[CentOS] Does CentOS support aspell?

ecker. Does anybody here know offhand if CentOS supports it? Or how do I check? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] VDQ Repos for CentOS 7

On Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:46:06 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > Standard troubleshooting 101: > > Have you rebooted? Yes. In fact, I brought it upstairs and replaced my normal #3 PC behind the KVM switch with it, and rebooted it. I see boot messages (on the Thinkpad, not on my proper

Re: [CentOS] VDQ Repos for CentOS 7

On Fri, 04 Aug 2017 20:35:32 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 04.08.2017 um 19:01 schrieb Beartooth: >> >> I have a woefully dumb question. When I tell my wife's laptop, >> with CentOS 7 installed and a live ethernet cable plugged into it, "yum >> upd

[CentOS] VDQ Repos for CentOS 7

I have a woefully dumb question. When I tell my wife's laptop, with CentOS 7 installed and a live ethernet cable plugged into it, "yum update," it fails saying that it doesn't see any repos. What do I need to do to? ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 17:13:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 15:43 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> My wife bought a new Thinkpad, on which we had the shop install >> CentOS 7 (I *think* it's 7.3.) Alas!, I didn't think to specify NOT >> Gnome, >&

[CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

My wife bought a new Thinkpad, on which we had the shop install CentOS 7 (I *think* it's 7.3.) Alas!, I didn't think to specify NOT Gnome, in thunder. So of course I got it. I've tried several times to force myself to accommodate Gnome3, always with no joy. How do I get Mate o

[CentOS] usermod under CentOS

herefore dangerous as well as apposite. So I ask here: are there caveats, gotchas, and/or other entities of their ilk that I need be wary of? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

nf; is the same then not true for CentOS?? It worked on my wife's machine. (I'm presently fighting a strike by the box on which I normally run CentOS on my desk in order to be familiar with her OS.) Maybe I have some repo set for it that you don't?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

iners had to update kernel, > they had a reason (otherwise, something else breaks). So, we are left > running _this_ system, even though it's stressful, still not as > stressful as running "bleeding edge" fedora, right? ;-) What? Stressful?? Fedora??? Naaahhh ...

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

consequences... Looking back over the list of packages installed, I notice that most end in "el6," but there are some with "el6_6." Does that mean she's now actually running 6.6 rather than 6.5? I've been wondering when it would be best to swi

[CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

their arms, and many heartfelt thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Whence Pan??

Yum fails to install Pan, and neither epel nor rebelbase.com seems to have an rpm for it. Why not? And can I get an rpm somewhere else? Or am I doing something obviously wrong that I don't see?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I

[CentOS] Pan in 6.2??

I can't seem to get a way to install Pan in CentOS, and I need it badly. I follow most busy lists, including this one, on Gmane using Pan (and, no, Gmane per Web is no use to me. I have some obscure allergy to webmail). Does anyone know an rpm (one of Fedora's, for instance) th

[CentOS] Scrabble??

abble programs, one in which you play against the computer, and one in which you play against a remote friend. The latter is what I'm being asked for by Her Who Must Be Obeyed. (I don't play Scrabble.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have

[CentOS] Correction Re: 6.4 : How to enable epel and the rpmfusions??

On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:09:04 +, Beartooth wrote: [] > I seem to have the epel rpms now, thanks; is there also a > shortcut to rpmfusion?? I just noticed that my last attempt included this : [root@T30 ~]# yum install Pan Loaded plugins: aliases, cha

Re: [CentOS] 6.4 : How to enable epel and the rpmfusions??

On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 13:46:09 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 01:43:34PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 06:15:17PM +, Beartooth wrote: >> >> wget http://epel.mirror.constant.com/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm >> &

Re: [CentOS] 6.4 : How to enable epel and the rpmfusions??

came to naught. Any more clues before I go to slogging through fedoraproject.org yet again?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS maili

[CentOS] 6.4 : How to enable epel and the rpmfusions??

in futility -- I haven't found a way to tell it anything to use as c6-media. (It won't accept an x in the apposite box.) As root, I got to ///media on another machine as well as on the T30, and both are empty. (The other machine won't install Pan either; but it does do yum up

Re: [CentOS] Please be careful...

