Re: gnome upgrade

2006-06-14 Thread Paras pradhan
hi:Thanks.. i see gnome-core. i think this is what i need. but i got some problem while doing apt-get install gnome-core. Doing apt-get dist-upgrade doesnot have any problem. am i doing something wrong in this case ? o/p is:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get install gnome-coreReading package lists... Don

HOWTO: Shuttling MP3s, jpgs, etc. on and off the Verizon LG cellphone

2006-06-14 Thread Aaron Maxwell
A good way to move files between your cell phone and Linux machine is to use the excellent BitPim (http://bitpim.org). Some phones will not work with BitPim, however, in part because of their closed-source nature. [1] This post describes an alternate solution. This should work for nearly all

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:18:45 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern: For > >> the vast maj

Re: stuck in X11 transition

2006-06-14 Thread Derek
I had that same problem when upgrading xorg because i had opera installed,I removed it by doing dpkg -r opera then apt-get -f install and that did it.On 6/14/06, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:19:48PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > apt-get -f remove cbb> fail

Re: Directory for bash profile snippets?

2006-06-14 Thread Waldemar la Tendresse
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Why not put the alias in /etc/profile ? > > Greetings > Michelle Konzack > > I want have aliases set depending on the package presence/absence. So I ideally want to make the package available through cfengine/puppet plus put

Re: Autofs help

2006-06-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya tony > Tony Heal wrote: > > 14-series:~# cat /etc/auto.master > # > /opt/epace-storage /etc/auto.epace-storage --timeout=300 of you change * to epsace-storage below.. you need to change /opt/epace-storage it is best to use /.autofs instead of /opt/something and use symlinks

Autofs help

2006-06-14 Thread Tony Heal
I have read the docs and done some googling and I think I have everything set up right. My problem is that although everything looks right I can not access the mount point. Here are my docs as I have them. Can anyone offer some insight as to what I am doing wrong. Note that I can manually mo

Re: testsaslauth works but sendmail will not authenticate -- please help.

2006-06-14 Thread John covici
ahh, I didn't know they were different -- there is a mysql in sasl itself which I might try. Thanks. on Wednesday 06/14/2006 Richard A Nelson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, John Covici wrote: > > > I have a Debian system where I have the sasl2 library set up -- there > > wer

Strange cdrw behavior

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
SID laptop: Running KDE on a HP Compaq nx7010 with a TEAC DW-244E-A DVDR/CDRW Drive. I get this error during boot: Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x34

Re: (SOLVED?) Re: MP3 encoding?

2006-06-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:29:08 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, lame does a conversion and does not give me any errors. I can > play the file with 'play' from sox, and sox will take it as input to iirc it depends if sox has come with links to the libmp3lame or other mp3 re

Re: stuck in X11 transition [SOLVED]

2006-06-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:03:39PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:19:48PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > apt-get -f remove cbb > > fails, apparently because of all the problems > > arising from being in mid-X11 transition (lots of unmet dependencies). > > Don't use apt

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:46:01 -0700 "Cameron L. Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box > to record (with permission) radio shows in background, > on a predetermined schedule. It's the

Re: testsaslauth works but sendmail will not authenticate -- please help.

2006-06-14 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, John Covici wrote: I have a Debian system where I have the sasl2 library set up -- there were some problems doing that which I will get to in another message, but the main problem is that I have used testsaslauthd with a userid and password using my imap server for authentic

Re: google earth and sid...

2006-06-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:34:31 +0200 Nicoco Kinlidex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > > i can't get the brand new google earth for linux (R) (C) (TM) working. > installation is OK but i get this : I get that if I try the Direct option. (basically a debug message that originated from a sig11).

Re: DRI Broken On Recent Sid

2006-06-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:30:29 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Other programs, ppracer, work in software mode and are unusable. Ysflight > actually seems to be using DRI though this program works nicely in software > mode as well. I posted about this a few days ago when updating

Can't write DVDs under Sarge

2006-06-14 Thread Jack Dodds
My newly purchased Pioneer DVD-111D will not write DVDs on my Debian Sarge Pentium 1.8 GHz system. I am using HP 8X DVD-Rs and trying to write at 4X. I applied the dvd-record patch to cdrecord. It writes between 30 and 200 MByte to the disk and then stops. The written area on the DVD is clearly

initial horde install is unable to find its login page

2006-06-14 Thread John Covici
Hi. I am using a Debian testing server and I have installed horde, imp and its sub packages on the server and configured a virtual host at least for testing from my local box. Now what I get isThe requested URL /horde/horde3/login.php was not found on this server. There are several login.php

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:44:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > If you want to fork the library, and convince app writers to use it. Gnome and company realized that they couldn't fork GTK... no one would pay attention. Instead they co-opted it. -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #292: We ran out

Re: stuck in X11 transition

2006-06-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:19:48PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > apt-get -f remove cbb > fails, apparently because of all the problems > arising from being in mid-X11 transition (lots of unmet dependencies). Don't use apt-get to fix the problem. Apt-get doesn't allow broken dependencies...

