Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable

On 22/01/18 15:33, Nishan Singh Mann wrote: Hello, on Ubuntu 17.10 which to my knowledge is based on Debian unstable, installing Emacs via $sudo apt install emacs and then trying to view the Emacs manual using C-h r fails with error "Info file emacs does not exist" The same set of

Re: switching flavors

You're right there should be also apt-get dist-upgrade as the third command on the bottom Cheers D On 05/06/17 02:20, SDA wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 04:20:02PM +1000, Davor Balder wrote: >> Yes - and based on some work I did earlier in the week if you keep the >>

Re: switching flavors

Yes - and based on some work I did earlier in the week if you keep the things simple I would say your upgrade should be uneventful. I changed the repo to unstable Then I did: apt-get update apt-get upgrade That was it. Cheers D On 04/06/17 13:11, Gary Dale wrote: > On 03/06/17 08:59 PM,

Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?

On 21/03/17 23:00, Stefan Monnier wrote: Note: I still want to keep experimental in my sources.list for the cases where I *explicitly* request experimental packages. I keep these extra thingies commented out in my sources.list and whenever I want to explicitly request some package from them,

Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?

To upgrade I always do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. When jumping releases I also use apt-get dist-upgrade This seems to be the safest option thus far (my systems have been running smoothly). On 21/03/17 22:37, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2017-03-21 12:34:23 +0100, Dominik George wrote:

Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

Do you have access to ethernet port from your machine? If so, Debian installer *should* (in most cases) work with that until you install what you need to get WiFi working. In fact, that is how most of my recent Debian installs went... On 03/16/2017 01:45, Dean Valentine wrote: I don't have

Re: Croatian keyboard

Firstly, I would try using external keyboard and upgrade to Debian Stretch. That may solve your hardware issue (newer kernel). There is a considerable version difference between the stable and testing at the moment. Stretch is essentially frozen and is very stable. You are unlikely to

Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

On 15/03/17 20:01, Tim Ye wrote: Hi, On 2017-03-15 07:57+0200, Johann Spies wrote: On 15 March 2017 at 06:57, Dean Valentine wrote: I have installed three operating systems on this computer: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux. None of them had any problems

Re: fingerprint

I think you answered your question. On 06/03/17 16:11, Shahryar Afifi wrote: > my Thinkpad x200 fingerprint reader 08ff:2810 AuthenTec AES2810 does not work > under wheezy 7.11 . however under jessie it works because the libpam-fprintd > from jessie is 0.5 > even when i install the

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

Hi Hans, Question 1 which one: stable, testing or unstable? Generally (to aid in your investigation): 1.) It may be a good idea just to recheck your sudo settings first (/etc/sudoers). (relevant uncommented setting on this system: ## ## User privilege specification ## root ALL=(ALL) ALL 2.)

Re: Which GCC version for kernels?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:54:21AM -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote: Should I be using GCC 3.x for building kernels on Woody? I'm using 2.95 and I keep getting errors like undefined symbols and modules not being built or installed. I've tried both 'make-kpkg kernel-image' and the standard 'make

Kernel 2.6 on Woody

Hi all, Is there an easy way to compile kernel 2.6 on Woody? There are reports that there are issues with modules etc. Has anybody done this? What steps should I take? I have source for 2.6-test5. When I compile it, I get this (last few lines): ARCH=i386 modules_install

SiS7012 and ALSA

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any luck with getting SiS7012 to work with ALSA. This chip apparently has i8x0 chip that I wanted to try ALSA on. I have been trying but I kept getting message that /dev/dsp could not be opened: no such device. This was under kde. OSS driver (the one

A few very simple Evolution questions...

Hi all, When I start-up Evolution from the console, it gives message that locale is not supported by C library. Is this important? Also, I noticed that when I am typing up an email (like now for example), the font is very small and I cannot increase its size by using Ctrl-+. I can however

CMI 9738 sound driver

Hi All, I am trying to configure (onboard) CMI 9738 sound chip on SiS650/961 board supporting PIV. I am still configuring the rest of the stuff such as PPP etc. CMI 9738 appears not to be supported by 2.4.18 kernel. Any idea if this driver is under development and if there is any other way

Re: CMI 9738 sound driver

don't know if this applies to your chipset, but you might for the module i810_audio or i810_codec or something like that. This supports several AC97 compatible chipsets (I am using the sis7... something or other and it works, but only at 48khz). -jason pepas Thanks Jason, I did not try your

Re: Problems upgrading to testing dist...

My understanding of your problem is that you are trying to downgrade. I believe somebody asked this question before and the answer was that the doengrades are not supported (that is what I remember at least)... Hopefully somebody else can give a more complete explanation and even a workaround

Re: spelling with abiword

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:32:42AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello, I've installed abiword, ispell and iamerican packages. However, abiword doesn't find the dictionary. How can I tell abiword to look in /usr/lib/ispell for the american.hash file? The abiword FAQ doesn't say

How much Linux on 1 GB hard drive?