t might have, if any, on my own access. (I follow the list on Gmane, not by email.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS mailing li

[CentOS] Thinkpad T30

OS 6.4 on a T30? How about Wine a/o virtualization? (I'm thinking running a virtual XP, and seldom if ever going online, except occasional quick checks for linux updates.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) lit

[CentOS] More browsers!

can safely add? -- Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeonly Codger Learning Linux On the Internet, you can never tell who is a dog -- supposing you care -- but you can tell who has a mind. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/m

[CentOS] Adding browsers

as I used to use books, back in the Carboniferous when I had a desk in the stacks. Are there ways a subtechnoid can run Arora, Dillo, Epiphany, Konqueror, Midori, Kazehakase, Rekonq, Opera, and Pan on this CentOS -- without falling into the bad old pit of dependency hell? -- Beartooth

Re: [CentOS] 6.4 failing to connect

ver my LAN, to get .pinerc, .pan2, etc. Triple whee! Many many thanks to all! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] 6.4 failing to connect

verify its path and try again [root@Hbsk ~]# -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] 6.4 on old PC not connecting

On Sun, 19 May 2013 18:36:57 +, Beartooth wrote: Oops! I spoke too soon. It's doing it again. I killed NetworkManager again, no joy; yum remove NetworkManager, no joy. Service network start fumbles a while, and eventually gets RTNETLINK answers: File exists

Re: [CentOS] 6.4 on old PC not connecting

On Sun, 19 May 2013 10:54:17 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 19 May 2013 15:46:20 + (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> OK, I got lots of output from ifconfig, and tons from /var/log/ >> messages; so what should I look for?? > > (a) Post the output from

Re: [CentOS] 6.4 on old PC not connecting

On Sat, 18 May 2013 15:12:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 18 May 2013 20:46:10 + (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> What new way can I try to get this beast online? > > If it shows eth0 in the networkmanager window, then it appears that it can see > the etherne

[CentOS] 6.4 on old PC not connecting

t I would be irrational not to plan for such contingencies.) What new way can I try to get this beast online? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___

Re: [CentOS] [Mildly OT] Re: (Al)pine on CentOS 6

ane, which is a huge help, especially for those of us who are still (and doubtless irremediably) subtechnoid. In particular, point your reader (Let's hear it for Pan, too! ) at news.gmane.org, and look at fedora.general. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User

Re: [CentOS] OT? : Big Yellow Cursor

On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:32:25 -0500, Robert wrote: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 20:21:34 + (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed >> to get a big yellow arrow to show the mouse cursor. It was wonderful. >>

[CentOS] OT? : Big Yellow Cursor

ough trifocals. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back?? -- Beartooth Sciurivore, Curmudgeon On Line Viruses, trojans, and spyware, Oh My! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] SELinux in CentOS 6

It keeps butting in when I try to install map software from Garmin under Wine. I'm not nearly competent not willing to apply the remedy it suggests. How do I get to someplace where I can disable it, or at least set it to permissive? ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] Sources for extras??

e born; y'all're likely to be seeing more ere long. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Sources for extras??

On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:00:07 -0600, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 09:49:12PM +0000, Beartooth wrote: >>No package dillo available. >>No package epiphany available. >>No package galeon available. >>No package midori available. >>

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

convenience of anyone who may be visiting without.) Sounds like I better go check whether Omega Linux is still current -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:53:29 +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 12/05/2011 01:33 AM, Phil Dobbin piše: >> By co-incidence, as Beartooth posted earlier, I also tried to install >> CentOS 6 on a ThinkPad but it wouldn't take. I used to have a copy of a >> CentOS

[CentOS] Sources for extras??

: Nothing to do [root@localhost ~]# Does this mean I have to go chugging all over the web, digging out one (hopefully not quite obsolete) rpm after another? Is there no easier way?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little i

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

ll at least prevent the current OS (Linux Mint, fwiw) from dominating. Stay tuned. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

erver. But mighty few of the North American mirrors have either live media or netinstall ones, unless they call them something I don't recognize, or list them in places I don't think to look. Anyone have a direct URL handy? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I h

[CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

omes out; it is possible to predict yet whether it will squeeze in under the DVD+R limit? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

Re: [CentOS] iso size?

