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I am guessing the output below is not right. If I am right, what would you suggest to fix it? Code: Select all~ # dpkg -L nvidia-glx /Package: apache2.2-common /Status: install ok unpacked /Priority: optional /Section: httpd /Installed-Size: 1952 /Maintainer: Debian Apache Maintainers <debian-apache@lists.debian.org> /... | That is weird. You are seeing what should be part of the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/status when you should be seeing the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-glx.list. Is this the actual contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-glx.list? If so that has somehow gotten messed up. |
For a while, if I clicked an email link up would pop Epiphany. Now, Opera pops up. How do I set Icedove to use Epiphany? | go to your desktops setup and make epiphany your default mail handler? Sounds like you are on Gnome, no clue how to do it on that desktop since I use KDE. I would think it should be pretty easy... in KDE there is a system default setting area that lets you choose your default browser, file manager, terminal, and mail c... |
On every distribution I have ever used, I could insert text to multiple lines with the following steps: * use Ctrl+v to select a column of text, * press Shift+i to enter insert mode, * type text to be inserted, * press 'Esc', and text will appear on every line. On Debian this doesn't work. Pressing Shift+i takes me out... | hi, try installing vim (with apt-get install vim or from synaptic or with aptitude). its "better" then the out of box vim-tiny. have you tried -> a (for append) instead of -> i check if its set in /etc/vim/vimrc to -> set compatible, if it is reset it to not be. btw: i dont have got to hit Shift+i but only i to enter i... |
I used to be able to ssh into a box (Debian Testing) and use bash completition. For instance: ls ~/My<TAB> would show as options My Documents and My Downloads. I could then do ls ~/My\ Dow<TAB> and this would resolve to ls ~/My\ Downloads/ I think this was done by adding the below to ~/.bashrc and /etc/bash.bashrc Code... | In the remote machine you r logging in say user root. root@remote_machine In the user root just open ~/.bashrc and add if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi Logout and login again and bash completition should be working. |
hi, i have a problem with ssh tunnelling, i dont know what i am doing wrong. tightvncserver, viewer and ssh are installed on the server and the client, but i am unable to see servers desktop environment. when i type: Code: Select allclient$ ssh -f -N -L 5901:localhost:5901 eec@dyndns and force ssh work at the backgroun... | Maybe be a stupid question but is your firewall bloquing port 5901 ? Do "iptables-save" to see the current rules. And try while your firewall is disabled. |
I have successfully installed Debian on my laptop and it is running! But the internet is not working. ~~~~~~ During installation of Debian, I received an error on the Networks Connection step. It was unable to do something with DHCP...I chose to skip the step and continue installation. Now when I try to connect to my f... | hansari wrote: I had no problem running ifconfig, but typing ispci in my root terminal results in "command not found". lspci not ispci |
After upgrading my nephew's computer from Pentium 4 (32 bit) to: Motherboard: ASRock P45XE-R Video Card: GeForce 8400GS CPU: Intel Quad Core I cannot boot into any OS, irrespective of the medium used. I used the installed operating systems, knoppix, Ubuntu installation CDs and I always got the same error. Moreover, I b... | It sounds to me like your guess is correct, I would look in the BIOS and see what options are available. Check setting like bootable devices, boot order, Advanced Config, |
As most of you know Pidgin is not working for yahoo on Debian, and few claims that they can be made work are not tangible, If any one has had any success and luck with these two software please explain what to do to install them as they cannot be installed libpurple0_2.6.3-1~bpo50+1_i386.deb pidgin_2.6.3-1~bpo50+1_i386... | Never saw the point of installing over 40 packages just to Im when I can use Bitlbee in irssi or meebo in Firefox. Are you using aptitude to try to install pidgin from backports? aptitude install -t lenny-backports pidgin |
I restored a cpio archive of my working Lenny 5.03 Linux partition to a blank scratch partition. After modifying /etc/fstab to recognize the cloned partition as root I was able to boot into it from the (approriately altered) grub setup on the original partition. However I still use a not-all-bad commercial boot manager... | Have you set the BOOT flag on the partition? |
Hi all, I've been using Linux for 4 years now, but recently (2 weeks ago) I moved from OpenSuse 11.0 to Debian Stable. I'm in love with Debian, everything worked from the first try (might have something to do with me using a laptop from 2004:); it's very stable, has a great community (or so I've heard;) and apt-get is ... | perhaps you dont have bash-completion installed? |
Well the title says it all: I want to use imapsync to mirror my imap account on a different server. On the source server I have folders that contain subfolders as well as mails. The process as such seems to work, my INBOX gets mirrored. But I get an error message saying that the target server does not support subfolder... | Hi, http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsyn ... 00192.html |
Hello, I am trying not to work as root and am facing some difficulties; today I can not access my Sony mp3 player nor my camera's memory (via a usb memory reader). Below the message I get for the player Screenshot-2.png (12.77 KiB) Viewed 1093 times Thank you in advance for your help Guy | Your account, from where you're trying to mount the device should be the member of the plugdev group. You could check this with the groups command at a terminal. |
hello everyone i have an issue with debian lenny 5.03: sometimes i can turn it off and sometimes not ( using the gnome gui) i need to force shutdown by holding the power button any idea?? do i need to disconnect dsl before i shutdown the system or it is automatically disconnected (i'm using a dsl modem) thanks in advan... | Open a terminal as root and enter this.. Code: Select allshutdown -h now will shut down your system Code: Select allshutdown -r now will reboot your system |
