Re: [arch-general] gbd missing from extra?

2010-03-12 Thread richard terry
On Saturday 13 March 2010 12:20:43 you wrote: > Typo? > your subject on the mail states you searched for gbd instead of gdb > maybe? > > -T > > On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, richard terry wrote: > > couldn't retreive the gnu debugger from pacman -S gdb, and looking

[arch-general] gbd missing from extra?

2010-03-12 Thread richard terry
couldn't retreive the gnu debugger from pacman -S gdb, and looking in the extra repo it didn't seem to be present. any reason? Richard

[arch-general] kde4.4 upgrade and nvidia

2010-03-02 Thread richard terry
I noticed mention was made about 'bitmap fonts like terminus will be broken. Does that mean that nvidia driver won't work? or is it still safe to upgrade. Regards Richard

Re: [arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-17 Thread richard terry
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 16:40:52 you wrote: > On 17/02/10 15:31, richard terry wrote: > > :: phonon conflicts with qt. Remove qt? [Y/n] > > http://www.archlinux.org/news/483/ > Thanks, Yes I did read that before I posted. I can see no mention of this problem in th

[arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-16 Thread richard terry
I read the notes on the web about upgrading, and started with this, but it want's to remove qt ??? what does this mean, for example I use qt4 in my gambas programming, so unsure where to head. Any advice appreciated. Ricahrd # pacman -Sy --asdeps qt :: Synchronizing package databases... archl

[arch-general] New kde4.4 install fails libXft.so.2.1.13 is trunkated

2010-02-12 Thread richard terry
No iea what this means: ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libXFt.so.2.1.13 is trunkated occured at the end of install, and seems to happen when I try to install other packages. No X or kde either, so though I'd start with this message. NO mention of this when I searched the forum... Any help appreciate

[arch-general] wkhtmltopdf

2010-02-06 Thread richard terry
Hi List/Evangelos: This is a really useful utility, I'd like to use it to join documents. It dosn't seem to be built against a 'patched version' of qt whatever that may mean.: "This version of wkhtmltopdf is build against an unpatched version of QT, and does not support more then one input doc

[arch-general] core/linux-api-headers?

2010-01-31 Thread richard terry
Hi List, Just went to do a system upgrade and noticed this and unsure what it means or if I should so Yes: :: Replace kernel-headers with core/linux-api-headers? [Y/n] n Any comments? Thanks in anticipation. Richard

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox with upgraded kernel

2010-01-08 Thread richard terry
On Saturday 09 January 2010 08:56:13 Ray Kohler wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:47 PM, richard terry wrote: > > hi List, > > > > I've upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 and virtual box dosn't work. > > Install kernel26-headers (a new package) as well. > Thank y

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox with upgraded kernel

2010-01-08 Thread richard terry
On Saturday 09 January 2010 08:56:13 Ray Kohler wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:47 PM, richard terry wrote: > > hi List, > > > > I've upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 and virtual box dosn't work. > > Install kernel26-headers (a new package) as well. > ke

[arch-general] Virtualbox with upgraded kernel

2010-01-08 Thread richard terry
hi List, I've upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 and virtual box dosn't work. I looked at the wiki re the various methods of upgrading the driver: [r...@laptop pkg]# vbox_build_module Building vboxdrv for Linux 2.6.32-ARCH make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv' for f in . linux r0drv

[arch-general] libglew

2009-12-26 Thread richard terry
Posted this to the gambas list as my current svn won't compile - they said I needed libglew but can't find it in the repos ?under another name? > Le samedi 26 décembre 2009 22:58:38, richard terry a écrit : > > Making all in opengl > > make[5]: Entering directory `/home

[arch-general] dcopserver problem

2009-11-25 Thread richard terry
Hi list, Last few days or so of weeks having huge problems with kde4 after the last upgrade. Apps just hang, clicking on the toolbar > no reponse for eons. messages were around kbuildsycoca: WARNING's.. I looked on the forums/net and they seemed to indicate that typing dcopserver_shutdow

Re: [arch-general] vi problems

2009-10-15 Thread richard terry
On Friday 16 October 2009 01:11:00 Øyvind Heggstad wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:59:59 +1100 > > richard terry wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I upgraded a couple of days ago not having done so for a number of > > weeks and now vi dosn't work properly in a

[arch-general] vi problems

2009-10-14 Thread richard terry
Hi List, I upgraded a couple of days ago not having done so for a number of weeks and now vi dosn't work properly in a konsole - the key allocations seem all wrong (eg up/down arrows, insert, delete > all print A', B' etc. Clueless as to where to start. Any help appreciated. Richard

