Re: Canon PIXMA MG 2922 and 64-bit Debian Wheezy

2015-02-10 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:26:38 -0500 brian wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does anyone know of the whereabouts of a working driver for the Canon > PIXMA MP 2922 printer/scanner/copier? > > I did check up before buying the printer, and indications were that > the drivers from Canon Asia would work (as u

Canon PIXMA MG 2922 and 64-bit Debian Wheezy

2015-02-10 Thread brian
Hi all, Does anyone know of the whereabouts of a working driver for the Canon PIXMA MP 2922 printer/scanner/copier? I did check up before buying the printer, and indications were that the drivers from Canon Asia would work (as usual, Canon USA doesn't even recognise the existence of Linux as r

Re: Debugging ipv6

2015-02-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/02/15 13:02, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:50:19PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I have a VPS, with an ipv6 address. It responds correctly to ping packets: >> >> tony@tony-lx:~$ ping6 vanderhoff.org >> PING vanderhoff.org(2a03:9800:10:54::1) 56 data bytes >> 64 bytes f

Re: Upgrading, was Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/10/2015 02:42 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: That leads me to ask... I deleted the list and just left that first one because it's my absolute most important one these days. Did you mention... having a LiveDVD handy? Having one here SAVED MY BACKSIDE three or four days ago. That was my point

Re: Upgrading, was Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Cindy-Sue Causey (butterflyby...@gmail.com): > [...] I keep .debs archived to save wear and > tear on both my ISP (Internet provider) and Debian volunteer > repository servers.. Yes; as you see I use apt-cacher-ng which does a really good job. At some point I should find out how to copy it

Re: Upgrading, was Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/10/15, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): >> >> Some people also recommend checking progress and the state of the system >> by doing a reboot between an upgrade and a dist-upgrade. > > Lots of good advice here. I can't remember where I got my checklist > from but it's

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 17:11:47 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > Done and got a new shiny Jessie 8 without any problemsso far. \o/ Great!! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Delay playing videos, was Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting songbird (songb...@anthive.com): > David Wright wrote: > ... > > someone to answer. To spell it out, I would like to click on a youtube > > link from a google search and read the video's metadata and any > > comments without immediately seeing the progress bar vacuuming up > > 500MB worth o

Re: Deb package update in depth

2015-02-10 Thread songbird
Kirill Proskurin wrote: > > I'm trying to understand how deb package update happens in details. > Is it transaction of some kind? Atomic? Temp dirs and move? And so on. I > cant find any info about this in official docs and in Google in general. dpkg is the tool used which uses various rules at

Re: Permanent Fave: apt-show-versions -u (Was: help in purging old packages)

2015-02-10 Thread songbird
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: ... > One easy daily to-do list check off for me these days is: > > $ apt-get update > $ apt-show-versions -u this list includes things you've held or pinned. since you are on dialup have you tried debdelta (and explicitly debdelta-upgrade)? it helps at times. even n

Re: Delay playing videos, was Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread songbird
David Wright wrote: ... > someone to answer. To spell it out, I would like to click on a youtube > link from a google search and read the video's metadata and any > comments without immediately seeing the progress bar vacuuming up > 500MB worth of my monthly bandwidth. i don't know of anything w

Re: Deb package update in depth

2015-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kirill Proskurin (olor...@gmail.com): > Hello. > > I'm trying to understand how deb package update happens in details. > Is it transaction of some kind? Atomic? Temp dirs and move? And so > on. I cant find any info about this in official docs and in Google > in general. > > I want to pack

Permanent Fave: apt-show-versions -u (Was: help in purging old packages)

2015-02-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/10/15, Bob Proulx wrote: > > If you are an apt-get command line person (like I am) instead of the > aptitude methods already mentioned then you can use apt-show-versions > to show you what is installed but no longer has an install candidate. > > apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate > > Pack

Re: Deb package update in depth

2015-02-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 06:53:52PM +0300, Kirill Proskurin wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to understand how deb package update happens in details. > Is it transaction of some kind? Atomic? Temp dirs and move? And so on. I > cant find any info about this in official docs and in Google in general.

