Re: adobe reader + multiarch

2012-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, have you tried the acroread debian ball at www.deb-multimedia.org ? hth, Jerome On 24/12/12 21:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I am trying to install adobe reader with multiarch. Has anybody done that? This is as far as I got

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-10 Thread Jerome Flesch
2012/6/7 Hendrik Boom : > I need more space for /tmp.  I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp > entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses > the the space on the root partition, which has more than room enough. > But then I discover that in my newly installed wheezy

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Jerome Flesch
2012/6/11 Roman V.Leon. : > On 11.06.2012 09:34, Jerome Flesch wrote: >> >> 2012/6/7 Hendrik Boom: >>> >>> I need more space for /tmp.  I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp >>> entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
be installed on a box for developing and testing jobs. I don't know much, so feel free to tell me as much as possible. Thanks with best regards, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! On 14/06/12 19:07, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-14, Jerome BENOIT wrote: SLURM can also be run on a multi-core box: it makes sense to use SLURM on a Mac Pro (24 cores). It can also be installed on a box for developing and testing jobs. Thank you. I don't think the OP fits into any o

Re: Wheezy on UEFI

2012-07-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: There is actually a discussion about it on the debian-devel list. Jerome On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote: Hi list! Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more particular. While installing I faced some issues. Looks like installer can't recognize a

Re: Wheezy on UEFI

2012-07-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 11/07/12 09:19, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote: Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more particular. While installing I faced some issues. Looks like installer can't recognize a

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy. Cheers, Jerome On 20/07/12 08:20, Britton Kerin wrote: Hi everyone, I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep failing. Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
my mistake. On 20/07/12 09:48, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 20 iul 12, 08:25:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy. What do you mean by that? Wheezy is not being released just yet, it's just been frozen (it will take a few more m

Re: UEFI install

2012-08-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Have you tried with Wheezy ? On 10/08/12 11:17, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has any one installed

Re: man in the middle attack ?

2012-08-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/ssh/ -> Don't ignore ssh host key warnings (at the end) On 21/08/12 05:43, lina wrote: On Tuesday 21,August,2012 04:29 AM, Dr Beco wrote: Dear linuxers, Today I registered a lot of students in the class, and 4 hours later I was in home and got a message one

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
gz: tar zcf bzip2: tar jcf xz: tar Jcf On 22/08/12 16:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PPS: For my needs "tar czf" aka ".tar.gz" is the best way to go. More compression doesn't lead to smaller files, but it takes much more time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 22/08/12 16:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: xz: tar Jcf I'm using a distro that packages with xz. I'm sure that there never was a big difference between "gz: tar zcf" and "bzip2: tar jcf" for the length of th

how to catch the calling library

2013-05-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, with the help of strace, I can get that one of my executable fails because at one stage a nonexistent library is called, but unfortunately I cannot figure out which library calls the absent library: is there a simple way to do so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

iceweasel: unresponsive script

2013-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, does anyone have some tricks and/or hints to trace `unresponsive script' issue with iceweasel ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
e to do a full > restore in case of a disaster as well as being able to restore selected > files/directories in case of a "oh why did I rm *that*?" moment. :-) > > Any suggestions? backup2l > > --Dave > Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: syslog

2013-07-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
bet. modulo xconsole: the xconsole related stuff in your former /etc/syslog.conf must be commented/neutralised to avoid troubles. > > As for all three enabled: That should not be possible: Those package > conflict with each other. If you really managed to install all three of > them

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

2013-08-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
ur own kernel, and the following link is a good place to start: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org hth, Jerome > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/520372b3.5060...@rezozer.net

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

2013-08-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 08/08/13 18:06, Gary Dale wrote: > On 08/08/13 06:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello Gary, >> >> On 08/08/13 11:39, Gary Dale wrote: >>> The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing >>> in the Wheezy kernel. However

Re: debian installation question

2013-08-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
ask for either a generic partionning or a by hand one: you want to choose the by hand option. > > Thank you. > > > hth, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

2013-08-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 09/08/13 02:31, Gary Dale wrote: > On 08/08/13 12:20 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 12:06:23PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: >>> On 08/08/13 06:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>>> Hello Gary, >>>> >>>> On 08/08/13 11:3