i couldnt find a fitting title, sorry. I got two debian-installations on my internal hard-disk. all cool. i got ubuntu on an external disk. i had a bit of problems after adding it to debians grub2, so i installed grub2 to the external. it boots fine that way. my problem is: whenever grub-update is run (either manually ... | I am guessing now, but grub has the /boot/grub/device.map file which tells grub which drive, for instance, hd0 is mapped to. So I imagine, but can't be sure, that your problem is one where your grub has references (as an example) to 3 drives, but when your external is unplugged only 2 are present. So grub has hd0, hd1 ... |
i downloaded the kernel source for 31 and took my old config. all fine. i deselected the general->experimental and aint got no internet no more. i did that several times before without problems.i checked with lspci -k for the drivers, and i cant find the culprit. how may i compare the two config-files? thanks | Install the "diff" package if you don't have it, and in a terminal: diff filename1 filename2 > differences.txt |
I have tried to mount the two CD rw that are on the computer, with no success, these suppose to automatically mount on booting or startup, but they don't, as well attempt to change the read/read permission does not work, this machine run Debian Lenny 503, they are not showing in any CD Burning software like K3b etc. th... | Hi, does 'your_user' have rights in cdrom group? |
I'm running a minimal install of Lenny: slim, icewm, iceweasel, abiword, cups, smbclient, rox-filer, ratpoison. Ran apt-get update, and at the end of the list I got a message that started W: GPG error: and included "The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B", and finished "you may want to run apt-g... | Hi, Your problem looks similar to what is described in this post, maybe it helps : http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=42998 Alex. |
I have (I believe correctly) installed the client package from the citrix site (linuxx86-11.0.140395.tar.gz). The download site however says: "requires OpenMotif v.2.3.1". I am not sure what that means. Does it mean I need to replace my gnome desktop with OpenMotif? I hope not, as I suspect that would be a considerable... | libmotif is available in Debian but it would appear to be of insufficient version. Of course there is no reason you cannot at least try this version. Code: Select allapt-cache policy libmotif3 libmotif3: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.2.3-4 Version table: 2.2.3-4 0 500 http://mirrors.xmission.com sid/non-free Packages ... |
I am running xfce on my laptop, and was wondering if there was a network manager I could use that didn't need extra dependencies. Gnome services slow my machine down, so I was trying to avoid using Network Manager. | wicd, http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ |
I am totally new to Linux and ready to make the switch, so excuse me if i use wrong terminology. I have tried several distributions and have reformatted my hard drive a lot, to make sure i had a clean install and knew how to do it. So with my research i found i like Debian the best and used the net install CD"Lenny i38... | If I may offer some advice....don't pile on too many questions at once. Were it me,I would tackle these issues separately, but I can help you with a few, at least until my pain meds kick in & I lose interest 1. Most HP and Epson printers just work. Mileage may vary with other brands. Before you buy ANY hardware, google... |
Did a netlinstall with Lenny, with lxde as my desktop manager. I first tried installing the flashplayer-mozilla package from the debian multmedia repo but no joy. Then I used smxi to install flashplugin-nonfree and it works fine in Opera. However it doesn`t work in Iceweasel. It`s not showing in the about:plugins in Ic... | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=263776#p263776 |
I installed Debian Lenny with Xfce. How do I install Synaptic in the terminal? In Ubuntu, I used "sudo apt-get install synaptic", but it doesn't work in Debian. What's the command for installing Synaptic? | become superuser by typing su root password then apt-get install synaptic |
Hello everybody, I recently upgraded to amarok 2.2.0. I had some minor problems (couldn't fetch covers) but now, without any obvious reason amarok cannot even launch.. Here's what I get: Code: Select alljorge@flamingo:~$ amarok kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so kdeinit4: preparing to launc... | amarok 2.2.0 seams to be let's say not complete yet, i try it in mint 7 and i could not get anything to work wright or ! it's just me nut getting the latest and @$@#%%^%. jb |
I read somewhere that coretemp is included in kernel 2.6.22. I am now in 2.6.26-2-amd64, but cannot find coretemp module. Anyone know where it is? | The module, "coretemp.ko", should be in /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/ Certain CPU's are not yet supported by the kernel version---a glaring example is the Intel Atom series. There's a patch you can apply to the kernel's coretemp sources when building the kernel, or the kernel's coretemp.c can simply... |
Hello all, I am looking for a simple program or script that will rename all my mp3 files to "artist-album-song.mp3". The issue I am having is that I have a massive amount of files that have no standard naming scheme and my obsessive compulsive side is getting very irritated. If I had just a few files to rename I would ... | Looks like I found a solution to my own problem, http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload ... 33570.html I tested it out and it seems to work fairly well, even though it is java based. |
I am a Computer Engineering Technology student, and I sometimes take my notebook to class with me. I was wondering if there is a way to stop my computer from showing up in others' network neighborhood, samba, GNOME and kde's Network browsers, etc while using the wireless network. Thanks, AnimeFreak PS: I am aware that ... | If the problem is just related to SAMBA services why you don't stop it when you are in class: Code: Select all/etc/init.d/samba stop This will make you invisible to other samba clients cause we have turned of your server services. Another solution is to install and configure IPTABLES firewall limiting the access to you... |