Re: [arch-general] Advice need on upgrading

2009-09-07 Thread richard terry
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 07:55:02 Sherry Howell wrote: > They've simply changed the way the system is packaged. Wait a day or so, > and your mirror should catch up, and the dependencies won't be a problem > any more. I did the upgrade this morning (without any dependency > issues), and everyt

[arch-general] Advice need on upgrading

2009-09-06 Thread richard terry
Hi List, Just did a Syu and got presented with this below, so I baulked at the upgrade as some of the names seem different and I don't know what's happening. Is it ok to upgrade, and waht about the unresolvable messages. Regards Richard Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace kdebase-kedi

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread richard terry
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 18:04:42 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:56:13 +0200 > > Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:45 +1000, richard terry wrote: > > > /etc/arch-release > > > > > > Anyone know what is meant to be in th

[arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread richard terry
/etc/arch-release Anyone know what is meant to be in this file The guys on the gambas user list are writing some sort of script so users can identify details of their system in case of bugs etc, and i was asked if this file exists, which is does, but it is empty? ?any other unique arch ident

[arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread richard terry
Hullo all, I tried to ask this a couple of days ago and for some reason it ended up as a flame war about chakra between people I don't even know and I'm not sure what triggered it, so I'll try again. I've used arch for many years and always been happy (I actually run it on 5-6 machines which I ma

[arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-16 Thread richard terry
Massive headache, well, actually it wasn't an upgrade it was a brand new HDD (kept the old one). all this started when I was stupid enough to install scribus > libreadline version problems and couldn't back track, Some other file was somehow affected and needed to run a terminal because then my ar

[arch-general] logging a PKGBUILD output

2009-07-23 Thread richard terry
I wondered if anyone could tell me how to log the output of a pkgbuild to a fille as it compiles so I an catch all the compilation messages. Thanks. Richard

Re: [arch-general] Scribus intallation problem

2009-07-15 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:25:15 pm you wrote: > richard terry wrote: > > (11/11) installing scribus > > [ > >] 100% > > sh: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot open

[arch-general] Scribus intallation problem

2009-07-15 Thread richard terry
(11/11) installing scribus [] 100% sh: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory sh: error while loading shared librar

[arch-general] Archlinux on a virtualbox

2009-06-29 Thread richard terry
I can't seem to find out how to set up a network on a freshly installed virtualbox with archlinux. Any pointers to help appreciated. Richard

Re: [arch-general] Kompare

2009-06-27 Thread richard terry
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:34:25 pm Alessandro Doro wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:00:07PM +1000, richard terry wrote: > > Still using kde3 and don't seem to have kompare on my disk. Not in the > > Archlinux or AUR packages, can one still get a kde3 package for arch? >

[arch-general] Kompare

2009-06-27 Thread richard terry
Still using kde3 and don't seem to have kompare on my disk. Not in the Archlinux or AUR packages, can one still get a kde3 package for arch? Regards Richard

[arch-general] No color with asus M50VC webcam

2009-05-27 Thread richard terry
Wondered if anyone had any clues as to why no colour. The cam pictures in skype/xawtv which I tried B&W and pretty dim. Regards Richard

Re: [arch-general] Access to 3g wireless network

2009-04-19 Thread richard terry
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:26:25 am Maurí­cio wrote: > Hi, > > Here in Brazil (as probably in everywhere > else) a few cell phone companies are offering > wireless internet access through a USB modem. > They say data is exchanged through 3G communication > standard. > > How does that work on Linux? Wha

[arch-general] File notification question

2009-03-18 Thread richard terry
Is it possible to set up a process( which notifies me via some sort of icon on taskbar try like email alert does) which monitors a particular directory on my computer and if a new file is added to that directory, triggers the alert? If so, if anyone can point me in the direction it would be appr

[arch-general] Upgrade to Kde 4.2 > nothing but blank desktop

2009-02-16 Thread richard terry
I upgraded from 4.0 (which was sort-of-functional) to 4.2 this morning and on loading the kde desktop has nothing on it, dosn't respond to any keypresses. I created a new user, tried again> same thing. Any clues for a clueless user as to where to start? Regards Richard

[arch-general] How to resolve dependency issue - bluez-libs

2009-01-06 Thread richard terry
This sort of thing always used to be uncommon in Arch. However: Tried to upgrade recently as I do every fe days, got this: looking for inter-conflicts... :: bluez-libs conflicts with bluez. Remove bluez? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (

Re: [arch-general] Help need with pkgbuild failure (Solved - sort of)

