Re: [ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages
Hi Nils, it sounds correct. But on the other hand downloading the fonts per wget and simply reconfiguring the packet worked without any further errors. That is what I meant. Ubuntu is indeed a debian derivative and using debian packages should be working, but ... On 09.12.2016 16:04, Nils Kassube wrote: zweiund40 wrote: Nevertheless I was curious so I tried it on a virtual machine and I got that output: root@pandora:~/Downloads# apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb ... bla bla bla ... and a lot of output All done, no errors. N: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/root/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) root@pandora:~/Downloads# An error message at the very end of a long list of accomplished messages. Annoying! I don't understand it. I mean the required file is in that directory and I installed it as root. Why is there a permission problem? The directory /root (including subdirectories) is only accessible by root and obviously the installer tried to access the file as another user (_apt). Nils -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: [ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages
zweiund40 wrote: > Nevertheless I was curious so I tried it on a virtual machine and I > got that output: > > root@pandora:~/Downloads# apt install > ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb > > ... bla bla bla > ... and a lot of output > > All done, no errors. > N: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file > '/root/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb' couldn't be > accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) > root@pandora:~/Downloads# > > An error message at the very end of a long list of accomplished > messages. Annoying! I don't understand it. I mean the required file is > in that directory and I installed it as root. Why is there a > permission problem? The directory /root (including subdirectories) is only accessible by root and obviously the installer tried to access the file as another user (_apt). Nils -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: [ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages
Hi Gunnar, the 17. post helped. wget the fonts and reconfigure the package. Now it works. Thanks Hi Hugh, I'm not that familiar with linux, so I'm not able to understand the full impact of installing a debian package in an Ubuntu system. I found it too risky, so I didn't dare it on my main system. Of course I know Ubuntu is debian derivative. It should work, but ... Nevertheless I was curious so I tried it on a virtual machine and I got that output: root@pandora:~/Downloads# apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb ... bla bla bla ... and a lot of output All done, no errors. N: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/root/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) root@pandora:~/Downloads# An error message at the very end of a long list of accomplished messages. Annoying! I don't understand it. I mean the required file is in that directory and I installed it as root. Why is there a permission problem? On 09.12.2016 14:01, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: On 2016-12-09 13:50, Hugh Walker wrote: No professional, but one of the easiest solutions is to use the 3.6 ttf-mscorefonts-installer package rather than the 3.4 version. wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb -P ~/Downloads will download the package to your Downloads folder, and sudo apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb will install the package. That is, if you are using at least Ubuntu 16.04, if using an earlier version install the .deb package with gdebi, Software Centre or whatever you use to install local deb packages. Related bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1607535 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: [ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages
On 2016-12-09 13:50, Hugh Walker wrote: No professional, but one of the easiest solutions is to use the 3.6 ttf-mscorefonts-installer package rather than the 3.4 version. wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb -P ~/Downloads will download the package to your Downloads folder, and sudo apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb will install the package. That is, if you are using at least Ubuntu 16.04, if using an earlier version install the .deb package with gdebi, Software Centre or whatever you use to install local deb packages. Related bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1607535 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: [ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages
Hm ... Maybe it's better to post the whole output of 'apt install ...': ossi@bebektor:~$ sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 29,5 kB of archives. After this operation, 134 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 ttf-mscorefonts-installer all 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 [29,5 kB] Fetched 29,5 kB in 0s (200 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package ttf-mscorefonts-installer. (Reading database ... 291242 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ... mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168.2) ... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) E: Failed to fetch https://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl E: Download Failed Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... The funny thing is that when I'm copying the faulted link 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe' in a web browser, the download itself works. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: [ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages
No professional, but one of the easiest solutions is to use the 3.6 ttf-mscorefonts-installer package rather than the 3.4 version. wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb -P ~/Downloads will download the package to your Downloads folder, and sudo apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb will install the package. That is, if you are using at least Ubuntu 16.04, if using an earlier version install the .deb package with gdebi, Software Centre or whatever you use to install local deb packages. On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 01:10:16PM +0100, zweiund40 wrote: > Hi all, > > I have question. synaptic packetmanager still repeatedly comes up with the > error message "Failure to download extra data files ... > ttf-mscorefonts-installer ..." > > I've already done some google searches and did some removings, > reinstallations, dpkg-reinstallations and -reconfigurations, accepted the > EULA bla bla bla. But none of them solved the issue. After a short time > synaptic still comes up with that error message. I checked the dependencies > and figured out that a lot of other packets need it, so I think a > deinstallation is no valid solution. > > That's why I'm now asking the professionals. Do you have any idea what to > do? > > Thanks > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Regards, Hugh Walker howefi...@ubuntu.com -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: [ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages
Uh ... I've forgotten something. sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer comes back with this error message: Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) E: Failed to fetch https://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl E: Download Failed I perfectly know that a Microsoft exe is not executable on a linux system, but I think synaptic is facing the same issue and constantly rises the error message. On 09.12.2016 13:10, zweiund40 wrote: Hi all, I have question. synaptic packetmanager still repeatedly comes up with the error message "Failure to download extra data files ... ttf-mscorefonts-installer ..." I've already done some google searches and did some removings, reinstallations, dpkg-reinstallations and -reconfigurations, accepted the EULA bla bla bla. But none of them solved the issue. After a short time synaptic still comes up with that error message. I checked the dependencies and figured out that a lot of other packets need it, so I think a deinstallation is no valid solution. That's why I'm now asking the professionals. Do you have any idea what to do? Thanks -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
[ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages
Hi all, I have question. synaptic packetmanager still repeatedly comes up with the error message "Failure to download extra data files ... ttf-mscorefonts-installer ..." I've already done some google searches and did some removings, reinstallations, dpkg-reinstallations and -reconfigurations, accepted the EULA bla bla bla. But none of them solved the issue. After a short time synaptic still comes up with that error message. I checked the dependencies and figured out that a lot of other packets need it, so I think a deinstallation is no valid solution. That's why I'm now asking the professionals. Do you have any idea what to do? Thanks -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Synaptic
Thanks, Sebastian. Yes, Norbert has clarified things greatly for me. I even look forward to having Kaffee und Kuchen with him at some point, here in Vienna. Hope you're well, and don't worry about the golloping. At least you can see out of both eyes. Best, Dom 2010/1/15 Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.ra...@oucs.ox.ac.uk I'd be glad to have helped, but I think Norbert has it all well covered in his reply…. I confess, I simply keep myself in sync with the TeXLive Subversion tree, and that satisfies my simple needs on a Macintosh. (sorry!) -- Sebastian Rahtz (acting) Information and Support Group Manager Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 Sólo le pido a Dios que el futuro no me sea indiferente -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Synaptic
Hi Dominik,
short answer to all that:
Debian contains TeX Live 2009, it should move soon from unstable to testing.
After that Ubuntu will probably pull the new TeX Live packages into
Ubuntu and from then on TeX Live 2009 will be available for Ubuntu.
On Fr, 15 Jan 2010, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Do you have any background on all this, Sebastian? Can you suggest any ways
in which the Synaptic repositories could be kept up to date with CTAN?As
You (Dominik) are missing something here. First, it si not synaptic,
or not for that matter, apt-get, aptitude, whatever package manager
of Ubuntu you are using.
Debian and Ubuntu are packaging these packages in a way fitting for
the distributions. Normally Debian does the packaging, Ubuntu just
pulls from Debian and sometimes makes small adjustments.
everything is in fact happening, and TL2009 will appear in the
Synaptic repository soon, thanks to the work of Preining and Küster.
As said, they are already in Debian, but need to swap over into
testing (which is a rather big transition) and then Ubuntu will pull
from them.
I am quite sure that Sebastian cannot do anything here, the way of
packages from upstream authors to CTAN to TeX Live (proper) to
Debian packages is a long way.
If you still have questions, let me know. And greet my my old institute,
I was studying Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde for some years
there, back in the days when it was in the Marie-Theresienstraße.
Good old times I am missing the smoke heavy seminars, between all the
old books and images. Nowadays impossible.
