Re: Can't upgrade Fedora 17

2013-04-18 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 18.04.2013 23:22, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:41:06 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > >> I can't cleanly upgrade my Fedora installation (I use --skip-broken), >> below is error reported by yum: >> >> Resolving Dependencies >> --> Running transaction check >> ---> Package

Re: Can't upgrade Fedora 17

2013-04-18 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 18.04.2013 23:18, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 18.04.2013 23:08, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz: >> No, because I don't want to upgrade from f17 to f18. I'm just doing >> regular system update (or at last, I'm trying) > * so please do NOT use the term "upgrade" Why? Yum uses this term. > * do not

Re: Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-18 Thread g
On 04/19/2013 12:04 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: Just when you think that laptop manufacturers couldn't go any farther off the rails, Lenovo has apparently decided that physical keyboard status LEDs are just too darn expensive. if you consider the oem cost for an led and associated circuit cost $0.1

Keyboard LED applet

2013-04-18 Thread Ian Pilcher
Just when you think that laptop manufacturers couldn't go any farther off the rails, Lenovo has apparently decided that physical keyboard status LEDs are just too darn expensive. Does anyone know of a keyboard LED applet/widget that can be used with KDE? (An actual Plasma widget is obviously pref

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-18 Thread David Beveridge
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:16 PM, g wrote: >> On 04/18/2013 07:26 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> centos does a lot of chop and remove from rhel package and adds a lot of >> their own crud. > > No. They don't. > When our redhat contract ran

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-18 Thread g
On 04/18/2013 10:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi no. i am straight right now. ;-) No. They don't. what ever. i am just going by what i have read elsewhere. personally, i tried centos before i went with scientific linux. i have been using sl for around 6 yrs now and i am very happy with

Re: how to create iso9660 archive. [SOLVED]

2013-04-18 Thread g
On 04/18/2013 10:44 PM, g wrote: <> they do have an irc channel. never used such, will go see what they know. i will post back with what i find. looks like i will not be joining any chat sessions because i do not have access to their channel providers. so i thought, "fts. i will wait for re

Re: how to create iso9660 archive. [SOLVED]

2013-04-18 Thread g
On 04/18/2013 10:19 PM, g wrote: <> after sending this, i am going to http://www.k3b.org/ to see what they have to say about hidden files because i need to burn some backups that have 'hiders' and want to include them without having to zip or cpio to files and burn the files. only thing i cou

Re: how to create iso9660 archive. [SOLVED]

2013-04-18 Thread g
*ooopppsss* On 04/18/2013 09:48 PM, g wrote: <> scratch this. you will see; Show hidden files=false change to; Show hidden files=true i have only burned .iso files with this installation, and that was with drag from knoqueror and drop to appropriate cd/dvd box. after sending last

Re: F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

2013-04-18 Thread poma
On 18.04.2013 04:19, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> use rpmfusion and NOT atrpms >> that's the same as for a physical install > > Thanks, enabled RPMFUSION and it's now downloading a thousand deps > (ok, 29 deps actually), and it'll use 55 MB of

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:16 PM, g wrote: > > On 04/18/2013 07:26 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Hi >> > <> > > Since both CentOS and SL are rebuilds of RHEL. the 3rd party repos should >> be compatible with either >> > > centos does a lot of chop and remove from rhel package and adds a lo

Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?

2013-04-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/19/13 10:25, William Mattison wrote: >> The ISO-8859 text is a good indication that the file is encoded in GB2312. >> So, you'll want >> >> -f GB2312 >> -t UTF-8 >> >> That is all > Progress. That made the file display in vi in Terminal correctly. > Thank-you, Ed. > > But the Chinese s

Re: how to create iso9660 archive. [SOLVED]

2013-04-18 Thread g
On 04/18/2013 08:49 PM, William Mattison wrote: <> "geleem" suggested: have you considered "K3b"? k3b allows you to do what you want, as it allows you to pre-build your own paths and then drag in what ever files, directories, or paths than you want. I couldn't find k3b on my system. So I s

Re: how to create iso9660 archive.

2013-04-18 Thread poma
On 18.04.2013 02:26, William Mattison wrote: > (fedora-18, all desktops) > > I would like to burn a single dvd with an ISO9660 - Rock Ridge - Joliet file > made from: > * /home/user1/project17/ > * /home/user2/project17/ > * /home/user2/.hidden/ > Each of these directories has multiple levels of

Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?

