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Hi all, I was looking at my apt-get keys (with APT Key Manager) and, besides the usual keys: Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny), valid until 2012-13-31 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze), valid until 2018-03-05 Devian-Volatile Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny), valid until 2013-01-... | Did you install live-helper for any reason? Here! Try doing a 'dpkg -l |grep live-helper' to see if its installed. You can also use dbbolton's reverse dependency script to show which installed packages required live-helper -- here. |
I am running Debian squeeze and I am trying to install hplip-3.10.5 so I can use my new HP Photosmart C4750 printer. I downloaded the automatic installer and ran it and it gave me the following error message: RE-CHECKING DEPENDENCIES ------------------------ error: A required dependency 'cups-image (CUPS image - CUPS i... | aptitude install hplip hplip-data and if you want the gui hplip-gui, but i don't know if your printer is supported. |
Trying to upgrade the following packages in Squeeze: apt apt-utils aptitude libept1 python-apt synaptic The output terminal gets hung up with this message: Code: Select allWARNING: terminal is not fully functional /tmp/tmp9PEsnI (press RETURN) After pressing RETURN: Code: Select allapt (0.7.26-exp3) experimental; urgen... | Same issue here, I recommend waiting a few days until apt, libept0, et. al., are fixed. When they are fixed apt-get update will update these files. |
This follows on from; http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 16#p319016 which dealt mainly with xserver and gdm, I hope I'm not in error starting a new topic. After a recent update of Squeeze I could no longer get to the login screen. I get past the grub screen to dark screen where all the information is scrolling... | Solved; /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf and change options radeon modeset=1 to options radeon modeset=0 which turns KMS off. Reboot. From; http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... te#p308356 |
Hey Debian Users. Im currently installing debian on my old server, its a 64bit computer, so i've downloaded the amd64 for this project. But under the Basis Installation, of this cd image, im getting a debootstrap warning every time i want to continue the installation, the last warning i remember was something coreutils... | What version of Debian? What Debian cd image? What is your processor? |
Hi, I'm using Squeeze and am changing from Ice Weasel to Epiphany 2.30.2 however I cannot view Youtube videos. I have read many topics yet nothing seems conclusive. Most comments are about HTML5tube which I have activated yet still no Youtube. Does anyone have a anwser to this issue? | Have you installed Flash Player? |
My desktop Debian Lenny installation is crashed. And I need to gain access to home directory! Partition is logical volume. I put HDD in a External HDD case and connected with my notebook (Debian Lenny) using USB. Please help, Thank You. | When you connect an external USB harddisk to a Debian computer it will usually be automounted. If it requires a password you have the option to provide a password. How was the disk partitioned? How many volume groups? How many logical volumes? When you say the installation 'crashed', exactly what do you mean? It won't ... |
I just noticed that my ClamAV is too old, and it will no longer start: Code: Select allStarting ClamAV daemon: clamd LibClamAV Warning: *********************************************************** LibClamAV Warning: *** This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated. *** LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read http://ww... | Do you have volatile in your /etc/apt/sources.list? eg: Code: Select alldeb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main |
Hi folks, Debian 504 64-bit How to create ISO image from .bin and .cue files? TIA B.R. satimis | hmm, been a while, but have you tried bchunk ? Code: Select allapt-get install bchunk should install it. then run Code: Select allbchunk IMAGE.bin IMAGE.cue IMAGE.iso give it a go & see if it helps |
To make a long story short, i made a mistake and left an experimental source open and did a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Got distracted during the process and lost a few programs. Looks like part of apt is missing, and synaptic is also missing. Tried to install synaptic and this is what I got. Code: Select a... | may be a silly question - did you comment out the experimental repo before you tried to reinstall synaptic? maybe try Code: Select all$apt-get install -f to solve the missing dependencies |
I have installed Debian on My Macbook Pro. I want to be able to write to the HFS+ partition. I have disabled journaling on the HFS+ partion. I have the following in my fstab Code: Select all/dev/sda2 /mnt/mac/ hfsplus defaults,force 0 2 but it still mounts as read-only | This is very old and maybe obsolete. In fact I cringe when looking at it but post it warts an all. That said it may give you some clues. I also know now debian can read and write to hfs+ but I did not do it my self at the time, and no longer use OSX. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php Anyway this is what I did... |
Hi, all! I've heard a lot of talk about people running 'Testing' as a rolling release version of Debian. As I have a spare box to play with, I wanted to see what this was like. I've done a minimal install of Squeeze and had a look at /etc/apt/sources.list. As I would expect, the file refers to Squeeze and not 'testing'... | Yes, just replace all instances of 'Squeeze' with 'Testing'. Nothing will change at present, because Squeeze = Testing, but when Squeeze goes stable you will stay on Testing. That's what I've been doing for years, and I do a full-upgrade (or dist-upgrade) every day. |
hi I tried to upgrade and install the linux sources but get the following error messages. Any suggestions?? thanks apt-get install linux-source-2.6.26 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-source-2.6.26 0 upgraded, 1 ... | Does /var/cache/apt/archives exist? Are the permissions correct? It could also be a filesystem problem. Maybe you need to run fsck on it... Whilst you're there, check df as well to make sure that you have enough free space... James |
