Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
lan James Jenkins wrote: >>> The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not >>> to sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage). >>> >>> On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins >>> wrote: >>> >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Yeah no worries mate it happens to all of us =). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:43, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to >> sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
No problem mate =) glad its sorted. On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:41, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Hey Gareth, >> >> Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this >> builds an unsigned source package: &

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: > Hey Gareth, > > Just looked up how to build a package without signing and suppos

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Hey Gareth, Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this builds an unsigned source package: debuild -i -us -uc -S and this builds the binary: debuild -i -us -uc -b Give that a try =) On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:22, Gareth France wrote: > >> Looks like some other err

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
11:35, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 11:31, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Also Gareth, Debian packaging is a pain until you get used to it. But on the >> plus side its a good skill to have if you want to help out the Ubuntu >> community as you can become a package ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Agreed, Give us the contents of the files in debian/ so we can try figure out what its choking on. (I am not an expert on debian packaging but I will do my best to help you). On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:31, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 11:28, Alan Pope wrote: >> On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Also Gareth, Debian packaging is a pain until you get used to it. But on the plus side its a good skill to have if you want to help out the Ubuntu community as you can become a package maintainer once you get proficient and have the time for it. On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:28, Alan Pope wrote: > O

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on Macs

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Hey guys, I have been a Ubuntu’er for a long long time (since 4.10 Warty Warthog) and until a few years ago I had Ubuntu on my desktop and my old Dell XPS M170 laptop. However I replaced the ageing M170 with a Macbook Pro so for the last few years I have been using a Macbook Pro and putting up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Good stuff glad you got it working =). On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:39, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:37, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Also try: >> >> which seaward >> >> If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in your >&

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
/seaward already so dunno why I asked you to do that. If you call the script with its absolute path e.g: /usr/bin/seaward Does it work? On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:33, Colin Law wrote: > On 23 April 2014 15:22, Gareth France wrote: >> On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
OK next command to try: file /usr/bin/seaward On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:27, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:24, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Going on what those commands reported you should be good to run seaward as >> the script is in your path, is executable to every

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Going on what those commands reported you should be good to run seaward as the script is in your path, is executable to everyone and has the correct interpreter set in the shebang. Is it not working? On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:22, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Could you please give us the output of these commands: echo $PATH ls -la /usr/bin/seaward head -n1 /usr/bin/seaward Thanks, Alan On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:17, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:15, Stuart Ward wrote: >> >> On 23 April 2014 15:07, Gareth France wrote: >> I have tried renamin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Learning Ubuntu....

2009-03-05 Thread Alan James Jenkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guys you really make me wish that I was old enough to have done all of this. The only way I can get close is by playing with the oldest servers I could find in my college when I ran it for them for a while (VMS based). One thing I still find funny abou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nonsensical jack sensing - A bug day idea

2009-02-20 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Pulseaudio is just another layer above alsa providing mixing amongst other things. Alsa is still used for outputting the sounds. Home Phone: 01242 676299 iPhone temporary number: 07549956765 Fax: 0871 528 8931 On 20 Feb 2009, at 15:11, Jacob Williams wrote: Forgive me if I misunderstand,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MBR

2009-02-20 Thread Alan James Jenkins
I see no problem with this other than you must make sure you do not accidentally unplug the USB drive while in use as that may result in dataloss depending on what you are doing. Just be careful though and all should be ok. Home Phone: 01242 676299 iPhone temporary number: 07549956765 Fax: 0