Re: Problems with installing samba via apt-get.

2006-06-14 Thread Steve Langasek
Mattias, Your mail client incorrectly claims that you are using iso-8859-1 as a charset when your message is encoded in windows-1252. Please fix this. On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:46:59PM +0200, Mattias Wiberg wrote: > apt-get install samba > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tr

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/14/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Save As" is what I'm talking about. http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/Save_As.png Ah. That's rarely been a problem for me. Generally, I either put all downloads in the same directory or use wget. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.um

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Zelinsky wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Michael Marsh wrote: >>> About 27s for me. I type in the path and click "OK" for the >>> small dialog that pops up when you start typing. It's then >>> about 27s before that dialog g

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread John Hasler
Dave writes: > Figure out how to make APT point to BASH and file the bug there. Be > interesting to see what the APT people have to say. Policy requires that /bin/sh point to a POSIX shell. Zsh is not POSIX-compliant. You can break many things other than Apt by pointing /bin/sh to Zsh. -- John

emacspeak : stty problem

2006-06-14 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I installed the emacspeak, but all the servers have the same error. When I test the servers using for example "tcl accent" I get an error in the line when is call the "stty" function, for example: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers# tcl accent Error: stty: standard input: In

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread David Zelinsky
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > About 27s for me. I type in the path and click "OK" for the small > > dialog that pops up when you start typing. It's then about 27s before > > that dialog goes away and I can click "OK" on the actual file picker. > > Ah. That del

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: > On 6/14/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can add direct, persistent links to the File Picker dialog >> box. That should alleviate some of your pain. > > Which dialog box do you mean? If you mean the one that gi

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 5/1/06, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a >hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. > >DAR: >http://dar.linux.free.fr/ > >DARomizer: >http://www.catherders.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1 > Thanks, that soun

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: >> About 27s for me. I type in the path and click "OK" for the >> small dialog that pops up when you start typing. It's then >> about 27s before that dialog goes away and I can click "OK" on >> the actual fi

Re: Totem-gstreamer still not working

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 6/13/06, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, I have a fresh install of sarge stable and am trying to get totem to work. The only totem-gstreamer I have gotten to work well on debian is the one that came out in sid around two weeks ago. Every version before that was broken in some wa

Re: which editor can display Chinese?

2006-06-14 Thread tom arnall
i am trying to get better graphics performance from my toshiba sattelite. apparently i have the 855GM chipset, and apparently the driver is avail' at: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx? agr=N&Inst=Yes&ProductID=922&DwnldID=9722&strOSs=39

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Carl Fink wrote: > Shouldn't apt-get then refuse to run under zsh, or itself spawn /bin/sh and > run scripts under that instead of the default shell? /bin/sh is the default shell, and it is required on Debian that that symlink only be pointed to POSIX compliant shells. -- see shy jo signature.

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Marsh wrote: > About 27s for me. I type in the path and click "OK" for the small > dialog that pops up when you start typing. It's then about 27s before > that dialog goes away and I can click "OK" on the actual file picker. Ah. That delay actually occurs when the actual file picker (for

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 17:16 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > > > > > > Is there anything in Debian that can take a raw samples > > > file and turn it into an MP3? > > > Has some other form of documentation replaced the collection > > > of HOWTOs at TLDP.org? Thanks. > > > > > > > > > Cameron > > > >

Re: Sharing /usr

2006-06-14 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:04:48PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > According to the [1]FHS, /usr is supposed to be sharable between > computers, mounted using e.g. NFS. Likewise, /usr/share is supposed to > be sharable between machines of different architectures. > [1] http

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 14:51:22 -0400]: > The strange problem of the "not fully installed or removed" packages I > have been reporting has been resolved... Hooray! > > It seems that a short while ago I have switched shells from bash to zsh > to explore its new fe

