Peter Robinson wrote:
For what ever reason I was not able to downgrade as above.
If your /etc/apt/sources.list does not refer to 'stable' then the
method I posted may not work.
I then
uninstalled the 0.28.4-1 version and installed the previous one from
/var/cache/apt/archives#
dpkg -i
Brad King wrote:
Hi Peter,
I had the same problem this morning and then saw your message.
I used 'ldd' to see what libraries the svn client uses, and
then looked at which ones changed when I updated yesterday.
Then I backed off one package at a time until the problem
went away.
My client works
Dear gurus,
I use emacs for most programming and scripting tasks (what else?), but
have to come to like kile for writing LaTeX. I have never seemed to
manage locales very well, and now after an update on testing, kile
displays German characters (Umlauts and Esszed i.e. äöüß) as gibberish
Hi all,
after an update, my subversion client (svn) doesnt connect to any SVN
servers (either my own or others on the internet). This is strange
because other network connections are working without probolems. The
error message is:
svn: OPTIONS von »https://xx.xx.xx.xx/svn/bla«: Konnte
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,29.May.09, 23:26:39, Peter Robinson wrote:
The sound levels are at max. I hear some system sounds but no audio
(e.g. youtube). The speakers are on full...
Ok, if you do hear some system sounds then you do have working sound.
Can you please tell
Hi deb-gurus,
after an update, sound on my system stopped starting automatically and I
needed to run alsaconf after each boot to get it started. So I updated
all packages on my system and now it seems that even alsaconf was
automatically removed. Using the Audio Settings panel in gnome, the
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,29.May.09, 08:19:35, Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi deb-gurus,
after an update, sound on my system stopped starting automatically and I
needed to run alsaconf after each boot to get it started. So I updated
all packages on my system and now it seems that even
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,29.May.09, 19:53:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
[snip]
Everything looks normal. Do you get sound if your run
speaker-test -c2
(interrupt with Ctrl+C)? Are the volume levels ok? Check with alsamixer.
Regards,
Andrei
The sound levels are at max. I hear some system
Hi all,
I am thinking of buying a netbook and would like to ask for opinions
about good options for use with debian (preferably, alternatively
Ubuntu). At the moment, I have been looking at
Samsung NC10-anyNet KA06DE 10,2 Zoll WSVGA Netbook
and
Asus Eee PC 1000H 10 Zoll WSVGA Netbook
but I
(...)
Thanks to all who ansered. For what it's worth I have decided to go with
the Asus EeePC 901, which is available here for 235 Euro and would seem
to be more than enough for my needs (especially since debian support
seems to be excellent).
cheers Peter
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Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-02-23 23:23 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
I have noticed that Iceweasel (i.e., firefox, version 3.06 under
debian sid) does not display the graphics from Wikipedia, although as
far as I can tell images from all other websites are shown
correctly. That is, instead
Dear all,
I have noticed that Iceweasel (i.e., firefox, version 3.06 under debian
sid) does not display the graphics from Wikipedia, although as far as I
can tell images from all other websites are shown correctly. That is,
instead of the images on a page like
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/23/2009 04:32 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On 23 February 2009 23:23:55 Peter Robinson wrote:
Dear all,
I have noticed that Iceweasel (i.e., firefox, version 3.06 under debian
sid) does not display the graphics from Wikipedia, although as far as I
can tell images from
Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On 23 February 2009 23:54:18 Peter Robinson wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/23/2009 04:32 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On 23 February 2009 23:23:55 Peter Robinson wrote:
Dear all,
I have noticed that Iceweasel (i.e., firefox, version 3.06
Brad Rogers wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:42 -0800
Todd A. Jacobs tjacobs-tmp-1235597804.7b5...@codegnome.org wrote:
Hello Todd,
error: unknown command 'initrd'
How can I recover from this?
First, you need to get the system up. Do this by editing the boot
command so the
Hi all,
I have xemacs21 installed on a the following system (PC)
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
Hi all,
I have written some C code that I would like to package as a dynamic
library using automake/autoconf and thence as a debian package. I am
afraid I have had zero experience with these tools, and the documents I
have found online are either too simple or too complex to get started.
