Re: xfce 4.12 in Debian.

[Greg Madden]

I don't think people who have offensive sigs realize they are harming
others. esp on a tech support list..just sign your name and be done
with it.

greg



On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 March 2015 11:04:20 Chris Bannister wrote:
>> I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she
>> must be quiet. Timothy 2:12
>
> Tongue in cheek, I hope??
>
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Re: Need help on wireless card setup

[Greg Madden]

Why probe wlan0 when all the messages are eth0?

greg

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Long Wind  wrote:
> I plug a PCI wireless card into PC. Below are msg related to it:
>
> [   11.292510] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input4
> [   11.312937] airo(): Probing for PCI adapters
> [   11.313104] airo :00:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 5
> (level, low) -> IRQ 5
> [   11.313131] airo :00:09.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [   11.715306] parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
> [   11.715462] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> [   12.602463] airo(): cmd:111 status:7f11 rsp0:2 rsp1:0 rsp2:0
> [   12.602549] airo(): Doing fast bap_reads
> [   13.439943] padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
> [   13.481128] airo(eth0): Firmware version 5.40.0a
> [   13.481145] airo(eth0): WPA supported.
> [   13.481160] airo(eth0): MAC enabled 00:11:20:40:13:9b
> [   13.505445] ACPI: I/O resource piix4_smbus [0xe800-0xe807]
> conflicts with ACPI region SM00 [0xe800-0xe806]
> [   13.505542] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device,
> you should use it instead of the native driver
> [   13.505882] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
> [   13.510342] airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters
> [   13.526116] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...
>
> and I run "iw wlan0 info", it complains:nl80211 not found.
>
>
> What should I do next? Thanks!!!
>
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Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

[Greg Madden]

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Curt  wrote:
> On 2015-02-10, Michael Graham  wrote:
>
>> But Iceweasel is still reporting the previous version:
>>
>> File: libflashplayer.so
>> Path: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
>> Version: 11.2.202.440
>> State: Enabled (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
>> Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
>>
>> Does anyone have a clue what is going on?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> I updated to the latest version but still get security warnings (and
> have to click on "allow" or something of the kind).
>
> File: libflashplayer.so
> Path: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
> Version: 11,2,202,442
> State: Enabled (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
> Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
>
> I don't know what the problem is. However, it does prevent flash doohickeys 
> from
> playing without my express authorisation, which might be considered a
> feature.
>
> ;-)
>
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Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

[Greg Madden]

I use Squeeze  LTS


Adobe has security updates to flash, Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202.442, it
is a manual install.

greg

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Michael Graham  wrote:
> Somewhat related to this, I've been having a problem where my system reports:
>
> $ sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --status
> Flash Player version installed on this system  : 11.2.202.442
> Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.442
>
> But Iceweasel is still reporting the previous version:
>
> File: libflashplayer.so
> Path: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
> Version: 11.2.202.440
> State: Enabled (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
> Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
>
> Does anyone have a clue what is going on?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> On 9 February 2015 at 12:41, Curt  wrote:
>> On 2015-02-09, Hans  wrote:
>>>
>>> I believe "dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree" will download and install 
>>> the
>>> latest flashplugin from adobe.
>>>
>> I thought the command was
>>
>>  update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
>>
>> Maybe it's six of one, half a dozen of the other.
>>
>> However, I remember something about updating not working properly anymore
>> (for reasons I cannot retrieve from my ageing mind), inciting people to
>> go directly to Adobe's site to download the tarball (which is what I
>> have done ever since the problem appeared).
>>
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Re: debian installer custom apt mirror

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On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Dylan Bass  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently used apt-mirror to create a local jessie mirror on my LAN.
> I have several computers and laptops that I need to keep updated daily
> and this serves my purpose fine.  I was wondering if there is a way I
> can install Debian using a custom apt mirror instead of the default
> mirrors in the Debian installer.  Thanks!
>

During my installs, one of the options in the 'select mirror' dialog
is  a way to manually enter the url to your mirror.

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Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

[Greg Madden]

>>  just reboot the machine.

Use 'top' or 'ps' to kill a process that won't die gracefully.
>
>Shades of MS Windows  ;-3(

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On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Renaud  OLGIATI
 wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:45:09 +
> Philip Ashmore  wrote:
>
>>  just reboot the machine.
>
> Shades of MS Windows  ;-3(
>
> Thanks to all for your help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron.
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Re: firefox compaining about missing library

[Greg Madden]

Not sure you mentioned your video card , though it seems Nvidia may be
involved  from the 'nouveau' stuff.

I am using Wheezy, Nvidia Quadro card, blacklisted nouveau , installed
Nvidia, and run latest Firefox., I have Java and Flash working here.

Nvidia is the only drivers that work in my setup.

Greg M.

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Gene Heskett  wrote:
> On Saturday 17 January 2015 19:32:16 Marc Auslander did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> Gene Heskett  writes:
>> > Greetings;
>> >
>> > Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library?
>> > VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so?
>>
>> ...
>> I am running firefox 35 under wheezy with no problem. And I do not
>> have the names library.  I just untar that tarball into /usr/lib and
>> go.
>
> And your video card and driver are?
>
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Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

[Greg Madden]

+1

The latest Firefox accepts flashplayer  flash 11.2 r202.425, without
complaining.. Firefox was complaining about the version I had, Wheezy, +
backports.



On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Carl Fink  wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 08:47:54PM -0500, Gevorg Abrahamian wrote:
> > Maybe you can take a look at Pipelight. I use it for Silverlight support
> but
> > I believe it supports Flash as well.
>
> Or just Flash? Install flashplugin-nonfree.
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Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

[Greg Madden]

Entertaining thread..cool. Long time since I read a WP, reveal codes,
styles dust up :-)

I still use WP8 in a NT4 vbox instance for a couple of tasks..I absolutely
will not give up, I too miss the dot leader feature for my table of
contents.


I miss this feature, and a few more. I use the table function almost
exclusively,  full page tables mixed cell formatting, this is a pain with
styles  ala LO & AOO. The compelling part to AOO & LO is the freedom and
ease of archiving my business docs.

peace,
Greg

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Patrick Wiseman 
wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale  wrote:
> > On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Who said anything about running windows?
> >>>> The only windows I have are made of glass lol.
> >>>> Although a virtual dos machine might be interesting if I find anything
> >>>> over much  to do  with Linux.
> >>>> Thanks for the giggle,
> >>>> Kare
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> OK, but you can set up a UNIX virtual machine. Worst case would be
> >>> needing qemu to emulate whatever processor your WP51 version was set
> up for.
> >>>
> >>> Still don't know what you have against LibreOffice. It's almost
> certainly
> >>> superior to WP51 in every significant way.
> >>
> >>
> >> At least she doesn't have to worry about "Styles." Most people do not
> need
> >> a QuarkXpress or MS Publisher, and that's what LO is trying to be.
> >>
> >> Just like those expensive commercial programs, anyone who uses LO (or
> OO)
> >> will either have to read and learn a lot of instructions or find a
> >>
> >> different solution. My solution is TextMaker from SoftMaker, which has a
> >> free version for non-commercial use, and which seems to have just
> >>
> >> about all the features of the paid version. (I have no pecuniary
> interest
> >> in SoftMaker, a German firm.)
> >>
> >> --doug
> >
> >
> > Funny but I never had to learn about styles. However they are handier
> than
> > applying individual attributes to common elements. And while LibreOffice
> is
> > quite powerful, it's not Scribus nor Scribus-like by any stretch. It's
> just
> > a modern, feature-rich word processor. That means allowing people to use
> > styles when they want to or ignoring them when they don't.
>
> By way of example, flush-right-with-dot-leader is trivial in WP8 (the
> native WP for Linux), impossible in LibreOffice without a "style"
> which is absurdly difficult to create.
>
> Patrick
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Re: k9copy-reloaded?

[Greg Madden]

The Trinity desktop (TDE) has k9copy, the new release of TDE, a few days
ago, runs on Wheezy and Jessie.  You can just install k9copy + depends,
which are light compared to bundled apps these days.

 I really like/prefer Handbrake but it does not install, from
wheezy-backports..another thread.

Greg

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:06 PM, ~Stack~  wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I prefer to have a digital backup copy of the movies I have legally
> purchased. Mainly because I am too lazy to get up and go to the DVD
> shelf whenever I want to watch something. :-)
>
> My preference for years has been to have an ISO file because disk is
> cheap and if I need to trans-code for $portable_device_of_the_moment
> going from near-original to $format_of_the_moment is trivial and not
> nearly as messy as going from $yesterdays_preferred_format to
> $format_of_the_moment. Thus, I have really liked k9copy. It is trivial
> to set up, yank out the previews and silly "unskippable"
> banners/warnings/messages, and get a raw ISO file.
>
> For those who don't know, the lead dev of k9copy decided he was done
> back in 2012. And Debian yanked the package shortly after (for obvious
> good reasons). I still have my old Debian Lenny box that I boot up, rip
> my latest purchase w/ K9copy, and shutdown. (VM's have been flaky for me
> trying to rip to k9copy; so an old box is what I use)
>
> It seems that someone is taking up the flag for k9copy and actively
> updating it. See here: k9copy-reloaded.sourceforge.net
>
> I just found out and for me, this is exciting news! I am hoping to hack
> on it during some time off next week to see if I can get it to run on a
> updated system.
>
> So the question for the Debian list is:
> * Has anyone tried the compile out yet? I am tempted to use my current
> Wheezy box simply because it is my dev machine and I have most
> everything ready to test on, but I worry about some of those newer
> library files required (note: I haven't looked at all of them in depth
> yet). Then again, I have a Jessie machine that I have been testing on
> for the past few months that I don't care if I break. It would have the
> newer libraries and is in freeze so there shouldn't be much
> volatility...Just curious if anyone has any experience they would like
> to share before I dig in and hit the same issues someone else has
> already solved. :-)
>
> * Anyone else use K9copy? Curious if there are any fans out there still.
>
> * Anyone have a better solution to K9copy? I know there are some really
> good alternatives for trans-coding purposes (eg: handbrake) but I don't
> know of any that will do ISO while keeping the important bits and
> stripping out the junk.
>
> Thanks!
> ~Stack~
>
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Re: Problems with nVidia proprietary driver

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 26 August 2013 14:07:29 you wrote:
> I read the postings fairly recently on this list, then Googled and
> found:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#configure
>
> I decided to follow that.  I also followed the trouble-shooting
> recommended.
>
> I have checked and as a result of what I did, the following package
> is definitely installed.  (It is recommended.)
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-kernel-common
>
> At present I have been offered a CLI login and have logged in as
> root.
>
> I was able to:
>
> cat /var/log//Xorg.0.log
>
> but I could not pipe to less (or more!) because I couldn't find the
> pipe. Googling seemed to suggest that the American pipe was on a key
> in a position that does not exist on my keyboards, which wasn't very
> helpful.
>
> Here is my best attempt at copying across onto a working X on another
> computer:
>
> (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
> (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>   compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
>   Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module
> [snip] can't quite make it out accurately enough to copy.  Short
> message saying to look at the system's kernel log if you want to see
> more messages. (EE) NVIDIA (tangled up with above)
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) Unloading nvidia
> (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia"(module-specific error, 0)
> (EE) No drivers available.
> Fatal server error:
>  no screens found
>
> I have downloaded the correct driver for my husband's card (GTX 650
> TI) on this box (mine) and was thinking of putting it on a USB key
> with a view to copying it onto the other box (my husband's) and
> trying to install it.  But I would presumably need to unistall
> whatever is there now first.
>
> Trying to get a 4.0.2 , presumably a kernel 4.0.2, strikes me as a
> non-starter.  Even backports are only up to
> linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64
>
> Reinstalling is a possibility, but it would be nice to get this
> sorted out. Unfortunately, I am under time pressure, so I may just
> have to cave in and make do with a fresh install and nouveau.  I had
> upgraded successfully. Pity I had to play around and spoil it. :-( 
> But I was keen to get him the better graphics of which his box is
> capable.  Nouveau really wasn't very good. :-(
>
> Ideas and suggestions please!  I don't want to reinstall and put up
> with nouveau if I can avoid it. :-(
>
> Thank you,
> Lisi

The proprietary Nvidia installer does a good job of configuring 
everything here, just works. It will write a new .xorg file and backup 
the old file, if present.

