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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> /Architecture: amd64 /Source: apache2 /Version: 2.2.14-3 /Config-Version: 2.2.14-2 /Replaces: apache2-common /Depends: apache2.2-bin (= 2.2.14-3), apache2-utils, libmagic1, mime-support, lsb-base, procps, perl /Recommends: ssl-cert /Suggests: www-browser, apache2-doc, apache2-suexec | apache2-suexec-custom /Conflicts: apache2-common, libapache2-mod-mime-xattr (<= 0.3-2), libapache2-mod-mono (<= 1.1.17-3), libapache2-mod-php4 (<= 4:4.4.4-2), libapache2-mod-php5 (<= 5.1.6-3), libapache2-mod-proxy-html (<= 2.4.3-2), libapache2-mod-scgi (<= 1.11-1), libapache2-mod-speedycgi (<= 2.22-3), libapache2-modxslt (<= 2005072700-1), libapache2-redirtoservername (<= 0.1-1), libapache2-webauth (<= 3.5.3-1), libapache2-webkdc (<= 3.5.3-1) /Conffiles: / /etc/apache2/conf.d/security 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The / result has long been the number one web server on the Internet. / . / This package contains the configuration and support scripts. / However, it does *not* include the server itself; for this you need to / install one of the apache2-mpm-* packages, such as worker or prefork. /Homepage: http://httpd.apache.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 client. I would assume Gnome can be set that way as well. |
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 of visual block mode but does not enter insert mode. I have looked through the configuration files but I can't find anything that would cause this. Anyone have any suggestions? | 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 insert-mode, but Shift+i works too. i aint got better ideas, sorry |
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: Select allif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi However this behaviour has now stopped. I think this link has the solution. /etc/bash_completion.d/ssh exists but I am not clear what to do with it. Any advice? | 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 background, it asks me for my password, then works at the background. after that, i try to use vinagre (gnome's remote desktop viewer) and i get this error: Code: Select allclient$ channel 2: open failed: connect failed: connection refused when i type: Code: Select all client$ ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 eec@dyndns eec@dyndns$ i see i am in the server, however after trying to use vinagre again (i also tried xtightvncviewer this time), i get the same error with channel 3: Code: Select alleec@dyndns$ channel 3: open failed: connect failed: connection refused thanks, eec | 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 family's internet network, it keeps asking me for the WEP key. I type in the correct WEP Key...but it continues to ask me again and again for it. Debian acknowledges that my family's network exists, but it refuses to accept my WEP Key. (And yes...the WEP key is correct.) ~~~~~~ So where did I go wrong? Was it the step during installation of the OS about the DHCP that I skipped? Or is it because I am using a D-Link Dir-655 router? | 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 booted with the Trinity Rescue Disk and succeeded to boot. After "booting" I am presented with the prompt: (initramfs) and nothing more. The commands are very limited and the partitions are not mounted i.e. mount does not list any partitions. As far as I know, Quad Cores are 64 bit processors and that they should be compatible with 32 bit executables. The hard-disks are of the IDE type and there is only one interface on the motherboard. What could be wrong? More Information: Grub is succeeding to load initrd.img and the kernel while the latter is failing to find the root file system. The OS is installed on an IDE hard-disk. The motherboard supports up to 6 SATA devices and none is used. The CPU is a Quad Core Intel type 64 bit. Note: I think, the problem is caused by bad disk settings in the BIOS, but was is wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. | 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.deb | 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 called BootitNG (which I do eventually intend to completely replace with grub), and it fails to recognize the cloned partition as bootable. BootiNG does recognize new linux paritions as bootable when created from the debian instalation media, so it looks like there something that needs to be tweaked to make a cloned partition be seen as bootable from other boot managers. Can anybody tell me what it is? Thanks, Nick | 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 amazing. That would be the introduction Now, I have a rather specific (?) question. In most Bash shells I've used, when I would type something like: Code: Select allrm *.txt or even Code: Select allrm * and then I hit the Tab key (multiple times if needed), Bash expands the wildcard (the asterisk) and prints all the files which would match the command if executed (and get deleted). However, under Lenny it doesn't print anything. I've gotten used to this feature as an easy way to prevent disasters, and I really miss it, having to type Code: Select allls *.txt to get the same last-minute "safety" precaution. I've searched, poked around with shopt options, even tried to debug what happens in the background (using set -x). Here's the output after executing Code: Select allset -x, typing Code: Select allrm *.txt and hitting Tab once: Code: Select allronron@ronbian:~/temp/bashexp$ rm *.txt+ local cur opt ++ _get_cword ++ [[ 5 -eq 0 ]] ++ [[ 8 == \8 ]] ++ echo '*.txt' + cur='*.txt' + [[ *.txt == --*=* ]] + [[ *.txt == -* ]] + [[ rm == rmdir ]] + _filedir + local 'IFS= ' xspec + _expand + [[ *.txt == \~*/* ]] + [[ *.txt == \~* ]] + toks=() + local toks tmp +++ quote_readline '*.txt' +++ local 't=*.txt' +++ echo ''\''*.txt'\''' ++ compgen -d -- ''\''*.txt'\''' + read -r tmp + [[ '' != -d ]] + xspec= +++ quote_readline '*.txt' +++ local 't=*.txt' +++ echo ''\''*.txt'\''' + read -r tmp ++ compgen -f -X '' -- ''\''*.txt'\''' + COMPREPLY=("${COMPREPLY[@]}" "${toks[@]}") Hope someone can help, thanks in advance! | 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 subfolders. Well, I created subfolders on that account with thunderbird, so there shure is a way to do it. Perhaps I need a litte regex magic, but I'm at a total loss here. Any ideas anyone? | 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 advance | 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 or automatically after a new kernel is installed/removed) and the external is unplugged i get this message: error: cannot open `/dev/sdb' while attempting to get disk size so what to do? yes, its a minor issue, but it bugs me a bit. Edit: ok, nevermind. after i crawled through all files in /etc/grub.d and /etc/default/grub i had the idea to edit /boot/grub/devices.map, which did work. | 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 and hd2 references. But because only 2 are detected, grub has a problem. EDIT: I don't remember reading the edit to the op before replying |
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. the files are as follow: # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/k9-root / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/k9-home /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/k9-swap_1 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 Any help will be welcomed Thanks | 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-get update to fix this". Well, of course, I had just run apt-get update, but I did it again with the same result. I also have Canon printer driver, from a man at Kyoto university, but that's been in use for years on various distros, but I now keep it locally so that I don't have to put his repo address in the apt sources file to download it. How do I find out what is wrong? And how can I update? Gerry | 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 nuisance. Thanks for any help, Nick | 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 500 http://mirrors.xmission.com Latest available version is 2.3.2 http://www.motifzone.net/ There are some RPM's available and you *might* be able to use them with alien. I have not tried it. |
