Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager

2016-05-12 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 00:25 +0800, Wang wrote: > I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband > connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password > is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is > showed to input a password. If no passw

Libreoffice mail merge not working

2016-05-12 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all, my Libreoffice fails to generate a series of document starting froma a template and a database. It used to work, but historically it has always been a fragile solution. For instance, I was never able to send the resulting document to a series of email addresses. I suspect this is due to Deb

Re: Opera Won't Run on Wheezy [SOLVED]

2016-05-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 May 2016 01:39:23 Patrick Bartek wrote: > Guess I'm stuck with the unsupported Chrome.  No biggie. Because Chrome is unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit, pepper flash is unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit. It makes no difference which of the browsers that you use that uses pepper flas

Re: configuring softwarecollections.org repository on debian jessie

2016-05-12 Thread Jochen Spieker
soko.tica: > > I need to install a package (php54) on a VM running debian jessie (Here is > why https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/web/multiplephp ). That doesn't explain why you want to install software from 2012 without upstream support on Debian while the software is packaged for a compl

Re:Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager

2016-05-12 Thread Wang
After I complete a new mobile broadband connection, the dialog for input mobile broadband password is showed (see the attachment file). The "Connect" button can not be pressed unless anything is filled in the dialog. But if I fill anything and press "Connect", the connection can not be establis

Opera Won't Run on Wheezy [SOLVED]

2016-05-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
A couple weeks ago, downloaded deb file for Opera from Opera web site, and installed. Ran fine. Now it won't. At first, thought is was my upgrading to openjdk7-jre and icedtea-7-plugin, but found out one of Chrome's files was the culprit. Opera uses pepperflash and the Chrome PDF plugins, one o

Re: Creating a home network

2016-05-12 Thread メット
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2016年5月13日 3:03:06 JST, Richard Owlett wrote: >On 5/12/2016 9:20 AM, mett wrote: >> [snip] >> >> did u see debian wiki about creating a router with a pc? > >No. I did a "title" search for "router" got 3 hits (all >relevant). A "full text" searc

Re: debian applications for Itunes?

2016-05-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 5/12/16, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi everyone, > I recall this in a thread a very long time ago. > Is there not an application that allows Debian particularly, or Linux in > general to get content from ITunes? I just ran an "apt-cache search itune" command line query and received a few results

Re: configuring softwarecollections.org repository on debian jessie

2016-05-12 Thread deloptes
soko.tica wrote: > Hello list, > > I need to install a package (php54) on a VM running debian jessie (Here is > why https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/web/multiplephp ). I have > managed to install rhscl-php54-epel-6-x86_64-1-2.noarch.rpm through alien > package, but don't know how to isnta

Re: configuring softwarecollections.org repository on debian jessie

2016-05-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-05-12, soko.tica wrote: > --001a1146456672df2d0532a72b01 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello list, > > I need to install a package (php54) on a VM running debian jessie (Here is > why https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/web/multiplephp ). I have > managed to install rh

debian applications for Itunes?

2016-05-12 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi everyone, I recall this in a thread a very long time ago. Is there not an application that allows Debian particularly, or Linux in general to get content from ITunes? Thanks, Karen

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 12 May 2016, heqami...@runbox.com wrote: > Firefox/iceweasel is the best choice Installed the new Firefox (and its repo) a while ago, but prefer it only as a back up just like Iceweasel which I've since purged. One caveat being both used Adobe Flash which caused problems on some sites I

Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 12 May 2016 at 10:08:49 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 May 2016 at 11:33:10 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Wed 11 May 2016 at 14:51:31 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > BTW when will dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config either stop saying > > > "hostname --fqdn did not return a ful

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread heqami...@runbox.com
Firefox/iceweasel is the best choice Anyway Google Chrome is based on chromium, so is a replacement

Re: Creating a home network

2016-05-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/12/2016 9:20 AM, mett wrote: [snip] did u see debian wiki about creating a router with a pc? No. I did a "title" search for "router" got 3 hits (all relevant). A "full text" search yields > 200 hits. A DuckDuckGo search with more restrictive keywords yielded a couple dozen links. I've

Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager

2016-05-12 Thread Joe
On Thu, 12 May 2016 18:28:53 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: > On 12/05/2016 17:25, Wang wrote: > > I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband > > connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and > > password is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, > > a

Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager

2016-05-12 Thread Ron Leach
On 12/05/2016 17:25, Wang wrote: I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, t

Re: Re:Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager

2016-05-12 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 01:13 +0800, Wang wrote: > Yes, I am sure. The dialog ask the password for mobile broadband's > password, not for user password Ok, the manual for network-manager says:  "Some providers do not provide a user name, or accept any user name when connecting to the networ

Re: Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager

2016-05-12 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 00:25 +0800, Wang wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband > connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password > is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is > showed to input a pa

