Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup

2005-12-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
H. S. wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a makefile to convert PDFs in a directory to 4-up PDFs using psnup but I am not able to. I have L??N.pdf files in a directory and wish to produce a corresponding 4-up PDF for each file named L??N-4up.pdf. Sorry about the dumb question. But should not y

Re: Pages Not Found

2005-12-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ex Arca wrote: Server has been working fine for past year. In recent days though, maybe 25% of time, I get this error: [message snipped] Server setup: Apache->Debian->Linksys->Cablemodem->ISP Has the router (linksys) always been there or is it some thing newly added? May be the server

Re: Changing from Stable to Testing/Unstable

2005-12-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Alejandro Salas wrote: Hello everyone, When I installed it I went for the Stable version, but now I'm thinking of switching over either to Testing or to Unstable. First I wanted to ask how unstable the Unstable distro is?. Currently unstable IMHO is not in a great shape. There are a lot of tr

Re: hello

2005-12-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
sohan kisna wrote: Hai, I am a user of Debian linux.I am trying to use it as extecively as possibly with all the pacakages it providies. I am a student studying B.Tech final year from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. I recently came to know about "wajiz" which is used as another prompt in th

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Yasir Assam wrote: Hello, I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution (before the 3.1 release). Specifically I installed a snapshot dated 30 April 2005. When I installed it the following lines were added to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sar

Re: List files of installed package (apt?)

2005-11-24 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
David Koski wrote: On Thursday 24 November 2005 07:37 am, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Is there a way I can list all files of an installed package in Debian - something similar to rpm -ql [package name] in Red Hat. $ dpkg -l then pipe it with a grep if you want a special pa

Re: List files of installed package (apt?)

2005-11-24 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Lupu wrote: Hi, Is there a way I can list all files of an installed package in Debian - something similar to rpm -ql [package name] in Red Hat. Mike Others have given the dpkg way of doing it. There is also another way (as usual) wajig list-files bye raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http:/

Re: Just installes Debian

2005-11-24 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rafi Gabzu wrote: 3.Since KDE wasn't installed I searched it in " Synaptic Package Manager " , I got a long list with short descriptions , now I had to understand what to install Maybe you should mark somehow the basic/core/main packages in the " Synaptic Package Manager " ? KDE will

Re: Best way to upgrade Kde 3.3 (Sarge)

2005-11-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
robert wrote: Hey list, What is the best way to upgrade KDE 3.3 using Sarge (3.1) to KDE 3.4.x? Thanks webguy Waiting till etch releases and then update sarge to etch would be the best way IMHO. But if you want to do this now, then you can use backports. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi

Re: how to get k3b back in testing (yes, this sounds familiar)

2005-11-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
H.S. wrote: Hi, So, while Testing is going through this whole lot of transition to newer packages (KDE 3.4 and Gcc 4.0), I am holding off dist-upgrading it. But yesterday, to experiment to see what happens to held back packages if k3b is not present, I removed k3b. Saw nothing much has changed

Re: vim-suite

2005-11-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
roberto wrote: hello i recently installed 'vim-suite' provided by debian after this, it happens the following strange behaviour: if i type an open and a close parenthesis like this () or like this{} then vim prompts me with these instead: (<++>) or {<++>} in place of () and {} but i did not know

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
David Kirchner wrote: On 11/17/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In order to get rid of all the spam that I get due to posting to public archived mailing lists etc., I subscribe to mailing lists through a gmail account. Gmail spam filtering is quite effective and f

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Adam Hardy wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi on 17/11/05 13:10, wrote: Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble; the process sometimes seems incredibly complex.