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 i386". I am running a Dell dimension E310 with upgraded nVidia card FX5200 and 2 gig of ram everything else is stock including Dell Photo 924 printer which is disconnected. From my research it appears there are issues with getting it to work with Linux systems, fine want new printer anyway lol. The standard install is flawless with the exception of "unable to enumerate usb port 2" is my only boot error. I have the standard wireless keyboard and mouse from dell attached to the port. From my research have found it is a known timing issue, but works just fine regardless of error in boot process. In additon to Dedian i download stemRescueCd-x86-1.3.1 because i have found i keep finding new ways to crash things lol. So, the only 2 things missing from standard install is EVE-online and yahoo music. Yahoo music easy fix adobe-flash plugin and i am set. Eve on the other hand requires wine which uses xorg instead of xfree86, and nVidia 3d drivers instead of standard nv drivers. I keep reading and use Google religiously. So to be honest starting to get confused seems like i keep finding outdated information. The only thing i am not willing to do yet is buy new computer. So now to the questions. Questions: 1. Which printer manufacturer has the best or most driver support for Linux systems so i know which to buy? 2. Is there a way to see that driver exists before i purchase new printer? that solves printer problem i hope. 3. Is there a wireless keyboard that is supported by Linux that i can buy that doesn't have timing issue? Its just annoying but can live with just trying to fix all the issues. 4. How do you access the hard drive "/dev/sda1" when you boot to sysrescd? Nothing is wrong i just boot to sysrescd and want to be able to use nano and save it to a hard drive location, fdisk -l says there are 2 partions /dev/sda1 bootable and where all files are stored and /dev/sda2 swap. I understand this is specific to sysrescd but dont understand the mounting procedure to be able to access the hard when booting to a CD. This is very important to recover from all my n00b mistakes. 5. How do i get yahoo music working? http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=28572 Fixed problem is making sure i find current info 6. What is the difference between xorg X11 server and xfree86 default? I just don't get it seems according to the info i found x.org wiki they are the same 6. How do i switch modes between xorg and xfee86 default? From what i have found "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" is the command to switch modes. 7. How do i verify that X11 server is the one actaully running and actually using xorg.conf? 8. Why does nv drivers allow 1366x768 and nVidia only allow for 1280x1024 when both my monitor and video card have 1366x768 or better? This goes back to being able to boot to CD and using nano to edit xorg.conf and save to hard drive when nothing is really wrong with hard drive except one file. Is the instrucitions i have been trying to follow to setup 3d drivers http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers Well there you have it. Advice would be welcome. | 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 it first to see how it plays with Linux. I have learned this the hard way a few times. 2. Probably, but I am not sure how. 3. No idea. I have used a number of Logitech & MS wireless keyboard/mice combos & never encountered your particular error...however, as long as everything works, I wouldn't worry about it too much. 4. Not familiar with Sysrescd so will defer this issue to someone else. 5. Not a clue. 6. Xorg is the defacto Debian standard now & has been since Etch. Xfree86 was the prior xserver package but is now deprecated on about any Linux distro that I am aware of. They are NOT the same, although they both do roughly the same thing. 7. If you are running Lenny, you are running xorg. 8. No idea. What nVidia drivers are you using? |
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 Iceweasel. I`ve searched the forum and this seems to be not uncommon. The path for Flash in lxde is /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree. Any suggestions would be appreciated. | 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 launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kded4.so kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so kbuildsycoca4 running... <unknown program name>(3747)/: Communication problem with "amarok" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." " jorge@flamingo:~$ kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so kbuildsycoca4 running... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kconf_update.so Object::connect: No such signal BrowserCategoryList::leavingTree() Object::connect: (sender name: 'internet') QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "" kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kglobalaccel.so Object::connect: No such signal BrowserCategoryList::leavingTree() Object::connect: (sender name: 'root list') Object::connect: No such slot BrowserWidget::categoryChanged() Object::connect: (sender name: 'root list') QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to Playlist::SortWidget "", which already has a layout QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action findServiceByDesktopPath: not found Object::connect: No such signal BrowserWidget::widgetActivated( int ) Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow') Object::connect: No such signal CollectionWidget::home() Object::connect: (sender name: 'collections') Object::connect: (receiver name: 'root list') Object::connect: No such signal ServiceBrowser::home() Object::connect: (sender name: 'internet') Object::connect: (receiver name: 'root list') Object::connect: No such signal BrowserCategoryList::leavingTree() Object::connect: (sender name: 'playlists') Object::connect: No such signal PlaylistBrowserNS::DynamicCategory::home() Object::connect: (receiver name: 'playlists') "building tree with 7 leafs." QString : QVariant(QString, "") QIcon : QVariant(QIcon, ) QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QIcon : QVariant(QIcon, ) QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QIcon : QVariant(QIcon, ) QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QIcon : QVariant(QIcon, ) QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QIcon : QVariant(QIcon, ) QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QIcon : QVariant(QIcon, ) QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") QIcon : QVariant(QIcon, ) QString : QVariant(QString, "") QString : QVariant(QString, "") m_groupHash: (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Object::connect: No such signal PlaylistBrowserNS::PlaylistCategory::home() Object::connect: (receiver name: 'playlists') Object::connect: No such signal PlaylistBrowserNS::PodcastCategory::home() Object::connect: (receiver name: 'playlists') Object::connect: No such signal PlaylistBrowserNS::PlaylistBrowser::home() Object::connect: (sender name: 'playlists') Object::connect: (receiver name: 'root list') Object::connect: No such signal FileBrowser::Widget::home() Object::connect: (sender name: 'files') Object::connect: (receiver name: 'root list') HTTP GET QUrl( "http://post.audioscrobbler.com:80/?hs=true&p=1.2.1&c=ark&v=2.2.0&u=giorgos909&t=1256874041&a=1a4df9ce17372f32a8bfb67ff3a6ce9b&api_key=402d3ca8e9bc9d3cf9b85e1202944ca5&sk=cf4234d75cf032a9f3afb4358f2503c1" ) jorge@flamingo:~$ kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/knotify4 KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing... sock_file=/home/jorge/.kde/socket-flamingo/kdeinit4__0 kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi jorge@flamingo:~$ Unable to start Dr. Konqi ..and amarok will not launch.. Anybody has any idea what can I do? Thanks a lot in advance.. | 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 be patched, compiled, and the resulting coretemp.ko copied over the kernel's version, or put into the /updates folder in /lib/modules. |
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 just do it all manually but in order for me to do what I need to do it would take days. All of my files all in one folder in order for them to load correctly on my website with minimal difficulty. So now obviously, the only way I can organize the collection correctly is to have proper file names. I have searched and searched for hours on Google and can't find the program that will do what I need. I would rather not use something too complicated or in CLI due to fear of a typo or bad ID3 tags. And as I stated before, I can not do this one file at a time. Thanks in advance. | 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 protocol analyzers such as wireshark can still "see" my computer. I don't think we are allowed to be packet sniffing up the place, so I am not really worried about that as much. | 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 your laptop. |
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-get install ope*TAB**TAB* Then nothing happens, in this case I would like to see something like: apt-get install ope*TAB**TAB* Display all 759 possibilities? (y or n) Or if I specify me more it would look something like: apt-get install opens*TAB**TAB* opensaml2-schemas openser-snmpstats-module openswan-modules-source opensaml2-tools openser-unixodbc-module ... ... ... and more. I've installed the latest version from the debian.org (debian-503-i386-netinst.iso) in VirtualBox 3.0.8 if it matters. Or are there some setting I have been missing? Hope you understand what i mean. | 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-java5-doc sun-java5-jre sun-java5-src sun-java6-doc sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-source |
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/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/ - restarted computer and iceweasel. With about:plugins I doesn't see any mplayer-plugin. My reference guide was http://www.e-pillole.com/linux/post/9/i ... -e-ubuntu/ Thanks for every help! | 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. I think I can be happy with my Debian installation now. |