 Caveats, no Debian Nvidia stuff installed, blacklist the nouveau 
driver, which Nvidia installer offers to do,  that is not a reference 
to a Linux kernel version.

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Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

[Greg Madden]

On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote:
> I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2
> processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with
> a KDE desktop. My  present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From
> reading, I think I need to change the kernel to the bigmem version
> but all of the packages shown are for much older versions (or they
> seem to be). If I install the linux-image-686-bigmem dummy package
> will it automatically pick the latest kernel version or not? If not
> what do I do?
>
> Note: Reason for doing this; cheap used parts that turn a bucket of
> bolts into a reasonably useful system.
>
> Gary R.

old naming=bigmem, new naming=pae, both the same.

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Re: what happened to the task bar??

[Greg Madden]

On Friday 28 June 2013 12:08:42 you wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 07:35:24PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>  .snip
>
> > There's nothing wrong with running an outdated Debian,
>
> Until the security patches stop.
>
> > but users still
> > should take care what happens upstream and contribute at least with
> > an opinion _before it's to late_!
>
> I think I'm having a noobie moment but I draw a blank as to how to do
> this. Is there a list? Debian-devel is pretty opaque to me as a
> nonprogrammer.

I think 'upstream' usually means 'not Debian'.  In this case Gnome

Debian packages alot of software, afaik,  does not change its basic 
functions.

hope this is what you meant.

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Re: open office install fails

[Greg Madden]

On Saturday 22 June 2013 07:16:48 you wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 10:34 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Maybe it was replaced in Debian, but Open Office is still very much
> > alive and well (and owned by ASF).
> >
> > I'm with Jeff - I prefer OpenOffice over LibreOffice.
>
> I prefer LibreOffice and follow David's advice.
> In any case, it was not clear to me he wanted OpenOffice instead of
> LibreOffice. I was thinking he had a Squeeze system installed with
> OpenOffice and just upgraded.
>
> For OpenOffice:
> As pointed out by Klaus, there is a package specifically for the
> gnome integration.
> You'll have to install it using the packages from the OpenOffice.org
> website [1]. It's a tar.gz archive file with several deb files, I
> haven't looked into the contents as I don't use it, but I imagine
> there is such a gnome integration package. At least there was when
> 3.3 came out, that was also the last time I installed OpenOffice from
> the website, before switching.
>
> I would also advice to make sure no OpenOffice or LibreOffice
> packages are installed from the Debian repositories when using the
> packages from their website. Just to be sure there aren't any
> conflicts.
>
> Regards,
> Steven
>
> [1] http://www.openoffice.org/download/


The AOO tar.gz file unpacks into ~/en-us, in the DEBS dir there is a 
desktop-integration dir which contains a debian-menus deb package.

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Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 20 May 2013 22:47:46 you wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:25 -0700
> >
> > Patrick Bartek  wrote:
> > > One would think from what is said in the mans that the -t option
> > > would do that.  Don't know why it doesn't.
> > >
> > > Also, I just noticed a funny thing:  Today, when I do 'apt-cache
> > > show libreoffice-writer'  both the 3.5 and new 4.0 versions are
> > > listed.
> >
> > Same here.
> >
> > > Same output with or without the -t wheezy-backports.  I'm
> > > beginning to think that the LibreOffice 4 packages have been
> > > moved out of backports, if they were ever there, and into the
> > > stable repos. Guess I'll have to find another package for my
> > > search tests.
> >
> > LibreOffice 4 packages are in wheezy-backports. Compare the results
> > of aptitude search -F"%p %v %V" '^libreoffice-writer$'
> > and
> > aptitude -t wheezy-backports search -F"%p %v %V"
> > '^libreoffice-writer$' and
> > apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
>
> After making the above statement, somewhat facetiously, about
> LibreOffice 4 being moved out of backports, I did some additional
> searches similar to the ones you gave above, and discovered that
> LibreOffice 4 is indeed in backports.
>
> B


I use 'apt-cache policy ' to 'search' for a package.

~$apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4
  Version table:
 1:4.0.3-2~bpo70+1 0
100 http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ wheezy-backports/main amd64 
Packages
 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 0
500 http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages

I don't have to use script fu, the results are minimal/manageable here.
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Re: backported vs upstream libreoffice 4

[Greg Madden]

On Thursday 23 May 2013 09:36:34 you wrote:
> A recent thread made me aware of the availability of
> LO4 in wheezy-backports. Then I started wondering what
> advantages were to be gained from using this version,
> given that DEB packages are provided by the upstream
> developers themselves ?
> Perhaps less disk space / memory bloat because system
> libraries can be shared ? Better desktop integration?
> Is this documented somewhere ?

Not sure about the 'is it documented' part.  
Lots of work being done for some reason: 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2013/05/threads.html

I like having my apps managed by my distro's dev team, security provided 
by same, upstream does not do secrity they do new releases to fix and 
create new bugs.

And yes, the Debian version works well with all the other apps in 
Debian, finally,  Libreoffice expects most GNU/Linux users to use the 
version provided by a distro, fair warning I say.
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Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 20 May 2013 13:04:25 you wrote:
> apt-cache show
> libreoffice


The 'apt-cache + options" command works on the package cache, which 
includes , afaik, all the packages reference in the sources.list.

 'apt-get' install stable packages unless the '-t' option is used.
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Re: Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops

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On Thursday 31 January 2013 9:48:45 am you wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just have read this:
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-b
>rick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html
>
> And I also found this:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557
>
> It seems that kernel's drive "samsung-laptop" can brick Samsung
> laptops, when trying to boot using UEFI.
> It happens on Ubuntu... Can anyone tell me how it is on Debian? Does
> Debian's kernel use this driver too?
>
> Thanks.

Try, searching your kernel config file, i.e. mine:

'cat /boot/config-2.6.32-5-amd64 |grep SAMSUNG'

CONFIG_HID_SAMSUNG=m
CONFIG_SAMSUNG_LAPTOP=m


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Re: Firefox & Iceweasel

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 30 January 2013 5:58:43 pm you wrote:
> How can i install Firefox along with iceweasel in Debian wheezy?
>
> ~Akhilan


You can use both, they share the same directory in your home directory. 
No problems here with that. 

Firefox is a .tar.gz file so you have lots of options in installing it, 
no need to be root for one.
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Re: LibreOffice complete removal.

[Greg Madden]

On Tuesday 29 January 2013 10:56:17 pm you wrote:
> On 30 January 2013 07:38, Sthu Deus  wrote:
> > Good time of the day, Sharon.
> >
> > You wrote:
> > > Yesterday I removed the meta-package of LibreOffice, and then
> > > installed the source package of LibreOffice 3.6.5.2. I now find
> > > that it wasn't fully removed as I'm still able to open and use
> > > documents with the old programme.
> > >
> > > So, how do I *completely* remove all of the old LibreOffice
> > > without removing all or most of Gnome, which I still want to have
> > > around, please?
> >
> > This is weird. Can You share exactly what was the removal command?
> >
> >
> > Sthu.
> >
> > It was done using synaptic, and then when i went to check in
> > apt-get i saw
>
> that not all of debian libreoffice had been removed, and to remove it
> with apt-get would take most of gnome with it too.
>
> Sharon.


'apt-cache' is a handy cli tool to see whats up with packages. 
man: "apt-cache - APT package handling utility -- cache manipulator"

'apt-cache policy' see what versio(s) are installed or 
available, 'apt-cache rdepends ' and apt-cache depends 
' will show you what will be installed or removed.
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Re: how to install touchegg in debian ?

[Greg Madden]

On Tuesday 22 January 2013 1:31:00 am you wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:09:59 +0200
>
> Andrei POPESCU  wrote:
> > On Ma, 22 ian 13, 11:37:01, J B wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is there any lucky debian user having touchegg installed ?
> > > I have tried to install the ubuntu .deb but couldn't success
> > > due to dependency. I have synaptic configured for two finger
> > > scrolling, but it is not that superb like mac touchpad :-(
> >
> > Not enough information. How exactly did you try to install it, what
> > errors did you get (copy-paste please), which version of Debian?
>
> Hello Andrei ,
>
> I tried to install touchegg_1.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb and I get
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of touchegg:
>  touchegg depends on libutouch-geis1 (>= 2.0.1); however:
>   Package libutouch-geis1 is not installed.
>
> and
>
> apt-get install -f
>
> simply uninstall touchegg :-(

You would need to install the library also from Ubuntu. 
AFAIKT 'touchegg' is not in Debian so it can not  resolve the 
dependancy issues. It still might not work, could be other depends 
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Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

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On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote:
> When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
> package I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
> It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
>
> Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the
> web? [I use squeeze.]
>
> I have copied all the .deb files from the 8 DVD install set
> to a USB drive.  How could I extract all the man pages?
>
> TIA

Check out 'dwww'


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Re: java plugin

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On Tuesday 20 November 2012 16:32:35 you wrote:
> I thought I read or heard on a podcast (TechSNAP???) that Firefox
> (and by implicit extension Iceweasel) was blacklisting sun-java due
> to Oracle's epic fail with security. Can anyone confirm?

Using Iceweasel 10.0.10, from mozilla.debian.net in Squeeze, the plugin 
check feautre disables, it seems, any java stuff except the latest from 
Oracle. jre-7u9-linux-x64

>
> Not sure of a fix, other than, maybe, try openjdk/icetea. I don't
> usually run java apps, if I can avoid it. Do you need java, and more
> to the point, do you need *Sun's* java?
>
> --b
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Michael P. Soulier
>
>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Nothing I do seems to get the java plugin working in iceweasel. I
> > installed sun-java6-plugin, confirmed that the symlinks from the
> > iceweasel plugins directory are there, but it doesn't appear in
> > about:plugins.
> >
> > Any tips?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
>


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Re: SD card formatting problem

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On Saturday 17 November 2012 10:36:07 you wrote:
> I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer
> disk for a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB
> and stops. I tried to reformat to vfat with the same results. The df
> command shows the card has 32GB. I thought that vfat was only good to
> 4 GB but the card came formatted to vfat. Any suggestions? Can the
> card be formatted to ext3? Would that help? Is the card the problem?
> I am using a SanDisk USB card reader, model SDDR-113 which is
> supposed to handle 32GB cards. Debian Squeeze and Wheezy systems gave
> same results.
>
> Gary R.


Limitations of vfat file system, also does not archive file attributes. 

afaik, you can format with any file system. If compatabiltiy between a 
Windows box is not the issue I would use anything else. I have used 
ext2 for this, no journal.

