Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-30 Thread Doug
On 01/30/2015 11:55 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Rusi Mody wrote: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command is new for Wheezy a

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Rusi Mody wrote: > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command is new for Wheezy and later. Older systems do not have that fea

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Rusi Mody (rustompm...@gmail.com): > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? > > Yeah I know that > dpkg --get-selections > will get ALL packages > > How to filter out the zillions of lib... and only see what was manually > installed? Would it help to look at /var/lo

Re: Problems playing stuff on Soundcloud

2015-01-30 Thread Paul Werner
Hi I had the same problem here - pressing the play-button resulted in a calming animation, but no sound at all. I solved the problem by deactivating the Adblock- plugin on the Soundcloud-page. Do you have something similar installed? Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

list non auto packages

2015-01-30 Thread Rusi Mody
Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Yeah I know that dpkg --get-selections will get ALL packages How to filter out the zillions of lib... and only see what was manually installed? Yeah I remember some answer to this a few months ago. The closest I can get is aptitude se

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 15:00:17 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > > > > > > So I can't install ppp and so I won't be able to connect to internet. > > > > Insert the pendrive, and see where it's mounted (fr

Re: PDF forms and field issues

2015-01-30 Thread Anil Duggirala
Is there a way for you to check if specific fonts are being assigned to the input fields? Im sure there are better suited tools for your purposes, have you tried scribus? On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 09:50 +1300, Bruce Ward wrote: > I created (LibreOffice) a PDF document with user-entry fields. Sent it

Re: PDF forms and field issues

2015-01-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Bruce Ward wrote: > I created (LibreOffice) a PDF document with user-entry fields. Sent it to a > friend with a Mac to check that it worked. He filled in fields and returned > it to me saying it worked fine. > > There is a problem in that the fields appear blank (e

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 15:00:17 -0600, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > > > > So I can't install ppp and so I won't be able to connect to internet. > > Insert the pendrive, and see where it's mounted (from the logs, console etc.) > > mount -t auto /dev/s

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 19:36:03 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > By "install Debian" do you mean you go all the way through the installer > > menu and then finish the install by booting into the new system? > > > I'll try to explain better (strange, it seems so clear to me).

PDF forms and field issues

2015-01-30 Thread Bruce Ward
I created (LibreOffice) a PDF document with user-entry fields. Sent it to a friend with a Mac to check that it worked. He filled in fields and returned it to me saying it worked fine. There is a problem in that the fields appear blank (except for the one checkbox). Having now tried a number of

Re: GHOST, Am I ok?

2015-01-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
We like to say "there's no such thing as a dumb question," but in practice I find it difficult to post something like my OP on this GHOST question. I felt really dumb dumb dumb. So *thank you* Debian Folk for a gracious reception and a nice little thread following on my display of cognitive de

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > I download the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and put it onto pendrive > stick, then start the installation trough the Debian Installer. Everything > goes fine all the way through the installer men

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On 30/01/2015 14:36, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > >> By "install Debian" do you mean you go all the way through the installer >> menu and then finish the install by booting into the new system? > > > I'll try to explain better (strange, it seems so clear to me). > > T[...] > > At t

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > By "install Debian" do you mean you go all the way through the installer > menu and then finish the install by booting into the new system? I'll try to explain better (strange, it seems so clear to me). The problem only occurs with pendrive stick, not with CD-ROM. I.e.: From:

Re: VMWre Player Full Screen Question

2015-01-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:18:32 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > When I open VMWare Player in Win 7 the window is not full screen. Now I > selected the option to "Enter full screen mode after powering on". This > is what happens, but Debian is booting and opening to a user (or as > root)

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 15:38:56 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I did more tests to the problem. The situation is the following. > > From: > > http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso. Now I have two > possibilities: > > 1) I burn that file

Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-30, Curt wrote: > On 2015-01-30, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> What about the Japanese? >> > > Sorry. What I read was restricted to anglophones. Well, let's say "American Study" using empirical evidence gathered in the good old USA applicable to, well, not the Japanese, obviously. No, I'm

Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > What about the Japanese? > Sorry. What I read was restricted to anglophones. What about illiterates? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:38:56 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hello Rodolfo, > connect to internet and download the remaining packages, the system > requires inserting a CD-ROM and won't see the pendrive. Somewhere, in your settings, you've still got the CD selected as a valid source. Remove it.

