Re: [Fedora] Re: Skype rpms discontinued

Hi On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 11:21 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Recently, the linux rpm distribution of skype has been discontinued: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332743-Updates-hang-on-skype=1883992 Is there some alternative to using

Re: [Fedora] KiCAD has lost my part symbols

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, Fulko Hew wrote: I recently needed to revisit a design I made 4 years ago, (back when I was still running F33/F34) I have since also recently upgraded to F39 (that has KiCAD V7) And the first problem I see is that on my schematic all of the parts have no symbols on the

Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

On Thu, 5 Jan 2023, Tim wrote: Walter Cazzola: These and are two examples. Basically all the new unicode characters that permits to specify, for example, the skin color or the gender. Barry Scott: I see the broken heart and the two facing kissing emoji. They are in black and white

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, Go Canes wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 12:38 PM Walter Cazzola wrote: These and are two examples. Basically all the new unicode characters that permits to specify, for example, the skin color or the gender. FWIW, this works for me with konsole5-22.12.0-1.fc36.x86_64

Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, Barry Scott wrote: I see the broken heart and the two facing kissing emoji. They are in black and white not colour, but they do display. I'm using Fedora 37 and its up to date. It seems that the support is still a working in progress... I will give to the upgrade a try

Re: [Fedora] Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, Barry Scott wrote: FYI my font is DejaVu Sans Mono. Is that what you have? Yes, it is. What are the characters that do not display? Can you provide the UTF-8 so that I can try it for myself? These and are two examples. Basically all the new unicode characters that

Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, Barry Scott wrote: Ok, how can I check this? The font used in Konsole is set in the Profile. From the menu choose Settings/Manage Profiles... Pick the default profile (if you have more then one). Choose Edit... Look in the Appearance section. The font that is

Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2023-01-04 at 02:09 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: Both vim and KDE use DejaVu Sans family (vim uses the monospace version but the issue is not there since once it is displayed correctly and once not). Are you quite sure they're all using

Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, Stephen Morris wrote: Just a query, if the emoji's are actual double byte characters, what happens if you change the encode in Konsole to UTF-16 by right-clicking in Konsole then selecting "set encoding->Unicode->utf-16? This was one of my first attempt. It simply

konsole problems with utf8 characters

Dear Fedora-ers, I've an issue that has been haunting me since when I upgraded to Fedora 35 around a year ago. Konsole doesn't print properly some utf8 characters. They could be those two bytes long. At least I noticed it with flags, fruits, flowers and other icons that are two bytes long. The

Re: [Fedora] Re: OT: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

Dear all, On Sun, 23 Oct 2022, wwp wrote: I can see on the gimp and mc (midnight commander) mailing lists, very interesting information about viable alternatives and that the resistance is raising. The gnumeric community started a new mailing list. The real issue behind these initiatives is

NAS purchase advice

Dear Fedoers, I'm planning to buy a NAS to backup my Linux boxes. I've spent few days at looking for it on the Internet but I've some hard time to find a NAS that fits my needs. I intend to use it both the backup my data but also to keep consistent the data on several linux-boxes. That is, the

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Deprecating SCP

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, Jakub Jelen wrote: I'm using scp: a lot to edit remote files with vim and I'm pretty sure that many remote admins are doing the same. So I'm wondering how this change will affect my use case scenario and if you have considered it when moving to sftp. That is a good

Re: [Fedora] Deprecating SCP

Hi, I don't know how if and how the internet protocol scp: is related to the scp command. But I suppose it is. I'm using scp: a lot to edit remote files with vim and I'm pretty sure that many remote admins are doing the same. So I'm wondering how this change will affect my use case scenario and

Re: [Solved] document camera

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/16/20 2:09 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote: I've tried it on Windows (on a different machine) and it works without problems. So if there is an hw problem this is in connection to my laptop and not in general. Could you try booting a Fedora live image

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: document camera

On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: So it is getting recognized and added. Try "sudo dnf install uvcdynctrl", it might already be installed. Then run "uvcdynctrl -l" and see what you get. It wasn't installed, I get: >uvcdynctrl -l Listing available devices: video0

Re: [Fedora] Re: document camera

Hi, thank you for your reply On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 21:16, Samuel Sieb wrote: Ipevo provides a version of its visualization software for linux (ubuntu)

