Re: How to install Skype?
On 6/17/07, Gilles Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have to [1] set up skype on an AMD64 installation. I think there was a discussion some time ago on the best way to achieve that, but the Debian ML archive seems to be down (3 or 4 days already), so I'd be glad if those who succeeded could provide me with some hints. Thanks and best regards, Gilles I used the instructions here: http://www.maxxer.it/?page=notsoweirdprograms Took a little while, but it worked fine in the end. -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printer setup
On 3/3/07, Don Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My best guess as to my miss-step is that I accepted encyption and authentication in the kprinter setup as defaults, and muddled the choices involved. I expect that I compounded my errors by subsequently using apt-get to try to remove cups and install lprng, and later to undo those actions. I understand that cups is preferred. Below are the last 50 lines of /var/log/cups/error_log. I need to be able to print textfiles and postscript from the commandline, and to print from within windowed apps as well. I wonder if there is a way to re-run debian-installer for nothing but the printer installation? I would like to have a clean slate for printer installation, without undoing the work I have done on the rest of the system. Thanks in advance for any ideas. I apologize if this is the wrong list for this issue. Don Sorry this isn't a 'click here and type this' answer, but this ought to get you going in the right direction. In the documentation tab of the web administration interface (you know the one, http://localhost:631), search for Authentication Issues. If that doesn't have what you need, you can rerun the debconf dialogs with 'dpkg-reconfigure cupsys'. I haven't enabled the encryption or authentication stuff, my printers and print servers are in the same subnets as the clients. It sounds like your printer is directly connected to your box, so I wouldn't bother with it. The cupsd.conf file has lots of comments, so if you want to get in to that have the cupsd.conf reference manual available. good luck, -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sources.list question
On 12/8/06, Manolo Díaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Richardson wrote: If I were to put 'etch' instead of 'testing' in my sources.list, like so deb http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/debian/ etch main on a new install, will I see any difference when etch becomes the new stable? Sorry for the dumb question, but I've always put 'stable' or 'unstable' rather than 'sarge' or 'sid' in my sources.list. I've got some new servers that I want to run stable amd64, but don't really have the time to wait for Debian 4. I guess the other alternative is to run the unofficial amd64 sarge. thanks, No, when etch becomes stable you won't see any difference until etch becomes oldstable, so you will have time enough then to put stable instead of etch. -- Manolo Thanks, I was pretty sure that would be the case. Everything pointed in that direction, but I didn't want to have to try to downgrade. take care, -- Matt
sources.list question
If I were to put 'etch' instead of 'testing' in my sources.list, like so deb http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/debian/ etch main on a new install, will I see any difference when etch becomes the new stable? Sorry for the dumb question, but I've always put 'stable' or 'unstable' rather than 'sarge' or 'sid' in my sources.list. I've got some new servers that I want to run stable amd64, but don't really have the time to wait for Debian 4. I guess the other alternative is to run the unofficial amd64 sarge. thanks, -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian amd64 and linux certifications
On 7/25/06, Hemlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:45:16 -0400, Christian Powers wrote Anyone, lpi.org Yes, there are two 101 exams you can take, one geared towards rpm and the other is greared towards dpkg. Your choice. Cheers, I think that just changed so that both package managers are covered in the same exam. It isn't easy to find on their site, so here's a link: https://www.lpi.org/en/news_item/125 -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I broke my X
On 5/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * On 2006-05-26 09:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi, : My xserver is broken, maybe because I was a bit late changing my sources from : debian-pure64 to debian-amd64 to just debian. I also did apt-get -f install a : few times which might have made it worse. : : /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows : ... : Failed to load module GLcore : ... : Failed to load module speedo : ... : Failed to load module nv : ... : Failed to load module mouse : ... : Fatal server error : no screens found : : I am running kernel 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8 : : What might I try to rectify this situation? maybe a apt-get install --reinstall xorg xserver-xorg-input-foo xserver-xorg-input-bar could help or at least give you some hints. lg raf I ran into a similar situation last week when ditching an nvidia card for the onboard via. Check your xorg.conf file and see if it has the correct entries for your system. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg ran through all of the questions (and even remembered my entries from previous runs), but would not change the xorg.conf file because it looked like it was a customized file. Part of the problem was due to upgrading from etch and it's stock kernel (2.6.15-blah) to sid (2.6.16-blah) and modules like nv not being available. hope this helps, -- Matt
Re: Unable to boot install from CDs?
Have I missed something? Hints, concrete RTFMs, STFW are welcome. Gregory I don't know that I have much to add to this, but I do have a working install. From my apt sources.list, here's the CD I used: # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 Binary-1 (20060314)]/ etch contrib main The netinstall CD didn't work for me, but the one above got a basic system installed just fine. I had a working Etch system, then got greedy and tried to get some stuff working and hosed it. So I reinstalled using the same CD above, got a minimal system running, switched my dist to unstable, did the apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade thing. That got me a minimal unstable system and then it was time for 'guess which gnome packages aren't broken' as the placeholder package had some dependencies that weren't available. apt-get install gdm nautilus metacity will get you a long way towards a usable gnome desktop. I can't recall all of the packages I installed. I have this box in a pretty good state now and am in the process of loading all of my audio CDs on to it. If I get my hands on another AMD64 system, I'll take the time to write up what I did. Should have done it the last time, oh well.