2009-01-03 Thread richard terry
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 01:42:19 pm you wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2009 09:22:10 pm richard terry wrote: > > I used to be on this list till my last email address, died, so > > re-joined. I posted this with a file attachment yesterday and it didn't > > reach the list, so

Re: [arch-general] Help need with pkgbuild failure

2009-01-03 Thread richard terry
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 03:38:50 am Jan de Groot wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 21:42 -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > > On Friday 02 January 2009 09:22:10 pm richard terry wrote: > > > I used to be on this list till my last email address, died, so > > > re-joined. I posted

[arch-general] Help need with pkgbuild failure

2009-01-02 Thread richard terry
hem at all, I couldn't proceed. I've emailed Toni who seems to maintain a version of this in AUR for gambas2 Any help appreciated === Contributor: Toni Foerster # changed by Richard Terry (so it is probably Wrong! rte...@pacific.net.au # to get the lastest developmen

[arch-general] Sending files to printer question

2008-08-11 Thread richard terry
This is not Arch specific, but I'll ask anyway in the hope someone will help. I have generated a html file which would show in a web-browser and hence will print from the web browsers print button. However I want to send that file directly to a printer from the command line, but have the output

[arch-general] PKGBUILD problem Can't exec "aclocal":

2008-08-10 Thread richard terry
I wonder if anyone can help me trace how to fix this error message: Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory which seems to be holding up one of my PKGBUILDs which does in

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-10 Thread richard terry
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:52:30 pm Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Saturday 09 August 2008 20:38:27 Attila wrote: > > Or to say it other words: The packages be so good as possible and there > > is nothing what can be done more or better. But for me kde user and fan > > of the kicker the actual panel i

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread richard terry
Just upgraded an arch box I've not done any upgrades on for over 12/12 (didn't even had /etc/pacman.d/ directories, not sure when they changed. Had one problem - gcc-libs had to be manually upgraded, because x wouldn't start and was missing a file I think called libgcc_s.so.1. However after th

Re: [arch-general] Postgres failure after system upgrade

2008-05-14 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 15 May 2008 07:57:58 am you wrote: Oh my god! Does that mean all my data is screwed? (Of course I've backups). Can I downgrade somehow??? regards Richard > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:45 PM, richard terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yesterday upgraded my syst

[arch-general] Postgres failure after system upgrade

2008-05-14 Thread richard terry
Yesterday upgraded my system which happened to include I think from memory as well as postgres 8.3 , php. Not a technical person unfortunately, but my postgres has died with the message below. I wonder if some kind soul could give me some help in tracking down the problem. I've tried looking

[arch-general] makepkg running as root

2008-01-21 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:42:10 pm you wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 9:33 PM, richard terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sometimes I build packages from AUR, and (obviously wrongly), do this as > > root. > > > > Today I got this message: > > > > ==> ERRO

[arch-general] makepkg running as root

2008-01-21 Thread richard terry
Sometimes I build packages from AUR, and (obviously wrongly), do this as root. Today I got this message: ==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause permanent, catastrophic damage to your system. If you wish to run as root, please use the --asroot option. Can someone e

[arch-general] libdts + fglrx questions

2008-01-10 Thread richard terry
Every time I upgrade I get: ?replace libdts with libdca, and replace fglrx with catalyst. What's the difference, is it safe to say yes (especially to the video driver)? Thanks

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel killed my X/Virtual Box as well

2007-12-15 Thread richard terry
rtualbox problem. run as root, "vbox_build_module" then > reboot. > > richard terry wrote: > > did system upgrade and X wouldn't boot. Tried re-configuring no luck. > > > > Downgraded back 1 kernel and all works again, except virtual box won't >

Re: [arch-general] missing vbox_build_module

2007-12-15 Thread richard terry
led. Any further hints? is the virtualbox-ose-additions-modules the correct package? Richard > Only the virtualbox_bin > package of aur includes this file, for the opensource edition of > virtualbox you have to install "virtualbox-modules". > > --peter > > On Fri,

[arch-general] missing vbox_build_module

2007-12-14 Thread richard terry
I wonder if anyone has anyidea about this, I posted previously and got no reply. May laptop is 1.8 celeron + ati, I upgraded system > no X, tried reconfiguring X to no avail (X wouldn't boot at all, just seemed to lock up). I downgraded back to kernel26-2.6.23.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz, and kde load

[arch-general] latest kernel killed my X/Virtual Box as well

2007-12-13 Thread richard terry
did system upgrade and X wouldn't boot. Tried re-configuring no luck. Downgraded back 1 kernel and all works again, except virtual box won't appear (though the processes are running). Don't know if it's my laptop (has ati video card in it). Any explanation/help/hints