Re: non-free software requirement

2016-12-07 Thread Steve Greig
Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Steve Greig wrote: > > When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines > > laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of > the > > The output

non-free software requirement

2016-12-07 Thread Steve Greig
When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of the software were given although I did not record the names. I decided to go ahead without the non-free software as I would have needed it on a media and I h

Advice on downloading software please

2016-08-27 Thread Steve Greig
I would like to download a programme (opencpn) onto my laptop which is running debian. It is so long since I have done this I can not remember how to start. Also I am not sure which version of debian I have which seems to be relevant according to the website. Instructions are given at http://opencp

Re: Fwd: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

2015-06-19 Thread Steve Greig
On 19 Jun 2015 12:27, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2015 12:14:36 Steve Greig wrote: > > -- Forwarded message ------ > > From: Steve Greig > > Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:18 AM > > Subject: Re: Transferring files from Debian c

Fwd: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

2015-06-19 Thread Steve Greig
-- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Greig Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:18 AM Subject: Re: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone To: Stefan Pietsch Unfortunately I do not know how to install things. The approach I took was to add https://packages.debian.org

Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

2015-06-18 Thread Steve Greig
When I connect my android phone to my debian computer I get a choice of opening gwenview or file manager. I have been able to transfer photos from the phone to the computer using gwenview which is great but I can not transfer files from the computer to the phone using the file manager. The setting

Re: Fwd: updating debian warnings

2015-06-18 Thread Steve Greig
pub 4096R/65FFB764 2012-05-08 [expires: 2019-05-07] uid Wheezy Stable Release Key < debian-rele...@lists.debian.org> root@debian:/home/steve# On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 01:22:36PM +0100, Steve Greig wrote: >

Re: Fwd: updating debian warnings

2015-06-18 Thread Steve Greig
an/ wheezy-updates main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main #deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2015 00:27:05 Steve Greig wrote: > > -- Forwarded message ------ &g

Fwd: updating debian warnings

2015-06-16 Thread Steve Greig
-- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Greig Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:43 AM Subject: Re: updating debian warnings To: Brian Thanks for you responses. I have posted contents of etc/apt/sources.list followed by output from dpkg -l debian-archive-keyring below: # deb cdrom

updating debian warnings

2015-06-15 Thread Steve Greig
I tried to update debian (my first time) and Apper quickly warned me that I was about to install unsigned packages and that it was impossible to verify if they came from a trusted source: Do you want to continue? I decided to take a risk and clicked 'yes'. This led to another warning window requiri

making thumbnails

2015-04-28 Thread Steve Greig
I have about 60 large jpg files in a directory. They are almost all over 2MB in size. I want to put them on the internet but wanted to make a thumbnail version and a small version (about 75KB) of each one so the web page does not take too long to load. Normally I just open them in GIMP and modify t

Re: Installing Android development software

2014-11-13 Thread Steve Greig
, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 11/12/2014 02:21 PM, Steve Greig wrote: >> >> I have tried your suggestions and found quite a lot of files with the >> word android or eclipse in them but I can not find the file called >> eclipse which previously I had w

Re: Installing Android development software

2014-11-12 Thread Steve Greig
I have tried your suggestions and found quite a lot of files with the word android or eclipse in them but I can not find the file called eclipse which previously I had which when I clicked on it opened up the eclipse program. Thanks for your help, Steve On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Andrei POP

Re: Installing Android development software

2014-11-11 Thread Steve Greig
wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 05:50:19PM +0000, Steve Greig wrote: >> I thought I would try and build an Android app and see that you have >> to download and install some software: >> adt-bundle-linux-x86_64-20140702.zip >> >> >> Before doing this (I often f

Re: Installing Android development software

2014-11-09 Thread Steve Greig
is already based on >gradle or you don't like eclipse. I think I will go for the stable version first but probably should try both at some time. Steve On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Marty wrote: > On 11/09/2014 12:50 PM, Steve Greig wrote: >> >> I thought I would try and

Installing Android development software

2014-11-09 Thread Steve Greig
I thought I would try and build an Android app and see that you have to download and install some software: adt-bundle-linux-x86_64-20140702.zip Before doing this (I often find installs go wrong) I was wondering if it is possible to do it using apt which I have had some success with. Would be v

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-30 Thread Steve Greig
PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Easily solvable - read on. :) > > On 29/10/14 06:51, Eike Lantzsch wrote: >> On Tuesday 28 October 2014 19:27:56 Steve Greig wrote: >>> Thanks Scott and Gary. >>> >>> The problem is now largely sorted out as I have got VLC media p

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Steve Greig
be nice to have a list of tracks on the cd but maybe not essential. Thanks again to you both for your help. I am pretty happy with the situation now but open to any more suggestions or comments. Best wishes Steve On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 28/10/14 03:01 AM, St

Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Steve Greig
If I put a CD into my computer it appears in Dolphin on the left hand side where it sais 'Audio CD'. However if I click on this the contents do not appear in the main window of Dolphin. Also I cant play the CD or find any other way of accessing it. This applies to other CDs not just Audio. In the p