Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Re-Spins
Ian Pascoe wrote: During the life of a supported release, non LTS and LTS, are the CD ISO images ever re-spun to incorporate any type of updates? Dapper 6.06 LTS CD ISO was re-spun as 6.06.2 a couple of months ago. I know that the art of a CD spin is very much achieved through majic, quantum mathmatics, rocket science and the application of TARDIS, Actually the opposite is true - there's a tool to help you create your own re-spins: http://uck.sourceforge.net/ There are others too, such as remastersys and reconstructor. but what about the larger capacity DVDs? A DVD of Dapper does exist, I know this because it came with The Official Ubuntu Book. Also there's a Hardy DVD: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dvd/current/ Dunno about the other versions. It wouldn't be much trouble to download UCK, remastersys or reconstructor and try out burning a DVD. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!
So after upgrading to hardyone of my converting toolsWinFF doesnt work...it opens but nothing actually happens after i add the file and click on convert!!! Any ideas? ps im trying to convert to mp4! Regards Javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!
i did. Not sure how familiar you are with WinFF sir, the error message states something about aac as an unsupported format. 2008/5/5 Seif Attar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:47 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: So after upgrading to hardyone of my converting toolsWinFF doesnt work...it opens but nothing actually happens after i add the file and click on convert!!! Any ideas? ps im trying to convert to mp4! weird, try running it from console and see if any errors come up. Peace, Seif A. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did. Not sure how familiar you are with WinFF sir, the error message states something about aac as an unsupported format. 2008/5/5 Seif Attar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:47 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: So after upgrading to hardyone of my converting toolsWinFF doesnt work...it opens but nothing actually happens after i add the file and click on convert!!! Any ideas? ps im trying to convert to mp4! weird, try running it from console and see if any errors come up. Peace, Seif A. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ That means that the AAC codec hasnt been installed from the repo, sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3 Will install all of the required packages, should get it working. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England And Northern Ireland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!
ok i just checked and it didnt install anything. it also said i have the most update packages So it might not be that 2008/5/5 Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did. Not sure how familiar you are with WinFF sir, the error message states something about aac as an unsupported format. 2008/5/5 Seif Attar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:47 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: So after upgrading to hardyone of my converting toolsWinFF doesnt work...it opens but nothing actually happens after i add the file and click on convert!!! Any ideas? ps im trying to convert to mp4! weird, try running it from console and see if any errors come up. Peace, Seif A. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ That means that the AAC codec hasnt been installed from the repo, sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3 Will install all of the required packages, should get it working. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England And Northern Ireland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok i just checked and it didnt install anything. it also said i have the most update packages So it might not be that 2008/5/5 Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did. Not sure how familiar you are with WinFF sir, the error message states something about aac as an unsupported format. 2008/5/5 Seif Attar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:47 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: So after upgrading to hardyone of my converting toolsWinFF doesnt work...it opens but nothing actually happens after i add the file and click on convert!!! Any ideas? ps im trying to convert to mp4! weird, try running it from console and see if any errors come up. Peace, Seif A. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ That means that the AAC codec hasnt been installed from the repo, sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3 Will install all of the required packages, should get it working. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England And Northern Ireland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Strange -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England And Northern Ireland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!
ok i typed this in terminal ffmpeg -fflags and i got this FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0 built on Mar 12 2008 14:31:53, gcc: 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu4) ffmpeg: missing argument for option '-fflags' hope this helps! 2008/5/5 Seif Attar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 13:14 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: i did. Not sure how familiar you are with WinFF sir, the error message states something about aac as an unsupported format. I am not familiar with it at all! :) I just did some googling now, and it seems you need to have faac and faad enabled for ffmpeg. run: ffmpeg -fflags and that should show the configuration (dont know if that is what that option does originally, but it shows the configuration and an error, ignore the error), check if the output contains something like --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad ,i think ffmpeg in ubuntu is compiled without aac, I don't know if it's avaiable in some other repo with aac enabled, or if you have to recompile with aac flag. also make sure f libfaac and libfaad are installed on your system, (search using synaptic). Peace, Seif A. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:33 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: ok i typed this in terminal ffmpeg -fflags and i got this FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0 built on Mar 12 2008 14:31:53, gcc: 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu4) ffmpeg: missing argument for option '-fflags' hope this helps! it does help, you do not have ffmpeg compiled with faac enabled, you need to recompile ffmpeg or install a one precompiled with faac, the ffmpeg in the medibuntu repository seems to be compiled with all codecs, add the repositories as detailed here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu I am not sure what happens then, it should show up with updates, or you can manualy re-install ffmpeg. Goodluck Seif A. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!
ok im trying this now i will let you know how i get on thank you for your help people :) 2008/5/5 Seif Attar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:33 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: ok i typed this in terminal ffmpeg -fflags and i got this FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0 built on Mar 12 2008 14:31:53, gcc: 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu4) ffmpeg: missing argument for option '-fflags' hope this helps! it does help, you do not have ffmpeg compiled with faac enabled, you need to recompile ffmpeg or install a one precompiled with faac, the ffmpeg in the medibuntu repository seems to be compiled with all codecs, add the repositories as detailed here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu I am not sure what happens then, it should show up with updates, or you can manualy re-install ffmpeg. Goodluck Seif A. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!
:) lol success thank you much mate! Appreciate your help! that worked :) 2008/5/5 Seif Attar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:33 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: ok i typed this in terminal ffmpeg -fflags and i got this FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0 built on Mar 12 2008 14:31:53, gcc: 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu4) ffmpeg: missing argument for option '-fflags' hope this helps! it does help, you do not have ffmpeg compiled with faac enabled, you need to recompile ffmpeg or install a one precompiled with faac, the ffmpeg in the medibuntu repository seems to be compiled with all codecs, add the repositories as detailed here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu I am not sure what happens then, it should show up with updates, or you can manualy re-install ffmpeg. Goodluck Seif A. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Login/Logout Scripts
Hi folks, A couple of us in the Devon Cornwall LUG are looking to setting up some mobile internet kiosks (well, old laptops with a server running Edubuntu) for a couple of local events that are coming up. The idea is that the time a user can use one of the laptops for is limited to say an hour. I've managed to write a script that will log the current user off after an hour (but give a 5 minute and 1 minute warning before forcing the log off). We'd also like a script to run at logoff to reset the users password (so they can't just log back on for another hour without asking first). For this I was thinking of a script to reset the password using passwd. The thing is, I wasn't sure what the best way of running the login scripts was. I see in /etc/gdm there are two directories call PostLogin and PostSession, has anyone actually used these? According to the contents of /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default.sample, it runs as root after login, so I wonder if I could run my autologoff script from there and at the end of the autologoff script have a line that resets the password? (I presume any scripts executed from the Default script will run as root too?) If anyone can advise me on this it would be really handy. Ta, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Lug Radio Live 2008
Hello all, It's that time of year again, when we plan for Lug Radio Live. See http://lugradio.org/live/UK2008/ for what it's all about. I've created a wiki page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LugRadioLive2008 for us to plan our attendance; put your name down if you're coming; put ideas down for stuff to do. John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
