Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread David Guntner
Alois Mahdal grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:56:59 -0800 > David Guntner wrote: >> >> Offhand, I'd say install the packages it wants. :-) >> >> Those are all standard repository packages for Debian; start >> with the gconf-service package and work up from there. Using >> ap

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, David Guntner wrote: > erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Dear List - > > > > I have done the following - > > > > Downloaded chrome from site into /opt > > > > root@meow:/opt# ls > > google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb > > > > install - > >

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:56:59 -0800 David Guntner wrote: > > Offhand, I'd say install the packages it wants. :-) > > Those are all standard repository packages for Debian; start > with the gconf-service package and work up from there. Using > apt-get or aptitude will help you get them all in pla

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/18/2013 06:40 AM, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List - I have done the following - Downloaded chrome from site into /opt root@meow:/opt# ls google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb install - root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb now I get dpkg: depe

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread David Guntner
erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Dear List - > > I have done the following - > > Downloaded chrome from site into /opt > > root@meow:/opt# ls > google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb > > install - > > root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb >

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:40:49 -0500 erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: > Dear List - Dear Ethan, > I have done the following - > > Downloaded chrome from site into /opt > > root@meow:/opt# ls > google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb First, do you really need the Chrome from the site? Chr

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Monday 18 November 2013 10:10 AM, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List - I have done the following - Downloaded chrome from site into /opt root@meow:/opt# ls google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb install - root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb now I ge

Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread erosenberg
Dear List - I have done the following - Downloaded chrome from site into /opt root@meow:/opt# ls google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb install - root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb now I get dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable:  g

P* - New language for web programming

2013-11-17 Thread Atle Solbakken
For the past three months, I have been developing a prototype for a new programming language called P* (P-star). The language targets to make life easier when it comes to web programming. P* has in-language syntax for things like SQL prepared statements and HTML templates. The P* interpreter i

Re: Audio from TV capture card

2013-11-17 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 07:43:26PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > All right, I'm out of ideas. In my wife's sid machine, she has a Hauppague > BT878-class TV capture card connected to a cable box. She uses tvtime to > watch television when she is on the computer. About a week ago, she > suddenly ha

Re: Audio from TV capture card

2013-11-17 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/17/2013 7:43 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: All right, I'm out of ideas. In my wife's sid machine, she has a Hauppague BT878-class TV capture card connected to a cable box. She uses tvtime to watch television when she is on the computer. About a week ago, she suddenly had no audio from the card.

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-17 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 10:48:26 -0600 Conrad Nelson wrote: ... > for you what you want, unlike Canonical in Ubuntu. For a very long time > I used Arch, then Gentoo, and am still a big fan of both, since as far > as choices and flexibility go they are leagues ahead of anything Debian > could pull

Audio from TV capture card

2013-11-17 Thread Brad Alexander
All right, I'm out of ideas. In my wife's sid machine, she has a Hauppague BT878-class TV capture card connected to a cable box. She uses tvtime to watch television when she is on the computer. About a week ago, she suddenly had no audio from the card. She turned off one evening before going to bed

Debian/Ubuntu Package Developing with Docker, Continued

2013-11-17 Thread T o n g
Hi, Last time I posted about that Docker being the best tool for developing Debian/Ubuntu packages [1]. If you missed it, here is the recap: - The reason Docker being the best tool for developing Debian/Ubuntu packages is that, it gives you isolated pure & pristine environments to build packa

Re: End of Saga: Re: Dependency hell following dpkg --audit

2013-11-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 17 November 2013 21:32:49 Bob Proulx wrote: > It looks like you had a failed upgrade that you didn't notice had > failed. Indeed! Since I last posted I have checked and discovered this. I hadn't even thought of it as possible, so hadn't checked. It would happen on this one. :-( I h

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #1401

2013-11-17 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 11/17/2013 05:08 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: help This has be the least informative request ever seen in a community support forum. SOS would have provided even less information ... -Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #1401

2013-11-17 Thread Neal Murphy
> help Could you be a little more specific? The dearth of data prevents us from offering meaningful, targetted assistance. This has be the least informative request ever seen in a community support forum. . . . Oh, wait. Mayhap the poster was trying to get the mailing list's command/operatio

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #1401

2013-11-17 Thread Garth Wells
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Re: Automatic installs

2013-11-17 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 17, 2013 04:20:25 PM Bob Proulx wrote: > P.S. Yes I know mixing awk and grep is silly since awk can do it all. > > dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print$2}' | grep ^lib) > > I normally would have said this and done it all with awk. > > dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l |

Re: End of Saga: Re: Dependency hell following dpkg --audit

2013-11-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Following Andrei's advice, I used dpkg --audit to sort out problems > > with network connections, which it did very successfully. Good advice. > > In the process, I discovered that there was quite a list of > > unconfigured packages. These I have been tr

Re: Wheezy/XFCE: remote desktop service difficulties with VNC server

2013-11-17 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 17, 2013 03:53:14 PM Reco wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:15:02 + > > Ron Leach wrote: > > X could not detect the attached screen because its cable is switched > > across a KVM which seems to destroy the EDID information; I'd already > > manually configured a Modeline for

Re: Automatic installs

2013-11-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> "-s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act > >> No action. Perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not > >> actually change the system." - http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get=20 > > > > Isn't needing something like -s too dangerous