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 21:39:47 +0200, Peter Robinson wrote:
Samuel Bächler wrote:
Peter Robinson wrote:
kpathsea: Running mktextfm hv
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation
v for hv.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need
Samuel Bächler wrote:
Peter Robinson wrote:
kpathsea: Running mktextfm hv
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation
v for hv.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin
Hi all,
I am trying to use a latex template that leads to the following error.
The problem seems to be related to a file called hv or to the fact that
fonts cannot be created at a certian size (last two lines). I have seen
some problems similar to the second issue in various mailing lists,
| Hi all,
I have a 30 GB iPod that I would like to migrate to my debian box. I am
currently trying to get gtkpod running.
What is the recommended way of mounting the ipod (I am currently running
fluxbox with no automnatic mounts).
If I try to mount it as hfsplus or vfat I get an error
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2008-06-21 14:10 +0200, Peter Robinson wrote:
If I try to mount it as hfsplus or vfat I get an error like:
peter:/home/peter# mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb /mnt/ipod
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or helper program
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 01:37:35PM +, Walt L. Williams wrote:
Good Morning
Try this link
http://packages.debian.org/etch/sun-java5-jdk
If you look over on the right there are links
Dear all,
although I have seen some pages with advice on how to get java working
in amd64 / testing, I am still a bit confused. Is the best way to go a
chroot environment? In particular, I have not had great experiences with
gcjava and prefer the sun version of java, but no javaws is
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:09:10PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote:
Hey,
They also alphabetically increment with each release
Hi all,
I am trying to set up mutt using fetchmail to get mail from y POP3
server. I am getting the error Toid authentication disabled. What does
Toid refer to here? I have entered the same settings with fetchmailconf
as I have in Icedove..
thanks peter
fetchmail: 6.3.8 fragt pop.t-online.de
Hi folks,
I am running the latest unstable system. Three times in the last week my
machine comnpletely froze up while I was using Kile, seemingly after
hitting the shift key (?). The two LEDs on the upper right of the
keyboard then start blinking, the mouse and everything else freezes
(i.e.,
Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi folks,
I am running the latest unstable system. Three times in the last week
my machine comnpletely froze up while I was using Kile, seemingly
after hitting the shift key (?). The two LEDs on the upper right of
the keyboard then start blinking, the mouse
Dan H. wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:09:19PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
I like to have my environment in English but need to write German texts
using latex.
Same here.
The typical
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % deutsche Sprachunterst�tzung
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc
Hi all,
I like to have my environment in English but need to write German texts
using latex. The typical
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % deutsche Sprachunterst�tzung
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc} % Zeichencodierung Windows
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
does not work. If I type a German character
Jamin Davis wrote:
Peter Robinson wrote:
Stopping web server: invoke-rc.d: initscript thttpd, action stop
failed.
dpkg: error processing thttpd (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting web server: thttpd.
Errors were encountered while processing:
thttpd
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:13:23 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
[...]
Thanks, that solved the problem with thttpd...but now I get the
following error message from aptitude:
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
[...]
Running postinst hook script
Michael Yang wrote:
Hi all:
I want to install the matlab package on debian, do you know any
repositories I can use?
Thanks.
M.
matlab is a commercial product. For many uses, octave should be just as
good and is available in debian (the syntax of octave is about 98%
identical with that of
Hi,
I would like to remove the package thttpd but get the following error
message. I do not see the process running (with ps aux for instance).
How can I get rid of it. Here is the message I get from aptitude:
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 276185 files and directories
Alan Ianson wrote:
On Sun February 10 2008 08:27:11 am Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi all,
I don't seem to have set up printing correctly...I am running a testing
system and can print fine from KPDF but attempting to print from Acrobat
returns the error message:
The print process returns an error
Hi all,
I don't seem to have set up printing correctly...I am running a testing
system and can print fine from KPDF but attempting to print from Acrobat
returns the error message:
The print process returns an error. Please check if the printer is
connected to the machine (it is!).
I have seen
Avi Rozen wrote:
Peter Robinson wrote:
Could someone point me in the right direction?
probably this'll fix it:
apt-get install cupsys-bsd
Cheers,
Avi.
