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The behavior if my circumflex key (caret key, exponent key, that one: ^ ) is not as i would expect it / as would like it to be. What I want is: Press the ^ key and produce a ^ in the text. Currently I need to press ^ followed by a space to produce a ^. (when i just press ^,nothing happens. when i just press ^, followed... | Sounds like you have some form of European keyboard. French? Where is the caret symbol on your physical keyboard? |
I've been using udisks --detach after unmounting my external hard drive for a while, to power down the device so that I feel better about unplugging it. I learned to do this after getting used to Ubuntu powering down the device (light going off gradually). Anyhow, I noticed recently that after pressing the "eject" butt... | I don't think any udisks commands are necessary. Just unmount it, or safely remove in a file manager and then unplug it. |
System was working fine yesterday. I had a minimal install last week, and had finally gotten myself a window manager and a DE, downloaded a few pieces of software. At boot today I'm being dropped into a shell and getting the error Code: Select allGave up waiting for root device. .... .... /dev/disk/by-uuid/<long number... | before you chroot. |
Hi folks, I am having trouble using the package manager. Any attempt tries to update a previous failed attempt to setup samba. When this fails (again) the attempt halts leaving nothing achieved. For example, in trying to install 'vim'. (I get exactly the same results for any package - the attempt is just added to the q... | Hi again, I have sidestepped the problem by installing Slackware. 'Tis a shame as I moved from Slack to Debian to get access to a much bigger repository but the broken and unfixable package management did leave my system in a state of limited usefullness (not good for a work PC). And past experience tells me that when ... |
So i had this idea a while ago, to make a usb stick, that needs to be inserted before passwords for root will work..I wanted it so i could give the password out to my system for people to log in, and i don't have to worry about them changing anything, system config wise that is.. I thought it should be easy to do somet... | Why not just remove sudo? (and don't give them the root pw ... ) (so it works the way it is supposed to ...) |
Hello folks, So I'm doing the unthinkable, I'm going to be running totally free software on my system and not use non-free or contrib at all. So far so good, however, I'm trying to get a good Flash alternative installed for YouTube. I got Gnash working perfectly, however, I read that lightspark is a nice alternative si... | libnss3 is necessary to make Flash-nonfree compatible with Opera. Don't know at all if it is more generally necessary for lightspark. + I suppose you don't mix Gnash and lightspark at the same time. |
Installed Cinnamon and I am now receiving this blocked update in Wheezy... 1 update available (blocked) Opus codec runtime library libopus)-1.1 -beta-3mint1 (64-bit) I then went to Synaptic and to see if I could add/delete a possible package to make this work and get rid of error... To correct it it's saying that it ne... | joemartin wrote:Any ideas? Maybe don't mix distro's? |
So during the install i had the problem of no boot loader, or not setting up networking... So I opted for networking, Now the system is up and running very nicely too i may add... In any case In synaptic ... when I go to SYNAPTIC - Settings - Repositories ... the First tab Debian software is all unchecked, If i attempt... | If you installed with no network, the online repositories would not be added. You need to edit, as root, the file /etc/apt/sources.list and add the repositories. See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList Synaptic has some strange behaviour sometimes. Also, you need to have root permissions to change Synaptic like this. |
I want to install gimp-plugin-registry in sid but it is not installable due to libglew1.7 dependency not available. libglew1.10 is installed. Could I edit the control file to change the dependency in this case, or could that be disastrous? I've never edited .deb files before and understand this could be stupid in many ... | Thanks! Installed libglew1.7 from Wheezy and seems to work perfectly. No conflicts and no extra dependencies. |
I haven't used Debian, or any Linux really, since about '97 so I'm still in my learning curve. Wheezy 7.2 and KDE desktop. Iceweasel 17.0.10 I'm trying to get the Java runtime to work with Iceweasel and am not having any success. As root I installed openjdk-7-jre So now I have: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 Next I ... | The structure for me on x64 is: Installed I have: openjdk-7-jre, openjdk-7-jre, openjdk-6-jre, openjdk-6-jre, icedtea-7-plugin I have a link at: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so pointing to: /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so which in turn is a link pointing to: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/a... |
I've got a laptop (Thinkpad T400) and put an ultrabay adapter in it with a spare drive to swap out with the dvdrom when needed. Went in to fstab and entered the following... Code: Select all#500gb spare /dev/sdb1 /media/500gb ext2 defaults 0 0 The drive automounts just fine at boot and inserting a usb drive automounts ... | I do not understand what you want to do and the detail situation you have. The ultrabay you are using is like the followin, isn't it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbVhzmLVtdQ Delete the line starting with "/dev/sdb1". Ohterwise, use UUID of the partition in the HDD in the ultrabay instead of /dev/sdb1. If you do not ... |
I currently have Debian installed on an external 500GB USB HDD. I would like to have the system on an internal 500 or 600GB internal advanced format drive (eg. WD Velociraptor), and I am totally up in the air as to how to proceed. Whatever path I take I want to ensure that the AF drive is properly formatted (ie start s... | I am slow in reading and writing English. So, I was gradually reading your first post and adding the following gradualy. If you read this post, please refresh this page first to get the newest one. Excuse my bad habit. I am not familiar with "advanced format drive" from WD. I found http://www.wd.com/global/products/fea... |
apt-get is broken by a bug in ruby-locale & failing apt-listbugs .. reported at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733150 however, reading through the bug report it says a newer version of ruby-locale fixes this, or that downgrading to a previous version also fixes this, but in the meantime apt-get is bro... | Downgrade to a previous version or wait for a new version. |
