Re: Markdown viewer

2018-09-28 Thread Dave Cross
t, but it's not critical. How simple do you want it? I use this: $ pandoc -t plain some_file.md | less -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Where is Perl 5's "say" module?

2018-08-18 Thread Dave Cross
/ By requiring a version 5.10 or greater of Perl (which turns on all of the features for the version of Perl you have asked for). use 5.010; say 'hello'; 3/ You can use the -M command line argument to simulate the 'use feature' app

Re: html to man page

2018-04-02 Thread Dave Cross
d::POM) it's not particularly hard to achieve that. That is, after all, the basis of site like https://metacpan.org/. I once wrote a whole book in Pod - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004767.do Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.

Re: html to man page

2018-04-02 Thread Dave Cross
Markdown and using that as your source - generating other formats from that. You might need to do quite a lot of manual clean-up of the Markdown files though. But you'd only need to do it once. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg

Re: perl updates

2018-03-01 Thread Dave Cross
eq '--version') { For bonus points, submit that fix back to the project. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 November 2015 at 09:26, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:18:03 + > Dave Cross wrote: > >> Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and >> new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still >> l

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 November 2015 at 13:00, Kseniya Blashchuk wrote: > You can also increase the installonly_limit in dnf.conf That an interesting idea. Thanks. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 November 2015 at 09:26, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:18:03 + > Dave Cross wrote: > >> Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and >> new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still >> l

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 November 2015 at 11:24, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > On 30 Nov 2015 at 11:17, Dave Cross wrote: > > Date sent: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:17:41 + > Subject:Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels > From: Dave Cross > To:

Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
[ email re-ordered to make more sense ] On 30 November 2015 at 09:28, Antonio M wrote: > > 2015-11-30 10:18 GMT+01:00 Dave Cross : >> >> Currently I have problem with newer kernel RPMs on my Dell Dimension. >> There's a bug in Bugzilla about this. >> >>

DNF: Retainining old Kernels

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Cross
27;t remove the working kernel RPM and new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still like to install new RPMs so that I can test them to find when my problem is fixed. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- user

Re: updated f22->f23 using dnf system-upgrade, no significant issues

2015-11-03 Thread Dave Cross
On 3 November 2015 at 14:42, Neal Becker wrote: > A boring update Yep. Completely uneventful here too. Which is good :-) -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: ht

Re: perl executable

2015-09-23 Thread Dave Cross
/perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq3.html#How-can-I-hide-the-source-for-my-Perl-program%3f Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: where do dnf plugins go?

2015-07-20 Thread Dave Cross
ins/local.conf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf-plugins/local.py /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf-plugins/local.pyc /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf-plugins/local.pyo /usr/share/man/man8/dnf.plugin.local.8.gz Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http:/

Frequent X Freezes

2015-06-20 Thread Dave Cross
t I wondered if anyone here had any suggestions of other investigations I could carry our or other useful information that I could add to the bug. I'm happy to do all that I can to try and get this problem fixed. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg --

Problems with journalctl

2015-06-18 Thread Dave Cross
o December 2012. $ journalctl -- Logs begin at Fri 2014-12-12 07:55:40 GMT, end at Thu 2015-06-18 09:44:18 BST. -- ... I'd like to be able to see all of the system boots and easily access logs from a particular boot. Any suggestions as to how I can fix this problem? Thanks, Dave...

Google Account in GNOME

2014-08-30 Thread Dave Cross
l. Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how I can fix this? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: perl

2014-05-02 Thread Dave Cross
ier on the @INC path. This would mean the Perl completely ignores the yum-installed version. Try running these three command and report back what you get. perl -MPDL -le'print $INC{"PDL.pm"}' rpm -ql perl-PDL | grep PDL.pm perl -le'print $_ for @INC' Hope this helps,

Dual Boot Problems

2014-04-22 Thread Dave Cross
tem has an SSD which it uses for booting Windows. Is there any chance that I install Fedora so that it uses this (but without disturbing the Windows boot files)? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users maili

Re: F20/Windows 7 Dual Boot Problem

2014-01-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 5 January 2014 15:06, Dave Cross wrote: > I've had my laptop set up for dual boot between Fedora and Windows 7 > for a couple of years. Everything has worked fine. > > I updated from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 using fedup recently. After > that, I was still able to boot into W

