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During my installs, one of the options in the 'select mirror' dialog
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> just
> > a modern, feature-rich word processor. That means allowing people to use
> > styles when they want to or ignoring them when they don't.
>
> By way of example, flush-right-with-dot-leader is trivial in WP8 (the
> native WP for Linux), impossible in LibreOffice without a "style"
> which is absurdly difficult to create.
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On Monday 26 August 2013 14:07:29 you wrote:
> I read the postings fairly recently on this list, then Googled and
> found:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#configure
>
> I decided to follow that. I also followed the trouble-shooting
> recommended.
>
> I have checked and as a resul
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote:
> I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2
> processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with
> a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From
> reading, I think I need to change the kernel to t
On Friday 28 June 2013 12:08:42 you wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 07:35:24PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> .snip
>
> > There's nothing wrong with running an outdated Debian,
>
> Until the security patches stop.
>
> > but users still
> > should take care what happens ups
On Saturday 22 June 2013 07:16:48 you wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 10:34 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Maybe it was replaced in Debian, but Open Office is still very much
> > alive and well (and owned by ASF).
> >
> > I'm with Jeff - I prefer OpenOffice over LibreOffice.
>
> I prefer
On Monday 20 May 2013 22:47:46 you wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:25 -0700
> >
> > Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > > One would think from what is said in the mans that the -t option
> > > would do that. Don't know why it doesn't.
> > >
> > > Also,
On Thursday 23 May 2013 09:36:34 you wrote:
> A recent thread made me aware of the availability of
> LO4 in wheezy-backports. Then I started wondering what
> advantages were to be gained from using this version,
> given that DEB packages are provided by the upstream
> developers themselves ?
> Perh
On Monday 20 May 2013 13:04:25 you wrote:
> apt-cache show
> libreoffice
The 'apt-cache + options" command works on the package cache, which
includes , afaik, all the packages reference in the sources.list.
'apt-get' install stable packages unless the '-t' option is used.
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On Wednesday 30 January 2013 5:58:43 pm you wrote:
> How can i install Firefox along with iceweasel in Debian wheezy?
>
> ~Akhilan
You can use both, they share the same directory in your home directory.
No problems here with that.
Firefox is a .tar.gz file so you have lots of options in instal
On Tuesday 29 January 2013 10:56:17 pm you wrote:
> On 30 January 2013 07:38, Sthu Deus wrote:
> > Good time of the day, Sharon.
> >
> > You wrote:
> > > Yesterday I removed the meta-package of LibreOffice, and then
> > > installed the source package of LibreOffice 3.6.5.2. I now find
> > > that i
On Tuesday 22 January 2013 1:31:00 am you wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:09:59 +0200
>
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Ma, 22 ian 13, 11:37:01, J B wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is there any lucky debian user having touchegg installed ?
> > > I have tried to install the ubuntu .deb but couldn't
On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote:
> When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
> package I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
> It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
>
> Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the
> web? [I use s
On Tuesday 20 November 2012 16:32:35 you wrote:
> I thought I read or heard on a podcast (TechSNAP???) that Firefox
> (and by implicit extension Iceweasel) was blacklisting sun-java due
> to Oracle's epic fail with security. Can anyone confirm?
Using Iceweasel 10.0.10, from mozilla.debian.net in S
On Saturday 17 November 2012 10:36:07 you wrote:
> I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer
> disk for a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB
> and stops. I tried to reformat to vfat with the same results. The df
> command shows the card has 32GB. I th
On Saturday 03 November 2012 12:47:53 you wrote:
> If there were a plugins directory, where would it be? I need to put
> libflashplayer.so in it, and it currently doesn't exist. Obviously I
> can create it, but I need to know where to put it.
>
> Iceweasel 10.0.10, LXDE and Squeeze.
>
> Thanks,
>
On Sunday 09 September 2012 6:47:32 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to
> > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of
> > different sort.
