On 2011-07-22 16:44 +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
I'm running Debian unstable, and I have a chroot environment where I have
another Debian unstable installation. Today I've updated the chroot
environment because it was very dated, and I've noticed that /run is a
symbolic link pointing to
On 2011-07-21 11:37 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
I have a lot of packages selected for deinstall find in aptitude
interactive mode. How can I set to install state of these packages from
commandline? In aptitude interactive mode this is a lot of work.
Actions - Cancel pending actions undoes the
On 2011-07-18 20:37 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote:
Life gets stranger. A reboot this evening and this problem no longer
occurs in dmesg
I also eventually get the format of BusID options correct in my
Xorg.conf file and now both screens are working again with the nouveau
driver alongside the
On 2011-07-17 12:51 +0200, Regid Ichira wrote:
I have installed the ntp package. I edited /etc/insserv.conf, and
added +ntp to the $time line.
$ grep time /etc/insserv.conf
# The system time has been set correctly
$time +hwclock +ntp
I then issued
On 2011-07-17 16:22 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote:
I've recently upgraded by desktop computer so it now has Intel H67
Integrated Graphics built into the motherboard and I have an
additional Geforce 8400GS graphics card in the PCI-express slot. I
have two monitors, the primary an 24in Iiyama
On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote:
Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer
versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost everybody.
They are unable to get your keyboard to
On 2011-07-16 16:56 +0200, lee wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote:
Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer
versions of X are capable of auto
On 2011-07-16 17:57 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote:
I think the only part of it that I actually
still need is the line:
Option UseBIOS off
but I never had enough hand-holding from an expert to properly get
rid of the cruft.
This option appears to be specific to the
On 2011-07-16 20:31 +0200, lee wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
Ah, now I think I see what you mean. I didn't express myself very
well. My intention was to make a general statement that input devices
are very likely not to work correctly without an xorg.conf.
This is a rather
On 2011-07-14 12:14 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
I have no strong objection to running genuine firefox, but on starting
it, it returns
/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Of course
On 2011-07-12 18:31 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I created a 20GB partition:
[...]
Then I restored with partimage a partition to /dev/sdb2 that was
originally 13GB.
Now df shows that /dev/sdb2 is only 13GB:
Correct, this is mentioned in the FAQ (available in the partimage-doc
package).
On 2011-07-11 18:35 +0200, Herb Miller Jr. wrote:
Where can I find a snapshot of the Debian base system to facilitate
deployment in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available?
Yes. Do you want to have a current snapshot (i.e. what's in the base
system today) or a specific older one?
On 2011-07-11 21:52 +0200, Tech Geek wrote:
AFAIK the kernel in the installer is
split into many small packages from the regular linux-image package. So
the possible differences are version skews when a newer kernel hits the
archive, and missing modules that are not packaged for the
On 2011-07-10 20:37 +0200, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
I'm experiencing VT switching flakiness with the debian stable nouveau driver.
ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345
The symptom is that trying to switch a VT between x-sessions running on
On 2011-07-11 04:43 +0200, William Hopkins wrote:
If you're curious, the issue I've been having is regarding package
dependencies. Some packages seem to have extraneous dependencies outside of
what is strictly required (package build tools will tell you what is strictly
required). Packages
On 2011-07-08 22:41 +0200, Tech Geek wrote:
It should be available at /boot/config-`uname -r`
That would be true after the system installation finishes. What I am
looking for is the config file for the kernel runs the installation
process. For some reasons I suspect that there might be some
On 2011-07-08 11:15 +0200, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:39:26 +0530
Mahesh T Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote:
It simply generates the xorg.conf which is practically useless and
un-used (on your and my systems); so why bother??
Isn't a basic one required to run the nvidia driver
On 2011-07-07 13:26 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
I answer for myself. Google led me to an old and archived bugreport from
07/2010. It seems this bug appears again.
Err, this bug is not archived and not even closed.
One of the orphaned links is here:
On 2011-07-07 13:51 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote:
Sven Joachim writes:
I'm not sure if anyone is
looking at aptitude's bugs these days, though.
Where is the development gone, then?
I don't know the details, but Daniel seems to be a bit overworked (busy
with real life problems?), judging
On 2011-07-04 00:58 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:54:01 +0200
Hans Vogelsberger li@schwaz.net wrote:
instead of moving
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, I again changed its driver line in section device
to nouveau - and SUCCEDED: After a reboot xdm started X normally, not
even
On 2011-07-04 21:18 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:38:40 -0400 (EDT), Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Alex PADOLY alex.pad...@gmx.fr wrote:
...