Hi guys I know it is Christmas Day and this sad Bunny is sitting at his computer wondering the best solution for his home server. I have had the following computer for a while and want to improve on it as well as possible... chassis : NZXT Classic Series H2 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UDR r1.0 Processor: Amd Blacke... | Hi again! I have been reading a lot about the different types of raid/hard raid etc.. I was wondering if the main installation of Debian 7.2 could be on the ssd drive and then I add several new drives for raid5? I was wondering if the raid5 drives could be my home partition? Could I set up two raid5 arrays where one is... |
Hi all, I had intalled Adobe Acrobat Reader on Wheezy amd64. It was working without problem but one day I notice it's launcher is gone from the desk top. How come? Where did it go? How can I start adobe from command line or what ever... What directy it's located? | open your favorite packet manager, locate the installed acrobat reader package, and see where files are installed. if it's something with ../bin/.. these are usually executables, so these are the commands you can try. that said, there's dozens of native foss pdf readers that probably are much less hassle, why use adobe... |
Hi I try to update my Wheezy and get this error:Code: Select all# apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Af... | file:///usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common/README.problems Debconf database corruption wrote:Some of the problems listed above are caused by some sort of debconf database corruption. In most old cases (See #198297, #224400, #247849, #255193, #282587, #284287, #297534 and #335612) that corruption has been related to a ne... |
Hello, in one of the environments i manage there is a setup like; gtm>loadbalancer>apache>service I'd like to be able to block source traffic on the apache layer based on IP (using iptables). however, obviously the source address is that of the loadbalancer. I can block based on ip in apache (forwarded for), but i'd li... | I found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1854 ... an-aws-elb it would apear the answer is no, unless the loadbalancer acts as a proxy and provides the user credentials. time to research F5... thanks |
I have multiple windows open and a blue outline of a rectangle has appeared in the top-left segment of my screen. My mouse will not interact with anything in there, unless I send it to the top left corner where I can view all my windows, and it goes away. Some windows have become trapped within this box and I can't get... | What DE / WM are you running? A screnshot of the issue might be helpful. Definitely more info is needed. |
I am trying to install KDE on Jessie (Testing) but I am getting an error halting the installation. I am posting here to ask whether there is a workaround the problem. I am trying to install through a terminal. I don't mix repositories. Code: Select alledbarx# cat /etc/apt/sources.list # deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/de... | How about an 'apt-cache policy kde-standard kde-plasma-desktop'? Done an 'apt-get update' first? |
Hello, I installed backported driver trying to fix something on my wireless card. But now I have 16mbps of speed only, always 30ms ping. I used to have +50 and 11ms ping. lsmod | grep compat: Code: Select allv4l2_compat_ioctl32 16655 1 videodev compat 22841 5 cfg80211,mac80211,ath9k_hw,ath9k_common,ath9k When I try to ... | Try these: https://wiki.debian.org/RollbackUpdate http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=70009 |
Dear all, I have got (KDE 4.11.3) Debian SID on a Dell XPS 13. When I call Dolphin from the command line I get the below messages, as a result, the dolphin startup is very slow. After the startup Dolphin works fine. I have found some similar issues on the web but no solutions. Have you got any suggestions, please? Andr... | I get similar messages, and Dolphin startup is quick, so that isn't the reason. Code: Select alleric@chaffinch:~$ dolphin Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath) Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath) dolphin(24878)/kdecore... |
Has anyone been trying to use several independent LUKS containers and wanted to mount all of them with every system's boot using only one and the same passphrase? I tried but something was wrong. When I used the following /etc/crypttab : Code: Select all# <target name> <source device> <key file> <options> sda2_crypt UU... | There's another script in /lib/cryptsetup/scripts/ -- decrypt_keyctl and instead of decrypt_derived I needed this one. You can read more here So, my /etc/crypttab should look like this: Code: Select allsda2_crypt UUID=727fa348-8804-4773-ae3d-f3e176d12dac group1 luks,keyscript=/lib/cryptsetup/scripts/decrypt_keyctl cryp... |
I write this contribution because me and others that does not happen for the first time Szenario: Work whit Files on a Debian System (ext4) whit Win9$ Files. Here, for example: sqlight, thunderbird mailboxes/*.eml format. I work on Win9x files, after this i will give a Win9$ ( at the most time this probleme comes whit ... | I cannot understand what you wrote correctly (maybe "half-English"?)... majestyx wrote:I mount on Debian a External USB HD (was preformatet whit FAT/NTFS - factory default) i copy the *.eml and other files to the USB-HD an umount.... but the USB-HD can not umount. I pull the plug USB after one hour of "umount(ing)" Do ... |
I've recently installed Wheezy with KDE. All woks fine. I've some NTFS partitions in my HD. When I want to open them a window appears asking the root password. How can I configure the system to mount the partition without asking password, as *ubuntu does? How can I automount the partition when the system starts? I trie... | You can investigate /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy Code: Select all<action id =”org.feedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal”> <description>Mount a system-internal device</description> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> => replace 'auth_admin_keep' by 'yes' to see if it wo... |
hi @all, this is somehow way off topic, but i trust that before i start grepping holes into the fabric of the latex community forum i better ask here - for the sake of my laziness's. i'm trying to register a LyX document for the program's version control system, and all i get is: 15:05:06.914: The process failed to sta... | try if that helps: apt-cache show lyx ... apt-cache show rcs shooting in the dark. |