Best wishes
Norbert
PS: Yes I am from Vienna, but currently working in Japan, and for the
next few years. Still we can meet at some point I am visiting Vienna
again and again.
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Synaptic
Hi, Sebastian. How are you? I'm writing to explore a bit with you about Linux, Ubuntu, and the Synaptichttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowtopackage manager (=apt-get). I haven't got to the bottom of how Synaptic interacts with its repositorieshttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu. As far as I can see, apt-get/synaptic is a really slick and effective way of keeping software distributions up to date. In many ways, it should be the perfect tool for hooking Linux TeX distributions into TeXLive and CTAN. The Synaptic repository has got TeXLive in it, but it's the 2007 edition. There's quite a literature out there in various lists from people who discover this, and then get into knots trying to install TL 2008 (now 09) instead. Radhakrishnan wrote some instructions that help people a lot, but even so, there are residual problems about the interaction between texlive and synaptic. There's also a problem about the editor Kile, which only works with the built-in synaptic texlive 2007 distribution. There are workaroundshttp://texblog.net/latex-archive/linux/kile-texlive-2008-equivs/, and one can get Kile working with TL 2008, but they are not for the faint-hearted. In short, for Linux users, there's a bit of a mess where TeX is concerned, for those who would like to use Synaptic rather than plough their own furrow. The Synaptic package reports that the maintainer of the texlive bundlehttp://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/tex/texliveis the Ubuntu Core Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com. Also mentioned are: - Debian TeX Maintainers http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/ - Norbert Preining - Frank Küster though one is discouraged from contacting them. I see that Norbert is currently active in the debian-tex-mainthttp://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2010/01/threads.htmllist, and also that he seems to live (partly?) in Vienna. I'm copying this email to him. It looks, from that list, as if there's quite a lot going on at the moment, including perhaps integration of TL 2009, but I can't find a general statement of what's happening or what's planned. I'm copying this email to Norbert, and since we both have Vienna addresses, perhaps Norbert and I could even meet and talk? Do you have any background on all this, Sebastian? Can you suggest any ways in which the Synaptic repositories could be kept up to date with CTAN?As a past happy user of MikTeX, I've been startled to see how much more primitive things are in this area of Linux. And yet, all the tools are seemingly in place for things to work nicely. What's missing? This bloghttp://texblog.net/latex-archive/news/tex-live-2009/says that everything is in fact happening, and TL2009 will appear in the Synaptic repository soon, thanks to the work of Preining and Küster. At base, I'm thinking that maybe I could get involved and help. Best, Dominik Dr Dominik Wujastyk Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde Universität Wien Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 2, Eingang 2.1 A-1090 Vienna Austria -- long term email address: wujas...@gmail.com PGP key: http://wujastyk.net/pgp.html Sent from Vienna, Austria -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Synaptic
Just found this, which I think answers my questions: http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Synaptic
On Fr, 15 Jan 2010, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Just found this, which I think answers my questions:
http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html
OUTDATED OUTDATED OUTDATED OUTDATED
I have to update that ...
Best wishes
Norbert
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Re: Synaptic
On Fr, 15 Jan 2010, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Just found this, which I think answers my questions:
http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html
I updated that a bit ...
Best wishes
Norbert
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Re: Synaptic
Dear Dominik,
On Fr, 15 Jan 2010, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Thank you very much indeed for clarifying things for me. There's obviously
been masses of work on this going on by you and colleagues that I have been
Yes, I was working quite hard on TL itself and Debian packages, and still am.
BTW, if you want to try it now, why not try out the PPA packages
(personal package archives or so) from
https://launchpad.net/~aelmahmoudy/+archive/tl2009
that way you get TL2009 ready for Ubuntu ...
anything I can do to help?
Puuhh, since you are using Ubuntu I cannot suggest much. Probably
testing the above packages is already of help, and report there any
problems.
If you *WANT* and speak Perl, you are of course invited to join
the Debian TeX Task Force, which is low on personal ;-)
Is there documentation somewhere about the processes involved in what you
call the rather big transition of packages from CTAN to the Debian
repositories? Is this transition always via TeXLive, i.e., an annual update
event?