For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE,
I used LILO in kernel compilation and with
On 2011-07-02 19:08 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
That's not the problem at my end. I had nvidia-kernel-dkms installed,
which automatically takes care of that. I haven't had to recompile
the driver on a kernel upgrade for months.
I think the problem is the new multiarch path of libGL.so.1¹.
On 2011-07-02 19:38 +0200, Hendrik Boom wrote:
What I would love is to have all the true configuration files checked
into a revision management system (such as monotone). There would be a
vendor branch, various changes performed during installation, and finally
any changes made by the
On 2011-07-02 18:44 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote:
Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my
X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my
old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it
since I use the new one.
On 2011-06-24 19:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
While menu.lst has some lines, grub.cfg has tons of lines and using
GRUB2 with comfort, we need to edit grub.cfg manually ...
Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well. But I suspect
most people will be content with the simpler
On 2011-06-22 13:21 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:06:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
(...)
But just out of curiosity, what's the raw logic behind the routine that
decided to install a PAE kernel instead another one? Why the installer
took such option? :-?
It didn't
On 2011-06-21 19:52 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it
warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails as
expected). You can still boot with the old kernel (good job!).
So in the end you need to manually remove
On 2011-06-21 20:37 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:13:06 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-06-21 19:52 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it
warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails
On 2011-06-20 09:38 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Mi, 15 iun 11, 17:55:56, David Baron wrote:
[snip sid problems]
I don't have these issues and I think messing with packages under the
package managers control just asks for trouble. Did you consider
re-installing?
David's misadventures
On 2011-06-18 22:25 +0200, Lukas Baxa wrote:
I discovered a problem with Xorg recently. When I change
the runlevel to single-user mode (i.e. to 1) and then back
to multi-user mode (i.e. to 2) and start the X server
again, my keyboard doesn't work anymore under X. The same
happens if I boot
On 2011-06-14 21:01 +0200, Noah Duffy wrote:
I read the guide you posted, and it seems simple enough. I understand
it as this:
Let's say I want to backport Banshee from Wheezy because it's
version 2.0.1, I could add the source repository for wheezy to my
sources, and build that package
On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote:
For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running.
Why not? Using the Debian packages I never had any issues with that.
The NVidia installer tries to load the kernel module when
On 2011-06-11 11:20 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 11 iun 11, 10:56:28, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote:
For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running.
Why not? Using
On 2011-06-11 11:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
*?* on Ubuntu it was possible to remove an old version and to add a new
while running a DE. I suspect this is possible on Debian too?
Using the Debian packages, yes. I was talking about the official
installer.
Sven
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On 2011-06-11 11:47 +0200, Mr. Wang Long wrote:
In /usr/share/doc/libc6/NEWS.Debian.gz it reads:
eglibc (2.13-3) unstable; urgency=low
...
For this reason, on the amd64 architecture the Debian package provides
two wrappers which can be use to workaround and/or debug the issue:
-
On 2011-06-11 12:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 11:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-06-11 11:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
*?* on Ubuntu it was possible to remove an old version and to add a new
while running a DE. I suspect this is possible on Debian too
On 2011-06-09 09:19 +0200, Scott Ferguson wrote:
As I don't have any problems - does that mean this only affects Wheezy
builds?
It only affects Wheezy installs, more precisely systems with perl 5.12
or later.
Sven
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On 2011-06-08 17:58 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote:
Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when
trying to look inside deb files ?
No, you're not alone.
This has been going on , in my case
for two months now. Is there a solution ?
See
On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote:
On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when
trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case
for two months now. Is there a solution ?
It's
On 2011-06-02 19:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Hi :)
after building and installing a kernel-rt a restart will always restart
with kexec.
The whole story:
I started with a clean Debian stable install, now it should be a clean
testing install, but I guess it's an uncertain mix.
I'm just
On 2011-06-02 19:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
the vesa driver doesn't enable what I need. I don't need nouveau
either. I wish to get xorg-video-nv, but the available version conflicts
with the current installed X.
Rebuilding the Squeeze version of xserver-xorg-video-nv on testing
should
On 2011-06-02 04:13 +0200, lrhorer wrote:
I have a cron script that runs tar on a directory in order to clean it
up and minimize its size. I run the command:
tar cf Backup_Server.tar.gz --remove-files *
but during the tar process I get the errors:
tar: /RAID/System/Backup/bin: Cannot
On 2011-05-28 10:14 +0200, Rick Thomas wrote:
Can anybody explain this difference between the behavior of bash and
ksh?
