Re: Wine package dependencies

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:45:17 +0200 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-06-23 07:37 +0200, Keith Bates wrote: > > > apt-cache policy wine > > > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 1.0.0~winehq0~debian~4.0-1 > > Version table: > > 1.0.0~winehq0~debian~4.0-1 0 > > 500 h

Re: Cannot build deb package from ati instaler (was Re: New version of fglrx broke my system)

Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El sáb, 21-06-2008 a las 11:18 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: >> Gabriel Parrondo wrote: >> >> > El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: >> >> It installed with no problem and after rebooting (yes, I have to do >> >> this; starting and stopping the

Re: Wine package dependencies

On 2008-06-23 07:37 +0200, Keith Bates wrote: > apt-cache policy wine > > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 1.0.0~winehq0~debian~4.0-1 > Version table: > 1.0.0~winehq0~debian~4.0-1 0 > 500 http://wine.budgetdedicated.com etch/main Packages > 1.0-rc2-1 0 > 500 http://ftp.

Re: Wine package dependencies

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:48:36 +0200 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-06-23 06:27 +0200, Keith Bates wrote: > > > Thanks Mike. I installed libwine-ldap fine. Then tried to install > > wine: > > > > yariknow:/home/mrkeef# apt-get install wine > > Reading package lists... Done > > Bu

Re: Wine package dependencies

On 2008-06-23 06:27 +0200, Keith Bates wrote: > Thanks Mike. I installed libwine-ldap fine. Then tried to install wine: > > yariknow:/home/mrkeef# apt-get install wine > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:58:14AM -0400, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box? I have an iAudio U3 by Cowon. AFAIK all the players in the iAudio line support Ogg (and some other free formats like

Re: Wine package dependencies

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:27:19 +1000 Keith Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:07:29 -0700 > Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun June 22 2008 19:05:48 Keith Bates wrote: > > > Is it possible to install wine on debian at the moment? > > > > > > Wine depends on lib

Re: Wine package dependencies

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:07:29 -0700 Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun June 22 2008 19:05:48 Keith Bates wrote: > > Is it possible to install wine on debian at the moment? > > > > Wine depends on libldap2 > > libldap2 conflicts with libldap-2.4-2 > > libldap-2.4-2 is needed by about 100

Re: where is xmms?

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 07:24:23PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:54:51PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Carl Fink wrote: > >>> After reading this thread, I was irritated to fi

Re: Using gtkpod for an ipod

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 03:41:12PM +0200, Peter Robinson wrote: > peter:/home/peter# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ipod/ > mount: you must specify the filesystem type Try: mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ipod/ > peter:/home/peter# dmesg | tail > sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

Re: Wine package dependencies

On Sun June 22 2008 19:05:48 Keith Bates wrote: > Is it possible to install wine on debian at the moment? > > Wine depends on libldap2 > libldap2 conflicts with libldap-2.4-2 > libldap-2.4-2 is needed by about 100 other programs including cups, > evolution, samba, grip... > > Obviously I've missed

Wine package dependencies

Is it possible to install wine on debian at the moment? Wine depends on libldap2 libldap2 conflicts with libldap-2.4-2 libldap-2.4-2 is needed by about 100 other programs including cups, evolution, samba, grip... Obviously I've missed something basic here! Can somebody please enlighten me? Than

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Joey Hess and all the rest, Just wanted to say thanks. You all have been very helpfull and I for one appreciate your work. Sadly, the only one I know for sure is Joey who has in the past helped me out personally on the mailing lists. Debian i

Re: RAID5 problem.

