Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

On 1/29/19, Nitebirdz wrote: > I used the following two documents sometime ago to perform a similar > install. Hopefully, they will be of some help to you too. > > https://xo.tc/setting-up-full-disk-encryption-on-debian-9-stretch.html > > https://gist.github.com/ppmathis/ccfbfce86484dc61834c1f1756

trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

I got one of those office computers I would like to recycle. It has a fat16 (as /dev/sda1) partition with some manufacturer’s selftests which I would like to keep. So, I wiped the rest of the other two partitions to install Debian encrypted, however I can’t make sense of the questions I am being a

Re: E: Unable to locate package zimlib . . .

On 1/16/19, Tom Bachreier wrote: > I don't know what zimlib is but you mean maybe libzim? In stretch is > libzim0v5: > I installed the package, but could not make sense of it. "zim" is the extension used by compressed wikipedia pages. You find su

Re: E: Unable to locate package zimlib . . .

https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils seems to be what I actually needed in order to decompress zim files

E: Unable to locate package zimlib . . .

Why is it I can't install zimlib? # apt-get install zimlib Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package zimlib # apt-get update Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease [91.0 kB] Ign:2 http://deb.debian.o

pcompress or any way to get Rabin’s fingerprinting algorithm on Debian?

I think pcompress their license http://moinakg.github.io/pcompress/ is compatible with Debian but for whatever reason you can't install it from the repositories # apt-get install pcompress Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to lo

Re: trying to redirect display output from laptop to a TV through its HDMI port ...

On 10/23/18, deloptes wrote: > I think this should help > xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto For whatever reason it is not clear from the output of the commandd that I am indeed using a SAMSUNG LCD Monitor connected to one of its HDMI ports: $ xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto warning: output HDMI1 not fo

trying to redirect display output from laptop to a TV through its HDMI port ...

On: $ uname -a Linux niggahme 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux ~ I am using a samsung 32" TV through its HDMI port: https://www.samsung.com/ca/support/model/LN32A450C1DXZC/ http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/200803/20080310190040609_BN68-01

problems with an external monitor after suspending session . . .

 On: $ uname -a Linux niggahme 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux ~  I am using a samsung 32" TV through its HDMI port:  https://www.samsung.com/ca/support/model/LN32A450C1DXZC/   http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/200803/20080310190040609_BN68-01

Re: which blend caters to TaL computer programming? . . .

On 3/13/18, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > There are now a variety of open source attempts at similar functionality, > this > page provides some thoughts: > > https://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-open-source-free-alternative-to-Mathematica Thank you! Very good reference! I like the idea of a free/OS P

Re: which blend caters to TaL computer programming? . . .

> Exposing children to C and/or C++ should be considered abuse. :) > Similarly exposing pointers is just a method of introducing bugs and security > holes into programs. I see your point including the joke, but I don't quite agree with you. I will, of course, explain to them the dangers of usin

which blend caters to TaL computer programming? . . .

I have a group of kids that are very good in Math and they want to learn some actual programming My approach is to introduce them to the basics of coding using ANSI C, C++ and java (so they learn what pointers are about, how patterns are coded in different languages, ...) Is there a blend with

Re: java, javac versions not the same, apt-get doesn't help ...

On 1/12/18, Bastien Durel wrote: > Le vendredi 12 janvier 2018 à 04:20 -0500, Albretch Mueller a écrit : >> java gives you error messages when you compile and run code with >> different versions of the JVM >> >> while trying to update my box using apt-get I am ge

java, javac versions not the same, apt-get doesn't help ...

java gives you error messages when you compile and run code with different versions of the JVM while trying to update my box using apt-get I am getting: "openjdk-8-jdk is already the newest version." How do you make sure you install the same version of both java and javac using apt-get? lbrtchx

Re: only one user with access to vt consoles in multiseat set ups ...