Re: [Fedora] Re: document camera

Hi, thank you for your reply On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/14/20 4:54 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: When it is recognized dmesg says:   [25080.302042] Code: Bad RIP value.   [25082.706544] usb 3-2: 9:2: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 9)   [25082.707231] usb

document camera

Dear Fedora Experts, I've just bought an Ipevo VZ-X document camera and I've some hard times to have it running with my Linux Box (a dell precision m6800 running Fedora 31). This camera can be connected to the the laptop both via usb and wifi. I've tried both without much luck. When connected

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: /tmp full and konsole not releasing the space

On Sat, 29 Feb 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/29/20 2:35 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: As far as I can remember, anaconda doesn't permit to set tmpfs to /tmp since Fedora 19. Do I have missed something? How can you tell anaconda to have /tmp as tmpfs? For many releases now, the default

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: /tmp full and konsole not releasing the space

On Sat, 29 Feb 2020, sixpack13 wrote: On 29.02.20 01:02, Walter Cazzola wrote: Nothing and all. I have reinstalled my machine to pass from Fedora 23 to Fedora 31. ... Who made /tmp as separat partition ? I don't know when is starts (since ever ?) but my /tmp lies in RAM. so default

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: /tmp full and konsole not releasing the space

On Sat, 29 Feb 2020, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-02-29 05:03, Walter Cazzola wrote: Since, the reboot that I did 4 hours ago, it is already occupying 2Gb. in other 4/5 hours it will fill up again /tmp. I can't reboot every few hours. Suggestion about how to solve the issue? In your active

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: /tmp full and konsole not releasing the space

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/28/2020 02:03 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: Since, the reboot that I did 4 hours ago, it is already occupying 2Gb. in other 4/5 hours it will fill up again /tmp. I can't reboot every few hours. Suggestion about how to solve the issue? Two

Re: [Fedora] Re: /tmp full and konsole not releasing the space

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, stan via users wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:13:11 +0100 (CET) Walter Cazzola wrote: I can't answer your questions, but I see that there is a tab called temporary files in settings -> configure Konsole. And in that tab it allows you to set a custom locat

Re: [Fedora] Re: /tmp full and konsole not releasing the space

, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:14 PM Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear all, I've a quite "noisy" problem on my freshly installed Fedora 31 laptop. My 5Gb /tmp partition get full in around 10 hours of up time. No way to free it apart reboot. At the time of writing I've the /tmp partition full but I've a

/tmp full and konsole not releasing the space

Dear all, I've a quite "noisy" problem on my freshly installed Fedora 31 laptop. My 5Gb /tmp partition get full in around 10 hours of up time. No way to free it apart reboot. At the time of writing I've the /tmp partition full but I've already run a rm -fr /tmp/* from root. These are some

Re: [Fedora] Re: knotes, kaddressbook, korganizer

Done. Thank you. Walter On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 17:00 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora Experts, I've just completed the migration of my Linux box from Fedora 23 to 31 but I still have some problems in "importing" my old korganiz

knotes, kaddressbook, korganizer

Dear Fedora Experts, I've just completed the migration of my Linux box from Fedora 23 to 31 but I still have some problems in "importing" my old korganizer, knotes and kaddressbook data. I usually use the akonadi to import all of them through the akonadi applet I was used to find in my system

Re: [Fedora] Hey, I know your password is

Hi, On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, Patrick Dupre wrote: The password is one of the password that I use. It is not one giving access to important accounts, but I am a bit wondering about other account. I am careful with my accounts and passwords. How can I prevent sort of password steal? You can't! The

konsole

Dear all, I'm using fedora 23 on my laptop and I was used to have always open two konsole instances side by side each with different tabs and geometry from working session to another. But since the last update to konsole/KDE the two instances are not saved/reopened correctly. At login I get two

Re: [Fedora] Re: dnf update tries to install yum

On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Michal Domonkos wrote: It looks like something that is being updated is pulling in the yum package as a dependency. As Tom mentioned, you can find out by trying to remove yum, or even better, by running "dnf repoquery --installed --whatrequires yum". at the moment yum is

dnf update tries to install yum

Dear Experts, I've a Fedora 23 installed on my laptop and I keep it updated (even if I'm not going through the upgrade process yet). Yesteday when I checked which packages need to be updated, dnf proposed me to install this packages: Installing: yum noarch

