Re: find out why a package was installed

Rob Owens writes: > Is there an apt command that will tell me why package X was installed? > For instance, was it manually installed, or installed as a > dependency/recommends of package Y? aptitude why -- Marius Gavrilescu pgpikZUJbtMQu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where are the CD 9, 10 ... for Debian Wheezy?

> I found only the links until the CD 8. Since those CDs are not usually needed, they are not hosted as HTTP/FTP downloads. You can however use Jigdo to download them. See the instructions at https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ -- Marius Gavrilescu pgpGazNycEHPQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ports

t/ for details about Debian Live. -- Marius Gavrilescu pgpo3KWSgi8fj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian xfce network tethering a samsung galaxy s2

7;usb0'. Then I ifup usb0 and I'm done. It should work with network-manager/wicd too, though I haven't tested this. -- Marius Gavrilescu pgpJA6eNYP_g3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What's the nick name?

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:37:29AM +1000, Nikolas Kallis wrote: > For God's sake, what is the nick name of my Debian? I am using Debian 7.0. Debian Wheezy -- Marius Gavrilescu (love-kids) Shake your hips and hope for the best. --Camille, age 9 (when asked how to make people fall in l

Debian 6.0

What the heck version 6.0 when I can not insttall it?I hawe 8 DVDś witout grapphical enviroment Penntium III 500E Acorp moterboard 440 chpset 128MB memori, ATi 2000 pro video card LG Flatron LCD monitor

GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

rxvt and other terminal emulators - when I press pageUP so scroll, simply go back in my shell history. Does anybody have a proper working config for me? Cold help a lot. Best, Marius pgp78Kuw3Hy2r.pgp Description: PGP signature

Continut DVD-uri Debian 5

Buna domnilor!   Numele meu este Marius si am si eu o rugaminte la D-voatra. Acum cativa ani imi placea sa ma joc cu linux-ul (pe atunci un RedHat9) si facusem o pasiune din asta.  Acum incerc sa revenit la veche pasiune cu linux-ul dar nu m-am hotarat la o distributie. Am tot citit pe

Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

Ron Johnson schrieb: > Check out the /etc/modutils directory, and /etc/modules.conf. Here it's /etc/modules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sound volume too low, software to increase it?

m snd50276 6 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9824 3 snd Is there anything I can do about it apart from restoring my sarge backup? Is there a software to increase volume independently from other applications? Best regards, M

Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

You may want to consider starting over, and staying within a single release (stable or testing). Mixing releases can make a mess of your system quickly unless you really know what you're doing. Now you tell me! ;-) Ok, I'll start over. Keeping the faith :-) Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

How do I clean up? dpkg-reconfigure debconf Says debconf not installed. Is that grave? I wasn't able to understand what debconf is yet. Next I'd like to have OpenOffice. Any advice? I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or unstable. That's part of the pro

Scary df output

I assume comand "df" is the one to know free disk space. It gives me this information: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1-429168968127 1 0 49% / according to which I have a negative number of blocks! Also, the columns seem to

Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

Thanks all w.r.t. windows and printing systems. Slightly better now: running icewm instead of twn, and lp seems to print PS files. But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially failed (gnome, kde, cups-client

Windows and Printing Systems

I hereby promise that in a near future I will make a conceptual network of this outstanding forum publicly available (as part of my PhD reserach on adaptive hypertext). There everybody will be able to find the right archived answer by ostensive querying. In the meanwhile, please help me the old fas

graphic system setup

Hi. (Sorry if you get this more than once. I'm also struggling with email configuration.) I've installed Debian over the network from the default server (Woody I think). It's my first time. I cannot get X to work properly. "startx" runs but shows in a 320x200 mode even though I select a higher

Re: graphic system setup

"Try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86." Tried. startx crashes with fatal errors - AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver - no screens found for drivers - vga - s3virge (the only S3 item on the list) respectively. This is kinda what I had just after installation and that made me start usin

graphic system setup

Hi. /* Sorry if you get this more than once. I was also struggling with email configuration, and list subscription requests and confirmation seem to have gotten a bit out of sync. */ I've installed Debian over the network from the default server (Woody I think). It's my first time. I cannot get

scrollkeeper/libxslt issue

Hello, I am running debian unstable; I tried to install gnome-panel and ran into the following issues. My libxml and libxslt are up to date. I dist upgraded the other day and this problem persisted. Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks. $ sudo debfoster gnome-panel [...] Setting up libgnom

Huge (1.9GB) .xsession-errors file

blem with The Gimp? Whta can I do to stop .xsession-errors from growing so huge? This is truely a stopper. Marius -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

gs-7.05-1 in Sarge/testing is making huge pdf-files.

se noticed this rather annoying behaviour with either gs or OpenOffice.org? Marius -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Need a script to reboot when xfree86 takes 99% of cpu

n that is found, it will reboot the machine automatically. Does anyone know how such a script should look like? Marius -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Running script on logout from KDE

of giving the rest of the group read/write acces when the file is created, then I could instead have that set when the user logous ot, kind of giving the rest the right to modify upon logout. So my problem and question, how to automatically run a script/command at logout from KDE? Marius

RE: Linux 2.4.2 rescue disk

again for helping ;o) Marius -Original Message- From: Ray Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:34 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Marius Moisescu Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 rescue disk Take a look at debian

Linux 2.4.2 rescue disk

e. But I really need support for quite large files, so I have to use mkreiserfs version 3.6.x to initially format the ReiserFS partitions. Any ideas? Thanks, Marius

Re: Thinkpad 560 - some info, a couple questions

Hi again, Have you tried the linux tpctl ? in that case, what does "tpctl --info-all" report? Just curious, to compare it with mine. Marius. On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 02:18:36PM -0700, John Miskinis wrote: > Hi Marius, > > Thanks for the info. It appears you have a

LyX + Postscript

Hi, I'm having problems with LyX. When viewing a document created in LyX (either via Postscript of DVI) LyX produces blank output; just a blank page. All the components that are needed seem to be there (dvips, tex, etc.) Has anybody here experienced the same thing? Any solutions? M

WordPerfect Trouble

fore? Any ideas? Feedback? TIA, Marius. -- Marius Aamodt Eriksen linux.com - tuneup section ( http://linux.com/tuneup ) : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgps3Ujs3Jksl.pgp Description: PGP signature

parport0 has no irq.

Hi, I've set up my system for PLIP, and when I try to load the plip module, I get an error message that parport0 has no IRQ. When trying to load the module with parameters (i.e. insmod plip irq=5), the system complains that irq is an invalid parameter. Any ideas? TIA, Marius. -- M