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:28:03PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > [snip] > > The problem is that when I tried, using "mdadm /dev/md0 --add > /dev/sdd1", the rebuild would kick off and then fail after a short time, > marking all four drives as fault

An inquiry

Is ALSA broken in Debian etchnhalf (linux-image 2.6.22-4-686)? I am using a ThinkpadT42 with an Intel audio controller 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01). The audio worked in the past, but I don't use audio that often and I don't remember if upgrading to etchnhalf

Re: iceweasel 3: favicon while tab is loading

On Sunday 22 June 2008 06:55:46 pm Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > In sid's iceweasel 3 I notice a difference with iceweasel 2: > > > > when a tab is loading the favicon shown would slowly rotate in version > > 2, but in version 3 it stays stuck at the beginning.

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Joey Hess and all the rest, Just wanted to say thanks. You all have been very helpfull and I for one appreciate your work. Sadly, the only one I know for sure is Joey who has in the past helped me out personally on the mailing lists. Debian is rock solid and very us

Re: iceweasel 3: favicon while tab is loading

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In sid's iceweasel 3 I notice a difference with iceweasel 2: when a tab is loading the favicon shown would slowly rotate in version 2, but in version 3 it stays stuck at the beginning. Searching bugzilla.mozilla.org I find nothing under "favicon", but it clearly

Re: naming of linux-image package

Joey Hess wrote: Magnus Pedersen wrote: The 2.6.25 I get, but what is the difference between the -2 and the -5. My guess is that the -x is the debian build version, but why the different numbers? The -2 and -5 are ABI version numbers. Not all builds of the same version of the kernel are com

Re: Any backport of iceweasel 3.0 for etch?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josep M. wrote: > Hello. > > If someone knows any backport of iceweasel 3.0 for etch, please post > here the repository. > > Thanks > Josep > > > See http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=22973. - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian

Any backport of iceweasel 3.0 for etch?

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Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

Mark Allums: > > More than you wanted or needed to know, but Rockbox is IMO probably your > best bet for ogg support. I second this. I bought an Iriver H120 two years ago, installed Rockbox on the very first day and have never regretted it. Take a look at their website, buy any player Rockbox s

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008/6/22 JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you're willing to pay thousands of dollars, why don't you find a n existing > FOSS program that's as close as possible to what you need, and pay someone - > rent-a-coder, if all else fails - to make the program do what you want? > Because that would take tens

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

On Saturday 21 June 2008 02:50:32 am Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/6/21 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 20/06/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Motivate the people that you know to let the software houses know that > >> we want their software. > > > > And we want i

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

On Sunday 22 June 2008 02:54:03 pm you wrote: > On Sun June 22 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Glad to do it.  In this case, it is NOT badly written packages, but > > rather a design choice of Debian Multimedia to go with a lib that is > > newer then stable or testing.  You will run into this err

Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

Joey Hess and all the rest, Just wanted to say thanks. You all have been very helpfull and I for one appreciate your work. Sadly, the only one I know for sure is Joey who has in the past helped me out personally on the mailing lists. Debian is rock solid and very usable thanks to you all. J

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

On Sunday 22 June 2008 01:49:37 pm you wrote: > On Sun June 22 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Paul, > > > > See this line: > > > > >  processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libswscale0_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb > >  (--unpack): > >   trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libswscale.so.0.5.0', which is also i

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the iRiver T30 the best choice? It looks pretty clunky though perhaps > not as bad as my old cassette player. It's decidedly better than an old cassette player. :) I have one of these players - acquired it about 2

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008/6/22 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Writing to them at the address you provided means creating an account. > I think they already have made up their minds insofar as price/benefits of a > Linux port. > Yes, they require the opening of an account to write to them. I suppose that it is

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/22 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Proprietary binary formats. Which makes your whole proposition very dicey. As a practical matter, trying to implement not publicly documented formats leads to a "chasing of the taillights" scenario where every time the FOSS develo

Re: [OT]: possible spyware?