Hi, all! Had a bit of a partition nightmare during an install, involving my home directory. My partitioning looks like this and my install is still completing: sda1=/boot sda2=/ sda3=swap sda4=/home My old home partition and data is located in a partition that I preserved, called /homebak and is on sdb. Once my install... | You say "Once the install is complete". So do we assume it is complete and everything works? So the problem is that you need to transfer a large volume of personal files from sdb to sda? Question: Is sdb a permanent second HD or is it a plug-in USB device? Can we assume that sdb is in a file format that a Linux distro ... |
Hello. I set up an FTP server with two separate directories. One of them is mine, and the other one is shared (for anonymous ftp). The layout is like this. /home/hallvor <---- this is my ftp directory where I keep my private files. I am the only user. /home/ftp <---- this is the shared ftp directory with anonymous logi... | Thanks. I use proftpd on a lenny server. The anonymous users are already "jailed" in /home/ftp and have no access to other directories. All I need is to prevent them from uploading or deleting files on /home/ftp I`m off to bed, but I`ll try your suggestion tomorrow. |
Hey guys, I got debian testing and I want to upgrade to sid. So far this is how my source list looks. Code: Select all### Official Debian Sid Repository ### deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ ex... | looks good. You may want to add non-free to the DMM line You must be close, York U is just up the street from me. |
I was just trying to get the now playing for banshee to show on conky but the way I was going to do it required me to make a wrapper for banshee.sh but I can't seem to find it or it doesn't exist. Help please. Ignore this thread I'm an idiot. | Well said. |
No matter what I try I just cant get cron working for me on my Squeeze setup I can type /usr/bin/soffice and openoffice will fire up no problem but put into a crontab and nothing for instance just to test if crontab is working I have this */5 * * * * /usr/bin/soffice In my user crontab but nothing happens I have run as... | What are you trying to do? Cron and Crontab usage and examples http://www.pantz.org/software/cron/croninfo.html Command scheduling with cron http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/56 |
I followed this guide for my Acer Aspire One A150, and got wireless and suspend working fine: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne#SuspendtoRAM The only problem is that wireless is dead after resuming from suspend. I have to type: Code: Select all/etc/init.d/networking restart and after that everything works just fine ... | I run Debian Lenny, so I`ll try grabbing it from backports and let you know how it goes. By the way, typing /etc/init.d/networking restart dows not always work. The LED stops blinking after resume from suspend and I am unable to connect to anything. Edit: Installed Wicd, got a connection, put it on suspend and back on.... |
Hey, whenever me, or someone I'm calling accept a call, the window that shows sound inputs and is for call closes. Then I can see a message in chat window: The call has been terminated. What should I do? Your help would be greatly appreciated. | Hey AMLJ! I do not really understand what your problem is! Which protocoll are you using? Skype? I think pidgin can not really handle the phone-application of that protocol. You can just chat with it. Maybe start pidgin in the terminal and check for error-messages. Or do you meant, that you can not choose an input devi... |
I recently installed SLiM and wanted to give it a try. I found out that XDM actually loads a bit faster on my machine, so I'm going to stick with it. I uninstalled SLiM, leaving XDM the only login manager on my system, but how can I change it back to the default? When my system boots up, I get the default console login... | xdm is limited but I think is the faster you can get. First, just in case, purge the slim files (if you only removed and not purged it - you can purge them by searching for files with residual config in Synaptic's filters). Then maybe you could try to reinstall xdm to see if it gets automatically detected again. There ... |
Upon booting, I am receiving a message about a driver, I am not sure what it is and it runs perfectly fine the way it is, but I would like to investigate the reason. Code: Select allThis (id 10ec :8319 rev 10) is not an 8139c+ compatible chip Try the 8139too driver instead It's something along those lines. It happens a... | I think the issue is that some 8139 chips require the 8139cp module and some require the 8139too module....but they do not do a good job of identifying which they really need. So it is probably just a hint to use the other one if the one that is being loaded doesn't work....or something similar. I cannot imagine it to ... |
I am trying to reset the root password of Squeeze so that I may be able to update. Unfortunately, I forgot it. I have followed the howto Reset Root Password without success. I am getting a root prompt but for some weird reason the root commands are not found. When I type passwd, I get, "command not found". Moreover, If... | That looks like you're still logged as an unprivileged user. There's someone with a similar problem in antiX's forum and he has received some advice: http://antix.freeforums.org/no-root-pas ... t2589.html |
I previously made a question about this and there was an Ubuntu deb package that you could download from Truecrypt's website. But there's no longer any deb packages there's only a .tar package containing a .sh script. When I run the script and install it says that I'm missing these two things. How can I download these ... | Code: Select allaptitude install fuse-utils libdevmapper I'm sure about the first package, but the second one is a guess, based on the output of "aptitude search mapper". You may or may not need to specify the version. In Squeeze, the actual package name that is installed on my system is libdevmapper1.02.1, but if you'... |
I had to boot into my Windows 7 install on my laptop for the first time in a few months and I noticed that the Windows clock was 4 hours ahead. Windows sync'd its time with the internet, then I booted back into Debian (Lenny) and my clock was now 4 hours behind. Both OS's are set to the same time zone (EDT). The minute... | This probably has to do with whether the hardware clock is set to UTC or not. Linux allows you to set the software for either hardware setting. I am not sure but I think Windows assumes it is set to local time. For dual boot they have to agree, so if you can not tell Windows that the clock is set to UTC you will need t... |