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 issue persisted. Few month went by. Lastly while continuing my investigations I googled to http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-469891.html and implemented the fix suggested there by MikeGH by inserting in xorg.conf the red line. Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Option "HWCursor" "off" EndSection This did fix. I made the negative test (removing the line) => problem reappeared Thanks to all the people who bothered to try and help Guy Armada 1750 lap, 320MB Ram 20GB disk Debian squeeze/sid Linux 2.6.26-2-686 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, I am very new to Debian. I installed Debian a month ago from a business card on an old Compaq Armada 1750 with 64MB and installed icewm. Today I upgraded it to 320MB but the same issue persists. After startx, icewm starts and if i don't touch anything, 10 minutes later the screen goes off but the back light stays on. 5 minutes later, the back light is turned off. Whenever I touch the keyboard/mouse before the back light goes off, it gives me a "credit" of 15 minutes. If i don't do anything for 15 minutes the back light turns off and now, if i touche the kb/ mouse, the screen reapers BUT the mouse pointer disappears forever: i can move the pointer with the mouse - as seen by the icewm feedback- but i don't see the pointer. The only way to recover is to move the invisible pointer to the bottom left "Debian" button and when "Favorites applications" lights, to tap the mouse and with the keyboard -go to logout and startx over again for a new credit of 15 minutes w/o action. Additional info: When I cold boot the machine it says 1) "undefined video mode 317" and ask me to choose another mode 2) "daemon smartd disabled" orange warning Thanks in advance for your help | 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 answers |
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 compress delaycompress notifempty create 640 root adm sharedscripts postrotate if [ -f "`. /etc/apache2/envvars ; echo ${APACHE_PID_FILE:-/var/run/apache2.pid}`" ]; then /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null fi endscript } Server version: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) I google this question, but not found solution =( Help me please =) | 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 the error does come from apache, you probably have some virtual host listening to port 80 while it is allready in use.... You can also check of logrotate actually rotated the logfiles, and if Apache was restarted after this... Alex. Aprel wrote: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 compress delaycompress notifempty create 640 root adm sharedscripts postrotate if [ -f "`. /etc/apache2/envvars ; echo ${APACHE_PID_FILE:-/var/run/apache2.pid}`" ]; then /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null fi endscript } Server version: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) I google this question, but not found solution =( Help me please =) |
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 install. Any help is appreciated. BTW, what are Thunderbird and Songbird called in 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 checking to the Debian install. Any help is appreciated. BTW, what are Thunderbird and Songbird called in Debian? You can copy the preference folders out of your home folder. '.mozilla' for firefox, '.thunderbird' for thunderbird (called icedove in debian). It might also be called something like .mozilla-thunderbird, not sure how mint does it. No idea about songbird. But it will have a preference folder as well. |
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 need them to be mounted on boot and be accessible by regular users. Thanks. | 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 ntfs-3g" once you've installed that package. |
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 have not seen a single update pop up. What differences in updates can I expect as a person coming over from Ubuntu's bleeding edge to Debian's stability? | 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 system is up to date. Aptitude the same... I've also tried to add Code: Select allAPT::Default-Release testing; to /etc/apt/apt.conf. It didn't help either. What's wrong? Why doesn't it downgrade anything? | 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 picture in. I am having trouble doing that in Debian Lenny. If I do a google search for " debian wallpaper " and try to save a picture, I cannot get the same menu. I tried right click and tried middle click (both buttons at once). Logitech 2-button wheel mouse, wired, in case its my mouse. Logitech 2-button wheel mouse, wired, in case its my mouse. This is with LXDE same trouble with KDE too. <--this works sometimes. so its not the mouse Second little problem, in KDE everytime I click my home icon / icon inside of Konquerer, I get two of the same window. LXDE does not give me this, and its also faster than KDE! <-- I will just use LXDE for now Third problem, Iceweasel problem (KDE & LXDE) that I click menu bar and don't get menu right away. I have to click fast several times for it to acknoledge, then i can click menu with one normal slow click. Makes it cumbersome to bookmark, as each bookmark is a fight with the weasel <--<-- might load Firefox to see if its a IceWeaserl bug Fourth one for now: Every time I select text with my pointer, it highlights the whole word. But in Mac OS & Windows it usually will put the pointer exactly between two letters/numbers. It makes fixing 1-letter typos more difficult. Otherwise, I am enjoying Debian, and will tackle updating VLC to 1.0 this weekend. | 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 only selects the entire word if I double-click. Press and drag allows me to select letters etc. kde - what's that |
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 , the OS not allowed me to log into the OS due to it change the "root=/dev/sda7" back to earlier position "root=/dev/sda6". so how can I let OS know it's root partition already changed from /dev/sda6,then I don't need to modify the menu.lst manually every-time after upgrading the kernel. Thanks, Helai | 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_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro ## default grub root device ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0) # groot=(hd0,0) You have to modify the following lines to reflect your new partitions: # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro # groot=(hd0,0) |
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 either in tty or places or nautilus. When I had ubuntu on the drive, I could see the drive and did use it for a data disk, since ubuntu crashed. What have I missed or done incorrectly? | 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 windows; etc. Can anyone help me figure out what's causing the lag, and how I might reduce or eliminate it? Please keep in mind that although it's been some months since I first abandoned Windows, I still consider myself rather new to Linux. This is my PC. This is my laptop. (The problem is more severe on my PC.) I run 2.6.26 on the PC, and 2.6.30 on the laptop. Both are running Lenny. I love Debian already, but would love it about ten times more if the general performance were a little smoother. | 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%, the sound output stutters, and the cursor skips. Not killer, but very annoying. What's strange is that this happens even when the Flash video isn't on screen, which is something I've never seen before. Is there a workaround for this, e.g. something I can change in Flash's configuration file or a variable I can export? What I've got right now is: - Debian stable 64-bit - WMII - XOrg configured to use XAA (faster than EXA on Stable) Any tips? | 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/SI7018/SI7018.conf which seems to relate to my sound card: Code: Select all# # Configuration for the SI7018 chip # # This configuration does not reflect hardware. # <confdir:pcm/front.conf> SI7018.pcm.front.0 { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string } type hw card $CARD } <confdir:pcm/rear.conf> SI7018.pcm.rear.0 { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string } type hooks slave.pcm { type hw card $CARD } hooks.0 { type ctl_elems hook_args [ { name "PCM Playback Volume" preserve true lock true value [ 24 24 ] } ] } } <confdir:pcm/surround40.conf> SI7018.pcm.surround40.0 { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string } type multi slaves [ { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.SI7018.pcm.front.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.SI7018.pcm.rear.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } ] bindings [ { slave 0 channel 0 } { slave 0 channel 1 } { slave 1 channel 0 } { slave 1 channel 1 } ] } <confdir:pcm/surround41.conf> <confdir:pcm/surround50.conf> <confdir:pcm/surround51.conf> SI7018.pcm.surround51.0 { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string } type multi slaves [ { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.SI7018.pcm.front.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.SI7018.pcm.rear.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.SI7018.pcm.front.