Re: [Fedora] android & fedora 23 & thunar

Hi, I think you are trying to connect via the USB cable right? I don't have an android tablet but I've a phone and since I updated the OS to lollipop I lost the capacity to write on the device from my fedora. Something has changed or a bug is arisen with the new version I don't know but

Re: [Fedora] fresh install vs kernel update

Indeed, if you look only at the last number it looks that the newer kernel is older than the old one but there was a version shift passing from 4.3.3-303 to 4.3.4-300 so the new one is really newer (as it should be). HTH Walter On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Ger van Dijck wrote: Dear friends, When

knotes

Dear Linux Experts, I'm running KDE (Plasma 5) on my Fedora23 machine and using knotes to keep my notes. I've manually upgraded them from the previous version of KDE and for a while everything was going well but for some KDE internal problems akonadi stopped working and I'd to remove all its

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: how to automatically clean /tmp

On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Jon LaBadie wrote: I still have to rid off of one of these two tmpfs tmpfs 1633640 0 1633640 0% /run/user/989 tmpfs 1633640 20 1633620 1% /run/user/526 I think I have to keep one of them since it is associated to my id (526) but I can't imagine what the other

Re: [Fedora] Re: how to automatically clean /tmp

Ok I dropped the idea of using my current /tmp partition for a tmpfs and followed your suggestion On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Gordon Messmer wrote: If you'd like to use tmpfs now, you can "systemctl enable tmp.mount" and comment out the /tmp item you currently have in fstab. When you reboot, you

how to automatically clean /tmp

Dear Linux Experts, I've recently passed from Fedora 20 to Fedora 23 on my laptop. I've a separate partition for /tmp that I'm used to see it wiped out at any reboot on my previous installation but now this is never wiped out. This is a real partition: /dev/sda10 5029504 1154204

Re: How to change id and group to the user

Hi On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 December 2015, Walter Cazzola sent: > > I have let the installer create my user and it has given it uid 1000 > > and gid 1000. This is the standard behavior a

Re: no grub after installing fedora23

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Walter Cazzola <cazz...@di.unimi.it> > wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks all for the help at end I missed to create a bootbios partion of > 2MiB > &

Re: no grub after installing fedora23

, maderios <mader...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/23/2015 11:58 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > >> >> On Dec 23, 2015 11:34 PM, "Doug H." <fedoraproject@wombatz.com >> <mailto:fedoraproject@wombatz.com>> wrote: >> >> > As maderios

How to change id and group to the user

Dear Experts, as you probably know (from another thread) I've just installed Fedora 23 on my dell m6800 and I have a new problem. I have let the installer create my user and it has given it uid 1000 and gid 1000. This is the standard behavior and I'm used to change it by manually edit /etc/group

Re: no grub after installing fedora23

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Doug H. <fedoraproject@wombatz.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 09:20 -0500, Walter Cazzola wrote: > > > > This are the related options: > >General > >Boot Sequence > >Legacy (this flagged) &g

Re: no grub after installing fedora23

hi thanks for the prompt reply On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:32 AM, maderios wrote: > Hi > Why an extended partitition? I just marked the normal partition flag instead of LVM, is there any practical and related issue with my problem in this? > It should a gpt partitioning

Re: no grub after installing fedora23

Hi few more questions inline with your reply. On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Doug H. <fedoraproject@wombatz.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 09:54 -0500, Walter Cazzola wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Doug H. <fedoraproject.org@wombatz

Re: no grub after installing fedora23

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > I don't know if it was a rogue update or something but I had the same (or > similar) problem. Booting dropped me to the grub rescue prompt and my > i386-pc folder was also empty. > > Only strange part of my setup is

Re: no grub after installing fedora23

installation tool failed and I' ve a partial system but I can' t find more on this. I' m quite ready to give up and try to install a different flavor of linux. Walter On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Walter Cazzola <cazz...@di.unimi.it> wrote: > Hi. > I've done some attempts and follo