Hello, I will try to explain my self as good as I can. In the terminal when you want to see what options you have, you can press the TAB-button 2 times. EX: cd /h*TAB**TAB* then /home/ will be displayed. But when I want to use apt-get install and install some application I can't use the TABTAB-function. If I type: apt-... | Works for me with aptitude aptitude install sun sunclock sun-j2re1.4 sun-java5-bin sun-java5-fonts sun-java5-plugin sun-java6-bin sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-src sunclock-maps sun-j2re1.5 sun-java5-demo sun-java5-jdk sun-java5-source sun-java6-demo sun-java6-javadb sun-java6-plugin sunflow sun-j2sdk1.5 sun-... |
Hello, I upgraded squeeze-gnome desktop and from metacity, the minimize, maximize and closed buttons disappeared. Any idea what could be the problem? jmak | Hi, Did only the buttons disappear, or the whole titlebar ? If you have no window-decorations at all you can try using another windowmanager. I think some versions of metacity combined with compiz have this problem. Alex |
I would like to listen a Radio (http://www.radio.rai.it/player/player.cfm?Q_CANALE=6). My computer runs Debian Lenny; Iceweasel is the web-browser I've installed mplayer-mozilla but iceweasel doesn't see it. I've already: - removed totem-mozilla and w32codecs - copied all the files (mplayerplug-in.so and so on) in /usr... | solved. thanks to http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... d]#p234209 Now I actually got the mplayer plugin working! What I did was I copied the plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ and /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/ For some reason symlinking them (like I did with the flashplugin) didn't work.... |
Hello, I got one broken package and am not able to fix it. I tried synaptic Fix broken packages, but didn't work. The name of the package is "libtwolame0". Any idea how to fix this. Thanks, jmak | Debian version, sources list, breakage information? There are no magicians here. |
hi After squeeze update using aptitude full-upgrade on my Toshiba Notebook ALL Gnome Desktop Icons are gone! Has someone the same problem? | What packages were updated? Be specific, we don't do magic. Within Gconf-Editor, check the following keys: /apps/nautilus/desktop /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop |
I am writing the issue and the solution here so you don't need to read the whole story. Under Ice window manager I had the mouse pointer disappearing after some idle time; once the screen turned off to screensaver mode. After few weeks I changed to a bigger disk then reinstalled Debian with XFCE window manager. The iss... | Try running Code: Select allxset dpms 0 0 0See if that solves the problem. If it does, you can add it to the icewm rc file. Wherever that may be... someone could chime in on that. Basically that command makes it so the screen/backlight never goes off. BTW, welcome to the forums. And don't be deterred by smart-ass answe... |
Hi! all who read this message. When logrotate run daily job apache2 I get this error: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs This apache2 config in logrotate: /var/log/apache2/*.log { weekly missingok rotate 52 compre... | Hi, This error probably indicates an error of Apache itself, not of logrotate. When Logrotate runs, it stops apache, rotates the logfiles, and then restarts apache. My guess is that the error comes from the restarting. You can check this by manually restarting apache using Code: Select all/etc/init.d/apache2 restart If... |
Hi, I have just installed Debian stable on a desktop computer and would like to copy my preferences, add-ons and spell checking from my laptop to the desktop computer The laptop has Linux Mint 7 installed. My main concern is copying my Firefox, Thunderbird and Songbird profiles, add-ons and spell checking to the Debian... | duriandk wrote:Hi, I have just installed Debian stable on a desktop computer and would like to copy my preferences, add-ons and spell checking from my laptop to the desktop computer The laptop has Linux Mint 7 installed. My main concern is copying my Firefox, Thunderbird and Songbird profiles, add-ons and spell checkin... |
Hello. I added ntfs and fat32 partitions to fstab as follows: Code: Select all/dev/sda1 /media/mswin-root ntfs ro,unmask=0222 0 0 /dev/sdb5 /media/mswin-docs ntfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sdb6 /media/mswin-exchange fat32 defauls 0 0 Unfortunately I can access them as root only, not as a regular user. --Please kinldy advise. I... | 1) it's umask, not unmask 2) use vfat rather than fat32 3) you may need umask on vfat as well 4) if you need write access to the ntfs partitions you want to install ntfs-3g, and mount them as ntfs-3g (in that case you won't need umask, ntfs-3g defaults to rw for everyone) see "man mount" for more on vfat and ntfs. "man... |
I recently decided to switch from Ubuntu 9.04 to Debian Lenny 5.02. I will admit that while most of the stuff I do is similar, a few things are still throwing me off. The biggest being that after a fresh install of Ubuntu, I have many security and bug-fix updates to install, and I am on a full 24 hours on Lenny and hav... | Many solution's are on the forum already. But the forum search is not great. Julian67's tip to use Google site search works a treat. e.g. sudo site:forums.debian.net hope it's of use. |
Ok, I want to go back to testing from unstable. I put these in /etc/apt/preferences: Code: Select allPackage: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 800 run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. It says that it doesn't want to upgrade anything, just like if the sy... | As I understand Pin-Priority must be greater than 1000 to enable apt downgrading, so try with substituting 900 with 1001 |
Ok, a couple of noob question on how to do things the Debian way. Here is my main problem, when I am on my Mac I would usually see a picture I wanted to download and just right click (control+click) on the picture. This would get the menu that allowed me to " save as..." and let me choose what folder to save the pictur... | Note - on a Logitech the wheel is usually clickable (press and release) and functions as a middle click. You should get a right click menu when you right click on an image in iceweasel (unless the site is playing JavaScript games) that gives you an option to "save image as" I don't have the problem in 3. Number 4, it o... |