On Thursday 23 August 2012 1:41:37 pm Nelson Green wrote:
> > > Nelson,
> > > Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> > > or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from
> > > apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site?
> > >
> > > Sha
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 10:21:50 am Artifex Maximus wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Virtualbox on my Wheezy x86_64 is not showing 64 bit for guest and
> guest x86_64 OS installer displays CPU mismatch error. My CPU is a
> E5200 which does not have VT support. Virtualbox page says "On 64-bit
> hosts (whic
On Thursday 16 August 2012 9:10:46 am Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 16 aug 12, 03:05:44, Weaver wrote:
> > > I'd be very interested in an objective comparison with Libre Office and
> > > Abiword/Gnumeric.
>
> [snip comparison of LO with AW/GN]
>
> I meant those two with Calligra ;)
>
> Kind rega
On Friday 10 August 2012 1:17:16 am Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden:
> > On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > > > On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V
On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote:
> >> Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in
> >> ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD?
> >> Kindly give links or proc
a
mirror I get two selections in the 'tasksel' dialog .
1. Debian desktop environment
2. standard
This looks like a very large net install image . You will need more than one cd
to
have a desktop/ WM environment.
I can remember installing Debian from floppies, it seems cd's are lik
On Thursday 21 June 2012 12:07:44 pm Csanyi Pal wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:22:27 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> >> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system.
> >
> > You mean a mix of both?
> >
> >> What must I do to keep the system in it's relative usable state when
>
On Friday 01 June 2012 11:17:49 am Lisi wrote:
> > Looks like multiple install/removes? of flash. The 'update-lternatives'
> > program may be confused. You can see what it thinks is going on
> > with 'update-alternatives --get-selections'.
>
> Junior:/home/lisi# touch get-selections.txt
> Jun
On Friday 01 June 2012 8:23:42 am Lisi wrote:
> I get the following* if I type about:plugins into my Konqueror location
> bar. I want to get rid of Shockwqave Flash 7, but I simply cannot find a
> file/folder/application libklashpart.so anywhere, so cannot delete it.
>
> Has anyone any ideas?
>
>
On Friday 25 May 2012 7:34:07 am Brian wrote:
> On Fri 25 May 2012 at 10:46:29 -0400, Michael Mehrazar wrote:
> > Andrei,
> >
> > Thank you. It's attached.
>
> Still no wireless card in there. 'lsusb' if it is a USB device.
If the a card is broken somehow, , ls* won't show the device, modules wi
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 5:36:35 am Lisi wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. When
> the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just
> deinstalled the lot and downloaded from the Adobe site. According to the
> site,
On Saturday 14 April 2012 12:20:18 pm Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:34:03 -0430, German Eduardo Jaber De Lima wrote:
> > What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support
> > (bigmem kernel option)?
>
> The first?
>
> If we take we time-machine and according to the snap
On Sunday 25 March 2012 12:34:15 pm Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed on my Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid host on VirtualBox
> > the Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid as guset using the
> > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/
On Friday 16 March 2012 12:47:06 pm Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
>
> My system, debian wheezy amd-64, refuses to recognize my password. I am
> sure I am typing it correctly.
>
> I was able to , at login time, where grub pauses to ask which kernel tyo
> uise,
> to choose the maintena
On Thursday 15 March 2012 7:26:53 pm Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have had to replace the hard drive in my laptop computer, which is an
> HP/Compaq NX5000, as the previous hard drive appeared to have failed.
snip
> With this policy change by the Debian people, to exclude "firmware", so
> as t
On Monday 12 March 2012 11:30:19 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Greg Madden wrote:
> > There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant
> > having a choice in Debian of which one to use.
>
> What are the significant difference
On Sunday 11 March 2012 3:27:51 pm Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my
> > work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my
&
I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work,
archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my use scenario,
than LO ver 3.4.x and later.
There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant having a
choice in Debian of which one
On Friday 09 December 2011 12:29:17 Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor.
> I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone
> else? I would like to do some comparison shopping.
>
> Thank you.