Question edited to go to the point now that I know what was causing the problem. Gnome Shell 3.8 comes with the setting to remember the numlock state disabled by default. To solve this issue, just run the command below: SOLUTION mor wrote: Code: Select all$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.keyboard r... | Same here running sid. Even numlockx doesn't work. |
Why isn't this or something similar in Debian repo? Or built into KDE4? UFW KControl Module KDE-Apps.org - http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=137789 One of the biggest lacks in KDE is a GUI firewall. Guarddog was nice but it has went the way of the dodo, same with Kmyfirewall. There really aren't and KDE GUI ... | Why isn't this or something similar in Debian repo? Or built into KDE4? UFW KControl Module KDE-Apps.org - http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=137789 One of the biggest lacks in KDE is a GUI firewall. Guarddog was nice but it has went the way of the dodo, same with Kmyfirewall. There really aren't and KDE GUI ... |
There is something wrong with networking in Wheezy but I can't identify it. I first experienced a problem shortly after updating a mixed Squeeze/Wheezy box almost one year ago. Suddenly Kmail refused to connect to my email service provider claiming the host could not be found. I could ping the host, but Kmail insisted ... | I was having similar problems with iceweasel in my gnome desktop: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 42#p467571 Another thing that I did was to install the Flash-Aid 2.2.3 extension to iceweasel and then used it to replace shockwave flash with the new beta version from adobe labs. Haven't had any of those serv... |
two questions please on forum usage: 1. How do I set a forum post to [SOLVED]? 2. Can only the originator of the thread do this? | Edit the subject line in your first post and add [SOLVED] |
I have two 32-bit machines, a Zenith India Always On Netbook and a Dell Vostro 1014 laptop with gnome-default Desktop. On both I have Debian Wheezy 7.2 installed from Live *.iso on usb media. And on both I have installed #apt-get install texlive-laex3 . But when I run $xdvi group.dvi & I get two different things, as in... | linuxquestions.org wrote:You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. would you mind describing the differences between the two resulting printouts? |
I'm running Wheezy w/Gnome. Every time I plug in my external hard drive, it will sometimes work and open the files and other times it will have trouble reading the drive where it will go on and off so you can't use it. This morning during trying to open the drive the whole screen blacks out with lines of code letting m... | Before anyone can offer substantive help, you';re going to need to supply a bit more information. For example, which version of Debian are you running? Squeeze? Wheezy? Jessie? And what DE or WM, if any, do you have installed? Gnome? KDE? XFCE? LXDE? Openbox? Based on what little info you provided, if I had to guess ri... |
I have a Samsung 840 Pro SSD drive and am looking to measure, at a glance ideally (the way top works), which of the various processes write the most to disk. The idea is that if I notice something very aberrant from the norm, like some program that is always writing even when not in use, I could then re-assess how much... | iotop? |
In the UK, British Summer Time (where GMT has an hour added) has ended, which means my system clock is now incorrect by an hour. I ran Code: Select alldpkg-reconfigure tzdata and got: Code: Select allCurrent default time zone: 'Europe/London' Local time is now: Mon Oct 28 12:15:33 GMT 2013. Universal Time is now: Mon O... | use an ntp server,that's what i do. get one here http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/ |
I recently installed Debian testing, with these sources in /etc/apt/sources.list Code: Select alldeb http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://securi... | pythonscript wrote: Is this package not available in testing? If not, is there no way to install it? No, it's not currently available in testing. There may be a way to install it by building it from source available in sid but you may find it requires one or two packages that aren't available either, so it may take som... |
my gtk2 themes are in /usr/share/themes folder so technically any gtk2 theme applied should work on synaptic aswell but my synaptic still looks like something that comes out of windows 95. ive tried clearlooks(gtk2), custom made gtk2 themes, none of them worked. one other thing, evince pdf viewer, i ran a quick googlin... | Instal LXAppearance then run it as root. |
Hi to all, To unmount sshfs mount point, I have to "su" it first and then back as normal user. "fusermount -u ...moint point" I have found some reasonable solutions at http://www.unicom.com/blog/entry/651 The problem is, I should have a several, if not more, fstab entries, keep track, changes, ... As well, I have LVM/E... | It should work as user: user$ sshfs music-server:Music/ Sshfs user$ ls Sshfs/ blues classic punk independent jazz pop rap user$ fusermount -u Sshfs user$ Are you part of the group "fuse" ? I don't think you will be able to sshfs as user if not, so this probably doesn't make sense. But it's the only idea i got. Perhaps ... |
I used to hibernate with 'sudo pm-hibernate' command. after dist-upgrade it's not working anymore - the screen is blacked out and the power button is blinking. cat /etc/debian_version Debian 7.2 uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux cat /etc/pm/config.d/hibernate_mode HIBERNATE_MOD... | what happens when you don't use pm-hibernate (coming in the pm-utils package), but hibernate (coming in its own package) instead? |
Does anyone know of a Debian package that works to generate sine audio signals over the entire audible sound spectrum? I tested signalgen for various frequencies including 15KHz which should be virtually inaudible for someone of my age but the resulting signal clearly didn't have that frequency. I need to test some aud... | Jaaa. See http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/ It's in Debian repo. |