It depends on whether the shell starts a subshell for (compound)
commands in pipelines.
When reading the man page, I would expect both of them to have the
behavior
On 2011-05-28 15:06 +0200, Vlad GURDIGA wrote:
If I'm not missing anything, the reportbug package doesn't seem to be
found when you install the minimal system:
Not in a minimal system, but in a standard system (the one you get when
you don't select anything else during installation).
On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote:
Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays
upgrades...which are:
[UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 - 170-1
[UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 - 170-1
[UPGRADE] net-tools 1.60-23 - 1.60-24
[UPGRADE] udev 169-1 - 170-1
On 2011-05-22 18:37 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote:
Rebuilt initramfs...rebooted and everything **seems** fine.
However in looking through syslog I saw this:
[...]
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [5.698554] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL
pointer dereference at (null)
Ouch.
Is that
On 2011-05-19 16:22 +0200, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote:
I need to build a legacy application in a Woody environment, so I am
trying to debootstrap a Woody chroot:
# mkdir ~/woody_chroot
# debootstrap woody ~/woody_chroot http://archive.debian.org/debian
I: Retrieving Release
E: Invalid
On 2011-05-15 19:04 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote:
I'm reading
http://tldp.org/LDP/www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_device_files
IMHO, it is important to see what the author intended, but I think I am not.
If this doesn't clear up your display problems with MC, see
On 2011-05-15 19:52 +0200, prad wrote:
this doesn't seem to exist on debian so when i
C-c TAB
i get the message:
Info-find-file: Info file gnus does not exist
i couldn't figure out how to get the info manual either though i did
come across something like this:
apt-get source -t stable
On 2011-05-14 21:25 +0200, David Baron wrote:
Unfortunately, the maintainers changed the configurations to the more
modern/recent conf.d directory script system without providing any script
for
transition and NO WARNING for apt-listchanges. To tell us to avoid unstable
is no excuse,
On 2011-05-14 21:26 +0200, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running 2.6.38-2-amd64
#1.
I cant seem to get my wireless card working at all. The card is:
$ lspci -nn | grep Network
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092
On 2011-05-14 22:14 +0200, Russell Gadd wrote:
I have had a number of problems with using grub2 (running Debian
Squeeze) and am thinking of switching to LILO. I'd like to achieve
these objectives:
1. use a boot manager (BootitNG) in the MBR which will set up the
required partition table and
On 2011-05-12 12:53 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
udevd[58]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not writable, for
now falling back to '/dev/.udev'
That looks like you are actually running testing or unstable.
FWIW, the error message has not been present in udev versions before
168, and that
On 2011-05-01 04:46 +0200, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Sun, 01 May 2011 02:21:25 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I'm still running squeeze. For some reason, when I run emacs now, it
dieplays all my C and C++ files with a variable-width font, in which the
indentations I've been using have become
On 2011-04-30 22:52 +0200, mark wrote:
Running Lenny 5.06. I need to install wine, and went through the
process, but I got an error that said that I needed to update
firmware for my nic. This is the text that I saw:
r8169: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw
This is due to
On 2011-04-28 18:39 +0200, Brad Alexander wrote:
I got my daughter's netbook upgraded to squeeze, however, there are some
issues that I have encountered. I did it per the squeeze release notes, the
audit, etc, then apt-get update on the new sources.lists, apt-get upgrade,
upgraded kernel and
On 2011-04-27 22:47 +0200, Brad Alexander wrote:
I just want to make sure this isn't a show stopper before I pull the
trigger. I have mostly upgraded my daughter's netbook from lenny to squeeze.
I took the conservative route, cleaning up packages, changing sources.list,
doing an update and
On 2011-04-27 23:09 +0200, Brad Alexander wrote:
Excellent. Thanks Sven. Should I then install insserv by hand before doing
the dist-upgrade then?
No, this is not necessary.
Sven
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On 2011-04-24 22:19 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
Actually, now that I think about it, this bug report has probably been
sitting on the wrong queue all this time. I reported the bug against
package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, which is a user-space X driver. But
the driver uses kernel mode
On 2011-04-24 00:14 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
There may have been DSFG-freeness concerns about the code as well, but they
were not the primary motivator for removing the package from testing.
They were. Bug #383465¹ had been ignored for three releases already
which is really too
On 2011-04-24 22:24 +0200, Siard wrote:
I wrote:
BUT I found that if I move your post from the newsgroup in Sylpheed to
a mail folder, I can reply from there, while the 'In-Reply-To' and the
'References' in the headers seem OK, so the thread is not even broken.
