Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-07 Thread Horatio Leragon
You're lying. Your social media friends say otherwise. I'm happily married. From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2014 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies On 6

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-07 Thread Horatio Leragon
...@attglobal.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2014 2:02 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies On 6/6/2014 12:28 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote: Not true. I'm still popular on those forums, except that I've found Jerry Stuckup to be a very interesting

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-07 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2014 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies ​Unfortunately the user list it's not moderated and those

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-07 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/07/2014 07:52 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: [that on 2014-06-07 at 3:38, Raffaele Morelli wrote:] ​Unfortunately the user list it's not moderated and those flames are more and more frequent. I can tell you who started them: Jerry Stuckle

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 1:51 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies BTW, do you know the difference between a forum and a mailing list? You seem to use forum

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:04 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies LOL!  Last time I was called that was in third grade or so.  It shows  your

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
How much time did you waste on creating that? Goodbye to you too. You'll not be missed :) From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/06/2014 06:19 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: [that on 2014-06-06 at 1:51, Bob Holtzman wrote:] BTW, do you know the difference between a forum and a mailing list? You seem to use forum as a catchall. A forum is a website whose members can

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Jack Wilborn
Ever heard of etymological fallacy? Like dilapidated means 'stone' plus 'taken apart', yet we use the term for anything that's falling apart, even if it's not made of stone.. Maybe that widens the forum idea, maybe not, but you need to use what todays people think of a forum to be correct.. Not

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/06/2014 09:22 AM, Jack Wilborn wrote: Ever heard of etymological fallacy? No, but it's an idea that makes sense. Like dilapidated means 'stone' plus 'taken apart', yet we use the term for anything that's falling apart, even if it's not

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/6/2014 6:12 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: *From:* Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:04 PM *Subject:* Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/6/2014 9:22 AM, Jack Wilborn wrote: Ever heard of etymological fallacy? Like dilapidated means 'stone' plus 'taken apart', yet we use the term for anything that's falling apart, even if it's not made of stone.. Maybe that widens the forum idea, maybe not, but you need to use what todays

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/6/2014 2:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 9:13 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies In either case, the only thing to do would be to begin

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 10:44 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies No, it means you are still at the same mental maturity level as a third grader

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
Poor old Jerry. He's a bitter, lonely man whose wife and kids have left him for another man. From: Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 10:47 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Horatio Leragon
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies On 6/6/2014 2:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote:   From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/6/2014 12:26 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote: Poor old Jerry. He's a bitter, lonely man whose wife and kids have left him for another man. ROFLMAO! I am happily married - unlike you. But then your personal attacks show your level of maturity. Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/6/2014 12:28 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote: Not true. I'm still popular on those forums, except that I've found Jerry Stuckup to be a very interesting case study for students of psychology. Then why don't you go back to them? Oh, that's right. You were found to be a clueless troll there,

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Oh, that's right. You were found to be a clueless troll there, also. And you were kicked out of them. So you had to find another place to troll. Does this discussion really need to continue? ChrisA -- To

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Horatio, On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 22:13 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: I now understand why Ubuntu is way more popular than Debian Opinions like that can better be discussed at the Debian off-topic list. Ubuntu does cast a bad light on free software, regarding to the Unity lenses spyware that

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-05 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/5/2014 1:13 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: *From:* Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM *Subject:* Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:13:47PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies Ralph, I

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 03:50:38PM -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: -- From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:22 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 04:18 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: How do I learn it? Learning by doing ;). $ chown --help Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE... or: chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... [snip] Examples: chown root /uChange the owner of /u to root.

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: snip Before You Ask Before asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a website chat board, do the following: 1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum you

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-04 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies Ralph, I think your wasting bandwidth on this guy. He's been told this more than once

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 01 iun 14, 15:36:37, Joe wrote: Not wishing to add confusion, but you may also find references to 'dpkg'. This is the low-level package tool that all the apt tools are front-ends for. It does no dependency checking, Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/03/2014 07:19 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: [that on 2014-06-03 at 5:08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:] Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency checking. When provided with a bunch of .deb files to install it will take

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 8:20 PM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies That depends on a number of other factors. Literally

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Joe
On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:08:13 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 01 iun 14, 15:36:37, Joe wrote: Not wishing to add confusion, but you may also find references to 'dpkg'. This is the low-level package tool that all the apt tools are front-ends for. It does no

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Brian
On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 19:00:46 +0100, Joe wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:08:13 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 01 iun 14, 15:36:37, Joe wrote: Not wishing to add confusion, but you may also find references to 'dpkg'. This is the low-level package tool

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:22 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay between dpkg

