[SLUG] Getting printer to print in black only

[Leslie Katz]

The printer's a Canon Pixma MP160.

It has a black cartridge and a colour cartridge. Both must be present for the 
printer to work.

The person for whom I've set the printer up (using Canon-supplied software) 
wants to use the printer as a black printer only.

The Canon-supplied software includes a command line printing application that 
permits one to print in black only, but it's fiddly and not a realistic option 
for the person for whom I've set up the printer.

I thought I might be able to solve the problem by editing the .ppd file, but 
that didn't work.

Does anyone have any other suggestions as to how I might try to get the printer 
to print automatically in black only?

Thanks for reading this,

Leslie
 

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Re: [SLUG] spell check

[Mark Phillips]

All replies to list please.

I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently
upgraded. I did the normal fixes including reinstalling the language
packs and it still don't work. English UK and English US are ok. 

Due to high workloads atm I haven't had a great deal of time to get to
the bottom of it.

Mark


On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:08 +1100, Chris Allen wrote:
> I am using Open Office om Ubuntu LTS and cannot get spell checker to
> work.  It works alright in Evolution's emailing but refuses to do
> anything in OO.
> 
> I've looked at all the options I can think of.  From what I can see
> everything is set correctly.  I don't work a lot with OO.  I presume
> there is some place I don't know about that will turn it on.
> 
> Can any one advise?
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Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 at 12:56, Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Ken Wilson wrote:
> > Getting sound to play with animation in the way and the repetition and
> > timeing that the artist wants just works in flash. In HTML there are
> > issues, Many options are not there, or not obvious. Flash animations are
> > also much smaller in file size than animated giffs (x10).
>
> Who the hell uses animated GIF files any more?

obnoxious people?



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Re: [SLUG] Firefox trunk builds with ActionMonkey: JavaScript with JIT

[Simon Males]

For those who don't know, Action Monkey [2] is the new JavaScript runtime
for Mozilla. It is an amalgamation of the existing SpiderMonkey JavaScript
runtime [3] and Adobe's Tamarin ECMA script Virtual Machine [4].

What this basically all means for users is that the first time you visit a
JavaScript heavy website, that code gets compiled down and cached so that
every time you visit the same page the load and execution of that page is a
_lot_ faster.

Its seriously cool shit.


Cool! I misunderstood the Adobe/Mozilla announcement and thought that 
the Tamarin project was going to provide Mozilla browsers with Adobe 
Flash support from its core. Presented on a FSF friendly license.


I like the sound of this, increasing the speed of JS is good news. Older 
systems I find struggle with Ajax heavy sites.


As the builds are label with a Firefox 4.0, is this the obvious target 
release of Action Monkey?


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Re: [SLUG] spell check

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

In OpenOffice, click the Tools menu, then choose Options. Go to Language 
Settings > Languages. Under Default Languages for Documents, pick your 
language. Note that only languages that have a 'tick' icon to their left have 
a corresponding dictionary installed. If you choose one that doesn't have 
one, you won't get spell checking.

If you still have trouble after changing that, it's time to check your 
paragraph styles. Right-click the text and choose Edit Paragraph Style, or 
choose the style to edit from the Styles and Formatting window. You're best 
off editing the Default style, as it is at the top of the dependency 
hierarchy. In the style editing window, choose the Font tab and pick your 
language.

It took me ages to find this, but it was well worth it. Styles are probably 
the best feature of OpenOffice.org if you learn to use them properly.