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Re: Flashplayer on Squeeze (sorry. :-()

[Greg Madden]

On Saturday 03 November 2012 12:47:53 you wrote:
> If there were a plugins directory, where would it be?  I need to put
> libflashplayer.so in it, and it currently doesn't exist.  Obviously I
> can create it, but I need to know where to put it.
>
> Iceweasel 10.0.10, LXDE and Squeeze.
>
> Thanks,
> Lisi

Need to be root:
'usr/lib/mozilla/plugins'

If no root access you should be able to add a 'plugins' directory 
eg:  '.mozilla/firefox/.default/plugins' 

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Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

[Greg Madden]

On Sunday 09 September 2012 6:47:32 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la.  I have tried all night to
> > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of
> > different sort.
> > Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same
> > symptoms)  When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a
> > lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any
> > ideas?
>
> Yes, try with the text expert installer, disable KMS and jump to a debug
> console just in the event there's something logged there.

afaikt this laptop has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M card which needs the lastest 
NVIDIA 295.59 Linux update, from Nvidia. Not sure which Debian version, if any, 
has updated non-free to include this.  Text mode expert install may help.

snip

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Re: Dual-Monitor help

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On Thursday 23 August 2012 1:41:37 pm Nelson Green wrote:
> > > Nelson,
> > > Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> > > or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from
> > > apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site?
> > >
> > > Shane
> >
> > I sure did:
> > $ dpkg -l | grep nouveau | cut -d " " -f 3
> > libdrm-nouveau1
> > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>
> Oops, forgot to include:
> $ lsmod | grep nouveau
> nouveau   581600  2
> ttm    48312  1 nouveau
> drm_kms_helper 22707  1 nouveau
> drm   160013  3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
> i2c_algo_bit   12713  1 nouveau
> mxm_wmi    12433  1 nouveau
> video  17415  1 nouveau
> i2c_core   19218  5
> nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801 button
> 12817  1 nouveau
> wmi    13051  3 nouveau,mxm_wmi,dell_wmi
>
> > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Nelson Green
> > >
> > > mailto:nelsongree...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
> > > > Nelson Green wrote:
> > > > > I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would
> > > > > like to have one large screen spread across the two monitors.
> > > >
> > > > I usually do this with a single graphics card. So my suggestion might
> > > > not be useful to you. But...
> > > >
> > > > > I am not sure where to start. One thing I have tried to do is to
> > > > > see what xrandr gives me, and I don't completely understand the
> > > > > output of that. I have included that output, and a copy of
> > > > > Xorg.0.log below.
> > > > >
> > > > > At this point I would welcome any suggestions as to what to try
> > > > > next.
> > > >
> > > > I would start with lxrandr. Because even me being a staunch CLI
> > > > advocate it is sometimes easier to click the mouse. This is simply an
> > > > graphical interface to xrandr.
> > > >
> > > > # apt-get install lxrandr
> > > >
> > > > $ lxrandr
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, lxrandr only shows the single monitor. Another issue I
> > > have is nothing from xrandr nor lxrandr shows an output interface. If
> > > I could get that information I might at least have a place to start. As
> > > it is, the only indications that the two cards are even known to the
> > > system are the Xorg log, and the output of dmesg. Other than that
> > > nothing seems to be aware of the second video card and/or monitor.
> > >
> > > BTW, I also realized I forgot to mention that I am using the Xfce
> > > Desktop. I doubt that makes any difference, but figured I should at
> > > least mention it for completeness.
> > >
> > > I appreciate the reply.
> > > Patrick

It is possible that the 'nouveau' driver doesn't do dual monitors with the 
Quadro 
600 cards.  i am not to good with these things, looks like it tries 'nouveau, 
vesa & FB, and fails.  ,

 I do run a Quadro dual port card, I use the 'nvidia' driver, the xorg drivers 
do 
not work with my setup. The Nvidia driver comes with a monitor setup app, works 
here.


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Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 22 August 2012 10:21:50 am Artifex Maximus wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Virtualbox on my Wheezy x86_64 is not showing 64 bit for guest and
> guest x86_64 OS installer displays CPU mismatch error. My CPU is a
> E5200 which does not have VT support. Virtualbox page says "On 64-bit
> hosts (which typically come with hardware virtualization support),
> 64-bit guest operating systems are always supported regardless of
> settings, so you can simply install a 64-bit operating system in the
> guest.". It is not clear for me that 64 bit host is enough or VT is
> required for 64 bit guests.
>
> The question is I need to upgrade my CPU to any VT capable CPU or is
> there any solution staying at the current CPU? If I change the CPU am
> I need to reinstall Virtualbox?
>
> Bye,
> a

I think you have the answser, afaik, you can not run 64bit guests without vt 
support. So, will 32 bit guests be enough for your use?

VT-x/AMD-v cpus are the way to go. It was a substantial increase in performance 
when I upgraded. I know AMD advertises multiple cores for virtualization.
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Re: Calligra

[Greg Madden]

On Thursday 16 August 2012 9:10:46 am Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 16 aug 12, 03:05:44, Weaver wrote:
> > > I'd be very interested in an objective comparison with Libre Office and
> > > Abiword/Gnumeric.
>
> [snip comparison of LO with AW/GN]
>
> I meant those two with Calligra ;)
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

For anyone using formatted tables 'as' and  'in' documents, Apache OO works 
best 
here. LO has regressed in my particular use  case, can not use it. Abiword does 
not do this level of table formatting, it is nice & light, fast , at what it 
does 
do. 

I like Gnumericm it  does all I need but  there is no reason to use it if AOO 
or 
LO is installed.

I don't get Calligra, can't figure out if it just does not do much of what Iam 
used to doing or I  need to spend more time which there is no reason to do 
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Re: UEFI install (was: Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD)

[Greg Madden]

On Friday 10 August 2012 1:17:16 am Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden:
> > On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale  wrote:
> > > > On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote:
> > > >> Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in
> > > >> ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD?
> > > >> Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux.
> > > >
> > > > You don't have to do anything special. Just partition the disks the
> > > > way you like. Linux installers normally expect that dual booting
> > > > is a common requirement so they usually handle it pretty well.
> > >
> > > I think it is not so easy as I have googled it. Intel RST, UEFI etc
> > > making things difficult and many have bricked their system. Hence my
> > > post.
> >
> > I think the issues you read about are for Windows 8 and the 'secure
> > boot' feature of the UEFI bios?
> >
> > I have not tried Squeeze, Wheezy works fine on a Thinkpad with the UEFI
> > bios, SSD & mSata.
>
> I think Squeeze does not support UEFI properly. It would at least need
> a 3.2 backport kernel
>
> What did you do to make it work? I have tried two times to get
> either of:
>
> - GPT + UEFI
> - MBR + UEFI
> - GPT + BIOS
>
> to work on a ThinkPad T520 and the only think that works right now is
>
> - MBR + BIOS
>
> My problem was that the UEFI boot menu never offered to boot from the
> EFI boot partition that I made. I think I might have been missing some
> efibootmgr magic that was explained here or elsewhere before, but as you
> managed to get to work, I´d like to know the exact steps or a link to a
> guide that works, before trying again. Why the GPT + BIOS stuff did not
> work is beyond me – I hat a BIOS boot partition for GRUB and grub-install
> also seemed to use it.
>
> I bet its not really faster tough since the ThinkPad doesn´t take much
> time in the BIOS anyway. And due to LVM I do not really need GPT, but it
> would be nice to have it anyway.

I am not dual booting, I am using virtualization for the second OS. I have two 
ssd's, not at the same time, Win7 host and a Wheezy host. 

 Not sure about all the:
> - GPT + UEFI
> - MBR + UEFI
> - GPT + BIOS

I just installed Wheezy and it seemed to install just like any other install I 
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Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD

[Greg Madden]

On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale  wrote:
> > On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote:
> >> Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in
> >> ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD?
> >> Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux.
> >
> > You don't have to do anything special. Just partition the disks the way
> > you like. Linux installers normally expect that dual booting is a common
> > requirement so they usually handle it pretty well.
>
> I think it is not so easy as I have googled it. Intel RST, UEFI etc
> making things difficult and many have bricked their system. Hence my
> post.


I think the issues you read about are for Windows 8 and the 'secure boot' 
feature 
of the UEFI bios?

I have not tried Squeeze, Wheezy works fine on a Thinkpad with the UEFI bios, 
SSD 
& mSata.

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Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 08 August 2012 1:31:05 pm Keith McKenzie wrote:
> On 8 August 2012 17:23, Camaleón  wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Subject says it all.
> >
> > I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other
> > magazine is written in Spanish), so is this true?
> >
> > I could only find this mailing list thread² as the official reference but
> > from the comments on there it does not look like a final decision has
> > been taken yet on the proposed change and this is a rather big diversion
> > from the usual default to be passed so inadvertently to the users (yes,
> > plain users do not read "debian-devel" ;-P).
> >
> > ¹http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1NTk
> > ²http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/08/msg00029.html
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > --
> > Camaleón
>
> The present testing(wheezy) CD-1 gives a choice of Gnome, KDE, XFCE,
> or LXDE but if one is selected, I believe it will be downloaded &
> installed, because when I didn't have a network connection, it only
> installed X & xterm, & not even a WM. I apt-get installed Fluxbox
> later & everything worked OK.
>
> HTH
> --
> Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software)
> Debian GNU/Linux

Installed cd-1 in a Vbox instance, used the 'no network mirror' option.  
Without a 
mirror  I get two selections in the 'tasksel' dialog . 
1. Debian desktop environment
2. standard 

This looks like a very large net install image . You will need more than one cd 
to 
have a desktop/ WM environment. 

I can remember installing Debian from floppies, it seems cd's are like floppies 
 
now.  One dvd might contain enough for a complete graphical system, have not 
looked at the dvd's. 

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Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

[Greg Madden]

On Thursday 21 June 2012 12:07:44 pm Csanyi Pal wrote:
> Camaleón  writes:
> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:22:27 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> >> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system.
> >
> > You mean a mix of both?
> >
> >> What must I do to keep the system in it's relative usable state when
> >> testing come to stable?
> >
> > What's what you want to get?
>
> I want to get again a testing/sid system, but this shall be my first
> time to upgrade from testing/sid to 'newer' testing/sid.
>
> I'm a feared what could happen with my system right away after the
> upgrade shall happen?
>
> Could happen that that I can't use it a while?
>
> > I use "testing" (not "wheezy") as codename in my repositories, this way,
> > once wheezy is released I'll be in the upcoming testing branch.
>
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
>
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
>
> # Bitlbee
> deb http://code.bitlbee.org/debian/devel/testing/amd64/ ./
>
> --
> Regards from Pal

With a sources.list like yours, I would expect you are running a Sid system, is 
Wheezy used at all?

A  couple of things to check that determine what you are installiing with your 
sources.
1.  'APT::Default Release' in  '/etc/apt/apt.conf
2. An '/etc/apt/preferences' file will allow you to control what is  
installed,rferedf to as 'apt pinning'

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Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

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On Friday 01 June 2012 11:17:49 am Lisi wrote:

> > Looks like multiple install/removes? of   flash. The 'update-lternatives'
> > program may be confused. You can see what it thinks is going on
> > with  'update-alternatives --get-selections'.
>
> Junior:/home/lisi# touch get-selections.txt
> Junior:/home/lisi# update-alternatives --get-selections >
> get-selections.txt update-alternatives: unknown option `--get-selections'

I am using Squeeze, sorry. 


