salome in debian etch

2007-11-05 Thread Mauro Darida
hello all, I am trying to install salome in debian etch. At the salome website I have downloaded the sarge tarball (there is none for etch). The install wizard says mine is a not supported linux platform because is not sarge and recognise only gcc of my system; it wants to install form its

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Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 5, 6:30 am, Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've begun to see the need for an editor that works with them. So, I have been inspired by this thread to investigate Emacs again. I would not dismiss Vim out of hand. http://www.debian-administration.org/polls/89 I have to work on

Re: Could not adjust time

2007-11-05 Thread Gerard Robin
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:23:20AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Could not adjust time Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_bar:

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:42 PM, BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Nov 5, 6:30 am, Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've begun to see the need for an editor that works with them. So, I have been inspired by this thread to investigate Emacs again. I would not dismiss Vim out of hand.

Re: salome in debian etch

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:22:30PM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: I am trying to install salome in debian etch. At the salome website I have downloaded the sarge tarball (there is none for etch). Installing Sarge apps like salome will turn Etch into a delicatessen. Sorry. What is salome? If it

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: I think it comes down to personal taste. I just can't get the hang of vi. I use it when I have to, but after years of using it off and on I still do things like accidentally insert 127 copies of the letter 'a' into my

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Nov 5, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: My vim (not vi) tells me at the bottom of the screen. Right now it says: -- INSERT -- 13,66 All Yeah, that's the case on maybe a third of the systems I use. (For me vi is usually an

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:23:18PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: I think it comes down to personal taste. I just can't get the hang of vi. I use it when I have to, but after years of using it off and on I still do

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Steve Lamb
David Brodbeck wrote: Using vi requires you to keep track of the editor's state in your head -- you have to remember whether it's in input mode or command mode. I've never been able to do that reliably. Neither have I. However I did learn early on in my vim life that ESC in insert mode

Re: salome in debian etch

2007-11-05 Thread Roberto Nicolini
Mauro Darida wrote: hello all, I am trying to install salome in debian etch. At the salome website I have downloaded the sarge tarball (there is none for etch). The install wizard says mine is a not supported linux platform because is not sarge and recognise only gcc of my system; it wants

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:38:18PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: On Nov 5, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: My vim (not vi) tells me at the bottom of the screen. Right now it says: -- INSERT -- 13,66 All Yeah, that's the case on maybe a

RE: Slow file transfers in nautilus.

2007-11-05 Thread J. Santos
Hi every one. Lately after a fresh install of Debian Ecth I'm having this most annoying problem, the transfer of files using nautilus takes two time as much than it did before, but only when copying from an external medium to my hard drive or copying from one folder to another in my hard drive if

Re: Cancel my e-mail address

2007-11-05 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:59:55 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please cancel my e-mail address. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Nov 05 17:55 -0600]: David Brodbeck wrote: Using vi requires you to keep track of the editor's state in your head -- you have to remember whether it's in input mode or command mode. I've never been able to do that reliably. Neither have I.

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread hce
On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:30:01PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:37:05PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 5, 5:30 pm, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: Using vi requires you to keep track of the editor's state in your head -- you have to remember whether it's in input mode or command mode. I've never been able to do

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/07 17:40, BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Nov 5, 5:30 pm, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: Using vi requires you to keep track of the editor's state in your head --

question about mdadm + grub interaction

2007-11-05 Thread Steve Lane
Greetings. In order to insure that a Debian stock kernel (i.e. the kernel installed from the linux-image-2.6.22-2-686-bigmem package) boots correctly off of a mdadm RAID 1 set of two disks if one of the disks is dead, do we: 1) Have to manually install grub on the MBR on *both* drives, or is

Re: question about mdadm + grub interaction

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:39:25PM -0800, Steve Lane wrote: Greetings. In order to insure that a Debian stock kernel (i.e. the kernel installed from the linux-image-2.6.22-2-686-bigmem package) boots correctly off of a mdadm RAID 1 set of two disks if one of the disks is dead, do we: 1)

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... please provide dpkg -l tftpd ~$ dpkg -l tftpd Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/

Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:49:03PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: I would like to write a bash script like the following one: for i in `some program that outputs a word list` do echo $i done

Re: question about mdadm + grub interaction

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:19:20PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:39:25PM -0800, Steve Lane wrote: Greetings. In order to insure that a Debian stock kernel (i.e. the kernel installed from the linux-image-2.6.22-2-686-bigmem package) boots correctly off of a

Re: Could not adjust time

2007-11-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Also, how is an ordinary user supposed to click on anything and change the system time. Root shouldn't be running X to be able to change the system time. Unless the thing the user clicks on links to some su system. At least in KDE, if you right click on the clock

Re: [Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

2007-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Manually installed packages have status i while automatically installed ones have i A. They have a c next to them. So what you did is you removed the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

2007-11-05 Thread Jeff Grossman
s. keeling wrote: Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Manually installed packages have status i while automatically installed ones have i A. They have a c next to them. So

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/07 17:40, BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Nov 5, 5:30 pm, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: Using vi requires you to keep track of the editor's state

Re: [Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:44:59PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: That was my opinion and why I asked the original question. So, I should let aptitude know that I installed those packages myself? Even though they won't be in the same directories that aptitude thinks they should be in?

how can I aptitude install without interaction

2007-11-05 Thread hhding.gnu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I upgrade libpam0g,a dialog is show by aptitude to make me select services to restart. I want upgrade it without interaction. I have tried aptitude -q=100 -y -f install libpam0g,but it does not work. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

.deb ?