G'day to all, I am planning to install Linux on my friends computer... I am thinking of Debian Potato just for start... I think he has 4 GB hard drive... His sister may be using Windoze, but he would like to start off with Linux. So, my question is, what can I fit onto 1 Gig. (I am running

Re: PDF

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:03:08AM -0500, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: I have found pdflatex very useful to convert latex files to pdf. However if the latex file contains \includegraphics{file.eps} the pdflatex does not seem to recognize it. For these cases I have used dvipdf or dvipdfm to

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

Hi Michael! I'm not sure whether there is much on the net regarding Debian vs. Suse or RedHat or Mandrake(the list goes on...)... If I was you, I would concentrate on ease of upgrade (as mentioned before by someone, apt-get), Debian policy (things are where they should be, Debian Manifesto

Re: PDF

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:48:10PM +0100, Markus Grunwald wrote: Hello, On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:43:56 -0800 curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files? Strange that noone suggested pdfLaTeX yet... best to create pdf. BTW: You don't

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:52:03AM +0800, csj wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:32:12PM +1100, John Lynch wrote: Thanks a lot Matthew and everyone else. okay, here's another 2 questions. What is the best Linux OS to install for a newbie, and it still connects to the net and has

Re: copying/creating VCDs

Thanks guys!!! I don't know whether a readcd would do it... However, cdrdao does the trick!! I will have alook at other ways suggested!! Once more, thanks a lot!!! Take care, Davor pgprEpoCBqx1K.pgp Description: PGP signature

copying/creating VCDs

Hello guys! Is there an easy way to create copies of VCDs (I just got one from a friend)? I know there is a special format (two tracks according to specifications)... I guess I could just simply copy the actual mpeg file from the CD... But, is there an easy way to actually copy the VCD using

Re: OpenOffice [was Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian]

Hi Phillip, I did some search on OpenOffice... It runs on as little as 32MB of memory (however the more the better)... Heavy window managers may require at least 64MB of RAM... So, I may be wrong about the memory after all... Also, they suggest that problems with menu redraw (and some icons

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:09:16AM +0800, csj wrote: On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:29:01 + Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it taking so long to get decent GUI wordprocessing in Linux? StarOffice is OK, but version 5 was/is a joke the way it enforces the riduculous SO

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:22:26AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: Hi Davor. Thanks for your input. What version are you using? I downloaded the 641C version - but that was dated March 2001. Surely much must have happened in a year. The latest versions must be wonderful - how do you get them?

Re: Java not working in Galeon/Mozilla

Try installing j2sdk1.3_1.3.0-2_i386.deb from Blacksdown Java server if dman's suggestion does not work... if you haven't already... Once deleting a few files in .mozilla folder worked for me (you lose preferences but it fixes java plugin links sometimes)... Also, Blackdown says that java

Re: cdrecord + ide cdrw

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:56:32PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: High, On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, David Richards wrote: OK. Once i create the new kernel. Could i create a boot disk with the new kernel on it to test if it boots. I havent have much with compilig kernels in the past. Of course. A

Re: burning debian CDs

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:32:40PM -0800, Hay Seed wrote: Hi all, I just tried my first couple of cd burning experiments. The music and photo ones went well, but my copy of deb 2.2r3 seems to not be entirely correct. You should be using debian image cds (.iso image files)... No user

printer sharing problem

Greetings all, I have a very interestting problem. I am trying to connect to HP DeskJet 400 from RedHat system (my Debian box is connected to this other computer via ethernet connection). Printer is connected (parallel connection) to my Debian box and of course works fine. Samba connection

Re: Debian and Redhat on the same PC

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:17:52AM -0500, dx wrote: Hi, I am newbie Linux user. I just like to know how can I install Debian and Redhat on the same PC. I already installed Redhat using Grub, but Debian is using LILO. And how do you make/allocate partitions for both of them without

Re: Toshiba T3100e/40 - Debain

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:17:05AM -0700, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: Dear folks, is there any way I can put Debian (or if Debian not possible - any Linux) on Toshiba T3100e/40? The BIOS says there is 20MB on the HD, and is asking for a system disk that I know nothing of. I want to use

Re: mailq

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Greetings. mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq, because if I try it as a non-root user, I get

Re: newbe-ish question - POSIX ?

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:08:48PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is POSIX and what does it entail ? Thanks (Sorry for the stupid question) SK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi!!! There are no

Re: Copying audio CDs on Debian

Hello all, Thanks to fellow Debian users who replied to my post on Copying Audio CD's on Debian... Obviously there are several ways and it is easier to do this task in command-line than in GUI; at least that was my experience... The easiest way to perform the trick was to: #cdparanoia -s -B

Re: Gnome under Debian

Sam Varghese wrote: I was using Gnome from the time I started with Debian, some 11 months back. I since went on to Helix Gnome and then Ximian - which I now wish I hadn't. When I start up my Ximian desktop, I get multiple copies of both midnight commander and Netscape opening up. I have looked

Security manager (mozilla M18), trying to run as normal user

Hi all, I installed security manager for mozilla (Mozilla M18 under Potato, normal direct modem connection-no proxies) a few days ago and am still trying to run it as normal user. I have no problems running it as root, but when I try requesting secure connection as normal user, connection