Alas, the thread _does_
On 2011-04-23 16:25 +0200, Disc Magnet wrote:
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Disc Magnet discmag...@gmail.com wrote:
Please help me to resolve this error.
disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale
(en_US.UTF-8): No such file or
On 2011-04-21 05:54 +0200, Joe Neal wrote:
I recently upgraded my sid box with a Gforce 8600. Following a reboot
the binary nvidia drivers would only give me a screen resolution so
small it was unusable and nouveau failed to find any usable resolutions
at all. Analysis of recent X logs
On 2011-04-11 07:01 +0200, Greg Madden wrote:
On Sunday 10 April 2011 08:31:09 pm Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In banlktingt-wi8denptcvnyy+wsmuywo...@mail.gmail.com, chris wrote:
It was a intentional decision I believe. My understanding is that all
non-free binary firmware was removed from
On 2011-04-11 20:06 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:12:40 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
hi guys. i'm having some trouble with what appears to be a gtk issue
with firefox gimp. in short, buttons are missing. the firefox one is
less annoying than gimp's, but they
On 2011-04-07 22:10 +0200, Bob McGowan wrote:
I have a Perl based application tool set that uses DBD::Oracle libraries
from the Oracle 11 instant client package. The DBD was compiled in a 32
bit environment.
Now there's a user who wants to run it on a 64 bit system, which at
least requires
On 2011-04-06 14:33 +0200, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 28/03/11 Miles Fidelman said:
of course you could just run your script under bash
And I am, but why is dash claiming to be a posix shell by being /bin/sh?
Brace expansion is not Posix, so dash does not support it. For other
possible
On 2011-04-06 16:13 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote:
Last Udev version have an important error:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621087
Where can I find and download the previous 166 version?
On snapshot.debian.org. Alternatively, you can rm -rf /run and restart
udev.
Sven
On 2011-04-04 13:45 +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
Hello,
on a host with both lenny and squeeze lines in sources.list, I try
to set the target release to the target release to lenny. It all seems
to work with the keywords stable and oldstable, but not with
lenny and squeeze. I'm just
On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote:
I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64.
I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working
and failed.
I'm sorry that nouveau did not work for you. Could you please elaborate
what the problem was?
I purged the two packages I had
On 2011-04-02 09:43 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
Better also check wether nouveau did blacklist the nv kernel module...
There is no nv kernel module, and nouveau does not blacklist anything.
Sven
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On 2011-04-02 10:24 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote:
On 04/02/2011 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote:
I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64.
I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working
and failed.
I'm sorry that nouveau did
On 2011-04-02 21:22 +0200, Wolfgang Karall wrote:
Hello,
when trying to work around
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620088 I downgraded
nfs-common to the version in testing, which actually worked, even though
nfs-kernel-server has a versioned dependency on nfs-common (see
On 2011-04-02 22:16 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/02/2011 12:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
My video card has a RIVA TNT2 chipset, which is no longer supported by
the proprietary nvidia driver. (The legacy 71xx driver supports it,
Time to accept the reality that time has passed by
On 2011-04-01 14:13 +0200, George Chelidze wrote:
Dlink DWL-G122 worked for me with rt73 (serialmonkey.com)
driver.
The rt73 driver is obsolete, nowadays people should use the rt73usb
driver which is included in Linux since version 2.6.24 and which works
fine for me. Firmware (rt73.bin) is
On 2011-04-01 18:13 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
Op 01-04-11 15:25, Sven Joachim schreef:
On 2011-04-01 14:13 +0200, George Chelidze wrote:
Dlink DWL-G122 worked for me with rt73 (serialmonkey.com)
driver.
The rt73 driver is obsolete, nowadays people should use the rt73usb
driver
On 2011-03-31 08:49 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Jo, 31 mar 11, 08:01:46, Johannes Graumann wrote:
I'm running a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) and have to
update it's database whenever I upgrade the system using apt/aptitude.
Does that package management suite provide
On 2011-03-31 12:42 +0200, Johannes Graumann wrote:
Thank you for that hint. But as you said: dpkg is run multiple time per apt
invocation, which doesn't make the option very feasible in my scenario ...
no such thing as apt/aptitude hooks?
Not currently, no. A wishlist bug has been
On 2011-03-30 16:58 +0200, Hendrik Boom wrote:
When aptitude is upgrading a system, it first downloads a whole lot of
packages into cache, and then installs them. This means there has to be
enough disk spoace somewhere for both the old system and the downloaded
packages.