2013-04-18 Thread William Mattison
> The ISO-8859 text is a good indication that the file is encoded in GB2312. > > So, you'll want > > -f GB2312 > -t UTF-8 > > That is all Progress.  That made the file display in vi in Terminal correctly.  Thank-you, Ed. But the Chinese still doesn't display correctly in vi in Konsole an

Re: recoll and mime-text

2013-04-18 Thread poma
On 19.04.2013 00:56, Dave Stevens wrote: > I've taken the suggestion of poma from earlier to try recoll as a > desktop search engine. It indexed everything nicely and is very quick. I > can't seem to get attachments out of my retrieved emails. > > So the one I'm looking for right now has an attach

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-18 Thread g
On 04/18/2013 07:26 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi <> Since both CentOS and SL are rebuilds of RHEL. the 3rd party repos should be compatible with either centos does a lot of chop and remove from rhel package and adds a lot of their own crud. as for 3rd party repos, same for either. or so it

Re: how to create iso9660 archive. [SOLVED]

2013-04-18 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:49 PM, William Mattison wrote: > I tried k3b. I couldn't find a way in it to see hidden files. There's a settings icon in the top-right corner of the file selector that opens a menu which contains a "Show Hidden Files" option. -T.C. -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: how to create iso9660 archive. [SOLVED]

2013-04-18 Thread William Mattison
> (fedora-18, all desktops) > > I would like to burn a single dvd with an ISO9660 - Rock Ridge - Joliet file > made from: > * /home/user1/project17/ > * /home/user2/project17/ > * /home/user2/.hidden/ > Each of these directories has multiple levels of subdirectories.  user1 and > user2 each has

Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?

2013-04-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/19/13 09:31, William Mattison wrote: > > What do you get when you type > > > > file filename ? > > > > I don't remember, but I think in the Fedora 9 days Unicode may not have > > been the default. The encoding you have may be GB2312. > > > > You can try running > > > > iconv -f GB2

Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?

2013-04-18 Thread William Mattison
> What do you get when you type > > file filename  ? > > I don't remember, but I think in the Fedora 9 days Unicode may not have been > the default.  The encoding you have may be GB2312. > > You can try running > > iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8 filename > filename.utf8 > > and then vi the result

Re: recoll and mime-text

2013-04-18 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting davidscha...@mobilicity.blackberry.com: Sorry for top posting. Bbm does not allow bottom posting. Ifirc its uudecode. It has been 14 years since I used it. Hth yes, that's it, in sharutils, too. Thanks! Dave Dave Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity -Or

Re: recoll and mime-text

2013-04-18 Thread davidschaak1
Sorry for top posting. Bbm does not allow bottom posting. Ifirc its uudecode. It has been 14 years since I used it. Hth Dave Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity -Original Message- From: Dave Stevens Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2

Re: how to make user account partially bi-lingual?

2013-04-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/18/13 11:42, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/18/13 11:23, William Mattison wrote: >> I imported from a Redhat 9 system many files created by vi and containing a >> mix of English and simplified Chinese. When I load any of those into vi(m) >> on the Fedora-18 system, the simplified Chinese is not

Re: k3b , burning video

2013-04-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/19/13 07:51, james tate wrote: > On 04/07/13 19:41, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 09:55 -0400, Jim wrote: >>> On 04/07/2013 12:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:56 -0400, Jim wrote: > F18 > > what video format does k3b burn, mp4

Re: k3b , burning video

2013-04-18 Thread james tate
On 04/07/13 19:41, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 09:55 -0400, Jim wrote: On 04/07/2013 12:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:56 -0400, Jim wrote: F18 what video format does k3b burn, mp4 etc. ? The question as it stands is meaningless. K3B just bur

Re: Python scripting in Fedora

2013-04-18 Thread Matthias Runge
On 04/18/2013 10:57 AM, Mike Williams wrote: > > There are a couple others: Yes, you're right and still not complete: yum search fedora | grep python | cut -d':' -f1-1 fedora-cert.noarch python-fedmsg-meta-fedora-infrastructure.noarch python-fedora.noarch python-fedora-django.noarch python-fedo

recoll and mime-text

2013-04-18 Thread Dave Stevens
I've taken the suggestion of poma from earlier to try recoll as a desktop search engine. It indexed everything nicely and is very quick. I can't seem to get attachments out of my retrieved emails. So the one I'm looking for right now has an attached .pdf, but the whole mail, headers and mim

Re: Can't upgrade Fedora 17

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:41:06 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > I can't cleanly upgrade my Fedora installation (I use --skip-broken), > below is error reported by yum: > > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package febootstrap-supermin-helper.x86_64 0:3.20-1.fc17 will