Fedora 20 - ssh keys

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Cross
s ~]$ rpm -qa | grep keyring gnome-keyring-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 gnome-keyring-pam-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 libgnome-keyring-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 Is there something else I need to do in order to get this working correctly? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davo

F20/Windows 7 Dual Boot Problem

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Cross
ve noticed that Windows is missing from the boot menu. So some recent update seems to have removed it. Does that sound likely? How can I debug what has happened? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Fedora 20 Problems on Dell XPS 41z

2014-01-02 Thread Dave Cross
On 2 January 2014 10:44, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:36:43AM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: >> On 2 January 2014 09:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> >> >> >> I re

Re: Fedora 20 Problems on Dell XPS 41z

2014-01-02 Thread Dave Cross
On 2 January 2014 09:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> >> I realise that I haven't given you enough to go on here, but these >> kinds of problems are well outside my Linux experience. Tell me what >&

Fedora 20 Problems on Dell XPS 41z

2014-01-02 Thread Dave Cross
7;s a problem. I realise that I haven't given you enough to go on here, but these kinds of problems are well outside my Linux experience. Tell me what diagnostics will we helpful and I'll provide them. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @da

Smooth Upgrade

2013-12-18 Thread Dave Cross
t time and effort into making the upgrade process work so well. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code

Fedora 20 with UEFI/Secure Boot

2013-12-09 Thread Dave Cross
point me to details about how I can do this, then that would be great. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Re: Speech to text on Fedora?

2013-09-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 September 2013 09:53, Ian Malone wrote: > On 6 September 2013 09:15, Dave Cross wrote: > > On 5 September 2013 18:08, Jack Craig > wrote: > >> > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> Anyone doing this on Fedora? > > > > > > Have you look

Re: Speech to text on Fedora?

2013-09-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 5 September 2013 18:08, Jack Craig wrote: > Hi folks, > > Anyone doing this on Fedora? > Have you looked at Festival? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/festival I don't know how actively maintained it is, but it works. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...

Re: grep by paragraph

2013-08-30 Thread Dave Cross
perl -e'$/=""; while (<>) { print if /green/ }' /tmp/text You can use Perl's command line options to clean that up a bit. $ perl -00 -ne 'print if /green/' para.txt -00 is the same as $/="" -n is the same as "while (<>) { YOUR

Re: Fedora to Android

2013-08-06 Thread Dave Cross
#x27;d prefer if possible to use rsync. simple-mtpfs seems to work pretty well for me. See http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=286547 -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Tk-PlotDataset

2013-07-22 Thread Dave Cross
ctory and recreate the tarball. You might consider raising a bug against the module too - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Tk-PlotDataset Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: perl-Math-GSL

2013-07-17 Thread Dave Cross
ghtly nervous about mixing cpan-installed modules and rpm-installed modules in the same Perl installation. This presentation might be useful (but beware, it's five years old) http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.or

Re: Fedora 18 -> 19 Upgrade

2013-07-08 Thread Dave Cross
On 8 July 2013 11:05, Maurizio Marini wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:54:47 +0100 > Dave Cross wrote: > > > I've been running Fedora on both laptops and desktops since Fedora Core > 1. > > Before that I used Red Hat Linux. I've been used to my six-monthly > u

Fedora 18 -> 19 Upgrade

2013-07-08 Thread Dave Cross
ra 19. For the first time ever the transition was completely seamless. Both PCs are now running Fedora 19 with no problems whatsoever. I've been quick to complain about problems in the past, so I wanted to take the time to thank the Fedora team for making this upgrade so painless. Cheers, Da

Re: GNOME battery display doesn't agree with /sys data

2013-04-02 Thread Dave Cross
k at 42%. I unplugged the power lead and when I plugged it back in again, everything seemed to correct itself. But, yes, reporting a bug sounds like a good idea. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: Missing Functionality in New Anaconda

2013-01-23 Thread Dave Cross
On 23 January 2013 14:10, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:59:37PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: >> I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important >> data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse >> the existing /h

Missing Functionality in New Anaconda

2013-01-23 Thread Dave Cross
of your users are using. If I'm being stupid and missing an obvious way to this, then can someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what to do. Thanks, Dave... p.s. It seems I'm not the only person trying (and failing) to use this approach - http://mocktech.com/blog/2013/01/fedora

Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-21 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 21:39, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 20.01.2013 22:37, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: >> Dave Cross writes: >> >>> $ rpm -qa | grep fc18 >>> nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64 >>> java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.4.fc18.x86_64 >>&g

Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-21 Thread Dave Cross
On 21 January 2013 11:04, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:48:25 +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > >> Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem. >> But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall >> gstreamer1-plugins-base and

Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 18:19, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:03:06 +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > >> Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch >> all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to >> upgrade the PC to

Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 485M 109M 352M 24% /boot But in my description made you think that was the problem? Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 20:12, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/20/2013 11:33 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> >> So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that >> thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I >> suppose I could just bac

F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
t be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to reuse the /home partition. Can anyone suggest a way forward for me? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross

Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
leads me to two questions. 1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos? 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this? Please let me know if you need any more information or if there's a more useful place for me to report this issue. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.u

Re: Fitbit on Fedora via Wine?

2012-12-18 Thread Dave Cross
;s a community for Linux users on the Fitbit web site. http://www.fitbit.com/group/228R6L Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: Bumblebee on Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 December 2012 17:48, John Aldrich wrote: > Quoting Dave Cross : > > Bumblebee is a project to enable NVidia's Optimus technology on Linux. >> >> I have found a number of web pages explaining how to use Bumblebee on >> Fedora, but they all seem to invol

Bumblebee on Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Cross
ssary, I wondered if anyone knew of plans to make pre-built RPMs available in the Fedora repositories. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Connecting a Android Galaxy SII

2012-11-12 Thread Dave Cross
o use MTP instead. Which is a bit of a shame given the appalling quality of MTP tools on Linux :-( Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-24 Thread Dave Cross
On 22 September 2012 15:04, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 14:45 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >> I can't be the only person with this problem. >> >> I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of >> Android (like Jellybe

MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Dave Cross
m? Is anyone packaging mtpfs or gMTP for Fedora? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users G

Re: Perl programming related question.

2012-08-17 Thread Dave Cross
name($url->path); # prints somefile.zip Perl programming gets a lot easier if you use the tools that are already there. Cheers. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: Fedora 17 - Only one kernel

2012-07-10 Thread Dave Cross
t always keep the last known working kernel around. Dave.. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproj

Degraded Network Performance Under Fedora 17

2012-06-15 Thread Dave Cross
u think will be useful and report the results. As a start, here's my Smolt profile. http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_6a3d4007-5d06-4a17-af48-0fb9dc1225d9 Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Making sound from Perl - How?

2012-05-30 Thread Dave Cross
g/release/Audio-PortAudio Looks like it hasn't been touched for five years though... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/l

Re: Random Frequent Session Crashed

2012-05-15 Thread Dave Cross
On 13 May 2012 17:02, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 05/13/2012 04:55 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > > For about the last month I've been getting random frequent session > crashes. They take one of three forms: > > * The PC reboots > * The GNOME session freezes > * T

Random Frequent Session Crashed

2012-05-13 Thread Dave Cross
m happy to provide it. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- 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/

Re: Dell p513w with Fedora 16

2012-04-17 Thread Dave Cross
On 16 April 2012 11:23, Dale Dellutri wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> My new Dell laptop came with a free Dell p513w printer. I've been >> trying to set it up for use with Fedora 16. >> >> It's a wireless printer, so I

Dell p513w with Fedora 16

2012-04-15 Thread Dave Cross
e would be much appreciated. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- 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/M

Dell 14z Mini DisplayPort

2012-03-24 Thread Dave Cross
tried that yet, but most projectors that I come across don't have HDMI inputs (perhaps I need a better class of client!) If anyone has any suggestions how I can get the DisplayPort working under Fedora 16, I'd love to hear them. Happy, of course, to supply any further information that

Re: Preugrade Stalled?

2011-11-13 Thread Dave Cross
On 13 November 2011 10:50, Dave Cross wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade my Dell desktop to F16 using preupgrade. I ran > the download overnight and started the actual upgrade this morning. I > started it running and wandered off for an hour and a half. > > When I came back it w

Preugrade Stalled?