I am. When in any doubt at all, please do state things that everybody (except me) already knows. TIA! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] iso size?

And why would the 64-bit also not work, with any of the two dozen different combinations of download, bit number, burner, and machine? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

[CentOS] iso size?

RW DVD, all of which are labelled 4.7 GB Two of the files are 32-bit, and one is 64 What is going wrong?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ CentOS mail

[CentOS] Easy switch from Fedora 14 to CentOS 6??

run, it's an oversight on my part. I realize most aren't available, or at least not as rpms, for CentOS; I'm willing to make that sacrifice.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___

Re: [CentOS] Switch from SL -> Centos

se I'm not competent to recover from bloopers -- and I have a sneakin' hunch build is among those things.) What does etc., etc. include? Might there be a web site somewhere with a pons asinorum for the subtechnoid? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I h

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

h at least did real multi- tasking, and didn't crash. Going from that to W98 of evil memory on retirement is what drove me to Linux. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. _

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:58:21 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hello, Beartooth. Hi, Paul! If you're the same guy I know from several electronic places, I'm glad to hear from you. And incidentally, the address I post from is valid, and I check it several times a day. > I h

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

be persuading her to take any interest beyond knowing that *I* have some backup for her, somewhere ... (I always do one before an upgrade -- and upgrade her machine last, in order to have seen most common problems before I get to it.) Any experience with that one? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:11:49 +0800, Guenther Boelter wrote: > On 12/18/2010 01:04 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> >> I'm running Fedora14 on all machines, including my wife's -- and >> I'm the nearest (distant) thing there is to tech support. > > What

[CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

that she'll have it and be used to it, years ahead of need. I'm thinking CentOS 6, whenever it's ready, is probably my best choice. Any thoughts? (And yes, I do mean what my .sig says.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

d thing I didn't > have any drink in my mouth when I saw that one) Fwiw, I have it on good authority that a .45 ACP will not penetrate a hard drive, but that a .30-06 will. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

opers have seemed pretty lukewarm to > the idea, as though it would devalue their brand. Such an OS, or release of an OS, would be mighty welcome to those of us with early notebooks/netbooks/whatever (such as the EeePC 701). -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless

Re: [CentOS] Gnome terminal oddity

here, and does what I'm guessing you want. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

d (which looks like taking all night). Lish me wuck. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

s in it. I finally ended up running DBAN against it -- and am still looking for other, *NON*-ubuntoid distros ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

e to use those -- assuming you give each its own partition?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

be caught dead with either. Alpine and Pan, or repair the machine -- with a sledgehammer -- if it's mine. YMMV -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

D card (from the 4 GB I had to the 8 GB now). That has of course made everything since seem better. And, btw, somebody on my local LUG found the drivers I needed. I installed them, and this morning the 701 connects just fine -- under CentOS 5.3. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:24:57 -0700, nate wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> >> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on >> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't >> even use my eth0. >> >>So

[CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

hat CentOS, being designed for stability rather than the bleeding edge, likely lacks drivers; so I need to get some. Anybody know what drivers (for wireless as well as ethernet cable) I need, and how/where to get ones to fit CentOS?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert

[CentOS] Re: Fedora user moving to CentOS

, preferably often, while you get used to the differences. Otherwise, though, yes, CentOS should suit you fine. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User C5; D4; F8; P3; U7.10; Alpine 1.0, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3 Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _

[CentOS] Re: VDQ : Triple Boot Advice : SOLVED -- sort of ...

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:09:40 -0500, I Beartooth wrote: > ... I want to install CentOS 5.1 again, Ubuntu 7.10, and Fedora 8. > (If I were doing it all over, perhaps I should do the partitioning first > and separately, with knoppix or gparted, or with qtparted if that has a > live

[CentOS] Re: VDQ : Triple Boot Advice?

Otoh, I wouldn't try the three-in-one on anything but a testbed. Also, if I have more troubles like the last, I can always give either CentOS or Ubuntu the whole machine for a month or three, and then let the other have a shot. Maybe I should, anyway ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Ne

[CentOS] VDQ : Triple Boot Advice?

walls. But I can copy and vary, or follow a recipe if it's explicit enough. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : F8, C5.1, U6.06; I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.