HP ships laptops with Freedos, or enterprise
On Sunday 27 November 2011 8:29:19 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, Cam Hutchison wrote:
> > I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried
> > xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components.
> >
> > I don't like any of it.
>
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 8:37:52 am Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> I should like to try OpenOffice.org, but its packages all say they
> have been repackaged as LibreOffice. So what has happened to
> OpenOffice.org? Who has decided that we've all got to use LibreOffice?
My understanding today:
On Sunday 06 November 2011 1:42:23 am Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 6. November 2011 schrieb Camaleón:
> > On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:14:46 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > > is there a difference between flashplugin-nonfree and
> > > mozilla-flashplugin?
> >
> > I only know about the former.
On Wednesday 26 October 2011 13:47:33 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Sorry to ask the question in such an off the wall manner.
>
> Recommendation for National Public Radio player
>
> But in briefly googling for this topic I started to see that not all
> players can get all streams.
>
> I wanted to make
le way of proceding from here? Manually delete
> > them one by one? Or is there a simpler (=quicker) way??
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lisi
>
> Replying to my own post: there are obviously some groups where several
> could be deleted at the same time with the he
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 11:52:21 am Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:45:33 Lisi wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I
> > ran aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files.
> > I then ran locate t
On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lisi wrote:
> > Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal
> > Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges?
> >
> > And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complic
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 07:03:54 pm Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> 2011/9/15 Greg Madden
>
> > It is in non-free.
> >
> >
> > aptitude install unrar
That said, a default install of Squeeze only has 'main' in the sources.list.
You
have to add '
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 06:00:53 pm RiverWind wrote:
> Hey There,
>
> Whilst trying to get and install the rar file compression utility,
> I encountered a bit of an interesting obstacle. It seems that this
> file is either obsolete and hence no longer supported by Linux, or
> something el
On Saturday 10 September 2011 11:13:12 am Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 15:05 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Which gnome version is now in cid? If the version is 3.0 or later I need
> > to do some customization like removing gnome-shell since that and orca
> > don't get alo
On Friday 02 September 2011 05:50:05 am yudi v wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand the difference between the following two methods
>
> *First method *
> this taken from irc dpkg bot
> "aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'`
> nvidia-kernel-dkms && mkdir /e
To be accurate, I haven't figured out specifically the issue. I switched from
method: ftp to http in debmirror. Possibilities are firewall, ftp
configuration.
On Tuesday 23 August 2011 03:27:42 pm Greg Madden wrote:
> I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror &am
I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror & my mirror
script
as a cron job for at least two previous releases. This has stopped working with
my upgrade to Squeeze. I have enclosed the part of the output cron sends to
me.
Not sure if relevant but the dl stops, on a daily
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 06:15:16 pm Bob Proulx wrote:
> Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> > What's best practices? Method or pointer to docs appreciated.
>
> I like running Stable machines. But web browsers need to keep
> current. It would be great if they were in squeeze-updates, aka the
> old volatile
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 04:05:47 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome /
> Chromium and Firefox.
>
> Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and
> Firefox 5 isn't available either.
>
> I'd like to manage either / b
On Sunday 24 July 2011 03:51:37 pm Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello. Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to
> mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot,
> at the same time. After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an
> impossible dream.
>
> My f
On Wednesday 20 July 2011 07:17:29 am Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router
> > that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router.
> >
> > Every so often when
On Wednesday 13 July 2011 12:07:56 pm Tech Geek wrote:
> >There isn't one 'cos X nowadays automagically detect everything - when
> > it does.
>
> Yes, I am aware of that, except that, in this case X does not detect
> the correct driver automagically...:)
You can still use an 'xorg.conf' file. You
On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:38:14 pm Greg Madden wrote:
> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote:
> > I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
> > document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in
> > the
On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote:
> I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
> document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in
> the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I understand it,
> the accepted way to set thi
On Saturday 25 June 2011 09:52:08 pm lee wrote:
> > "The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly
> > match the current compiler (gcc 4.4). The Linux 2.6 kernel module
> > loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not
> > exactly match that of
On Thursday 23 June 2011 02:20:11 pm Doug wrote:
> >> I thougth softmodems were really bad but Conexant chipset based ones at
> >> least provide two sets of drivers... are you saying nooone work?
