Anaconda-navigator installation problems

2024-03-22 Thread Gary L. Roach
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.0-18-amd64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD CAICOS Manufact

timeshift error

2024-02-27 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all I keep getting the following error when trying to use "timeshift 1". Ive tried reloading the software  but still get the same error. ** (process:4286): CRITICAL**: 12:39:19.897: gee_abstract_collection_get_size: ass ertion 'self != NULL' failed App config saved: /etc/timeshift/timeshi

Re: balenaEtcher installation problems

2023-11-10 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 11/9/23 18:22, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 8:47 PM Gary L. Roach wrote: Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.0-13-amd64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4

balenaEtcher installation problem

2023-11-09 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.0-13-amd64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD CAICOS

balenaEtcher installation problems

2023-11-09 Thread Gary L. Roach
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.0-13-amd64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD CAICOS Manufact

wierd document under /run/user/1000 directory

2023-08-23 Thread Gary L. Roach
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Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

2023-01-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 03:54:22PM -0800, Gary L. Roach wrote: PS I had tried ./salome and got the following error: ERROR:salomeContext:Unexpected error: Traceback (most recent call last):  File "/home/gary/Salome/SALOME-9.9.0-native-DB10-SRC/BINARIES-DB10/SALOME/bin/ salome/salome

Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

2023-01-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
PS I had tried ./salome and got the following error: ERROR:salomeContext:Unexpected error: Traceback (most recent call last):  File "/home/gary/Salome/SALOME-9.9.0-native-DB10-SRC/BINARIES-DB10/SALOME/bin/ salome/salomeContext.py", line 281, in _startSalome    res = getattr(self, command)(optio

Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

2023-01-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
desk top if that helps. Gary R. On 1/14/23 13:12, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 12:20:21PM -0800, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I have been trying to install Salome 9.90 from the tar.gz file. When I unzip the file the contents look nothing like the install

Installation of Salome 9.9.0

2023-01-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I have been trying to install Salome 9.90 from the tar.gz file. When I unzip the file the contents look nothing like the installation instructions that I have found on line. Does anyone have experience with the Debian installation of this package. If so, please help Gary R.

Re: sigc++ library missing object.h file

2022-10-08 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 10/8/22 09:17, Gary L. Roach wrote: Thank you all for your replies, I mean gspeaker not gespeaker. The first is a speaker enclosure design program and the second is a front end for the sound system. Not the same -- damn, I had hopes. I also went back and looked at the older versions of

Re: sigc++ library missing object.h file

2022-10-08 Thread Gary L. Roach
ed to consider it. Many thanks again. Unless someone has specific information  on a source for an object.h file I think we have beaten this dead horse enough. Many thanks again Gary R On 10/8/22 00:57, Max Nikulin wrote: On 08/10/2022 04:54, Gary L. Roach wrote: I've been trying to

sigc++ library missing object.h file

2022-10-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I've been trying to compile an older program from source code and keep getting the error missing sigc++/object.h file. I looked at the available versions of libsigc++ and found that none of them include an object.h sub directory. Does anyone know how to fix this. I really need this pr

gspeaker installation

2022-10-04 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Is anyone familiar with gspeaker installation. This program has to be compiled from source code. I keep getting the following error when running make: ***/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:29:2:error: #error "Only can be included directly."* I have searched the web and have found

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-17 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 7/17/22 2:07 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Gary L. Roach (12022-07-16): Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted all directories, I still get a backuppc password request when starting any of my programs

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Kernel Version: 5.10.0-13-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD CAICOS Gary R On 7/16/22 5:51 PM, David wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 10:24, Gary L. Roach wrote: Some time ago I installed backuppc and then

Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted all directories, I still get a backuppc password request when starting any of my programs. Anyone had this problem and if so, do you know how to get rid of

Re: Epson printer page counting error

2022-06-15 Thread Gary L. Roach
PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 10:43:14 -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I just purchased an Epson ET-3850 tank printer. I set up the printer with Cups as usual. What does "as usual" involve?

Epson printer page counting error

2022-06-15 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I just purchased an Epson ET-3850 tank printer. I set up the printer with Cups as usual. I often wish to print a few pages out of the middle of a document (eg 115-120). Now this worked fine with my old HP 5 in 1 printer. But when I tried this with the Epson the count seems to be offse

Re: Netgen installation problem

2022-05-26 Thread Gary L. Roach
Thanks Anssi I made sure that the PATH's matched what you did and ran the program from the desktop. It worked fine. It is interesting that running netgen from the command line doesn't work but the icon on the desktop does. I never noticed this before but may have just missed it. After 20 years

Re: Netgen installation problem

2022-05-25 Thread Gary L. Roach
-0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.10.0-13-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD

Netgen installation problem

2022-05-24 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.10.0-13-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD CAICOS I have installed n

Looking for documentation package

2022-05-03 Thread Gary L. Roach
I have been looking for a documentation system that would allow me to write cursive paragraphs with math formulas interspersed and then have the formulas solved. Some examples that almost do what I want is Sage, Octave and Cantor (with the proper backend). So far all seem to be missing the /* t

Re: Wrong libvirt version in bullseye installation

2022-02-08 Thread Gary L. Roach
on by the 7. version was a downgrade, My attempts to overwrite it didn't work. Thank you all for your help Gary R, On 2/7/22 8:35 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 14:34:20 -0800 "Gary L. Roach" wrote:     libvirt-clients : Depends: libvirt0 (= 7.0.0-3) but 8.0.