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } ] bindings [ { slave 0 channel 0 } { slave 0 channel 1 } { slave 1 channel 0 } { slave 1 channel 1 } { slave 2 channel 0 } { slave 2 channel 1 } ] } <confdir:pcm/iec958.conf> SI7018.pcm.iec958.0 { @args [ CARD AES0 AES1 AES2 AES3 ] @args.CARD { type string } @args.AES0 { type integer } @args.AES1 { type integer } @args.AES2 { type integer } @args.AES3 { type integer } type hooks slave.pcm { type hw card $CARD device 1 } hooks.0 { type ctl_elems hook_args [ { interface PCM name "IEC958 Playback PCM Stream" value [ $AES0 $AES1 $AES2 $AES3 ] device 1 lock true preserve true } ] } } Does this need editing somewhere or am I barking up the wrong tree? | 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 300Mb of .mo files in /usr/share/locale. Next to the binaries in lib folders, they are the single biggest collection of system-related files. I am interested in knowing what they actually are. Presumably they are crucial, but I have just never seen anything like this in my, admitedly rudimentary and no doubt out-dated experience with unix-based systems. 2)) Is there an easy way of archiving mail folders in evolution? I can identify the relevant files in .evolution/mail/local. After copying them out to an archive, is it safe to delete the 6 associated files per folder (i.e. foo, foo.cmeta, foo.ev-summary, foo.ev.summary-meta, foo.ibex.index, foo.ibex.index.data). By "safe" I mean, in additon to not breaking my evolution instalation, will it also be easy to slip any desired archived files back for review as needed? It's hard to believe, but I have over 500MB worth of messages stored this way. (Wow, the first one is dated June 17th, 1996 - that one would have migrated to evolution from a Win95 "Exchange" e-mail client via Outlook Express on WinXP, quite an "evolution" indeed ) Thanks for helping me get my fantastic Lenny system ready for even more fantastic experimenting, of the sort I do not want to do without a solid backup | 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 relocate the mouse after first use to find the little arrow wigdet-thingy (not sure of it's formal name) needed to scroll down a few lines. This problem is not quite bad enough to out-weigh the other useful aspects of epiphany for my continued use, but it sure would be nice to hear if anybody has dealt with it before. Iceweasel and evince have the same basic approach to the search-box, but do not have it dissappear during scrolling. Can epiphany be configured (or somehow fixed) to the same? | 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 debian right now, so much more to discover! thanks! | 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 to press tab once to complete the first part of a name, add some text to distinguish from others, and press tab again to complete. For example, Code: Select alljtf@baranduin:~/movies$ mplayer LotR The Two Towers HD.mkv LotR Return Of The King HD.mkv LotR The Fellowship Of The Ring HD.mkv jtf@baranduin:~/movies$ mplayer LotR\ R At the first prompt, pressing tab twice lists available options, as usual. At the second, typing in 'L' and pressing tab completes the statement up to 'LotR\ ', but subsequently pressing tab once another distinguishing character 'R' is typed in does not result in anything happening. On my other system, however, tab completion of that type works fine. Relevant bash files are displayed below. /etc/bash.bashrc Code: Select all# enable bash completion in interactive shells #if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then # . /etc/bash_completion #fi ~/.bashrc Code: Select all# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile # sources /etc/bash.bashrc). if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then . /etc/bash_completion fi If it helps, command line options that seem to be affected are: mplayer, cd, cp, mv. Thanks in advance for any help. | 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/skype-debian_2.1.0.47-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 58956 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace skype 2.1.0.47-1 (using .../skype-debian_2.1.0.47-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement skype ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype: skype depends on libqt4-dbus (>= 4.4.3); however: Package libqt4-dbus is not installed. skype depends on libqt4-network (>= 4.4.3); however: Package libqt4-network is not installed. skype depends on libqtcore4 (>= 4.4.3); however: Package libqtcore4 is not installed. skype depends on libqtgui4 (>= 4.4.3); however: Package libqtgui4 is not installed. dpkg: error processing skype (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: skype debian:/home/user# dpkg -i Desktop/libqt4-network_4.4.3-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package libqt4-network. (Reading database ... 58956 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libqt4-network (from .../libqt4-network_4.4.3-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libqt4-network: libqt4-network depends on libqtcore4 (= 4.4.3-1); however: Package libqtcore4 is not installed. dpkg: error processing libqt4-network (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libqt4-network debian:/home/user# dpkg -i Desktop/libqt4-dbus_4.4.3-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package libqt4-dbus. (Reading database ... 58965 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libqt4-dbus (from .../libqt4-dbus_4.4.3-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libqt4-dbus: libqt4-dbus depends on libqt4-xml (= 4.4.3-1); however: Package libqt4-xml is not installed. libqt4-dbus depends on libqtcore4 (= 4.4.3-1); however: Package libqtcore4 is not installed. dpkg: error processing libqt4-dbus (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libqt4-dbus debian:/home/user# dpkg -i Desktop/libqtgui4_4.4.3-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package libqtgui4. (Reading database ... 58975 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libqtgui4 (from .../libqtgui4_4.4.3-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libqtgui4: libqtgui4 depends on libaudio2; however: Package libaudio2 is not installed. libqtgui4 depends on libmng1 (>= 1.0.3-1); however: Package libmng1 is not installed. libqtgui4 depends on libqtcore4 (= 4.4.3-1); however: Package libqtcore4 is not installed. dpkg: error processing libqtgui4 (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libqtgui4 | 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 turned out to be a monster for the BIOS. Need some creditability: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for (E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB on others.). In more practical terms this means the BIOS is unable to start executing the kernel because the kernel is not located within the block it can access at boot up time. So a tired old mans solution look at the attachment and tell me what to do mounting wise partition wise to get this ready to receive Lenny and Ubuntu and leave me room to test and play around | 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 the screen flickering like crazy. | 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 recompile the entire kernel. What you can do is use the source directory (post compile) in place of the header directory. Just make sure you don't change anything in it. Setting the symlink /lib/modules/<kernel version>/build to pint to source should be sufficent. Actially of you install the kernel image without installing a header package it will probably do that on it's own. NOT what I normally recommend, but for a virtual machine just to test some things it's better then running another 5 hour compile. The other option would be to compile on a host, as long as the architecture was the same (32/64 bit) and then simply ship the resulting debs to the vm. |
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 the answer. OK screenshot too big so my non technical explanation. The file that is downloaded appears below the bar at the bottom. If more info is needed I will attempt to create a photo site download and upload screenshot there. God I love Linux and hate the frustration ineptitude causes | 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 Iceweasel as your browser, i suggest changing the default download location to somewhere more convenient. I often create a folder called "Downloads" in my HOME folder, and then in Iceweasel I go to the Edit menu up top (2nd from left), and select Preferences. The Preferences box will provide several options, you just want the one called Main, and the one below called "Save files to". Choose this, and click on Browse. It will open at /homeyourusername/desktop, but you need to go back a level to just /home/yourusername, and if you already created a directory called Downloads (or whatever), then choose it, otherwise select the option Create Folder, and make one to use. Once you've chosen a new download location, everything will download to there by default unless you direct it otherwise. As for those things currently on your desktop, you should be able to navigate to the desktop with your file manager (Nautilus if in Gnome), just choose Places from the top menu and then Desktop, and you will see your files there. Feel free to move them elsewhere. IF i have made any wrong assumptions, please feel free to correct me so that i can make my directions clearer. I'm off to bed now, is just after 1am here, will check back after work tomorrow. Cheers. |