>
> I don't normally use a modem, but I do have a laptop--a Dell Inspiron--and
> I wonder what comman
On Thursday 09 June 2011 09:42:25 pm Mark Panen wrote:
> Hi
>
> Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit
> 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on
> and i cannot install a Nvidia driver.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
/etc/inittab on Squeeze.
# R
On Thursday 05 May 2011 09:12:47 am Andrew Wood wrote:
> Whats the best way to go about making a custom installation of Debian
> which I can then install onto multiple machines without having to go
> through and manually add extra packages and remove certain default
> packges from each machine?
>
On Sunday 24 April 2011 09:05:34 am peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> I get that. But the function of a browser is to interpret
> a text in an XML language, into a form for input to a human.
> I just don't see how to make Iceweasel recognize the structure
> of this document. The style is there but Ic
On Monday 18 April 2011 12:20:13 pm Heddle Weaver wrote:
> Using this programme on a Debian SID base. When I used OO Impress, I had
> access to a full range of presentation backgrounds, which I believe came by
> way of a separate package install. I can't see an equivalent package for LO
> Impress
On Sunday 10 April 2011 08:31:09 pm Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In , chris wrote:
> >It was a intentional decision I believe. My understanding is that all
> >non-free binary firmware was removed from squeeze as per their foss
> > beliefs.
>
> Most, if not all, of the firmware that was removed
On Sunday 10 April 2011 09:19:01 am shawn wilson wrote:
> is there a program / script to convert a vm (virtual box in this case)
> to a bootable install on a thumb drive?
>
> i know i can do it manually. hell, i can probably script it with dd,
> qemu, grub-install, fdisk (figure out how to toggle
On Wednesday 06 April 2011 12:10:32 am Kamil Jońca wrote:
> Thierry Chatelet writes:
> > On Tuesday 05 April 2011 20:45:58 Kamil Jońca wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Try to increase the voltage on memories first (if I recall right what
> > did), or on cpu. You should find a post from me around the time
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 02:57:38 pm Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:17:44 +
>
> Peter Tynan wrote:
> > On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander wrote:
> > > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and
> > > upgraded, but got
> > >
> > > [root@galaxy s
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:01:45 am Peter Tynan wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Peter Tynan wrote:
> >> On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander wrote:
> >> > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and
> >> > upgraded,
> >> > but got
> >> >
> >> > [root@galax
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of
> 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition
> for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the
> default value in Squeeze.
>
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:05:31 pm Charlie wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:47:43 +0100
>
> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> > Try wicd, it is a great gui-tool to easily connect to wireless
> > networks.
> >
> > Sjoerd
>
> Thanks for that Sjoerd.
>
> Even when the wireless connection didn't have a pass
On Thursday 10 March 2011 06:36:38 pm Long Wind wrote:
> The last reply may have errors because the Chinese government block
> google when I send it.
> (For the same reason, I maybe unable to reply quickly)
>
> So I re-send it below:
> >From looking at the chipset of the card
>
> I believe the card
On Thursday 10 March 2011 02:21:24 pm Paul E Condon wrote:
> Dual boot has gotten somewhat messy, IMHO, since the introduction of
> UUIDs in /etc/fstab. When one boots into the old installation, the
> /etc/fstab is incapable of mounting the newer installation because
> the old UUID on that root p
On Thursday 10 March 2011 03:23:52 pm Long Wind wrote:
> I install squeeze, but xserver doesn't work
> after I install xserver, and run xinit, it fails
> I find that there's no xorg.conf at /etc/X11
> so I copy it from etch, it still doesn't work
> (it display strangely, I have to press button on
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 02:13:17 pm Jason Hsu wrote:
> I'd especially like to hear from those of you who are Linux consultants or
> sysadmins. This is a timely topic given that Debian Squeeze moved from the
> testing branch to the stable branch.