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Brian
On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 15:50:38 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay between dpkg and apt is still (to me) quite marvellous. Get a .deb from somewhere (Skype, for example) and dpkg -i

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:50 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: apt-get -f install means a force install, am I correct? No, you aren't! -f, --fix-broken Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. - http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apt-get dpkg -i doesn't

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 00:14 +0100, Brian wrote: No. please see apt-get(8) (man apt-get) A note to the OP. Yet you might not be able to understand the syntax of a man(ual)page, but you need to learn it. Btw. you could use a search engine to do research in the Internet. https://startpage.com/

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 01:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: https://startpage.com/ Search term: apt-get manual First hit: http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get JFTR for the search term: apt-get man or for: apt-get manpage The second hit is manpages.debian.net ;). -- To

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Horatio Leragon
From: Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:09 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies Thanks for your help, Jorg. The aptitude command offers some help: I read somewhere

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Brian
On Sun 01 Jun 2014 at 05:49:24 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: I read somewhere on the internet that Debian discourages its users to use the 'aptitude' command. Debian encourages us to use the 'apt' command. Is that correct? No. The context you probably saw that in is important. $ aptitude

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Joe
an option. They have their own meta-data for package status, such as which are held back from upgrade, so mixing the tools if you are doing anything unusual is not recommended. When you upgrade versions, for example, it is recommended to use *both* apt-get and aptitude to remove holds and verify

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-01, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: Other than that, it is a matter of personal preference. Aptitude has a command-line text mode and an interactive text-graphics mode, apt-get is older and is purely text. Aptitude merges various tools under one command, apt-get, apt-cache and

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
My knowledge and experience with aptitude is much better than with apt/apt-get/apt-cache. As the first document comparing these tools I recommend the one in the package debian-reference-en (or another language you prefer) which of course is also available on the debian site. The search option of

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-01 Thread Brian
On Sun 01 Jun 2014 at 20:05:23 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: My knowledge and experience with aptitude is much better than with apt/apt-get/apt-cache. As the first document comparing these tools I recommend the one in the package debian-reference-en (or another language you prefer) which of

Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-05-31 Thread Horatio Leragon
After installation or uninstallation of software, I am quite sure there are unwanted files and orphaned dependencies lying around. How do I do a spring cleaning of my OS?

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-05-31 Thread Floris
apt-get autoremove --purge This command will search and remove packages and his configuration with no dependencies. But maybe you like/ need the package $ deborphan Prints (default option) a list of libraries which are unused. You can remove these packages with $ sudo apt-get remove --purge

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-05-31 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The aptitude command offers some help: $ aptitude search '~c' searches for packages that were removed but not purged, i.e., their configuration files are still present; to get rid of these files order $ aptitude purge '~c' Next: $ aptitude search '~g' searches for packages not required by

Re: How to remove Google from the Start screen?

2014-05-05 Thread Stephen Allen
the browser with a Wikipedia or Google search using your search terms. How do you remove Google and replace it with a search engine of your choice? Thanks. Doesn't on my Jessie install with Gnome 3.8.x - You sure you're using Debian and not Ubuntu? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: How to remove Google from the Start screen?

2014-05-05 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
. Apparently, clicking on either of them will open the browser with a Wikipedia or Google search using your search terms. How do you remove Google and replace it with a search engine of your choice? First, here's what I did to remove both of those search options entirely. I made a backup directory

How to remove Google from the Start screen?

2014-05-04 Thread A Debian User
terms. How do you remove Google and replace it with a search engine of your choice? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5366d99a.5040

dpkg will not remove old kernel

2014-03-13 Thread eddie
-update-grub exited with return code 1 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postrm.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64.postrm line 212. dpkg: error processing package linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were

Re: dpkg will not remove old kernel

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
filesystem. run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 1 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postrm.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64.postrm line 212. dpkg: error processing package linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal

Re: apt-get remove/purge with regex gives unexpected result

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/02/14 06:04, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-02-12 17:25 +0100, rpr nospam wrote: In order to uninstall all libreoffice packages I ran the following apt-get command with a simple regular expression: $ sudo apt-get remove 'libreoffice.*' Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Re: apt-get remove/purge with regex gives unexpected result

2014-02-13 Thread rpr nospam
the following commands: $ sudo apt-get remove 'libre?f?ice.*' Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'libreoffice.org-calc' for regex 'libre?f?ice.*' Note, selecting 'libreoffice.org-writer' for regex 'libre?f?ice.*' Package 'libreoffice.org

apt-get remove/purge with regex gives unexpected result

2014-02-12 Thread rpr nospam
On an installation of Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 with subsequent updates from testing (Linux 3.12.9-1 amd64) I noticed a strange output while running apt-get remove or apt-get purge in order to remove/purge libreoffice packages. Here are the libreoffice packages: $ dpkg-query -l 'libreoffice*' | tail