Can not dial mobile broadband with Network-manager

2016-05-12 Thread Wang
Hi, everyone. I try to use Network-manager in GNOME to dial a mobile broadband connection. My provider is China Unicom, and no username and password is need. But when I complete the setting and try to dial, a dialog is showed to input a password. If no password is inputed, the button for connec

configuring softwarecollections.org repository on debian jessie

2016-05-12 Thread soko.tica
Hello list, I need to install a package (php54) on a VM running debian jessie (Here is why https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/web/multiplephp ). I have managed to install rhscl-php54-epel-6-x86_64-1-2.noarch.rpm through alien package, but don't know how to isntall php54 php54-php-mysqlnd. Re

Re: [partially solved]Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-12 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Michael Lange wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:43:50 +0200 Michael Lange wrote: According to this (yet probably dated ) page: http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/intl/chardet.html universal_charset_detector might help if it were enabled by default. Just looked at the above p

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 12 May 2016, Rodary Jacques wrote: > > > Le 12 mai 2016 à 03:57, Patrick Bartek a > > écrit : > > > > Now that Google Chrome support has ceased for Wheezy (and others), > > and since I have no plans to upgrade the OS for another 2 years > > when it reaches LTS EOL, would Chromium make a

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 12 May 2016, Curt wrote: > On 2016-05-12, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Now that Google Chrome support has ceased for Wheezy (and others), > > and since I have no plans to upgrade the OS for another 2 years > > when it reaches LTS EOL, would Chromium make a decent alternative? > > Is it stabl

Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 May 2016 at 11:33:10 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Wed 11 May 2016 at 14:51:31 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 10 May 2016 at 17:43:03 (+0200), Sven Hartge wrote: > > > David Wright wrote: > > > > Isn't the Debian way to put > > > > > > > MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT=foo > > > > > > > into /e

Re: Creating a home network

2016-05-12 Thread mett
2016-05-12 03:30 に Richard Owlett さんは書きました: On 5/11/2016 12:09 PM, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: Not really broke. Eg. the BananaPi Router board comes in at about €75, with 5 Gb interfaces (4 switched) and a 2.5" SATA connector, and runs a minimally adapted Debian called Bananian. Add to that a smal

Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 11 May 2016 at 14:51:31 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 10 May 2016 at 17:43:03 (+0200), Sven Hartge wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > Isn't the Debian way to put > > > > > MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT=foo > > > > > into /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and then run > > > # dpkg-reconfigur

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 05/12/2016 09:49 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 12 May 2016 08:12:22 Curt wrote: >> You should probably run 'check-support-status' to obtain a list of >> packages on your machine that are no longer supported security-wise. > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ check-support-status > check-support-status: com

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Chromium used to have screen reader acessibility which was useable with orca but that went away then speech-dispatcher support was available for a short time and now that's gone too. So long as you won't need screen reader accessibility with orca you should be good to go. On Wed, 11 May 2016,

Unpacking process is very slow with apt on VM under Debian 8

2016-05-12 Thread Martin LEUSCH
Hi, I have a virtualization environment with a Proxmox cluster and an other cluster with GlusterFS to store disk images. With VM under Debian 8, and the unpacking operation is very very very long, arround an hour to unpack linux-image-amd64 for example. I do not have this problem with Debian

Re: Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
The stretch installer is flakey; I have an amd k8 athelon and don't use ssd drives on that machine sata disks and nothing in that select packages step would install. On Wed, 11 May 2016, Albin Otterh?ll wrote: Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 18:24:55 From: Albin Otterh?ll To: debian-user@lists.debian

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread Curt
On 2016-05-12, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 12 May 2016 08:12:22 Curt wrote: >> You should probably run 'check-support-status' to obtain a list of >> packages on your machine that are no longer supported security-wise. > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ check-support-status > check-support-status: command not

Re: Shell - escapes

2016-05-12 Thread Mart van de Wege
Mark Fletcher writes: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:20 PM wrote: > > If you are embedding longer scripts in your shell, consider using > "here documents", which are more flexible wrt. embedded quotes. > For one-liners, Thomas' solution works nicely. > > > > Except that it doe

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread steve
Hi, Install the package 'debian-security-support'. Best, Steve

LVM Merge

2016-05-12 Thread Tom Jay
Hello, I'm trying to merge an LVM snapshot into the original volume. If I look in the man page for lvconvert, under '--merge', it says: To check if your kernel supports the snapshot merge feature, look for 'snapshot-merge' in the output of 'dmsetup targets'. If I run 'dmsetup targets', I get t

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 12 May 2016 08:12:22 Curt wrote: > You should probably run 'check-support-status' to obtain a list of > packages on your machine that are no longer supported security-wise. lisi@Tux-II:~$ check-support-status check-support-status: command not found lisi@Tux-II:~$ aptitude show check-su

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-12 Thread Curt
On 2016-05-12, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Now that Google Chrome support has ceased for Wheezy (and others), and > since I have no plans to upgrade the OS for another 2 years when it > reaches LTS EOL, would Chromium make a decent alternative? Is it stable > enough for regular use? I've never used i