Debian sid transition to KDE 5?

Dear all, I am running Debian sid since 2006 with no problem at all. When I type in aptitude dist-upgrade, I have been getting the below messages. To fix it, please, is it just question of time (something related to KDE 5 transitional packages)? Best wishes, Andrea The following NEW packages

Re: Currency problem

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:07:17 +1000 Heracles sent: > When I use Google Chrome it converts all currency to euros. What have > I done wrong? Probably not indicated in Google Chrome that you are in Australia? Be well, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 **

Re: Upgrading Debian

On 9/14/2015 2:33 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I know. It took me a while to work out what he actually wanted with all the drama. ;-) People who come from Ubuntu don't understand about point releases. Since I don't know Ubuntu, I don't know what it is that they are thinking of. Lisi I do run Ub

Currency problem

I have Debian 8 installed and cannot get it to display in Australian Dollars. I have set the locale to English(Australian) and get the following readout from locale: LANG=en_AU LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_AU" LC_NUMERIC="en_AU" LC_TIME="en_AU" LC_COLLATE="en_AU" LC_MONETARY="en_AU" LC_MESSAGES="en_A

Re: Question about "reportbug" tool and -B / --bts option

> I want to send a bug report to x2go BTS (sub...@bugs.x2go.org) with > "reportbug" tool. They said that I can use "reportbug" in here > . > > I can show the valid BTS servers with: > $ reportbug --bts help > Valid bug tracking systems: > default > guug > d

testing/stretch package source

Hey there, Why are some common packages like gnuradio and gqrx not available in testing/stretch at the moment? It appears both packages were available at some point because google has cached both of these links: https://packages.debian.org/*stretch*/*gqrx*-sdr

Re: Hotspot configuration

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:18:15 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > So, specifically how one needs to use hostapd. This guide might help. If you have troubles using it, let us know. https://nims11.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/hostapd-the-linux-way-to-create-virtual-wifi-access-point/ pgpz_S04eWu3j.pgp D

Re: How to find pkg specific font belongs to

On 9/14/15, Harry Putnam wrote: > I want to find the exact package font: > > -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 > > belongs to. > > I did search `find /usr/share/fonts -iname '*dec*' >/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/deccurs.pcf.gz >/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/decsess.pcf.

cheese is broken in wheezy as is v4l2ucp

Greetings; Debian wheezy, 7.8 I think install, on an older (and halt buggy) athlon amd64 dual core machine. Attempting to run cheese to see if a rather high priced, hidef webcam works, gets me a screen full of identical squawks that read like this: (cheese:5847): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to

Re: URGENTLY need help on using VPN

Thank Gabriel Corona! I knew it I believe there are many people using VPN The government might find it hard to punish many many people If they think VPN is dangerous, they can simply disable it but disabling VPN will harm the government's image On Mon,

Re: URGENTLY need help on using VPN

Thank Frederic! but I have received it in pdf format sent by kind user The Chinese firewall is sophisticated and even sending/receiving mail at YahooMail are blocked sometime Some Chinese free mail server doesn't allow you to subscribe to this list O

Question about "reportbug" tool and -B / --bts option

Hello, I want to send a bug report to x2go BTS (sub...@bugs.x2go.org) with "reportbug" tool. They said that I can use "reportbug" in here . I can show the valid BTS servers with: $ reportbug --bts help Valid bug tracking systems: default guug debian ubun

Re: Mdadm grub install problem

Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : > command "grub-install --modules=part_gpt /dev/sdc" resolved the issue for > me. Glad to hear it. > however i also wanted to know that how it actually works. > what is the difference. i can understand i am mentioning gpt module in > the command but what is the theo

Re: Mdadm grub install problem

command "grub-install --modules=part_gpt /dev/sdc" resolved the issue for me. however i also wanted to know that how it actually works. what is the difference. i can understand i am mentioning gpt module in the command but what is the theoretical story behind this to work. or what is the difference

How to find pkg specific font belongs to

I want to find the exact package font: -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 belongs to. I did search `find /usr/share/fonts -iname '*dec*' /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/deccurs.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/decsess.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/dec-special