Re: Wheezy/XFCE: remote desktop service difficulties with VNC server

2013-11-17 Thread Reco
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:15:02 + Ron Leach wrote: > X could not detect the attached screen because its cable is switched > across a KVM which seems to destroy the EDID information; I'd already > manually configured a Modeline for 1440x900. (This works fine on the > attached screen even thro

Re: Wheezy/XFCE: remote desktop service difficulties with VNC server

2013-11-17 Thread Emilio Lopez
On Nov 17, 2013 9:15 PM, "Ron Leach" wrote: > > On 17/11/2013 18:01, Reco wrote: >> >> >> Your .Xauthority seems to be misconfigured (probably owned by root). >> Please ensure that this file is owned by regular user and has 0600 >> permissions. > > > Thanks, done. > >> >> >> Your xstartup script t

Re: Wheezy/XFCE: remote desktop service difficulties with VNC server

2013-11-17 Thread Ron Leach
On 17/11/2013 18:01, Reco wrote: Your .Xauthority seems to be misconfigured (probably owned by root). Please ensure that this file is owned by regular user and has 0600 permissions. Thanks, done. Your xstartup script tries to execute non-installed 'gnome-session'. Try replacing 'gnome-sess

Re: Wheezy/XFCE: difficulties trying to provide remote desktop service with VNC server

2013-11-17 Thread Reco
Hi On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:57:14 + Ron Leach wrote: >> xauth: /home/ward/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored Your .Xauthority seems to be misconfigured (probably owned by root). Please ensure that this file is owned by regular user and has 0600 permissions. > The vnc4server

Re: Automatic installs

2013-11-17 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-17, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> "-s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act >> No action. Perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not >> actually change the system." - http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get=20 > > Isn't needing something like -s too dangerous? Wha

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-17 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 17. November 2013, 16:57:30 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:47:40 + > Alex Naysmith wrote: > > Hello Alex, > > >#aptitude purge nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx > > > >The nvidia driver is still present and functioning. During the [failed] > >purge, I received the mess

Re: Debian 7 installation

2013-11-17 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Sunday 17 November 2013 04:16 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote: Hello, I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, I press "Install" and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black and I have no id

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:47:40 + Alex Naysmith wrote: Hello Alex, >#aptitude purge nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx > >The nvidia driver is still present and functioning. During the [failed] >purge, I received the message 'No packages will be installed, upgraded, >or removed'. nvidia-glx is a tr

Wheezy/XFCE: difficulties trying to provide remote desktop service with VNC server

2013-11-17 Thread Ron Leach
I'm hitting a problem trying to achieve remote desktop sharing for a new-build box with Wheezy/XFCE. The box is connected to the LAN for setting up and testing, and is assigned a static IPv4 address 192.168.0.100 . A normal XFCE user screen is presented (on a connected monitor) after login.

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-17 Thread Alex Naysmith
After purging the nvidia drivers with the following command: #aptitude purge nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx The nvidia driver is still present and functioning. During the [failed] purge, I received the message 'No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed'. On 10 November 2013 21:44,

Re: Dependency hell following dpkg --audit

2013-11-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 17 November 2013 14:57:29 Curt wrote: > On 2013-11-17, Robin wrote: > > To start I'd > > > > apt-get install --reinstall binutils module-init-tools > > > > then try > > > > apt-get -f install > > > > which will try to fix problem or will provide some error messages > > Is "dpkg --configu

End of Saga: Re: Dependency hell following dpkg --audit

2013-11-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 17 November 2013 12:08:05 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Following Andrei's advice, I used dpkg --audit to sort out problems > with network connections, which it did very successfully. > > In the process, I discovered that there was quite a list of > unconfigured packages. These I have been trying

Re: Dependency hell following dpkg --audit

2013-11-17 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-17, Robin wrote: > > To start I'd > > apt-get install --reinstall binutils module-init-tools > > then try > > apt-get -f install > > which will try to fix problem or will provide some error messages > Is "dpkg --configure -a" helpful, or would that just leave her with the hellish list

Re: Dependency hell following dpkg --audit

2013-11-17 Thread Robin
To start I'd apt-get install --reinstall binutils module-init-tools then try apt-get -f install which will try to fix problem or will provide some error messages rob On 17 November 2013 12:08, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Following Andrei's advice, I used dpkg --audit to sort out problems > with

Dependency hell following dpkg --audit

2013-11-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
Following Andrei's advice, I used dpkg --audit to sort out problems with network connections, which it did very successfully. In the process, I discovered that there was quite a list of unconfigured packages. These I have been trying to configure. In the process I have unleashed a dependency

MS Natural Up and Left mapped wrong

2013-11-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
Hadn't upgraded my Sid box in a while, I did, and suddenly two of my directional keys are mapped wrong. Up gives me Backspace (Backspace key also works...), and Left gives me Alt GR from xev: KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x141, root 0xaf, subw 0x0, time 3924411, (12,251)

Re: Debian 7 installation

2013-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, > I press "Install" and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black > and I have no idea what is going on. Right. Could you tell us a bit

Re: Automatic installs

2013-11-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I am in a similar situation after upgrading some gnome components to their packages in experimental. the "gnome" (and related) metapackages are still at their sid versions, they have versioned dependencies and I think therefore have been removed. In my case I wait until the metapackages are updated