I've an old HP Deskjet 672c that has worked for years. Some time ago, more then a year, it started mysteriously printing every Sunday morning early in the am. Luckey for me the paper feeder has not worked properly for years, otherwise on these Sunday morning printing events it would just print a whole ream of nothing. ... | Just a wild Idea: Since it was doing it's thing on Sunday mornings, I wondered if it could be a cron thing? |
I am used to setting up users and groups on my daughters computers with Ubuntu installed. user: magz (dauther) user: nigel (me) group: nima We each have our own folder for files i.e. magz and nige. This has always worked well and it didn't matter which user is logged in we could create and access files in the other use... | You need to set the umask somewhere, but I'm not certain what the best way to do that is right now. Here's an older discussion about it - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=40886 I think you'd want umask=002 |
Is it possible to be an active participant in, say http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/, without having you mailbox bombarded with 60-plus messages a day? EDIT: Answer is yes - just post via e-mail to debain-user@lists.debian.org. It is possible to read the lists using a newsgroup reader in the group linux.debian.user,... | You can join the Groups on Google and post to the various lists from there, and set it so you get 1 digest email a day. You can probably do the same for the normal mailing lists. |
Here I have the output of the lintian command for one of my packages. I'm trying to understand what the errors mean. I have already fixed about three or four. The errors that I am focusing on at the moment are the "md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file" and "file-missing-in-md5sums" errors. My guess is that my md5sums file is... | Have you looked at the manual, http://lintian.debian.org/manual/ch2.html |
Hi. I have an alias set for "sudo aptitude install" that I would like to use completion with. It turns out that by typing "sudo aptitude install" and part of a package name it returns the candidates that match with the pattern when I press TAB. For example if I sudo aptitude install gtk TAB TAB returns a list as descri... | Completions are set up with the 'complete' command, and the definitions can be either under /etc/bash_completion and /etc/bash_completion.d/* or in your BASH shell startup files ( ~/.bashrc ). They can be fairly simple like this example to complete for PDF files: Code: Select allcomplete -f -o default -X '!*.pdf' acror... |
Ok so this all started when I tried to upgrade my computer from Lenny to Squeeze and it downloaded everything but it's stuck at installing udev which it said it couldn't do on the 2.6.26 kernel. I then did update-grub and Squeeze's 2.6.32 kernel was seen (on grub). I have grub-legacy chainloading (if I'm not mistaken) ... | Debian User Forums • View topic - lenny to squeeze upgrade - udev/kernel issue - viewtopic.php?f=16&t=48996 Actually the answer is in the error message. "AT YOUR OWN RISK, you can force the installation of this version of udev WHICH DOES NOT WORK WITH YOUR RUNNING KERNEL AND WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM AT THE NEXT REBOOT by... |
Hey, I installed GRUB 2 for someone, and I made a mistake, and did not specify the right place (/dev/sda3 for me) when it asked. Now I can't do anything. I can't boot GRUB, can't do nothing. Help please! | Oh good God, the problem was solved. I used the Squeeze DVD rescue mode, and it solved the problem. (For anyone who might make the same mistake like me!) |
I'm using Debian 5.0.4 Lenny with shell access only. I've recently set up logwatch. I received an e-mail from 'Cron Daemon' stating: subject: Cron <root@**********> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch: Can't exec "/bin/sh": Argument list too long at /us... | the amount of log files you are getting, wow. must have a fairly funky config anyway a program you will want to have a look at is logrotate to cycle your logs through.. just make sure you get a backup of the logfiles periodically becuase you never know when you are going to need them |
I have console only on my machine and I have two problems with it: 1) I can't find how to enable programmer dvorak keyboard layout. 2) All the console settings don't stay after reboot, I have to do dpkg-reconfigure console-setup again. But after I do that I loose russian layout that I normally can switch to with Alt+Sh... | debian version? |
Hey! I don't know why this happened, but now I can barely hear any sounds using my headphone. I haven't changed any of the alsa settings. Speakers work fine, very fine! Your help would be appreciated! | Oh, even better now, actually there is absolutely no sound when I use headphone now. Someone help me please! And I don't have an /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file!! |
I am trying to launch the perl config, but when I do so I can an weird error. It seems to be that it does not regonize perl ? Code: Select allconf.pl: line 11: =: command not found conf.pl: line 19: my: command not found conf.pl: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `{' conf.pl: line 20: `if ( eval q{require "Fi... | How are you launching the script exactly? What happens if you enter this command (note the space between bin and perl): Code: Select all/usr/bin/env perl -v |
Hi! I'm having one of those days, and managed to delete some virtualbox disk images. But the virtual machines are still up and running just fine. So the deleted disk images still exist somewhere. Is it possible to recover these files? Since they are in use and locked by Virtualbox I guess they still are completely inta... | You might make a backup of the Vbox-installations on the hard-disk (whichever one is possible). Something like rsync -e ssh / user@host-ip:/home/user/tmp If all goes south boot a live in VBox and rsync the whole shebang back. I said: something like . I'm spare on time. |