Also, something important to me is for each seat to be able to go into init 5 under its own locale Say, one seat would be running under a French locale and the other one a German one. lbrtchx

only one user with access to vt consoles in multiseat set ups ...

I would like to know the reason for the following note: ~ https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO NOTE: Only the user on the first monitor has the use of vt consoles and can use Ctrl+Alt+F to select them. The other users have a gdm login screen and can use X normally, but have no vt's.

trying to optimize find's searches ...

find works significantly faster when you bag various search patterns á la: -iname '*.ko' -or -iname '*.bin' -or -iname '*.txt' but, how could you do that using a batch strategy and setting a variable with many "-[i]name ... -or -[i]name ..." cases? line-by-line strategies are too slow lbrtchx

Re: Linux' (and other OS's) code patterns present in device drivers, the kernel and userland code ...

> All programming languages have "the language" with its grammar, operators, > oddities which are a result of trying to shoe-horn too much into an "elegant" > grammar only to see springs start to poke through the fabric. ~ yet, since all languages are syntactic anyway (some sorts of protocol han

Linux' (and other OS's) code patterns present in device drivers, the kernel and userland code ...

>> Do you know of any code correlation analysis in Linux, preferably, >> based on some measurable metrics? ~ > You may get more of a response to this question if you ask again with a more > appropriate Subject. ~ as I mentioned in relation to adler32's hashing implementation, there are quite a f

Re: apparently they somehow have their adler32 cake as part of Debian Linux ...

> Unless it is implemented in a separate library or utility you will have to > look at rsync's or zlib's code to see how it is implemented. ~ Well, since that hashing algorithm is logically independent and it used in many algorithms including rsync and zlib used extensively, I thought it would be

Re: apparently they somehow have their adler32 cake as part of Debian Linux ...

~ also, adler32 is internally used by widely used packages such as rsync and zlib, so it should be available somehow ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

apparently they somehow have their adler32 cake as part of Debian Linux ...

~ http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=adler32&mode=filename&suite=stable&arch=any ~ but you can't eat it? ~ http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=adler32&mode=exactfilename&suite=stable&arch=any ~ http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=cont

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ...

#!/bin/bash _DT=$(date +%Y:%m:%d:%H:%M:%S) echo "// __ \$_DT: $_DT" SavedIFS="$IFS" IFS=":" _dpvals_arr=( $_DT ) # date place values echo "// __ total numbers: ${#_dpvals_arr[@]}" for _dp in "${_dpvals_arr[@]}" do echo "$_dp" done IFS="$SavedIFS" ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ...

> What is "array" supposed to do? [??] > What did you want the script to do? ~ chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/info/gawk/gawk_13.html#SEC126 ~ split(string, array [, fieldsep]) This divides string into pieces separated by fieldsep, and stores the pieces in array. The first piece is stored in

split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ...

Why wouldn't bash's split() work in such an easy case? ~ lbrtchx ~ #!/bin/bash _az="a b c a 2 3" echo "// __ \$_az: \"$_az\"" n = split($_az,array," ") echo "// __ \$_n: |$_n|" ~ ~ ~ ~ error message ~ ~ ~ ~ $ which awk /usr/bin/awk $ awk --version GNU Awk 3.1.7 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2009

Re: Linux time not redirecting output to log file ...

t;&3) 3>> $_ERR_OUT date >> $_ERR_OUT ~ produces $_ERR and $_ERR_OUT as separate files, but does not include the output of time in $_ERR_OUT ~ Do you have a way to achieve this? ~ Thank you, lbrtchx On 11/28/13, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 28/11/13 12:32, Albretch Mueller wrote:

Linux time not redirecting output to log file ...

~ I find useful while coding/debugging separating the errors from the output + errors, even if the programming language doesn't allow for that: ~ http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Java/comp.lang.java.programmer/2012-08/msg01347.html ~ in this case however I can't get (Linux) time to log into

Re: Security?

here is an interesting discussion branch: ~ http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/09/06/0148201/schneier-the-us-government-has-betrayed-the-internet-we-need-to-take-it-back ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Security?