On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 at 16:23, Mark Phillips 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All replies to list please.
>
> I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently
> upgraded. I did the normal fixes including reinstalling the language
> packs and it still don't work. English UK and English US are ok.
>
> Due to high workloads atm I haven't had a great deal of time to get to
> the bottom of it.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:08 +1100, Chris Allen wrote:
> > I am using Open Office om Ubuntu LTS and cannot get spell checker to
> > work.  It works alright in Evolution's emailing but refuses to do
> > anything in OO.
> >
> > I've looked at all the options I can think of.  From what I can see
> > everything is set correctly.  I don't work a lot with OO.  I presume
> > there is some place I don't know about that will turn it on.
> >
> > Can any one advise?
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Re: [SLUG] Firefox & javascript

[Alex Samad]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:17:25PM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:09:08 +1100
> "Martin Visser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > You probably would need to specify the site - as it probably is a
> > matter of bad jasvascript code that someone more knowledgable than me
> > could comment on. I know from my iPaq (PDA) running Windows Mobile,
> > many sites buttons just don't work. My presumption has been that IE on
> > Windows Explorer only has a subset of the standard Javascript
> > functionality. I am guessing it probably also applies to your choice
> > of Linux powered web browsers.
> 
> It's a proprietary site: www.lexisnexis.com/au/legal Needs a username
> and password to sign on. Frustrating thing is that they specify Firefox
> 2.x as being an acceptable browser. Indeed, when I log on with Opera
> they give me a warning message.
> 
> I can log on through another channel using IE and it works.
> 
> I thought maybe I had done something that screwed up the javascript in
> Firefox (well, Iceweasel).
have you got the noscript plugin ?
> 
> 
> > 
> > I would have thought that the number of users now trying to browse
> > from phone-like and PDA-like devices would have driven web framework
> > and web developers to think more about a diverse userbase, but they
> > still seem to cater for only the top 2 or 3 browser platforms and
> > think everyone is running a cinematic widescreen. (And that doesn't
> > even talk about accessibility issues for screen readers, different
> > languages, etc)
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > Can anybody explain this to me? I'm using Debian Etch.
> > >
> > >  I connect to a commercial site that uses javascript "buttons" to
> > >  initiate searches. With Iceweasel, Epiphany and Galeon, they don't
> > >  work. With Opera they work just fine.
> > >
> > >  They used to work with Iceweasel - I don't know if I changed any
> > >  settings or not. The javascript is activated in the preferences and
> > >  allowed to do anything in the "Advanced" options.
> > >
> > >  Driving me nuts. Any suggestions appreciated.
> > >
> > >  Thanks,
> > >  Alan
> > >
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> > 
> > Martin Visser
> > 
> 
> 
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[SLUG] Lexmark E250D laser printer and Linux

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Officeworks are selling the Lexmark E250D laser printer for $249, which looks 
like an absolute steal considering it has a duplexer. My office recently 
purchased one, but I can't for the life of me get it to work over USB with 
Ubuntu 7.10 or Fedora 8. I've tried standard CUPS as well as their own 
proprietary Linux software. OpenPrinting[0] says that it works 'mostly' with 
Linux, but I get nothing.

Has anybody had any luck with these?


[0] http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-E250d

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Re: [SLUG] Lexmark E250D laser printer and Linux

[Mark Phillips]

So where are the slug videos?

Mark


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Re: [SLUG] spell check

[Sebastian Spiess]

Chris Allen wrote:

I am using Open Office om Ubuntu LTS and cannot get spell checker to
work.  It works alright in Evolution's emailing but refuses to do
anything in OO.

I've looked at all the options I can think of.  From what I can see
everything is set correctly.  I don't work a lot with OO.  I presume
there is some place I don't know about that will turn it on.

Can any one advise?


Hi,

have you tried to run the included wizard to install other dictionaries?
You can find the wizzard at File>Wizzard>Install new Dict...

I am not sure about how this is handeled in Ubuntu, but in windows (earlier) it worked for me. Haven't used it with Ubuntu 
though.


Cheers sebastian
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[SLUG] f-spot and the tags, will it get messy?

[Sebastian Spiess]

Hi all,

lately I was playing with fspot and a couple of pictures from two or tree 
events.

I started tagging the pictures.

People > Family > Brother
People > Family > Sister
People > Friends ...
Places > AUstralia > ...Uluru
Places > Germany > ...
Events > holiday 1
Events > holiday 2
other > ugly people
other > cows

and so on

for 160 photos I created around 20 tags...

Then I thought about my other more than  1 photos and all the tags they 
will need.
Of course I know that the tags will grow slower by time but even now all my 
tags wont fit onto one screen height.