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 core2 quad core 9400, 4gig of ram(2X 2gig), 160gb western digital sata II For my videocard its either an Nvidia 7200 256mb or Ati radeon hd 4670 512mb. My questions are: 1. Is the 64bits version of debian 5.02 stable enough to work on pictures,photos and videos etc.. or I should stay on the 32 bits versions for a while more.? 2. Is the desktop environment xfce reliable, and does it work on a 64 bits platform? 3. I know that lately linux Ati driver for video card was a problem for a lot of people, is it better that go back to nvidia. 4. Will I be able to use a virtualisation software like Vmware or VirtualBox to run Windows in a bubble? Thank you in advance, and thanks to the developpers for the good work JF | 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 things you'll have the newest version that way, same proviso about non-free software). Make sure you check out both Debian Backports and Debian Multimedia. |
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, and is there a fix? | 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 won't help. |
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 subsystem / monitor. If this monitor is an LCD you should be able to tell whether or not the back light is being turned off to give you the black screen. Whether it is LCD or CRT you might see an indication from the monitor's front panel in the form of a light that is normally green going amber -- if this is power saving behavior. If it's screen saving behavior, then the monitor is still active but just showing a blanked screen. Also, I don't believe you specified what the problem is with this behavior (other than annoyance). Does the screen not return to normal display behavior with keyboard or mouse activity? The more pertinent information you can provide about the behavior and the configuration of your display subsystem, the better. |
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 there? The usual "/" folders and files under the root directory Screenshot.png (37.23 KiB) Viewed 357 times | 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 were invalid: BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny) <ftpmaster@debian.org> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems I read http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090523 about the new key, but i already have it (I think). The debian-archive-keyring is version 2009.01.31 As I don't have any understanding of keys, I found a key through seahorse and took some random stabs in the dark: Code: Select allgpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 55BE302B; gpg --export 55BE302B | apt-key add - gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 6BC16967; gpg --export 6BC16967 | apt-key add - #newer, but I dont know what a "Galaxy" key is wget -O - http://ftp-master.debian.org/keys/archive-key-5.0.asc | apt-key add - Problem persists, but the error msg has changed: Code: Select allW: GPG error: http://ftp.sunet.se sid Release: Unknown error executing gpgv W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems Are there sources for contrib and non-free? Does http://ftp.sunet.se have deb-src and a key for deb-src? | 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 install all the necessary key-rings from archives with aptitude and not need to go to gpg. Looks like they have all the sections: http://194.71.11.70/pub/Linux/distribut ... dists/sid/ |
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 pool how would i do that? thanks a lot | 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 structure, I am afraid you end up with an unbootable CD when you use the saved files to recreate the disk. |
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 packages will be installed: libgtkspell0{a} libxss1{a} pidgin-data{a} 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 701kB/7979kB of archives. After unpacking 24.7MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: pidgin: Depends: pidgin-data (>= 2.5.8) but 2.5.6-1 is to be installed. Depends: libpurple0 (>= 2.5.8-1+b1) but it is not installable The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Install the following packages: libavahi-client3 [0.6.25-1 (testing, unstable, now)] libavahi-common-data [0.6.25-1 (testing, unstable)] libavahi-common3 [0.6.25-1 (testing, unstable, now)] libavahi-glib1 [0.6.25-1 (testing, unstable, now)] libgadu3 [1:1.8.0+r592-3 (testing, unstable, now)] libmeanwhile1 [1.0.2-3 (testing, unstable, now)] libpurple-bin [2.5.6-1 (testing)] libpurple0 [2.5.8-1+b1 (unstable)] libsilc-1.1-2 [1.1.9-1 (testing, unstable, now)] libsilcclient-1.1-3 [1.1.9-1 (testing, unstable)] libzephyr4 [3.0~beta.2483-2 (unstable)] pidgin-data [2.5.8-1 (unstable)] Score is -99 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies. Abort. | 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 anywhere. Truecrypt would handle mounting it as a drive. Every article I seem to find dealing with dm-crypt is about whole partition encryption. Is there a way to use dm-crypt easily to create a container like that in truecrypt? It may just be that it is staring me in the face and I am misunderstanding some of the terminology (no surprise there). What I would like to do is have an encrypted container to put various documents in. I don't really feel the need for whole disk encryption. Thanks | 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) cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/loop0 * Open the device (this creates /dev/mapper/some_place) cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop0 some_place * Create a filesystem, say ext3 (this is only for the first time) mkfs -t ext3 /dev/mapper/some_place * Mount the filesystem mount /dev/mapper/some_place /media/some_place Now you could copy whatever you want, then unmount the filesytem and close the mapper and loopback device umount /media/some_place cryptsetup luksClose some_place losetup -d /dev/loop0 You could automate mounting of this filesystem, first create a key file instead of the password, update /etc/crypttab with the parameters, then include the mapper device to get mounted using /etc/fstab |
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 figure it out after I click ctrl-c it still can go through,and the next sentence is "setting the system clock", then it log into the system,but next time it still stop at this step here is my sys log Code: Select allJul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 11.974191] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 12.130806] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input4 Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 12.198700] parport_pc 00:0a: reported by Plug and Play ACPI Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 12.198700] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 12.471514] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 51353 usecs Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 12.471584] intel8x0: clocking to 48000 Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 21.188294] Adding 1951856k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1951856k Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 21.657618] EXT3 FS on sda7, internal journal Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 21.921078] loop: module loaded Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 21.997805] w83627hf: Found W83627THF chip at 0x290 Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 21.997805] w83627hf w83627hf.656: Reading VID from GPIO5 Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 22.053802] p4-clockmod: P4/Xeon(TM) CPU On-Demand Clock Modulation available Jul 11 07:06:34 localhost kernel: [ 23.199554] fuse init (API version 7.9) solved; after I put the option "quiet" attached the sentence of " kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sda7 ro quiet" in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst,then when booting the OS hangs when screen shows message" waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done" after google the INTERNET, I find it was caused by the sentence "CONCURRENCY=shell" which I put it in the file /etc/default/rcS long before by following some optimization instruction. so remove it and go through anyway. | 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: Code: Select all# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> ... ## /dev/hda1 /media/mswindows ntfs-3g defaults,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0077 0 0 and ran (as root): Code: Select all# mount /dev/hda1 The partition mounted with the /etc/fstab options, I copied the PDF file to the MS Windows XP partition (as normal user) and tried to reboot into MS Windows. Note that I forgot to unmount the MS Windows partition before shutting down the computer. When I tried to reboot into MS Windows, the boot process started, I saw the MS Windows splash screen and then the screen went black. I waited several minutes, but the system was completely hung, so I had to press the power button to turn it off. On subsequent attempts, the result was the same, but I also got a menu that offers the option to boot to the "last good configuration" (or something like that). The message says that I shouldn't use that option if MS Windows did not start properly the last time, so I did not choose the "last good configuration." Should I have? Debian, of course, was unaffected. It runs fine, but it can no longer mount the MS Windows partion. Instead here's the result: Code: Select all[ Mon 01-Jun-2009 11.13 root ] xxxx # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /media/mswindows/ $LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0) Failed to mount '/dev/hda1': Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action: Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by clicking on the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly. Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for your own responsibility. For example type on the command line: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /media/mswindows/ -o force Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file: /dev/hda1 /media/mswindows/ ntfs-3g force 0 0 [ Mon 01-Jun-2009 11.13 root ] xxxx # Any suggestions? I don't particularly care about this partition. It doesn't have any important data, so I'm willing to torch it, but I'd prefer to restore it to health if possible. . | 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 $MFTMirr completed successfully. Setting required flags on partition... OK Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK NTFS volume version is 3.1. NTFS partition /dev/hda1 was processed successfully. [ Mon 01-Jun-2009 11.34 root ] xxxx # Then I successfully mounted the device: Code: Select all[ Mon 01-Jun-2009 11.38 root ] xxxx # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /media/mswindows/ [ Mon 01-Jun-2009 11.38 root ] xxxx # mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) /dev/hda1 on /media/mswindows type fuseblk (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096) [ Mon 01-Jun-2009 11.38 root ] xxxx # Now, we'll see if the system boots. Stay tuned! ps: I remembered to unmount the partition this time. . |
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 pretty sure that synaptic is a front-end for apt-get. So before I do anything, do you guys mind giving some feedback? If I now use aptitude, will my father have problems later when using synaptic? Thanks a lot in advance.. | 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 <user_name>, so where does id looks for its informations ? Thank you very much | 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 plugdev:x:46:telemachus telemachus:x:1000: telemachus ~ $ groups telemachus dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev |
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 unstable amarok, is there a risk that the whole system will become unstable? I don't want anything else to be used from that repository. It says here (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental) that I have to use a special command ( apt-get -t experimental install packagename ) to install a package from experimental. So I guess that means that unless I ask for it, no update/upgrade will be done from that repository, right? Any feedback for my questions would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks in advance | 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't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B W: GPG error: http://debian.yorku.ca etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems # cat /etc/apt/sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070204-08:45]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070204-08:45]/ etch contrib main deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main contrib deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ etch main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib # Marillat For info visit http://www.debian-multimedia.org #deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main #deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main royrogers:/homroyrogers:/home/rooster# I've done updates before with no problem. I don't know how to correct this and do an update. I don't know if it matters, but I just noticed something that looks odd. in the last line above. "#deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main royrogers:/homroyrogers:/home/rooster#" ... there should be an "e" after the "m" in "/homroyrogers:/". | 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. How did that get in there? Install the keyring and then do another apt-get update. |
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 haven't tried to install without the archive key. This goes into sources.list: deb http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main deb-src http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main Is emacs-snapshot the only pkg in that repo? Can I use the other emacs pkgs with it? Archive key on emacs.orebokech.com: The key used to sign this archive has id C03C56DF: pub 1024D/C03C56DF 2001-05-06 Key fingerprint = 5559 1CCF 071D E5AD 3976 D6F0 A203 76BE C03C 56DF uid Romain Francoise (orebokech) <romain@orebokech.com> uid Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> uid Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@gnu.org> I have tried: Code: Select allecho "Key fingerprint = 5559 1CCF 071D E5AD 3976 D6F0 A203 76BE C03C 56DF" | apt-key add - I also tried echoing the whole above qoute to apt-key. When I search for adding keys I usually find something like wget some-url piped to apt-key, but I cant find how to add it from a text snippet. I havent found anything I can use in man pages for apt-key or gpg. Key looks kind of short too. I expected it to look like +50 lines of random characters. I can't change fonts or fontsize in emacs22-gtk with shift-leftclick. emacs22-gtk didn't get placed in my xfce4 menu either. The default font in emacs is ,for me, small, ugly and nearly unusable. I can't get help in #emacs. My problem is too mundane? (I haven't used emacs in years and have forgotten most of it.) | 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 working, so I know 3d acceleration is working. This game worked fine in gentoo, same hardware and same .wine directory and game directory. Xorg config also has all the same options enabled (in a different section of the config since i used nvidia's xorg config generation tool rather than copying it). I've used one of the ubuntu package lists in /etc/apt/sources.list (instructions pulled off of wine website, for ubuntu intrepid for lack of a debian-specific one) to get wine 1.1.24, I was running 1.1.22 on gentoo. It also failed under the version of wine in the standard debian repo, which is why I downloaded the other one. I'm assuming its a package error (it took me weeks to figure out that i couldn't play dvds because i didn't have libdvdcss installed), since that's been the most typical error after my migration. Is there something i'm missing? *edit* As mentioned later in the post, the solution was to install nvidia-glx-ia32. This works with the binary in the wine repo. | 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: Code: Select allbinary-common: dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_installchangelogs dh_installdocs dh_installexamples dh_installman -p binpackage debian/exc.1 dh_link dh_strip dh_compress dh_fixperms dh_makeshlibs dh_installdeb dh_shlibdeps dh_gencontrol dh_md5sums dh_builddeb The problem is that even I specify the package where the man page should go, the package creator is including it on two of the packages, so I have errors when installing because the installation of the last one would overwrite the man page from the earlier. This is the .install content of all the packages: binpackage.install Code: Select all/usr/bin/binary datapackage.install Code: Select all/usr/share/mypackage pluginpackage.install Code: Select all/usr/lib Maybe someone who added some manpages to a multiple package could say how it was done. Thanks | 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 1 from false to true, the others are default. iceweaselrc has ICEWEASEL_DSP="none" I tried other settings with no change in behavior. Sound works fine otherwise in other applications and with flashplugin in iceweasel. Any suggestions on how to fix the problem? Bill | 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 long ago; http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzi ... gi?id=1716 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459401 While this focuses on the large debug files that are generated (my 'debug' file weighed in at over 500meg today!) it is almost certainly the cause of the memory-leak as well - wireless on, memory-leak, turn off wireless, memory-leak instantly dissappears! This bug only seems to effect pc's with 3945 wireless-chipsets, something I can confirm as two of my Atheros-based desktop computers work perfectly. The really odd thing is that even the latest Ubuntu kernel still has the bug! So, my question, as per the above link, a fix is possible, I have the 'default' 2.6.26 kernel, and there are kernel-sources are high as 2.6.30 in the repositories - would these have the bug-fix, and is my only option to compile from source? EDIT: Added another URL, same problem, (imo) different slant... | 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 to more reading on this will be most welcome. Yes they are on same net Guy | 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 if there is a way to assign keyboard shortcuts to actions in xclipboard. For example, a keyboard shortcut to go to the 'next' or 'previous' entry, or a keyboard shortcut to 'save' the selection to the clipboard.. That would be extremely convenient and make things much faster.. Thanks a lot in advance for your time. | 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 daemon... Success. /usr/share/wicd/wicd/gui.py:1166: GtkWarning: gtk_toolbar_set_icon_size: assertion `icon_size != GTK_ICON_SIZE_INVALID' failed self.wTree = gtk.glade.XML(gladefile) refreshing... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.2:/org/wicd/daemon: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.16" (uid=1000 pid=6013 comm="python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py -n ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.2" (uid=0 pid=3093 comm="python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py ")) ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.2:/org/wicd/daemon: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.16" (uid=1000 pid=6013 comm="python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py -n ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.2" (uid=0 pid=3093 comm="python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py ")) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py", line 565, in <module> main(sys.argv) File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py", line 539, in main the_gui = gui.appGui() File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd/gui.py", line 1205, in __init__ self.refresh_networks(fresh=False) File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd/gui.py", line 1686, in refresh_networks if wired.CheckPluggedIn() or wired.GetAlwaysShowWiredInterface(): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.16" (uid=1000 pid=6013 comm="python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py -n ") interface="org.wicd.daemon.wired" member="CheckPluggedIn" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.2" (uid=0 pid=3093 comm="python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py ")) jorge@flamingo:~$ whereas the same command will fire up the wicd gui when executed with sudo. Does anybody knows how I can make wicd-client run without requiring root privileges? Thanks a lot in advance.. | 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 i do for example ls -l, or just ls, i los all the colors highlight, everything appears with white text. Any ideas.? thanks! | 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-mount the micro SD card the files that I e.g. copied from the harddisk to the SD card are not there anymore. Even more than that, after doing this several times the card becomes corrupted and can only be used again after re-formatting. This all is repeatable. This micro SD card works well under Ubuntu. So far I haven't had other problems with SD cards or USB sticks in Lenny. My assessment is that while umounting the card in Lenny, the FAT is not updated, but I do not understand why this card works well in Ubuntu. For using Lenny I need to know how I can avoid this problem, I hope that you can help me with this. | 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 it in usr/bin. So in the console i launched it and got an error message (asking for parameters) Could someone please help? Why didn't synaptic installed the gui version of bittorrent directly in the applications (am using icewm)? Is it a standalone gui driven bitttorrent to be launched outside of my window manager? And if so is there a way to see a similar menu as i once had on a window box? Many thanks in advance | 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 could find it in usr/bin. So in the console i launched it and got an error message (asking for parameters) Could someone please help? Why didn't synaptic installed the gui version of bittorrent directly in the applications (am using icewm)? Is it a standalone gui driven bitttorrent to be launched outside of my window manager? And if so is there a way to see a similar menu as i once had on a window box? Many thanks in advance I don't use IceWM, so take this with a grain of salt. In my experience, when you use a more minimal gui environment (such as IceWM or Openbox, which I use), it's up to you to manage your menus. In Openbox there is a tool designed to help you visually edit your menus, but I don't know what's available in IceWM. A quick trip to Google suggests that there are such tools (IceMC and MenuMaker), but many people prefer to edit the configuration files manually. You might check out this page or this one. If those stink, head for Google. The bottom line, I think, is that automatic addition of installed packages to a menu happens in full desktop environments like Gnome or KDE, but not in lighter ones like IceWM. (Wait a few and perhaps an IceWM guru will come along and say I have no idea what I'm talking about.) All of that said, you should be able to launch the program manually from a terminal. Check the manual page for the program with man program-name in a terminal to see what sort of parameters the program is looking for. |
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 have one of the virtual kernels installed. The virtual kernels have names like linux-image-2.6-686, and their job is to make sure that you have the latest kernel in the 2.6 family, in its -686 version. If you have a package like that installed, you should see kernel upgrades when moving from Stable to Testing (assuming that Testing is running a more recent kernel, which I think it is.) If you don't have a virtual kernel, then you won't get automatic kernel upgrades. Many people prefer this behavior. (I ran a 2.6.18 kernel on one machine long, long after that was the most up-to-date kernel, because it worked beautifully and I didn't want to mess with it. Slackware 10 (or 11) was still using 2.4.30-something, even after every other Linux distro in creation was using the 2.6 series.) You can check what you have installed this way: Code: Select allaptitude search ~ilinux-image If the output of that command shows only real kernels (eg, linux-image-2.6.26-2-686), then you will need to manually upgrade your kernel. See what's available in the version that you want (looks to be -686) and install it. |
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 does not come back. Tried alt+f2 and nm-applet, still nothing. Even looked at the session info and could see Network Manager listed and set to run. I have logged out and back in, but still do not get NetworkManager in the system tray. Please help. I can and will provide additional information if needed, but please tell me how to get this information as I am new to linux. Thanks in advanced! | 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 1 /dev/sda4 /home ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda3 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g umask=0,nls=utf8,noatime 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 It gets mounted on startup, or you can mount it with a simple command Code: Select allmount -a |
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 problem. I googled and find something about blacklisting network modules but it wasn't clear enough. Here's some info about my system # mii-tool eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok eth1: 10 Mbit, full duplex, no link eth2: 10 Mbit, full duplex, no link eth3: 10 Mbit, full duplex, no link # lspci 0000:00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet 0000:00:02.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet 0001:00:06.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 0001:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+] 0001:00:0a.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0001:00:0d.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) 0002:00:02.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 66MHz Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01) 0002:00:02.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 66MHz Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01) 0003:00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet 0003:00:02.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:ba:eb:3f:ab inet addr:192.168.1.48 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:86975 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:5566400 (5.3 MiB) TX bytes:3136 (3.0 KiB) Interrupt:31 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2544 (2.4 KiB) TX bytes:2544 (2.4 KiB) # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Any help appreciated. Thanks Typhoon | 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 bookmarks. I used Isomaster to separate filesystem.squashfs. Then I used 'unsquashfs filesystem.squashfs' to open it which relabeled it squashfs-root. I made my changes and then did 'mksquashfs squashfs-root filesystem.squashfs' which remade it as filesystem.squashfs. I did chmod 555 to fix the permissions. Then I used Isomaster to put filesystem.squashfs back where it belongs. Everything seems to go well up to there but when I try to run it I get the above failure message. Any idea why? | 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 isomaster) http://www.debe17.com/web_pages/deans_c ... 8.php.html if you get an answer/solution please post it. I really get headaches from it. greetings |