>> https://lavabit.com/ > > I always claimed that the issue is the most hard for nationals from the > USA, then for any other people. ~ I think morality and having a spine transcend nationality and political persuasion. What Joseph Nacchio, Levison, Snowden, Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff: ~ //

Re: Security?

Basically the computational strength of any type of encryption depends on the algorithm and the key length. Any high school kid a little enthusiastic about Math can calculate and store all primes for all numbers within 32 bits which are all primes you need to get all numbers within 64 bit numbers

Re: find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

I have come to believe this is one of those problems that is not to be optimally solved with a script, but a programming language lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

> Ksnapshot for capturing a screen shot ~ actually Ksnapshot has this functionality built-in somehow. You can tell it to make a snapshot of the current window instead of the whole screen ~ > Are you trying to fix a lack in a video editing app without touching the app > itself, or are you looking

find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

the short bash script bellow you can use to find text files containing one word, but my attempts at trying to make it find more than one word within the same file haven't been successful Of course, you can go monkey and list all files containing each word and then sort and compare those list, bu

Re: mount.cifs: bad UNC ...

On 8/19/13, Dom wrote: > On 19/08/13 21:31, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> I am unsuccessfully trying to mount a Windows Network share which (on >> windows) advertises itself as using the following path >> ~ >> \\315wcclassdc.wcclasses.local\users$\class1 >> ~ &

mount.cifs: bad UNC ...

I am unsuccessfully trying to mount a Windows Network share which (on windows) advertises itself as using the following path ~ \\315wcclassdc.wcclasses.local\users$\class1 ~ but this is what I am getting: $ sudo mkdir -p /media/cifs $ sudo mount -t cifs \\315wcclassdc.wcclasses.local\users$\cl

RFE: moving networking out of the kernel and into to user land ...

~ I think, for security reasons and now that we live in a post 1984-era, Linux should move networking out of the kernel and into to user land. ~ Well, I know this will entail more than moving some code and references and defining a default "networked" user. ~ Do you know of any such version or k

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

I think I should have worded the question as: ~ "any way to get the mouse position on the screen" (so that then you would then take a second one in order to calculate the rectangular viewing area on a screen (showing a video))? ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

>> One mouse cursor at two different positions at the same time? >> What is it good for? > Schizophrenic people? ~ Is it not the very definition of schizophrenia to see and hear things other people haven't actually stated? ~ Anyway I was trying to be the possibly least verbose I could. Since I n

any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

Thank you, lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cafakbwj3puhzgnehwzbhaaf6pksvg7raujc6s7qdwsmu3w6...@mail.gmail.com

trying to copy audio files from a CD without a file system ...

I have an audio CD which Linux/Debian/knoppix shows me in a browser window as: ~ cdda://sr0/Track 33.wav ... cdda://sr0/Track 1.wav ~ when I try to copy the audio file to my local drive I get ~ $ mplayer -fs "cdda://sr0/Track 1.wav" -ao pcm:file="/media/sdb1/audo/Track 1.wav" MPlayer svn r34540 (

Re: Should I trust SMART monitoring tools or the Linux kernel drivers?

~ let me add to what I said, that I don't hear that drive making any weird noises and the data I keep there are just local copies of freely available data ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Should I trust SMART monitoring tools or the Linux kernel drivers?

~ I have a Maxtor OneTouch 2HAS5DYX drive that intermittently gives me problems. Like when I make my box go into "suspend" mode for a while, it doesn't mount itself when I reawaken it and I have to unmount and remount it manually ~ when the box is under heavy load (e.g., heat fan is revving). The

Re: Iceweasel is already running ...

> Did you actually insert the correct PID? ~ yes, I did ;-) ~ and I do understand the OP meant I should run it as root (I did both as root and non-root) to no avail. Some people had similar complaints online and some suggestions were to wait for a while for the OS to take care of it, but in my ca

Re: cron jobs to restart a shell process ...

~ of course, as part of this algorithm there should be a way of determining if the job finished gracefully and there should be a way of recontextualizing each restart ... ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

cron jobs to restart a shell process ...

~ Sometimes I need to start a long running process which for various reasons may be stopped (server drops connection, OS kills it, ...) and I would like to have a somewhat automatic mechanism to check if it was stopped and, in that case, restart it (of course, with a new process id) ~ This is wha

Re: Iceweasel is already running ...

> Have you tried > #ps ax | grep iceweasel > then > #kill > ? ~ yes, I have: ~ #kill -9 ~ but it doesn't do anything and iceweasel keeps giging me sh!t ~ what do you do in such cases? ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Iceweasel is already running ...

> If you definitely have no firefox/iceweasel/similar process running and it > still won't start, try removing ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/lock ~ but the thing is that I am removing the whole subdirectory: ~ ~/.mozilla/firefox ~ and trying to restart iceweasel ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Iceweasel is already running ...

~ Since I use a liveCD to go online as a user whose home dir is in a ramdisk section, I have a "yeah, sure! ..." attitude when it comes to enabling javascript or what have you ~ Once in a while I would go "init 2" remove and recreate that ramdisk home directory, but I get such "so und so is alrea

minidrive: Spinning up disk ... .not responding ...

I need to extract the data from a Western Digital (1 TB My Passport 0740) mini disk that started to fail ~ http://hsymbolicus.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/bus-powered-or-not-port-on-wd-1t-minidrive/ ~ The disk does not even show when you run fdisk -l, so you can't even mount it to run smartctl on i

Re: No such file or directory ...

t;1.7.0_07" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_07-b10) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 23.3-b01, mixed mode) $ which bash /bin/bash ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ On 10/15/12, Raphael Cauderlier wrote: > Albretch Mueller writes: > >> I a

No such file or directory ...

I am having problems which I think may relate to an actually dying disk, but I am not sure. Sometimes I have thought it is because of a dying disk and then we have realized it wasn't. ~ I basically installed java and recursively copied the files to another directory. 'which' and 'ls' are telling

Re: can't hear any sound ...

> Is your user in the audio group? ~ What is the command I have to run to check that? ~ > Can root play sounds? ~ No, it can't ~ thanks lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

can't hear any sound ...

and this is what it is installed ~ $ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 1: ATI IXP IEC958 [ATI IXP IEC958 (AC97)] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevic

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On 9/29/12, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Albrecht! > > Am Samstag, 29. September 2012 schrieb Albretch Mueller: > > Two ideas: > > 1) floppy device activated in BIOS while no floppy device present > > 2) floppy emulation for USB mass storage activated in BIOS ~ that

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On 9/29/12, Jude DaShiell wrote: > run d-ban on the disk and do a thorough cleaning of the disk then try ~ The only "data erasure" I know of is shredding your hard drives to pieces, smashing them to dust and melting them. This is by the way what US gov does with their hard drives and monitors ~

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

> Or (from hdparm's man page: Disable the automatic power-saving > function of certain Seagate drives...): > hdparm -Z /dev/sda # hdparm -Z /dev/sda /dev/sda: disabling Seagate auto powersaving mode HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(seagatepwrsave) failed: Input/output error lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

~ I think there may be a number of things going on here. Let me first answer Neal's questions: ~ > Have you tried "fdisk -l /dev/sda"? ~ Well, there are no disk attached whatsoever to my box. I am using a bear live CD (knoppix 7.0.2) right off the DVD drive ~ > How about: > tail -f /var/log/mes

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

> > >1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006Pre-fail > > > > > > Always - 96695847 > > > > Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very > > low. > Not necessarily. At least one disk mfr (Seagate?) puts large values in these > fields. Cause

