Re: converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-05 Thread H.S.
Here are the correct settings that seem to work: 1) Addresses given by my ISP: HEX1:aa00::/64 HEX2:bb00::/56 <-- this is the one used below 2) /etc/network/interfaces file #for IPv6 config (note "bb01"). Goes to LAN switch iface eth0 inet6 static address HEX2:bb01::01 netmask 64

Re: converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-05 Thread H.S.
On 05/06/10 01:56 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > H.S. put forth on 6/4/2010 11:06 PM: > >> Can somebody help in this problem? > > Yes, I can. Disable dhcp6. You've already bound a static IPv6 address to > eth1 but you didn't configure a gateway address. Configure a correct IPv6 > gateway address f

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 03:47, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:32:17 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > >> Phil Requirements writes: > >>> Yes, you need to create a simple xorg.conf, because they aren't used by >>> default. I had to create xorg.conf on my system to specify some >>> keyboard option

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
Try this: #dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg This makes an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but sometimes it's not so good, but you have to try, then read this: $man xorg.conf -- C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2010-06-05 23:28, Peter Tenenbaum skrev: I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the workstation is all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too old to have correct drivers for everything). Most things are working fine, but I have a couple of minor questions. 1. I

Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 05. 06. 2010 23:28:58 je Peter Tenenbaum napisal(a): > > > >2. On Lenny, there was a menu app which, amongst other things, > >did CPU > >speed-testing. I believe it also showed the properties of the various > >hardware (processor, m

debootstrap failed

2010-06-05 Thread T o n g
Hi, I was able to use debootstrap before, but recent tests always fail -- trial logs at: http://paste.debian.net/76281/ http://paste.debian.net/76285/ In brief, a vanilla debootstrap session rm -rf /mnt/os12/* debootstrap --arch amd64 sid /mnt/os12 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ will fail fo

Re: Update GRUB to GRUB2 / Lenny to Squeeze

2010-06-05 Thread lrhorer
Tom H wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:56 PM, lrhorer wrote: >> >> I upgraded a box from "Lenny" to "Squeeze", but the update of GRUB to >> GRUB2 failed.  The box is running a pair of IDE hard drives with >> three partitions each.  Each partition on each drive is a RAID1 >> mirror of the same p

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Re: http://localhost:631/admin; was Re (2): http://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting ...

2010-06-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:25:03PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:05:28 + (UTC) > Camaleon wrote, > > You should have choosen "LPT#1" in "connection type" step. > > OK. After choosing LPT#1 and putting my id > in /etc/group/"lpadmin", the configuration > finish

http://localhost:631/admin; was Re (2): http://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting ...

2010-06-05 Thread peasthope
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:05:28 + (UTC) Camaleon wrote, > You should have choosen "LPT#1" in "connection type" step. OK. After choosing LPT#1 and putting my id in /etc/group/"lpadmin", the configuration finished; ... and the Device URI is listed as "parallel:/dev/lp0" after all! I wonde

Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 06. 2010 23:28:58 je Peter Tenenbaum napisal(a): 2. On Lenny, there was a menu app which, amongst other things, did CPU speed-testing. I believe it also showed the properties of the various hardware (processor, memory, hard drive, etc). Is that still available? I can't find it

Re: downloading squeeze

2010-06-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 06. 2010 23:07:18 je roberto napisal(a): i currently use lenny on my laptop but i'd like to use squeeze on my second pc; since i have no wired connection on the pc where i'll install squeeze, i think i have to download the entire cd set or the dvd, right ? Since I don't use Squeeze,

A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the workstation is all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too old to have correct drivers for everything). Most things are working fine, but I have a couple of minor questions. 1. In Nautilus, I can't figure out how to make

Re: downloading squeeze

2010-06-05 Thread roberto
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Klistvud wrote: > Ooops, forgot to mention: it's the *.iso you need; the *.torrent is just a > link you use if, instead of your browser, you prefer to use a bittorrent > client for the download (if you don't know what bittorrent is, then don't > bother, just downloa

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 20:00:43 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > You can ask aptitude directly: > > > >  aptitude why libfribidi0 > > Thanks, this is quite handy. I should have known about this but I > haven't used Debian since over ten years a

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Vasco Costa
First I'd like to apologize for the fact that by mistake I didn't reply to the list (only to the author) in my previous email. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > You can ask aptitude directly: > >  aptitude why libfribidi0 Thanks, this is quite handy. I should have known abo

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-05 Thread Paul Chany
Wolodja Wentland writes: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 17:15 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: >> Paul Chany writes: >> > Paul Chany writes: >> >> Mitchell Laks writes: >> >>> On 14:52 Fri 04 Jun , Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> /etc/default/keyboard >> >>> I agree. This is new and replaces the xorg.co

Re: downloading squeeze

2010-06-05 Thread Klistvud
Ooops, forgot to mention: it's the *.iso you need; the *.torrent is just a link you use if, instead of your browser, you prefer to use a bittorrent client for the download (if you don't know what bittorrent is, then don't bother, just download the *.iso with your browser). You *do* know tha

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-06-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/30/2010 02:26 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > Another suggestion: PDFMiner > > http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/ > > Hopefully it will soon be packaged. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584555 Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.