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 duplicated in a FAQ. Like the answer to the sudo thing: http://wiki.debian.org/sudo And since it's a wiki anyone can contribute. So instead of everyone going to work on a FAQ, why not contribute to the wiki instead? |
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 machine for the first time. Is there a way to do this automatically? Thanks in advance.. | 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: 'abs' is not a member of 'std'. I have tried to apply a patch by downloading libtorrent-gcc43-v2.patch & rtorrent-gcc43.patch and typed 'patch -p1 -i libtorrent-gcc43-v2.patch' but it still dosen't work. What have done wrong? Any tips would be appreciated. | 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-Release "stable"; Now add Squeeze and Sid repos to your /etc/apt/sources.lst: Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free (I'm in UK so using UK repos, change as required). Code: Select all# apt-get update Code: Select all# apt-get install libtorrent11/unstable && apt-get install rtorrent/unstable (The package libtorrent11 provides libtorrent 0.12.4) The syntax <package_name>/release tries to install the package from 'release' using dependencies from your default release, Lenny, which you defined in /etc/apt/apt.conf. If it gives an error then use Code: Select all# apt-get -t unstable install rtorrent and it will pull in dependencies from any of the repositories in your sources list. I installed the latest version of rtorrent from Sid on two Lenny machines and have been running it this way since Lenny was released with no problems. If you do prefer to install from source then get the dependencies with Code: Select all# apt-get build-dep rtorrent Debian Quick Reference |
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: [: `)' expected, found 2 ERROR: Your glibc library is older than 2.3. Please update your glibc library. But I see that I have the package glibc-2.9-1 installed so this is not true.. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks in advance,, | 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 had to install "gdebi" first,...before installing the Adobe Flash deb file.) Works great. EDIT: Oh yeah,...I first went to Synaptic and removed swfdec (gnome and plugin). |
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 state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done No candidate version found for kdvi No candidate version found for kdvi No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done thanks in advance.. | 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 manner and have used the apt-get build-dep package method to find the dev files I need prior to compiling. Thing is, I now use aptitude, which, apparently, has a similar command, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Using apt-get build-dep still works fine, so it's not that I don't have source lines in my sources.list file. I'll give relevant details below. cat /etc/apt/sources.list: Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free # Debian-Multimedia (non-free proprietary multimedia repository) deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main # Debian Backports (backported software) deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free cat /etc/apt/preferences: Code: Select allPackage: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 200 cat /etc/apt/apt.conf: Code: Select allAPT::Install-Recommends "false"; Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false"; APT::Default-Release "stable"; Below is what I did as user (should still work... and have tried as root, too): Code: Select allaptitude -s build-dep pidgin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Unable to find the source package for "pidgin". Unable to find the source package for "pidgin". No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Would download/install/remove packages. As root I did this with apt-get: Code: Select allapt-get -s build-dep pidgin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed doxygen libsasl2-dev libsilc-1.1-2-dev libsqlite3-dev xsltproc 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Inst doxygen (1.5.6-2 Debian:5.0.1/stable) Inst libsasl2-dev (2.1.22.dfsg1-23 Debian:5.0.1/stable) Inst libsilc-1.1-2-dev (1.1.7-2 Debian:5.0.1/stable) Inst libsqlite3-dev (3.5.9-6 Debian:5.0.1/stable) Inst xsltproc (1.1.24-2 Debian:5.0.1/stable) Conf doxygen (1.5.6-2 Debian:5.0.1/stable) Conf libsasl2-dev (2.1.22.dfsg1-23 Debian:5.0.1/stable) Conf libsilc-1.1-2-dev (1.1.7-2 Debian:5.0.1/stable) Conf libsqlite3-dev (3.5.9-6 Debian:5.0.1/stable) Conf xsltproc (1.1.24-2 Debian:5.0.1/stable) As you can see, apt-get works fine. I have simulated these, because I don't yet want to implement these actions, but I can't see why simulation would make aptitude fail. It's not important as such, because I can use apt-get fine for this, but I'm just curious. Am I overlooking something obvious? I probably am... | 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 execute their XSETTING managers like gnome-settings-daemon or xfce-mcs-manager. If you don't use these desktop environments, you have two choices: 1. run an XSETTINGS manager, or 2. simply specify an icon theme in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. For ex: to use the Tango ion theme andd a line: gtk-icon-theme-name="Tango" in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0. (create it if no such file) A simple google search will give the soltuion to the problem that people have when no icons appear in pcmanfm. The weird thing is that I don't have this problem! My icons appear in pcmanfm. My problem is that I can't get this error message to stop, it's very annoying.. I have created a new file ~/gtkrc-2.0. and put the lines gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango" gtk-theme-name = "Clearlooks" but that will not change anything, the message still appears.. Any ideas?! Thanks a lot in advance.. | ~/.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 Debian Root (Hd0,7) configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst I can boot Debian by calling his kernel and initrd directly from the menu.lst of PClinux , but than it boots in the verbose mode, also booting in this way I can not get the single user mode Always booting in the verbose mode is not so nice Can anybody gives me some clues ? regards dobby9 | 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 is /dev/sda1 and Debian is /dev/sda2, then you would have in your PCLinux menu.lst Code: Select alltitle Debian rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 But when in Debian you would first have to run grub-install /dev/sda2. Yes you will go through 2 grub screens but I don’t think that is such a terrible thing. |
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 access to mysql on the server from the desktop machine. However, each time I try to log into the servers mysql-server via the desktops mysql-query-browser, I cannot. Both machines are able to ping each other. Anyone know why I cannot log in? | 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 installer and install the language packages for the final system installation. I just would like to know what these packages are in Debian (I'm used to Ubuntu) so that I can install them on my system. | 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 ran: Code: Select alldpkg-reconfigure locales and selected the locales of the language (in my case en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8) and selected ja_JP-8 UTF-8 to be my default locales and then it configured some files. Then I went to the package manager and installed some native fonts (in my case xfonts-intl-japanese and some other truetype fonts like ttf-kochi-gothic, ttf-kochimincho, ttf-sazanami-gothic, and ttf-sazanimi-mincho) and then scim and anthy so I could imput japanese characters. I then did a system restart and booted into a system with the selected default language with the ability to choose which language I want to use for my session. I hope this tutoral has helped others having trouble finding tutorials for this. |
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 "${FILE%.mp3}.wav" "$FILE" ; done but that didn`t work. thanks | 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 the Kmenu ( or run kcontrol) not sure about Gnome or any other desktops. |
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 know really how to proceed (should I try GIMP? Or any other recommendation?) Cheers larry77 | 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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