Re: Kmail Import Folders

2016-08-27 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday, 26 August 2016 23:06:19 BST Brad Rogers wrote: > Hello Richard, > > >Apologies for the duplicate messages. I wasn't getting anything > >back at this end. > > You wouldn't: google. Tried Google and Bing and and some others before writing to the Debian KDE list. Did find a few thin

Re: Kmail Import Folders

2016-08-26 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday, 26 August 2016 21:21:01 BST you wrote: I'm moving some Kmail Maildir folders from a Fedora machine to a > Debian Jessie machine using the KmailCVT import tool. All the time > I get an error message which says > > Error: Could not add message to folder new. Reason: Unknown > collec

Kmail Import Folders

2016-08-26 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I'm moving some Kmail Maildir folders from a Fedora machine to a Debian Jessie machine using the KmailCVT import tool. All the time I get an error message which says Error: Could not add message to folder new. Reason: Unknown collection for '658' The number changes but the words remai

Kmail Import Folders

2016-08-26 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I'm moving some Kmail Maildir folders from a Fedora machine to a Debian Jessie machine using the KmailCVT import tool. All the time I get an error message which says Error: Could not add message to folder new. Reason: Unknown collection for '658' The number changes but the words remai

Kmail Import Folders

2016-08-26 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I'm moving some Kmail Maildir folders from a Fedora machine to a Debian Jessie machine using the KmailCVT import tool. All the time I get an error message which says Error: Could not add message to folder new. Reason: Unknown collection for '658' The number changes but the words remai

Kmail Import Folders

2016-08-26 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I'm moving some Kmail Maildir folders from a Fedora machine to a Debian Jessie machine using the KmailCVT import tool. All the time I get an error message which says Error: Could not add message to folder new. Reason: Unknown collection for '658' The number changes but the words remain t

Re: Good music player suggestion

2012-05-11 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday 11 May 2012 11:49:10 Andrej Kacian wrote: > since I can't use my favourite player MPD (doesn't play well with > other audio sources), Juk can't play HTTP streams, and Amarok > crashes whenever I try to open a HTTP stream, I am left without a > usable audio player on my laptop. > > What a

Re: how to ditch kde completely

2012-03-01 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Thursday 01 March 2012 13:54:32 Harry Putnam wrote: > I suspect one could get into quite a mess by just start `aptitude > remove' ing things, so wondered if anyone has worked out some kind > of procedure to follow so far getting rid of kde? apt-get remove kde-full or ... apt-get remove k

Re: KDE 4.4.1 - Plasma Weather Applet broken

2010-03-28 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On 28 March 2010 13:06, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hmmm, I am still experiencing this with plasma-widgets-addons > 4:4.4.2-0rc1. Did Fedora developers apply some patch? Could you have a > peek in the package changelog? > Uhhmm... don't know about that but I found this... http://lists.fedorapro

Re: KDE 4.4.1 - Plasma Weather Applet broken

2010-03-28 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On 28 March 2010 10:43, Dominik Schulz wrote: > Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 21:23:37 schrieb André Wöbbeking: > > On Thursday 25 March 2010, Dominik Schulz wrote: > > Which (weather) provider do you use? Did you try another one? > I've tried each available provider listed there. No one works. > I'

Re: KDE Support in Debian

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Tuesday 10 Nov 2009 13:50:04 tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Scott wrote: > > I have been contemplating the idea of switching from Ubuntu > > to Debian. Even though I like KDE better I use Gnome on Ubuntu. > > The reason why I use Ubuntu (With Gnome) and not Kubuntu (With > > KDE) is that

Re: Need Help to come up with Sony Vaio VGN AR850E

2009-06-11 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Thursday 11 Jun 2009 10:43:44 Bashar Ekuk wrote: > I,m running Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny on my Laptop "Sony Vaio VGN > AR850E" and i need some help please . Hmm... can't find it here... http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/sony.html -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: planet-kde and debian

2008-07-16 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 19:35:48 Dom Delimar wrote: > Christoph Burgmer wrote: > > now that I know two persons from the Debian-KDE team are blogging > > on planetkde.org I would personally like to see more > > announcements on Debian. We get to hear about new packages in > > e.g. OpenSUSE, but n

Re: Lenny beta install for KDE

2008-03-21 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > Now that I have both installed how do I get to the KDE desktop? I > would like to run kpackage to > uninstall gnome. Have a go at 'apt-get install kdm kde koffice' Usually sorts everything out -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk

Re: Lenny beta install for KDE

2008-03-21 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > Now that I have both installed how do I get to the KDE desktop? I > would like to run kpackage to > uninstall gnome. Have a go at 'apt-get install kdm kde koffice' Usually sorts everything out -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk

Re: Kmail will not Send Mail - Debian Etch Stable - KDE 3.5.7

2007-12-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hello there I thought I might send in some more about this just to finish it off before Christmas. Since last week I've spent some hours installing and re-installing Debian Etch and Kubntu 7.10 AMD64. At all times the bug to do with Kmail and Kdepim and Kdecore has been faithfully reprod

Re: Kmail will not Send Mail - Debian Etch Stable - KDE 3.5.7

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Ibbotson
>You can probably get some log information by enabling the so-called "debug >areas" of KMail and kio_smtp. >This can be done by running kdebugdialog and checking the respective options. >Output will appear in $HOME/.xsession-errors if the session has been started >through a login manager, otherwis

Kmail will not Send Mail - Debian Etch Stable - KDE 3.5.7

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hello there Hope all of the KDE people have a good Christmas or whatever it is that you do at this time of the year :) I'm not sure whether I should send this to the AMD 64 list or the KDE list. Hopefully this is the right place. I've installed Debian Etch into my AMD64 workstation with a Gigaby

Re: Kmail does Something Strange

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi there > I've got a minor bug in Kmail 1.9.7. KDE 3.5.8 and Etch stable. > Was wondering whether someone could help me out. Ignore this. I've had a mail delivery problem for a day or two. Everything is working fine now. Thanks ever so much -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- To UNSUB

Kmail does Something Strange

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hello there I've got a minor bug in Kmail 1.9.7. KDE 3.5.8 and Etch stable. Was wondering whether someone could help me out. http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/kde358-bpo If I 'cd' to /home/user/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/cur# and do 'ls -a' there is nothing in this folder or

Kmail does Something Strange

2007-12-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hello there I've got a minor bug in Kmail 1.9.7.  KDE 3.5.8 and Etch stable.  Was wondering whether someone could help me out. http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/kde358-bpo If I 'cd' to /home/user/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/cur# and do 'ls -a' there is nothing in this folder or

Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> > Are you currently working on KDE for Debian Etch? And if so, when > > will that be available? Thanks!! > > What KDE do you mean? > > Etch comes with a KDE version (no idea which). 'apt-get install kdm kde koffice' See also add this to /etc/apt/sources.list after installing KDE... deb

Re: kde 3.5.8 Etch unofficial backports

2007-10-23 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Emilio > I tried to follow backports.org guidelines. > Please tell me if there are problems, or the repository don't work > as expected. > > Use these packages with caution, for now, these are packages I > tested only on my machines. Dropped this into my workstation. So far I haven't found any

Re: Amarok using KDE 3.5.7

2007-10-18 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Florian > apt-get install amarok-xine=1.4.4-4 > > and hope that it works. (It might be necessary to log out of KDE or > even to restart KDM.) Well, that fixed it :) Thanks very much. > Another thing: I would change the download.xs4all.nl entry in your > sources list from "stable" to "etch" to b

Re: Amarok using KDE 3.5.7

2007-10-18 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Florian > Etch has KDE 3.5.5. (Lenny/Testing has 3.5.7 right now.) Are you > using backports or a mixed Lenny/Etch system? Maybe the problem is > due to a version mismatch. Please post the output of: > > apt-cache policy kdelibs amarok{,-xine} > > -- > Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Fl

Re: Amarok using KDE 3.5.7

2007-10-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > Although you wrote that engines are installed check if e.g. > amarok-xine _really_ is installed. Result of 'apt-get install amarok-xine' "amarok-xine is already the newest version" -- Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Amarok using KDE 3.5.7

2007-10-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Not sure if this is the place to send this to but I thought I might try anyway. I've been trying to use Amarok to play my MP3 and Ogg muisc files for a some time. Can't get it to work. Looking under Settings > Configure Amarok > Engine I find that there is no engine in the drop down menu

KDE 3.5.6/Etch Screen Lock bug

2007-06-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Don't know if this is the right place to send this but thought I might try anyway. After installing Etch with Gnome and KDE I find that my screen lock has stopped working. Doesn't lock any more. I click on "Lock Session" in the bottom left hand corner of the screen/Kmenu and nothing hap

Re: web-Page

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> I've never used dreamweaver so I don't know how it works. > I recommend you Quanta+ (http://quanta.kdewebdev.org). http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html Both NVU and Quanta are very good. There is also Bluefish. There is an assumption that you can read code which is what most people can

