least explains the millions of bots out there. Of course

Re: What's DE-specific, what's independent? (was: Re: KDE package manager)

2011-11-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
"Dan B." wrote: >For the various things that get installed for Gnome, KDE, etc., >which are specific to the chosen desktop environment, and which >work with any desktop environment (or perhaps any sufficiently >capable DE (e.g., FreeDesktop-compliant))? > >When a DE includes a (default) audio play

Re: lightdm login screen minor issue

2013-01-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello cr...@gtek.biz, what a wonderful name :) cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > At the login screen, there are two buttons in the top right-hand corner, > one for switching hi-contrast and large fonts on or off, and the other > for restarting or shutting the system down. That power "button" has no > funct

Re: lightdm login screen minor issue

2013-01-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello cr...@gtek.biz, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > ii lightdm 1.2.2-4i386 simple display manager > ii lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.1.6-2i386 simple display manager > (GTK+ greeter) > ii upower 0.9.17-1 i386 abstraction for power

Re: kernel not found

2013-01-06 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear darkestkhan, darkestkhan wrote: > The i386 arch name is quite misleading, because to best of my knowledge > everything is compiled for (at least) i486, and if I'm correct your CPU is > actually i386. I’d be rather surprised if the K6 was an 386 CPU, given that the Am5x86 (two generations bef

Re: Tomboy Notes alternative?

2013-01-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Richard, Richard Owlett wrote: > I started exploring Tomboy Notes for a writing project I'm > starting. The most attractive feature was the ability to > high lite a word or phrase causing it to be come the title > of a new note. Most probably not what you want, but in case anybody looks a

Re: Moving from Debian Wheezy - 32bit to 64bit

2013-01-23 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hey, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 22 ian 13, 09:00:21, Sam Martin wrote: > Just go choose the "Manual Partitioning" if you don't trust the > installer. > > > Is the best way of doing this to unplug the drives on raid vol and > > reinstall 64bit dist? If you want to be absolutely sure, just

Re: testing openvpn virtually on debian host

2013-01-31 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Umarzuki, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > please suggest me a virtualization software to help me practice > configuring openvpn VirtualBox[1] will do fine and has a nice and pleasant user interface. I fear it won’t fix your Shift key, though. Best, Claudius [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/, also

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-01-31 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Mark, Mark Allums wrote: > Is there any (un)official Debian Steam client? Has anyone (but me) gotten > the native Steam client running well in Debian? I am running it in an Ubuntu 12.04 schroot (set up with debootstrap), which has the nice side-effect that I can use whatever X drivers I wan

Re: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation

2013-02-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Stephen, please do not post HTML to the list[1]. Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am using Oracle VirtualBox (v 4.2.6 r82870) as a testbed for Wheezy > Testing before upgrading my production linux computer. The software is > installed on my 64 bit Dell Inspiron laptop with 8 GB of RAM running M

Re: XFCE application shortcuts

2013-02-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Lucio, Lucio Crusca wrote: > however when I open "Settings > Keyboard > Application shortcuts" and click > "Add +", the friendly GUI does not let me enter any shortcut. I'm able to > enter the command 'amixer set Master 5%+', but above the command text field, > beside the "Shortcut" text,

Re: Can't execute binary?

2013-02-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Tony, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > tony@tony-dlt:~$ /usr/local/firefox/firefox > bash: /usr/local/firefox/firefox: cannot execute binary file > > Well, WTF, as they say. Does anyone know of a change that causes this? A little bit more verbosity might help: $ mount $ file /usr/local/firefox/fi

How to display the reason for a revocation in GPG?

2013-02-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear all, is there any option to display the revocation reason for a given key in GPG? As you may know, GPG asks for a ‘reason’ when generating a revocation certificate (compromised, superseded etc.) and furthermore allows for a free-form comment to be submitted. Is there any way to display this

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Alois, Alois Mahdal wrote: > * Do we want to count dependencies? How deep (we don't want > to count libc* 1 times, do we)? Possible, but might be difficult. > * Do we want to separately address > * `purge`able ~/.app-data? > * /etc/app/settings? > * /var/logs

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Jon, Jon Dowland wrote: > For simple per-package results, "dpigs" from debian-goodies gives you what you > want (and is little more than a one-liner similar to what was posted by > another > to this thread, internally.) Am I doing something wrong or does this not take into account dependenc