I am currently running Debian Lenny on one of my external HDDs and Debian Squeeze on the other one. I found a package I like in lenny but it seems it has not been added to squeeze (yet). The package is ksirc and i like it because it looks and feels like mIRC that I used in windows. My question is can I install the lenn... | It is only in Lenny. Which probably means it has been orphaned and won't be in future Debian releases. Package ksirc * etch (oldstable) (net): IRC client for KDE 4:3.5.5-5: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc * etch-m68k (net): IRC client for KDE 4:3.5.5-5: m68k * etch-backports (net): IRC cli... |
Has anyone else experienced a failure of cups? My printer is a HP laserjet 4 Plus. It used to work with the gutenprint drivers pretty much since always. I don't know when it broke, because I don't use it that often. I have tried with the generic postscript driver, with the gutenprint driver, with the j4dith driver and ... | I have a HP 5L and my printer has stopped working last week. I haven't had a chance to figure it out,but it's CUPS related. I'm not at home but it's something with the backend. CUPS doesn't see the parallel port when I try to install the printer again. |
I need a confirmation as i never did that before. I think i did it right, but am not sure. I need pacpl, an audio-converter which is in the testing repos, for Debian-Lenny. I followed SoulSinging's "How-to build a package the smart way" 1) I added Code: Select alldeb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contri... | The reason why i ask: If i run Lenny i run it for stability. I don't wanna make it less stable. I did the test in VirtualBox, where it doesn't matter. If the above is ok i will do it on my installation (cause i really miss pacpl and am quite lost without it. I reboot to Sid, cp the music and convert it from there. Bit ... |
Hey, as the title says, I wanted to know if it's installed while installing Squeeze. I've forgotten... Your help would be appreciated guys! | yup |
On my Sid laptop with iwlagn as the wireless driver, I use gnome with network manager. I lost all wireless capability when laptop failed to come out of suspend. I have the power manager set up to suspend when the lid is closed. This morning when I opened the lid I got a blank screen with a blinking cursor. Without thin... | There are several old bugs about wireless broken by suspend. Most of the time network-manager is the culprit. Try using wpa_supplicant directly. |
I usually install chromium from the frickelpatz repo. On one previous update I noticed that other packages that had not been installed from frickelpatz were updated with packages from there (i guess frickel had a higher version number - k3b i think the package was). So I would like to see what other packages it offers ... | /var/lib/apt/lists/ contains lists of available packages in the repos that you're following. Code: Select allgrep ^Package /var/lib/apt/lists/*frickelpatz*Packages or something similar should do it. |
I can't seem to get the options halt and reboot working in my openbox right-click menu. I've tried following the guide here from post #11, where the code he says to use in the /etc/sudoers file is: Code: Select all%users john=NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -h now, /sbin/shutdown -r now ...but I can't seem to get it to work o... | Just add /sbin/halt and /sbin/reboot. My setup (just ignore the alias stuff): Code: Select all# Cmnd alias specification Cmnd_Alias SHUT = /sbin/halt,/sbin/reboot,/sbin/shutdown # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL myusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SHUT |
Hello! I got Debian Squeeze. I've installed the package freedesktop-sound-theme - libcanberra0, libcanberra-gtk0, gnome-session-canbera but have only got one option in "Sound Settings" in the Sound Theme tab - about the notify sound. I've provided a screenshot (sorry it's in Bulgarian, but you got the idea) I've tried ... | A lot of the sounds were stripped out due to uncertain copyrights. Try this one instead: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/852410/freedesk ... ds_all.deb I built this one a while ago based on some web searches. |
Hi, I have recently installed Squeeze on my 2009 Acer Aspire laptop and updated the wifi firmware and still do not have wifi connection, I wasn't too concerned as I thought I would just use a usb wifi adapter however it doesn't work with that either, yet that same adpater works with Squeeze on my 2007 Desktop computer.... | If you don't post useful references to the device, don't bother posting. Execute lspci -vv and lsusb -v and paste the relevant lines. |
Recently I encounter some disk failures. Since that time, when I launch Aptitude I've got some I/O errors. For example: Code: Select all# aptitude clean Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe Budowanie drzewa zależności Odczyt informacji o stanie... Gotowe Odczyt dodatkowych informacji o stanie... Błąd! Inicjalizacja stanów ... | Just made sudo apt-get purge aptitude and install aptitude again and it's working fine (: |
Hello! I've done the ordinary sources.list update (lenny to squeeze) and Code: Select allsudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install dpkg apt aptitude sudo aptitude full-upgrade However, udev failed to install, and I used Code: Select all touch /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade and did full-upgrade again. Everything was going fine... | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=52360 try what craigevil suggests. |
I never been able to connect to some websites with DEBIAN, but with same computer different LINUX and Windows, I can, wonder what is the problem, any one can help? As an example Monash University in Australia is one of them. | Can you ping these sites? If so that tells you that you can connect to them, but something in the way your browser is set up is causing your problem. |
Hello, all Over the past month my windows PC has been playing up, I therefore am using Debian on LiveCD to get used to Linux (before I wipe Windows completly). Ever since I downloaded Debian I havent been able to get the internet (wireless) working, well recently i have, but not for long... After 2 weeks or so of me pr... | I've never used Debian on a live-cd before, but given Debian's view of restricted drivers you might have a better general Linux experience using Ubuntu, a Debian derivative and find that it's wireless works much better "out of the box", or "live" than Debian. There are other choices as well, most of which will work bet... |