Re: Delay playing videos, was Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Curt (cu...@free.fr): > On 2015-02-10, David Wright wrote: > > [...] To spell it out, I would like to click on a youtube > > link from a google search and read the video's metadata and any > > comments without immediately seeing the progress bar vacuuming up > > 500MB worth of my monthly b

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Brian wrote: > On Tue 10 Feb 2015 at 14:45:43 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Reco wrote: [snipped 11 lines] > You really should read the release notes. :) > >In some cases, doing the full upgrade (as described below) >directly might remov

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:16:21 -0500 Michael Graham wrote: Hello Michael, >fixed it but restarting wasn't enough. Strange indeed. Still, all sorted now, so it's moot. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Is she real

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Michael Graham
On 10 February 2015 at 10:42, Brad Rogers wrote: > If you only updated the flashplayer, without clearing the copy Ff was > already using from RAM, then of course it's going to continue using the > old version. > > All you needed to do was stop/restart Ff. A reboot never fixed it but the crazy ren

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:05:29 -0500 Michael Graham wrote: Hello Michael, >Does firefox have a cache of the details somewhere that this magic >trick has caused to reload? In any case the issue is gone. If you only updated the flashplayer, without clearing the copy Ff was already using from RAM,

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:03:57 + Lisi Reisz wrote: Hello Lisi, >So sites continue to complain or even refue to run. Some, yes. Mostly because such sites require facilities not available in the Linux version of flashplayer. Or, at the very least, assume Linux can't handle flash(0). IMU that

Re: Delay playing videos, was Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-10, David Wright wrote: >> >> That's what I said (in so many words). > > I'm sorry if you feel that I have trodden on your toes or plagiarised > your post. However, I need to illustrate the problem that I would love > someone to answer. To spell it out, I would like to click on a youtu

Deb package update in depth

2015-02-10 Thread Kirill Proskurin
Hello. I'm trying to understand how deb package update happens in details. Is it transaction of some kind? Atomic? Temp dirs and move? And so on. I cant find any info about this in official docs and in Google in general. I want to package our in house php code in deb and deploy it in producti

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-10, Michael Graham wrote: > I managed to fix my issue but I suspect that it was more of a > coincidence than anything else. I move the file out of the way, > restarted firefox, confirmed in about:plugins that the plugin was > gone, moved the file back, restarted firefox. Ta da! This

Delay playing videos, was Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Curt (cu...@free.fr): > On 2015-02-10, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Curt (cu...@free.fr): > >> > >> I updated to the latest version but still get security warnings (and > >> have to click on "allow" or something of the kind). > > > > I rather enjoy this misfeature. It means I can click

Upgrading, was Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > Some people also recommend checking progress and the state of the system > by doing a reboot between an upgrade and a dist-upgrade. Lots of good advice here. I can't remember where I got my checklist from but it's grow like topsy over the years. Please ha

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 14:57:51 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Seriously, I can't read ip. I just had another try, and it has improved. Maybe by the time ifconfig is finally dead or useless, ip will be useful! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Michael Graham
I managed to fix my issue but I suspect that it was more of a coincidence than anything else. I move the file out of the way, restarted firefox, confirmed in about:plugins that the plugin was gone, moved the file back, restarted firefox. Ta da! Does firefox have a cache of the details somewhere t

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 February 2015 16:29:29 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:07:51 + (UTC) > Glyn Astill wrote: > > Hello Glyn, > > >I think the issue is that the flash plugin version stops at > >11.2 and there's been no further version. > > Adobe continue to backport security updates to the

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 February 2015 20:02:23 Bob Proulx wrote: > Hey if an old school dog like me can learn to deal with 'ip' instead > of 'ifconfig' then you can too. The problem, anyhow for me, is that ifconfig is legible and ip is not. So I shall use ifconfig for as long as almost possible and then ha

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-10, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Curt (cu...@free.fr): >> >> I updated to the latest version but still get security warnings (and >> have to click on "allow" or something of the kind). > > I rather enjoy this misfeature. It means I can click around those > That's what I said (in so m

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Curt (cu...@free.fr): > > I updated to the latest version but still get security warnings (and > have to click on "allow" or something of the kind). I rather enjoy this misfeature. It means I can click around those youtube playlists without the movies immediately playing. And lots of adve

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 09:02:42 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > And, if you do do it, do an > > #apt-get upgrade > > before the dist-upgrade. > > errmbefore which dist-upgrade?   And why? I am referrring to what you said. I'll quote: 2. followed by # apt-get update # apt-get --download-