KDE 3.4.2 Printer Problems

2005-12-01 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Was wondering if anyone out there was having problems with printers and KDE 3.4.2 ? Mine keeps going offline when I send a job to it. This was originally a CUPS problem due to the use of the Debian Etch update but I've fixed that by compiling CUPS 1.2.3 from source. lpstat -v shows... d

Re: KDE 3.4.2 Update

2005-11-21 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I'd like to thank all of the people who worked on KDE 3.4.2. Really nice desktop that is easy to use. I've been able to get this working since last week with an Nvidia graphics card and the Xorg stuff on my own workstation. I'm producing work with OpenOffice and listening to music. The

KDE 3.4 Update

2005-11-18 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I've just updated my workstation to Debian testing and I'm still using KDE 3.3.2. The result of apt-get upgrade was .. Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: aalib1 abiword abiword-common abiword-doc abiword-help abiw

Kmail 1.7.1 Anti-Spam Wizard

2005-01-22 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Not quite sure whether to send this to the KDE list or the testing list. KDE seems to be appropriate. Debian Sarge up to date with apt-get. SpamAssassin 3.0.2 installed. 2.6.8 kernel. KDE 3.3.1 mostly works fine. Thanks to everyone who worked on it :) Just one small thing which isn't

Re: kde 3.3.1 (sarge), sound problems: can't use microphone, krec seems to ignore kde sound settings, ...

2005-01-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > I can press "record", talk as much as I want, no sound will be > replayed... Well, I tought of using gnome sound recorder... It only > works correctly (I can record and reproduce sound) if I don't have > a sound daemon running (I tried arts and esd). I can't get Krecord to work either. So,

Re: KDE Update

2005-01-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Anders Thanks for this... > Two ways of doing that are: > Start aptitude as root, and press u. > When it is done fetching the list of packages, you can get the > upgrades by either: > Iin aptitude press shift-u and then g Apt-get wouldn't do anything sensible and so I decided to go with aptitu

Re: KDE Update

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Georg and Anders > > I'm wondering whether it's a good time to update my own machine > > to KDE 3.3.1 ? Other one is that I don't know what to tell > > apt-get to do to update to 3.3.1. Perhaps someone can help me > > with that ? > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Yes. Been doing that some

KDE Update

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Been watching the list traffic for about two months about KDE 3.3.1. A good read. Thanks to everyone :) I'd like to ask a question about updating to KDE 3.3.1. Just before Christmas I installed my workstation with Debian Sarge. Most things work fine. Done a lot of work with it. Using K

KDE update

2003-07-25 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I know that this has been covered many times. I'd like to update my KDE 3.0.5a installation. Where do I tell apt-get to go tomorrow to get hold of a nice desktop ? Can't remember where the FAQ is. Thanks Richard www.sheflug.co.uk

Re: KDE 3.0.5a Packages for Woody uploaded

2002-12-22 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > > Merry Christmas, > Thanks Ralf and Merry Christmas Yes :)) -- Merry Christmas Richard www.sheflug.co.uk

Re: Magiconf

2002-12-16 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hasso > Just for info. Controlcenter modules compile and run in KDE3 as > well. You only have to configure with --enable-mt and manually copy > files from $KDEDIR/lib/kde2 to $KDEDIR/lib/kde3 after make install. Thanks for your helpful advice :) If anyone wants to discuss any issues to do with M

Magiconf

2002-12-16 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Those of you who have taken an interest in our Magiconf project might like to know that the latest source code has been uploaded... http://magiconf.sheflug.co.uk/ Please feel free to browse the site. -- Merry Christmas :) Richard www.sheflug.co.uk

Re: trouble with kdeprint: more information

2002-12-05 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > Unable to start child print process. The KDE print server > (kdeprintd) could not be contacted. Check that this server is > running. Hmm... been watching this thread.. For some reason I've seen something very similar on Mandrake 9.0 and my own SuSE 8.0/8.1 systems. Can't give you an exact

Magiconf

2002-10-27 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Thought some of you might be interested in this... http://magiconf.sheflug.co.uk/ it's approaching the 1.0 stage - kind of - and - yes - it's still being developed as is the site. There's a couple of lists. You can ask questions. -- Thanks Richard www.sheflug.co.uk

Re: Quanta+ 3.0.0_1

2002-10-16 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > I now that is unstable version but it is terrible. > I try compile quanta manually from source. Configuration going OK > but when I take "make": Yes. I have had similar experiences when trying to build Quanta 3.0 on my Debian testing/unstable computer with KDE 3.0.4.I would really li