I hope this does not expose me to ridicule over a lack of understanding and foolhardy attempt to get myself into something way over my head: AfterCode: Select all# apt-get -d source python-uno I get 550MB worth of files, it looks like source code for the entire openoffice package:Code: Select all# dir -alt total 539412... | Yup, that little package is generated during the build of Openoffice, along with a zillion other packages. You can browse packages.debian.org first to see where the original source of a package came from, or even download it. Don't know much about python-uno---and building it from its source folder in isolation from th... |
I am using firefox over iceweasel because my schools website gives me an error message stating I must either use firefox, safari, or internet explorer to use it. FIrefox is working fine but I am having problems getting flash to work. I am using debian squeeze. When I visit a webpage with flash content, the flash player... | Just install flashplugin-nonfree. Anyway, you can just modify User Agent field in Iceweasel's about:config instead of using FF. But YMMV etc. |
I just set up a Squeeze server for a friend of mine using my exact apache2 settings. He has been playing around, having a bit of fun learning HTML, but he ran into a problem where one of his images would not display. I at first figured his HTML was incorrect, but after a very long time of trying to figure out the probl... | When I right-clcik on the image place-holder and select "view image" I get a message "The image http://jacobelrod.com/images/work.png cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." So it's possible that the image file got corrupted somehow. Try replacing it with a new copy. Run an md5sum, or whatever, to make sure t... |
Hi Chaps, I recently upgraded to Squeeze and in general I'm loving it. One problem I'm having is that I can no longer open remote files via SCP/SSH using GVFS from Geany. This functionality still works in gedit. I've checked the syslog and can see no clues, and I also can't find any references on Google. Anybody else h... | Try checking on the Debian bug tracking system - http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ |
for the life of me I am unable to get this module not to load root@milomak-mac:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf Code: Select all# This file lists modules which will not be loaded as the result of # alias expansion, with the purpose of preventing the hotplug subsystem # to load them. It does not affect autoloading ... | Get it out of your kernel? |
netstat -a Code: Select allActive Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 ::1%3214634968:ipp [::]:* LISTEN udp 0 0 *:ipp *:* udp 0 0 *:bootpc *:* # netstat -atu Active Internet connections (servers and established) ... | You need to add -p to show all PID & program names. Code: Select allnetstat -pt |
I would like to delete some files stored in the personal directory, say .adobe, .macromedia, .xsession-errors, on every start-up or shutting down. I can do it with cron but I would like to learn different (simpler) options. The thing is, I haven't been able to input the proper terms in a search engine. Note that these ... | I am not sane....so take that as a warning.... I use rc.local to delete a few things at startup |
I am running Sid. After a dist-upgrade, when I boot into a DE, trying to run applications doesn't work. If I click on an icon, I see a "Starting <Application>" icon on the task bar and then it dies. If I try running Alt-F2 and then typing the name of the application, nothing happens. Any ideas? | What DE? No problems here fully updated system using LXDE. System: Host craigevil Kernel 2.6.33-4.dmz.1-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) Distro Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (UP) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3) bmips 5586.13 Clock Speeds: (1) 2793.068 MHz (2) 2793.068 MHz Graphics: C... |
Hi all! I use Linux for my everyday work but lately I've been faced with a trouble when I send out file printouts from my browser from my Debian system to (normally) window$ systems, where they are not readable. Is there a way for me to convert the postscript files into pdf format? Most window$ users will have some sor... | There's a tool called ps2pdf which will do the conversion. And I think there's an msfonts package for Debian. |
So I have recently installed java on sid. installed as such Code: Select allaptitude install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin I then setup java through update-alternatives Code: Select allroot@MBP-Debian:~# update-alternatives --display java java - manual mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java... | Check about:plugins on Iceweasel Should say something like: Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_20 Filename /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so what does java -version show? Mine looks like: $ java -version java version "1.6.0_20" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM ... |
I'm trying to write a Perl script that will convert text to ASCII. I'm particularly interested in converting files created with MS Windows, so I used Notepad to create a few test files. I have had some success with the following script: Code: Select all [[ Script Deleted -- see subsequent posts ]] After coming back /ho... | I can't say what's causing that corruption at the end. What appears at the end of the file before conversion? Maybe as a temporary work-around, you could perform a trivial substitution on that line to get rid of it-- i.e. Code: Select alls/^\^@$//; If those characters aren't actually showing up in the file, but Emacs i... |
My old Netgear G router is locking up like crazy. I bought a new Belkin N+ router. I configured it using windows7 (sorry cannot do it in debian) wireless N, WPA2 encryption. and all my windows computers can connect to it, including my laptop running debian tesing. Now my desktop connect ok with win7, but I cannot do it... | here is dmesg and it seems to have a problem with requesting rt2870 and keeps referring to error in /etc/wireless/RT3070STA/RT3070STRA.dat which does not exist in my system: Code: Select all<==== RTMPInitialize, Status=0 [ 5486.696551] 0x1300 = 000a4200 [ 5496.844005] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present [ 5500.872090] # [ 5... |
Code: Select allUnpacking replacement ffmpeg ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ffmpeg_5%3a0.5.1+svn20100411-0.0_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/ffmpeg/libx264-ipod640.ffpreset', which is also in package libavcodec52 4:0.5.1-3 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe... | trying to overwrite '/usr/share/ffmpeg/libx264-ipod640.ffpreset', which is also in package libavcodec52 4:0.5.1-3 There is your problem. You either have some incompatible repositories or you are trying to install some external packages. Be careful in these cases, you might break your dependency system. I did a test and... |
First off, I come from an Ubuntu background where things are "already done and ready to go for you" kind of thing. I decided to give Debian a try because I understand it's solid and light, and it's the parent of Ubuntu as well. So I jumped into it. Anyway, I just finished installing Debian squeeze from the net-iso on m... | The way you installed is a good choice, but as you've noticed, some packages you want might not be installed. All you have to do is figure out their names. Try 'aptitude search xfce' to see what else you might want. I'm not sure how you'd add extra icon themes, but that might be what you need. Go through the desktop se... |
I've tried to search for how to install the dev builds of Chromium on Debian Squeeze, but the only information I find is on the google-chrome-unstable package. I tried to install the deb file with "dpkg -i google-chrome-unstable_i386.deb" but it told me there was an error and aborted. Is there any way to install the la... | Debian -- Packages - http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Squeeze has OpenOffice3.2 For Chrome or Chromium you need to use a third party repo. # Google Chrome, Picasa, Google-Desktop http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html #(wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key ad... |
I have an EeePC 1000HA with Debian squeeze, and I can't seem to find the option to enable touchpad tapping. Is there a certain config file for the synaptics-touchpad driver I need to edit? | Kind of. It's actually an easy fix, but a big topic. Check out the debian wiki article: http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad There are some good eeepc specific articles on the wiki too. |
Are there any "oxford dictionary of the English language"-type of programs that can be used directly from the hard drive, meaning, not an on-line service? | It's much quicker to use Debian's tools for this kind of question i.e. Code: Select allapt-cache search dictionary That gives a long list of results. You can then get more info on interesting looking packages i.e. Code: Select allapt-cache show dictd You can of course run the same search and query in aptitude or Synapt... |
Hi, Some of the extensions I am using have more recent versions available, but require Firefox 3.5 (I am using Iceweasel 3.0). There are also some extensions that are ONLY available for Firefox 3.5 and later. For extensions not available through the Debian repositories I only can imagine the following options: 1. Downl... | If you want to stick with iceweasel, installing it from backports is your best bet. If you want to use Firefox instead it is simple enough to do. |
I can't remember if branch is the correct term but I am talking stable, testing or unstable. i have looked through the dpkg and aptitude man pages but can't seem to find if there is a way to search which packages on the system are installed from a specific branch. Is there a way to do this? | like that?: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ry-801417/ |
I have an exe-File called 'pas'. The file run wihtout problem when I call it from the same folder . For example: $ ./pas But when I call it from another folder, it does not run. For example: $ software/pas Thanks for your answers. Jorge. | Either put the script/executable in your path, or do it this way Code: Select all$ bash software/pas /usr/local/bin should be in your path but you need to be root to write to it. It can be useful to create a ~/bin directory and add it to your path so you can put your scripts in there and execute them the same way as an... |
When I run an exe-File, I become the message: -bash: ./a.out: Keine Berechtigung (No rights) I have all Rights on the Folder and on the file. I suppose that the problem is that my group "Benutzer" has no rights to execute files. Where can I change the rights of my group? Thanks. Jorge. | What's ls -l a.out look like? Maybe the file just doesn't have the execute bit set and you need to chmod 750 a.out before running it. If you need to be part of a particular group, you can edit /etc/group or run usermod -aG groupname username. |
Hello everyone, this is my first post... I'm trying to use one of my favorite themes in my new Debian install - Slateman-Clearlooks. It's one, that needs to have the root applications themed separately, and in Ubuntu, I would just use... Code: Select allsudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themes sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icon... | Hey Ya OrangeCrate! Welcome, been out on the scooter lately? OrangeCrate wrote:Hello everyone, this is my first post... I'm trying to use one of my favorite themes in my new Debian install - Slateman-Clearlooks. It's one, that needs to have the root applications themed separately, and in Ubuntu, I would just use... Cod... |
hello to all, I use network-manager-gnome to connect to my wireless networks, but I can only use it with a graphical environment, and it doesn't even work that well since it will drop the connection after a few minutes and I have to reconnect it manually, that means I cannot leave my computer downloading a big file all... | have you tried wicd ? or via the commandline,using the ifup/down commands ? one or the other may help. If the device is dropping the connection after a short period,try changing the channel on the router,or it could be interference.Maybe a bad driver, Andy |
I am experiencing the slow transfer speed from my Lenny to Windows 7. Both of my NIC's are oboard Nvidia nForce 1GBPs. For example 200MB transfer from Win to Lenny (default samba shares) takes about a minute, while the other way around takes an hour!!!. I get similar transfer behavior through sFTP. Can somebody clarify... | Try pinging in both directions. You can do it with samba turned off. That should enable you to eliminate or implicate smb.conf. |