Well, the part
CTAN - TeX Live
is documented in several places, e.g., the second (technical part) of my
talk at the CSTUG 2008, or in several articles. You might look into the
the collection of talks and articles
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/doc/articles/
the CSTUG presentation is in
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/doc/articles/cstug08/cstug08.pdf
Am I right in thinking that Christan Schenk maintains a completely separate
repository, by himself, that is unrelated to the Debian repository?
Yes. Even completely separate from the TeX Live repositories (TeX Live
itself, the *real* one as distributed by TUG/on DVDs etc allows for
updates over the internet since 2008, and these packages are available
on CTAN mirrors, see the CSTUG article). Unfortunately it seems that
Christian does not have interest in collaboration. I was thinking
about a joint package format, but so it be.
Best wishes, and greetings from the Institute, now amongst the beautiful old
AKH quadrangles (picture attached).
I know well, I left for Japan end of September. It is one of my favorite
places in Vienna, and since I lived very close by, just outside the Gürtel,
I was always cycling through the AAKH campus every day.
Best wishes
Norbert
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RE: Synaptic - Proxy - Network Connection
Chris, please trim other people's .sigs - otherwise those of us who respond to you will frequently actually lose your comments. Smart mail programs trim at the first .sig separator... Chris Jones wrote: RE: Synaptic - Proxy - Network Connection From: Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au Date: From: Kyle Amadio kyle.ama...@itvss.com.au Not sure if this is the right place for this - Could be have Synaptics proxy/network connection changed to also have the option of using the system wide setting, rather than having to re-set it here as well as via the Network Proxy Preference form. You need to be more specific. What exactly are you trying to do? He really doesn't. Synaptic (apt actually) has its own proxy settings (which is reasonable, because you might use an apt proxy like apt-cacher- ng), but you might want it to use the standard Network proxy. It would be convenient to have it have an option to use the default proxy. -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
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RE: Synaptic - Proxy - Network Connection
Message: 9 Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 13:22:58 +1000 From: Kyle Amadio kyle.ama...@itvss.com.au Subject: Synaptic - Proxy - Network Connection To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: 24b8dd680908072022y3cfb8f50p209a2cfc3e03a...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Not sure if this is the right place for this - Could be have Synaptics proxy/network connection changed to also have the option of using the system wide setting, rather than having to re-set it here as well as via the Network Proxy Preference form. -- Regards Kyle Amadio International TV Shopping Systems +61 411707081 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/attachments/20090808/848d7f0f/attachment-0001.htm --- You need to be more specific. What exactly are you trying to do? Regards -- Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
[synaptic] changelogs
Hi. Wow, the option to show/load the changelogs of a given packages is quite hidden. It is present only in the Main Menu under Packages, and I was already about to request showing the changelog as a new feature for synaptic... In that case I will rephrase my request/suggestion: - The option to load/show the changelog should also be present in the context menu (right-click). This should be a minor change. - Or even better, put it as a separate tab in the Properties window. The changelog should be downloaded on-demand as soon as that tab is activated. - As an advanced feature, an automatic latest-entry-changelog as done in the Update Manager could be included somewhere. Reason: As a powerful low-level package management utility, the system administrator wants to be informed about latest changes, especially for possible upgrades. Thanks! Regards, Cruncher -- +-+---+ | 8-P | Wolfram Kresseubuntu-devel-disc...@wkresse.de | +-+---+ Worf: The Solrain fried our port positronic microaccess port, there are hull breaches on decks 6 to 12! The inverse hispanic polaron array is not responding. Growl! Data: The ventral matter/antimatter deuterium relay has to be restored, before the pseudo-catalytic protomatter inducer collapses. Geordi: We could boost automated cellular duranium capacitor efficiency by extracting the charged converging cereal coil. Picard: Yeah, whatever... -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Thank you for the new Quick Search on Synaptic
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:24:47PM +0100, Russell Green wrote: 2008/6/17 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you for the new Quick Search on Synaptic. It looks great and makes searches much, much, much faster and easier. That's (one of the things) why I love Ubuntu and FOSS so much. -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://Ubuntu.BUGabundo.net Linux user #443786GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB My new micro-blog @ http://BUGabundo.net -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss Nice feature but atm its not working for me, last time I checked it was greyed out. It is usually grayed out when the helper application apt-xapian-index is not installed. It is only a recommends of synaptic. It may also be still indexing, but it should write that into the UI. Cheers, Michael -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Thank you for the new Quick Search on Synaptic