Re: an other question about installer

2013-08-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
facto discard a long list of potential highly annoying and subtil issues. On the list, you will even find some people that encourage installation from scratch for Debian release upgrading. Anyway, the waste of time will be due mainly to backups: during backups, take a break, drink cups of tea, or re

Re: icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
gt; > > What is this way of doing? Some people somewhere want to help "ignorant" > people to configure their mail? Or is it now like in past SSSR: only one > address for everybody? That's will easier for the NSA! > > > What shall I do? Change my email address? U

Re: sudo questions

2013-08-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
f /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/README.Debian.gz hth, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/520b93ae.3060...@rezozer.net

Re: configuring grub

2013-08-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
/67236/is-there-a-way-to-save-the-output-of-vbeinfo hth, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/520dec4e.7050...@rezozer.net

Re: configuring grub

2013-08-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
the resolution using >>> vbeinfo, I have no vbeinfo program and I cannot find one, what is the >>> package with this program? >> That would be the "grub-pc" or equivalent package. Basically, the >> instruction is to boot into grub press 'c' at the m

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
s so far away ! > Who can understand! > I am afraid you mixed up package dependencies and package (default) configurations. Package dependency concerns dependency between piece of software, and their default configuration assume a working Debian set up. As you force your Debian

Re: I'm going to install Debian in my Macbook Pro

2013-08-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
new part? Would it be tough or not smooth as I expect? > > BTW, What I wish is just to divide the disk, then install as what Live CD > tells me. > > - Jing Guo > > hth, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: kernel errors

2013-08-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
.0 failed with error -5 > > How to correct this? for [2], you may change some mount option in your /etc/fstab : I am suspected [2] concert `/' mount: is ext4 a good choice for `/' ? hth, Jerome > > Thanks. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
queeze, and Debian > Wheezy: > > >> http://www.openprinting.org/printers > > http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_P2055dn > I bough one 1.5 years ago to work with my Wheezy box: so far, so good ! hth, Jerome > > HTH, > > David > >

Re: upgrade question

2013-09-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
packages? even the video server for ati video cards, while my video card > is nvidia... > > I don(t understand the dependencies: a lot of python packages, > spamassassin, apache... and so on. I just want to see if something has > been corrected in evince and libraries on which evinc

Re: upgrade question

2013-09-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 20/09/13 15:25, François Patte wrote: > Le 20/09/2013 11:57, Jerome BENOIT a écrit : >> Hello List, >> >> >> On 20/09/13 11:39, François Patte wrote: >>> Bonjour, >>> >>> I want to see if I can get rid of: >>> >>>

Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 17/11/11 17:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 17/11/11 17:37, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this

Re: BibTeX memory limits

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! On 17/11/11 19:18, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:44:04 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I encounter memory limit issue with BibTeX similar to the ones reported in Q37 of the `BibTEX Tips and FAQ' by Michael Shell and David Hoadley : Who also add additional tips to deal wit

Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 18/11/11 17:00, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 18/11/11 16:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Yes. With the command xflock4 - part of the xfce4-utils which you probably already have installed. You are right. It

comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ecfd177.3000...@rezozer.net

Re: comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks ! On 25/11/11 19:14, Clive Standbridge wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Interesting question. I don't know, but perhaps this paragraph from the patch(1) may help: patch tries to skip any leading garbage, apply the diff, and then

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2011-11-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
a sepated partion for /tmp is good idea.) Any comments are welcome :-) My 2 cents, Jerome Greetings, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ed3dbed.30...@rezozer.net

libpam-ssh

2011-12-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: What have happened to libpam-ssh ? Is it replace by an other package ? Thanks in advcane, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: libpam-ssh

2011-12-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 03/12/11 23:29, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 11:15:07PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: What have happened to libpam-ssh ? It was removed, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650644 Poor me: I really like it ! Is it replace by an other package ? No

Re: libpam-ssh

2011-12-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: Actually it sounds as maintained project, as the last update is stamp 2011/06/14: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-ssh/ On the other hand, I have no trouble with it on my boxes. Jerome On 04/12/11 03:38, Allan Wind wrote: On 2011-12-04 00:56:44, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Poor me

Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
what about D ? On 24/12/11 21:56, David Christensen wrote: On 12/24/2011 06:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisp Smalltalk Erlang Haskell Caml/OCaml APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck) for that matter, Ada, if you're wr

Fwd: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:23:46 -0500 From: tony baldwin To: g62993...@rezozer.net - Original Message - From: Jerome BENOIT Sent: 12/24/11 04:06 PM To: debian-user

Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Jerome BENOIT wrote: what about D ? On 24/12/11 21:56, David Christensen wrote: On 12/24/2011 06:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisp Smalltalk Erlang Haskell Caml/OCaml APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck) for

xfc4 migration next step: get rid of gnome

2012-01-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I have recently migrated to Xfce, and now I would get rid of gnome as it seems to become an heavy machinery: what is the best way to so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: sbin

2012-01-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
s is a FHS recommendantion. if not one of the key point. Jerome Greetings, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f00928d.50...@rezozer.net

D programming: rdmd

2012-01-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Where is rdmd in Debian ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f05cee9.4010...@rezozer.net

Re: D programming: rdmd

2012-01-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks. I am looking for Debian ways: right now I play with gdc-4.6 On 05/01/12 17:56, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:25:13 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Where is rdmd in Debian ? *** http://www.d-programming-language.org/faq.html#q5 Will D be open source? The front end for the dmd

Re: D programming: rdmd

2012-01-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 05/01/12 18:10, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks. I am looking for Debian ways: right now I play with gdc-4.6 It appears that rdmd.d is distributed within the source of the pacakge gdc-4.6. Jerome On 05/01/12 17:56, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:25:13 +0100, Jerome

Re: xfc4 migration next step: get rid of gnome

2012-01-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 08/01/12 16:17, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 01/01/2012 19:48, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:02:55 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have recently migrated to Xfce, and now I would get rid of gnome as it seems to become an heavy machinery: what is the best way to so ? I would start by

What happens to kernel.org ?

2011-09-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: does anyone know why `www.kernel.org' can't be found ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.de

Re: What happens to kernel.org ?

2011-09-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Thanks for your replies: indeed it is `down for maintenance' according to itself. Jerome On 09/09/11 02:02, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: does anyone know why `www.kernel.org' can't be found ? The servers are probably stil

gvim: hide hidden files

2011-09-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Since a while, I have noticed that File->Open in gvim exhibits hidden files: is there a way to hide hidden files ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: gvim: hide hidden files

2011-09-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: thanks for the quick reply. On 11/09/11 17:45, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:46:26 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Since a while, I have noticed that File->Open in gvim exhibits hidden files: is there a way to hide hidden files ? Usually all of the GTK+ based menus sh

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-09-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: have your tried the Debian instead: http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-cuda-dev hth, Jerome On 12/09/11 15:05, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-09-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Have you tried to neutralized the wrong nvidia module by renaming it. On 12/09/11 16:30, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, problem is that I can't get x to start now and need some help, any ideas? On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, "Jerome BENOIT" mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net>> wrote: >

key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen

2011-10-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from it, but not by accident, I want to know the involved key shortcut. Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen

2011-10-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 02/10/11 18:56, Dom wrote: On 02/10/11 17:27, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from it, but not by accident, I want to know the

Re: key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen

2011-10-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 02/10/11 22:38, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:27:58 +0200 Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
t its a awkward hybrid. What would be a temporary good alternative ? xfce4 ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eba5d4e.6080...@rezozer.net

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
:) Lorenzo. thank you Joao hth, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ec0f95b.5090...@rezozer.net

Re: wifi without applets [WAS] Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 14/11/11 12:34, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Jerome, On 14/11/11 12:19, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > On 14/11/11 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: >>> [...] >> I am still currently unable to mana

BibTeX memory limits

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
file: can we do something similar for bibtex ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ec4e574.9070...@rezozer.net

Re: Adobe Reader 9.5.4 on 64 bit Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, as Wheezy is on the edge to get stable, a good option would be either to wait for Wheezy or to migrate right now to Wheezy then make the Wheezy box a bi architecture one (i386+amd64), and then to install the acroread Multimedi-Debian deb ball. Jerome On 28/02/13 10:46, Chris