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

in a box in which I use the fromhd stanza using a disk which smartclt reports as being fine the results before and after suspending are the same ~ this is what the dying disk reports ~ $ date; X=`(time fdisk -l) 2>&1 | grep real`; echo $X Fri Sep 28 10:52:58 UTC 2012 real 0m0.191s $ date; X=`(tim

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

I just backed up all the data ~ Yet, it seems something else may be (also?) somehow relating to those delays. Since I start knoppix 7.0.2 as: ~ knoppix no3d fromhd=/dev/sda9 ~ could these issues/problems relate to the fact that /dev/sda9 is mounted read-only and knoppix keeps it to itself throu

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

> Failing boot sector? > Some other sector it has to read is failing? > Check the logs. Try (from smartmontools): ~ I don't know exactly which of your questions/suggestions running: ~ smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep -i "sector|realloc" ~ relates to, but it didn't report any error message. Without g

why would fdisk -l take so long?

$ date; fdisk -l; date Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes /

"Segmentation faults" and "could not locate so-and-so library or plugin" ...

isplay_get_xdisplay: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed Segmentation fault Albretch Mueller posted on Sep 14 2012, 6:57:0 PM ~ http://knoppix.net/forum/threads/30205-Segmentation-fault-or-Hulu-Desktop-could-not-locate-the-Flash-plugin-... ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: hardware monitoring at the most basic level …

OK, I got inquisitor 3.1beta2 and I will try it on my boxes, but honestly I think there has been quite of "paradigm shift" and I couldn't see how it covers the kinds of "use cases" (let's call it that ;-)) that I mentioned. BTW, have you thought of including DTrace? The assumptions that initiall

Re: hardware monitoring at the most basic level …

>> How do you get periodic snapshots of your running hardware? >I don't usually bother, but a reboot and a glance at dmesg can be enough. Sometimes they aren't, at least in my case most times they aren't ;-) >> My box started to shutdown by itself and I doubt it is related to >> overheating (

hardware monitoring at the most basic level …

How do you get periodic snapshots of your running hardware? ~ My box started to shutdown by itself and I doubt it is related to overheating (in a random and plain physical way) so I changed it for another one because I didn’t have time for troubleshooting/fixing at this moment but then the same t

Re: memtest86's no show

// __ http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/oneiric/ ~ DVD version of unbuntu (AMD is used for Intel x86 as well) ~ it is a displayed boot option ("test memory") ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

memtest86's no show

~ Probably one of you have managed to run memtest86 on a 64-bit Intel box (hp-xw6600) ~ I downloaded and burned memtest86 Version 4.0b (Server) (26-Oct-2011) onto a CD, but when I boot up the box from the CD all I see is: ~ Memtest86 Version 4.0b Server - Sel

mplayer and ffmpeg biting each other's tail ...

~ I am having some nasty dependency problems which branching seem get more and more complicated ~ Basically, I need to install ffmpeg on configuration that had mplayer previously installed ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ # dpkg -i libavcodec51_0.svn20080206-18+lenny3_i3

Re: Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC ...

~ I won't be anywhere near that box for a week. I will have to test it afterwards ~ Thanks lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=J4H=jrmu

Re: Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC ...

> True, this package has been split out from dpkg and dpkg-dev after the > Lenny release. What does "dpkg -l dpkg dpkg-dev" print? ~ $ dpkg -l dpkg dpkg-dev Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reins

Re: Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC ...

~ >, >| $ dpkg -S Dpkg.pm >| libdpkg-perl: /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg.pm >` $ dpkg -S Dpkg.pm dpkg: *Dpkg.pm* not found. $ ls -l /usr/share/perl5/ total 27 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Oct 28 2009 Crypt drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 120 Mar 14 07:27 Date drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Oct 18 17:35 D

Re: Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC ...