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Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

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On Friday 01 June 2012 8:23:42 am Lisi wrote:
> I get the following* if I type about:plugins into my Konqueror location
> bar. I want to get rid of Shockwqave Flash 7, but I simply cannot find a
> file/folder/application libklashpart.so anywhere, so cannot delete it.
>
> Has anyone any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Lisi
>
> *
> Plugin  Description  File  Types
>   Java Plug-in  Java Plug-in KJAS for Konqueror  kjavaappletviewer.so
>   application/x-java-applet - Java Applet (class)
> application/x-java-bean - JavaBeans (jar)
>   Shockwave Flash  Shockwave Flash 7.0  libklashpart.so
>   application/x-shockwave-flash - Shockwave Flash (swf)
> application/futuresplash - FutureSplash Player (spl)
>   Shockwave Flash  Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102  libflashplayer.so
>   application/x-shockwave-flash - Shockwave Flash (swf)
> application/futuresplash - FutureSplash Player (spl)
>   Shockwave Flash  Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102  flash-mozilla.so
>   application/x-shockwave-flash - Shockwave Flash (swf)
> application/futuresplash - FutureSplash Player (spl)


Looks like multiple install/removes? of   flash. The 'update-lternatives' 
program 
may be confused. You can see what it thinks is going on 
with  'update-alternatives --get-selections'. 

Purging flash packages may fix files left behind.

You an use 'locate' to find the flash.xx.so plugin and delete it, this prevents 
Konqueror from using it, and failing on flash.

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Re: Help identifying an old wireless card

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On Friday 25 May 2012 7:34:07 am Brian wrote:
> On Fri 25 May 2012 at 10:46:29 -0400, Michael Mehrazar wrote:
> > Andrei,
> >
> > Thank you. It's attached.
>
> Still no wireless card in there. 'lsusb' if it is a USB device.

If the a card is broken somehow, , ls* won't show the device, modules will not 
load  etc. 

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Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 02 May 2012 5:36:35 am Lisi wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer.  When
> the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just
> deinstalled the lot and downloaded from the Adobe site.  According to the
> site, the latest version available for Linux is 11, but I seem to have
> downloaded 10. :-(
>
> I am going spare on this.  Has anyone got any ideas?
>
> I know that I have not given much information on what I have done, since I
> had decided just to start again and download from the Adobe website.  But I
> have worked though all the recent advice on this list and also that on the
> relevant page in the Debian wiki.
>
> I would happily start again from the beginning.
>
> Thanks,
> Lisi
>
> root@Hercules:/home/peter# update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
> ERROR: wget failed to download
> http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.i386.pgp.as
>c More information might be available at:
>http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
> root@Hercules:/home/peter#

I add contrib & non-free to my sources.list, use a Debian mirror, from the list 
of 
mirrors. I   Install 'flashplugin-nonfree' with a visual package manager to see 
what choices I have,  

Flash just works here, using Mozilla  based browses.

I watch Hulu.com, Amazons streaming service, etc. never had a problems with 
anything not playing.

I do make sure that there is no other 'flash' on my system, e.g. Gnash stuff. 
Make 
sure that the aternatives system points to the right flash plugin, just in case 
some other flash was on the system previously.

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Re: PAE support in Debian6

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On Saturday 14 April 2012 12:20:18 pm Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:34:03 -0430, German Eduardo Jaber De Lima wrote:
> > What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support
> > (bigmem kernel option)?
>
> The first?
>
> If we take we time-machine and according to the snapshot archive¹, there
> was a "-bigmem" kernel since 2.6.17 (dated on August 13th, 2006) which
> means... Sarge, then? :-?
>
> > Is it enabled by default in Debian6?
>
> It will be from Wheezy, AFAIK.
>
> In earlier versions... Mmm, I would better look at the image ISO content
> to see what's included in each of them, for instance:
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.4/i386/list-cd/
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.4/i386/list-dvd/
>
> Which seems to indicate the first CD does not contain the bigmem kernel
> while it is present in the first of the DVDs. If the kernel is there it
> may be preseded and thus triggered to be available at install time, at
> least when using the expert installer.
>
> ¹http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/linux-image-686-bigmem/
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
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One additional point, one can still install Debian without 'bigmem' support 
then install the correct kernel for your hardware, you just won't see all the 
memory during the install.

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Re: Installing Debian as VirtualBox guest - which videodriver to install?

[Greg Madden]

On Sunday 25 March 2012 12:34:15 pm Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Csanyi Pal  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed on my Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid host on VirtualBox
> > the Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid as guset using the
> > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso
> >
> > so I get virtual consoles but not a desktop environment.
> >
> > I don't know whichvideodriver to install to get X Window on guest
> > system?
>
> You don't need to install one at all.  Install the packages
> build-essential and the appropriate linux-headers package for your
> system.  Then select "Install Guest Additions" from the VirtualBox
> "Devices" menu.  Run the "VBoxLinuxAdditions.run" script from the
> virtual CD that mounts.  Then reboot.
>
> That should be all there is to it.
>
> Note that you will need to rebuilt the Guest Additions every time the
> kernel is upgraded so you may prefer copying the
> VBoxLinuxAdditions.run file to somewhere in your guest's filesystem.
> I just put it in /root myself.
>
> --
> Chris

'virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms'

This package rebuilds the modules on any kernel update.
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Re: I cannot log in to my debian wheezy system!

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On Friday 16 March 2012 12:47:06 pm Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
>
> My system, debian wheezy amd-64, refuses to recognize my password. I am
> sure I am typing it correctly.
>
> I was able to , at login time, where grub pauses to ask which kernel tyo
> uise,
> to choose the maintenance option, dropping me to a shell. There I was able
> to type
>
> sudo passwd kjetil
>
> which asked to give a new password, which I repeated
>
> then it said password succesfully changed. But no effect,
> I can still not login!
>
> What is happeninmg?
>
> Kjetil

If you arre logged in to the singler user mode, maintenace shell?, you are root 
and do not need to use 'sudo' That said, not sure about your failed login as 
user. Maybe try using the 'passwd' command without  'sudo',
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Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

[Greg Madden]

On Thursday 15 March 2012 7:26:53 pm Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have had to replace the hard drive in my laptop computer, which is an
> HP/Compaq NX5000, as the previous hard drive appeared to have failed.
snip
> With this policy change by the Debian people, to exclude "firmware", so
> as to make installing Debian difficult, I have had problems, over time,
> in trying to instal Debian 6 on different computers, being unable to
> instal Debian 6, until Debian 6.03 was released.
>
> Is it possible to have this policy that excludes firmware from official
> installable disks, overturned, so that Debian 6 can be more easily
> installed?
snip


There are net-install images of Squeeze + firmware on this page, also tarballs 
of 
firmare with instruction on use.

http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/
bottom  of page.
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Re: OT Apache Open Office

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 12 March 2012 11:30:19 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Greg Madden  wrote:
> > There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant
> > having a choice in Debian of which one to use.
>
> What are the significant differences that you have perceived? I might
> have to maintain a page outlining the differences if they really do
> affect workflow, features, and document compatibility.


Look at the referenced bug reports, there are attachments to the reports 
showing 
what has happened to my templates & archived docs. others have noticed this 
also. 

 To LO devs credit they patched v3.5.x?   so that the double lines are no 
longer 
so large that they hide data in the cells for archived docs.  Newest bug is for 
the double line style not being a close representation of previous bouble line 
style, e.g. new docs with tables using that style will not match archived docs 
with tables with that style.

As far as maintaining a page with the differences I think it is worth watching 
how 
the new feature in LO concerning table,border line styles plays out. Not only 
did 
it break backwards compatibility in LO, it departs how AOO  renders those line 
styles also. AOO does not render the double line style created in LO 3.4.x & 
later(they are blank), have not tested other table line styles

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Re: OT Apache Open Office

[Greg Madden]

On Sunday 11 March 2012 3:27:51 pm Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my
> > work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my
> > use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later.
>
> That's interesting. Do you mean there are things you can open with AOO that
> won't open with LO? That surprises me, because I was under the impression
> that LO had moved on *a lot* from OO, and AOO had not.  So either I'm
> wrong, or LO has regressed in some cases.

'Moved on a lot' does not have meaning to me. New features bring new bugs and 
sometimes regressions. That said, I agree that the LO devs and document 
foundation have done a lot of good work, I try not to disparage, it just does 
not 
work in my case.

1. About 'file open' : Someone mentioned  LO has a stricter compliance with ? 
document format standards, anecdotal experience shows some MS docs do not open 
in 
LO that do open in AOO. Not really an area of concern here, I rarely get a MS 
document sent to me.

 I am more concerned with document fidelity with archives  & templates from 
previous versions. This concept also includes all future documents.

2. New feature in LO 3.4.x and later, partial fix in Lo 3.5.1 RC-1, the 
Table>table properties>borders feature was 'improved'. This broke backwards 
compatibility with all Tables that used the 'double line' style. I use tables 
exclusively and the double line border style is on every page of my docs. I 
have 
enclosed  a couple of bugs for the curious.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38542
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42750
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47194

This is significant to me, it is how I present project results to my clients, 
so I 
have been testing AOO for a alternate plan if needed.


>
> > There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant
> > having a choice in Debian of which one to use.
>
> Someone will have to step up and put the work in to package AOO, for the
> choice to exist "in Debian".

The Apache OO folks do provide .deb files with desktop integration. In my tests 
these work well enough on a Debian stable system, though it would be nice to 
get 
the benefits that the Debian LO devs have provided in that packages.

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OT Apache Open Office

[Greg Madden]

I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, 
archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, 
than LO ver 3.4.x and later.

There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant having a 
choice in Debian of which one to use.

Users can try it out:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Unofficial+Developer+Snapshots

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Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

[Greg Madden]

On Friday 09 December 2011 12:29:17 Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor.
> I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone
> else? I would like to do some comparison shopping.
>
> Thank you.

HP ships laptops with Freedos, or enterprise Suse  or Redhat.

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Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

[Greg Madden]

On Sunday 27 November 2011 8:29:19 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, 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 wrong with it.
> >
> > Is there any way to get this back, while still using Debian? I've been
> > using Debian (sid) a long time and I'm not changing distros.
> >
> > Are the debian patches for the last of the GNOME 2 releases still
> > available? Can I build my own packages?
>
> Nowadays, there is no way to get GNOME2 back as it was.
>
> No way, but not just for Debian but any other linux distributions (the
> last release of OpenBSD featured GNOME 2.32.2, though). Anyway, more
> sooner than later GNOME2 will be completely dropped from upstream.
>

There is always Squeeze, aka Debian stable.


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Re: Openoffice.org - has it been replaced by LibreOffice?

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 16 November 2011 8:37:52 am Sian Mountbatten wrote:

> I should like to try OpenOffice.org, but its packages all say they
> have been repackaged as LibreOffice. So what has happened to
> OpenOffice.org? Who has decided that we've all got to use LibreOffice?

My understanding  today:

If you have been using OO previously in Debian, it was actually Go-Office.  
Debian, Novell and maybe some others, took the OO code and enhanced it. 

Libreoffice is the Go-Office 'fork' moving forward, officially severing ties 
with 
Oracle,. Free to make code contributions etc.
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Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?

[Greg Madden]

On Sunday 06 November 2011 1:42:23 am Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 6. November 2011 schrieb Camaleón:
> > On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:14:46 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > > is there a difference between flashplugin-nonfree and
> > > mozilla-flashplugin?
> >
> > I only know about the former. Where have you seen the other? :-?
> >
> > (searching...)
> >
> > Ah, it's from D-M.
>
> Sorry my fault! Should have read more exactly, of course I meant
> flashplayer- mozilla, not mozilla-flashplugin
>
> And both seem to get the files directly from adobes site, too.
>
> Ask correct, so the answer is correct. Hmmz.
>
> Cheers
>
> Hans

I could be wrong :-), seems lkike the DM site upgrades versions quicker.