Re: Iceweasel question

2015-02-10 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is there a procedure to enable javascript for iceweasel/firefox? > I believe nowadays (current versions) the only way to enable/disable javascript is by toggling the appropriate entry in 'about:config'. about:config javascript.enabled toggle to true I su

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 01:02:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > ip a > ip r > > The counters are not printed with those but since I think those should > be accessed using /proc (or /sys) I am not going to contribute to > pulling those from a command. But I will. ip --statistics link ip -s

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-10, Greg Madden wrote: > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so > Is this terse follow-up meant to suggest I put a copy of libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins in order to suppress the unwarranted warning messages? Maybe I should just try it and see. But I rather like

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Brian
On Tue 10 Feb 2015 at 14:45:43 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Reco wrote: > > > Since you're going to the trouble of pre-downloading packages > > for dist-upgrade, you might as well pre-download all of them: > > > > apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade > > apt-get update

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Dejan Jocic
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 10:14:24 AM Greg Madden wrote: > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Curt wrote: > > On 2015-02-10, Michael Graham wrote: > >> But Iceweasel is still reporting the previous version: > >> > >> File: libflashplayer.so > >> Pa

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread antispammbox-27
On this web page is not aviable: https://packages.debian.org/squeeze/flashplugin-nonfree Error Package not available in this suite. What that? :-) Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 03:37:46 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 03:04:44 AM Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:44:13 -0500 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > However I don't see that it was any color editing facilities > > > > No, that was my bad - sorry :( I

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-10, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 03:04:44 AM Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:44:13 -0500 >> >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Monday, February 09, 2015 11:01:10 PM David Wright wrote: >> > > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): >> > > [...] >> >

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Jochen Spieker
Sivaram Neelakantan: > > In for a penny, in for a pound. So I did get the libcurl4* install > from backports done. And everything installed swimmingly. Emacs and > Rstudio seem to work fine. Please do not assume that your readers have also read all other threads you participated in. I have no i

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread basti
You can also try https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin so you can use pepperflash (the chrome flashplayer) with firefox or something else. Deb packages are also available: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/05/install-fresh-player-plugin-in-ubuntu.html Regards, Basti On 10.02.2015 10:14, Greg Ma

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 03:04:44 AM Petter Adsen wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:44:13 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday, February 09, 2015 11:01:10 PM David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > > [...] > > > > > > > dm-tool sounds like something I sh

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Reco wrote: > Hi. > [snipped 23 lines] > You'll want sources from the backports too probably: > > deb-src http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian jessie-backports main thanks for that. > > >> #jessie R packages >> #deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/bin/linux/debian

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Greg Madden
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-10, Michael Graham wrote: > >> But Iceweasel is still reporting the previous version: >> >> File: libflashplayer.so >> Path: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so >> Version: 11.2.202.44

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 10 February 2015 08:13:11 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: [snipped 35 lines] > If everything installed swimmingly and is working fine, why? Well, everyone says move to Jessie. I thought once you get a clean system working, let's get on the bandwago

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:43:11PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > In for a penny, in for a pound. So I did get the libcurl4* install > from backports done. And everything installed swimmingly. Emacs and > Rstudio seem to work fine. > > Now, to the upgrade > > 1. Changed all whe

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread basti
Sometimes it helps when all needed packages are stored local. When something can get wrong it got wrong. In the past, when I upgrade a sparc machine from etch or lenny I don't know anymore I get an decency cycle. So I can solve it with "dpkg -i ..." On 10.02.2015 09:28, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I never

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 08:13:11 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > In for a penny, in for a pound. So I did get the libcurl4* install > from backports done. And everything installed swimmingly. Emacs and > Rstudio seem to work fine. > > Now, to the upgrade > > 1. Changed all wheezy to jessie

jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
In for a penny, in for a pound. So I did get the libcurl4* install from backports done. And everything installed swimmingly. Emacs and Rstudio seem to work fine. Now, to the upgrade 1. Changed all wheezy to jessie in sources.list --8<---cut here---start---

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-10, Michael Graham wrote: > But Iceweasel is still reporting the previous version: > > File: libflashplayer.so > Path: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so > Version: 11.2.202.440 > State: Enabled (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE) > Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 > > Does anyone

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-10 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:44:13 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday, February 09, 2015 11:01:10 PM David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > [...] > > > > > dm-tool sounds like something I should look at, but it is not in > > > the repo's I address. Fixable? > > > > >