So what is your experience with tags, with many of them?
How do you guys organise/structure you tas? any thoughts?
which struckture is not good, hard to scale

Cheers,
seb

PS: I posted this on ubuntu-au list a while ago but got no reply :-(
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Re: [SLUG] Firefox & javascript

[Alan L Tyree]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:01:55 +1100
Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> > 
> > I thought maybe I had done something that screwed up the javascript
> > in Firefox (well, Iceweasel).
> have you got the noscript plugin ?

That would be a nice easy solution - but, no.

> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > I would have thought that the number of users now trying to browse
> > > from phone-like and PDA-like devices would have driven web
> > > framework and web developers to think more about a diverse
> > > userbase, but they still seem to cater for only the top 2 or 3
> > > browser platforms and think everyone is running a cinematic
> > > widescreen. (And that doesn't even talk about accessibility
> > > issues for screen readers, different languages, etc)
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Alan L Tyree
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Can anybody explain this to me? I'm using Debian Etch.
> > > >
> > > >  I connect to a commercial site that uses javascript "buttons"
> > > > to initiate searches. With Iceweasel, Epiphany and Galeon, they
> > > > don't work. With Opera they work just fine.
> > > >
> > > >  They used to work with Iceweasel - I don't know if I changed
> > > > any settings or not. The javascript is activated in the
> > > > preferences and allowed to do anything in the "Advanced"
> > > > options.
> > > >
> > > >  Driving me nuts. Any suggestions appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >  Thanks,
> > > >  Alan
> > > >
> > > >  --
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> > > 
> > > Martin Visser
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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Re: [SLUG] Firefox & javascript

[Mark Pearson]

Alan L Tyree wrote:

Can anybody explain this to me? I'm using Debian Etch.

I connect to a commercial site that uses javascript "buttons" to
initiate searches. With Iceweasel, Epiphany and Galeon, they don't
work. With Opera they work just fine.

They used to work with Iceweasel - I don't know if I changed any
settings or not. The javascript is activated in the preferences and
allowed to do anything in the "Advanced" options.

Driving me nuts. Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,
Alan

  
You could try installing the firebug extension in Iceweasel it is very 
good at picking up html/javascript errors


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[SLUG] Installfest at University of Wollongong tomorrow

[Martin Visser]

Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest
we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist
tomorrow

Incentives include enjoying the nice drive to Wollongong in early
autumn, pizza and softdrink being provided, and the opportunity to
show your installation wrangling talent on the variety of machines the
students will be bringing in. (We have 46 students signed up, so we
have an assured participation).

Please do let Ashley or myself know if you are coming (we don't want
too many volunteers and we do have a small quorum of volunteers
already)

Regards, Martin


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From: ashley maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:33 AM
Subject: [SLUG] Installfest
To: Slug List 


G'day,

 This is a call for volunteers for the Annual Installfest run by SCLUG
 (South  Coast Linux Users Group) for the Informatics Students of the
 University of Wollongong.

 This is a focused installfest to assist students to create a dual boot
 box for themselves so they have access to the same linux at home as they
 have in the labs.

 As some students are reticent to "risk their boxes" the University is
 going to have some "play boxes" available for students to do installs on.

 There will be two sessions on Saturday 15th March, 2008. (total time
 frame 9am - 5pm, exact time details yet to be advised)

 Anybody who can assist on one, both, or part there of is most welcome.

 Please contact me off list.

 Regards,

 Ashley

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[SLUG] Re: [activities] Installfest at University of Wollongong tomorrow

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote:
> Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest
> we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist
> tomorrow
> 
> Incentives include enjoying the nice drive to Wollongong in early
> autumn, pizza and softdrink being provided, and the opportunity to
> show your installation wrangling talent on the variety of machines the
> students will be bringing in. (We have 46 students signed up, so we
> have an assured participation).
> 
> Please do let Ashley or myself know if you are coming (we don't want
> too many volunteers and we do have a small quorum of volunteers
> already)

Perhaps a wiki page where people can edit themselves in would make it
more clear to people whether they are needed or not.