Also, let me point out that perl is installed on my default system: $ uname -a Linux Microknoppix 2.6.37 #13 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 23 23:54:32 CET 2011 i686 GNU/Linux $ which perl /usr/bin/perl $ perl --version This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 51 registered p

Can't locate Dpkg.pm in @INC ...

~ in order to run dpkg-scanpackages, I need to install first lzma, patch, libtimedate-perl and dpkg-dev, which I do via dpkg --install (I have done this before without any problems whatsoever), but then when I try to run dpkg-scanpackages, I get: ~ ~ ~ ~ Can't locate Dpkg.p

Re: Failed to fetch file ...

> ... For me it's a path issue. ~ yes, it was and for the record (in case you stumble upon the same issue and find this thread), apparently dpkg-scanpackages must be run right from the directory containing i386 ~ thanks lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Failed to fetch file ...

~ I included some more files in order to be able to install wireshark in my local repository, then removed the previous Packages.gz file and run again ~ dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz ~ My local source list is just one line: ~ root@Microknoppix:~/ri# cat "/mnt/sdb12/Lkl/d

build your own ... (primarily Linux/Debian multiboot box)

~ this is not a hardware community but you will see why I ask this q here: ~ At sites like these: ~ http://www.tomshardware.com/theme-build-your-own,156.html ~ http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2366841,00.asp ~ you find pretty good outlines/step-by-step guides on how to build a PC on

File systems' timestamps apparently formatted in a wrong way ...

~ ... or ls not properly displaying them in some cases. ~ I got this compressed file that seems to be the metadata snapshot of a file system you get by running: ~ ls -lR ~ but not all timestamps are formatted the same. You get them as, say, "Mar 24 2004", but also as "Dec 26 09:55" (without the

Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

> if you need certain extension, you don't even need cat and find, it's all > about grep: > $ grep 'string' *.extension ~ The thing is that I need to know in which file the pattern was found and as you guys suggested: ~ $ find -name '*.extension' -exec grep -H 'pattern' {} \; ~ does it ~ Thank

searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

I need to: ~ search for files using a pattern (say all files with a certain extension) ~ then search inside each of the found files for a word or regexp pattern ~ You could do this using find, cat and grep in a script, but I was wondering about how could you do it with a oneliner ~ Thanks lbr

Buffer I/O error on device ... logical block ...

~ I have some 1980 data on DVDs I would like to back up to a hard drive ~ The data itself is apparently mounted read only and I can access and see it with no problems ~ The thing is that when I try to copy it to my hard drive large files are not being copied (only smaller ones) and this is what

"konwert: unknown filter -- dynafont" (console's font)

~ I need to set the console to handle utf-8 fonts in lenny ~ with sarge I would simply go: ~ $ sudo dpkg -i konwert-filters_1.8-9_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package konwert-filters. (Reading database ... 110798 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking konwert-filters (fr

Re: Unable to find growisofs executable . . .

~ I just discovered k3b was not included in knoppix version 6.2 ~ > s...@stt008:~$ whereis growisofs > growisofs: /usr/bin/growisofs /usr/share/man/man1/growisofs.1.gz > > If that returns no output, you'll have to follow the wise-advice of K3B: > "(sic) Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package."

Unable to find growisofs executable . . .

Hi, ~ I am using knoppix 5.1.1 based on kernel version 2.6.19 (resembking kubuntu dapper): ~ $ dmesg | grep "Linux version" Linux version 2.6.19 (r...@knoppix) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)) #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 17 22:01:07 CET 2006 ~ and I recently installed a DVD

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <9ef66fac1002102000u63567764s84a867b7376c4...@mail.gmail.com>, Albretch > Mueller wrote: >>> ... GRUB 2 should be able to find your kernel based on filesystem UUID >> >> Boyd, how am I gona know t

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

> ... GRUB 2 should be able to find your kernel based on filesystem UUID ~ Boyd, how am I gona know the filesystem UUID of a machine I have never used? ;-) ~ Also from their own manual: ~ http://grub.enbug.org/Manual ~ UUID entries - Test these first. They are automatically generated by some gr