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I did more tests to the problem. The situation is the following. From: http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso. Now I have two possibilities: 1) I burn that file onto CD-ROM and install Debian on PC using that CD-ROM. After the base install

VMWre Player Full Screen Question

2015-01-30 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I hope that someone on this list may have a solution. I have looked at the VMWare Player pages on the web and have concluded that it's a real mess. I am running Debian Testing (v-8 daily build) in VMWare player v-7.0.0-2305329 with the accompanying Tools on my 64 bit N+MS win 7 Professional a

Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 11:55:59 +0100, Thomas Meier wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2015, 20:03:09 schrieb Brian: > > On Sun 25 Jan 2015 at 12:28:17 +0100, Thomas wrote: > > > I started the PC this morning, no printer was working so I used > > > http://localhost:631/admin and AFTER this I used y

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread John Hasler
Rodolfo Medina writes: > My problem now is that after netinstall, even installing ppp in > expert mode, that command turns to be `not found' It seems to have been removed from ppp. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 07:55:11 -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > On 30/01/2015 03:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > [...] > >>> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. > >> > >> I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. > > > > Sorry, it's something similar to a pe

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Dan Purgert writes: > On 30/01/2015 03:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> [...] To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. >>> >>> I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. >> >> Sorry, it's something similar to a pendrive. >> > > What is it exactly? Is it

Re: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-30 Thread Ron
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:24:32 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > What about the Japanese? not to mention the Israelis, Farsis, Urdus, and the Muslims ? Cheers, Ron. -- A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Dan Purgert
On 30/01/2015 03:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > [...] >>> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. >> >> I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. > > Sorry, it's something similar to a pendrive. > What is it exactly? Is it a 3/4g cell card (such as provided

Re: Duel Booting Debian on a Mac

2015-01-30 Thread José Silva
On 30-01-2015 00:57, John Holland wrote: In the end I uninstalled Debian because of the following problems: 1. The brightness of the screen does not readjust after suspend/resume in Debian (I worked hard trying to solve this with some published hacks, but no full success). 2. Often the Mac go

Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 30 January 2015 10:23:18 Curt wrote: > I once read > that flipping through magazines from back to front (a habit of mine, as > the interesting stuff is always in the back) is the sign of a left-handed > individual who has been deprived in infancy of his natural impulse > towards non-major

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Darac Marjal writes: > >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: >>> On 29/01/2015 15:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >>> >> >>> >> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. >>> > >>>

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Darac Marjal writes: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On 29/01/2015 15:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >> >> >> >> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. >> > >> > I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a m

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-30 Thread Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso
On Thursday 29 January 2015 19:44:10 Karen Lewellen wrote: > hi All, > If this is not the best place for such a question, direct me elsewhere. > Still I am wondering if there are open source /Linux based mobile devices? > If so who manufactures them? > thanks, > Karen Karen, The Jolla phone has

Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-30 Thread Thomas Meier
Am Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2015, 20:03:09 schrieb Brian: > On Sun 25 Jan 2015 at 12:28:17 +0100, Thomas wrote: > > I started the PC this morning, no printer was working so I used > > http://localhost:631/admin and AFTER this I used your commands, and this > > is > > the result: > > > > > > $ lpsta

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > On 29/01/2015 15:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > >> > >> To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. > > > > I doubt so. A "pendrive" is not a modem, it is a storage device. >

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-30 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2015-01-30 10:47, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Now that seems nifty. Don't know what your timeframe is, but have you considered the Neo900? See neo900.org. It is not out yet, but it seems promising. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-30, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Doesn't X documents this as Mouse-1 and Mouse-3? Clicking Mouse-1 is > the primary mouse button. No need to stress left or right and no need > for confusing "non-dominant mouse button" either. :-) I would go > with mouse-1. > Have we taken the politicall

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-30 Thread Peter Viskup
be careful with that as seems there is no working kernel at the moment - ask guys at Golden Delicious. And even the QTMoko dissapeared and the other distribution SHR is dead too. Unfortunately nobody taking care to continue this work. Take a look at Jolla or FirefoxOS devices. I would propose you t

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-30 Thread Karen Lewellen
Now that seems nifty. Thanks for it. Kare On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Karen Lewellen writes: > I did not mean destros. > I meant actually put into hardware and sold devices. > Thanks again for all the answers. Has Golden Delicious be suggested? They sell a board GTA04 that

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-30 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Karen Lewellen writes: > I did not mean destros. > I meant actually put into hardware and sold devices. > Thanks again for all the answers. Has Golden Delicious be suggested? They sell a board GTA04 that fits in the original openmoko case. http://www.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=Products --

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-30 Thread Karen Lewellen
I did not mean destros. I meant actually put into hardware and sold devices. Thanks again for all the answers. I did admire the creativity of the raspberry pie example I admit. Karen On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Stephen Allen wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 07:44:10PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: hi A

Re: GHOST, Am I ok?

2015-01-30 Thread Mart van de Wege
Jochen Spieker writes: > Sven Hartge: >> Darac Marjal wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:52:49PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Look at checkrestart in the debian-goodies package. >> >>> Or alternatively, if you're on testing or newer (or can accept a >>> backport), try needrestart (in

Re: Network install

2015-01-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > To connect to Internet, I use ppp and a pendrive as modem. It seems that the > minimal netinst doesn't install ppp, so I can't connect to Internet to fetch > the remaining packages. Am I missing something important, or should conclude > that t