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Re: Recommendation for National Public Radio player

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 26 October 2011 13:47:33 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Sorry to ask the question in such an off the wall manner.
>
>   Recommendation for National Public Radio player
>
> But in briefly googling for this topic I started to see that not all
> players can get all streams.
>
> I wanted to make sure any suggestions where software that can actually
> be made to connect to NPR.
>
> I don't necessarily mean something in debian repos.  Just what ever
> your own experience can vouch for as a player capable of gettting
> internet NPR.

Looks like there are three streaming options from NPR,
1. NPR media player , needs flash, use a browser
2. MP3 stream, lots of player apps  there.
3. Windows Media Player ?

I listen to NPR using Iceweasel & flash in stable.


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Re: Wireshark detritus

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 28 September 2011 11:52:21 am Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:45:33 Lisi wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am wanting to install the  Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I
> > ran aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. 
> > I then ran locate to find any files left so that I could remove them
> > manually.  I got this:
> >
> >  Tux:/home/lisi# locate wireshark
> > /etc/wireshark
> > /etc/wireshark/init.lua
> > /home/lisi/.opera/icons/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wireshark.org%2Ffavicon.png
> > /home/lisi/.opera/icons/www.wireshark.org.idx
> > /root/.wireshark
> > /root/.wireshark/recent
> > /usr/bin/wireshark
> > /usr/lib/wireshark
> > /usr/share/wireshark
> > /usr/share/applications/wireshark-root.desktop
> > /usr/share/applications/wireshark.desktop
> > /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Internet/wireshark.desktop
> > /usr/share/doc/wireshark
> > /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common
> > /usr/share/man/man1/wireshark.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/man4/wireshark-filter.4.gz
> > /usr/share/menu/wireshark
> > /usr/share/pixmaps/hi48-app-wireshark.png
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/wireshark-common_1.0.2-3+lenny14_i386.deb
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/wireshark_1.0.2-3+lenny14_i386.deb
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.conffiles
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.list
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.md5sums
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.postinst
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.shlibs
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.list
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.md5sums
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.postinst
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.postrm
> > /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/X-Debian-Applications-Network-Mon
> >it oring-wireshark.desktop
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/ask.wireshark.org_upfiles_wsicon-ask_.png
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/wiki.wireshark.org.png
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/wireshark.zing.org.png
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/wiresharkdownloads.riverbed.com.png
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/www.wireshark.org.png
> > Tux:/home/lisi#
> >
> > What would be a sensible way of proceding from here?  Manually delete
> > them one by one?  Or is there a simpler (=quicker) way??
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lisi
>
> Replying to my own post:  there are obviously some groups where several
> could be deleted at the same time with the help of *.  Looked at that way
> it doen't seem so daunting!
>
> Sorry for the noise. :-(


You need to purge wireshark-common, that gets rid of all but your home entries. 

Run 'updatedb' before locate :-)

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Re: Wireshark detritus

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On Wednesday 28 September 2011 11:52:21 am Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:45:33 Lisi wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am wanting to install the  Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I
> > ran aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. 
> > I then ran locate to find any files left so that I could remove them
> > manually.  I got this:
> >
> >  Tux:/home/lisi# locate wireshark
> > /etc/wireshark
> > /etc/wireshark/init.lua
> > /home/lisi/.opera/icons/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wireshark.org%2Ffavicon.png
> > /home/lisi/.opera/icons/www.wireshark.org.idx
> > /root/.wireshark
> > /root/.wireshark/recent
> > /usr/bin/wireshark
> > /usr/lib/wireshark
> > /usr/share/wireshark
> > /usr/share/applications/wireshark-root.desktop
> > /usr/share/applications/wireshark.desktop
> > /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Internet/wireshark.desktop
> > /usr/share/doc/wireshark
> > /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common
> > /usr/share/man/man1/wireshark.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/man4/wireshark-filter.4.gz
> > /usr/share/menu/wireshark
> > /usr/share/pixmaps/hi48-app-wireshark.png
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/wireshark-common_1.0.2-3+lenny14_i386.deb
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/wireshark_1.0.2-3+lenny14_i386.deb
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.conffiles
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.list
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.md5sums
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.postinst
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.shlibs
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.list
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.md5sums
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.postinst
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.postrm
> > /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/X-Debian-Applications-Network-Mon
> >it oring-wireshark.desktop
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/ask.wireshark.org_upfiles_wsicon-ask_.png
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/wiki.wireshark.org.png
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/wireshark.zing.org.png
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/wiresharkdownloads.riverbed.com.png
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/www.wireshark.org.png
> > Tux:/home/lisi#
> >
> > What would be a sensible way of proceding from here?  Manually delete
> > them one by one?  Or is there a simpler (=quicker) way??
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lisi
>
> Replying to my own post:  there are obviously some groups where several
> could be deleted at the same time with the help of *.  Looked at that way
> it doen't seem so daunting!
>
> Sorry for the noise. :-(


You need to purge wireshark-common, that gets rid of all but your home entries. 

Run 'updatedb' before locate :-)

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Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lisi wrote:
> > Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal
> > Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges?
> >
> > And would you recommend it?  I don't want to cause myself complications
> > with another dud drive. :-(
>
> Of all the options from WD, I would definitely go with the Black ones --
> they have longer warranty and are a much "safer" bet.  But as with all
> HDDs, they will fail one day  you are much more likely to get longer
> service from a WD BLACK though.
>
> Here's a fair summary page:
>
> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/
>
> NB: The warranty is longer for a good reason and you're likely to have
> larger cache on the drive as well.


+1, 
all drives fail, having a longer warranty period usually means a better quality 
drive, but in real life, it just means that the vendor provides new drives for 
a 
while longer, if needed.

I go by warranty period and try to Divine, somehow, the vendors service record.

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Re: RAR/ apt-get Question

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On Wednesday 14 September 2011 07:03:54 pm Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> 2011/9/15 Greg Madden 
>
> >  It is in non-free.
> >
> >
> > aptitude install unrar

That said, a default install of Squeeze only has 'main' in the sources.list. 
You 
have to add 'non-free', and 'contrib' if you want that one also.

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Re: RAR/ apt-get Question

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On Wednesday 14 September 2011 06:00:53 pm RiverWind wrote:
> Hey There,
>
> Whilst trying to get and install the rar file compression utility,
> I encountered a bit of an interesting  obstacle. It seems that this
> file is either obsolete and hence no longer supported by Linux, or
> something else of that nature has made this application unavailable
> via mainstream measures. I have several radio plays, books and
> documentaries that have been compressed using rar, so I therefore
> don't quite know what to do in order to process these particular
> files so they can be played by my media utilities. Here is the
> error message that the "apt" command returned.
>
> Quote On:
> apt-get install rar
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package rar is not available, but is referred to by another
> package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been
> obsoleted, or is only available from another source
>
> E: Package 'rar' has no installation candidate
> Quote Off:

 It is in non-free.


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Re: which gnome version in sid?

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On Saturday 10 September 2011 11:13:12 am Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 15:05 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Which gnome version is now in cid?  If the version is 3.0 or later I need
> > to do some customization like removing gnome-shell since that and orca
> > don't get along.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome/gnome

http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2011/08/msg0.html


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Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

[Greg Madden]

On Friday 02 September 2011 05:50:05 am yudi v wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand the difference between the following two methods
>
> *First method *
> this taken from irc dpkg bot
> "aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'`
> nvidia-kernel-dkms && mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ; echo -e 'Section
> "Device"\n\tIdentifier "My GPU"\n\tDriver "nvidia"\nEndSection' >
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf"
>
> this uses the xord.conf.d directory but it also has /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> file. What happens in this case?
>
> *second method* taken form
> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Installation-1
>
> first two steps are same as above:
>
> - install linux-headers
> - then nvidia-kernel-dkms
>
> the third and forth step differ:
>
> 3rd step:  Install the NVIDIA X driver and user-space libraries
>
> how come this is missing in the first option?
>
>
> 4th step: Configure X to use the nvidia
> drivernvidia_driver>
>
> Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> Which method should I use?

Do you know 'sed' ? I do not cut/copy and paste code , I need to understand 
what I 
am doing, so I keep it simple. Not that there is anything wrong with learning 
sed :-)

 My guess, the second method is closer to most users experiience level. Plus it 
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Solved: Re: debmirror starts works stops on error

[Greg Madden]

To be accurate, I haven't figured out specifically the issue. I switched from 
method: ftp to http in debmirror. Possibilities are firewall, ftp 
configuration. 

On Tuesday 23 August 2011 03:27:42 pm Greg Madden wrote:
> I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror & my mirror
> script as a cron job for at least two previous releases. This has stopped
> working with my upgrade to Squeeze.  I have enclosed the part of the output
> cron sends to me.
>
> Not sure if relevant but the dl stops, on a daily basis, on this very large
> package, libqtwebkit4-dbg_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb,  smaller packages,
> up to this point, are okay.
>
>
> [  45%] Getting: pool/main/q/qtoctave/qtoctave_0.10.1-2_amd64.deb
> 
> [  45%] Getting: pool/main/q/qtoctave/qtoctave_0.10.1-2_i386.deb
> 
> [  45%] Getting:
> pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4-dbg_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> snip
> ##
> Unable to close datastream at /usr/bin/debmirror line 1649
>  failed:Opening BINARY mode data connection for
> pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4-dbg_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb (26711
> 8854 bytes).
> [ 45%] Getting:
> pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4_2.1.0~2011week13-2_amd64.deb
> #getsockname() on closed socket GEN41 at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/IO/Socket.pm
> line 245.
>  failed:Connection closed at /usr/bin/debmirror line 1655.
> [  45%] Getting:
> pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb #
> failed:Connection closed at /usr/bin/
> debmirror line 1655.
>
>
>
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>
> Greg


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debmirror starts works stops on error

[Greg Madden]

I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror & my mirror 
script 
as a cron job for at least two previous releases. This has stopped working with 
my upgrade to Squeeze.  I have enclosed the part of the output cron sends to 
me. 

Not sure if relevant but the dl stops, on a daily basis, on this very large 
package, libqtwebkit4-dbg_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb,  smaller packages, up to 
this point, are okay. 


[  45%] Getting: pool/main/q/qtoctave/qtoctave_0.10.1-2_amd64.deb 

[  45%] Getting: pool/main/q/qtoctave/qtoctave_0.10.1-2_i386.deb  

[  45%] Getting: 
pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4-dbg_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb
###
###
###
###
###
###
###
###
###
snip
##
Unable to close datastream at /usr/bin/debmirror line 1649
 failed:Opening BINARY mode data connection for 
pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4-dbg_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb (26711
8854 bytes).
[ 45%] Getting: pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4_2.1.0~2011week13-2_amd64.deb  
 
#getsockname() on closed socket GEN41 at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/IO/Socket.pm line 
245.
 failed:Connection closed at /usr/bin/debmirror line 1655.
[  45%] Getting: pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb  
  
# failed:Connection closed at /usr/bin/
debmirror line 1655.



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Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

[Greg Madden]

On Tuesday 26 July 2011 06:15:16 pm Bob Proulx wrote:
> Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> > What's best practices?  Method or pointer to docs appreciated.
>
> I like running Stable machines.  But web browsers need to keep
> current.  It would be great if they were in squeeze-updates, aka the
> old volatile.  So instead I run a Sid chroot and install Firefox and
> Chromium there and run them out of the chroot.  It is a little more
> work to set up.  I create the chroot with deboostrap and then install
> everything needed.  And it uses a significant amount of disk space.
> But it works very well for me to keep my desktop Stable but have the
> latest web browsers from Unstable Sid.
>
> Bob

+1 if one has the hardware vm's offer any combo of os's/apps one could want. I 
use 
Virtualbox and run several vm's over multiple monitors, even a Windows NT4, but 
Debian stable is the host with the  most :-)

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Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

[Greg Madden]

On Tuesday 26 July 2011 04:05:47 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome /
> Chromium and Firefox.
>
> Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and
> Firefox 5 isn't available either.
>
> I'd like to manage either / both from my package repos, but be
> reasonably current.
>
> What's best practices?  Method or pointer to docs appreciated.
>
> Thanks.