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble; the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. Any help out there? Matt In order to get rid of all the spam that I get du

Re: redirecting the output with sudo

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hubert Chan wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:29:43 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Is there a way to do this in one single command? $wajig doc > /tmp/wajig_doc.txt $sudo mv /tmp/wajig_doc.txt /root/wajig_doc.txt I usually do "sudo wajig doc |

Re: fortran compiler bug

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Steven Jones wrote: We seem to be having issues getting a bug registeredthe site listed is somewhat obtuse with its instructions... :( Sorry that you are having problems with reporting the bug. The following are the relevant links. To report a bug open an account in gcc bugzilla by go

redirecting the output with sudo

2005-11-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Is there a way to do this in one single command? $wajig doc > /tmp/wajig_doc.txt $sudo mv /tmp/wajig_doc.txt /root/wajig_doc.txt ie I want to redirect the output of a command to a file and store this in a directory owned by root. Is there a way to achieve the above with a single command? I h

Re: [Fwd: Re: can't remove dir]

2005-11-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paul Johnson wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Please keep replies on the list and also please bottom post to messages. I am forwarding your email to the list. Bottom posting isn't always the answer, and if you're going to lecture someone about bad quoting style, you mig

[Fwd: Re: can't remove dir]

2005-11-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
: can't remove dir Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:36:06 -0200 From: Eduardo Rocha Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, all Sorry for my english I'm returning to this list

Re: can't remove dir

2005-11-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Anton wrote: Good time. I can't remove the dir 'remove'.Some months ago i move it from /tmp and rename to 'remove'.I can copy it to another disk and remove from there , but i can't delete it .I don't know what to think .See the outputs : == inf 5:32# rm -rf remove rm: cannot

fiddling with tab completion

2005-11-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Using Debian unstable, kde 3.4.2, konsole 1.5.2, bash 3.00.16(1) $ls temp* temp10.txt temp13.txt temp1.txt temp3.txt temp12.txt temp14.txt temp2.txt temp4.txt $ls -v temp* temp1.txt temp3.txt temp10.txt temp13.txt temp2.txt temp4.txt temp12.txt temp14.txt If I do $gvim temp I get

Re: dhclient assigns new IP address every time

2005-11-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
mikepolniak wrote: On 17:32 Thu 10 Nov , kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: My computer is behind a router (linksys BEFSR41). The computer and the router are connected by ethernet cable (ie no wireless). Every time I run, 'sudo dhclient', the IP address assigned to the computer is

dhclient assigns new IP address every time

2005-11-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
My computer is behind a router (linksys BEFSR41). The computer and the router are connected by ethernet cable (ie no wireless). Every time I run, 'sudo dhclient', the IP address assigned to the computer is different. For example, sometimes I get 192.168.1.101, 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.102 etc.,

Re: What is a soname?

2005-11-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hello, With the current ABI transitions, I have noted a lot of mention about soname changes, always wondering what it means. Could someone explain... thanks I found this link useful regarding sonames. http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Library-related_Commands

Re: Synchronize file on HD and USB stick

2005-11-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Vincent Smeets wrote: Hallo, is there some tool to synchronize files or directories between a hard disk and a USB stick? I have some files on the hard disk of my home computer. I have a copy of them on a USB stick so that I can use the files at other places (at work) too. I need to keep thos

Re: popularity contest

2005-11-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 03 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: My question is how do I know what information is being submitted? Is this written to some file on my hard drive? Usind Debian unstable See the logs in /var/log/popularity-contest* They are generated weekly, if I am not

popularity contest

2005-11-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
In dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest, I selected yes to participate in popularity-contest and I am using HTTP to submit reports. My question is how do I know what information is being submitted? Is this written to some file on my hard drive? Usind Debian unstable thanks raju -- Kamaraju S K

Re: identifying bottlenecks

2005-11-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Marc Brünink wrote: Hi, I've an application which should be as fast as possible. Therefore I'm trying to identify the bottleneck of the system for this special program. The application just uses 50 % of the CPU according to top. So the bottleneck have to be somewhere else. Is there a program

Re: 2.6.14 image will not install

2005-11-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 18:56, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: David Baron wrote: The new mkinitrd.yaird fails. Anyone else have this problem, fixed it? I am also having the same problem updating the kernel from 2.4.27-2-686-smp to 2.6.14-1-686 . The exact

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-31 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Justin Guerin wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 17:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: However if I do the following then the keyboard shortcuts are not working. On the machine running nxclient, Go to the command line prompt open an X server by doing X :1 & Now start nxclient in this DIS

Re: 2.6.14 image will not install

2005-10-31 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
David Baron wrote: The new mkinitrd.yaird fails. Anyone else have this problem, fixed it? I am also having the same problem updating the kernel from 2.4.27-2-686-smp to 2.6.14-1-686 . The exact errors are as follows # apt-get install linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 Reading package lists... Don