Re: moving /var

2013-03-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
CD or similar and do it from there. A simple live CD is sufficient: Debian netinst minimal CD in rescue mode is sufficient to do so. Do not forget to update the /etc/fstab configuration file with respect to the change; to clean up the /var (and let an empty one) in the `/' (root) partitio

Re: moving /var

2013-03-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 01/03/13 12:06, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Hello List, On 01/03/13 09:53, Lars Noodén wrote: On 3/1/13 10:41 AM, Maroš Žilka wrote: What would be better way to do it ? Is it even possible to do such change on running system without worries to lose some data ? I wouldn't do i

Xfce: multi workspace: stick windows to a workspace

2013-04-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is there a way to stick windows to a given workspace with Xfce ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Xfce: multi workspace: stick windows to a workspace

2013-04-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks Brian, it rocks ! I have just bookmarked the FAQ. On 15/04/13 15:34, Brian wrote: On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 14:13:44 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, is there a way to stick windows to a given workspace with Xfce ? http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#window_manager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: /dev/random vs /dev/urandom

2013-04-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 21/04/13 20:04, Pol Hallen wrote: Define "better". better = secure (high level of security) :-) /dev/random is cryptographically more secure. do you mean /dev/urandom is [...]? /dev/random is faster. thanks! man 4 random Pol hth, Jerome -- To U

dcut: who does run the .commands files ?

2013-04-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, dcut can upload .commands files for the Debian FTP archive upload queue according its man page: how can I run them on my box ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: dcut: who does run the .commands files ?

2013-04-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 24/04/13 15:30, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:46:28PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> dcut can upload .commands files for the Debian FTP archive upload queue >> according its man page: how can I run them on my box ? > > I think they're ma

check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian files ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Jaikumar, On 26/04/13 07:23, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Jerome BENOIT <mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net>> wrote: >>is there any tools to check against and to extract info from .changes Debian >>files ? > Can you mention as to what you

Re: check against and extract info from .changes

2013-04-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 26/04/13 11:06, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jerome BENOIT <mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net>> wrote: >>Somehow I am looking for the opposite tool of dpkg-genchanges: >>given a .changes file, I would like to check whether the ass

Debian package component belonging

2013-05-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, given a package name, how can we know to which Debian component (man, contrib, non-free) it belongs ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Debian package component belonging

2013-05-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi Bob ! On 04/05/13 01:49, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> given a package name, how can we know to which Debian component >> (man, contrib, non-free) it belongs ? > > 1. Use apt-cache to show the package header and look to see what >section it it in.

Re: Debian package component belonging

2013-05-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi Again, On 04/05/13 03:18, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Is there an easy way to get it from the .debian.tar.(gz|bz2|xz) ? > > Look at the debian/control file. I got this part. I was looking for a ready to use tool to extract the components: I guess I have to wri

Re: Debian package component belonging

2013-05-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi Bob, On 04/05/13 05:04, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hi Jerome, > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> I was looking for a ready to use tool to extract the components: >> I guess I have to write my own stuff to do so. > > How about: > > $ tar --to-stdout -xf emacs23-non-dfsg

Re: Debian package component belonging

2013-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 05/05/13 07:07, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>>> Is there an easy way to get it from the .debian.tar.(gz|bz2|xz) ? >>> >>> $ tar xf emacs23-non-dfsg_23.4+1-1.debian

Re: Partially encrypted backup?

2013-05-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
I have gone through similar thoughts: if you trust her, them just by her a box with concreted lock in such a way the backups not need to be encrypted. An other idea would be put in the box a small computer with a big hard drive and ssh you backup to it (and hide the box near a kind a honey pot).