Re: Ruby Docs

2006-06-14 Thread Arafangion
On Thursday 15 June 2006 09:41, Tom Allison wrote: > After running with Perl for some 7+ years I decided I would see what else > is out there and my pick was to go from Perl directly to Ruby, passing > Python entirely. > > And so it's been an interesting adventure so far. > > But I have two questio

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-14 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:05PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:07:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > chown --recursive onion: foo > > > > will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion, > > and change their gropu IDs accordingly. Leave

Re: Getting PostgreSQL to work with PHP

2006-06-14 Thread James Westby
On (15/06/06 09:56), Xavier Elizalde wrote: > I have the default Sarge installations of PHP4 and PostgreSQL. But I > can't get PHP to work with PostgreSQL. The php command phpinfo() > shows that it was compiled with the following parameters... [snip ./configure flags] > It says "--without-pgs

Re: Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 20:15, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > * Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-15 00:49]: > > try "apt-get moo" > > then "aptitude moo" > > then "aptitude moo -v" > > then "aptitude moo -vv" > > and so on > > Now that was funny! So it isn't super cow powers, but at least

Getting PostgreSQL to work with PHP

2006-06-14 Thread Xavier Elizalde
I have the default Sarge installations of PHP4 and PostgreSQL. But I can't get PHP to work with PostgreSQL. The php command phpinfo() shows that it was compiled with the following parameters... '../configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2' '--with- config-file-path=/etc/php4/a

Re: Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-15 00:49]: > try "apt-get moo" > then "aptitude moo" > then "aptitude moo -v" > then "aptitude moo -vv" > and so on Now that was funny! - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced

Ruby Docs

2006-06-14 Thread Tom Allison
After running with Perl for some 7+ years I decided I would see what else is out there and my pick was to go from Perl directly to Ruby, passing Python entirely. And so it's been an interesting adventure so far. But I have two questions about Debian and Ruby and playing well together. I've run

Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Bill Thompson
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:08:15 -0400 Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm pretty certain that you can't do 'apt-get upgrade > [package]'; you can only do 'apt-get upgrade' -- the latter > of which upgrades *all* packages on your machine. See the > manpage for apt-get(8): Whoops! You

stuck in X11 transition

2006-06-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Somehow I've gotten into a big mess with the 6.9-> 7 transition. My initial upgrade failed with the message that there was stuff remaining in /usr/X11R6/bin and I should move it out of the way. I did so, actually moving the entire bin directory (perhaps part of my problem). apt-get d

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/14/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are the odds I can plead someone into forking FireFox to use a different set of widgets, either QT or something more generic (wxWindows?)? There is some QT code in FF already, but I think it is unmantained, so I don't know if it will actual

Re: Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/14/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wow...here's a silly one for the archives. On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:46, Bill Thompson wrote: > In addition, the command "aptitude" is now recommended in place of > "apt-get". The aptitude program handles package dependencies better > th

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
What are the odds I can plead someone into forking FireFox to use a different set of widgets, either QT or something more generic (wxWindows?)? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it de

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:15:05AM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > I believe the issue is that /bin/sh is expected to be a bourne shell, or at > least closely compatible. zsh, "most closely resembles ksh but includes many > enhancements." ksh has "command language [that is ] is a superset of

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Gnu-Raiz
I wrote this on one of the forums I visit. I have been running breezy without any problem, and when I did a apt-get update dist-upgrade it borked my system. I have quake4 and utk4 installed, after the upgrade quake4 would not even run, xorg was broken. This is what I get from filling a bug re

Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:46:04PM -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: > apt-get upgrade > will upgrade a package if it is already installed in your system and an > upgrade is available. I'm pretty certain that you can't do 'apt-get upgrade [package]'; you can only do 'apt-get upgrade' -- the latter of w

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 16:36 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > > > A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box > > to record (with permission) radio shows in background, >

Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Wow...here's a silly one for the archives. On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:46, Bill Thompson wrote: > In addition, the command "aptitude" is now recommended in place of > "apt-get". The aptitude program handles package dependencies better > than the apt-get program. When you do apt-get --help, at th

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/14/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can add direct, persistent links to the File Picker dialog box. That should alleviate some of your pain. Which dialog box do you mean? If you mean the one that gives you the option of saving to disk, opening with the default, or selecting

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/14/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Marsh wrote: > Where the suckitude of the new GTK file picker really shines is when > you need to specify that a file should be opened with a program in > /usr/bin. Unless they've fixed that recently. I really don't like > typing "/usr/bi

Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Bill Thompson
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:00:19 -0400 Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the > package is not already installed, I would not want it to be > installed. Is this possible? > > Currently when I use > > apt-get install > > a

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box > to record (with permission) radio shows in background, > on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still > n

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: > On 6/14/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And returning to the original topic, I don't get the hate for >> the GTK file picker. Given a choice, I will take the QT >> version, but ever since I learned that you can ju

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:07:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > chown --recursive onion: foo > > will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion, > and change their gropu IDs accordingly. Leave off the colons if you > want them to stay in the old group. But this will

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-14 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:02:43PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: > Hello, > > is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in > the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? chown --recursive onion: foo will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion, and

Re: Re: gdm fails after 3.1r2 desktop install

2006-06-14 Thread Phil Hammond
(1) I had used tasksel to do the installation, selecting desktop only. (2) from apt-get -s -V install x-window-system: - stdout: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if yo

Sharing /usr

2006-06-14 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Dear Debian users, According to the [1]FHS, /usr is supposed to be sharable between computers, mounted using e.g. NFS. Likewise, /usr/share is supposed to be sharable between machines of different architectures. [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ What would be the preferred way for doing such thin

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:25PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' > Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon? Had I done sudo find / -uid [old UID] -exec chown [new UID] '{}' \; then yes. But with xargs, no. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Sound with ATI IXP150 AC'97

2006-06-14 Thread Derek
You need to install alsa-ossOn 6/14/06, Nicolas Sabouret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,I use debian etch on my Compaq laptop and I don't understand how the soundcard works. I installer alsa packages, the sound card was detected andsome applications (like gcompris) work perfectly.However, most o

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-14 Thread H.S.
Stephen R Laniel wrote: sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hardware 3D Support

2006-06-14 Thread Max Velasques
Hi, I have a laptop with Debian Sid and I would like to activate the hardware 3D support. The video chip is the follow: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) My Xorg.conf has the follow lines: Section "Module" .

Mailman and Postfix in Debian Unstable

2006-06-14 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear Siggy, dear All, for any strange reason, postfix rejects emails sent from my yahoo-Account to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailinglist with the following message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 80.254.163.99 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Relay access denied Giving up on 8

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Wackojacko
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box to record (with permission) radio shows in background, on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still needs Windoze for. We'd like to replace that

Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-14 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
I now have only 2.6.8 and 2.6.16 kernels in my cache file, while a short time ago I had from 2.4.18-bf2.4 to 2.6.16 and everything in between. Aptitude removed a working installed 2.6.15 linux-image before I could blink and I would like to reinstall it but its not there. I did do an autoclean but

MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box to record (with permission) radio shows in background, on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still needs Windoze for. We'd like to replace that setup with a cron-driven she

Sound with ATI IXP150 AC'97

2006-06-14 Thread Nicolas Sabouret
Hi all, I use debian etch on my Compaq laptop and I don't understand how the sound card works. I installer alsa packages, the sound card was detected and some applications (like gcompris) work perfectly. However, most other sound application (e.g. esd) don't work. It appears that the system has no

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:02:43PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: > is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in > the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 3

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > set -e Of course that should have been -x, the point being to see where the script is failing. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 12:33 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 6/14/06, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/14/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And returning to the original topic, I don't get the hate for the GTK > > > file picker. Given a choice, I will take the QT v

Quality Dentistry "Half Price" Grand Opening

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Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:00:19PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the package is > not already installed, I would not want it to be installed. Is this possible? There's probably a nice prepackaged way to do it, but you could firs

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Toshiro
> > > Thanks for that little rant; it made my day. I recently switched from > > > mozilla to firefox and the new file dialog is driving me up the wall... > > > > Ah, if it were only a rant. The problem is that the Gnomies actually > > feel they're in the right. > > I'd noticed recently that file d

changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-14 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hello, is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? -- Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the package is not already installed, I would not want it to be installed. Is this possible? Currently when I use apt-get install apt-get does not distinguish between whether the package has already been installed or not. Is there

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Marsh wrote: > Where the suckitude of the new GTK file picker really shines is when > you need to specify that a file should be opened with a program in > /usr/bin. Unless they've fixed that recently. I really don't like > typing "/usr/bin/xine" and then waiting a minute for the "OK" butt

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/14/06, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) Some DDs don't even acknowledge/close a fixed bug, 3-4 years after its been fixed. It's of course not in the Debian's best practices list and you're welcome to help us fixing the problem sending a summary to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've s