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-28 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Anyway, I tried using a KDE desktop in both the client machine and the nxsession, and my key bindings worked as expected. Perhaps you have khotkeys enabled, whereas I don't? I enabled it, both on the client machine and the client session, but it didn't seem to make a difference for me. I e

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-28 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Right click on your NX session in your taskbar, and select close. Really? In full screen mode, I cannot even see the taskbar. I can't either, until I click in the upper right hand pixel. That makes the fullscreen minimize to a taskbar entry. I am having hard luck finding the

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-27 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Antonio Paiva wrote: Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:08, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I am using nxclient 1.5.0-113 downloaded from http://www.nomachine.com/download.php on a Debian Sid machine. On the client machine I run KDE. Inside this KDE session, when I run

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-27 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:08, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I am using nxclient 1.5.0-113 downloaded from http://www.nomachine.com/download.php on a Debian Sid machine. On the client machine I run KDE. Inside this KDE session, when I run nxclient (using the

Re: drawing application

2005-10-27 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
roberto wrote: On 10/27/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do you want to draw? There are tools like Dia, Kivio, the GIMP, Sodipodi, and dozens more. We need more information about what sorts of tasks you intend to do with this frawding program. just simple lines

how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I am using nxclient 1.5.0-113 downloaded from http://www.nomachine.com/download.php on a Debian Sid machine. On the client machine I run KDE. Inside this KDE session, when I run nxclient (using the "available area" option in the general tab) then a window pops up and connects to the server. Wh

Re: internet in debian

2005-10-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
shailendra raj wrote: sir, i am a user of debian.there's a problem regarding connecting internet in debian via mobile.the connection remains for only two minutes and then disconnects.can u please suggest the solutions for the same? I did not understand the question properly. Are you runnin

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Grieveson wrote: Also, an hour ago I entered the command "du --max-depth=1 -m/ | sort -g", and it's still pondering this. Did you check your .xsession-errors file? For me whenever something like this happens, the culprit usually is .xsession-errors. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi ht

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-24 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Grieveson wrote: 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is there a way to list files by filesize? A program, or command

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I just started learning python (i think it is great). Now i have the following problem: How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a # at the begenning of a range of lines? just to be more clear, i want to rasform a=['a','b','c'] for i in a: d

ways to read man pages

2005-10-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are as follows 1) man pagename 2) In konqueror, man:pagename 3) In vim, Man pagename What about others? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.

Re: xdvi gets updated only if it is active window

2005-10-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
T wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:20:24 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: foreground. Is there any way to update the contents automatically even if the xdvi window is not the active window? why you want to do that? Let's say I have the .tex file opened in vim+vim-latexsuit

Re: what is the stack size in Debian kernels?

2005-10-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Stephan Seitz wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:39:49PM -0400, H.S. wrote: This may be a dumb questions, but how do I find what stack size that my Debian kernel (2.6.12) has? More generally, how do I determine the stack Normally you could try a 'zcat /proc/config.gz'. I am not the OP. I

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
T wrote: Unfortunately, there is no mechanism in Debian to let you reinstall easily. So you have to go through the "10 times" approach -- it took me several (>=3) days to fully downgrade from Debian testing to Debian stable, after a single update command... Oh, wait, I still have "17 not upgrad

xdvi gets updated only if it is active window

2005-10-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Using debian unstable, lets say I open a .dvi file using xdvi. Now I modify the latex source, and compile it. But then the contents in the xdvi window will not be changed until I bring xdvi window to the foreground. Is there any way to update the contents automatically even if the xdvi window i

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-15 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Meshbah Uddin Ahmed wrote: Hi, i have been using debian sarge 3.1. all pkgs r works fine. few days ago i have faced a prb duting booting. at that time i want to reintsall my Debian from CD. i have downloaded this from online (minimal). there is no option abt reinstall or upgrade as there is

Re: Cannot get Xorg to start

2005-10-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 startx, I get a message that no device can be open

Re: Thundermail and txt attachments

2005-10-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, is there a (Debian) way to ask Thunderbird to encode `text' (as LaTeX source file) attachment ? In fact I recently experienced the follwing: one of my correspond ask to send him a LaTeX source in attachment, so I did it with Thunderbird, but unfortunately my co