2007-11-05 Thread jekillen
Hello; I just downloaded the file debian-reference-en_1.11_all.deb from the Debian site. What is this; a zipped archive file? It is supposed to be english html version of Debian reference. If it is a tarball, should I rename it so tar can extract it? Thanks in advance; Jeff K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread hce
On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... please provide dpkg -l tftpd ~$ dpkg -l tftpd Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:35:13 -0600 Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I survived a few months into my first foray into MS-DOS 3.3 with edlin until someone mercifully gave me a disk with a better editor (qed?) on it. By that metric I

Re: .deb ?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:31:17PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello; I just downloaded the file debian-reference-en_1.11_all.deb from the Debian site. What is this; a zipped archive file? no, its a .deb, or debian package file. I think it is a kind of zip archive, though I've never bothered to

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:32:47PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... please provide dpkg -l tftpd ~$ dpkg -l

List of packages on a Debian / Ubuntu system

2007-11-05 Thread brian . from . fl
I'm sure I am overlooking something, but after scouring the dpkg documentation, I cannot find the options that tell me a list of all packages that are installed on my system and the time/date on which they were installed and/or updated. What I am looking for is something similar to rpm -qa, but

#437650 bug listed aginst libdb4.6.19-2

2007-11-05 Thread kingbee
Sir / Madame I have searched google but I am finding very little info about this bug that is reported by apt-get when I try to install this package. I have several packages behind libdb4.6.19-2 that I hesitate to upgrade because of this bug. I am running Debian Lenny on amd64x2 and I am

Re: .deb ?

2007-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Andrew Sackville-West writes: no, its a .deb, or debian package file. I think it is a kind of zip archive... It's an ar archive. man deb. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .deb ?

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:31:17PM -0800, jekillen wrote: I just downloaded the file debian-reference-en_1.11_all.deb from the Debian site. What is this; a zipped archive file? It is supposed to be english html version of Debian reference. If it is a tarball, should I rename it so tar can

Re: how can I aptitude install without interaction

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:15:38AM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: When I upgrade libpam0g??a dialog is show by aptitude to make me select services to restart. I want upgrade it without interaction. I have tried aptitude -q=100 -y -f install libpam0g??but it does not work. The questions are asked by

Re: #437650 bug listed aginst libdb4.6.19-2

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:33:41PM -0500, kingbee wrote: Sir / Madame I have searched google but I am finding very little info about this bug that is reported by apt-get when I try to install this package. I have several packages behind libdb4.6.19-2 that I hesitate to upgrade because of

Problem configuring NETGEAR MA111 wireless USB card

2007-11-05 Thread Rahman, Md Sazzadur
Hello list, I was installing driver for Netgear MA111 wireless USB card in debian OS. For this, I used linux-wlan-ng project. After installing and configuring the driver, I wasn't able to connect to the network and getting destination host unreachable by ping command:

Problem configuring NETGEAR MA111 wireless USB card

2007-11-05 Thread Rahman, Md Sazzadur
Hello list, I was installing driver for Netgear MA111 wireless USB card in debian OS. For this, I used linux-wlan-ng project. After installing and configuring the driver, I wasn't able to connect to the network and getting destination host unreachable by ping command:

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread hce
On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:32:47PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:21:31PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:32:47PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: On

Re: List of packages on a Debian / Ubuntu system

2007-11-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 5, 2007 7:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure I am overlooking something, but after scouring the dpkg documentation, I cannot find the options that tell me a list of all packages that are installed on my system and the time/date on which they were installed and/or updated. What

Re: question about mdadm + grub interaction

2007-11-05 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 16:39:25 -0800 Steve Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Any pointers to *detailed* documentation about how the 'md=...' option works would be much appreciated; I've already seen: snip I just got a Gateway 935 1u server with 3 SCSI drives off Ebay, and setup a RAID1 array

Re: Minolta driver and management software for Linux

2007-11-05 Thread joseph lockhart
--- jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I am trying to set up a Minolta Magicolor QMS printer. The printer is a postscript laser printer. (The actual model number is QMS 6110 and it is dis- continued). The printer is set up to connect via ether- net. I obtained the software for it

Driver loaded, now, how do I access the camera? (WAS: Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera )

2007-11-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
John Schmidt wrote: On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, I tried to follow the above instructions, but... I didn't have the kernel headers for my 2.6.16 kernel and they do not seem to be available in the Etch repository. I took this as a sign that it was time to upgrade

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