Re: Problems with apt-get

2013-02-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Steven, Steven Grunza wrote: > Err http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/debian/ squeeze/main libpoppler5 powerpc > 0.12.4-1.2+squeeze1 > 404 Not found > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with > --fix-missing? ^^

Re: Adobe Reader 9.5.4 on 64 bit Linux

2013-02-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Lisi, Lisi Reisz wrote: > There has, I know, been quite a lot about 32 bit on 64 bit systems recently. > But I am not clear where I should start with this one. Are you on Squeeze or Wheezy? For Squeeze, install the ia32-libs* and then dpkg --force-architecture the Adobe Reader .deb, for Wh

Re: Adobe Reader 9.5.4 on 64 bit Linux - SOLVED

2013-02-28 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Lisi, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 28 February 2013 11:00:36 Brian wrote: > > You could do but try getting ia32-libs-gtk before you go down that route. > > Brilliant! Thank you, Brian (et al of course). I now have a functioning > Adobe Reader, and can see and use the form. Just for th

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

2013-02-28 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Vincent, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds > to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? Depending on the IO priority of the tar command (probably higher if run as root, check with ionice) and the disk

Re: moving /var

2013-03-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Maroš, Maroš Žilka wrote: > [root@server ~]# mkdir /new_var > [root@server ~]# mount /dev/sdb1 /new_var > [root@server ~]# cp -vrp /var/* /new_var/ > [root@server ~]# mv /var /old_var > [root@server ~]# mkdir /var > [root@server ~]# mount --bind /new_var/ /var > > and what is really botherin

Re: Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM

2013-03-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Marc, Marc Shapiro wrote: > It runs fine on Squeeze using IA32-libs. There does not seem to be a > native 64-bit version for linux. I decided I would install Wheezy, > activate multi-arch for i386 and install the 32-bit version. It was a > good plan, except that it does not work. The C

Re: Latest sid upgrade breaks hot-key suspend-to-ram on T410

2013-03-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Joel, Joel Roth wrote: > The latest upgrade has broken hot-key suspend-to-ram (invoked by > Fn-F4). > > I find that s2ram *does* work, as well as hibernate. Cool. Does pm-suspend (a wrapper that does some funky things before calling s2ram) work, too? > Any idea against which package I shou

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Steven, Steven Grunza wrote: > > Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. > Is this possible? Installing the system shouldn’t be a problem. > I realize this system is _NOT_ going to be a performance machine. I > plan on using it for text editing (in laptop mo

Re: How to display the reason for a revocation in GPG?

2013-03-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear all, Claudius Hubig wrote: > is there any option to display the revocation reason for a given key > in GPG? The following abomination does this quite well: $ gpg --export DEADBEEF | gpg --list-packets | grep -Pzao ':signature packet:.*\n\t.*sigclass 0x20(\n\t.*)*' with a

Re: NEEDED: not quite current buisnesscard and netinst iso images

2013-03-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Richard, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tom Grace wrote: > > On 11/03/13 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Pointer please. TIA > > > > You could have a poke about at > > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/ > > Thanks for the quick reply, but that's where I started ;< From there, you

Re: NEEDED: not quite current buisnesscard and netinst iso images

2013-03-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Bob, Bob Proulx wrote: > That is the archive. You want the current images. > jigdo-lite --noask > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.7/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-6.0.7-amd64-netinst.jigdo Richard specifically asked for version 6.0.5[0], which is _not_ the current version. Best, Claudi

Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear all, due to a long-standing annoyance in freeciv-client-gtk[0], I wanted to rebuild this package locally and noticed that there still seems to be no way to nicely manage what # apt-get build-dep freeciv-client-gtk pulls in - it just installs the required packages and then leaves me with the

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Florian, Florian Ernst wrote: > There is mk-build-deps in the package devscripts, and there once was > sourcedeps.debian.net (now dysfunctional) which allowed to have a > sources.list for Build-Depends-metapackages created using mk-build-deps. > I don't know when and why the latter service wa

Re: Nicer way to manage installed build dependencies?

2013-03-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Roger, Roger Leigh wrote: > If you build things on a regular basis, install "schroot" and "sbuild", > and configure schroot to use "snapshot" chroots. This will give you > the same setup used on the buildds. You can create snapshots from > .tar.gz|bz2|xz (file), LVM LVs (lvm-snapshot) or Bt

Re: Question about output from 'df'.