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

~ I did strace the process run by the script ~ strace -e trace=open,read,write -s 8192 -o debug.webserver.txt sh ./ri08.sh ~ but I can not see what is producing the "(21: Is a directory)" error ~ apt-get update -o RootDir=/media/sdb2/inst/sw/deb -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/local00_sources.l

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

> Googling "debian live cd persist" shows: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Custom_Install > >> Purpose >> >> Do a custom install of Debian Live on a removable flash drive or hard >> disc with a persistent home directory or entire root filesystem, and >> create a partition for sharing do

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

~ I get those "what are you really trying to do?" questions all the time. Let me start by explaining to you, why I do things in a certain way ~ I love live CDs and use them all the time. I carry one of them, my pen drive and/or my external micro drive almost everywhere in one of my pockets. I am

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,06.Feb.10, 22:37:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu >> wrote: >> > On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> > >> >>  How is it b

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote: > >>  How is it being set to beging with if I don't explicitly use dpkg to >> install packages? > > Only dpkg installs packages. APT "just" tak

local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

~ After taking snapshots of my file system before and after installations using apt-get, I noticed lots of files in: ~ /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...} ~ relating to the files I installed, but those files I had grabbed locally like this: ~ _SL= apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=${

Re: DELL PowerEdge-like ESM and OMSA for Debian?

ven have a > 64-bit version for RedHat yet to my knowledge. > > Albretch Mueller wrote: >> ~ >>  DELL supports only RedHat and Suse (and Windows ...) and I was able >> to update my BIOS basically from a Debian-based live CD using the >> steps provided here: >> ~ >&

DELL PowerEdge-like ESM and OMSA for Debian?

~ DELL supports only RedHat and Suse (and Windows ...) and I was able to update my BIOS basically from a Debian-based live CD using the steps provided here: ~ http://www.ducea.com/2007/08/27/dell-bios-firmware-updates-on-debian/ ~ Now I would to have the kind of management that ESM and OMSA allo

Fwd: trying to update PowerEdge BIOS "Make sure the following utilities are in the path ..."

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Robert David wrote: > I updated dell poweredge bios once and I think I used > > procmail > > Next try to search package accoarding to file: > > http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=lockfile&mode=path&suite=stable&arch=any > > Regards, > Robe

trying to update PowerEdge BIOS "Make sure the following utilities are in the path ..."

~ While trying the update the BIOS of a PowerEdge 1850 using Linux/Debian/knoppix 6.2, I got: ~ spsetup.sh: line 124: source: buildVer.sh: file not found spsetup.sh: Cannot find utilities on the system to execute package. Make sure the following utilities are in the path: sed stty cut fmt st

Re: dependency hell + I want to keep deb installation files local ...

~ ... I editted /etc/apt/sources.list ~ // __ http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html ~ 2.2 How to use APT locally Sometimes you have lots of packages .deb that you would like to use APT to install so that the dependencies would be automatically solved. To do that create a

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

> The USB cable length limit is 5 meters, or 16.4 ft. To go 100 ft with USB > requires a USB balun. Read about baluns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balun ~ OK, I got your point accross better now. The thing is that I wasn't really thinking this way about implementing it from a hardware point

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

>> The only extra cost here would be the special video cards for each >> seat but even they are commercial nowadays and making multi-seat work >> would be our job right? ~ > You're still missing the overall picture here. In your living room or > basement, or in a library or lab with a 30 foo

Re: dependency hell + I want to keep deb installation files local ...

~ I am benefiting from your comments, but I was originally thinking about a directory/file-based approach which apt-get seems to be capable of and source.list documents ~ I would like to just carry my external drive, plug it in and do my thing. You are not supposed to be setting up servers in net

<    1   2   3   4   5   >