Re: What happens when a bad package is in Debian stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Peter Michaux wrote: > Suppose there a nice package has been in Debian stable for years. If a > new version is added to Debian stable and problems are discovered > after it is added, what happens to fix the problem? If problems are found after it has been released then file a bug report on it. In

What happens when a bad package is in Debian stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, Suppose there a nice package has been in Debian stable for years. If a new version is added to Debian stable and problems are discovered after it is added, what happens to fix the problem? If the new version can be fixed? Is a fixed version added with a higher number? What if the new version

Re: How to undo Java installation and settings

2015-01-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Dalios wrote: > a few days ago I had to install Java in a laptop in order for a web > application to be able to function properly. I followed directions > found in the internet (mostly the debian wiki and the Adobe > download page). For Java all you need to do is to install one of the Java package

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Hartge wrote: > You don't need the manually invoke /bin/bash if you just add > "#!/bin/bash" as the first line of your shell script, which Don already > pointed out: > >> 3) It may not be executable. Yes. Make sure it is executable. chmod a+x /home/user/bin/email-script Bob P.S. Persona

Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 11:12:35PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Well, despite flash plugin suggested by others (which is stuck at an > old flash version), you can try instead the freshplayerplugin [1][2], > which wraps chromium-pepper-flash (part of the chrome browser [3], but > some non-free pa

Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > ... > Since Flash is no longer supported or updated by Adobe, what do I use > instead and how do I get it installed so firefox and Sea Monkey can use it? > ... Well, despite flash plugin suggested by others (which is stuck at an old flash v

Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, January 4, 2015 10:10:04 AM UTC+5:30, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 08:47:54PM -0500, Gevorg Abrahamian wrote: > > Maybe you can take a look at Pipelight. I use it for Silverlight support but > > I believe it supports Flash as well. > > Or just Flash? Install flashplugin-no

Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Greg Madden
+1 The latest Firefox accepts flashplayer flash 11.2 r202.425, without complaining.. Firefox was complaining about the version I had, Wheezy, + backports. On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 08:47:54PM -0500, Gevorg Abrahamian wrote: > > Maybe you can t

Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 08:47:54PM -0500, Gevorg Abrahamian wrote: > Maybe you can take a look at Pipelight. I use it for Silverlight support but > I believe it supports Flash as well. Or just Flash? Install flashplugin-nonfree. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com R

Re: error opening /media/cdrom0/BDMV/BACKUP/index.bdmv

2015-01-03 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > > Trying to automount a dvd for playback and I'm seeing this. > > I'm seeing these messages, too, even for removable USB drives. (Jessie, > amd64, running Xfce.) I filed a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774532 mike -- To UNSU

Re: What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Gevorg Abrahamian
Maybe you can take a look at Pipelight. I use it for Silverlight support but I believe it supports Flash as well. http://pipelight.net/cms/installation.html and http://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-debian.html Regards, Gevorg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Unable to upgrade testing system

2015-01-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/3/15, Siard wrote: > > I can confirm that I have been able to fix these very problems using > aptitude. It was an install of jessie that had not been updated for > a month or two giving these errors, whereas another install of jessie > that had been updated regularly, did not have such proble

What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
I have searched and searched and I can't find a definitive solution. Since Flash is no longer supported or updated by Adobe, what do I use instead and how do I get it installed so firefox and Sea Monkey can use it? Thanks for any help and/or suggestions. TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: alternatives for a proprietary lib file

2015-01-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 03 Jan 2015, Sam Halliday wrote: > On 3 January 2015 at 17:19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Sat, 03 Jan 2015, Sam Halliday wrote: > >> /opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so > >> > >> I'd like to be able to use the Debian alternatives system to point at > >> this file, w

Re: Unable to upgrade testing system

2015-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 07:12:48PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Jan 2, 2015 6:33 PM, "Sam Varghese" wrote: > > > > I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for the > > past couple of weeks and have been getting the following errors: > > > [oodles of errors] > > > Pr

Re: How to undo Java installation and settings

2015-01-03 Thread Dalios
On 01/03/2015 08:31 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 01/03/2015 03:06 AM, Dalios wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> a few days ago I had to install Java in a laptop in order for a web >> application to be able to function properly. I followed directions >> found in the internet (mostly the debian wiki and the Ado

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Manikandan M wrote: > I couldn't find why the script is not working in cron. Just replaced the > crontab entry with the following and it worked > * 9 * * * /bin/bash /user/bin/email-script This will run the script _every minute_ on the ninth hour. I don't think this is what you really want. It

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-03 Thread Manikandan M
Hi, I couldn't find why the script is not working in cron. Just replaced the crontab entry with the following and it worked * 9 * * * /bin/bash /user/bin/email-script Thanks everyone for your help. Regards, Mani On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2015, Ma