Not sure about best practices, I like staying with stable and will use Debian 
backports.  No longer a proponent of apt pinning sid & testing, or other repo's.

Iceweasel (Firefox) 5.x entered Sid recently.  I think once it migrates to 
testing, it will be a candidate for squeeze-backports.

I have squeeze-backports added to my sources.list & /etc/apt/preferences files.



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Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

[Greg Madden]

On Sunday 24 July 2011 03:51:37 pm Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello.  Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to
> mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot,
> at the same time.  After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an
> impossible dream.
>
> My fstab file used to look like this:
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> #
> proc/proc   procdefaults0   0
> /dev/hda1   /   ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro
> 0   1 /dev/hda5   noneswapsw
> 0   0 /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto
> 0   0 /dev/fd0/media/floppy0  vfat,msdosrw,user,noauto
> 0   0 /dev/sda1   /media/usb  vfat
> noauto,user   0   0 /dev/sdb1 /media/usb2
> vfat  noauto,user 0
> 0 /dev/sdc1   /media/usb3 vfatnoauto,user 0   0
>
> Now, it has all these messy unreadable entries like
> "UUID=14c375f6-91a3-45cd-b12a-d06b507c9dfe" in it.  What does this
> mean?
>
> I use Fluxbox, on an old Dell OptiPlex GX1.  Whenever I try to mount
> and read the files on my digital camera, I am told I have "wrong fs
> type, bad option, bad superblock".
>
> There's some strange entry in the current (and now incomprehensible)
> fstab that reads:
>
> "UUID=A456-E995   /media/usb  vfat  noauto,user  0 0"
>
> I think this might be for my usb stick, which sometimes I can mount
> and read.  But, when I try to read images from my digital camera, via
> plugging it in and mounting /media/usb, it tells me that "mount:
> special device UUID=A456-E995 does not exist".
>
> How I yearn for the good old days of Lenny.  But, I digress.  Can
> someone tell me how to fix my fstab to get it so I can once again mount
> my usb devices (specifically the camera)?
>
> Mark

I use 'blkid' from a term to help manage my file systems,' blkid' has a man 
page .

No two devices have the same UUID, hence they all need separate fstab entries.


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Re: ssh: no route to host

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On Wednesday 20 July 2011 07:17:29 am Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router
> > that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router.
> >
> > Every so often when I connect from the desktop to the laptop with ssh, I
> > get:
> >
> > ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.194 port 22: No route to host
> >
> > The way I get aound that is to power off the laptop and reboot it
> >
> > That seems a dumb way to do it.
> >
> > How is that resolved without rebooting?
>
> Are you using DHCP? Next time it happens, go to the laptop and look at
> what ifconfig has to say before you reboot it.

Before  a reboot try from a term as root:
1. 'dhclient ethX' : 
2. 'service networking restart'
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Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 13 July 2011 12:07:56 pm Tech Geek wrote:
> >There isn't one 'cos X nowadays automagically detect everything - when
> > it does.
>
> Yes, I am aware of that, except that, in this case X does not detect
> the correct driver automagically...:)

You can still use an 'xorg.conf' file. You can put in the stanzas that you want 
to 
use, ie 'Section Device', which is where the driver goes. Not sure if this 
is 'best practices' but works here.  

It could be that your card is correctly auto detected, correct driver tried and 
failed to load. Read the log file to see why. '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'

 I have an old ATI card that is no longer supported by the current X stuff, use 
Vesa..which is a good driver these days for my laptop.

Here  is mine.

Section "Device"
Identifier  "NVIDIA CARD 1"
Driver  "nvidia"
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "NVIDIA CARD 2"
Driver  "nvidia"
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen  1
EndSection


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Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

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On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:38:14 pm Greg Madden wrote:
> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote:
> > I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
> > document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper.  I'm in
> > the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper.  As I understand it,
> > the accepted way to set this is with "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1". But
> > this has no effect on LibreOffice.
> >
> > To reproduce the problem:
> >
> > In Gnome go to the "Applications->Office->LibreOffice Writer" menu.
> > In the new document window, go to "File->Print" menu, click on the
> > "General" tab, click on the "Properties" button.  Notice that it says
> > "A4" for paper size.
> >
> > If I change that, I can print on Letter paper OK.  But the next time I
> > open a document, I get the same thing.
> >
> > What's the magic I'm missing?
> >
> > I've googled; I've searched the help documentation, I've found lots of
> > suggestions. but none that work...
>
> Not sure if its relevant, I have one additional step involved here. Before
> clicking on 'properties' I select from a list of printers available, i have
> more than one  installed on my system. Highlighting a printer I can set
> paper size, different sizes for different printers here. Its sticky.
>
> I am using LO from Debian backports on Squeeze.

I should add, my printers are managed through the cups, 'localhost:631' web 
interface. I set default options for my printers there, ie. papersize. 

i haven't tried changing paper sizes in LO from the defaults I setup in cups.

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Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

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On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote:
> I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
> document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper.  I'm in
> the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper.  As I understand it,
> the accepted way to set this is with "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1". But
> this has no effect on LibreOffice.
>
> To reproduce the problem:
>
> In Gnome go to the "Applications->Office->LibreOffice Writer" menu.
> In the new document window, go to "File->Print" menu, click on the
> "General" tab, click on the "Properties" button.  Notice that it says
> "A4" for paper size.
>
> If I change that, I can print on Letter paper OK.  But the next time I
> open a document, I get the same thing.
>
> What's the magic I'm missing?
>
> I've googled; I've searched the help documentation, I've found lots of
> suggestions. but none that work...

Not sure if its relevant, I have one additional step involved here. Before 
clicking on 'properties' I select from a list of printers available, i have 
more 
than one  installed on my system. Highlighting a printer I can set paper size, 
different sizes for different printers here. Its sticky.

I am using LO from Debian backports on Squeeze.


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Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

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On Saturday 25 June 2011 09:52:08 pm lee wrote:

> > "The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly
> >  match the current compiler (gcc 4.4).  The Linux 2.6 kernel module
> >  loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not
> >  exactly match that of the compiler used to build the running kernel."
> >
> > Why on Earth is the squeeze kernel image not built with the version
> > squeeze version of gcc? http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gcc
>
> That happens frequently. Use the Debian packages ...

The fix though is to re-link gcc-4.4 to gcc.
  'ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.4   /usr/bin/gcc'

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Re: Lenovo T410 modem difficulties

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On Thursday 23 June 2011 02:20:11 pm Doug wrote:
> >> I thougth softmodems were really bad but Conexant chipset based ones at
> >> least provide two sets of drivers... are you saying nooone work?
>
> I don't normally use a modem, but I do have a laptop--a Dell Inspiron--and
> I wonder what command determines what kind of modem chipset you have?
> Thanx--doug

'lspci' from a cli lists  the hardware it detects, us the '-v' option for 
verbose.

'lshw' also lists hardware, verbose by default, suggested to run this one as 
super 
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Re: how to get to runlevel 3

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On Thursday 09 June 2011 09:42:25 pm Mark Panen wrote:
> Hi
>
> Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit
> 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on
> and i cannot install a Nvidia driver.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark

/etc/inittab on Squeeze.

# Runlevel 0 is halt.
# Runlevel 1 is single-user.
# Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user.
# Runlevel 6 is 
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Re: Customising Debian install

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On Thursday 05 May 2011 09:12:47 am Andrew Wood wrote:
> Whats the best way to go about making a custom installation of Debian
> which I can then install onto multiple machines without having to go
> through and manually add extra packages and remove certain default
> packges from each machine?
>
> For certain things like removing OpenOffice and replacing it with
> LibreOffice this approach works but is time consuming.  For other
> packages it just results in disaster, for example  Ive tried removing
> the empathy package and have inadvertently removed the entire OS.
>
> How come the packages have dependencies like this, surely removing an IM
> client shouldnt also trigger removal of everything else.

I use 'apt-cache depends or rdepends' to see whats what with dependencies. Not 
installing a desktop environment package, ie: 'gnome-desktop-environment' would 
be a good start to customizing a DE.  Using gtk versions of apps instead of 
gnome 
version helps, though it seems the trend is to have monolithic DE's.


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Re: Re (2): docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

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On Sunday 24 April 2011 09:05:34 am peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:

> I get that.  But the function of a browser is to interpret
> a text in an XML language, into a form for input to a human.
> I just don't see how to make Iceweasel recognize the structure
> of this document.  The style is there but Iceweasel doesn't
> get it.

Maybe something like this.

Firefox has addons that can view XML files ie: 'OpenXMLviewer'
Google 'xml viewer' & firefox . 

Not sure what works with the Iceweasel version in Squeeze.
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Re: Libre Office Impress.

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On Monday 18 April 2011 12:20:13 pm Heddle Weaver wrote:
> Using this programme on a Debian SID base. When I used OO Impress, I had
> access to a full range of presentation backgrounds, which I believe came by
> way of a separate package install. I can't see an equivalent package for LO
> Impress in Aptitude. No news from an extremely slow Freenode #libreoffice
> and I can find nothing on the LibreOfffice site. I am old and blind, so I
> may have missed something. Does anybody have any information on this?
>
> I know I can change backgrounds through the 'format' menu tab, but the
> backgrounds I did have access to were usually all I needed except for
> exceptional requirement.
> Thanks for any time and trouble.
> Regards,
>
> Weaver.

AFAIk, OO used a separate site for add-ons and the like, was this an add-on?

Depending on licensing issues, everything should be in Debians repositories.
My preference is to use only Debians repositories for LO stuff.
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Re: Missing keyspan.fw

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On Sunday 10 April 2011 08:31:09 pm Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In , chris wrote:
> >It was a intentional decision I believe. My understanding is that all
> >non-free binary firmware was removed from squeeze as per their foss
> > beliefs.
>
> Most, if not all, of the firmware that was removed from main is available
> from non-free.

I think that might be the issue, in this case, the keyspan usa19qw.fw, among 
others, is missing in action, I have the firmware-linux-xx packages installed 
and 
don't see it. Brief package searches don't reveal it. 

Reportbug has an option for wish list item against a Debian package. Not sure 
if 
the keyspan stuff is free enough to figure out what package to file the wish 
list 
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Re: vbox to thumb drive

[Greg Madden]

On Sunday 10 April 2011 09:19:01 am shawn wilson wrote:
> is there a program / script to convert a vm (virtual box in this case)
> to a bootable install on a thumb drive?
>
> i know i can do it manually. hell, i can probably script it with dd,
> qemu, grub-install, fdisk (figure out how to toggle boot flag from
> command line). however, i don't really want to reinvent the wheel.

I use 'remastersys' to make iso images for some of my vbox installs. It is not 
part of Debians repositories but  they support Debian, has a sources.list entry 
to use.

I have just discovered 'UNetbootin', :

"UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, 
and 
other Linux distributions" . It is in Debians repos.

Maybe put the two together.

A short cut to go from vbox to usb would be nice. 

btw, systemrescuecd has a script located in the root of their iso, installs 
systemrescuecd to a usb drive in one operation. I am not a coder but maybe it 
is 
generic enough to adopt for other iso's. 