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-14 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am writing a program using pygame to play musical sound cues. I need > a way to determine the play length of a sound file. I can get the > length of .mp3 files with python-pymad. I have also installed > python-pyogg and python-

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/14/06, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And returning to the original topic, I don't get the hate for the GTK > file picker. Given a choice, I will take the QT version, but ever since > I learned that you can just start typing a

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 10:51, Charles Hallenbeck wrote (edited): > changing the symbolic link > /bin/sh to point to /bin/zsh instead of /bin/bash. > > I changed the link to point to /bin/bash again, [ran apt commands > successfully > > But why? I do upgrades at least once a day, and they usuall

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/14/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And returning to the original topic, I don't get the hate for the GTK file picker. Given a choice, I will take the QT version, but ever since I learned that you can just start typing a path, it hasn't bothered me much. Of course, I also usually

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:26:18PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:57 +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: > > > > Chuck needs to have a large scrollback and paste it to here for us to > understand the entire functiona

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/13/06, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern: > For the vast majority of people, I'd suggest that using > GTK-apps or QT-apps in mutual exclusion is a serious case of > p

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:16 +0200, Juergen Erhard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:27:38AM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:04, Brent Clark wrote: > > > Sorry, couldnt resist > > > > > > http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 > > > > After reading this sent

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
The strange problem of the "not fully installed or removed" packages I have been reporting has been resolved, but I do not understand it. It seems that a short while ago I have switched shells from bash to zsh to explore its new features. I did it gradually, first doing a usermod for each of my

Re: gnome upgrade

2006-06-14 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:17:22 +0545 "Paras pradhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all: > > I have a desktop system in which gnome 2.10 is running absoultely fine. I > have installed it using etch repoistory around 4 months back. Now i see > there is gnome 2.14 in etch. I want to know how do i up

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 06:55 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Simone, > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Simone Soldateschi wrote: > > > > I had a similar problem two days ago trying to update 'libwx2.6-dev' from > > backports. > > 'apt-get' failed package upgrade due to unmet depend

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Joey, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:21:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.config and > /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst and add a new line as the second > line of each script: > > set -e > > Then re-run this apt-get -f install and

nvidiia kernel patch with the 2.6.15-486 kernel

2006-06-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi all, I think the kernel number in the subject line is the correct one. Anyway, it's the kernel for an AMD 64 cpu with the 32 bit version of Etch installed. What I'm looking to do is install the kernel patch with module-assistant but it tells me there is no kernel source for any such kern

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:57 +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: > > : > > > > set -e > > > > Then re-run this apt-get -f install and we should be able to figure out > > what's really wrong. > > > This will tell you where in the script it's

How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am writing a program using pygame to play musical sound cues. I need a way to determine the play length of a sound file. I can get the length of .mp3 files with python-pymad. I have also installed python-pyogg and python-pyvorbis. It seems that I should be able to get the length of .ogg f

Re: dvd movie playing

2006-06-14 Thread Wackojacko
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all the debian listers. In order to play dvd movies, I downloaded from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/ the package libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb, and want to install it by hand. 1) How to do so? `apt-get' doesn't do the job. 2) Will that

Re: dvd movie playing

2006-06-14 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:25:06 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all the debian listers. > > In order to play dvd movies, I downloaded from: > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/ > > the package libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb, and want to install it

dvd movie playing

2006-06-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all the debian listers. In order to play dvd movies, I downloaded from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/ the package libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb, and want to install it by hand. 1) How to do so? `apt-get' doesn't do the job. 2) Will that package be enough to pl

Re: Fwd: Debian sarge 3.1\apache2 not surpport cgi

2006-06-14 Thread John Miller
What do the server logs say? The /var/log/apache2 directory, for instance? What user is your web server running as? Can you view regular HTML files placed in the /~lover/mytest.cgi directory? --John Rocky Ou wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: *Rocky Ou* <[EMAIL PROT

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread John Miller
Apologies for not reading the original message closely enough. I got stuck on the 'x11-common' part and didn't pay enough attention to the debconf error. If debconf is having trouble, that's really weird. Perhaps doing a dpkg -r debconf, then doing a clean reinstall of debconf? Using wget to do

Message-ID Suffix Change Mozilla Thunderbird

2006-06-14 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I'm using Mozilla-Thunderbird with my MS Exchange IMAP server at work. When I send an email to the Internet, my Postfix MTA gives the following message: forged name in Message-ID: header: and rejects the email. I've successfully sent email from Kmail by changing the Message-ID Suffix in the Co

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