Right now the process seems to be roughly:
1) decide you can help
2) clear your weekend
3) email you and ashley
4) wait an arbitrary amount of time
5) find out you count as 'too many' and really should have accepted that
cruise on the harbour you declined during 4).

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[SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

[david . lyon]

Quoting Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote:

Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest
we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist
tomorrow


I am told that XP now has some additional checks internally
which make it a lot harder to run dual boot windows/linux;
especially on notebooks.

As I understand it, there is some extra information that
needs to be adjusted on a partition and this requires a
program such as provided by acronis.

Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ?

My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool..

are they right ? or is there another way ?

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[SLUG] receiving Attachments.

[Chris Allen]

For mu emails, I use Evolution 2.6.1 on Ubuntu LTS

Some friends try to send me attachments created as DOC or XLS files on
their MS boxes or even as PDF files.  This works sometimes bur not
always.

2 or 3 time now the attachment has listed in the email as a file named
"winmail.dat" which I cannot read.

Can any one make sense of this?







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Re: [SLUG] receiving Attachments.

[Phil Scarratt]

Chris Allen wrote:
> For mu emails, I use Evolution 2.6.1 on Ubuntu LTS
> 
> Some friends try to send me attachments created as DOC or XLS files on
> their MS boxes or even as PDF files.  This works sometimes bur not
> always.
> 
> 2 or 3 time now the attachment has listed in the email as a file named
> "winmail.dat" which I cannot read.
> 
> Can any one make sense of this?
> 

Microsoft Outlook can use a particular format of email called rich text
- which only Outlook can read (not even Outlook Express can). The effect
on all other email readers is that emails arrive with winmail.dat
attachments - the email is sent out with the body of the message as
plain text and the formatted body plus any attachments all bundled up
into winmail.dat. To extract any attachments there are readers online
and downloadable that will unpack the winmail.dat and dump the body and
attachments out.

Users of Microsoft outlook can select to use rich text editing or not.
I'd suggest telling them to not do so.

Fil
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[SLUG] Re: [activities] Installfest at University of Wollongong tomorrow

[Martin Visser]

Robert,

Thanks for the suggestion which is a good one in hindsight,  though at
this stage I think old-fashioned SMTP will work just fine - I am not
sure that waiting for a wiki to fill with names will actually decrease
the inertia of any intending-but-yet-to-commit helpers (and maybe my
mail won't either :-) ). We probably have just enough (assuming we
don't all come down with the lurgy), but I was offering up the
opportunity again. I am sure we could accomodate 20 volunteers, and
they would be welcome, but I imagine that they might feel a little
under-utilised.

Martin

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Robert Collins
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote:
>  > Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest
>  > we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist
>  > tomorrow
>  >
>  > Incentives include enjoying the nice drive to Wollongong in early
>  > autumn, pizza and softdrink being provided, and the opportunity to
>  > show your installation wrangling talent on the variety of machines the
>  > students will be bringing in. (We have 46 students signed up, so we
>  > have an assured participation).
>  >
>  > Please do let Ashley or myself know if you are coming (we don't want
>  > too many volunteers and we do have a small quorum of volunteers
>  > already)
>
>  Perhaps a wiki page where people can edit themselves in would make it
>  more clear to people whether they are needed or not.
>
>  Right now the process seems to be roughly:
>  1) decide you can help
>  2) clear your weekend
>  3) email you and ashley
>  4) wait an arbitrary amount of time
>  5) find out you count as 'too many' and really should have accepted that
>  cruise on the harbour you declined during 4).
>
>  -Rob
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[SLUG] Re: Auntie excludes us

[Andrew Thompson]

On Mar 12, 8:30 pm, Rod Butcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> This reminds me of the problems St George Bank had using Java applets
> and acres of bad javascript to allow online banking.

LOL!  I remember that applet.

>...After thousands of
> complaints they dropped the Java applet and javascript and reverted to
> (gasp) html forms. No more problems or complaints.

I stopped using the applet before that happened.