Ron Johnson wrote: But why would it be *on* a Linux box? Has he been infected with a worm or rootkit? So taking cue from your message, I ran rkhunter and got two warnings. Here they are with some context: -- Performing system configuration file checks Checking for SSH con

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

On Sun June 22 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > Consider removing the offending lib*cvs* packages from the > debian-multimedia repository. > > > do I just wait for newer packages?? > > See the instructions on http://www.debian-multimedia.org/. > when I tried that I get: Beware : downgrading to these pa

Re: [OT]: possible spyware?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/08 12:07, Joey Hess wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was cleaning up some directories in an acquaintance's machine running >> Ubuntu Linux (whenever needed, I SSH to his machine from my Debian >> Lenny) and noticed that one of the di

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

> Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net > is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just > spent a day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would > install on it so I could update the BIOS to the most recent version, > hoping

Re: [OT]: possible spyware?

H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > I was cleaning up some directories in an acquaintance's machine running > Ubuntu Linux (whenever needed, I SSH to his machine from my Debian > Lenny) and noticed that one of the directories had a file called "ik" > which had this in it: > ---

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:54:26PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Google Talk can to connect to transports (for yahoo, msn, ect) on > other severs. > > http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-05-02-n79.html It still needs a third server, but apparently you don't need to subscribe. Can anyone recom

Re: naming of linux-image package

Magnus Pedersen wrote: > The 2.6.25 I get, but what is the difference between the -2 and the -5. > My guess is that the -x is the debian build version, but why the > different numbers? The -2 and -5 are ABI version numbers. Not all builds of the same version of the kernel are compatible with e

[solved] usb hub with fluxbox

I did figure this out. I just added more mount points in /media, and /etc/fstab. It works well. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

You may want to look at the following thread from the Cambridge Linux Group mailing list: http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2008-June/006805.html

Re: mount partitions as normal user?

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:33:25 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the > directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo. > I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I > must use root to copy f

RAID5 problem.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For quite a while now, I've been running a software RAID5 using external firewire disks on a Debian Unstable system. The exact architecture was four 250 GB disks on one firewire controller, for a total of 750 GB of usable space. Last night, when I was

Re: where is xmms?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:54:51PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Carl Fink wrote: >>> After reading this thread, I was irritated to find that audacious isn't in >>> Lenny.

Re: root file system question

Very good points. Trying to understand Linux from a theoretical point of view. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Sunday 22 June 2008 18:08:45 Ron Johnson, vous avez écrit : > > On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote: > > > Ok, so in theory assuming no p

Re: root file system question

Le Sunday 22 June 2008 18:08:45 Ron Johnson, vous avez écrit : > On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote: > > Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there > > should be no HD activity. > > Swap. Even if you have adequate memory, Linux will occasionally > move things to swap space.

Re: where is xmms?

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:54:51PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Carl Fink wrote: > > After reading this thread, I was irritated to find that audacious isn't in > > Lenny. > And what is http://packages.debian.org/lenny/audacious then? :) A

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

Thomas H. George wrote: > Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box? > > I'm considering converting to Ogg the audio tapes I play on a clunky > cassette player during workouts. A review of an iRiver T30 noted that > initially it worked only with XP but a downloa

Re: root file system question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote: > Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there > should be no HD activity. Swap. Even if you have adequate memory, Linux will occasionally move things to swap space. Of course, you can disable

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

On 22/06/2008, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > they all seem to require Windoze and WMP (I don't even know what WMP is). Oh, btw, many audio players work just like a regular usb flash drive. You plug it in, and you treat it like any other pendrive. The Samsung player I have is like t

Re: root file system question

Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there should be no HD activity. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is more of a theoretical Unix question, > > > > When the

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

On 22/06/2008, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box? There are several. I've been quite happy with Samsung products. I have a YP-U2 Samsung player. Funny thing to call it "mp3 player" when you want it to play Ogg.

OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box? I'm considering converting to Ogg the audio tapes I play on a clunky cassette player during workouts. A review of an iRiver T30 noted that initially it worked only with XP but a download from the manufacturer could co

Re: root file system question

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is more of a theoretical Unix question, > > When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there still > be I/O activity on the root disks? > > If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ? Depends entirel

Re: configuration of a linux router

Andrew & others, At Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:42:41 -0700 A.S-W. wrote, "that does not mean that a rule for POP3 is not needed. I don't remember if shorewall is case sensitive, but I bet it is in the context of defining a rule. maybe post the actual config line to produces the error?" My /etc/sho

Re: Balsa's "Gnome editor?"

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:03:26 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone know how to change the "Gnome editor" -- in Xfce4 -- to > > something other than mousepad? It's been a while since I've used xfce-4, but I think there's a control panel (or board, or window, or something) where you

[OT]: possible spyware?

Hello, I was cleaning up some directories in an acquaintance's machine running Ubuntu Linux (whenever needed, I SSH to his machine from my Debian Lenny) and noticed that one of the directories had a file called "ik" which had this in it: - $ cat ik

root file system question

This is more of a theoretical Unix question, When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there still be I/O activity on the root disks? If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ? TIA

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008/6/22 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Proprietary binary formats. > > Which makes your whole proposition very dicey. As a practical matter, > trying to implement not publicly documented formats leads to a "chasing > of the taillights" scenario where every time the FOSS developers get > c

Re: where is xmms?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Fink wrote: > After reading this thread, I was irritated to find that audacious isn't in > Lenny. And what is http://packages.debian.org/lenny/audacious then? :) - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer. -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: where is xmms?

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:35:43AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > After reading this thread, I was irritated to find that audacious isn't in > Lenny. audacious |1.5.0-2 | testing | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Well 1.5.1 has some bug

Re: where is xmms?

After reading this thread, I was irritated to find that audacious isn't in Lenny. Linux Journal just mentioned minirok. Haven't tried it yet. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

On Sunday 22 June 2008 09:37:05 am Paul Cartwright wrote: > Now it seems I am stuck somehwere in dependency h&ll.. > tried apt-get install -f and aptitude safe-upgrade and aptitue upgrade: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 283155 files and directories currently installed.) > U

Re: broken fetchmailconf

Ron & others, At Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:08:18 -0500 Ron J. wrote, "So what are the results of: $ COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep fetchmail" joule:~# COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep fetchmail ii fetchmail6.3.6-1etch1 SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IM AP mail gatherer/forwarder rFR f

Re: latest aptitude upgrade fails

On 2008-06-22 15:37 +0200, Paul Cartwright wrote: > Now it seems I am stuck somehwere in dependency h&ll.. > tried apt-get install -f and aptitude safe-upgrade and aptitue upgrade: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 283155 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpackin

Re: [EXPLAINED] iceweasel 3: favicon while tab is loading

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In sid's iceweasel 3 I notice a difference with iceweasel 2: when a tab is loading the favicon shown would slowly rotate in version 2, but in version 3 it stays stuck at the beginning. Searching bugzilla.mozilla.org I find nothing under "favicon", but it clearly

latest aptitude upgrade fails

Now it seems I am stuck somehwere in dependency h&ll.. tried apt-get install -f and aptitude safe-upgrade and aptitue upgrade: Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 283155 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libavutil49 (from .../libavutil49_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb)

openvpn with debian stable

Hi folks :-) I need understand a thing about openvpn with debian stable: dpkg -l|grep openvpn ii openvpn 2.0.9-4etch1 Virtual Private Network daemon apt-listbugs list openvpn grave bugs of openvpn (2.0.9-4etch1 -> ) #483723 - /usr/sbin/openssl-vulnkey: not found (Fixed: openvpn/2.1~rc7-3) #4830

Re: getting a RealTek 8197 to work

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 16:24:27 +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Toshiba Satellite laptop, integrated rtl8197. Got a patched 8187b driver from > the aircrack people but can't make it go WPA, only sees WEP. > Anyone know how to make this one fly? It is difficult to help you if you do not give any d

Re: mount partitions as normal user?

Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo. I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I must use root to copy files and delete files from the drive. So, how can I moun

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

* Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jun 22 01:45 -0500]: > 2008/6/22 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jun 21 10:05 -0500]: > > > >> When someone develops and maintains a FOSS solution that runs on Linux > >> that lets me interoperate with my Solidwo

wireless on debian

Hi, I'm looking at buying a wireless card for my laptop running debian lenny with 2.6.24-1. the machine is i386 and has a pcmcia card slot. What wireless card should I buy for this machine? And are there any good howtos out there on setting up wireless? If so can someone please provide a url? I h

Re: naming of linux-image package

David wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 I can read the following: Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 (2.6.25-5) The 2.6.25 I get, but what is the difference between the -2 and the -5. My

Re: naming of linux-image package

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 I can read the > following: > > Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 (2.6.25-5) > > The 2.6.25 I get, but what is the difference between the -2 and the -5. My > gues

Re: mount partitions as normal user?

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 20:38:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the > directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo. > I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I must > use root to copy files a

Re: Debian 2.6.18-6-686

You might post your /etc/network/interfaces -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

naming of linux-image package

On http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 I can read the following: Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 (2.6.25-5) The 2.6.25 I get, but what is the difference between the -2 and the -5. My guess is that the -x is the debian build version, but why the different numbers? /Magn

Re: where is xmms?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:47:27AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > just to jump in... I recommend mpd with some kind of front end. I find > it just the thing: small, and out of the way. It's just a music player > daemon (hence the name). You can control it with a number of different > cli and

Re: iptstate V2.2.1

Sam Kuper wrote: 2008/6/22 Jerry Stuckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: It's been suggested I try to install the package from source - but I'm not sure how to do that in this case. I can download the source and have the compiler installed - but what else? Basical

Re: mount partitions as normal user?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the > directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo. > I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I must > use root to copy

mount partitions as normal user?

Hi, When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo. I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I must use root to copy files and delete files from the drive. So, how can I mount and have permission t

Re: network shares: nfs or samba?

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 02:19:02AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/22/08 02:13, Mark Allums wrote: > [snip] > > > > You could conceivably have both samba and NFS support at the same time. > > Samba may be a bit better for a small network with Windows machines. > > There exists a lot of support

printer not listed in dialog box - firefox 3

Hey, Since upgrading to Firefox 3, I cannot print anything from within Firefox. My printer simply doesn't get listed in the dialog box. I only get LPR and print to file options. I tried deleting "prefs.js" file but i'm still no luck. I'm on Debian Etch - KDE, and firefox 3 installation is a cu

Re: iptstate V2.2.1

On 06/21/2008 10:05 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Hi, all, While I've been using Debian for about 4 years, I've been staying pretty much within the supplied packages. However, now I find with Etch I need to install iptstate V2.2.1. The one which comes with the stable version is 2.1.1; while 2.2.

Re: Root sending messages to users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/21/08 22:23, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 06/20/08 09:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Well, it is a one-user box, > No it's not. Unix hasn't just had "meat

Re: network shares: nfs or samba?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/08 02:13, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] > > You could conceivably have both samba and NFS support at the same time. > Samba may be a bit better for a small network with Windows machines. > There exists a lot of support for it, and configuration

Re: network shares: nfs or samba?

Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with nfs, so was just wondering: 1. Is samba better than nfs? 2. Does anyone know of a good samba howto? 3. Unfortunately people on my network still use windows, I dunno why, but what settings should I have in place for it to work with win? Or, shoul

Re: debian installer

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:56:07AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Alas, Debian sometimes refers to copying files from the disc as > "downloading", so it is unclear from the information you gave which it > means, getting from the disc or getting from the internet. You could > just try it, and a

Re: broken fetchmailconf

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/08 01:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > fetchmail works well and I have no need for fetchmailconf. > Nevertheless it exists in a broken state in this system. > "dpkg --remove fetchmailconf" recommends reinstallation > prior to removal