Hello all, I separate the disk to several sequence partitions /boot /swap /home /root .then I move the swap to the end of disk and enlarge the home partition.of course ,now the /root is changed from /dev/sda7 to /dev/sda6 in my computer,then I change the menu.lst manually but when I upgraded the kernel from repository ... | Quoted from menu.lst Code: Select all## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_... |
I finally wiped ubuntu off of my sdb1 drive. Now I want to set it up as a data only drive. I used gparted to delete the Os and swap partitions and created a new partition with the whole drive. Then I ran Code: Select all# mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1 # mkdir /mnt/joel # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/joel But I can't find the drive eithe... | Give a label for your drive e2label /dev/sdb1 <label name> Try to mount it using /etc/fstab in /media/<label name> This may work. |
Solution is on second page. Ever since installing Debian on both of my computers about a month or so ago, I've noticed some general system lag when performing system tasks. Examples include browsing 'heavy' sites like Facebook, Slashdot and Jamendo; minimizing/restoring windows; resizing windows; alt-tabbing between wi... | Which Desktop environment are you using, and what graphic card drivers? In other words, try to find out the chip of your graphic card Code: Select alllspci | grep VGA and google for appropriate driver packages. Such a lag is usually caused by bad drivers with no hardware acceleration. |
So after a (relatively) long period of using Windows, I'm back to Debian. Yes, I miss my tiling window managers. Uh, anyway, I've been noticing some strange CPU spiking on Stable with the Flash plugin, which I haven't seen before. Every once in a while, when a Flash video is playing, Flash's CPU usage goes up to 100%, ... | how did you install flash? What flash version? |
Hi Guys, I installed squeeze kde 4 64 bit on my new sony vaio and all seems well so far except one minor glitch. The sound is muted and volume on min every boot. I tried the suggestion in this (old) thread to no avail: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 45&start=0 I have found a .conf file, /usr/share/alsa/SI7... | OK, after much head scratching, I found a copy of alsa-utils in /etc/init.d. Removed it and that fixed it so now sound is not muted and vol is at 50% after re-booting. |
I have never seen so useful a tool for quickly locating exactly where the biggest disk hogs are, as the Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer that came with my default Gnome instalation of Lenny So now, before I make a full backup, I'd like to understand how best to deal with (or just plain understand) a few items: 1) I have over... | I have localepurge installed and it works great, no issues here. After every pkg install it runs automatically and chucks out the translation files that I won't use. |
It is most annying the way the search box disappears as soon as you start to scroll - which you have to after essentially search since the located item always shows up at the bottom of the screen. This would be more tolerable if the disappearance of the search box didn't reset the scroll bar so that you have to relocat... | What exactly is this search box? |
i was searching for a way (while having openoffice installing itself through synaptic, woot!) to have chinese input in debian. google led me to scim-pinyin. besides installing (n downloading) packages like what i did with my skype, is there any other ways more direct to do this? i am doing my best digging through debia... | i tried to install scim-pinyin through synaptic but i suppose it wasn't complete enough that the icon would not appear on the Panel, nor allow me to type chinese in any text editor. does anyone have any idea on what i should do next? |
I recently installed Debian Squeeze onto a new system, and have worked out most of the kinks in the configuration so far. However, one thing that consistently annoys me is the way my new install's bash tab completion works. In cases where there are multiple files of a specific name, in previous systems, it was possible... | do you have bash-completion installed? |
i tried to install skype into debian by followed the instructions listed here, but received dependencies errors. i was unable to open this page: here. am i the only one? if yes, can someone please copy one of the links for me to download libqtcore4? thanks in advance! Code: Select alldebian:/home/user# dpkg -i Desktop/... | Try installing the packages skype depends on by using aptitude like this: Code: Select allaptitude install libqt4-dbus This should take care of further dependency problems so that you can later on install skype using dpgk |
See explanation further in thread I have suffered error 18 enough to have to make a decision. The BIOS will not support any Linus OS without an error 18. Thank God for Super Grub. So if that 4.93 GiB of XP is all that can reside on that 160GB HD so be it. I should have donr research prior to buying and installing what ... | What's your system? You may be able to download a bios upgrade to fix that. You can almost certainly get an aftermarket bios that would support the drive. :: BIOSMAN Inc :: BIOS REPLACEMENT : BIOS replacement chips : BIOS chips |
Is there an easy way to install kernel 2.6.31? I have searched in all the standard repositories, but can only find 2.6.30 and below. Is there any way to get the latest kernel without compiling it myself? I would really like to try it because it has the open source ATI drivers and I would like to try out KDE 4.3 without... | If you want 2.6.31 then download the source from kernel.org and compile it. Quick non-canonical non-comprehensive non-universal guide: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=236518#p236518 |
i compiled a kernel in vbox, after about 5 hours the host system crashed (unrelated). am i able to finish the build or is it done? other way around: there is linux-image*.deb, but no linux-headers.*deb. Though i dont know if the linux-image is sane, is there a way to only build the headers? | If the deb was created it's probably sane. Yes you can create just the headers. That's the good news. The bad news is that a command like: Code: Select allmake-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --append_to_version +00.abc --revision `date +%Y.%j` kernel_headers will, even though it's not generating a new kernel image, still reco... |