My son's laptop motherboard died, and I want to take his install of Debian Wheezy and move it to a larger hard drive in another system. The drive to be copied has three partitions: 1) bios_boot, 2) ext4, 3) swap. I think I'm close, but can't get the larger drive to boot. What is the correct set of steps to do what I am... | I use rsync for such, but dd should be fine (just saying there might be differences). - i rsync the whole shebang to the new drive - i chroot and install grub # i think dd takes care of that - i edit /etc/fstab and insert the new values given by blkid (as root) # sounds to me like that is your problem - i delete /etc/u... |
I'm ussing debian testing and after today update X won't start. I must start it manualy. here are my dmesg (http://paste.debian.net/57548/), xorg.0.log (http://paste.debian.net/57550/) and xorg.1.log (http://paste.debian.net/57551/) does anyone see the problem why X is not autostart? PS. here is another error log: /usr... | Is it possible your filesystem is full? Code: Select alldf -h Is it possible that you have a root-owned file or directory in your user's home folder? Code: Select allls -la | most will let you review the list of contents. |
EDIT: See Summary at end of my last post on how to actually get this to work I've tried to understand how to apply these instructions to my system ("laptop" software in sig. below), but can't get past apt-get update. I have the 11-DVD set for Wheezy 7.2.0 (including update-DVD) mounted as loop-back on the hard-drive to... | As an experiment I tried it with CD1 (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.2 ... 6-CD-1.iso), loop mounting the iso file and adding a 'deb file' entry seems to work okay for me. I have CD1 at /mnt/sdb8/iso/debian-7.2.0-i386-CD-1.iso I created (as root) a mountpoint for it {you can use something other than the '/media/... |
Hello, guys! I'm using Debian Wheezy 7.1 and i'm writting a simple shellscript to do some initial configurations in my system when i will install it, but i'm having a problem. Some configurations i have to do as superuser and some not. I don't want to make two shellscripts, so i would like to know how can i make my scr... | i'm not quite sure why you want to do this, because once you're root you can do anything. run the script as root and chown and chmod as you like. |
Hello, there is a problem after dist-upgrade I made yesterday on my Debian Sid 32bit Gnome. There was mainly new Gnome-shell 3.8.4 and also GDM3. After reboot Xserver does not work, means black screen and cursor in left up corner. My laptop is Lenovo B560 including Intel graphic card. Please, do you have any idea what ... | what's does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say? |
Hi, my names William, I am 13 years old. I JUST installed Debian and was playing around with it. I couldn't find Firefox so I went on iceweasal to install it (And I didn't realise iceweasal WAS firefox) and I came here: https://thestandardoutput.com/2013/06/i ... -debian-7/ I got firefox, opened it up and it's so bad. ... | gogobebe2 wrote: Anyway, thanks if you could give me answers - MUCH APPRICIATED! congratulations, you're on your way. Change your sources list back to debian repositories and you'll probably figure the rest out. Use debian wiki in the future for advice, and have fun! https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList |
Im unsure if this the right section however i shall start. Keep getting these erros while updating Debian: Code: Select allIgn http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy Release.gpg Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy Release Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates R... | What should i do to be able to update?Remove the Ubuntu ppa from sources.list.d. |
Hi all, I upgraded a machine to Wheezy last night and everything seemed to go well, but I just rebooted it to be on the safe side and now instead of bringing up GRUB it just says "ELF header smaller than expected" and then drops me to a grub rescue prompt. Following some commands directs me to load "linux.mod" but doin... | Well after some experimentation it looks like the problem was that the upgrade installed GRUB2 but failed to update the MBR, so GRUB1 was still running at boot, then complaining because it couldn't find GRUB1 files. Running "grub-install /dev/md125" (my boot drive, which is RAID1) fixed the problem and allowed me to bo... |
Hello, guys! I'm using Debian Wheezy 7.1 and i would like to know if there is a way to edit some txt files using shell script. For example: I have a txt file /etc/default/grub and i need to change this line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="pci=nomsi,noaer". I have would like to change the content of other t... | You could use sed... Code: Select allsed -i 's/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="pci=nomsi,noaer"/' /etc/default/grub |
I am unable to any updates after last update. I have searched the web for a couple of hours and tried what was suggested, but have had no success. Any ideas ??? Thanks Bob this is last lines of #apt-get update / dist-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: base-files cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-... | maybe the install-info package is the problem? https://duckduckgo.com/html/");?q=not+f ... or+removed |
Trying to install http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted/ted-2.23-amd64.deb with Code: Select alldpkg -i ted-2.23-amd64.deb gives me Code: Select alldpkg-deb: error: `ted-2.23-amd64.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing ted-2.23-amd64.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit ... | Hey, I had a hunch about the solution to this and it seems to work. From the little I know about package management, debian does not like "-" ater the name of the package, instead it wants an underscore. "_" the way I got this package to work is the following. (I am using Sid, but this should work in stable and testing... |
I have Debian 7.1 installed. I wanted to find lxpolkit. When I look in aptitude (ncurses), only the lxpolkit-dbg package is displayed, but aptitude search lxpolkit from the command line displays both lxpolkit and lxpolkit-dbg. Anyone know why this is? | +1 If there was only one thing I could recommend a new user to learn, that would be it. |
So, I've just removed gnash, and installed flash, videos work great now, but the audio comes out of the wrong device. Instead of using the default headset, it uses the laptop speakers. Other programs use default device as they should. Can't find anything anywhere on this issue.. Please help =) | Install alsa-utils and post here the output of "aplay -l" in the terminal. We'll see what it thinks the default device is. And do you have pulseaudio? |