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Re: Asus A8N-E - debian-amd64 hangs during installation

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 06 April 2011 12:10:32 am Kamil Jońca wrote:
> Thierry Chatelet  writes:
> > On Tuesday 05 April 2011 20:45:58 Kamil Jońca wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Try to increase the voltage on memories first (if I recall right what
> > did), or on cpu. You should find a post from me around the time you give.
> > Thierry
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> I made some changes in BIOS (DDR voltage & CPU voltage IIRC) but only
> success is that oops is thrown during "install base system" and not
> during partitioning.
>
> http://strony.aster.pl/kjonca/instalka.2.log
>
> Does this mean memory/motherboard problems?

Mine is a different Asus board, but I had to adjust the memory timing, even 
though 
the memory was rated for all the timings the board supported , the highest one 
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Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 23 March 2011 02:57:38 pm Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:17:44 +
>
> Peter Tynan  wrote:
> > On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander  wrote:
> > > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and
> > > upgraded, but got
> > >
> > > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# apt-get install -t squeeze-backports
> > > iceweasel Reading package lists... Done
> > > Building dependency tree
> > > Reading state information... Done
> > > iceweasel is already the newest version.
> > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
> > > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# dpkg -l | grep weasel
> > > ii  iceweasel
> > > 3.5.16-5 Web browser based on Firefox
> >
> > At http://mozilla.debian.net/ select the version of Iceweasel you want
> > and the Debian release you are using and follow the instructions, I
> > suspect you did not select "Iceweasel 4.0" on the drop down menu...
> >
> > Peter
>
> I tried this too, but I run into the same problems that Brad did.
> Adding the mozilla.debian.net to sources.list, adding the key, and
> updating/dist-upgrading does nothing for me.
>
> I want the 4.0 for Squeeze, but get nothing.
>
> I am on AMD64, maybe its only i386 this far?
>
> best regards
> /Andreas

Do you have an '/etc/apt/preferences' file ? I had mine setup, and it was 
preventing the upgrade to iceweasel 4. I temporarily renamed it, and I am able 
to 
upgrade, now I don't want to. I am using Minefield as my personal multimedia 
browser, iceweasel stable for work. 

 I need to understand ore about pinning :-)
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Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:01:45 am Peter Tynan wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Peter Tynan  wrote:
> >> On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander  wrote:
> >> > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and
> >> > upgraded,
> >> > but got
> >> >
> >> > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# apt-get install -t squeeze-backports
> >> > iceweasel
> >> > Reading package lists... Done
> >> > Building dependency tree
> >> > Reading state information... Done
> >> > iceweasel is already the newest version.
> >> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
> >> > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# dpkg -l | grep weasel
> >> > ii  iceweasel
> >> > 3.5.16-5 Web browser based on Firefox
> >>
> >> At http://mozilla.debian.net/ select the version of Iceweasel you want
> >> and the Debian release you are using and follow the instructions, I
> >> suspect you did not select "Iceweasel 4.0" on the drop down menu...
> >
> >On 23 March 2011 16:33, Brad Alexander  wrote:
> > I did indeed select 4.0:
> >
> > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# cat mozilla-squeeze.list
> > deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-4.0
>
> hmm... all I can say is it worked for me, although I used aptitude not
> apt-get - silly question but you did update your sources after editing your
> sources.list?
>
>
> Peter

This is confusing.  There is 'backports.debian.org' and 'mozilla.debian.net'. 
Both 
use squeeze-backports in sources.list.

apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel, on my box,  points to 
backports.debian.net, I haven't added the mozilla.debian.net to my sources yet 
as 
this would be two squeeze-backports options. Do they work together?

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Re: Format ext3 hard drives

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On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of
> 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition
> for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the
> default value in Squeeze.
>
> The netinst is creating the ext3 partitions but it is taking for ever.
> I think it has done the 160GB partition and now it is doing the 2TB
> partition. The progress bar has shown 33% of the process for 2 hours.
> Is this normal? Does it take so long to format a 2TB partition. I
> would expect that the progress bar should move with the time.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
Not sure about the initial format but all subsequent  fsck take lots of time 
with 
ext3, esp 2 TB. i would switch to ext4,you can do this during the netinstall, 
high light ( press enter) on the file system entry and a pop up screen appears 
with more file system choices.

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Re: Wireless............

[Greg Madden]

On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:05:31 pm Charlie wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:47:43 +0100
>
> Sjoerd Hardeman  wrote:
> > Try wicd, it is a great gui-tool to easily connect to wireless
> > networks.
> >
> > Sjoerd
>
> Thanks for that Sjoerd.
>
> Even when the wireless connection didn't have a password wicd couldn't
> find it and windows sees four wireless networks. Wicd was my first
> thought because I run fvwm. After the wireless connection had a
> password, it couldn't find it or any other either? [laughing]
>
> I'll keep trying.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.
> Charlie

'wicd' uses wireless-tools, afaik,  so just us wireless-tools directly. 
The command 'iwlist ethX scanning' will find all AP in ranges, even those 
whose 'essid' broadcast is turned off.

Not sure how to pass authentication via the cli, one of the wireless-tools and 
option does this.

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Re: problem with ati display card

[Greg Madden]

On Thursday 10 March 2011 06:36:38 pm Long Wind wrote:
> The last reply may have errors because the Chinese government block
> google when I send it.
> (For the same reason, I maybe unable to reply quickly)
>
> So I re-send it below:
> >From looking at the chipset of the card
>
> I believe the card is rage 128 pro
> I remove xorg.conf
> below is part of output by startx

 The 'ati' driver is the one that 'supposed' to support the Rage 128 Pro. If 
the 
ati driver is present and if the Xorg.0.log file indicates X  is trying to use 
it 
and fails I take that as a sign to use the vesa driver. I don't have box to 
test 
that card/driver combo. 

 The /var/log/Xorg.0.log is the file to read, not sure what is meant by 'output 
by 
startx' screen or ~/Xorg.0.log ?


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Re: Upgrading the old OS vs. fresh installation of the new OS

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On Thursday 10 March 2011 02:21:24 pm Paul E Condon wrote:
> Dual boot has gotten somewhat messy, IMHO, since the introduction of
> UUIDs in /etc/fstab. When one boots into the old installation, the
> /etc/fstab is incapable of mounting the newer installation because
> the old UUID on that root partition has been clobbered.
>
> At least I haven't figured out a convenient way to switch back and
> forth. Any suggestions?

On one box I  changed my Lenny install fstab to use uuid's early on. I have not 
experienced the 'clobbered uuid' issue when I installed a second root partition.

Maybe all you need to do is run 'blkid' again and make sure grub and the 
fstab(s) 
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Re: problem with ati display card

[Greg Madden]

On Thursday 10 March 2011 03:23:52 pm Long Wind wrote:
> I install squeeze, but xserver doesn't work
> after I install xserver, and run xinit, it fails
> I find that there's no xorg.conf at /etc/X11
> so I copy it from etch, it still doesn't work
> (it display strangely, I have to press button on the case to shutdown)
>
> I attach my xorg.conf
> (I have to use vesa driver)
> below is part of output by xinit

Squeeze does not 'need' a xorg.conf file. Try without and look 
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for error messages. I think 'ati' is replaced 
by'radeon', 
Anyway autoconfiguring of X on boot will figure it out or tell you about 
failures.

ATI card support for older cards may be an issue. I have one that stopped 
working 
when  upgrading from etch to lenny. I too use the 'vesa' driver on an old 
laptop, 
The new vesa is better than I remember the old vesa working.

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Re: Upgrading the old OS vs. fresh installation of the new OS

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 09 March 2011 02:13:17 pm Jason Hsu wrote:
> I'd especially like to hear from those of you who are Linux consultants or
> sysadmins.  This is a timely topic given that Debian Squeeze moved from the
> testing branch to the stable branch.
>
> Which do you prefer: Upgrading the old OS or doing a fresh installation?  I
> learn towards a fresh installation.
>
> One the one hand, upgrading the old OS is fast and requires no downtime IF
> everything goes well.  Of course, that is one big IF, and I'm not sure if
> things have ever gone perfectly in the entire history of the world.  Some
> things change from one version of Debian to the next, and what worked in
> the old version won't work at all in the new version, especially in the
> area of configuration files.  The more packages you have installed, the
> more problems you'll have.
>
> On the other hand, a fresh installation bypasses the upgrade issues.  You
> can always just repeat the installation procedure from the previous version
> of Debian and make adjustments when appropriate.  You need to properly back
> up the personal/company files in this case, but you'd have to do that
> anyway as a precaution if you use the upgrade route.
>
> What do you think?
>
> --
> Jason Hsu 

 I find that upgrades work very well for workstations. My workstation has a few 
services running, apache, samba, nfs, multi-head xorg file, multiple hard 
drives 
(fstab) I like that I don't have to start over configuring stuff to get back to 
where I was. It might depend on how complicated your setup us.

I do like separate partitions/hd for /home, /usr/local & /pub/mirrors. A fresh 
would not be a complete disaster.

In my experience upgrades have gone well as long as I read the release note, I 
also following this list for heads up on issues.

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Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 09 March 2011 06:31:48 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3.
>
> This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from
> debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document
> properties say "fillable".
>
> Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer?
>
> Hugo

It works with Okular 0.11.1 from KDE 4.5.3, from:
deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian experimental-snapshots main


When I open a fillable form in Okular, It show the forms with a message area on 
top letting me know that it is a fillable form and I have to select/change 
views 
to be able to enter and save data.

This is the only KDE4 app i have installed so I don't know if the Squeeze 
version 
of Okular is the same.

Does not work with Evince in Squeeze.
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Re: VMware Workstation

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03:26:37 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> > > Why would one chose one over the other?
> >
> > OT but,  Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies.
>
> Well, yeah, besides the obvious I meant.
>
> I've schlepped over the *.vmwarevm trees from my OSX box (primary use:
> serving as a VMWare Fusion platform) and will muck with getting them
> going on VBox.
>
> There's ye olde "Oh, but I selected SCSI for hard drive format" issue, I
> suspect that's not a big issue, though I also suspect that WinXP will
> make it one.  Grumble.  And largely OT.

Oh well nothing is obvious to me :-)  My reasons are convenience not 
performance, 
afaikt performace between the two  is to close for me to call. I run W2k and 
NT4, 
images + Debian testing/unstable stuff.. The biggest improvement here is having 
hardware virtualization in the cpu.

I was a Vmware WS user for many years v1.1-v4.5.9, best of breed during those 
times. After much resistance (to change) I switched to Vbox a year ago, kernel 
2.6.26 was the last supported kernel for my Vmware ver.  I didn't like the 
any-any patches, etc to keep Vmware running.

I converted my images so Vbox could use them. I don't regret the change.

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Re: VMware Workstation

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On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:

> Why would one chose one over the other?

OT but,  Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies.

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Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

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On Sunday 20 February 2011 06:42:12 pm Heddle Weaver wrote:

>
> Come with a few things installed.
> I remember a few years back, a furore over factory installed trojans on
> Belkin routers.
> Belkin apologised and all the noise went away, but I haven't forgotten in
> the current atmosphere of net/privacy invasion.

Hmm, well Linksy consumer routers have flaky firmware, dropped connections etc. 
firmware upgrades 'from Linksys' do not fix the problems, thank goodness for 
third party firmware folks. dd-wrt has saved a few Linksys routers from the 
garbage .

> Why I'm thinking off doing the same thing.
> Entry box with firewall/router and port forwarding to another old stackable
> desktop for email.
> Upside?
> Networking knowledge!
> Enough for a small business, and the basis to look at larger projects.
> Regards,
>
> Weaver.