Re: alternatives for a proprietary lib file

2015-01-03 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/03/2015 11:29 AM, Sam Halliday wrote: Hi all, I have a license for the Intel Math Kernel Library which has a file /opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so that provides a lot of interfaces, such as BLAS/CBLAS (i.e. libblas.so.3) and LAPACK (i.e. liblapack.so.3). I'd like to be able to

Re: sig1-gr

2015-01-03 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/03/2015 03:06 AM, Dalios wrote: Hello all, a few days ago I had to install Java in a laptop in order for a web application to be able to function properly. I followed directions found in the internet (mostly the debian wiki and the Adobe download page). It would have been far easier to u

Re: alternatives for a proprietary lib file

2015-01-03 Thread Sam Halliday
On 3 January 2015 at 17:19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2015, Sam Halliday wrote: >> /opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so >> >> I'd like to be able to use the Debian alternatives system to point at >> this file, without having to manually create symbolic links. > > Alt

Re: alternatives for a proprietary lib file

2015-01-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 03 Jan 2015, Sam Halliday wrote: > I have a license for the Intel Math Kernel Library which has a file > > /opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so > > that provides a lot of interfaces, such as BLAS/CBLAS (i.e. > libblas.so.3) and LAPACK (i.e. liblapack.so.3). > > I'd like to be able t

Bareos, dbconfig-common, PostgreSQL and PAM: no module specific data

2015-01-03 Thread Ralph Aichinger
(Sorry if this is a duplicate message, I tried to post this an hour or so ago, but saw nothing on the list.) I want to install bareos, the bacula derived backup software with a PostgreSQL/dbconfig setup on a sid/amd64 system. I am stuck at the following error: An error occurred while installing t

Re: puzzling aptitude full-upgrade outptu

2015-01-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-01-03 16:25 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote: > I get this from 2 separate debian installs of jessie > > host1 > aptitude full-upgrade > > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > gnome-icon-theme sgml-base sgml-data > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed

alternatives for a proprietary lib file

2015-01-03 Thread Sam Halliday
Hi all, I have a license for the Intel Math Kernel Library which has a file /opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so that provides a lot of interfaces, such as BLAS/CBLAS (i.e. libblas.so.3) and LAPACK (i.e. liblapack.so.3). I'd like to be able to use the Debian alternatives system to point at

umtsmon - will it be interesting?

2015-01-03 Thread Hans
Dear list, happy new year! I think, many of you are looking for a tool, that makes GPRS/UMTS-connection as easy as possible. I looked around, and really, there are not many. There is gnome-ppp, networkmanager and modem-manager-gui, but none of them made me really happy. But there is a solution

puzzling aptitude full-upgrade outptu

2015-01-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I get this from 2 separate debian installs of jessie host1 aptitude full-upgrade The following partially installed packages will be configured: gnome-icon-theme sgml-base sgml-data No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 n

Re: GNU Barcodes

2015-01-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 01:22:25AM -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > On 12/11/2014 04:59 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 01:54:08AM -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > >>Dear List - > >> > >>I wish to be able to print a barcode .5 inches from top of the page and > >>centered. > >> > >

Re: Unable to upgrade testing system

2015-01-03 Thread Siard
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: > > I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for > > the past couple of weeks and have been getting the following errors: > > > > [oodles of errors] > > > > Processing was halted because there were too many errors. > > E: Sub-proce

Re: Best tools for hard drive recovery

2015-01-03 Thread Gerard ROBIN
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:24:56PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 16:24:56 -0800 > From: Kevin O'Gorman > To: Debian Users > Subject: Best tools for hard drive recovery > of the same size that's empty, and I could just copy the whole drive to it, > but I need a tool that's

Re: Best tools for hard drive recovery

2015-01-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 02 ian 15, 16:24:56, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > In the midst of other activities around my hard drives, I realized one of > my old backup drives has suffered some damage. Not all of the files are > readable. > > I have more recent backups, so there's nothing catasrophic here, but before > I j

Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

2015-01-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 02 ian 15, 12:01:28, Peter Easthope wrote: > Hi, > > Does the IMAP protocol allow retrieving a message, body included, from > a server and then deleting from the server while keeping on the client? > This might be described as simulating a POP behavour in IMAP. > > If the protocol allows t

Re: How to undo Java installation and settings

2015-01-03 Thread Dalios
(The previous message had something wrong regarding its font settings as well as a wrong subject line; so I am sending this again) Hello all, a few days ago I had to install Java in a laptop in order for a web application to be able to function properly. I followed directions found in the in

sig1-gr

2015-01-03 Thread Dalios
Hello all, a few days ago I had to install Java in a laptop in order for a web application to be able to function properly. I followed directions found in the internet (mostly the debian wiki and the Adobe download page). Now I want to uninstall Java and undo all settings to go were I was before