Re: downloading squeeze

2010-06-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 06. 2010 19:34:22 je roberto napisal(a): which one should i download ? The *right* one, by any means! Only kidding. The first CD should suffice if you have a working Internet connection that you can use *during* the installation. The Debian Installer, once started from the first

downloading squeeze

2010-06-05 Thread roberto
hello, i want to download the squeeze cd installation cd but i find 42 different cd's called debian-testing-i386-CD-xy.iso.torrent or simply debian-testing-i386-CD-xy.iso which one should i download ? thank you very much -- roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ I am putting this back on d-u; please make sure to reply to the list. ] On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 16:05:17 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 09:55 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Your first hypothesis is most likely the correct one; the "optional > > dependency" that keeps the pa

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-05 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 17:15 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > Paul Chany writes: > > Paul Chany writes: > >> Mitchell Laks writes: > >>> On 14:52 Fri 04 Jun , Kelly Clowers wrote: > /etc/default/keyboard > >>> I agree. This is new and replaces the xorg.conf location. > And from where you k

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick. Was: Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 07:08:55PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I wrote a page with a footer containing a page number. I had no trouble > saving it as an .odt file, but OpenOffice 3.0 crashed when I tried to Really 3.0? Umm. what? We're at 3.2 now since months. (And note vanilla OOo versi

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-05 Thread Paul Chany
Paul Chany writes: > Paul Chany writes: > >> Mitchell Laks writes: >> >>> On 14:52 Fri 04 Jun , Kelly Clowers wrote: /etc/default/keyboard >>> >>> I agree. This is new and replaces the xorg.conf location. And from where you know that? >>> also look at /etc/default/console-setup for y

Re: converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-05 Thread H.S.
On 05/06/10 01:56 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > H.S. put forth on 6/4/2010 11:06 PM: > > >> Also, I am supposed to dial the ppp connection and obtain an IPv6 >> address from my ISP (as opposed to using a static one). > > If this is truly the case, why did your ISP give you static IPv6 addresses? I

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-05 Thread Paul Chany
Paul Chany writes: > Mitchell Laks writes: > >> On 14:52 Fri 04 Jun , Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> /etc/default/keyboard >> >> I agree. This is new and replaces the xorg.conf location. >> also look at /etc/default/console-setup for your tty consoles. > > I tried here setup for three keyboard lay

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 26 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > You're missing the point. The main selling point to management > is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software > in order to accommodate Linux' backup requirements, that will > kill it on the spot. Whatever boot loader I use must not

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:32:17 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > Phil Requirements writes: >> Yes, you need to create a simple xorg.conf, because they aren't used by >> default. I had to create xorg.conf on my system to specify some >> keyboard options. It works nicely. > > For me the command X -configur

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-05 Thread Paul Chany
Mitchell Laks writes: > On 14:52 Fri 04 Jun , Kelly Clowers wrote: >> /etc/default/keyboard > > I agree. This is new and replaces the xorg.conf location. > also look at /etc/default/console-setup for your tty consoles. I tried here setup for three keyboard layouts but then I can't to login o

Re: http://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting ...

2010-06-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:19:16 -0700, peasthope wrote: > ... instructs ... browser ... http://localhost:631/ ... Follow the > instructions... > > The 3rd page asks for the device URI. The printer in question is an HP > DeskJet 560C connected directly to the parallel port of the machine > running cu

Re: Boot order / Grub / USB installer

2010-06-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 04. 06. 2010 17:54:31 je Mathieu Malaterre napisal(a): Where do I do that from the debian installer ? (I used option "LVM on entire disk"). Gosh, I've never used LVM in my life, so can't be of any help here. However, I seem to remember at least one thing correctly: there *is* a step f

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:13:51 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: > Most of the times 'aptitude remove/purge package' removes ALL the unused > dependencies of the package. > > Sometimes however, even if I issue this command RIGHT after having > installed a package it only removes some of the dependencies