Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?
The Debian Reference may be a good starting point: see, e.g., sections 1.2.5. and 5.2.1. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j3got3$pu2$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: How to get rid of orphaned data in package database?
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Oh, its not the packages, I want to get rid off, but the entries in dpkg database. They appear, although they are no more available. Greets Hans There is the switch --clear-avail for the dpkg command, but I have no experience with it. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: wpasupplicant in Lenny
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, as the change of wpasupplicant in Lenny, I looked for an option to specify the essid in /etc/network/interfaces for WPA to use any AP. By using WEP, there is the possibility to say wireless_essid any, so I can use any AP. I looked for the same feature in wpasupplicant, but it seems, this is not possible with it, or it is not documented. So, how do I have to set, when I want to use ALL accesspoints without a PSK and using WPA/WPA2 ? Besides, may I think wrong and a AP without a PSK and activated WPA/WPA2 does not encrypt traffic at all? Thanks for any hints! Regards Hans In /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz it says ElementExample ValueDescription ======= wpa-ssid plaintextstring sets the ssid of your network Have you tried that? Also with wireless-tools it reads now wireless-essid (minus instead of underscore). -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
/usr/sbin/grub 32-bit - why?
On my testing amd64 system the executable /usr/sbin/grub is 32-bit. Why? Executing grub-install, therefore, gives an error message with my self-compiled 64-bit only kernel. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with lenny
Francesco Pietra wrote: snip With my system gcc -v reports: gcc 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-3) g77 -v reports: reading from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/3.4.6/specs Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,pascal --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.4 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --program-suffix=-3.4 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug x88_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 (Debian 3.3.6-6) snip # If g77 is not available then change FC below to gfortran or g95. snip See this advice? gfortran -which additionally includes support for Fortran 95- is the gcc 4 successor for g77. Just install package gfortran and give it a try. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuring printers in lenny.... is foomatic gui not working....?
Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear folks, I just tried to configure my Epson D88 printer in Lenny, In Etch this was pretty easy. In Lenny I found the printer icon under system tools and it seemed as though it was about start the foomatic gui and then it silently died without an error message or anything being posted up in the gnome display area. I tried again a few times and it kept on doing it. Is foomatic unwell in Lenny at the moment? If so how should I configure the printer? Could I use gutenprint or do I need foomatic as well to do it? Comments appreciated Michael Fothergill I also use an Epson printer on testing/lenny with foomatic and ijsgutenprint. For the upgrade from gs-gpl to ghostscript version 8.62.dfsg.1-2, I had to switch to the unstable versions of the packages foomatic-filters, ijsgutenprint, and libgutenprint2. But it should also be possible to stay with gs-gpl and foomatic-filters, ijsgutenprint, and libgutenprint2 from lenny. To generate the ppd-file (a part of the configuration) for my printer I additionally needed the packages foomatic-db-engine and foomatic-db-gutenprint (and its dependencies). By the way, I use lprng for printing with a hand-crafted printcap file. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-* vs aptitude vs synaptic
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear maintainers, it seems for me, that the commandline tool apt, the ncurses tool aptitude and the graphical tool synaptic might use different databases. So I need a little more background (and knowledge) about this, otherwise I cannot explain myself, why apt-get dist-upgrade is giving another result as aptitude (in my case apt-get dist-upgrade wants to deinstall some openoffice.org-packages, beryl* and some other, but aptitude will not want to deinstall those). Are they using all different databases ? Or is it just related to some configuration ? I looked into the manuals, but found no explanation... Regards Hans The following contributions from debian-user (linux.debian.user) contain some hints: Re: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/04/msg01506.html apt-get auto-recommends (was Re: Packages temporarily ...) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/04/msg01456.html -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HAL: Security-Feature ?
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, just a question: I cannot get external drives like USB-Sticks and SD-Cards get writable (when formatted with ext2/3) or writable mounted, as a normal user. I suppose, this is related to hald. Is there any way, to get this changed ? regards Hans This was discussed previously on the list: The file permissions on an ext2 / ext3 file system are stored in the file system itself. That means you have to change the permissions after mounting the device with chmod or even chown (only root can do that). -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