Thank you for the new Quick Search on Synaptic. It looks great and makes searches much, much, much faster and easier. That's (one of the things) why I love Ubuntu and FOSS so much. -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://Ubuntu.BUGabundo.net Linux user #443786GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB My new micro-blog @ http://BUGabundo.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Thank you for the new Quick Search on Synaptic
2008/6/17 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you for the new Quick Search on Synaptic. It looks great and makes searches much, much, much faster and easier. That's (one of the things) why I love Ubuntu and FOSS so much. -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://Ubuntu.BUGabundo.net Linux user #443786GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB My new micro-blog @ http://BUGabundo.net -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss Nice feature but atm its not working for me, last time I checked it was greyed out. -- -- Russell -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
synaptic/apdate-manager hangs at start
Dear Sirs I'm using UBUNTU Linux 8.04 (beta), in an AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+, 1596.479 MHz, L2 cache 256 KB and I have observed synaptic and apdate-manager (and some other system utilities) hanging at start. Looking for active processes, I found gksu/sudo stoped before them. So as I kill gksu, the process synaptic (and/or others mentioned), goes on. By other hand, gnome-system-monitor, lets me kill, without autentication, what lets me think, there is a security fail here. I hope to help advising about. Best regards RGMüller -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
Richard Mancusi wrote: Okay, I did another clean install and can repeat the problem. On a test system I always set a root password and allow root logon. Yes, I know that isn't a great idea, but it comes in handy on a test system. As soon as I set a root password in System/Administration/Users and Groups the root user Home directory moved from /root to /home/root. I guess it's a matter of opinion as to whether this is a bug. Ubuntu and common sense tells you to not set a root password. But if you are going to allow it, it should work correctly. I leave that to the developers. Agreed, setting a root password is a common Unix feature that should remain possible to do with a simple 'sudo passwd' or optionally using the Users admin tool. This should always work, regardless of what policy we'd like to promote about the root account: here it is simply a bug. Please open a bug report on users-admin. Anyway, forbidding to set a root password should be done in a smarter way if we wanted to do so. Cheers -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
On su, 2008-02-03 at 09:05 -0600, Richard Mancusi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu update-manager warning: could not initiate dbus You don't need to run update-manager as root. It will switch to root (and ask for username then) when it needs it. This should at least fix the dbus initialization problem. (I don't know about the other problems, which may be unrelated.) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
On Feb 3, 2008 9:13 AM, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On su, 2008-02-03 at 09:05 -0600, Richard Mancusi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu update-manager warning: could not initiate dbus You don't need to run update-manager as root. It will switch to root (and ask for username then) when it needs it. This should at least fix the dbus initialization problem. (I don't know about the other problems, which may be unrelated.) That fixed the dbus problem. The password works, gui comes up showing the available updates, then back to a window with my initial error: -- An error occured The following details are provided: E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) -- Terminal output = current dist not found in meta-release file -rich -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
Richard Mancusi wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 9:13 AM, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On su, 2008-02-03 at 09:05 -0600, Richard Mancusi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu update-manager warning: could not initiate dbus You don't need to run update-manager as root. It will switch to root (and ask for username then) when it needs it. This should at least fix the dbus initialization problem. (I don't know about the other problems, which may be unrelated.) That fixed the dbus problem. The password works, gui comes up showing the available updates, then back to a window with my initial error: -- An error occured The following details are provided: E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) -- Terminal output = current dist not found in meta-release file Could you run this and tell us what it shows: sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
On Feb 2, 2008 10:59 PM, scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try opening a terminal and typing 'gksu synaptic' or 'gksu update-manager'. Regards, Scott The administrative tasks password box comes up and accepts the password. Then update manager gui appears showing 32 updates. However the terminal shows: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu update-manager warning: could not initiate dbus Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put ORBIIOPIPv4=1 in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf current dist not found in meta-release file -- Terminal output from attempting to close the update manager: -- Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py, line 357, in lambda self.button_close.connect(clicked, lambda w: self.exit()) File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py, line 830, in exit self.save_state() File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py, line 838, in save_state gconf.VALUE_INT, gconf.VALUE_INT, x, y) gobject.GError: No database available to save your configuration: Unable to store a value at key '/apps/update-manager/window_size', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put ORBIIOPIPv4=1 