Re: SL6 Minimal Desktop problem

2011-09-16 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Brian Long wrote: I've installed SL6.1 Minimal Desktop in order to use IceWM on an IONITX motherboard (Intel Atom + Nvidia ION). When I try to login via GDM, GDM insists on starting gnome-session even though GNOME is not fully installed. I'm trying to determine the best

Re: .xps files on SL5

2011-09-16 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included.

Should yum-autoupdate depend on mailx?

2011-09-16 Thread Dennis Schridde
Hello! Line 211 of /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate calls /bin/mail, but yum- autoupdate-2-2.noarch does not depend on anything providing that file (mailx-12.4-6.el6.x86_64). This seems like a bug in dependencies, or is there a reason for this? Kind regards, Dennis signature.asc Description:

Re: .xps files on SL5

2011-09-16 Thread Stephen Isard
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:08:21 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? ... mupdf http://mupdf.com/ works on SL6 but I haven't tried

sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-16 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? Thanks for any suggetion.

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-16 Thread Connie Sieh
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release. So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release. When we

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-16 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release.  So at the moment sl6x

Re: Should yum-autoupdate depend on mailx?

2011-09-16 Thread jdow
Yum autoupdate sends email to root about updates performed. Perhaps that is the reason it is looking for mailx. It uses mailx in a scripted mode to create the messages. {^_^} On 2011/09/16 02:33, Dennis Schridde wrote: Hello! Line 211 of /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate calls /bin/mail, but

Anyone get Google Earth to work on SL6.1?

2011-09-16 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi Guys, Anyone get google-earth-stable-6.0.3.2197-0.x86_64.rpm to work on SL 6.1 x64? All I get is a splash screen and a caught signal 11. Many thanks, -T

gnome-volume-control error

2011-09-16 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi Guys, $ rpm -q -f gnome-volume-control gnome-media-2.29.91-6.el6.x86_64 Everything sound wise works well on my SL6.1 x64 machine except gnome-volume-control. When I fire it up, I get waiting for sound system to respond Any idea how to fix this? Many thanks, -T

Any CentOS 5.6 friendly ink jet printers?

2011-09-16 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, I have a sweet old duffer on CentOS 5.6, x32 with an HP DJ 6940 printer on the USB bus. CUPS like to put it offline a lot, which frustrates the two of us. There is also no easy way to clean the heads (other than a dubious command line program). Can anyone recommend a Linux

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee bum@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or

Re: Any CentOS 5.6 friendly ink jet printers?

2011-09-16 Thread Mark Stodola
On 09/16/2011 09:21 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, I have a sweet old duffer on CentOS 5.6, x32 with an HP DJ 6940 printer on the USB bus. CUPS like to put it offline a lot, which frustrates the two of us. There is also no easy way to clean the heads (other than a dubious command