web searching suggests a simple command line of java -jar minecraft.jar should result in minecraft running, but apart from when I first downloaded it(linux client), I haven't been able to get it to run. "Could not find the main class: net.minecraft.client.Main." is the error. The 1.6.2 installer puts every thing under ... | Do you by any chance use a cracked client? If so, buy the game. It should run with those parameters as long as the file is executable. Code: Select all# chmod +x minecraft.jar then, as user Code: Select alljava -jar minecraft.jar |
Hello, guys. I'm using Debian Wheezy 7.1 with OpenBox only, and i installed gnome-screenshot, but when i hit "Print Screen" key, my screen blinks and nothing happens after that! When i execute gnome-screenshot in the command terminal, the output is: ** (gnome-screenshot:4982): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's bu... | Well there isn't any to find, as it fails with the error listed above. Fix that, or use another screenshot program. |
Hi all, I'm trying to build libsfml2 but looks like doxygen and libglew-dev are needed :- Code: Select all~/games$ dget -u --build http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libs/libsfml/libsfml_2.1+dfsg-1.dsc dget: retrieving http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libs/libsfml/libsfml_2.1+dfsg-1.dsc % Total % Rece... | Hi, Well just install them and then the command will result in the the desired result. You may also need to install libsndfile1-dev. |
Some archives files are corrupt. But i need them. Code: Select allxz: (stdin): Compressed data is corrupt tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now gzip: e2fsprogs-1.42.5.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error gzip: e2fsprogs-1.42.5.tar.gz: invalid comp... | I did download the files from LFS Stable (version 6.. It is now solved. Some of the packages from LFS 7.2 are corrupt. |
In general, how do you build something on a separate computer than the one you plan to install it on? Recently I had to build the Intel ethernet driver for my newest computer and I couldn't do it on the actual machine because I had no way to get the build tools installed. Luckily I figured out the only file that actual... | Most make-files have the option to set the destination directory, using the DESTDIR environment variable. Try it with Code: Select allmake DESTDIR=/path/to/empty/directory, if DESTDIR is supported (a quick search for that word in the makefile should reveal that) this will install al files into the directory you specifi... |
Hi I'm trying to make a package for a software I made. The only warning message returned by lintian is : Code: Select allW: gestinux: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 6 "trovata fine del file dove attesa first heading" It is, I don't know why because I have a french localized system, in Italian, and meaning "unexp... | Looking at your changelog, I can see it's missing a distribution, and also missing a space between -- and the maintainer's name...I used wheezy as the distribution in this example: Code: Select allcaffeine (2.4.1+478-1) wheezy; urgency=low * Rebuild for Debian 7.0 (wheezy) -- Steven Pusser (Stevo) <maintainer@mepiscomm... |
Dear members, First time visit! My story: after being annoyed by Microsoft long enough , I decided to take the 'jump' to Linux about 7 years ago; carefully, first dual boot, I gradually came to the point that there was no reason not to move over completely, which I did . Started with Ubuntu, tried many, many distros, s... | Xfce power manager might be an option without too many dependencies. There maybe others too - do an 'aptitude search power' or such. As for your su issue, sounds odd. Maybe try resetting your root password. |
Hello! I've been having a problem with my "gcc-4.7-base:amd64" package in my Debian Wheezy install. Details here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=107504 I don't want people to be scared off from that, so I'm making a separate post (sorry if that's not proper etiquette!). My idea is to try to reinstall tha... | Yes. Research whether the install/update package you use has the capacity to be pointed to a specific package at a specific location. Otherwise, I'm not sure of the procedure to copy a packe to the deb cache(/var/cache/apt/?) and install it from there. Or, mount the cd/dvd and add it as the FIRST listing in /etc/apt/so... |
Hello, So originally I wanted to install Skype. It couldn't install the dependencies because they were i386 and I'm running amd64 system (Wheezy 7.0 amd64) so I needed multiarch support. I found this: http://pkill-9.com/to-install-skype-64- ... an-wheezy/ for addind multiarch support. It seems like a good guide but it ... | So I was looking around and found the "gcc-4.7-base:amd64.list" file under /var/lib/dpkg/info and I tried to open it in gedit and got this: but the "gcc-4.7-base:i386.list" file has these contents: Code: Select all/. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/gcc /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.7 /usr/share /usr/... |
When I want to upgrade my packages, there is a lot of them that are kept back. http://paste.debian.net/hidden/db9a9d12/ Why are some of these packages kept back? How can I upgrade them? | I assume you're trying to upgrade a jessie or sid install (probably jessie). I had the same issue with my sid install a couple weeks ago. Simulating a 'apt-get upgrade' it would show a large number of held back packages. A 'apt-get dist-upgrade' would result in a large number of removals. The large number of held back ... |
Hi all, How do I grep via a package description ? To give an e.g. here's the package description of deluge (I guess the long description) :- Code: Select all$ aptitude show deluge Package: deluge State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.3.6-1 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Cristian Greco <cr... | Code: Select allapt-cache search "It has been designed using the client-server model" |
This might come off as stupid, the idea is still a bit rough around the edges. The scenario is: I have 10 (hopefully) hardware-identical and software-identical machines spread over a large area. They are administered by me and 1 friend of mine. These machines would like to have at least the following packages available... | deleted |
Hi everybody, I can't compile a simple OpenGL test application. Code: Select allmake (in directory: /home/misi/projects/opengllink) gcc -c -std=c11 -Wall -O3 -c -o main.o main.c gcc main.o -o opengl -static -lglut -lGLU -lGL /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Compilation failed. ma... | Probably your path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) isn't right so it can't find the .so files. |