Re: latex notes

2005-10-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
roberto wrote: hello i have to write down some simple mathematical notes for my co-workers and i need to write them down in latex, of course is there any simple document class without any title, bibliography and so on, just something to write a few formulas and some comments on them? thank you

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Juraj Fedel wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:08:49PM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and knoppix distros? sam Is it possible to instal Ubuntu or Knoppix and then to cotinue with installing packages from Sarge? (Only CD avai

sudo kcontrol gives errors

2005-10-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Using Debian Sid, KDE 3.4.2 I am getting following errors on the konsole when I run kcontrol using sudo. Any idea how to get rid of them? $uname -a Linux kusumanchi 2.6.12-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 27 13:10:31 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux $sudo kcontrol Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-rajulocal" is owned

Re: Command line reference

2005-10-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
If you know what do you want to do, and think is programable, then I think your best bet is google for it, or ask on list. In many ways, one of the many purposes of the lists is to act as a very basic low-level interpreter between a user and the computer. Too much, maybe. I think that li

Re: how to exit from fullscreen vncviewer

2005-10-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: Did you try pressing F8 again? Please bottom post to messages. I tried F8 again in the full screen session and nothing happens. The pop up menu does not appear when I am in the full screen mode. I

Re: how to exit from fullscreen vncviewer

2005-10-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: Did you try pressing F8 again? Please bottom post to messages. I tried F8 again in the full screen session and nothing happens. The pop up menu does not appear when I am in the full screen mode. thanks raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: how to exit from fullscreen vncviewer

2005-10-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
swhe wrote: On 10/8/05, *kamaraju kusumanchi* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I am using vncviewer on Debian Unstable. In the vnc session, If I press F8 then there is a pop up menu and I can choose to go to "full screen mode".

how to exit from fullscreen vncviewer

2005-10-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I am using vncviewer on Debian Unstable. In the vnc session, If I press F8 then there is a pop up menu and I can choose to go to "full screen mode". But how do I exit from the full screen mode? Any ideas? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell University http://www

Re: fonts are smaller when using xvncviewer

2005-10-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Steve C. Lamb wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:53:54PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I am running vncserver and xvncviewer on the same machine (debian unstable). My desktop environment is KDE. I noticed that the font sizes inside the xvncviewer are much

Re: fonts are smaller when using xvncviewer

2005-10-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Steve C. Lamb wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:53:54PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I am running vncserver and xvncviewer on the same machine (debian unstable). My desktop environment is KDE. I noticed that the font sizes inside the xvncviewer are much smaller that the original KDE

Re: How to get realplayer and mplayer to properly install?

2005-10-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
gary wrote: Hello - I recently installed Sarge and have been using synaptic to install packages. when I install realplayer, the icon appears in Applications> multimedia but I'm unable to get realplayer started. Nor will it start when files are directed to use /user/bin/realplay. mplayer never i

fonts are smaller when using xvncviewer

2005-10-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi I am running vncserver and xvncviewer on the same machine (debian unstable). My desktop environment is KDE. I noticed that the font sizes inside the xvncviewer are much smaller that the original KDE session. The problem exists even if I open a file using gvim on both the environments. Can

GNU screen's alternative for X environment

2005-10-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I use screen to capture previous sessions. But the GNU screen works only in the text environment. I am a big fan of x-windows environment and I am wondering if there is any alternative for it? I tried nxclient. But all nxclient does is it gives me a new session but I want to get hold of previou

Re: internet connection

2005-10-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Tyler Lee wrote: i am having hard time trying to connect online with debian. my laptop is pentium m so i believe there is a wireless network card in it. i am using debian 2.2 I dont understand this completely. Just because a laptop has a pentium m processor does not mean that it has a wirele

Re: how to play xvid movie using totem

2005-10-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
cc wrote: hi, Is there anyone knows which package should be installed in order to play xvid movies ? Regards mplayer will do it. .deb packages fro mplayer can be found at ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/index.html In future to get more specific help, please mention about the dis

counting bandwidth usage

2005-09-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Very trivial question. I have two machines workA, homeB. Let's say I am sitting at workA and run an nxclient session to connect to homeB. Now in this homeB session, I open a konsole and download 1GB file (using wget). Will this be counted as network traffic of 1GB on homeB or network traffic of