Re: no grub after installing fedora23

On Dec 23, 2015 11:34 PM, "Doug H." wrote: > As maderios has pointed out, this partitioning does not look > workable. I don't think you can toggle the boot flag on for an extended > partition. Ok tomorrow I'll redo the installation. But just to do the right thing

Re: no grub after installing fedora23

m I doing wrong now? Walter On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Doug H. <fedoraproject@wombatz.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 11:48 -0500, Walter Cazzola wrote: > > Hi > > few more questions inline with your reply. > > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > >

no grub after installing fedora23

Dear Fedora Experts, I' ve recently bought a new Dell Precision m6800 and today I was trying to install Fedora 23 in dual boot with windows 7 (this was the OS originally on the machine). I' ve run the installer from the live CD and after a couple of wrong attempts I successfully finished the

problems with kde

Dear Fedora Experts, I'm a proud user of Fedora (currently 20) Linux on a Dell Laptop since 6 years. A couple of days ago without any real reason something broke up (the only thing happened is a write error but after that it worked fine) and I get serious problems in login into my KDE account.

Re: [Fedora] Xsane problem -

Hi, I can't say if this helps but I've a similar problem with my usb scanner on Fedora 20. Unplug and re-plug the scanner and then restart xsane (maybe repeated several times) solves the problem in my case. Walter On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Bob Goodwin wrote: I just discovered that I can not use my

Re: [Fedora] extremely slow shell starts (trying to debug, dbus related)

Hi, some times ago I'd a similar behavior I didn't dig much in that so I don't know if dbus was the resposible of the delay in my case but I found out that the delay was provoked by the loading of a really huge .history file. Removed that and the options to save it anything worked smoothly as

sony-ericsson p910i

Dear Experts, since I'm moving to a new phone my old sony-ericsson p910i is going to retire but before that I'd like to get all the SMS, phots and phone numbers I've stored on it and that I can't move to the SIM (too small). It connects to my laptop through a craddle and a usb cable and lsusb

Re: [Fedora] Heads up: possible BASH security vulnerability

Dear Experts, I was wondering if it could be a good workaround to link /bin/sh to tcsh instead of bash. I'm not using bash at all but probably something in the system is so do you know some contraindication on a system with apache and SVN servers? Thanks Walter On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Patrick

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

Hi Ed, On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Yes, it can be a time consuming process. That is why I keep a weekly snapshot of my .kde and .config directory structure. And because something similar happened to me a few years ago. I gave up on try to track it down and just blew away those

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Mike Chambers wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 15:51 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora Experts, I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble. Two days ago I have updated my system

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Tod Merley wrote: Some basic tools to learn to find the problem (man pages for each but search for tutorials): journalctl The only strage things I've found in the jounarlctl for the today's boot are: Sep 04 09:18:58 colord[969]: (colord:969): Cd-WARNING **: failed to

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

Hi Ed, you are right here comes the info you suggested to provide. On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Step 0 - Don't just tell the list there is a dependency issue for a downgrade. Show the list what the issue is. unfortunately I can't reproduce the dependency issue since I have done a

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Ian Malone wrote: One thing it may be worth looking at is whether a ls on your home directory works (the normal aliased ls with colour coding meaning it needs to stat things). it takes a little (just noticeable not slow: it is a dir with more than 300 files) but it works.

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 03:51:06 PM Walter Cazzola wrote: Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again) and sometimes becomes unresponsive for a while

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Temlakos wrote: That's an interesting problem. KDE itself hasn't ever caused me anyh problem. Though I recently upgraded to a 2009-vintage Intel Core 2 Quad system with 8 GB of RAM. What sort of hardware is the OP running K on? (Remember: K is the Windows analogue.) my

KDE became a sort of sloth

Dear Fedora Experts, I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble. Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again)

Re: [Fedora] Re: problems in installing Fedora 19

On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: On 09/07/2013 04:10 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after starting Live Fedora message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck. My computer

Re: [Fedora] Re: problems in installing Fedora 19

On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, John Wendel wrote: On 09/07/2013 03:40 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after starting Live Fedora message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck. My computer

fedora19 and samsung syncmaster 2493hm

Dear Fedora Expert, I've just reinstalled my old desktop with Fedora 19 and I've several troubles to fix right now. The most annoying is that it doesn't recognize my Samsung Syncmaster 2493HM with the result of a lower resolution (it should be full hd but it is more or less HD ready) and a wrong

problems in installing Fedora 19

Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after starting Live Fedora message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck. My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz with 2 cores and probably 64bit. 4Gb of