Thanks! That did the trick. -peter
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Hi all,
I am having problems printing from acroread. I have set up a HP 1320
laser printer using CUPs, and can print PDF files from KPDF without any
problems.
When I try to print from acroread, my system gets sluggish for 10-15
secs (although top shows nothing very unusual during this time)
Dear all,
in a fit of click before you think I mistakenly assigned a file
association pattern to Kile for directories (thinking I was clicking on
a .tex file). Now, when I click on a directory, Kile is opened, which of
course makes no sense, especially because I cannot open directories with
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 17:57:35 +0200, Peter Robinson wrote:
Dear all,
in a fit of click before you think I mistakenly assigned a file
association pattern to Kile for directories (thinking I was clicking on a
.tex file). Now, when I click on a directory, Kile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 Sep, Peter Robinson wrote:
...
If you write in latex you can always convert to RTF via latex2rtf,
which in my experience works excellently. If needed, it is no big
deal to convert this to word format. It is definitely worth the
effort to learn
Steve Lamb wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
The output is PostScript
so I kept a copy of GhostView (gv) running (watching the file) and
whenever I wanted to see how things looked, just ran lout on my file to
the same output file name.
Yeahhh, no thanks. I don't like coding HTML
Hey good folks,
I am trying to get sound running on a computer with an intel board and
the following parameters:
# lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:02:11 +0200, Peter Robinson wrote:
Tach Florian, here is the output of the various commands:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/interrupts | egrep -i 'hda|23:'
23: 274056 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel
There is apparently only
Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 the mental interface of
Peter Robinson told:
Hey good folks,
I am trying to get sound running on a computer with an intel board and the
following parameters:
# lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family
Dear all,
I am having some difficulties installing Debian onto my new machine. The
hardware is:
1)CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.40 GHz, L2 Cache 4096 kB
2)Board: Intel Desktop Board DG965WH
3)DVD Recorder: ASUS Lightscribe Drive DRW-1814BL
and some other more or less standard equipment.
The problem
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 08:44:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dear all,
I am having some difficulties installing Debian onto my new machine.
The hardware is:
1)CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.40 GHz, L2 Cache 4096 kB
2)Board: Intel Desktop Board
Hi all!
I bought a new computer with the following components:
Intel Desktop Board DG965WH
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.40 GHz (6600)
ASUS DVD Recorder/DVD optical drive
etc
I am trying to install Debian Etch but the installer does not recognize the DVD
ROM drive and offers the opportunity to add a
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:17:33PM +, Thias wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:45:41AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi all!
I bought a new computer with the following components:
Intel Desktop Board DG965WH
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.40 GHz (6600)
ASUS DVD
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:51:00PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:22:07 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Robinson) wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:17:33PM +, Thias wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:45:41AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Peter Robinson wrote
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 03:22:19PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:46:23 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Robinson) wrote:
I bought a new computer with the following components:
Intel Desktop Board DG965WH
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.40 GHz (6600)
ASUS DVD
Dear Debianers,
I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686 #1
SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated some
packages to day. I removed the tetex packages and installed texlive (initially
including texlive-base, texlive-bin,
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:35:21AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686
#1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated
some packages to day. I
Hi list,
I am running a generally quite stable unstable system, but recently have had
troubles installing R 2.3. Although I can get aptitude to install r-base and
r-base-core without any noticeable problems, when I then try to start R, I get
the warning message
Error in options(...) : invalid
Hi List,
I was wondering if anybody has any opinions on the possibilities of ''cutting''
family videos on debian linux (specifically, I have had a Mac for many years
which
I now use only for multimedia applications. In the meantime I have migrated
completely
to debian with this one exception.
Hi ,
after a recent dist-upgrade to etch, I have noticed problems with starting
JabRef, a Java-based reference manager that apparently
uses some native GTK libraries. JabRef basically crashes with the following
message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PDF$ java -jar JabRef-1.8.1.jar
** ERROR **: file
Hi debianers,
after a recent update to unstable (haha), I have been experiencing difficult to
trace problems
in getting a net connection via pppoe to the German DSL (T-DSL) provider.