I currently have three USB drives, two of them live drives, and I was going to buy more. It occurred to me that instead of paying for more drives, I could possibly use my iPod Touch. I carry it with me everywhere and it has more than enough space. Is it possible to use my device as a Linux live USB? Preferably without ... | yes, perfectly possible as soon as you removed apple's malware http://www.rockbox.org/ rockbox your apple device and everything becomes possible. the device will also become a regular usb storage device. you will not harm your device by installing rockbox. apple's stock firmware is harmful. |
Hi all, Recently I have been trying out quassel, while its a good IRC client security-wise it does fail in one crucial aspect which is the GUI which needs a lot of polish. A Anyways, this is my setup. I am usually on two networks irc.freenode.org and irc.oftc.net and have number of channels which I want to autojoin and... | replying myself in-line :- shirish wrote:Hi all, Recently I have been trying out quassel, while its a good IRC client security-wise it does fail in one crucial aspect which is the GUI which needs a lot of polish. A Anyways, this is my setup. I am usually on two networks irc.freenode.org and irc.oftc.net and have number... |
When I 1st started Quassel, it popped out a small window with the following warning message: Code: Select allYour core does not support SSL encryption Sensitive data, like passwords, will be transmitted unencrypted to your Quassel core. The question I have is how to configure Quassel to support [SSL] encryption? | Five minutes at Startpage led me to this. Perhaps it's helpful: http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/projects/qu ... SL_support |
Hi all, How do I access gnome window manager tweaks via the CLI ? http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=219q9mp&s=5 I'm not able to access it. I am running metacity. | That's actually for Xfce, I believe. Code: Select all$ xfce4-settings-manager You will see the Window Manager Tweaks there (last row). |
Hello. For 2 or 3 days i have been having random crashes. When it happens, the display freezes and the system does not respond to any kind of input or key combination (Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, Sysreq combinations...)the hard drive "busy" indicator is off during this time. This happens at random times and I am n... | . . . the system does not respond to any kind of input or key combination (Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, Sysreq combinations . . . Have you enabled them? They are disabled by default. Crashes are most often related to hardware failure. After you have enabled escape procedures open the box and clean it out. check for... |
Hi! I would like to run laptop cooler. Its currently gets hot while running. Output of sensors Code: Select allacpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +56.0°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp2: +0.0°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp3: +47.0°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp4: +54.0°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp5: +33.0°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp... | Hi. Could you post the program name? I'm also looking for this kind of software. |
Hi there. I'm having problems with real-time audio output from my guitar. I mounted an image so I can explain better. So, what I want is: To hear in real time what I'm playing. I can't figure out how to do so. 1 - The sound from my guitar reaches my sound card. 2 - Audacity cathes it with no problem, I can play what I ... | Have you experimented with a low-latency interface like jack? http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Linux_Issues#JACK or maybe you could plug into the amp, and mic or line-out to the computer. |
Hi, Today I want to update jessie. Synaptic wants to remove 100 programs. Abi, Gnumeric, all 3 kernels, and all the xorg drivers. Definitely proofread your upgrades this week. Patrick | FFS. amarildojr wrote: I would recommend you to download the jessie DVD and installing from there, then you garantee no problems. Not a good idea. You will be getting outdated packages - will cause more problems, not less. If you can't work out what packages you want on your system, or figure out a dependency chain tha... |
I used Synaptic to update my Jessie install, but it hangs at: curl (7.32.0-1) unstable; urgency=low From this version the threaded DNS resolver will be used. This allows for asynchronous DNS queries and also fixes possible issues related to handling time outs of DNS lookups. The threaded resolver was chosen instead of ... | After puzzling about it, I opened a root terminal and ran: apt-get update apt-get upgrade The update hung in exactly the same place. But in the terminal, I found that if I hit enter, the information window continued with more info. I hit q to leave the info section, and the update process successfully resumed and finis... |
Hi I've just started uzing Uzbl browser and I love it, it looks great on my awesome window manager desktop, integrates really well. However, on some pages, it renders fonts absolutely awfully, and on others they look fine. I've trawled through the config trying to find something but I'm at a loss. How can I change the ... | Thanks for posting this! Before I saw this thread, I never even knew that uzbl existed. I installed it on my system today running DWM and I love it. It gives the user maximum control and is very lightweight. This is definitely my new favorite browser! |
I'm trying to copy my CD's from the 90's and I'm unable to do so. Any help? This never happened before. To show that I'm not trying to do anything illegal, I uploaded a pic of them (there are more than 100 but not many fit in the picture) = http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2412/3x7n.jpg I enjoy "old music" and I want... | Copying them how? to other CD's? to the Hardrive? You can't just copy them to the Hardrive you have to rip them to the hardrive which means a program will copy and convert them to mp3 as example to play in your desktop music program. Depends on what desktop window manager you are using and what programs you have instal... |