in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf -- A crash report warning is issued - however it can't be reported: -- Problem in update-manager The problem cannot be reported: You have some obsolete package versions installed. Please upgrade the following packages and check if the problem still occurs: libgcc1, xinit, cpp-4.2, libffi4, libxml2, libsasl2-2, coreutils, libsasl2-modules, gcc-4.2-base, libstdc++6 -- This was a clean install in the manner I believed the average user would do. Use entire disk, allow Ubuntu to partition, everything very basic. hth -rich -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Fwd: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Mancusi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 3, 2008 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error To: Jason Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 3, 2008 9:35 AM, Jason Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you run this and tell us what it shows: sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' /home/root -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
Richard Mancusi wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Mancusi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 3, 2008 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error To: Jason Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 3, 2008 9:35 AM, Jason Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you run this and tell us what it shows: sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' /home/root That's pretty strange. Try running sudo usermod -d /root root to set root's home dir. If that doesn't work, you may have to look at root's .bash* or .profile files to see if $HOME is being set anywhere. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
On Feb 3, 2008 10:15 AM, Jason Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 9:35 AM, Jason Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you run this and tell us what it shows: sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' /home/root That's pretty strange. Try running sudo usermod -d /root root to set root's home dir. If that doesn't work, you may have to look at root's .bash* or .profile files to see if $HOME is being set anywhere. Okay - that did it, sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' now shows /root and I was able to do the updates and I added build-essential as a test via Synaptic Package Manager. Thank you for fixing my problem - I hope it is localized to me and not a Ubuntu problem. I know everything I did post install and may research this some more. tnx -rich -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
On Feb 3, 2008 10:32 AM, Richard Mancusi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 10:15 AM, Jason Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 9:35 AM, Jason Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you run this and tell us what it shows: sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' /home/root That's pretty strange. Try running sudo usermod -d /root root to set root's home dir. If that doesn't work, you may have to look at root's .bash* or .profile files to see if $HOME is being set anywhere. Okay - that did it, sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' now shows /root and I was able to do the updates and I added build-essential as a test via Synaptic Package Manager. Thank you for fixing my problem - I hope it is localized to me and not a Ubuntu problem. I know everything I did post install and may research this some more. tnx -rich Okay, I did another clean install and can repeat the problem. On a test system I always set a root password and allow root logon. Yes, I know that isn't a great idea, but it comes in handy on a test system. As soon as I set a root password in System/Administration/Users and Groups the root user Home directory moved from /root to /home/root. I guess it's a matter of opinion as to whether this is a bug. Ubuntu and common sense tells you to not set a root password. But if you are going to allow it, it should work correctly. I leave that to the developers. -rich -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
After a clean install (i386 desktop) I receive an error when attempting either: 1. System/Administration/Update Manager 2. System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager An error occured The following details are provided: E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) I do have a directory /root/.synaptic and obviously there is no such thing as /home/root where it appears to be looking. -rich -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
Try opening a terminal and typing 'gksu synaptic' or 'gksu update-manager'. Regards, Scott Richard Mancusi wrote: After a clean install (i386 desktop) I receive an error when attempting either: 1. System/Administration/Update Manager 2. System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager An error occured The following details are provided: E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) I do have a directory /root/.synaptic and obviously there is no such thing as /home/root where it appears to be looking. -rich signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Synaptic X Bug
Hello everyone. I would just like to raise awareness of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/68370 It's currently only marked as medium but should be critical. Basically if anyone using a Synaptics touchpad (any laptop user?) tries to switch user the touchpad is disabled. The only way to get the pad back is to switch to a VT and back to X where it drops you back in the original users session. If this wasn't bad enough FUSA is now installed by default in Gutsy. So if someone installs Gutsy on a laptop then tries to use FUSA it will leave them without a touchpad working, unless they guess to switch to a VT and back. IMO this should be a critical bug. Thanks. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?