I need to
On 2011-03-26 19:47 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
Yes, this is from kernel-package README :
Let me repeat:
Since nothing is created automatically. you need to provide a hook
script for things to happen when you install the kernel image
package. The user provides such scripts.
On 2011-03-26 21:45 +0100, I Rattan wrote:
I must have made a mistake during upgrade.
Now if I start X using startx
exec: 3: /usr/bin/X: not found
Is there a way to fix this via reconfigure/reinstall?
Looks like the xserver-xorg package is not installed:
,
| $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/X
|
On 2011-03-16 17:26 +0100, Martin wrote:
Btw. to use startx I have to use: sudo startx
$ startx -- -depth 16
X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
What group do I need to join?
None. Permission to run the X server is controlled by the allowed_users
setting in
On 2011-03-15 14:29 +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
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
|
On 2011-03-14 01:06 +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
~
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)
This is very much not recommended, since dpkg
On 2011-03-14 14:24 +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
So libdpkg-perl is apparently not installed on your system.
but there is no libdpkg-perl in lenny that I can find.
True, this package has been split out from dpkg and dpkg-dev after the
Lenny release. What does dpkg -l dpkg dpkg-dev print?
On 2011-03-12 18:17 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I am looking for your opinion as to whose bug this is.
I have a C++ project ( http://gpc-qt.sourceforge.net/ ) that consists
of more than 103 C++ sourcefiles (1000's of lines of code) that get
copiled into a single executable.
Suddenly
On 2011-03-09 19:59 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
I wondered what is the difference between
a) dpkg --get-selections * mylist.txt
and
b) dpkg --get-selections mylist.txt
This is mentioned in the dpkg manpage:
,
| --get-selections [package-name-pattern...]
| Get list of package
On 2011-03-09 20:24 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-03-09 19:59 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
I wondered what is the difference between
a) dpkg --get-selections * mylist.txt
and
b) dpkg --get-selections mylist.txt
This is mentioned in the dpkg manpage:
,
| --get-selections
On 2011-03-09 20:40 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
It is not a great problem, but I wondered, why non-installed packages
appeared
as to be installed.
Because they have been selected for installation (dselect sometimes
helpfully does that automatically when you run it as root).
When I
On 2011-03-09 21:03 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Since this is no longer possible, you should run
dpkg --clear-selections prior to dpkg --set-selections to replicate
an installation on another computer.
Yeah, this is a good advice. I will do this, and play a little bit around
with
this.
On 2011-02-27 09:04 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/07/2011 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install
libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx.
No, nvidia-glx is broken by the xserver-xorg-core
On 2011-02-25 11:57 +0100, Shaffin Bhanji wrote:
I wanted to install conky as a docapp on Debian 6.0 under gnome but
cannot find the package, anyone provide some guidance please.
The conky package has been moved to contrib (does anyone know why?), you
have to include that in your sources.list
On 2011-02-25 12:10 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
The conky package has been moved to contrib (does anyone know why?)
Found out myself: http://bugs.debian.org/579102.
Quite a pity, I hope this will be solved sometime.
Sven
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On 2011-02-23 23:14 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/23/2011 03:11 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
1. Screen from console is not cleared as root or regular user once you log
out.
You're allowed to create /etc/bash.bash_logout which does:
if [ $SHLVL = 1 ]; then
[ -x /usr/bin/clear_console ]
On 2011-02-22 21:14 +0100, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I found this when using tar to unpack an OS image archive. I've been
doing this for a while on another CF card and had no problem. But
now, when I untar the archive, I keep getting cannot create symlink
and operation not permitted.
Looks like
On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows
this message:
GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
That's bad indeed.
lspci shows my video card as this:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
On 2011-02-19 21:32 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled Entry Level.
I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it.
Uhm, nouveau has been supporting this card for years, the fact that it
does not work well for Rob notwithstanding.
Also, I
On 2011-02-19 21:25 +0100, Brian wrote:
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 21:10:34 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
I'm trying to make nouveau work.
There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not
brave enough to blindly upgrade your
On 2011-02-18 01:57 +0100, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Gentlemen, I find no way to install the experimental version of perl.
The only reasonable way to do this is to set up a dedicated chroot for
it where you can spare the packages that you would normally use.
# aptitude -t experimental
On 2011-02-18 20:22 +0100, Dom wrote:
On 18/02/11 18:24, Camaleón wrote:
To make this a bit more clear, nvidia card owners can run either:
a) KMS+nouveau
b) nvidia propietary driver
c) vesa/fb
d) nv (obsolete but still available, AFAICT)
d) is the only option that worked for one of my
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