SOLVED I realize there is much I do not know, but this keeps re-occurring and its frustrating as all get out. I download a file and the only way I know its there is to take a screenshot of my desktop. Please tell me what I must do to correct this now and forever. I thank you in advance as I know some kindly soul knows ... | If I'm understanding you, you download a file thru your web-browser (Iceweasel for example) and it downloads by default to your desktop? And it appears right at the bottom of the screen? I will assume you are using the Gnome desktop, and respond accordingly. Please correct any faulty assumptions by me. If using Iceweas... |
Hi everybody, I'm Jean-Francois. I am not new to linux. I've used Debian 2 years ago, but because my hardware was too new at the time, I had to switch to ubuntu. I was very satisfy with it, but I would like to have a little more freedom on what is install or not. My hardware now is: Intel motherboard DQ45CB, intel core... | One caveat - I'm running testing. From what I know the answers should be the same for lenny.: 64 bit is fine, xfce is fine, I would suggest the nvidia proprietary drivers (assuming you're willing to run non-free software), Virtualbox works great - I'd suggest the PUEL version direct from the Sun repo's (among other thi... |
Hi. I am trying to control a Ubuntu box from Debian Lenny using Kdrc but find that although I can connect fine to the remote machine, the Kdrc window does not refresh at all - so for example, although clicking to open a window does actually open it, this occurrence is not shown with Kdrc. Anyone else experience this, a... | Firstly turn off all desktop effects if you have them enabled. On both machines. Secondly try some other VNC/remote desktop - I had problems with krdc myself and while searching for a solution came to KDE forums where even KDE devs said that basically krdc is a piece of trash. Try something else if turning off effects ... |
This is very annoying, PC is idle for sometime, my screen goes black, I use xmonad as my window manager and I deleted gnome and any packages that contained screensaver in their name, I also tried xset -dpms, added it into my xnit, and run it manually, but it still goes black. | I'm not familiar with xmonad, so I may not be of much use to you. However, it might help if you'd give a bit more information. I can't tell from your description whether what you're seeing might be some type of blanking (like screen saver behavior) or whether you're seeing a power saving behavior from the video subsyst... |
I would like to learn that if I write a code in the Superuser mode: Code: Select allaptitude install mysql-server mysql-client where will the files be temporarily downloaded, and whether they can be backed up for future use? Moreover, there are many folders under "/" .What are they for, what is their purpose of being t... | 1. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-h ... ml#s-clean 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem ... y_Standard |
I'm using sid amd64 (I wanted to compile pkgs.) I uncommented this line in sources.list and did "aptitude update" Code: Select alldeb-src ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/ sid main contrib non-free error message: Code: Select allW: GPG error: ftp://ftp.sunet.se sid Release: The following signatures wer... | Well, the bad news is the good news. I have the same key that you have. I added your line to my sources and did an update without errors. Have you also the debian-keyring and debian-maintainers keyrings? It seems to have complained about debian-archive-keyring but just to be thorough. You should be able to find and ins... |
ok: usually i download an iso, write it to cd and thats it. now i wanna save the content of an installable-live cd to disk, so i got an iso which i may write a cd of later (say its an backup of the installation-cd). content of the cd is: Code: Select allROOT# pwd /media/cdrom ROOT# ls debian dists install isolinux live... | If it is an iso image file, it is one file. So there is no problem, just copy it to where you want it. If it is already burnt on CD, convert it again to an iso image and save that image to the hard-disk. As far as I can tell, an iso image contains everything - even the boot sector of the disk. If you copy the directory... |
I'm running testing but added unstable to my sources.list. Now I'm trying to install the latest version of Pidgin to work with yahoo. When I run aptitude install pidgin/unstable, it tells me pidgin is broken. Any ideas what is going on? Thanks. Code: Select allThe following packages are BROKEN: pidgin The following NEW... | try aptitude -t unstable install pidgin |
I've been reading up on dm-crypt since truecrypt's license seems to offend the Debian devs. I played around with truecrypt a while back and i liked the ability to create a file, which was basically an encrypted container that was treated just like a drive that you could copy to. It could be named anything and stored an... | This is what I you could do. * Create a file say 100MB or so dd if=/dev/urandom of=./somefile.img bs=1M count=100 * Associate a loopback device using that, use losetup -f to find a free loopback device losetup /dev/loop0 somefile.img * Format the loopback device (this is only for the first time, give a good password) c... |
system: debian squeeze Yesterday,after I have run dist-upgrade then reboot my computer ,it stop at the logging while the screen has the sentences just like Code: Select all***** intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock measured 52292 usecs intel8x0 clocking to 48000 done but no errors showed on screen who can help me tell me how to... | Im having the same problem,after update boot freeze for me on: Code: Select allWaiting for /dev to be fully populated (done) (and freeze) I can continue only with Code: Select allctl+c im using squeeze too, does anybody know what to do ? |
On one of my machines, I (used to) have an MS Windows XP partition. I never did any real work with that system, but occasionally it has its uses. On this occasion, I wanted to check to make sure a very important PDF file would open properly on the MS Windows version of Adobe Reader, so I uncommented its /etc/fstab line... | I just installed ntfsprogs and ran: Code: Select all[ Mon 01-Jun-2009 11.26 root ] xxxx # ntfsfix /dev/hda1 Mounting volume... FAILED Attempting to correct errors... Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr... Reading $MFT... OK Reading $MFTMirr... OK Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed succe... |