>
> Which do you prefer: Upgrading the old OS o
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 06:31:48 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3.
>
> This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from
> debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document
> properties sa
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03:26:37 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> > > Why would one chose one over the other?
> >
> > OT but, Vbox is gp
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> Why would one chose one over the other?
OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies.
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On Sunday 20 February 2011 06:42:12 pm Heddle Weaver wrote:
>
> Come with a few things installed.
> I remember a few years back, a furore over factory installed trojans on
> Belkin routers.
> Belkin apologised and all the noise went away, but I haven't forgotten in
> the current atmosphere of ne
On Sunday 20 February 2011 03:03:35 pm Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2011 20 Feb 14:22 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers
> > for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to
> > learn about network
On Monday 14 February 2011 06:11:54 pm Hoang Le wrote:
> Because I like the old flat style, not this Mac-like login screen :)
Don't know what your references mean, or what Debian release you are using. If
it
is a gdm3/squeeze issue you can use gdm, both are available.
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On Monday 14 February 2011 09:49:29 am Erin Brinkley wrote:
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> I installed over the net with apt! So basically I have no install media.
>
> Should I be making some kind of emergency disk before trying this??
Not sure what you mean by 'no install media' AFAIK, you have to have one of
the
On Monday 14 February 2011 09:06:51 am Erin Brinkley wrote:
> Ok, I lied!
>
> As part of the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, I guess
> there's a whole new grub boot process!
>
> It tells you that when your system settles down,
> you should run "upgrade-from-grub-legacy" ... ok,
> I just did that now an
On Friday 11 February 2011 03:41:39 am Charlie wrote:
>I have an i386 machine that has been running lenny. Something
> went wrong during a recent upgrade, and the machine now does not
> boot, except in single-user mode.
>
>I think I need to update the device names, but do not know
> what
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 09:29:17 pm Lisi wrote:
> The release notes for LibreOffice recommend Java jdk instead of Java gcj.
> I have Java gcj installed. Can I just aptitude install jdk? Or
> must/should I aptitude purge Java gcj first, and then aptitude install jdk?
>
> Thanks,
> Lisi
N
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 11:50:23 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:12:32 +, Lisi wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 February 2011 19:33:17 Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3.
> >
> > No, Ron, that isn't correct. It is based on OOo3.3, but with s
On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote:
> Rene Engelhard writes:
> > Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's
> > what we ship)?
>
> Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to
> open docx-files without any addon? Pro
On Monday 07 February 2011 04:44:54 am Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I think with the next upgrade I am about to do I will back up the work
> files run this script, install a new a kernel and play around with
> some of the other instructions and then finally do the aptitude
> dist-upgrade and see
On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:13:33 pm Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze on my AMD64 box. It did work but I
> got some grumbles about the package grabbing applet not being able to
> find some files it wanted from the repositories and some grumbling
> ab
On Saturday 29 January 2011 02:07:59 pm Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Greg Madden [110126 03:45]:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > I am trying to discover how -- if it is possible -- to use "approx" in
> > > order to
On Saturday 29 January 2011 02:48:18 am S D wrote:
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> Very disappointing. Can anyone tell how long Lenny will be supported once
> Squeeze is released?
I think it is one year.
A longer term solution would be to use Trinity-KDE,continuing KDE3 development,
v3.5.12 right now.
http://trinity
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 01:38:17 pm Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > I am trying to discover how -- if it is possible -- to use "approx" in
> > order to minimize download time and bandwidth during a new "netinst"
> > installation.
On Saturday 22 January 2011 08:10:16 pm godo wrote:
> On 01/23/2011 05:56 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> > When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop
> > environment. However, it boots in line mode. How can I check if
> > desktop, in fact was installed? how to enable it?
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