Re: AW: KDE 3.2-beta2

2002-09-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Karolina > So my new home address is: http://shakti.ath.cx > I just tried it, and it works like a charm with > deb http://shakti.ath.cx/debian/kde3.1-beta2 ./ Thanks for all the efforts... I've just logged in to try this out and found the site with 'apt-get update'. Then I find that apt-get te

Re: KDE 3.2-beta2

2002-09-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > Sorry, then I just don't know how to make apt-get translate the ip > address, so I don't know how to make a working sources.list string. No, I'm hopeless at that as well :) Anyone else ? -- Thanks Richard

Re: KDE 3.2-beta2

2002-09-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > Someone that want something stable - don't bother. Someone who want > to test (and hopefully report problems), the whole thing is > available with http: protocol on > http://cgi.algonet.se/htbin/cgiwrap/pgd/debian/kde3.1-beta2 Put this line into sources.list.. deb http://cgi.algonet.se/htb

Re: Quanta

2002-09-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > You may want to try installing libqt3-mt-dev. Worked for me. > You may also need to install kdelibs4-dev if memory serves me > correctly... > > If anyone knows of a way to get Quanta to build on KDE 3.0.3 from > > source I'd be interested in hearing about it. My own attempt at > > insta

Quanta

2002-09-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi If anyone knows of a way to get Quanta to build on KDE 3.0.3 from source I'd be interested in hearing about it. My own attempt at installation from source ends when I get the following error message after running './configure' .. " checking for Qt ... configure: error: Qt <>=Qt 3.0.3> not

Re: Where can I get 3.0.3?

2002-09-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > > > Ok thanks, that worked great. Do you know where I can find > > > liquid now to work with 3.0.3? The upgrade path continues. > > > > From http://www.cupis.co.uk/debian/kde3:html, liquid should be > > obtainable from > > http://arachni.kiwi.uni-hamburg.de/~harlekin/debs/ > > > > I have

Re: Kpackage

2002-09-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Paul > Correct. 4.0.4 is the version in unstable - you can downgrade to > 4.0.3 (stable/testing) by running > >apt-get install librpm4/testing > > You may need to downgrade rpm as well (I'm not certain) so this > might be better: > > apt-get install librpm4/testing rpm/testing Tried this a

Re: Kpackage

2002-09-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Paul Thanks for helping.. > Can you post the output of the following commands, please? > > dpkg -L librpm4 /. /usr/lib/librpm-4.0.4.so /usr/lib/librpmbuild-4.0.4.so /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.0.4.so /usr/lib/librpmmio-4.0.4.so /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/librpm4 /usr/share/doc/librpm4/co

Re: Kpackage

2002-09-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Paul > Do you have package librpm4 installed? This package contains the > missing file - I seem to remember some issue with the new kpackage > being compiled requiring librpm, but not depending on librpm4, or > something like that. Did 'apt-get install librpm4' and it says that librpm4 is already

Kpackage

2002-09-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi This is probably the wrong question to ask but thought I'd ask it anyway. Seem to have experienced something of a Grr.. whilst installing KDE 3.0.3 for Woody into my laptop. I couldn't work out how to get KDE 3.0.3 into my laptop which is presently running Debian 3.0 unstable. A friend hel

Re: KDE changing system time

2002-08-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> Yes, the OxLug people are obviously on crack. This is the first I > have ever heard of it. Probably. But, I've hardly ever seen a computer keep time when I used KDE on any distribution. So, I wouldn't understand what this might be about. I've built a lot of computers. Also installed quite

Re: Woody

2002-08-05 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Following Tomas Pospiseks advice of last week I went to the web page he described and did what it said at that page... > http://mypage.bluewin.ch/kde3-debian/ Following on from that I now find that there are a number of problems with this page which I would like to resolve so that I can mak

Woody

2002-07-28 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I know this one has been asked before but I couldn't find a reference to it in my Debian mail folders. I've just installed Woody into my notebook and it seems to be working fine. Only thing that I want to change is that I'd like to apt-get upgrade to KDE 3. Can anyone explain the line to

Re: KDE status update

2002-03-06 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Chris > So it may still be possible for KDE to make it into woody, but it > looks like kamera, ark, and kdepim will be casualties. What about i386 and Kamera ? I'm a photographer. Been looking forward to using Kamera for six months now. Be a shame if I can't get hold of it. I'm using Gphoto

Re: Debian KDE 2.2.2 update

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Chris > If there is anything I missed let me know. Umm .. I know this sounds a bit silly but I've had a look around the Debian site and can't find the packages. Can anyone send me an exact URL for download please ? Thank you -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk