Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote: So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop install w/ no server services? It's being upgraded, which means it is already installed on your

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Matt Harrison matt.harriso...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe apt-cache rdepends --installed apache2 All this does is list the 4 MPM types repeatedly ... [snip] root@Blackdragon:~# apt-cache rdepends --installed apache2 ... apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-event

Re: Inkscape error

2011-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Marcelo Laia marcelol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I try to load inkscape, but I got this error: marcella@inael:~$ inkscape inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libwpg-0.1.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: Inkscape error

2011-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Marcelo Laia marcelol...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/3/27 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Marcelo Laia marcelol...@gmail.com wrote: rebuild/reinstall the missing library and then try inkscape again root@debian:~# aptitude

Re: Inkscape error

2011-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Marcelo Laia marcelol...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/3/27 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net: I would install -0.1-1 There are some thing wrong here! -0.1-1 version of libwpg isn't in testing repositories. So, how inkscape in testing flavor needs this version

Re: Cmake on Knoppix

2011-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:56 PM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Knoppix is a Debian derivative so I am asking here. I want to compile svn versions of programs such as Scribus. Scribus has switched from conventional ./configure, make, make install sequence to a cmake based system. I

Re: sources.list

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Alan Hutchinson thegreatal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there I was wondering you could enlighten me regarding the APT/SOURCES.LIST, I inadvertently messed them up, and when I go to do an upgrade I get about 400 packages or so, it all started ,when I was tinkering

LXDE fetch Failures

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Brennan
I decided to try LXDE in my VM of Debian/Testing and all went well till the very end, when it fails to find [snip] E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.5.6~dfsg-5_amd64.deb : 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] root@debian:~# aptitude install lxde

Re: LXDE fetch Failures

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 22 mar 11, 16:05:12, Chris Brennan wrote: I decided to try LXDE in my VM of Debian/Testing and all went well till the very end, when it fails to find [snip] E: Failed to fetch http

Re: irc.debian.org

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Mario . kamid...@hotmail.com wrote: irc.debian.org seems to be blocking mibbit.com, a web based chat client, I can't enter #debian. The error message is: 18:55oxygen.oftc.net*** Found your hostname 18:55oxygen.oftc.net*** Got Ident response

Re: Debian mini CDs

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Brennan
Having a professionally pressed multi-arch cd/DVD would be much more visually appealing and creditable when you walk into an office to do something. -- Sent from my Droid (sorry for the top-post, it's my phone.) On Mar 19, 2011 10:06 PM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Brennan
Sshfs requires fusefs to function, syntax is the same as SSH/sftp/scp. -- Sent from my Droid On Mar 19, 2011 11:48 PM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:48:22 -0700 Todd A. Jacobs codegnome.consulting+deb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Celejar

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to set up a network filesystem to share files between several linux systems (Debian OpenWrt). Judging from what I see on the list and elsewhere, NFS stills seems to be the standard, but I am aware that newer

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: heh, i'd think you'd go with nfs because it's drop dead simple to setup. seriously, google something like 'linux exports example' and just look at it. you should have it setup in no more than 10 minutes. now, if you have

sources.list

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
While I am not new to Linux/*BSD, I am new to the Debian way of things. What is the proper way of modifying /etc/apt/sources.list. As it stands, I am running with the basic sources.list and am curious as to what gets added where to sources.list? -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD

Re: sources.list

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:59:11PM -0700, evenso wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:25:43PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: While I am not new to Linux/*BSD, I am new to the Debian way of things. What is the proper way

Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Charlie c-bl...@illinois.edu wrote: My attempted installation gave me a warning about problems with apic, which I have not been able to fix. Has anyone else encountered this? I have an HP Pavillian dv2845se w/ Squeeze on it, seems to run fine for me. I did

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK this is the 64bit version. I had no issues with it, but I'm not a heavy flash user. ia32 =! ia64 nor is it amd64 ... it is Intel Architecture, 32-bit. So where did you get 64bit from that? or are you implying

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: I'm nearing 31, but I mostly still act 25. :P My first exposure to UNIX-like systems wasn't until my early teens, but I didn't really get to dive in until I was 18. It still took me quite a while to move

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. http://distrowatch.com/ is probably what

Re: Debian 6.0

2011-02-23 Thread Chris Brennan
128 MB seems low for a GUI environment, but I'm fairly certain it is possible with Squeeze. Just for info, I recently did a minimal Wheezy install (no GUI) on a machine with 32 MB RAM and 2 GB disk (337 MB of 1.8 GB used for / with the remainder used as swap). It was a bit tricky (I had to

Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [I didn't mention many the kFreeBSD file systems, but that's just because I'm not familiar with running on kFreeBSD.] Debian/kFreeBSD uses UFS2 (Universal File System version 2) which also fully supports posix syntax for symlinks. C-

Re: Debian 6.0

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Marius Pehk marius.pe...@gmail.com wrote: What the heck version 6.0 when I can not insttall it?I hawe 8 DVDÅ› witout grapphical enviroment Penntium III 500E Acorp moterboard 440 chpset 128MB memori, ATi 2000 pro video card LG Flatron LCD monitor Weird,

Console resolution

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Brennan
I am not new to the linux way of things but I am new to the debain way of things and I have some questions that need to be answered. To start, I need to ket rid of nouveau as it's screwing with uvesafb (produces an 'Error -22'). I added it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but it's still being

Re: Spam Rules, per argument (Re: Any package for surveys?)

2011-01-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, elbbit elb...@gmail.com wrote: I don't work like you do. I live in a world without money, without rules and restrictions, without deadlines and targets. I don't labour anything - I leisure everything. So Simon, you must be the poor man I pass on the street

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