Hello. The other day I was updating my system with apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and I saw that Some packages were being held back, so I ran apt-get dist-upgrade and I was presented with the following output: Code: Select allpablo@debian:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependenc... | imagineer92 wrote:Code: Select all############################################################## ##################### UNOFFICIAL REPOS ###################### ############################################################## #### Mate Desktop deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian jessie main #### Debian Multimedia deb h... |
So I want to build a custom configuration of DWM from source, and to my understanding, I need the build-essential program installed to accomplish that. I know build-essential (powerpc) is in the repos, I checked. However, I am having problems installing it, both via apt-get and aptitude. Here's what happens with apt-ge... | Post sources.list & 'apt-cache policy build-essential libc6-dev g++' |
Hi all, I'm facing a problem with a debian server. It has a mysql server installed, and what I want is to connect from this sever to another mysql server (hosted in a windows server). So I try to run the following command from this server: mysql -h xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -u user -p And it asks me for the password, then sleeps... | Hi, I found the solution, it was related to a missconfig in the iface that connect both servers, broadcast address was not correct and the source server could not get the destionation one MAC. Cheers |
Hi, I'm experiencing some serious issues while trying to update my Debian testing workstation. I've been running this system flawlessly for at least the last five years. This is what I get running aptitude upgrade: Code: Select all$ sudo aptitude upgrade Resolving dependencies... The following packages will be upgraded... | limaunion wrote:Regarding the hdd, do you think it's the drive that it's failing or it could the cable? Replace the cable and see. At the risk of overstating the obvious, if don't have a recent backup, right now would be an awesome time to make one. |
I have Debian and Fedora installed on the same computer. I created the partitions with Gnome's disk utility in Fedora 19, which is version 3.8. After installing Debian Jessie, Debian's version of the same program, which is 3.0, shows me a warning about partitions being misaligned. Fedora's version still says everything... | If everything works fine and disk performance is good, probably it's something wrong with older version of gnome disk utility. |
I'm running wheezy and I have a hardware that needs newer kernel so I have installed a backported one: Code: Select all# apt-get --no-install-recommends -t wheezy-backports install linux-image-686-pae linux-image-686-pae 3.9+49~bpo70+1 got installed. Now I have a problem. apt-get says (so does aptitude) that kernel 3.1... | There must be some metapackage that's going to add the 3.10 kernel. However, there's nothing in there about removing the 3.9 kernel, so you can just continue to boot to that one, and then research which package is pulling in the 3.10 kernel, so you can remove it if necessary. However, there won't be any security fixes ... |
I recently installed Jessie on my laptop and am having some trouble with video. DVDs and video streamed online are extremely jumpy when played in full screen. They play better, but not great, when they are not in full screen. On previous installations (Squeeze, Ubuntu going back to 2006) on the same machine I had no pr... | what graphic card? what graphic drivers? hardware specs (not brand and model)? in vlc, you can de/enable accelerated video output, see if that makes a difference. |
Problem: I need to be able to change the ownership and permissions of directories and files I want to store on a separate partition. Background: I'm not new to Linux, but I'm new to Debian. I have a habit of dual-booting Windows and GNU/Linux on the same machine. To simplify things, I keep my important files on a separ... | Check your /etc/fstab and make sure you have the correct permissions set there. Mine is like this. Code: Select all/dev/sdb1 /home/chevy/Storage ext4 noatime,defaults 0 0 Check that you are a member of group sudo. Code: Select allcat /etc/group | grep sudo Check the directory in ~/home see if it looks like this. Code: ... |
Hi all, While running an update-grub command for some reason windows xp entry is gone. My grub-pc version is grub-pc:amd64 1.99-27+deb7u1 . I can get the grub prompt and I did trawl the web for answers as well as the fora before asking here. This is how my system is setup :- Code: Select all $sudo blkid /dev/sda9: TYPE... | The standard answer is install os-prober then run update-grub again... |
Hi I dual-boot Debian 7Wheezy and Win7. Quite often, my Debian login screen is on top of the Windows logoff screen, or is on top of a black and white grid. I share data files between Debian and Windows but nothing else - at least that I know of. How can the Windows logoff screen be picked up by Debian login? Is there a... | I have seen this, just not with Windows as I don't use it. Its just an image that resides in video memory, no big deal. If you don't like seeing it, don't boot Windows . |
This morning a new version of vim was updated for Sid. As the update was completing, these messages were given: Code: Select allSetting up vim (2:7.4.000-1) ... update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/bin/vim.basic because link group vi is broken update-alternatives: warning: forcing re... | this is not an error message, just a warning, and it says what it did: it reinstalled sth that (it thought) was broken. if everything works fine, don't worry about it. maybe make a mental note for future alerts. |
Installed using a USB (FAT32) with unetbootin during install might have chosen to install things from the meda instead of net. as my net needs login now cant get it to install sudo and other apps. when i give command Code: Select allaptitude install sudo Get msg : The following NEW packages will be installed: sudo 0 pa... | FYI In terminal :- Code: Select all mkdir -p /media/cdrom mount /media/usb0 /media/cdrom mount: /media/usb0 is not a block device |
When trying to run Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, I get the error Code: Select all./et.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I have verified that I have libx11-6, quite thoroughly... Code: Select all# apt-get install libx11* Reading package list... | From my understanding packages like ia32-libs are now deprecated. Instead of installing a few specific packages for compatibility, you are supposed to install the i386 variation of the package you need. For example I think you can get the required libraries like this Code: Select allapt-get install libx11-6:i386 Puttin... |