Lucida fonts

2013-05-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: What is the best way to deal with the (now absent) Lucida fonts on Wheezy ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Lucida fonts

2013-05-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Brian, On 26/05/13 20:57, Brian wrote: > On Sun 26 May 2013 at 17:02:18 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> What is the best way to deal with the (now absent) Lucida fonts on Wheezy ? > > Please would you expand on 'way to deal with . . .'? Purging them from >

Re: Lucida fonts

2013-05-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello folks, thanks for your answers. On 26/05/13 23:33, Siard wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> But for now, I would like to have those Lucida TTF fonts to step >> forwards. > > You can install sun-java6-fonts from Squeeze, which provides them. > > I tried by in

Unidentified subject!

2002-02-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
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Wrong colors with Xvfb on potato

2000-12-01 Thread Jerome Zago
Well, I want to run mozilla M18 on xvfb 3.3.6, to take screenshots of websites automatically on our server. Here is what I do (in pseudo code): for bpp in 8 16 24; do Xvfb :1 -screen 0 800x600x$bpp [as root] export DISPLAY=":1.0" xdpyinfo >tmp/xdpyinfo-$bpp.txt civ

Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
ified. How can we check that the two processor are detected ? Futhermore, I have created a swap file four times greater than the RAM of the machine (1Gb): my actual swap (checked with free) is half of my request (2Gb). Do I miss something ? Thanks in advance, Jerome BENOIT

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
dman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:15:14AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > | Bonjour: > | > | I have just install the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (testing/unstable) > | on a dual processor machine > | --I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on my laptop a few months ago. >

new kernel option

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonjour: I have just tried to build an SMP kernel: surprisingly some options can be seen in grey (when `make xconfig' is used) but they cannot be selected: apparently the Makefile does a pre-choice. How can we make all options available ? Thanks in advance, Jerome BENOIT -- *º¤., ¸

Re: new kernel option

2001-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
h does not contain the macro link to the RTL8139 ethernet card modue: hence my frustration. What must I do ? Thanks, Jerome dman wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:05:52AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > | Bonjour: > | > | I have just tried to build an SMP kernel: > | surprisin

Re: new kernel option

2001-12-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for response. I have a better understanding now: I was confused by the trace let by the Makefile at the very beginning of the process. Jerome BENOIT "Donald R. Spoon" wrote: > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Bonjour: > > > > Thanks for your messages:

Re: new kernel option

2001-12-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for response. I have a better understanding now: I was confused by the trace let by the Makefile at the very beginning of the process. Jerome BENOIT "Donald R. Spoon" wrote: > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Bonjour: > > > > Thanks for your messages:

external monitor and X

2002-01-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonjour, we can login to an external computer and run X stuff from there, can we do the reverse ? I mean, can we open an X session on an external screen (via internet connction) ? Thanks in advance, Jerome

Libc6 upgrade & Potato

2001-02-05 Thread jerome Moliere
grade is a dangerous one : --> this is not a trivial upgrade and I'd like to keep my server up & running... Thanks for all tricks Jerome -- Jerome MOLIERE - World Wide Report GNU/Linux addict "I don't fear computers , I fear lack of them" Isaac Asimov

Searching for a library...

2001-02-07 Thread jerome Moliere
nk so but I'm too young with Debian to know how to do this... Bonus question : what are the main libs necessary for running the Java tarball from Sun ? Thanks Cheers Jerome -- Jerome MOLIERE - World Wide Report GNU/Linux addict "I don't fear computers , I fear lack of them" Isaac Asimov

AWE64 and isapnp in kernel

2001-10-01 Thread Jerome Cornet
fig...) thanks, /Jerome PS: I know I could use isapnptools or echo "blah" > /proc/isapnp but I don't want to do that. The feature is supposed to work, it will ;-)

Re: AWE64 and isapnp in kernel

2001-10-02 Thread Jerome Cornet
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:20:16, Jason Boxman wrote >On Monday 01 October 2001 06:07 pm, Jerome Cornet wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I have some troubles using the linux 2.4 isapnp support with an awe64. >> I use the kernel-image-2.4.9-586 from http://people.debian.org/~bu

Re: AWE64 and isapnp in kernel

2001-10-02 Thread Jerome Cornet
ing the same problem can 1) look at the patch in the linux-kernel archive 2) ask me for the patch 3) wait for the patch to make it in a released kernel Thanks anyway for those who replied /Jerome -- "Computers are like air conditionners: they stop working properly when you open windows"

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