Re: Connecting Debian to Android phone

2014-01-25 Thread Csanyi Pal
ken writes: > On 01/25/2014 04:35 PM Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to connect my Samsung Galaxy S4 mini mobile phone with my Debian >> SID desktop system through an USB cable to transfer files from phone to >> Debian system. How can I do that? >> >> I have installed on the phone the KDE C

Re: Connecting Debian to Android phone

2014-01-25 Thread ken
On 01/25/2014 04:35 PM Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, I want to connect my Samsung Galaxy S4 mini mobile phone with my Debian SID desktop system through an USB cable to transfer files from phone to Debian system. How can I do that? I have installed on the phone the KDE Connect application, and on the De

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/26/14, David wrote: > On 26 January 2014 02:53, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> OK, loopback mounting: > > I wish people would clearly distinguish "loop" devices from "loopback" > devices. Just after you clarified this very point the other day too ... oh well, I shall try harder next time :)

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-25 Thread Weaver
On Sat, January 25, 2014 9:17 am, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2014, tom arnall wrote: > >> I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. >> >> >> System: >> >> Dell latitude D630 >> dual core >> 2g memory >> >> >> most used applications: >> >> icewm >> gnome-term

Re: Install Debian on SD

2014-01-25 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:31:14 +, James Kirk wrote: > I would like to install debian on a SD (I've only a Company laptop and I > would like to not modify the standard configuration). Yep, that's the same reason that I installed my debian onto my USB key several years ago. > Since SD is a flas

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-25 Thread David
On 26 January 2014 02:53, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > OK, loopback mounting: I wish people would clearly distinguish "loop" devices from "loopback" devices. The word loopback appears nowhere in 'man losetup', nor in any actual command for a loop device, but somehow it has come into widespread use

Gnome 3 fail scenario

2014-01-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
When we last left Bob he was preparing to upgrade a host from squeeze to wheezy, using apt-get. That has been on the whole a roaring success, with only a sprinkling of issues -- the usual headache with dovecot, due *entirely* to pilot error. Why oh why do I ever choose the package maintainer

Re: missing package long descriptions

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/26/14, Brian wrote: > On Sun 26 Jan 2014 at 04:52:10 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> I'm currently home and running on local repo. > > With >deb ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian sid main contrib non-free > > as the only line in sources.list do you have >ftp.iinet.net.au_debian_

Re: missing package long descriptions

2014-01-25 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Jan 2014 at 04:52:10 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I'm currently home and running on local repo. With deb ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian sid main contrib non-free as the only line in sources.list do you have ftp.iinet.net.au_debian_debian_dists_sid_main_i18n_Translation

Re: How to setup a simple email server?

2014-01-25 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 25/01/14 19:09, Garry wrote: I would like to setup a simple email server and run it out of my house. I have everything needed in order to do it. In fact I had one setup successfully about a year ago and crashed it. I can't figure out how I did it. There's only two email addresses I would l

Re: Connecting Debian to Android phone

2014-01-25 Thread Csanyi Pal
Robin writes: > On 25 January 2014 21:35, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to connect my Samsung Galaxy S4 mini mobile phone with my Debian >> SID desktop system through an USB cable to transfer files from phone to >> Debian system. How can I do that? >> >> I have installed on the phone the

Re: Connecting Debian to Android phone

2014-01-25 Thread Robin
On 25 January 2014 21:35, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I want to connect my Samsung Galaxy S4 mini mobile phone with my Debian > SID desktop system through an USB cable to transfer files from phone to > Debian system. How can I do that? > > I have installed on the phone the KDE Connect application,

Connecting Debian to Android phone

2014-01-25 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I want to connect my Samsung Galaxy S4 mini mobile phone with my Debian SID desktop system through an USB cable to transfer files from phone to Debian system. How can I do that? I have installed on the phone the KDE Connect application, and on the Debian Dekstop the kdeconnect debian package,

Re: How to setup a simple email server?

2014-01-25 Thread Joe
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:09:52 -0600 Garry wrote: > I would like to setup a simple email server and run it out of my > house. I have everything needed in order to do it. In fact I had one > setup successfully about a year ago and crashed it. I can't figure > out how I did it. > > There's only two

Re: How to setup a simple email server?

2014-01-25 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/25/2014 2:09 PM, Garry wrote: I would like to setup a simple email server and run it out of my house. I have everything needed in order to do it. In fact I had one setup successfully about a year ago and crashed it. I can't figure out how I did it. There's only two email addresses I would

Re: How to setup a simple email server?