Hi all, My dad just asked me to install Debian on his laptop. I am used to aptitude and I would really like to Code: Select allaptitude install whatever-he-needs and finish quickly. Though, once I install his stuff, my father is going to use synaptic. I have heard about incompatibility of apt-get and aptitude and I was... | Short answer no. But when you go to use aptitude again you might want to run aptitude keep-all. If he likes synaptic no reason to really use aptitude. |
Hello I don't understand where Debian stores "users <=> groups" associations. The file /etc/group does not contain every associations. I mean, when i use useradd <user_name> -g <group_name>, /etc/group is not always modified. With the id <user_name> command, i can see more information than with more /etc/group | grep <... | Can you give an example of where you see more? I would have said /etc/group myself, but maybe this is wrong. However, it looks right-ish to me: Code: Select alltelemachus ~ $ grep telemachus /etc/group dialout:x:20:telemachus cdrom:x:24:telemachus floppy:x:25:telemachus audio:x:29:telemachus video:x:44:telemachus plugd... |
Is there a disk space limit in the home directory? my bit torrent program stops downloading because it says it ran out of space at 320 MB. I checked /etc/fstab and there's nothing about quotas in there. | Debian does not enable file/user disk quotas by default. If it is there, somebody, (probably you) enabled it. It is likely that the disk is genuinely out of space. (look at output of df). |
Hi all, I am a big amarok fan. I am using squeeze so I use amarok 1.4. I am really looking forward to use amarok 2. It says here (http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download:Debian) that one can install it by enabling the experimental repository. I was wondering how safe this is.. Ok, apart from the 'risk' of having an unstabl... | You're correct - experimental has a priority of 1, meaning that it won't even upgrade if you don't ask it to(installed packages have a priority of 100). You'll very likely need to have both Sid and Squeeze in your sources.list to successfully use experimental. |
I'm having the same problem as in: "apt-get update error" http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 76&start=0 ... but I'm not getting joy. apt-get update <snip> Fetched 107kB in 21s (5026B/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures couldn'... | The error you're posting is a different problem than the post you linked to. Your only problem seems to be that you need to install the package debian-archive-keyring. You have it commented out, but nevertheless you don't want royrogers:/homroyrogers:/home/rooster at the end of the source line for Debian multimedia. Ho... |
1) How do I get usable fonts in emacs? 2) Why doesn't emacs see all the fonts I already have installed, why just the "fixed" one? 3) How do I add an archive key? 4) What is the exact key for emacs-snapshot? I'd like to try emacs-snapshot, to get fonts working. If I get anti-aliasing, I will still need a larger font. I ... | Too easy. I just didn't understand what a key is and I still don't. It took me a while to spot the link (marked "here") to dl the key file. I used cat to apt-key add. emacs-snapshot handles normal fonts, just like a normal editor. |
Hi, I've recently started the migration from gentoo linux to debian. I've gotten most things working, but I noticed the other day that Wine isnt' detecting my video card for Direct3d (I get an error saying that it can't detect any Direct3D compatible devices). glxinfo says direct rendering is enabled, and I have compiz... | The Debian repo for Wine isCode: Select alldeb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt <codename> mainAs for the D3D issue, have you checked Wine's bug tracker? |
Hello, I'm creating a several .deb packages from a single source tarball. No problems so far, but know I wanted to add a man page not present on the upstream source. So I have created a man page inside the debian/ directory. I also use the dh_installman helper in order to add the man page when creating the packages: Co... | I found a solution: use dh_installman as is, without any parameters and specify the manpages for every package owning one by creating a .manpages file: binpackage.manpages: Code: Select alldebian/exc.1 |
Beep doesn't work when typing in Find: EditBox. Here are my relevant iceweasel config settings: accessibility.typeaheadfind;true accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart;true accessibility.typeaheadfind.casesensitive;0 accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound;true accessibility.typeaheadfind.soundURL;beep I changed the 1st... | Install the alsa-oss package and change iceweaselrc file to ICEWEASEL_DSP="aoss". Try and come back to give a feedback. See you. |
Hi. My main reason for switching to Debian was because of an apparent memory-leak with Ununtu that I could not resolve, so I am somewhat dismayed to discover that Debian lenny has the very same problem! Fortunately I have been able to find out that it is indeed a 'real' kernel bug, verified by the Debian community not ... | I looked at one of the bug reports you referenced and it's marked as fixed in 2.6.27. The new Intel iwlwifi wireless drivers improved a lot with 2.6.26 and again in 2.6.27 and numerous problems were fixed. Can only suggest you try a newer kernel. |
Hello, I'd like to be able to see with windows explorer (file management utility) the files of my debian box and, to see with my debian file manager (currently pcmanfm) my windows box files. Well what i really want is to see and of course act upon -read move delete etc. a bit as if all files were on same box. A pointer... | samba |
Hello all, I am using debian squeeze with the dwm window manager. Due to the nature of dwm (it's a tiling wm without system tray support) and because it's extremely light and simple, I would like to use xclipboard to manage my clipboard contents instead of the similar gnome or kde tools (klipper etc). I was wondering i... | There's no any shortcut. There's a program called xclip. You will have to manage it on your own. we played with it a bit here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... it=toxclip |
Hello all, I am using squeeze with the dwm window manager. I think I found my perfect network manager on wicd, now my only problem is that I would like to be able to use it without sudo. When I run it as a normal user I get: Code: Select alljorge@flamingo:~$ wicd-client -n Loading... Attempting to connect tray to daemo... | Code: Select all$ su -c users-adminUnder User Privileges: connect to wireless and ethernet networks P.S. I believe you did find your perfect network manager. |