Re: Can't upgrade Fedora 17

2013-04-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.04.2013 23:08, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz: > No, because I don't want to upgrade from f17 to f18. I'm just doing > regular system update (or at last, I'm trying) * so please do NOT use the term "upgrade" * do not use "--skip-broken" * analyze what deps are failing * consider to wait a fe

Re: Can't upgrade Fedora 17

2013-04-18 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 18.04.2013 23:02, Steven Stern wrote: > On 04/18/2013 03:41 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> I can't cleanly upgrade my Fedora installation (I use --skip-broken), >> below is error reported by yum: >> >> Resolving Dependencies >> --> Running transaction check >> ---> Package febootstrap-superm

Re: SELinux fails to apply local policy module

2013-04-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Daniel, On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 05:32:23PM -0700, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > You seem to have a lot of cruft in your policy directory. > > Could you just remove the directory and reinstall policy. > > > # setenforce 0 > # rm -rf /etc/selinux/targeted > # yum reinstall selinux-policy-targeted >

Re: Can't upgrade Fedora 17

2013-04-18 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/18/2013 03:41 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > I can't cleanly upgrade my Fedora installation (I use --skip-broken), > below is error reported by yum: > > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package febootstrap-supermin-helper.x86_64 0:3.20-1.fc17 will be > obsolet

Re: Can't upgrade Fedora 17

2013-04-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.04.2013 22:41, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz: > I can't cleanly upgrade my Fedora installation (I use --skip-broken), > below is error reported by yum: > > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package febootstrap-supermin-helper.x86_64 0:3.20-1.fc17 will be > obsole

Can't upgrade Fedora 17

2013-04-18 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
I can't cleanly upgrade my Fedora installation (I use --skip-broken), below is error reported by yum: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package febootstrap-supermin-helper.x86_64 0:3.20-1.fc17 will be obsoleted --> Processing Dependency: febootstrap-supermin-helper >= 3.3 f

Re: Changing a read only file system to write

2013-04-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 16:02 -0400, Jim wrote: > I have a 32gb SD card that is partition with a fat32 and is read only, I > want to make the SD card a Linux boot, but I need to get rid of the Fat32. > > How would I do it with Gparted. ? Reformat it with mkkfs -- ==

Re: Changing a read only file system to write

2013-04-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.04.2013 22:02, schrieb Jim: > I have a 32gb SD card that is partition with a fat32 and is read only, I want > to make the SD card a Linux boot, but > I need to get rid of the Fat32. > > How would I do it with Gparted. ? gparted is not interested in the existing file-system you do not need

Changing a read only file system to write

2013-04-18 Thread Jim
I have a 32gb SD card that is partition with a fat32 and is read only, I want to make the SD card a Linux boot, but I need to get rid of the Fat32. How would I do it with Gparted. ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f

Re: F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

2013-04-18 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Fernando Cassia said: > And common media players like MPlayer or VLC do not come in > 'statically linked' versions that one can just download as a single > file and run, while booted off a LiveCD... (yes, one can 'yum install > mplayer' but it's painfully slow and the app is obvi

Re: F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

2013-04-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.04.2013 21:48, schrieb Fernando Cassia: > Yes, I know Rick. I've found the hard way that Fedora's media players, > as shipped with the OS, are basically useless for playing any media > you find on the Net, no mp3 playback, no wma audio playback, can't > even play back *.mp4 (MPEG 4 layer 10

Re: F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

2013-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > Red Hat/Fedora play by USA > laws and can't include things that have such issues. SuSE and several > others based outside the USA bypass them regularly. Yes, I know Rick. I've found the hard way that Fedora's media players, as shipped with th

Re: F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

2013-04-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/17/2013 07:19 PM, Fernando Cassia issued this missive: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: use rpmfusion and NOT atrpms that's the same as for a physical install Thanks, enabled RPMFUSION and it's now downloading a thousand deps (ok, 29 deps actually), and it'll use 55

Re: OT: IDE 80 connector cables

2013-04-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/18/2013 03:42 AM, Gary Stainburn issued this missive: On Thursday 18 April 2013 11:18:52 Frank Murphy wrote: I have some IDE Cables are too long for purpose, trying to stuff them into small spaces. Is it ok, to cut the cable after 1st (grey connector) if only going to one device. (it's an

Fedora 18 cannot mount any USB device

2013-04-18 Thread Marek Miller
Hi all, After upgading F18 a week ago I cannot mount any sub device: /var./log/messages contains following lines Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.641582] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] 30489408 512-byte logical blocks: (15.6 GB/14.5 GiB) Apr 18 20:04:32 stargate kernel: [ 5908.642204] sd 4:0:0:0: [s