I use lenny but when I use the example time -f "%E real,%U user,%S sys" ls -Fs Code: Select all-bash: -f: command not found real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s Is this a bug or what is wrong use the example from "man time" | man time wrote:Users of the bash shell need to use an explicit path in order to run the external time command and not the shell builtin variant. On system where time is installed in /usr/bin, the first example would become Code: Select all/usr/bin/time wc /etc/hosts So, you might want to try: Code: Select all/usr/bin/t... |
i'm trying to setup google calendar on spicebird but i dont know which url to put in the Location field | In Google Calendar click Settings -> Calendars -> Name of calendar -> Private Address -> XML that's the string that IceWeasel wants Here's in images http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/add-inse ... n-webpage/ but in point 5 you click on the XML instead |
For some reason, neither the Firefox 3.6 precompiled binary nor 3.5.6 in the Debian repos likes the libflashplayerplugin.so needed for Flash. Whenever I visit a page with embedded flash, Firefox immediately crashes. I am on a fairly fresh system -- just re-installed Debian today -- and I didn't have this problem before... | How did you obtain Flash? Just via the flashplugin-nonfree package from Debian (contrib) repos? |
Hello! I have some rkhunter warning, and I am wondering what should I do. First one is like here And this is in email message. Code: Select allWarning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.9', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8g', is out of date, and possibly a secur... | rkhunter looks at upstream versions and if they are newer than the Debian version gives that warning. Nothing to be concerned about. |
i got an asdl-modem and a router behind that. before that i just had the asdl-modem and connected with pppoeconf. i start the OS and run apt-get update. all is fine. i open iceweasel and it takes very long till a site is loaded. now and then it can't find the site at all. i rerun apt-get update and it hangs. ----------... | i have replaced the dns-namservers (in the routers interface), and it worked like a charme for some time. a moment ago i booted and it has stopped working. iceweasel is very bad, epiphany seems to be better (from which i post). anyone has got an idea or similar problems? ps: upgrading the firmware? : http://kb.netgear.... |
Hey All, So my install is 3 days old and moving right along! I've got an issue I can't figure out with using mutt, or maybe it's icedove, with sending emails locally from scripts. The emails are being sent and received ok but I'm getting the below popup in icedove. I've tried every domain name permutation I can think o... | Solved by generating a self signed certificate for localhost using this link. Barrie |
after an upgrade i got an american keyboard-layout in the login-terminal. i ran dpkg-reconfigure console-data: its said keyboard layout would be german. i ran dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-layout: same thing. i checked the bugs for console-data and keyboard-layout: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgrepor ... nsole-data htt... | Might be worth searching the sidux forum to see if anyone is having the same issue. Since a lot of the sidux ppl use german. Have you tried dpkg-reconfigure console-setup? |
I've just installed Lenny (i386) and have also installed flash-plugin-nonfree from debian backports. I can't access the flashplayer settings. Could someone else with the same flash installed tell me if their settings option is also greyed out, so I can know whether there's something wrong with my installation or whethe... | http://www.macromedia.com/support/docum ... ger02.html |
My wireless works without issue with network manager. However I notice that it seems to be a gui only app. That is, when i stop the display manager my laptop loses internet connectivity. The NetworkManager service is still running. is there a commandline method of using the NetworkManager settings to start the wireless... | http://code.google.com/p/network-manager-cli/ http://vidner.net/martin/software/cnetworkmanager/ |
I am learning to build my own virtualhost server, and has somehow succeeded in building a test host server using dyn.dns.org as dns server. Now I want to host my photos on my server. I found that debian lenny has this package "libapache-gallery-perl". I also found gallery2, but it not a package in lenny. I cannot find ... | Hi, Maybe this site helps for Gallery2: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Inst ... _on_Debian There is more info about Gallery2 for Debian, and according to this site it is available in the repositories. If you can't find it in apt you can also just upload and install on your server, more on this is here : http://code... |
i installed debian in virtualbox. ran: Code: Select allrsync -e ssh -auv --exclude="/proc/*" ... --exclude="/lost+found/*" / root@desktop-sid:/media/stick/backup i mounted the stick on the other installation (on another PC) and rsynced it to partition 3 Code: Select allmount /dev/sda1 /media/stick mount /dev/hda3 /medi... | i have just read that on PC's more old than 10 years some stuff needs to be at the first <insert size> MB of the hard-disk. might that be the problem? if so i could try it again (now that i restored and reconfigured the whole stuff all afternoon... ) |
I bought a netbook (Acer Aspire One A150) and tried setting up a dual boot with Windows and Debian Lenny. Shrinked the Windows partition to 20 GB after defrag and used the rest for Lenny. The Linux partition boots just fine, but not Windows. Here is what I get: Code: Select allBooting 'windows' rootnoverify (hd0,1) map... | Sorry for the confusion. sda was just my usb memstick. I`ll give you the new data: [root@localhost hallvor]# /sbin/fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x11a8ba38 Device Boot Start End Blocks I... |
I signed up to ipredator but I can't seem to get it to work in Debian. i followed the directions for Ubuntu which I assumed would work in Debian - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1189343 Unfortunately after creating and configuring my VPN connection there was no way to connect to it. The option to connect to i... | I'm grateful that you made this post. I've got somewhat the same situation as you do, but am coming at it from a different direction. In my case I did a clean installation of Squeeze (with Xfce) on my system. I was kind of happy to see that WICD was installed as the new network manager application. I've been in the hab... |