Re: [OT] Drawing a rectangle with Gimp

2005-09-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
g r wrote: It's a pity people have to ask around before they can draw a rectangle with a graphics program. I had the same question. I haven't come across a less intuitive windows program than GIMP. I know I am commenting based on my quick first impression and criticizing a free tool. But what go

Re: Responses to the list

2005-09-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mike McCarty wrote: Doesn't T-bird have a "Reply to list" option? It does NOT. Neither Thunderbird has the reply to list button nor there is an extension which enables this behavior. I have composed a list of email clients which do/do not have this feature. The list can be found at h

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
root wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:11 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Albert wrote: I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's a piece of cake to download and install these fro

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Antony Gelberg wrote: Joseph Haig wrote: --- Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's a piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Albert wrote: I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's a piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla site, but I have no idea how I might then wrap them with an icon and to get

Re: what should I do before dist-upgrade to unstable

2005-09-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Alvaro wrote: Hi list. I have been using debian/testing for a year long. I would like to have the leatest software (eg. latest kde). Therefore, I want to update to unstable. I read somewhere that unstable is as stable as any other distributions (latest suse) I know I have to do: edit source.li

Re: labplot crashes when plotting from a file

2005-09-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is this a bug? Should I report it? This bug has now been reported at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329689 raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell University http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

labplot crashes when plotting from a file

2005-09-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On unstable machine, If I do $labplot & plot -> New plot from data -> 2D data Change the file name from 2d.dat to temp.dat Then click on "check data" At this point, labplot crashes with the following messages printed on konsole. Audio File Library: 'temp.dat': unrecognized audio file forma

installing kwin-baghira

2005-09-15 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I apt-getted kwin-baghira. But even after installing, it does not show up in it does not show up in kcontrol->Appearance&Themes->Theme Manger. Can someone else reproduce this? How can I activate the kwin-bhagira theme? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell Universi

Re: Freshness of packages

2005-09-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:27:56PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Tong wrote: Hi, Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

2005-09-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen (part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that? Not sure about Gnome. But KDE has ksnapshot which is useful for this purpose. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate

Re: Freshness of packages

2005-09-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Tong wrote: Hi, Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those packag

Re: kernel performance

2005-09-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paras pradhan wrote: hi: i want to build a custom 2.6.x kernel for desktop systems. i have build kernel 2.6.12-3 successfully , but the performace of the kernel 2.4.27-1-386 ( from debian sid mirror ) is much better than kernel 2.6.12-3 that i built from source. for ex: in kernel 2.4.27-1 if i

Re: how to config the parameters for displayer

2005-09-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
weiyun lv wrote: I installed Sarge on my laptop, but during the installation I forgot to choose LCD displayer, now the screen flickers, and it is very unconfortable, and maybe it is not good for the displayer too. How can I change the parameters for that? Are you looking for dpkg-reconfigur

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

2005-09-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Subject says it all: one machine works and I can still access virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F*, one doesn't and is effectively X only. Another colleague has reported the same problem in testing: he's anxious not to mess up his laptop. Anyone else noticed anything sim

Re: #debian

2005-09-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Josh Battles wrote: antgel said: I've probably spent too much time in #debian, where (if feels like) every second user is complaining about the fact that they can't install or use ubuntu / knoppix / whatever. Actually, for those of you who don't already, stop by. It's good eatin' and an in

creating multiple databases with updatedb

2005-09-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Is it possible to create multiple databases with updatedb and which can coexist on the same system? I want to have two databases of which the first is indexed from / and the second is indexed from /home/user . Reading the man page I get the impression that I can have only one at any given point

Re: APT Sources

2005-09-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Philip Radford wrote: Hi all, I have just done a fresh install of Debian Sarge from the r1.0a DVD. Can someone send me or advise me how to update my apt_sources file so that I can use the testing branches from a UK Mirror. Many thanks. Phil. This is Q 16 on http://www.people.cornell.edu

Re: terminal

2005-09-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
peng wrote: I'm new to debian. I have installed a "hiweed desktop 0.6" debian, with Xfce4 as the X. While the terminal can not show different color for files and folders. I wish to get it done as in gnome terminal... but install gnome terminal need a lot of others to be addin. Is there a simple

Re: testing and unstable packages?