Re: Python scripting in Fedora

2013-04-18 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Matthias Runge wrote: > On 04/18/2013 03:59 AM, Gergely Buday wrote: > > Hi, > > > > are there Fedora-specific scripting libraries in Python? > > > > - Gergely > > > The only fedora-specific library I know/remember, is python-fedora. > > There are a couple others:

Re: cross-platform notes / tomboy / evernote

2013-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > There is a bug report opened at the Nevernote's bugtracker... > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3611285&group_id=322872&atid=1356578 > > ...hey wait, it's you! ;) Randy Baumgarte - baumgarr -at- users.sourceforge.net is t

Re: cross-platform notes / tomboy / evernote

2013-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > I found a nixnote RPM, but get this error when trying to install: > > Transaction Check Error: > file / from install of nixnote-1.5-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from > package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64 Steven, Sounds like a packaging pro

Re: cross-platform notes / tomboy / evernote

2013-04-18 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 18/04/13 11:56, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Tomboy for ages to keep track of all sorts of stuff, but now I need to have that same info available on other platforms (e.g., my Mac, iPad, iPhone), so I'm thinking that Evernote is the solution. Have you tried "nixnote"? What are your so

Re: cross-platform notes / tomboy / evernote

2013-04-18 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/18/2013 11:09 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Steven Stern > wrote: >> Have you tried "nixnote"? > > I played with nixnote a while back. It worked. > Being Java based, it should work on OpenJDK in Linux and also Mac OS-X. > > But be warned that neither iPhone

Re: cross-platform notes / tomboy / evernote

2013-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > Have you tried "nixnote"? I played with nixnote a while back. It worked. Being Java based, it should work on OpenJDK in Linux and also Mac OS-X. But be warned that neither iPhone nor iPad nor Android have a standard JavaSE runtime capable o

cross-platform notes / tomboy / evernote

2013-04-18 Thread Steven Stern
I've been using Tomboy for ages to keep track of all sorts of stuff, but now I need to have that same info available on other platforms (e.g., my Mac, iPad, iPhone), so I'm thinking that Evernote is the solution. Have you tried "nixnote"? What are your solutions for making your notes portable?

building a Fedora LXC container

2013-04-18 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all I have a CentOS6 host, and would like to have Fedora 18 LXC guests on it. This is mainly because the CPU is not "VT", otherwise I just would have used full virtual. For hosting building CentOS containers, I have this links: http://wiki.1tux.org/wiki/Lxc/Installation/Guest/Centos/6 http:

Re: Python scripting in Fedora

2013-04-18 Thread Matthias Runge
On 04/18/2013 03:59 AM, Gergely Buday wrote: > Hi, > > are there Fedora-specific scripting libraries in Python? > > - Gergely > The only fedora-specific library I know/remember, is python-fedora. Matthias -- Matthias Runge -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Solved - Re: Problems with nc command - F18

2013-04-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
ARGH!!! I reread to manpage for the 3rd time and there was the example! I only needed: nc -u -l Back to working on the pogo plug. netconsole indicates the usb drive with the kirkwood-arm img is bad. On 04/18/2013 10:39 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Hello, I am trying to get Fedor

Problems with nc command - F18

2013-04-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Hello, I am trying to get Fedora-18-arm on my pogoplug, and having problems so I as told to use netconsole to troubleshoot. I am attempting to follow instructions from: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,14,14 I am up to starting nc in listen mode: nc -l -u -p I have opened udp port 66

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > I think CentOS is the right choice, because of the packagers ecosystem. I > dont find many 3rd party packagers for SL. Since both CentOS and SL are rebuilds of RHEL. the 3rd party repos should be compatible with either Rah

Python scripting in Fedora

2013-04-18 Thread Gergely Buday
Hi, are there Fedora-specific scripting libraries in Python? - Gergely -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have

Re: OT: IDE 80 connector cables

2013-04-18 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 18 April 2013 11:18:52 Frank Murphy wrote: > I have some IDE Cables are too long for purpose, > trying to stuff them into small spaces. > > Is it ok, to cut the cable after 1st (grey connector) > if only going to one device. > (it's an old ide based box.) Yes, I have done this a number

OT: IDE 80 connector cables

2013-04-18 Thread Frank Murphy
I have some IDE Cables are too long for purpose, trying to stuff them into small spaces. Is it ok, to cut the cable after 1st (grey connector) if only going to one device. (it's an old ide based box.) -- Regards, Frank http//www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org