2011-11-13 Thread Dave Cross
gress bar isn't moving. I've now watched it for an hour and it hasn't changed at all. So I have two questions. 1/ Is it possible that the process can take this long? Or has it stalled? 2/ If it has stalled, what should I do? How easy will it be to recover the system? Thanks,

Turning Off GNOME Warnings

2011-10-17 Thread Dave Cross
vert to the previous behaviour where I'm only told about a problem once? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Dave Cross
On 29 August 2011 14:39, Tim Evans wrote: > On 08/29/2011 09:36 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:46:35AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: >>> On 29/08/11 11:38, Dave Cross wrote: >>>> I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really d

GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Dave Cross
5? Cheers, Dave... [1] http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/08/hating-gnome-3.html -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Obsolete RPMs

2011-07-10 Thread Dave Cross
On 7 July 2011 14:30, Germán A. Racca wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:06:31 +0100 > Dave Cross wrote: > >> I've upgraded a couple of systems from F14 to F15 using preupgrade. >> Everything seems to have gone fine. >> >> I'm slowly getting used to GNOM

Re: Obsolete RPMs

2011-06-29 Thread Dave Cross
On 28 June 2011 17:40, Kam Leo wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> I've upgraded a couple of systems from F14 to F15 using preupgrade. >> Everything seems to have gone fine. >> >> I'm slowly getting used to GNOME 3 and I'm sur

Obsolete RPMs

2011-06-28 Thread Dave Cross
y system. These will be the RPMs relating to features used in GNOME 2 but not in GNOME 3. I'm thinking of things like compiz and all of the applets. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just remove all of these RPMs? Are there any more that I can remove safely? Cheers, Dave -- Dave

Re: Preupgrade F14 -> F15 Fails

2011-06-22 Thread Dave Cross
On 21 June 2011 23:06, Dj YB wrote: > On Tuesday June 21 2011 23:36:51 Dave Cross wrote: >> I have two Dell PCs - a Dimension desktop and an XPS laptop. They are >> both running Fedora 14 and I have tried to upgrade them both to Fedora >> 15 using preupgrade. >> >

Preupgrade F14 -> F15 Fails

2011-06-21 Thread Dave Cross
in the top left-hand corner of the screen. Can anyone suggest where I should start to debug this issue? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fe

Re: Install Fedora on an android tablet or an iPad?

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Cross
ing forward to hearing more about this. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- 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

Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Cross
On 26 April 2011 12:36, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/26/2011 04:57 PM, Dave Cross wrote: >> I've discussed this possibility before. For reasons that I can't >> remember now it always seemed to be far more trouble than I wanted to >> put in it. > > The process

Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Cross
On 26 April 2011 11:30, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/26/2011 03:59 PM, Dave Cross wrote: >> You might find some of the missing ones in my RPM repo - >> http://rpm.mag-sol.com/ I've discussed this possibility before. For reasons that I can't remember now it always seem

Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Cross
ou might find some of the missing ones in my RPM repo - http://rpm.mag-sol.com/ Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-18 Thread Dave Cross
perating system that has been unsupported for three years? I suggest you go back to them and insist they install a useful OS. It would also be helpful if you could name the company so that we could ensure that we avoid them in the future :-) Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk htt

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Cross
ple at RPMFusion. > Also, is it possible that the MP3 file has DRM? Your android phone > probably has a closed source decoder that can handle it. Can MP3s contain DRM? I didn't think that was possible. But I'm quite prepared to be corrected on that. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Cross
ce. > > 4.  Or, you can go here, http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/ and get the > fedoraplus, the program formerly known as autoten.  Dangermouse, btw, is > one of the admins for fedoraforum.org; you can trust his programs to be > safe. Ooh. That looks interesting. I hadn't h

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Cross
art of Fedora, since Fedora > has intellectual property issues with ugly codecs, so you might get > better support from the original source. That's a very good point. I'll speak to the people at RPMFusion. > I use Fluendo's codecs, and hadn't seen this problem, so

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 29 March 2011 18:29, Ted Roche wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > >>> Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Are there any other >>> tests I can carry out to work out what the differences are? >> >> Warnocked :-( >&g

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Cross
On 23 March 2011 16:35, Dave Cross wrote: > I'm using Fedora 14 and I think I have the correct RPMs installed in > order for Rhythmbox to play MP3s. > > $ rpm -q rhythmbox > rhythmbox-0.13.3-1.fc14.i686 > $ rpm -q gstreamer-plugins-ugly > gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.16-2

Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Cross
also point out that some MP3s from this site work just fine. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Are there any other tests I can carry out to work out what the differences are? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list user

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Dave Cross
this. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; while (<>) { if (m|\[XYZ]| .. m|\[/XYZ]|) { next if m|\[/?XYZ]|; print; } } But I can't be sure as you haven't actually explained what you question is. For Perl questions, you might be better