2005-09-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ishwar Rattan wrote: Does it make any sense to mix testing and unstable packages in updating the system (using apt-get)? Any potential problems?? -ishwar Please do not hijack other threads. If you want to ask a question, open a separate thread of your own. For posting guidelines to debian

where is hw_random located in the modconf's menu?

2005-09-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I would like to disable hw_random loading at the boot time. One approach is to put the entry in the /etc/modules. But I would like to disable it through modconf's interface. But I could not find it in the modconf's menu and I do not think there is any search facility in the modconf's program. S

Re: gconfd errors in /var/log/messages

2005-09-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Sep 1 14:18:30 localhost gconfd (raju-7859): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Sep 1 14:18:30 localhost gconfd (raju-7859): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/rajuloc

gconfd errors in /var/log/messages

2005-09-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Sep 1 14:18:30 localhost gconfd (raju-7859): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Sep 1 14:18:30 localhost gconfd (raju-7859): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/rajulocal/.gconf" to a writable configuration source

Re: Which Java for browser plugins?

2005-08-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:18:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Debian users, I'm wondering which Debian package(s) I should install for Java plugins for opera and mozilla. Most of the documents I found on the net talk about downloading J2RE from a Sun si

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

2005-08-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Jan C. Nordholz wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:13:13PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Using Debian Sid, I have apt-listchanges package installed which displays the changelog before installing the packages. However, in this changelog, The names are not displayed properly. For example

changelog names are not displayed properly

2005-08-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Using Debian Sid, I have apt-listchanges package installed which displays the changelog before installing the packages. However, in this changelog, The names are not displayed properly. For example the upgrade xpad package shows xpad (2.9-2) unstable; urgency=low * Fix broken entries in chan

Re: autoconfig XF86Config

2005-08-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
grexk wrote: Greetings, I just want to known any program that can easily detect your video card and monitor. And be able to create the XF86Config. Any help is appreciated...Thanks in advance. grexk $apt-cache show xdebconfigurator Package: xdebconfigurator Priority: optional Section:

Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Andy Streich wrote: On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:25 pm, David Christensen wrote: (Having just pushed the "reply to list" button in KMail...) Great job summarizing the discussion and vote, David. I like your solutions and, in the same spirit of offering ideas that I can't implement on m

Re: How can I reply to the mailing list automatically in Gmail?

2005-08-28 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ian wrote: I've noticed in Gmail if I use the little reply box at the bottom, it replies to the person who last replied in that topic. So I have to retype the subject line exactly as it is, and add the Re: to it. I always mess it up. Is there a better way? I just don't like using mail clients

Re: SHould I bother configuring xfree?

2005-08-27 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hendrik Boom wrote: I have a machine with two sarges on it -- one was installed as a sarge system, the other as a woody, and upgraded. But xfree did not survive the upgrade -- and when I boot that one, X does not come up (everything fin on the other one, though). Now my plan is to take the one

Re: Debian Wiki Down: Permanantly?

2005-08-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: C Shore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've confirmed that that debian wiki is down for others as well as myself, so I am wondering if anyone knows whether it has disappeared permanently or if it will be back soon.

Re: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Sam Rosenfeld wrote: Are there any income tax computation programs available for Linux (Debian)? Since Google has not found any, I assume the answer is "no"; so what is the best solution (well-debugged, simple to use, relatively long-lived) one can find short of installing a separate partition

Re: email clients with reply-to-list feature

2005-08-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to make a list of email clients which have a reply-to-list feature either built-in or as an add on. This is what I know so far from reading the archives. I am hoping that others would comment about whether their favorite email client has this f

email clients with reply-to-list feature

2005-08-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi I would like to make a list of email clients which have a reply-to-list feature either built-in or as an add on. This is what I know so far from reading the archives. I am hoping that others would comment about whether their favorite email client has this feature or not. 1) mutt - Yes. 2

Re: Debian Wiki Down: Permanantly?

2005-08-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
C Shore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've confirmed that that debian wiki is down for others as well as myself, so I am wondering if anyone knows whether it has disappeared permanently or if it will be back soon. (http://wiki.debian.net) Thanks, Daniel Does not

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