2014-01-25 Thread Henning Follmann
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 01:09:52PM -0600, Garry wrote: > I would like to setup a simple email server and run it out of my house. I > have everything needed in order to do it. In fact I had one setup > successfully about a year ago and crashed it. I can't figure out how I did > it. > > There's

Re: assertion fail in dia

2014-01-25 Thread berenger . morel
Le 25.01.2014 20:15, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2014-01-25 20:01 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I have a crash on dia ( 0.97.2-8 ) because of some assertion which fail: ** (dia-normal:3702): CRITICAL **: dia_renderer_set_size: assertion `irenderer != NULL' failed I think that's

How to setup a simple email server?

2014-01-25 Thread Garry
I would like to setup a simple email server and run it out of my house. I have everything needed in order to do it. In fact I had one setup successfully about a year ago and crashed it. I can't figure out how I did it. There's only two email addresses I would like to setup. I would like to us

Re: assertion fail in dia

2014-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-25 20:01 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I have a crash on dia ( 0.97.2-8 ) because of some assertion which > fail: > > ** (dia-normal:3702): CRITICAL **: dia_renderer_set_size: assertion > `irenderer != NULL' failed I think that's bug #704646¹, allegedly fixed in 0.97.2-

assertion fail in dia

2014-01-25 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. I have a crash on dia ( 0.97.2-8 ) because of some assertion which fail: Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf", line 103: Having multiple values in isn't supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fo

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-25 Thread berenger . morel
Le 25.01.2014 14:08, Klaus Jantzen a écrit : To conclude this long mail, I will give you a link: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php This is a website which will asks you the same questions as me, plus some others, and which will give you some hint about what distro could be the good on

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-25 Thread sp113438
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:17:34 -0800 tom arnall wrote: > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. > > Did you try the tinycore distribution? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: missing package long descriptions

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/26/14, Brian wrote: > On Sun 26 Jan 2014 at 03:03:05 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> Why would the Translation-en file disappear when I use the >> Internet-based sources.list entry? > > What is the output of 'ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/'? $ ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/ total 55204 -rw-r- 1

Re (3): POP3 softwares.

2014-01-25 Thread peter
From: Osamu Aoki Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:08:44 +0900 > If qpopper can do it via locking why not make your local MUA to > do the same. The MUA lacks locking. I would have to write it. > maildrop package comes with lockmail for such need. (I suspect procmail > comes with similar util.) Yo

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014, tom arnall wrote: > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. > > > System: > > Dell latitude D630 > dual core > 2g memory > > > most used applications: > > icewm > gnome-terminal > vim > perl > chrome browser > transmission > > > Currently

Re: missing package long descriptions

2014-01-25 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Jan 2014 at 03:03:05 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Why would the Translation-en file disappear when I use the > Internet-based sources.list entry? What is the output of 'ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: gambas3 does not work in Sid

2014-01-25 Thread sp113438
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:29:21 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > But looking up "gambas debian package maintainer" on google also > brought up a bit of the information you want. > The bug is reported at Debian (Debian Bug report logs - #731487) Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Re (2): POP3 softwares.

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 05:42:29AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:18:29 +0900 > From: Osamu Aoki > > ??? Why bother with qpopper. It is a local mbox. > > Ideally the one mbox should work, but I'm not sure that the MUA and > getmail will each respect access by t

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-01-25 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/25/2014 1:03 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 1/25/14, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Has anyone successfully installed Viber opn Debian? What's viber? Is it libre? Or is it proprietary? http://bit.ly/wzvQ1N Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: missing package long descriptions

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/26/14, Brian wrote: > On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 23:32:19 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> Any pointers appreciated, > > The output you got would be obtained if the Translation-en file for main > in /var/lib/apt/lists/ was missing. When I change to Internet-based sources.list entry, the long de

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/26/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > *) > Now you can mount an ISO image, using an available (currently unused) > loop device, as follows: > LO_DEV=`losetup -f --show my-iso-file.iso`; echo $LO_DEV > This command will give you output of the loop device filename chosen > and used (if successful) b

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/26/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 1/24/14, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Having read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_device, I suspect >>> using a loop device will alleviate some of my problems. >> >> Let's make sure we're not in XY problem territory. > > *GRIN* ! >

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 20:51:46 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:25:01AM +, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 11:54:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > The recommended way is specific to each release and thoroughly > > > documented in the Release Notes

Re: missing package long descriptions

2014-01-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 23:32:19 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Any pointers appreciated, The output you got would be obtained if the Translation-en file for main in /var/lib/apt/lists/ was missing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: reportbug showing more recent linux kernel than exists in .au repo

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/26/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:42:50PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 1/25/14, Chris Bannister wrote: >> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:37:08PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> On 1/25/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> >> >> > Now these are the only two unco

Re (2): POP3 softwares.