Hi all, I just removed mono (or think I have) can somebody look and tell/share if there is anything left. Code: Select all$ sudo aptitude purge mono-runtime libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.0-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-system4.0-cil libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4... | This may or may not work for you, but in Debian 6 and Debian 7, this is what I have done to remove mono from my system: Code: Select allaptitude install gnote tomboy_ then Code: Select allapt-get remove --purge libmono* There will be lots of CIL files removed. No problem. Mono is now removed, and Tomboy is replaced by ... |
Sorry for my new-comer question. Today I found this problem complaining that errors were encountered while processing bind9 and lwresd, and nothing can be installed by apt-get install. There were no broken packages in Synaptic. The output of "apt-get install bind9" looks like this: Code: Select allReading package lists... | hume wrote:I haven't installed any dubious packages from adulterous repositories lately Oh yes you have. hume wrote: Code: Select allinsserv: warning: script 'K01vmware' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'K01vmware-USBArbitrator' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'vmware-USBA... |
Hi all, How do I autoplay an .iso file ? By autoplay/autorun is how it is done in MS-Windows . I can loop mount the .iso file somewhere but dunno if there is a way to autoplay it ? As an e.g. :- Code: Select all$ ls *.iso grml96-full_2013.02.iso $sudo mount -o loop grml96-full_2013.02.iso /mnt/dvd/ I had previously mad... | How do you suppose to 'autoplay' a Linux installation CD image? You better learn some theory before. In MS 'autoplay' function works when there is a Windows application on a CD with some autorun.ini file beside. Go burn your grml.iso on a CD and reboot -> an excellent opportunity to watch your PC 'autoplay' function in... |
Due to my no sound problem in wheezy with my ATI card, I have tried to install jessie to test the new kernel. In jessie, bith sound and ATI video worked. But I need to upgrade my existing wheeazy to jessie since I have database installed in wheezy. SDo, long story short, I changed sources.list to reflect jessie, did ap... | I regret I can't advise regarding the "upgrade" but I'm curious to know; couldn't you have just continued using stable and installed the jessie kernel from wheezy-backports? |
Hi all, I went to /etc/sudoers to make some changes to the file. When I read it, I came to know I need to run visudo. I ran visudo using nano as a shell text-editor. Now while nano is good, the best thing would be to also be able to use the gtk based text editors to do the same. This is part of the how the /etc/sudoers... | This works for me. Login as root and . . , Code: Select allexport EDITOR=gedit ; visudo |
Hi all, I dunno what would have been the perfect title but this is the use-case I want to illustrate and I know there is an app. which does what I'm proposing :- a. Let's say there's a program I compile everyday and gcc takes 10 minutes to compile it. b. Now let's say this program is on github or gitorious from where I... | http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ccache Also, you need to use the -j option to use all cores. Did you search? This stuff is on the first few pages of google hits for likely terms... |
I think my no sound trouble starts with the update to linux-image and header. Specifically, I am using linux-image 3.2.0-4-amd64 with installed version of 3.2.41-2+deb7u2, and same version number for header. I use apt-get update and then opened the package manager, and it shows that it will upgrade them to new version ... | Code: Select allman apt_preferences Sounds like you need to version pin. I would counsel caution when locking a kernel though. Lots of things can go wrong when you do that. Also check Code: Select allman apt-mark |
I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on this for me. I've been using mplayer (no gui) to play audio files and I'm trying to recursively build playlists. I have an /mp3 folder with 118 subdirectories (artists) and each of those has multiple sub directories (albums) and within those are the .ogg's and .mp3's. Curr... | As root do apt-get install tree Then from the top level directory issue tree -fiF This will send an output to stdout that you can pipe into grep. Directory names will have a trailing / |
Hi everybody ! First, thanks for all the work done on this forum, which is very usefull. I would like to understand why, for example : Code: Select all# apt-get changelog xul-ext-adblock-plus Returns : Code: Select allErr Journal des modifications pour xul-ext-adblock-plus (http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/up... | It is just a server error. For reasons that I ignore, many times all change logs bar those from Sid are temporarily unavailable. Anyway, reading the change log of the version in Sid includes all previous changes. Just look for the package in http://packages.debian.org and click on 'Debian Changelog.' Here are the lates... |
Hi all, I want to auto mount a Windows XP pro partition ,D, called Data that has been set to be shared. I have set a mount point at /home/alan/data on my Debian Squeeze machine where, according to Synaptic Package Manager, I have samba 2:3.5.6, smb-client, samba-common, samba-common-bin, libwbclient0, libsmbclient, cif... | run Code: Select allmount -a and see what the error is EDIT: re-read and "/mnt//home/alan/data" looks wrong maybe that is the issue |
I am having what appears to be an identical issue as what was reported in a related post. Upon invocation of zsnes from the terminal, the following is send to stdout: ALSA lib ../../src/conf.c(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so ALSA lib ../../../src/pcm/pcm.c(snd_pcm_open_n... | I think zsnes is 32-bit only. Are you running 64-bit? Maybe there's some problem with 32-bit libraries on your system. Anyway, I suggest you go to packages.debian.org and find out which package contains the missing shared library. |
Before I migrated from OpenSuSE 12.1 to Debian 7.1.0, I used a nice KDE IRC client (konversation). It supports an audio notification. In other words, it will chime when someone mentions my handle. Now, I tried to stay away from KDE and go fully with GNOME (hence, my move to Debian). For this, I use loqui (an IRC/chat c... | use xchat. |
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