2013-03-29 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Christian, Christian Dysthe wrote: > UUID=fbcdccf4-f329-4656-8ac2-7cff4c158404 /boot ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 > UUID=37de7813-0f65-41dd-b4ae-55912e454d0f / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > UUID=4f2719cd-5e8b-4440-85d9-80db2a7e528a /home ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 > /dev/disk/by-uu

Re: restarting perl?

2013-04-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Bonno, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > perl-base: > 2098/usr/bin/perl Try # ps 2098 to see the command line arguments and identify the process. > So it seems perl may be using the old lib file(s) still. This started after > the previous update I did about a week ago. I had hoped it wo

Re: Problem with xz on very small system

2013-04-12 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear David, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a PcEngines WRAP board, which has 64MB of memory and a CF disk. > Unpacking replacement traceroute ... > dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: Cannot > allocate memory > dpkg-deb: error: subprocess returned error exit statu

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear songbird, what a wonderful name that is. songbird wrote: > i can verify that in the Times New Roman font i'm > using in Libreoffice that when i paste a µ into it > that it does work correctly, but when i hit return > at the end of the line it translates the initial µ > into a capital M. t

Re: Warnings when doing a chroot.

2013-05-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear mind, mind entropy wrote: > I am on ubuntu 13.04 Wrong distro and/or mailing list, but, well. > and I get warnings when I do a wheezy schroot. I do > a sudo schroot -u root -c wheezy Are you running this command inside /srv/chroot on the host system? If so, I would guess that schroot tri

Re: Warnings when doing a chroot.

2013-05-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Robert, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 04:30:20PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > > mind entropy wrote: > > > I am on ubuntu 13.04 > > Wrong distro and/or mailing list, but, well. > > > a sudo schroot -u root -c wheezy > explain how, ass

Re: apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Jochen, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Joel Rees: > > (My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my > > translations.) > > You can prefix commands with something like 'LANGUAGE=en' in order to > change the language temporarily: > > # LANGUAGE=de apt-get update LANGUAGE=C is pr

Re: b2evolution

2013-05-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear john, john wrote: > I notice that the blogging package b2evolution is no longer in the > repositories. Anyone know why? [1] indicates that it was removed in May 2012 since it was rc-buggy and unmaintained [2]. Bug #578924 [3] likely had something to do with that. Best, Claudius [1] http:/

Re: No date in "uname -a" anymore

2013-05-19 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Markus, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > ~# uname -a > Linux wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux > ~# ls -l /boot/vm* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2833376 May 15 23:58 /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 > ~# > > There is no date in the uname output anymore, which I could compare to >

Re: No date in "uname -a" anymore

2013-05-19 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Markus, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > Thanks for your answer, Claudius! Welcome :) > 19.05.2013 14:41, Claudius Hubig: > > You are now supposed to compare the Debian package version reported > > by uname (3.2.41-2 in the example above) against the one currently > > in

Re: can one rely on uname -i results?

2013-05-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Vladimir, Vladimir Budnev wrote: > While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching > scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and > futher processing. -i is for the ‘hardware platform’. You likely rather want to use ‘-m’, which gives the ‘machi

Re: Psi+ GTalk over Tor

2013-05-28 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Alex, Alex Dubinin wrote: > In Psi+ has two profile XMPP servers: google talk and my server. When > using Psi+ with a direct connection to the internet - both profiles are > working fine. If connect through a local Tor server (lotsalhost: 9050) - > google talk not working, no error messages,

Re: speller dictionary for claws-mail.

2013-05-29 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Sthu, Sthu Deus wrote: > I miss some package that i can not identify, please help me. > When i start to write a letter in claws-mail, it says: > > What's the package that contains the dictionary that claws-mail uses? $ dpkg-query -W -f '${Recommends}\n' claws-mail | grep -o '[a-z-]*spell[a-z

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-07 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hi Douglas, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee >future performance, but what has the experience been like for >non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that >Lenny is ready for a desktop ru

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in >fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not >correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. The remedy is to cut the >text >and paste it into an

Re: [solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in >>> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not >>> correctly read: the line ends are not recognised.

Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Problem: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement >and running apps update normally on-screen in visible windows (gkrellm, >gaim, etc). Although you're not using Metacity, maybe have a look at bug #427406 [0], the symptoms are exactly the

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-04-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> paragasu wrote: >> >> > AFAIK, >> > you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. >> > the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. Bu

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