Re: Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-06 Thread bd satish
Thanks for the suggestion, I just now installed libarchive-ar-perl, but Ark still cannot recognize AR archive :-( Strangely, it can open .DEB which is also a type of AR archive, but not pure AR archives themselves. -- Satish.BD On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 15:59, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins

Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-04 Thread bd satish
Hi, Like y'all know, AR archive is used for static libraries [ libxyz.a ]. When opening it with Ark (KDE 4.4.5, Squeeze), it pops with with error Unable to determine archive type. Instead it presents a list of all archive formats which it recognizes, but this list does not include AR archive. I

Re: Squeeze-updates not working

2011-12-03 Thread bd satish
Thanks Bob, Tom and Porcia ! Bob's Bohr model of linux kernel was an excellent one. I was just curious to know the nomenclature of that package now i have an idea of what happens. I'm happy with current kernel because all my hardware is detected/working properly, so I find no reason to upgrade to

Re: Squeeze-updates not working

2011-12-02 Thread bd satish
but installed version is 2.6.32-39 ! Am I missing something ? -- Satish bd satish wrote: I recently installed Debian 6.0.3, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel. ... However, I still cannot upgrade to the new kernel in spite of adding these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list :  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian