Swiftfox as a flash workaround

[Karl Schmidt]

I had been using swiftfox as a flash workaround - until an upgrade killed it. There is a 
work-around that gets it going again.


http://forums.getswiftfox.com/viewtopic.php?t=271&sid=be4f8b0098d76fb5c39fd623605d187d

But - I really don't like using swiftfox - not really OSS...

Does anyone here know if there will be a AMD64 flash out anytime soon so we can put an end 
to these mickymouse work arounds? There must be a timetable somewhere. Or they may decided 
not to - either way I sure wish I knew.




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Re: sources.list help v.2

[Max Alekseyev]

Add non-free section to you sources.list, i.e. change

deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main
to
deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main non-free

and install package 'unrar' which is the latest (but non-free) version
of unrar, supporting RAR archives ver 3.x

Max

On Nov 14, 2007 10:28 AM, Dave Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a friend with a new debian amd-64 install. He has unrar-free but it
> won't open RAR 3.0 files. It looks like it would be worthwhile to try unrar
> but I am not able to get appropriate access for synaptic.
>
> I went to:
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/unrar/amd64/download
>
> and tried adding a line to /etc/apt/sources.list as suggested at that page but
> get error warnings when starting synaptic. The error text is:
>
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://http.us.debian.org sarge/non-free Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list
> http://http.us.debian.org sarge/contrib Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
>
> the current sources.list file is:
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official
> amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819 -12:16]/ etch contrib main
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official
> amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819 -12:16]/ etch contrib main
>
> deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main
> deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
> contrib
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
> contrib
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
> non-free contrib
>
> The net effect is that searching
> for unrar gives only the already installed unrar-free. I have the .deb
> package for unrar but installing it fails due to a dependency error.
>
> Can someone point me to a tutorial or explain how to get better information
> about the problem? This is what I got from uname:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
> Linux debianroger 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 20:37:02 UTC 2007 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Dave
>
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> Crimea war, served up a dish which he called a Culinary Emblem of Peace,
> containing among many other ingredients twelve boxes of lobsters and 200
> eggs.
>
> - H.W. Tilman
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Re: enxcryption of the whole system

[Brett Viren]

"Hans-J. Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I want to encrypt my whole system = all partitions. I only found Debian 
> related howto, which only tell me it, to do this during the installation 
> (using LVM and so on), As I have installed my whole system already and do not 
> format and reinstall my partitions, I would like to encrypt it now.

There is a howto on making an almost fully encrypted bootable USB
flash drive.  It should work just as well on an HD if you can mount
the HD on a host system and then transfer it to the real one.  I say
"almost" because it leaves /boot unencrypted, iirc.

Ah, here it is:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179

-Brett.


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Re: Where is john ?

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 schrieb Jochen Schulz:
> Hans-J. Ullrich:
> > I am running debian/testing on my server. But where is it now ?
> > I wondered, because it was in testing some time, but now it is gone,
> > although it is already (or still ?) in sid. What happened ?
>
> querybts john. You can see five serious policy violations that prevent
> john from entering testing. One of them (408152) is related to AMD64.
> FTBFS means "failure to build from source". In other words: john doesn't
> compile on AMD64.

O.k., I understand. My system is i386, but policy related things are of course 
architecture independ.
>
> > Just another question: Are packages on German mirrors affected by the
> > German laws relating to hacker paragraphs ? (STGB §202)
>
> As far as I know, this issue has been ignored (insofar as no actions
> have been taken) by the Debian project and the mirror operators. Und das
> ist gut so[tm].
>

Yes, oh yes ! Das ist sehr gut so ! :) [This is very good !] 
> J.


Hans


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Re: Where is john ?

[Jochen Schulz]

Hans-J. Ullrich:
> 
> I am running debian/testing on my server. But where is it now ?
> I wondered, because it was in testing some time, but now it is gone, although 
> it is already (or still ?) in sid. What happened ?

querybts john. You can see five serious policy violations that prevent
john from entering testing. One of them (408152) is related to AMD64.
FTBFS means "failure to build from source". In other words: john doesn't
compile on AMD64.

> Just another question: Are packages on German mirrors affected by the German 
> laws relating to hacker paragraphs ? (STGB §202)

As far as I know, this issue has been ignored (insofar as no actions
have been taken) by the Debian project and the mirror operators. Und das
ist gut so[tm].

J.
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enxcryption of the whole system

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Hi all, 
I do not know, if I dare to ask some question here, as it is not real amd64 
related. Well, I try it...

I want to encrypt my whole system = all partitions. I only found Debian 
related howto, which only tell me it, to do this during the installation 
(using LVM and so on), As I have installed my whole system already and do not 
format and reinstall my partitions, I would like to encrypt it now.

Just my questions: 
1. Is this possible at all ? (I would prefer dm_crypt) 
2. Must I use LVM ? 
3. In case, I have to reformat my partitions, can I backup my datas to another 
host (i.e. with rsync), and play it onto the enrypted filesystem back to the 
encrypted partitions ?

Thank you very, very much for any help !

Best regards

Hans
 


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sources.list help v.2

[Dave Stevens]

I have a friend with a new debian amd-64 install. He has unrar-free but it 
won't open RAR 3.0 files. It looks like it would be worthwhile to try unrar 
but I am not able to get appropriate access for synaptic.

I went to:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/unrar/amd64/download

and tried adding a line to /etc/apt/sources.list as suggested at that page but 
get error warnings when starting synaptic. The error text is:

W: Couldn't stat source package list
http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list
http://http.us.debian.org sarge/non-free Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list
http://http.us.debian.org sarge/contrib Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)

the current sources.list file is:

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official
amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819 -12:16]/ etch contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official
amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070819 -12:16]/ etch contrib main

deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
contrib
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
non-free contrib

The net effect is that searching 
for unrar gives only the already installed unrar-free. I have the .deb 
package for unrar but installing it fails due to a dependency error.

Can someone point me to a tutorial or explain how to get better information 
about the problem? This is what I got from uname:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux debianroger 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 20:37:02 UTC 2007 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

Thanks very much.

Dave

-- 
Alexis Soyer, that Napoleon of the kitchen, to celebrate the ending of the 
Crimea war, served up a dish which he called a Culinary Emblem of Peace, 
containing among many other ingredients twelve boxes of lobsters and 200 
eggs.

- H.W. Tilman


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Where is john ?

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Hi all, 

I am running debian/testing on my server. But where is it now ?
I wondered, because it was in testing some time, but now it is gone, although 
it is already (or still ?) in sid. What happened ?

Just another question: Are packages on German mirrors affected by the German 
laws relating to hacker paragraphs ? (STGB §202)

In this case, I would like to change to FREE mirrors.

Best regards

Hans-J. Ullrich


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