2014-01-25 Thread peter
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:18:29 +0900 From: Osamu Aoki > ??? Why bother with qpopper. It is a local mbox. Ideally the one mbox should work, but I'm not sure that the MUA and getmail will each respect access by the other. qpopper will respect getmail in access to the mbox and respond to the M

Re: Zimbra mail........

2014-01-25 Thread The_Ace
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Charlie wrote: > > From my Keyboard: > > Just a quick question. Does anyone use Zimbra mail and know something > about setting it up. Have changed to a new ISP and they us Zimbra > mail. They set up the default account without too much trouble other

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 1/25/14, David wrote: Sorry for replying to myself again with further thoughts ... So you should be! My god! Another Debian user trying to be helpful ... what has the world come to!! Next we'll be offering further assistance to those who get stuck... Another option

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 1/24/14, Richard Owlett wrote: Having read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_device, I suspect using a loop device will alleviate some of my problems. Let's make sure we're not in XY problem territory. *GRIN* ! IOW Not sure if *IN*, but definitely at least near. W

Re: reportbug showing more recent linux kernel than exists in .au repo

2014-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:42:50PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 1/25/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:37:08PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> On 1/25/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> > >> > Now these are the only two uncommented lines in /etc/apt/sources.list: > >

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-25 Thread Klaus Jantzen
On 01/25/2014 11:51 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 25.01.2014 03:17, tom arnall a écrit : >> I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. >> >> >> System: >> >> Dell latitude D630 >> dual core >> 2g memory >> >> >> most used applications: >> >> icewm >>

Re: reportbug showing more recent linux kernel than exists in .au repo

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/25/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:37:08PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 1/25/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> > Now these are the only two uncommented lines in /etc/apt/sources.list: >> > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free >> > deb

missing package long descriptions

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Here's my (sid, not wheezy :) sources.list only line: deb ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian sid main contrib non-free This is temporary, normally I run off a usb which houses my local repo, so that line normally looks like a deb file:///... type line. Having made this change, I no longer have

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-25 Thread Richard Owlett
tom arnall wrote: I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. System: Dell latitude D630 dual core 2g memory most used applications: icewm gnome-terminal vim perl chrome browser transmission Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it.

Re: Debianly Correct place to add ~/bin to $PATH ? a new problem

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 04:05:55PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Most display managers don't source ~/.profile (or /etc/profile). I tried > > > to discuss this with developers, but there was hardly any interest so I > > > settled for sourcing

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 18:17 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. > > > System: > > Dell latitude D630 > dual core > 2g memory > > > most used applications: > > icewm > gnome-terminal > vim > perl > chrome browser > transmission > >

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:25:01AM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 11:54:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > The recommended way is specific to each release and thoroughly > > documented in the Release Notes. > > Which is where I got what I wrote from: I bet it was only for t

Re: reportbug showing more recent linux kernel than exists in .au repo

2014-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:37:08PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 1/25/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Now these are the only two uncommented lines in /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/update

Re: POP3 softwares.

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/25/14, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:46:15PM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: >> Problem >> Given a remote POP3 server which provides SSL. Also a MUA on a >> local host, which retrieves by POP3 when activated by the user and >> lacks SSL. Try to move messages from the server to

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-25 Thread berenger . morel
Le 25.01.2014 03:17, tom arnall a écrit : I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. System: Dell latitude D630 dual core 2g memory most used applications: icewm gnome-terminal vim perl chrome browser transmission Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unha

Re: reportbug showing more recent linux kernel than exists in .au repo

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/25/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Now these are the only two uncommented lines in /etc/apt/sources.list: > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib bleh!! wheezy is not sid :/ sorry for the noise... --

reportbug showing more recent linux kernel than exists in .au repo

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Now this happened yesterday (or possibly the day before, don't remember sorry), more than 24 hours ago anyway, as well as just now. Here's what happens: $ uname -a Linux x220a02 3.12-1-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ reportbug linux-image-3.12-1-rt-amd64

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-25 Thread berenger . morel
Le 25.01.2014 07:02, Zenaan Harkness a écrit : On 1/25/14, tom arnall wrote: i'm running icewm btw. i can't imagine using ubuntu's bloatware manager, I'm a bit of a command line junkie actually ... I have alii (aliases?) for aks = apt-cache search and akw = apt-cache show, since I use the

Re: POP3 softwares.

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:46:15PM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: > Problem > Given a remote POP3 server which provides SSL. Also a MUA on a > local host, which retrieves by POP3 when activated by the user and > lacks SSL. Try to move messages from the server to the MUA. > > Candidate Solutio

Re: Installing several OSes from a single flash drive

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:30:50AM +, d...@661.org wrote: > > I've been tinkering with the idea of installing different operating ... > This tinkering exposed a problem with Debian's hd-install boot > images. As is pointed out in Miron's article, an hd-install image > will check the boot medi