Hello, my problem or question is because my debian squeeze for default doesnt have a bash_profile file, so i make one with Code: Select alltouch .bash_profile and i add this line to modify the path for my user. Code: Select allPATH=$PATH:/sbin but when i relogin again trough ssh, the path is added to the user, but when... | If you want colors with ls, add this alias in your .bash_profile. Code: Select allalias ls='ls --color=auto' |
Recently I moved from Ubuntu to Lenny (still dual booting), but I encountered data loss problems with a micro SD card. Details are given below. My micro SD card with USB connector seems to mount & umount fine in Lenny. Copying, removing and moving data also seems to work well. However, when I umount, remove, and re-mou... | How are you unmounting? Do you use "safely remove" option, if you are using a gui? Or do a "sync" before "unmount" (not quite necessary, but still) |
Hi all, I was wondering if there is a parameter for the aptitude CLI tool that gives detailed information for a package.. Sort of what you can see in the ncurses aptitude tool... Is there any? Thanks in advance.. | aptitude show <package name> Try man aptitude for a full description of the options. |
Hello, I tried to install BitTorrent with synaptic by choosing bittorrent-guy. After the installation (version 3.4.2-11.1) i tried to find it under applications but couldn't find any new program. I googled for it and found on a linux forum that the gui version is named btdownloadgui.bittorrent (?) and that i could find... | guy_c wrote:Hello, I tried to install BitTorrent with synaptic by choosing bittorrent-guy. After the installation (version 3.4.2-11.1) i tried to find it under applications but couldn't find any new program. I googled for it and found on a linux forum that the gui version is named btdownloadgui.bittorrent (?) and that ... |
I upgraded from lenny to testing. The kernel version did not change. Is this correcct? My current kernel is 2.6.26-2-686. | jheaton5 wrote:I upgraded from lenny to testing. The kernel version did not change. Is this correcct? My current kernel is 2.6.26-2-686. It may or may not be correct, depending on what you want. Kernels are not automatically upgraded unless (1) there's a security upgrade for the kernel you have installed or (2) you hav... |
I accidentally removed my system tray and do not know how to get it to show again. I really need it for the Network Manager, I tend to connect to several different wireless networks each day and sometimes a vpn. I have tried going to the root in the terminal and issuing NetworkManager start. No errors, but the icon doe... | Got it! I was actually talking about the notification area. To add it back right click on any open area of the panel and select Add to Panel. Then scroll down and select Notification Area and click add. |
hai i use debian lenny whenever i try to mount my windows partions it says it is an invalid mount point options eventhough i installed ntfs 3g and fuse etc i even tried changing the \etc\fstab but to no avail pleae help | Post your /etc/fstab so we can see what's wrong. Anyway, this is mine and it works fine: Code: Select allgarion@debian:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 ... |
Hello, I've installed debian-501-sparc-CD-1.iso on my Sun Netra 240 successfully. However i have a problem with accessing network (internet) because of a NIC problem. Actually everthing seems alright when you check route table and ifconfig but there is no internet or network access. This is definitely a incompability p... | After reading I connected Ethernet port 0 and configured eth2. It worked like a charm. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/191668 Thanks Typhoon |
Code: Select allcan not mount /dev/loop/0 (/live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs I've been trying to remaster a Lxde live disc for a LUG project. Lxde is just a window manager on Debian, so everything else remains as usual. All I have been doing is changing splash screens and Iceweasel bookmark... | i have/had that problem with live-helper. perhaps you`ll find a helping link in this thread: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=38939 i ended up installing lenny and doing it from there. in this thread http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38870 i found another good link (on live-helper, not isomaste... |
hai guys i tried to install a package using sudo apt-get install and when i enter the root password it says it is an incorrect password how can i solve this problem please help. | Telemachus wrote:@ EVERY MODERATOR WITHIN SHOUTING DISTANCE: Can we pretty please have a FAQ page now? Anyone wanting to create a FAQ is most welcome to. However, instead of creating yet another so-so document why not instead use the already existing Debian Wiki? It already holds loads of stuff that would just be dupli... |
Hi all, I am using squeeze. I have installed and use successfully a XP machine in virtualbox. More or less I followed the instructions used here: http://chirale.wordpress.com/2007/12/23 ... omment-246 Anyway, everything works fine except that I have to do Code: Select allsudo modprobe vboxdrv before I run my virtual ma... | make sure vboxdrv is started in the default runlevel. Run this Code: Select allupdate-rc.d vboxdrv defaults |
Whenever a new kernel is installed, any entries I have manually entered in /boot/grub/grub.cfg are deleted. How can I prevent this? EDIT: It seems I have posted this in the wrong General section. I would appreciate it if a mod could move it to the more relevant forum - General Questions. | I'm just wondering... maybe this is a clue? Code: Select all# # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # |
Hey! I have tried to install libtorrent-0.12.2 & rtorrent-0.8.2 on Debian Lenny I have this package installed: Code: Select allbuild-essential libtool automake openssl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libsigc++-2.0-dev libncurses5 libncurses5-dev pkg-config but it dosen't work, I got an errormessage like this: ... | It's probably better to install it from the repositories. rtorrent 0.84 is in Sid. It's easy to do, and equally easy to make sure you don't accidentally upgrade the whole system. First tell apt that your preference is for packages from Lenny. As root create the file /etc/apt/apt.conf: Code: Select allAPT::Default-Relea... |