Hi, I've build a package using dpkg-buildpackage but whenever I run aptitude safe-upgrade it upgrades the package I compiled as well even though it's the same version is there a way to tell it to leave it alone? Thanks | You can also try Code: Select allaptitude hold <package> |
How do I remove all of kde in one command except for the kde packages that I have installed before doing apt-get install kde? Any input would be appreciated! Thanks in advance! | Code: Select allaptitude purge kde just a guess You may need to reinstall some things |
Debian, lenny, last release, downloaded on 5 DVD and installed from! Iceweasel, on Plaxo.com, freezes all the computer, damn it. It wouldn't even turn off. unplug, restart, iceweasel, plaxo, same. 4 times in a row. Nex day, regular, no problem, leaved Iceweasel open while grabbing a bite in the kitchen, at my return co... | I suspect that your computer is freezing because the DVDs had errors on them. If the problem persists, you can download the netinstall ios and install from the net. My advice is to use a CD as an installation medium because the tend to be more reliable - at least, this is what I heard. |
Hello all, I just installed Maple, a computer algebra system. I used to have version 12 and now I installed 13. From the moment I installed 13, I had problems running both versions. I guess I shouldn't install them both together. So I deleted the installation folders (/opt/maple12 and /opt/maple13) as well as any confi... | Keep in mind that i know exactly NOTHING about this software. I did however find this: http://www.mapleprimes.com/blog/optimus ... abledlinux Seems applicable. |
today i installed windows xp in virtualbox. problem is: i can't connect to the internet. i remember it to be done automatically. whatever i do, it tells me the device (modem or whatever) is not getting recognized. if i recall correct the internet-connection with win-xp is getting done just like in linux, you install th... | I've never tried Windows in vbox but I'll nose in anyway. In your vbox settings, you do have the network adaptor enabled, don't you? |
Hi all, I need some advice about vim. I have set vim to automatically wrap the line after some certain length by putting something like Code: Select allset textwidth=110 in my .vimrc file. The thing is that sometimes I will go back and correct some text, adding a few things in the beginning of the line maybe, so the wr... | * Edit the text in whatever way. * Select your text using <shift>-v (visual line) selection, select the portion of the file or complete file where you want to do indent * assume that you already set textwidth accordingly, now press "gq" without going to command mode, immediately after the selection. This does formattin... |
hi, i got this situation after watching a movie for approx 2 hrs, browsing, and in the middle of downloading a file with 3 iceweasel windows active. my system uses more than 1 gig of RAM. is it normal ? FYI, i've never had this on ubuntu. | whats the ouput of free -m |
Hi, I tried to post this first to virtualbox forums, but apparently nobody there has any clue, and it might have nothing to do with vbox per se, after all is said and done. It might be another problem altogether. so here goes: The thing is, I have Smoothwall (3, with latest patches) running in VirtualBox 3 atop a Debia... | have you tried different network adapters. i can`t remember exactly what is for what, but not each of them is capable of being accessed from everywhere (its to be found in virtualbox`s help under network-settings). might be the source of your problem? i`m good of with the host-only-adapter as the second one, besides th... |
Firstly - hi all Ok, now that the formalities are over (eh ), I'm really stumped on this on. I consider myself, while not exactly expert, but "well-known" amongst the linux world. (I've had a debian www/dns server for what, ten years? and my first linux desktop was RH3...) Anyways, I recently had a few hardware failure... | Uh, is #1 and #2 on the same computer or are you saying #1 is on one computer and #2 is on another computer? Kinda lost me there.... might be a good idea to post your smb.conf files also, what are the permissions on the share folders |
Hello all, I am about to do a format on my laptop (now having debian squeeze) and I would like my amarok1 back, so I was thinking about doing a small sacrifice, that is, forget about bleeding edge software and going back to lenny so that I'll get to use amarok1 again. I was wondering, is amarok2 ever going to be in Len... | No Lenny is stable and will not get new versions. Stable only receives bug and security fixes. |
! After daily update,now the problem suddenly disappeared, I suspect it's a package bug. How to remove partition label under places>>removable media Hello, After I upgrade debian(squeeze) in one day,I found some partition labels are duplicated ,and the old one can't let me access this partition,just show a error messag... | As root, issue the command "fdisk -l". Also, rell us the contents of /etc/fstab. This is not removeable media, Just a hard disk, right? |
I need to extract the contents of a zip file contained in a .exe windows file without using Windows because I don't have it installed anymore. Is it possible? | I guess it depends on the .exe. Some are executable binaries and others are just shells for files. I downloaded winrar.exe to check. I can open it with gnomes archive tool. If you think a zip file is inside, maybe its just a wrapper. I run sid and have non free rar and unrar and I can open some .exe. I hope I helped, g... |
I use debian sid. Connect to mysql (5.1) through connector j (jdbc) v 5.1 . It had been working fine before yesterday until I receive the following error message: "Communications link failure The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from server". I ... | try this: http://groups.google.com/group/linux...d099cf65123551 edit /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf change 'net.ipv6.bindv6only = 1' to 'net.ipv6.bindv6only = 0' |
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