Re: How can we change the keyboard layout? (was: what keyboard do you use?)

On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:06:30 +0100 hw wrote: > Yes, it's a misunderstanding: How can we change the keyboard layout? I recently dug into this because I am running Debian on a Chromebook, and I wanted to map the Google-key (located next to the A key, where you usually expect Caps-Lock to be) to

Re: Running 32 bit apps on 64 bit debian

On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:58:55 -0800 Van Snyder wrote: > I'm trying run 32 bit LinuxSusser on 64 bit Debian 12 bookworm. Have you tried running a 32-bit app that was installed via apt/dpkg ? If not, I'd recommend installing a simple 32-bit app. Two things that may happen: * it may cause the

Re: Crossgrade instructions seem broken

There's two approaches I would consider here: If you know exactly which packages you want downloaded, I think you can use "apt-get download" to just download the packages you tell it to, and it will ignore all dependency requirements, and not download any other packages. This would be a

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 02:39:43 + Victor Sudakov wrote: > Please don't just say "kvm". I've tried installing different > combinations of "qemu-kvm", "virt-manager" etc and they all depend on > dozens of GUI tools. I think the problem that you are running into with qemu-kvm is that while the

Re: Gtk4 Package Support?

On Thu, 27 May 2021 11:54:36 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > libgtk-4-0 is currently in "experimental" which means that it is > both unstable and buggy. You can certainly install it and try it > out, but you shouldn't depend on it just yet. If it goes > smoothly, then it could be in the next stable

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

I've been using Unison (https://packages.debian.org/buster/unison-gtk -- there's also a commandline package) for quite a few years (a decade?) now. It works well.

Re: USB3 Monitors

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 20:56:39 -0500 Carl Fink wrote: > Does anyone know whether Debian (or the kernel in general, I guess) > supports USB3 monitors? A quick web search finds no mention of it, if As far as I am aware, video-over-USB is "displaylink". Including "displaylink" in

Re: Swift lang in Debian?

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 13:34:46 -0500 Dale Harris wrote: > I imagine this is being discussed somewhere in the larger Debian > community, but I'm having problems finding anything online, off hand. > Does anyone know if there is there any plans to package Swift language > into

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 13:25:37 -0500 Brian Sammon debian-users-l...@brisammon.fastmail.fm wrote: I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. ... Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't involve buying or borrowing (or borrowing) a copy of OSX

Re: Installing a bootloader on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 13:25:37 -0500 Brian Sammon debian-users-l...@brisammon.fastmail.fm wrote: Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't involve buying or borrowing (or borrowing) a copy of OSX? Is it easier to install linux on a USB disk and run it off

Re: Installing a bootloader on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 15:40:33 -0500 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: I've tried the i386 install (v7.7) CD multiple times and I've tried having it put GRUB on the MBR and on the partition and neither way resulted in a bootable install. I think this can be made to work with a

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 + Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: Hi Brian, You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to play with. To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've got *is*

Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't boot from the hard drive. Googling finds me various pages about installing Linux where

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100 Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require OSX: 1) Blessing a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility) Any pointers/suggestions?

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100 Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require OSX: 1) Blessing a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility) Any pointers/suggestions?

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:46:09 -0500 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 08:01:48 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Can we conclude that you have read this page https://wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel I have read this page, and I'm hoping to add a If you don't have OSX section to it, once I figure out what to add. and followed

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:34:22 -0800 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: Installing to the MBR should fix your booting problems. This brings to mind another question/issue: I need to educate myself on how MBRs work on EFI machines. Questions such as: When it says it's installing Grub

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:39:08 -0800 Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: As mentioned earlier, your machine is currently not using EFI. I missed that -- and how do I know that for sure? Is it possible that it's trying to use EFI, but my debian install is trying to do something

Re: building .debs with +b1 on the end

On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:39:06 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 02:51:40PM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: So I would have to install/learn sbuild. sbuild can be used to do it, but you don't need sbuild. I think dpkg-buildpackage would be sufficient, dpkg

Re: building .debs with +b1 on the end

On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:08:32 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2014-07-07 20:51 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote: So I would have to install/learn sbuild. If you just want to rebuild packages locally, this is not really necessary. Are you saying there's another way to do what I want

Re: building .debs with +b1 on the end

On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:55:22 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: Packages in the archive with a +bN version suffix, such as +b1, have be 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the environment has changed (such as a version bump of a library dependency). Ah!

building .debs with +b1 on the end

I want to re-build a package for personal use, and have a special version number for my custom build. Since I'm not planning on customizing the source or the debian control files, I think the ideal choice is to build a binary package with a suffix like +b1 or +local on the end. An example of

Re: Getting apt-cdrom to work

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:56:37 -0500 Brian Sammon debian-users-l...@brisammon.fastmail.fm wrote: I'm trying to get apt to install packages from a Debian 7.0.0 CD (just disc 1) I made a while ago. So, it turns out that was apt was looking in varying places for the CD mount point. Sometimes

Re: Getting apt-cdrom to work

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:56:37 -0500 Brian Sammon debian-users-l...@brisammon.fastmail.fm wrote: I'm trying to get apt to install packages from a Debian 7.0.0 CD (just disc 1) I made a while ago. So, it turns out that was apt was looking in varying places for the CD mount point. Sometimes

Re: Getting apt-cdrom to work

On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:49:13 +0200 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please post the output of apt-cache policy apt-cache policy acpi # apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 ftp://ftp-nyc.osuosl.org/debian/

Getting apt-cdrom to work

I'm trying to get apt to install packages from a Debian 7.0.0 CD (just disc 1) I made a while ago. I mounted the CD, ran apt-cdrom add and it seemed to work successfully (it added a line to /etc/sources.list). When I run apt-get update, I get six lines of Ign cdrom://... which is worrying, but

Re: Squeeze X broken on Inspiron 8500--how to report bug

As I explained in that bug report, it's an incompatibility between the Squeeze kernel and Lenny userland. Unfortunately, there is no way to express this in package conflicts to ensure that it does not occur on partial upgrades. Okay, so I'm clear: You're saying the Lenny

Squeeze X broken on Inspiron 8500--how to report bug

I entered a bug that upgrading udev from lenny to unstable breaks X. (It also breaks with the squeeze version of udev ) ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600551 ) The bug was closed without any changes to the package, or any other package. While I've found a workaround, I'm

can't find tcpd messages in system logs

According to various tcpd docs (manpage, READMEs) it logs information via syslog. However, when I do 'grep -i tcpd /var/log/*' I see nothing. I have tcpd 7.6.dbs-8 and sysklogd 1.4.1-17 on my machine. I have stripped my /etc/syslogd.conf down to the following single line, (and restarted inetd)

MakeMaker configured to put scripts in /usr/bin/

If I have Makefile.PL as follows: use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; WriteMakefile( NAME = 'MyLib', EXE_FILES = ['MyProg'] ); Then perl Makefile.PL; make; make install puts MyProg in /usr/bin/ I was expecting it to be put in /usr/local/bin. It seems