On Mo, 2006-12-25 at 20:53 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: The popularity system is really broken. :-) Perhaps it could be fixed but I really don't know how... Right now, all Ubuntu default apps have 4, some apps have 3, most Kubuntu apps have 2, and then the rest have 1. Take Inkscape for example, 17:th best rated on GnomeFiles with a score of 9.05, has popularity 1 in Ubuntu. Not everyone needs a vector graphics tool, but people who does think it's great. So the problem is that everyone rates all programs by either having them installed or not. Voting would instead let people who have tried something give a vote, and that would be meaningful! /Ernst If you search for vector in gnome-app-install, Inkscape will be the first hit. Popularity contenst also takes into account how often an app was used. Apps that are installed but never used don't get a high rating. Cheers, Sebastian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 About popcon - would there be a way to add it to the installer or something to say do you want this enabled?, with yes as the default? I guess you'd provide more information as to what it was, and what it does with the option. Sarah Hobbs Sebastian Heinlein wrote: On Mo, 2006-12-25 at 20:53 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: The popularity system is really broken. :-) Perhaps it could be fixed but I really don't know how... Right now, all Ubuntu default apps have 4, some apps have 3, most Kubuntu apps have 2, and then the rest have 1. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFkPra7/o1b30rzoURAmXAAKDjSs7eUOGg61evgbLt4VH6ypPuXQCgj4TB 8ef0CCRX4pQt13g6YuiGW2U= =trUL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?
The popularity system is really broken. :-) Perhaps it could be fixed but I really don't know how... Right now, all Ubuntu default apps have 4, some apps have 3, most Kubuntu apps have 2, and then the rest have 1. Take Inkscape for example, 17:th best rated on GnomeFiles with a score of 9.05, has popularity 1 in Ubuntu. Not everyone needs a vector graphics tool, but people who does think it's great. So the problem is that everyone rates all programs by either having them installed or not. Voting would instead let people who have tried something give a vote, and that would be meaningful! I am using linux (more specifialy Ubuntu) for several months and I did not know that there is already a rating system until I read this thread. I suppose it is gnomfiles.org . So probably it should be more publicised. However, I wonder how it can have data about whether a determined application used or not. Francesco -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?
Sebastian Heinlein wrote: Popularity contenst also takes into account how often an app was used. Apps that are installed but never used don't get a high rating. It seems that this doesn't work very well. From looking at the data, 1200 machines are reporting installations, and of those 1200 only 37 used gdm in the last 30 days and only 42 used firefox in the last 30 days? And only 120 used dpkg? In fact, it appears that only 120 of the 1200 computers were used at all in the last 30 days. Is there some explanation for why the votes seem so strange? Sincerely, Constantine Evans -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?
Original Message Subject:Re: User Reviews In Synaptic? Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:00:22 +0100 From: Bjoern Ottervik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sebastian Heinlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sebastian Heinlein wrote: On Fr, 2006-12-22 at 15:13 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: Hi everyone, I started writing a little bit on this spec so I wouldn't forget it. What do you think? How do want to deal with users that are not always online? So I would vote against an integeration in the normal user interface. I think that a simple link to a wiki could be a better approach: Get more information and user reviews of BLABLA on the Wiki http://wiki.ubuntu.com/packages/b/blabla But you would still have to think about i18n/l10n. Furthermore are there already existing data pools? I know that wikipedia holds a lot of information about open source software. Finally we already have got a user rating, that is quite a lot more helpful than a voting systems: popularity contest. So only apps that are actually installed and used regularly get high rates. You can see this feature in the latest gnome-app-install of edgy. Cheers, Sebastian The issue with people not being online can be fixed with a local scoreboard that is synced using anacron when they _do_ go online. Both popularity-contest and user reviews would be nice to have in synaptic, imho. /Björn Ottervik -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