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-12 Thread Dave Cross
On 12 November 2010 19:28, JB wrote: > Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On 10 November 2010 11:01, JB gmail.com> wrote: >> > JB gmail.com> writes: >> > >> >> ... >> > >> > Once you do the above, please do t

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-12 Thread Dave Cross
a far larger fornt due to the VESA driver. Thanks, as always, for your help. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-11 Thread Dave Cross
snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 4863 1 snd snd_page_alloc 6061 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm dcdbas 6640 0 usb_storage34394 0 firewire_ohci 17607 0 firewire_core 36185 1 firewire_o

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 9 November 2010 21:33, JB wrote: > Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > >> ... > > Hi, > I thought you were done and forgot about us :-) Yeah, sorry. I don't often have the free time to explore this. I won't, for example, be able to try out any more suggest

Re: F12 -&amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 9 November 2010 19:44, Dave Cross wrote: > On 7 November 2010 18:49, JB wrote: >> Give it a shot and reboot to start Preupgrade. > > About to restart. I'll report on the results as soon as I can. And we're back. But unfortunately the situation is exactly the s

Re: F12 -&amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 7 November 2010 18:49, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: >> >> > ... >> > #boot=/dev/sda >> > default=1 >> > timeout=5 >> > splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.g

Re: F12 -> F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-07 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 November 2010 14:35, JB wrote: > Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >> If it helps, my disk layout is as follows: >> >> $ df >> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda5            

F12 -> F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Cross
ould be appreciated. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- 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

Re: missing command

2010-09-30 Thread Dave Cross
ssistance. $ rpm -q --whatprovides `which GET` perl-libwww-perl-5.834-1.fc13.noarch So something like "yum install perl-libwww-perl" should work. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: Can I know which fedora is stable?

2010-09-30 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 September 2010 16:33, adrian kok wrote: > Hi > > Can I know which fedora is stable? For future reference, the front page of http://fedoraproject.org/ is usually a good clue :-) Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing l

Re: Warning in update

2010-09-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 September 2010 15:05, sandeep Patel wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Dave Cross wrote: >> >> On 6 September 2010 14:31, sandeep Patel wrote: >> > Hello everyone, >> >  When i installed update at the time of update it gives this warning.

Re: Warning in update

2010-09-06 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 September 2010 14:31, sandeep Patel wrote: > Hello everyone, >  When i installed update at the time of update it gives this warning... > > Warning in file > "/usr/share/applications/gnome-nautilus-folder-handler.desktop": usage of > MIME type "x-directory/gnome-default-handler" is discouraged

Re: F12 -> F13. Preupgrade Error

2010-07-11 Thread Dave Cross
On 11 July 2010 16:50, JD wrote: >  On 07/11/2010 09:03 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> I'm trying to use preupgrade to upgrade my Dell Studio XPS from Fedora >> 12 to Fedora 13. >> >> It got through the bit where it downloads all of the required data >> from the in

F12 -> F13. Preupgrade Error

2010-07-11 Thread Dave Cross
I'm trying to use preupgrade to upgrade my Dell Studio XPS from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13. It got through the bit where it downloads all of the required data from the internet and prompts me to reboot the PC. I reboot the PC and select "upgrade to Goddard" from the grub menu. After a while, I then

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-24 Thread Dave Cross
On 10 June 2010 14:26, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word, >> and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines), >> where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines. >> >> All s

Re: [OT] Help with Perl Script

2010-04-23 Thread Dave Cross
On 21 April 2010 09:21, Dan Track wrote: > Hi, > > I appreciate that this is off-topic and wholly understand if I don't > get an answer, although one would really appreciate it if I do get an > answer :) > > Basically to improve my perl scripting, I've given myself a challenge > where I would like

Re: perl or bash question ["convert strings in a txt to html links"]

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Cross
On 27 February 2010 17:12, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.: > > $cat file.txt > Hi, this is the content of the txt file, that contains links like this: > http://www.somewhere.it/, and it could contain: http://somewhere.com, > etc.. > This is t

Re: How to sort by date in descending order

2010-02-26 Thread Dave Cross
On 26 February 2010 13:40, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Richard Cahilig wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Guys I need your help, I have a text file which contains these data >> below, and I want to sort it by date in descending order. I tried to use >> sort -rn command but it gives me different output. I know I miss

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