Re: URGENTLY need help on using VPN

Hi, > I'm in China and the site above is blocked. Thanks! You should be aware that if you use plain OpenVPN, people will be able to say that you're using a VPN (but they won't be able to say what's passing in the VPN -- if your VPN is well configured). If this is an issue for you, you might want

Re: URGENTLY need help on using VPN

On Friday 11 September 2015 14:52:19 Li Wei wrote: > Thank Georgi Naplatanov and all those who reply! > > The Chinese firewall is sophisticated > and I have not been able to download > http://openvpn.net/howto.html > sent in attachment by kind users. I can encrypt the file and send it to you. I w

Re: Upgrading Debian

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 14 September 2015 05:00:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 13 September 2015 16:13:19 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > > > I just want to make sure ag

rsyncd - chroot failed

Hi! I have installed rsync in Jessie. But every attempt to sync from a remote computer leads to the error message: @ERROR: chroot failed rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1635) [sender=3.1.1] Here is my rsyncd.conf: hosts allow = 192.168.56.0/24 use chroot

Re: Upgrading Debian

Quoting Himanshu Shekhar (irm2015...@iiita.ac.in): > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one version of Debian > to other without losing data or without formatiing the partition, simply as > Ubuntu does. The more times you ask, the more different answers you will receive. At s

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: richard@jessie:~$ ls -l /media/richard/Lexar/dvd8_2.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard 3976200192 Sep 9 07:36 /media/richard/Lexar/dvd8_2.iso richard@jessie:~$ /sbin/isosize /media/richard/Lexar/dvd8_2.iso 4677738496 You will need to get a ne

Re: Hotspot configuration

So, specifically how one needs to use hostapd. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 01:52:43PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > Hey, I wish I could run apps as connectify. > > However, the hotspot doesn't work from the GNOME network settings. >

Re: Upgrading Debian

On Monday 14 September 2015 14:01:48 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:12:42AM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > > On 09/13/2015 10:57 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > > > version of Debian to other without losing data or wi

Re: Upgrading Debian

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:12:42AM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > On 09/13/2015 10:57 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > > version of Debian to other without losing data or without > > formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does. An earlie

cups Unable to locate printer

/Hi everyone i have setup a printserver and i am able to printer locally from the printserver, i have setup a clientserver to print to the printserver, avahi is installed on both servers, from the clientserver when i try a test print from the cups admin page the print job returns with the following

Re: Upgrading Debian

On Monday 14 September 2015 05:00:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 13 September 2015 16:13:19 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > > > > version

Re: Hotspot configuration

Hi. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 01:52:43PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Hey, I wish I could run apps as connectify. > However, the hotspot doesn't work from the GNOME network settings. It's somewhat expected. After all, 'GNOME network settings' is simply a front-end to Network Manager. An

Hotspot configuration

Hey, I wish I could run apps as connectify. However, the hotspot doesn't work from the GNOME network settings. Also, the hotspotd package from the attachment doesn't work. I want to use my hotspot from the attached package as I tried it on other Ubuntu laptops (no offence to Debian) and I desire it

Re: Kernel crash message help

On 13/09/15 19:47, Glenn English wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2015, at 4:04 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> > > Don't ya just love it when there's an error and the message is "Oops" :-) > > A guess from a for sure non-expert in case nobody knowledgeable answers: > > Try replacing the SD card. Pre

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > richard@jessie:~$ ls -l /media/richard/Lexar/dvd8_2.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard 3976200192 Sep 9 07:36 > /media/richard/Lexar/dvd8_2.iso > > richard@jessie:~$ /sbin/isosize /media/richard/Lexar/dvd8_2.iso > 4677738496 You will need to get a new dvd8_2.iso o

Re: Bug report

On Sunday 13 September 2015 19:53:52 Peter Gonsalves wrote: > I'm guessing my bug may have already been reported but have no idea what > categories to use for reporting so I can't check. The bug is brightness on > an HP EliteBook 8560w. The buttons adjust the app but this has no effect on > the scr

Re: Mdadm grub install problem

Gary Dale a écrit : > On 13/09/15 04:28 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> GRUB loading. >> Welcome to GRUB! >> >> error: no such device: 2 >> Entering rescue mode... >> grub rescue> >> >> moreover when i use command "ls" >> >> it shows me (hda0) > > mdadm doesn't care about partition tables.