FWIW - I put some suggestions to St. G. as well.
As a Java programmer, I felt that applet to be a
particularly horrendous example of Java deployment.

It's a pity they did not follow my suggestion to
convert it to webstart (still Java, but free floating),
and implement my suggestions for the GUI, which was
'cute, but not clear'.

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[SLUG] putty dies when 'unattended'

[Voytek Eymont]

whenever I use putty, as soon as I do not do anything in it, say for 1 or
2 minutes, it drops connection, is there any setting to prevent it ?



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Re: [SLUG] putty dies when 'unattended'

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> 
> whenever I use putty, as soon as I do not do anything in it, say for 1 or
> 2 minutes, it drops connection, is there any setting to prevent it ?

It's likely your router or firewall's NAT timing out.  In puTTY, go to 
the settings and select the "Connection" top-level option.  There's a 
"Sending of null packets to keep session active" and "Seconds between 
keepalives (0 to turn off)".  Set it to something like 30 and it'll work 
fine.

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Re: [SLUG] putty dies when 'unattended'

[Nigel Allen]

Settings. Connections. Keep alive.

HTH

Nigel.


On 14/03/2008 2:22 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote:

whenever I use putty, as soon as I do not do anything in it, say for 1 or
2 minutes, it drops connection, is there any setting to prevent it ?



  

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Re: [SLUG] Re: Auntie excludes us

[Marghanita da Cruz]

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Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

[jam]

On Friday 14 March 2008 12:40:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote:
> >> Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest
> >> we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist
> >> tomorrow
>
> I am told that XP now has some additional checks internally
> which make it a lot harder to run dual boot windows/linux;
> especially on notebooks.
>
> As I understand it, there is some extra information that
> needs to be adjusted on a partition and this requires a
> program such as provided by acronis.
>
> Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ?
>
> My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool..
>
> are they right ? or is there another way ?


Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase of Xp SP2

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Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

[david . lyon]

Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ?

My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool..

are they right ? or is there another way ?



Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase  
 of Xp SP2




ok - no problem...

so which tool reliably does it ?

ie cfdisk etc ?


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Fwd: [SLUG] spell check

[Nick Croft]

* Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

>
> I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently
> upgraded.
> ...
> English UK and English US are ok.
>


I have Oo on my laptop with Debian, and in the desktop with Ubuntu.
The Debian version works with no probs, including Australian English.

Under Ubuntu firstly Australian English is broken; secondly to get the
spell checker to do anything, I have to go through a little procedure of
clicking on the Autospellcheck button on the tool bar. It then brings up
the Spellcheck dialog box.

And then select UK English.

Don't know why Ubuntu needs to _fix_ things that ain't broken. The other
ways of accessing spellcheck, F7 or the menu item under tools, don't work.
It seems counter-intuitive to click on Autospellcheck to get Spellcheck.

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Re: [SLUG] spell check

[Nick Croft]

* Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> All replies to list please.
>
> I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently
> upgraded.
> ...
> English UK and English US are ok.
>

I have Oo on my laptop with Debian, and in the desktop with Ubuntu.
The Debian version works with no probs, including Australian English.

Under Ubuntu firstly Australian English is broken; secondly to get the
spell checker to do anything, I have to go through a little procedure of
clicking on the Autospellcheck button on the tool bar. It then brings up
the Spellcheck dialog box.

And then select UK English.

Don't know why Ubuntu needs to _fix_ things that ain't broken. The other
ways of accessing spellcheck, F7 or the menu item under tools, don't work.

Nick
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[SLUG] CPAN bundle install woes

[Voytek Eymont]

I've tried to

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN

but it fails with:
what's the way forward ?


Test Summary Report
---
t/31sessions.t(Wstat: 768 Tests: 36 Failed: 3)
  Failed tests:  2-4
  Non-zero exit status: 3
Files=14, Tests=240, 31 wallclock secs ( 0.19 usr  0.02 sys + 21.69 cusr 
2.74 csys = 24.64 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/14 test programs. 3/240 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
File::Which is up to date.
Bundle summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::CPAN had installation
problems:
  CPAN



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