Not to over emphasize one over another, my experience is with dd-wrt. A lot of 
consumer wireless/routers are based on the Broadcom 5xxx series of chips, cheap 
stuff but dd-wrt makes them work reliably. The Third party firmware stuff 
has 'enterprise' features in consumer hardware. More featres than I use, but if 
networking knowledge is a goal this is a cheap way to go.

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Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

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On Sunday 20 February 2011 03:03:35 pm Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2011 20 Feb 14:22 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers
> > for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to
> > learn about networking. We have the Internet entering via a Motorola
> > DSL modem and it currently passes data through a NetGear wireless
> > router. I'd like to construct my own firewall/router to connect our
> > three active machines and also use the NetGear for wireless access
> > when needed.
>
> Reusing old hardware is fine.  Be sure that you're not going to spend as
> much or more getting the hardware into an old computer as you might with
> a router capable of running OpenWRT or similar.  Last year I bought an
> Asus WL-500 GP from New Egg for about $60.  Granted, one must read specs
> carefully if more memory/hardware capability is required.  Not to be
> overlooked are the space and energy requirements of an old desktop
> versus a modern router capable of running an embedded Linux
> distribution.
>
+1

ditch the old computer , todays routers with dd-wrt or openwrt are more 
reliable 
and cheaper to run.  Buffalo routers come with dd-wrt pre-installed.

Your netgear router may be supported by dd-wrt, some are. If it has wired ports 
along with the wireless it could be fine.

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Re: How do I downgrade my gdm ?

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On Monday 14 February 2011 06:11:54 pm Hoang Le wrote:
> Because I like the old flat style, not this Mac-like login screen :)

Don't know what your references mean, or what Debian release you are using. If 
it 
is a gdm3/squeeze issue you can use gdm, both are available.
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Re: Help configuring grub-pc

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On Monday 14 February 2011 09:49:29 am Erin Brinkley wrote:
snip
> I installed over the net with apt! So basically I have no install media.
>
> Should I be making some kind of emergency disk before trying this??

Not sure what you mean by  'no install media'  AFAIK, you have to have one of 
the 
several modes of install media to proceed.
1. netintall iso: has base system, but needs a repository for the rest of the 
packages. Minimal system but can stand alone.
2. businesscard iso, has only enough to boot the system and set up the network 
and 
configure apt. Needs a mirror or package repo or you can't proceed.
3. Cd's and DVD's with a full desktop environment .

All the install media have 'rescue' mode included. If what yo say is true, grab 
one of the small iso's just  for the rescue mode.

ps: There is another, PXE, which I am not familiar with, I think it can be used 
to 
install without local media.
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Re: Help configuring grub-pc

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 14 February 2011 09:06:51 am Erin Brinkley wrote:
> Ok, I lied!
>
> As part of the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, I guess
> there's a whole new grub boot process!
>
> It tells you that when your system settles down,
> you should run "upgrade-from-grub-legacy" ... ok,
> I just did that now and I am STUCK!
>
> I guess I have to pick out what device that
> grub-install will be automatically run for, but
> I don't understand what that means!
>
> I have two hard drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
>
> My / (root) partition is /dev/sda1. The /dev/sda
> has other partitions too. I use /dev/sdb
> exclusively for my /home partition, /dev/sdb1.
>
> So what do I pick for this, /dev/sda or /dev/sda1?
>
> Here is what's on the screen:
>
> -
> The grub-pc package is being upgraded. This
> menu allows you to select which devices
> you'd like grub-install to be automatically
> run for, if any.
>
> Running grub-install automatically is
> recommended in most situations, to prevent
> the installed GRUB core image from getting
> out of sync with GRUB modules or grub.cfg.
>
> If you're unsure which drive is designated
> as boot drive by your BIOS, it is often a
> good idea to install GRUB to all of them.
>
> Note: it is possible to install GRUB to
> partition boot records as well, and some
> appropriate partitions are offered here.
> However, this forces GRUB to use the
> blocklist mechanism, which makes it less
> reliable, and therefore is not recommended.
>
> GRUB install devices:
>
>[*] /dev/sda (250059 MB; WDC_WD2500JS-64ABC2)
>[ ] - /dev/sda1 (1998 MB; /)
>[ ] /dev/sdb (1000204 MB; WDC_WD1001FBFF-40D402)
>
> --
>
>
> Please help ... this is kinda scary because it seems
> like I could break something if I pick the  wrong one!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Erin

The default suggestion , sda, works for most people , If you don't know  you 
want 
grub installed in another place. sda is the same as the older 'mbr' question.

Don't worry, you can always boot the install media and use the rescue mode to 
install grub else where.
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Re: UUID help for ignoramous?

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On Friday 11 February 2011 03:41:39 am Charlie wrote:
>I have an i386 machine that has been running lenny.  Something
> went wrong during a recent upgrade, and the machine now does not
> boot, except in single-user mode.
>
>I think I need to update the device names, but do not know
> what is involved in doing this.  Is there a link with information
> for near-novices?

Device names are changed (to uuid) during the squeeze install/upgrade, fstab 
updated.

Why do you think device names is the reason for the issue?  
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Re: Installing Java jdk - do I need to purge Java gcj first?

[Greg Madden]

On Wednesday 09 February 2011 09:29:17 pm Lisi wrote:
> The release notes for LibreOffice recommend Java jdk instead of Java gcj. 
> I have Java gcj installed.  Can I just aptitude install jdk?  Or
> must/should I aptitude purge Java gcj first, and then aptitude install jdk?
>
> Thanks,
> Lisi

Not sure what the differences are in java stuff, that said, I have more than 
one 
java entry listed under 'tools>options>Libreoffice>java'

I can select whichever one I want, from the multiple entries:
1. /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre
2. /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.4/jre

Or run without java, for my use.
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Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

[Greg Madden]

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 11:50:23 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:12:32 +, Lisi wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 February 2011 19:33:17 Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3.
> >
> > No, Ron, that isn't correct.  It is based on OOo3.3, but with some
> > additions, including the reading of docx.
> >
> > The version of Open Office packaged in Lenny, 2.4.1, also reads docx -
> > but because it isn't in fact OpenOffice.org, but Oxygen Office.
>
> (...)
>
> True... In fact, Debian's OOo sources come from Go-oo, a fork sponsored
> by Novell that now has been merged with LibreOffice.
>

A good read on various aspects of  odf, ooxml, and suite compatibility.

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_OOXML

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Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote:
> Rene Engelhard  writes:
> > Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's
> > what we ship)?
>
> Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to
> open docx-files without any addon? Problem is, in my case this doesn't
> happen. Or is there some additional tool I would have to install? (I
> tried jodconverter, but without success.)
 
I would look at other solutions or causes. .docx has the same support on 
Squeeze 
as Lenny. all built in , not add-ons.

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Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 07 February 2011 04:44:54 am Michael Fothergill wrote:

> I think with the next upgrade I am about to do I will back up the work
> files run this script, install a new a kernel and play around with
> some of the other instructions and then finally do the aptitude
> dist-upgrade and see how it goes.  The other machine had no important
> work files on it.

I am thinking, from release notes and comments, 'apt-get upgrade' first , to 
safely upgrade all packages that don't require new depends or deletions. 
Install 
the new kernel, reboot,  then you can use aptitude or apt-get to finish.

It seems dl the non-free firmware package and having it available would be a 
good 
practice to get into for upgrades, (esp laptops) at least being aware that 
firware policy has changed for Squeeze.
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Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

[Greg Madden]

On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:13:33 pm Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze on my AMD64 box.  It did work but I
> got some grumbles about the package grabbing applet not being able to
> find some files it wanted from the repositories and some grumbling
> about one or two disorganised package dependencies in Openoffice and
> other minor grumbles.
>
> But I am running it nevertheless.   What commands could I run to do a
> sort of upgrade health check?  Something like aptitude
> sniff-out-bad-dependencies
> and aptitude try-to-repair-them-if -possible?
>
> I used the mirror.ox.ac.uk as the repository.  ftp.uk.debian.org
> seemed to be out of commission for a while but I think it is working
> again now.
>
> Comments appreciated.
>
> Michael Fothergill
>
> P.S.  The window managing program that starts xwindows automatically
> from the login prompt doesn't seem to have installed so I am having to
> type startx at the terminal but then gnome fires up OK.

http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes

esp. chapter 4: 4.4.6 upgrading kernel & udev.

Failures of X are logged in  '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'

One thing I noticed is apt-get  is recommended now, for more tasks.
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Re: approx for new "netinst" installation

[Greg Madden]

On Saturday 29 January 2011 02:07:59 pm Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Greg Madden  [110126 03:45]:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > I am trying to discover how -- if it is possible -- to use "approx" in
> > > order to minimize download time and bandwidth during a new "netinst"
> > > installation.
>
> ...
>
> > During the 'net-install' when the choose mirror screen appears you need
> > to scroll to the top of the list, choose manual entry or some such, point
> > it at a local url, proxy etc.
> >
> > This choice is apparent in all install modes, default to expert.
>
> I tried that, entering "192.168.0.200" (the LAN address of my approx
> server) as the "Debian archive mirror hostname" and
> "/var/cache/approx/debian" as the "Debian archive mirror directory".
>
> Inspecting the installation log with F4, I saw the following error
> message:
>
>choose-mirror[30711]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
>http://192.168.0.200/var/cache/approx/debian/dists/squeeze/Release
>-0 - | grep -E `^(Suite|Codename:`
>
>choose-mirror[30711]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the
>specified release (squeeze)
>
> However, the approx server has been used less than a week ago to
> install files to a new Squeeze system (which was installed using
> the netinst Release Candidate 1 CD).
>
> RLH

Does you mirror have 'Testing' or 'Squeeze"?  or missing symlink, if applicable.

Caveat I am not familiar with 'approx'. 
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Re: [squeeze] "Open with..." gone from Ark?

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On Saturday 29 January 2011 02:48:18 am S D wrote:
snip
> Very disappointing. Can anyone tell how long Lenny will be supported once
> Squeeze is released?

I think it is one year. 

A longer term solution would be to use Trinity-KDE,continuing KDE3 development, 
v3.5.12 right now.

http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/

If you use the KDE3 DE,  are happy with it, don't want to change, this works 
very 
well in Squeeze, and Lenny.
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Re: approx for new "netinst" installation

[Greg Madden]

On Tuesday 25 January 2011 01:38:17 pm Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > I am trying to discover how -- if it is possible -- to use "approx" in
> > order to minimize download time and bandwidth during a new "netinst"
> > installation.
>
> It's been a while since I did a netinst, but at some point it should ask
> you to choose which mirror you want to use.  Point it at your local apt
> proxy and you should be fine.  Might require using an "expert" mode.

During the 'net-install' when the choose mirror screen appears you need to 
scroll 
to the top of the list, choose manual entry or some such, point it at a local 
url, proxy etc.

This choice is apparent in all install modes, default to expert.

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Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

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On Saturday 22 January 2011 08:10:16 pm godo wrote:
> On 01/23/2011 05:56 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> > When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop
> > environment.  However, it boots in line mode.  How can I check if
> > desktop, in fact was installed?  how to enable it?  what is the name
> > of the of the gnome or kde packages?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> When you log in try 'startx' if you have some desktop environment it
> should be started.
> I gues you are download standard .iso without choosing DE so it is Gnome.
snip

'dpkg -s 'gnome-desktop-enviroment' will show whether gnome was installed.

If it was a complete standard install, 'startx' should produce error messages 
as 
to why X failed to start, video driver issue, etc. If you don't see it on the 
screen, read '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' for error messages.

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