Re: apt-get remove/purge with regex gives unexpected result

2014-02-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-12 17:25 +0100, rpr nospam wrote: In order to uninstall all libreoffice packages I ran the following apt-get command with a simple regular expression: $ sudo apt-get remove 'libreoffice.*' Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-29 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.01.2014 16:41, John L. Ries a écrit : On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, lina wrote: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread darkestkhan
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:16 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread lina
On Tuesday 28,January,2014 06:19 PM, darkestkhan wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:16 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I tried to mount the iphone. Thanks ahead for your advice, Best regards, Seems like you don't have permissions to do this - I suspect you are not owner of .gvfs. If so

ERRATUM Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 28 January 2014 11:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: # rm .gvfs ERRATUM! # rmdir .gvfs sorry. :-( Typo, I'm afraid. The whole point was that it is difficult to remove a directory that has things in it. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:16 PM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Glyn Astill
From: Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com To: Debian Lists debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 12:52 Subject: Re: how to remove ? directory On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:16 PM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 15:16:57 schrieb lina: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I tried

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs If this is actual ls output then your filesystem is broken and you should fsck it, possibly in single-user mode (init 1). J. -- I lust after strangers but only date people from the office.

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I tried to mount the iphone

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread lina
On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: lina: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs If this is actual ls output then your filesystem is broken and you should fsck it, possibly in single-user mode (init 1). Please don't spread

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:34:00PM +0800, lina wrote: On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread lina
? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I tried to mount the iphone. Thanks ahead for your advice, This is normal. GVFS is a userspace filesystem used by GNOME to mount and present external filesystems

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Craig L.
: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I tried to mount the iphone. Thanks ahead for your advice, This is normal. GVFS

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Craig L. cr...@gtek.biz wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:00:05PM +0800, lina wrote: It is so strange, as a user (before I didn't try as user ): dr-x-- 2 lina lina 0 Jan 28 14:44 .gvfs which is under my /home/lina directory. while as a root, it shows:

Re: ERRATUM Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: The whole point was that it is difficult to remove a directory that has things in it. rm -rf dir -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread John L. Ries
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, lina wrote: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I tried to mount the iphone. Thanks

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:46 PM, Craig L. wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:34:00PM +0800, lina wrote: On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: This is normal. GVFS is a userspace filesystem used by GNOME to mount and present external

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Craig L.
on how FUSE filesystems and gvfs work concerning access from users other than the one owning the FUSE process. Grüße, Sven. The original request was for advice on how to remove the directory as root. I was trying to provide that advice. I did not say this was a good thing. And yes

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread John L. Ries
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Craig L. wrote: I think you need to (as user): chmod 755 .gvfs If you really want to get rid of it, you need to unmount it first. df won't show it, but it is a mount point. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone:

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 28/01/2014 14:35, Sven Hartge a écrit : Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: lina: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs If this is actual ls output then your filesystem is

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
François Patte: Le 28/01/2014 14:35, Sven Hartge a écrit : Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: lina: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs If this is actual ls output then your filesystem is broken and you should fsck

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: Le 28/01/2014 14:35, Sven Hartge a écrit : Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: lina: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs If this is actual ls output then your

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: François Patte: Le 28/01/2014 14:35, Sven Hartge a écrit : Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: lina: ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs If this is actual ls output then your

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-27 Thread aishen
mettre ses classes etc. Mais le paquet TeXLive lui n'y déposera rien. Et bien sûr, lors d'un remove/purge, si le répertoire est non vide (parce que l'admin y a mis des classes), celui-ci n'est pas supprimé afin que l'admin ne perde pas son travail. J'avais installé project-neon qui est crée dans opt

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-27 Thread maderios
On 01/26/2014 09:03 PM, Francois Lafont wrote: Bonsoir, Le 26/01/2014 10:45, maderios a écrit : On aurait pu mettre ton paquet dans le répertoire /usr/local. Là, je dis non. ;-) D'après ce que j'ai compris de quelques lectures ici ou là, aucun paquet ne doit installer quoi que ce soit dans

how to remove ? directory

2014-01-27 Thread lina
ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs a# rm -rf .gvfs rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I tried to mount the iphone. Thanks ahead for your advice, Best regards

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread maderios
On 01/25/2014 04:43 PM, Francois Lafont wrote: Bonjour, Merci Stéphane pour cette réponse détaillée. Je me permets de réagir sur un point. Le 23/01/2014 22:13, Stéphane GARGOLY a écrit : On aurait pu mettre ton paquet dans le répertoire /usr/local. Là, je dis non. ;-) D'après ce que j'ai

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Bzzz
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:33:15 +0100 Francois Lafont mathsatta...@free.fr wrote: Bon, après, il est indiqué qu'un paquet peut quand même créer des répertoires vides si j'ai bien tout compris. Non, il est indiqué qu'il est interdit de créer des DIRs tels que: /usr/local/kékchoz, mais qu'il est

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Francois Lafont
Bonjour, Le 26/01/2014 13:24, Bzzz a écrit : On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:33:15 +0100 Francois Lafont mathsatta...@free.fr wrote: Bon, après, il est indiqué qu'un paquet peut quand même créer des répertoires vides si j'ai bien tout compris. Non, C'est vrai que ma lecture a été vraiment

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Bzzz
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:22:14 +0100 Francois Lafont mathsatta...@free.fr wrote: Ok, mais le « * » dans ton chemin doit correspondre à un répertoire qui existe déjà sur le système (genre « bin » par exemple) ou bien à un répertoire listé dans FHS section 4.5 (pas réussi à trouver), sans quoi,

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Francois Lafont
Le 26/01/2014 15:40, Bzzz a écrit : « However, the package may create *empty* directories below /usr/local so that the system administrator knows where to place site-specific files. These are not directories in /usr/local, but are children of directories in /usr/local. These directories

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Bzzz
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:33:03 +0100 Francois Lafont mathsatta...@free.fr wrote: Ok, je comprends très bien ce que tu m'expliques. C'est juste que je ne pige pas le « empty » dans la phrase : « However, the package may create *empty* directories ... » Le paquet peut créer des répertoires

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Francois Lafont
Bzzz vraiment je ne comprends la traduction que tu me donnes (en revanche ton interprétation je l'ai bien comprise). Voir ci-dessous : Le 26/01/2014 16:45, Bzzz a écrit : Ok, je comprends très bien ce que tu m'expliques. C'est juste que je ne pige pas le « empty » dans la phrase : « However,

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Bzzz
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:02:48 +0100 Francois Lafont mathsatta...@free.fr wrote: Toutefois, le package peut créer des répertoires vides ^ ok, ces répertoires sont vides (répertoires pas encore super bien identifiés à ce stade, on sait

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Sylvain L. Sauvage
Le dimanche 26 janvier 2014 18:02:48 Francois Lafont a écrit : [… blabla répertoires vides blabla …] Les paquets Debian sont destinés à être installés dans /usr. Un paquet qui s’installerait dans /usr/local n’a pas de sens dans l’optique d’une distribution. (Ça en a pour un paquet qui ne

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Stéphane GARGOLY
Bonjour à tous les utilisateurs et développeurs de Debian : Le 26/01/2014, Sylvain L. Sauvagesylvain.l.sauv...@free.fr a écrit : Le dimanche 26 janvier 2014 18:02:48 Francois Lafont a écrit : [… blabla répertoires vides blabla …] C'est affolant qu'un répertoire vide peut amener à une si longue

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Francois Lafont
rmdir: failed to remove `debian/mon-paquet/usr/local/lib/mon-paquet': Directory not empty dh_usrlocal: rmdir debian/mon-paquet/usr/local/lib/mon-paquet returned exit code 1 Après, bien sûr on peut toujours faire un override de la cible dh_usrlocal pour ne pas avoir (on n'est tjs libre de faire ce

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Francois Lafont
lui n'y déposera rien. Et bien sûr, lors d'un remove/purge, si le répertoire est non vide (parce que l'admin y a mis des classes), celui-ci n'est pas supprimé afin que l'admin ne perde pas son travail. -- François Lafont -- Lisez la FAQ de la liste avant de poser une question : http

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Francois Lafont
Bonsoir, Le 26/01/2014 10:45, maderios a écrit : On aurait pu mettre ton paquet dans le répertoire /usr/local. Là, je dis non. ;-) D'après ce que j'ai compris de quelques lectures ici ou là, aucun paquet ne doit installer quoi que ce soit dans /usr/local/, Bonjour Hum... C'est nouveau ?

Re: Package perso qui supprime /opt/ suite à un remove

2014-01-26 Thread Sylvain L. Sauvage
Le dimanche 26 janvier 2014 19:50:22 Francois Lafont a écrit : […] [… blabla répertoires vides blabla …] Oui désolé si ce n'est pas passionnant, je reconnais. Mais j'espère qu'il n'y a pas de mépris quand même derrière ce commentaire. Non, c’est juste une manière de résumer… un peu

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