Re: [Fedora] Re: kde slow to start after a crash

Hi, On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/22/2012 12:55 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Linuxers, I've a quite frustrating problem, yesterday trying to send a file via Skype this crashed and my linux-box became unresponsive. After rebooting KDE started really very slowly (it is taking

kde slow to start after a crash

Dear Linuxers, I've a quite frustrating problem, yesterday trying to send a file via Skype this crashed and my linux-box became unresponsive. After rebooting KDE started really very slowly (it is taking more or less 20 minutes to be fully loaded and responsive) and this happens at every reboot

Re: [Fedora] Writing a book w/F16?

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, NOSpaze wrote: I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. Please dont' advise to change OS, I'm a sysadmin and need

Re: [Fedora] Re: itunes-like applications

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Craig White wrote: #1 - time to update your Fedora. F13 is EOL and soon F14 will EOL too. Installing new packages on F13 is going to be difficult if not impossible at the point they move the repo into archive (if they haven't done that already). I've but I'm too lazy to

itunes-like applications

Dear Linux Experts, I'm a linux user (Fedora 13 is on my machine) and recently I got an ipad2. I'd like to transfer data among the linux box and the ipad2 as itunes does on Mac/Windows is this possible? I don't need all the itunes functionality just the possibility to send/receive files to/from

yum problems

Dear Fedora Users, I'm just puzzled from an error I get from yum: yum update Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, downloadonly, fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: mirror.switch.ch * jpackage-generic: mirror.ibcp.fr

Re: [Fedora] Re: yum problems

On Wed, 11 May 2011, Chris Smart wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Walter Cazzola cazz...@dico.unimi.it wrote: I'm just puzzled from an error I get from yum: What if you clean out yum first? yum clean all it has worked thanks a lot Walter -- users mailing list users

Re: kcore

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Robert Nichols wrote: On 04/19/2011 07:08 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I have a /proc/kcore file which is huge: 1059057664 Is it normal ? Everything in /proc is just a window into various kernel data structures. The pseudo-filesystem you see there doesn't exist on

Re: [Fedora] Re: kcore

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 09:48 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: So 8Gb are quite far from 128Tb (even if considering the 4KB extra) so somewhere there should be a mistake, where? In the man page? I also have 128T as the reported size, but I'm guessing

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Genes MailLists wrote: On 04/06/2011 03:56 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: uhm, this sounds really strange since it is complaining on a rm statement and I suppose you have rm in your system. In my view two things could be wrong: 1. I'm using tcsh as a shell and maybe

Re: native texlive and yum

--nogpgcheck texlive2010-fake-1.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm to really install the rpm From this point on you can install all the packages you need without worrying about satisfying the tex dependencies. I HTH Walter On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora Experts, bored of the several

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Jussi Lehtola wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:39:00 +0200 (CEST) Walter Cazzola cazz...@dico.unimi.it wrote: Dear Fedora Experts, after a little work-out and a big help from people in comp.text.te and others on this group I solved the issue and wrote down a rpm spec

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

directory? Walter On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Genes MailLists wrote: On 04/06/2011 01:14 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 04/06/2011 12:39 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora Experts, after a little work-out and a big help from people in comp.text.te and others on this group I solved the issue

Re: [Fedora] Re: rpm with biblatex.sty?

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Genes MailLists wrote: On 03/10/2011 11:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Does anyone know if there is a package containing biblatex.sty on any of the unofficial repos for F14? I have found it simplest to use the official TexLive install and update using tlmgr. The fedora

debug info disinstall

Dear all, to notify a bug I'd to install the debug symbols of kde via debuginfo-install kdepim Since it occupies 2.5Gb on my hard disk I'd like to disinstall them. Looking on the debuginfo-install help I didn't find any option to remove them. The only option I can thing of is to do a yum