Seemingly at random, it does
not work upon booting,but does work after 1..n reboots.
Here is what happens if I
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:05:19AM +, Albretch Mueller wrote:
// __
Your (Peter's) instructions broke at 4) 2.4 apt-get update and 5) because
of the previous problem
I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but perhaps it would be possible to
download the java package directly and
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:20:36PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote:
Hi *,
while installing java on an external drive using knoppix I got symlink
errors each time a symlink was tried out:
./jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin file 21
after spacing out of the License Agreement and starting the
Dear list,
please forgive this somewhat OT question, but a hour's worth of googling didnt
turn up a solution. I have done a recent programming project
with Knuths literate programming cweb package, which is an amazing tool that
generates C code and documentation automagically.
Now I would like
Hi list,
after an update of several programs using aptitude, I can no longer type an
@ from the keyboard (I have a German QWERTZ keyboard, 105-de). Normally, to
get the @ on this keyboard, you need to type ALT-GR-Q. Other ALT-GR mapped
characters such as ~ and \ are fine. The X configuration
Hi Listers,
after a dist-upgrade to sid two weeks ago, my ADSL connection / pppoe
intermittently doesnt start. There is no hardware problem as I can get into the
network without problems from another OS.
/etc/init.d/network restart executes without messages, but plog then shows:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:34:13AM -0400, Joseph H. Fry wrote:
I al searching for a document management system or whatever it is
where i can
- add files (off course)
- add files by more then just one
- indexing and searching on content of the files
- make statistics that i can
Hi Guys and Gals,
sorry to bother again, I am still struggling with getting Xorg to start on my
system (debian testing, 2.6.7 kernel). I have used essentially the same
settings as previously with xfree86. When I enter startx, I get a message that
no device can be opened for the mouse
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 12:26:07AM +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
Hi Guys and Gals,
sorry to bother again, I am still struggling with getting Xorg to start on
my system (debian testing, 2.6.7 kernel). I have used essentially the same
settings as previously with xfree86. When I enter
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 15:15, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Dave Ewart wrote:
On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 13:39 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): I
have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB and the Gnome
system
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 18:33, JerryN wrote:
I have the book. Sorry, but it's about as practically informative as
these numerous emails.
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 18:24 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 15:15, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Dave Ewart wrote:
On Thursday
Thanks to all who responded. I get the impression that one of the
Samsung models might be the way to go, also after having looked at a few
in shops here. I had originally planned on getting an HP printer, since
my very first printer is an HP 4MP which I have used intensively for 11
years without
Hi,
I am looking to buy a laser printer in the range of 200-250 Euro and
would like to get one that will work under Debian without all too much
fuss. From the specs and the price, Lexmark E232t is looking pretty
nice. Has anyone set this up under a testing Debian system? Can this (or
another
Hi list,
I recently (finally) was able to get a clean install of Java under
debian thanks to the suggestions on this list. I would like to use the
xalan xslt processor, and installed this package with aptitude without
apparent problems.
However, when I try to run it, I get the following error:
(...)
Remember, broken dependencies broken dependencies are not allowed to exist.
The dependency
database must always be consistent.
I have been noticing that apt-get deinstalls g++ repeatedly after I
install other programs (mabye 50% of the time). I am new to Debian...why
does this
Hi,
I have the latest version of matlab (7/SP1) that I have not been able to
install under Debian (3.0, kernel 2.6.7).
It seems as if the startup matlab script is trying to get the libc
version number and not succeeding. Has anybody else seen this problem?I
would be grateful for any tips!! WHen
is not needed,
otherwise it is needed.
hth,
Jerome
Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi,
I have the latest version of matlab (7/SP1) that I have not been able
to
install under Debian (3.0, kernel 2.6.7).
It seems as if the startup matlab script is trying to get the libc
version number and not succeeding
Hi list,
please forgive what may be a basic question from a newbie to Debian. In
order to avoid downloading and burning lots of CDs with jigdo, I have tried
to install the Debian testing version using a sarge netinstall CD (Aug 20).
I was hoping to use my T-DSL connection to complete the
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