Hi all, I am trying to install adobe flash player 10 (the latest version). I go to the site and download the tar.gz file, then extract it and run the installer. This is what I get: Code: Select all jorge@flamingo:~/Desktop/install_flash_player_10_linux$ sudo ./flashplayer-installer ./flashplayer-installer: line 76: [: ... | I'm fairly new to Debian,...(I have Lenny)... But I just now successfully installed the newest Abobe Flash 10. I went to the "Softpedia" site,...and downloaded Adobe Flash for Ubuntu/Debian, in the "deb" format. I put the downloaded file in my "Downloads" folder. I opened it,..and installed it with the "gdebi" app. (I ... |
Hello, If i refer to sun they say i need to execute their <thing>586.bin. If i refer to debian related talks they state i need to make a debian package out of the thing586 and install it. Would someone be patient enough to tell me what and how do i install said plugin in said browser. Many thanks Guy | Code: Select allaptitude install sun-java5-plugin for java version 5 or for version 6 you'd do Code: Select allaptitude install sun-java6-plugin |
Hi all, I am trying to install kdvi in testing and it appears that the package does not exist.. Is it dropped or do I miss something? Code: Select alljorge@flamingo:/opt/dwm-5.5_SOURCE$ sudo aptitude install kdvi Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended s... | Code: Select alleric@songthrush:~$ apt-cache policy kdvi kdvi: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: 4:3.5.9-3 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status So it's been removed because it's part of kde 3.5. |
OK, I've found a problem that's confused me a bit. I wanted to mess about with the idea of installing some packages from Sid onto Lenny (minor packages like Pidgin), but doing it via the deb compilation method (yes, I know about backports, but I'm sort of experimenting). I have compiled stuff before in the traditional ... | First, you need to add some sid sources if you are going to pull stuff from sid. I think the problem would be your apt.conf file.....or actually your sources.list file....both actually... Either remove APT::Default-Release "stable"; from your apt.conf file or change your sources to say stable instead of lenny |
Hello everybody, i have a weird problem here. I am doing a minimal installation of squeeze. I have installed pcmanfm. Now, when I run it, I get the following message: GTK+ icon them is not properly set This usually means you don't have an XSETTINGS manager running. Desktop environment like GNOME or XFCE automatically e... | ~/.gtkrc-2.0 is not the same as I have created a new file ~/gtkrc-2.0. |
Hi all, I am using pmount to quickly mount my removable devices from the command line, so I need to know what is plugged or not. Is there anything similar to Code: Select allfdisk -l but which does not require root privilleges? It's a pain to give my password all the time.. Thanks in advance.. | Code: Select alldf -h (edited to what I meant, not what I wrote before) will show mounted volumes |
I am new to this forum , but not totally new to linux I have install Debian 5 X86_64 yesterday and as normal for my I use the menu.lst of PcLInux to boot my other OSs Adding the following lines to the menu .lst of PClinux is for my other distro enough to boot it just like they are the only os The lines are : Title Debi... | The below doesn’t answer your answer directly the way you have setup, but I think achieves the same result. Is there any particular reason you do not install grub to the partition of your install? That way you can just do a chainloader to the from your PCLinux menu to your Debian partition’s grub. So say your PCLinux i... |
I have debian installed on a server, and I have debian installed on a desktop machine. The server has a barebone debian installation with mysql-server installed. The desktop has a standard debian desktop installed (gnome). On the desktop machine, I installed mysql-query-browser so I could connect to the server and gain... | What's in the /etc/network/interfaces for each machine? |
I was wanting to know how I could go about installing two separate languages for my system (Japanese and English) for my desktop, so that I can select the language I want to use before I login. I've read that when Debian is installed, there is a language selection at the beginning which will change the language for the... | Ok, I've figured it out with a very simple solution. I will try to outline all the steps into a tutoral because I had a hard time finding a good one myself. For a system install I chose my native language (english) and installed the system. Then when I booted into Debian 5.0 I installed all the updates. Then as root I ... |
i wanna decode mp3 to wav, so i`m able to burn it. i was allready told that its (at the lq-forum): Code: Select all mpg321 --wav out.wav in.mp3 but that decodes only one file while i would like to do it with the entire directory. next tip was to use: Code: Select allfor FILE in *.mp3; do mpg321 --wav "${FILE%.mp3}.wav"... | Code: Select all for i in $(ls *.mp3);do ffmpeg -i $i -f wav $i.wav ; rename 's/\.mp3.wav$/.wav/' *.mp3.wav; done I couldn't get it to work with mpg321, but that's not saying much. I didn't try too hard, and I don't know a lot. You might get it if you play with the syntax. The above did work for me. |
I have hplip installed, running Debian 5.01 I have a HP 2100 all in one printer. How do I get hplip to see it so I can set up the printer? | HPLIP is a collection of drivers. I would look under the menu for your desktop configuration application and set up a print service, probably using C.U.P.S. ( Common Unix Printing Server / Service ) tell it to add your printer, use the HPLIP driver and select your model printer. On KDE this is under Control Center in t... |
Dear All, I have a png and pdf file I should combine together in a single image, more or less like juxtaposing two panels. What is your recommendation for doing so? I may be able to generate directly one of the images as a png rather than a pdf file, but it is hard to have both with the same number of pixels. I do not ... | I'd open both files with the GIMP, make a new file that's bigger than both the other files. And copy paste. Move the images around, crop it to the right size, and save. |
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