Re: [Fedora] Re: debug info disinstall

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 16:52 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: to notify a bug I'd to install the debug symbols of kde via debuginfo-install kdepim Since it occupies 2.5Gb on my hard disk I'd like to disinstall them. Looking on the debuginfo

korganizer crash

tried to cancel the sockets files, the configuration files and to clear the cache but without success. korganizer has always worked (up to this morning) and contains all my appointments and I'd like to have it working again. Any suggestion? Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Associate Professor, DICo

Re: [Fedora] Re: korganizer crash

monitor (Ctrl-Esc) and put korganizer into the search bar. You'll probably find a slave hanging around, and if you can kill it there that should clear things. unfortunately this is not the case, I've also tried to turn off and on the laptop but nothing changed. Any other idea? Walter -- Walter

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: korganizer crash

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Anne, thanks for the reply On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: I've not had this problem in korganizer, but I have seen it with other kontact modules. I find that the best thing is to killall kontact and wait a few seconds, after which

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Mohamed El Morabity wrote: Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 13:55 +0100, Walter Cazzola a écrit : a solution could be to build an empty RPM that will simply contain a Provides: texlive 2007 or something like this to fool Fedora packages requiring a LaTeX distribution. Your

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, suvayu ali wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Walter Cazzola cazz...@dico.unimi.it wrote: That has been a great idea except for a couple of issues on some *nonrelated packages. To remove texlive yum forced the remotion of a2ps and R-core (and few other

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

scripts that uses it and it is too much work to port them towards a new tool (which one?) especially considering that they was still working with texlive non native installed. Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Associate Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail: cazz...@dico.unimi.it Ph.: +39 02

kde slow to start after a crash

to what to look for. Thanks for the help Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Associate Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail: cazz...@dico.unimi.it Ph.: +39 02 503 16300 Fax: +39 02 503 16253 · · · · · · · · · ... recursive

Re: [Fedora] Re: kde slow to start after a crash

has messed up with a cofnig file in the .kde dir but I don't know which one. Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Associate Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail: cazz...@dico.unimi.it Ph.: +39 02 503 16300 Fax: +39 02 503 16253

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: VirtualBox VBoxVMM.so: cannot open shared object file

` ---enter export KERN_DIR --- enter 3. usermod -a -G vboxusers the_user_name 4. /etc /init.d /vboxdrv setup 5. After compiling: Enjoy - and works every way. Cheers, Zoltan 2010/12/6 Walter Cazzola cazz...@dico.unimi.it: Dear Linuxers, I've the same problem the original op raised and more than a month

Re: [Fedora] Re: VirtualBox VBoxVMM.so: cannot open shared object file

down a bit on http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads to find instructions for installing the repo. After that, yum update keeps things in line. -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Associate Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail: cazz...@dico.unimi.it Ph.: +39 02 503 16300 Fax: +39 02 503

Re: Last Kernel update left me without initramfs

but the initramfs-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64.img is in my /boot partition. It is more recent than the kernel file so probably it comes from a more recent update. My suggestion is to try to update the system. HTH Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Assistant Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail

texlive 2010 and italian hyphenation

) - That seems they know the problem and this is not an issue anymore but I keep my fedora13 up to date but almost 2 months later than the fix my problem still persists. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for the help Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Assistant Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail cazz

Re: [Fedora] Re: yum crashes

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 23:02 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: today I got a machine fail (a blackout) during a yum update and after that all my attempt to update my machine end with the following error: [...] What you're seeing is a yum error

Re: [Fedora] Re: yum crashes

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:41:15 -0430, Patrick wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 23:02 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: today I got a machine fail (a blackout) during a yum update and after Have you tried running yum-complete-transaction yet? yes I did

yum crashes

with file from package postgresql-libs-8.4.4-1.fc13.x86_64 Error Summary - I've tried to clean all (yum clean all) but the problem persists. Any idea about how to solve this issue? Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Assistant Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail cazz

Re: [Fedora] generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

have any ideas? could you try exceltex+pdflatex. Both on CTAN exceltex is a perl script plus a latex style that permits to get values from an excel spreadsheet and pretty printing as you prefer. HTH Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Assistant Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail cazz

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: kernel update breaks virtualbox

the modules. Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Assistant Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail cazz...@dico.unimi.it Ph.: +39 02 503 16300 Fax: +39 02 503 16253 · · · · · · · · · ... recursive: adjective, see recursive

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