Wrong libvirt version in bullseye installation

2022-02-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
I have been trying to get a cleen copy of qemu/kvm installed but when I try to install qemu-system I get:     libvirt-clients : Depends: libvirt0 (= 7.0.0-3) but 8.0.0-1~bpo11+1 is to be installed.  The same for libvirt-daemon and some others. Version 7.0.0.3 is listed as the version used in

Re: Shared folder and wireless printer for qemu/kvm

2021-10-05 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 10/5/21 4:25 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi again, I finally found a straight forward installation process for shared folders. See: *https://nts.strzibny.name/how-to-set-up-shared-folders-in-virt-manager/* If you are using something like /home/gary/vmshare as a folder name use that when

Re: Shared folder and wireless printer for qemu/kvm

2021-10-04 Thread Gary L. Roach
then switch systems and print a file from the host system. Gary R. On 10/4/21 3:08 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 14:10:21 -0700 "Gary L. Roach" wrote: I have my Debian 11 installation as host. I installed Debian 10 on qemu/kvm to run a program that needs Qt4. I need t

Shared folder and wireless printer for qemu/kvm

2021-10-04 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.10.0-8-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD CAICOS I have my Debian 11

Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-30 Thread Gary L. Roach
5:34 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 8/29/21 4:59 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I don't have occasion to use links very often and tend to get confused as to which direction the link is pointing. Specifically, I am trying to redirect backuppc files from the normal /var/lib/backuppc di

Soft link confusion

2021-08-29 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I don't have occasion to use links very often and tend to get confused as to which direction the link is pointing. Specifically, I am trying to redirect backuppc files from the normal /var/lib/backuppc directory to another disk mounted at /media/Backup, a 1TB disk that is not being us

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-06 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 8/5/21 1:15 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 01:03:16PM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: First, the IFS command sets the string separator. The default values are space /n and one other. The / is not among them. Yes, we know that. The issue is that you are setting IFS for the

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-05 Thread Gary L. Roach
hi all; I really appreciate all of your help. The file now works. See attached. Now t0 answer some questions. First, the IFS command sets the string separator. The default values are space /n and one other. The / is not among them. If I don't set the delimiter before I do the read, the whol

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-04 Thread Gary L. Roach
Thanks for the help but I still have the problem of the if statement always being true. This time I enclosed the file so you can test it. Gary R On 8/4/21 5:04 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 04:58:00PM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: Path="/Test/gary/run/something"

Bash script problem

2021-08-04 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all; I have just recently delved into the magical world of Bash scripting and programmed up the following script(not finished). The object is to parse the Path and check for the existence of each directory. Please don't send back an Awk or Sed statement that is more efficient. I am having

Re: Docker installation problems [Solved]

2021-07-08 Thread Gary L. Roach
I reinstalled using the docker.com instructions and it works. I also installed Portainer. It also works. I appreciate all of the help. Now all I have to do is learn to use it. Thanks again. Gary R On 7/8/21 10:44 AM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 7/8/21 6:48 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: On 7/7

Re: Docker installation problems

2021-07-08 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 7/7/21 4:43 PM, IL Ka wrote: I suspect that something might be wrong with the /etc/apt/daemon.json file but am not sure what. try # dockerd https://docs.docker.com/config/daemon/#start-the-daemon-manually Do you s

Docker installation problems

2021-07-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-17-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Hi All, I'm still having installation problems with Docke

Re: Docker installation problem

2021-07-03 Thread Gary L. Roach
Thank you Georgi. That fixed the problem. I wonder how many of the other problems I have been have are due to debconf being screwed up. What tipped you off? This is not an obvious cause. Thanks Gary R. On 7/3/21 4:39 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 7/4/21 2:17 AM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi

Docker installation problem

2021-07-03 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-17-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM I have been trying to get a working installation

Re: Gmail's special approach to Email [was: Re: Messed up Email] (SOLVED)

2021-06-22 Thread Gary L. Roach
anted. Gary R. On 6/22/21 1:48 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 21 iun 21, 16:22:42, Gary L. Roach wrote: For some years, I have been using Thunderbird on Debian with no problems. Over a year ago I switched to gmail.com (Imap server) for my mail server. Everything went fine until about 6 months

Messed up Email

2021-06-21 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Thunderbird 78.10.0(64bit) For some years, I hav

Removing messed up folder

2021-06-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Somehow, I've managed to really mess up the owner

Re: $PATH problem

2021-06-11 Thread Gary L. Roach
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_trashClean* BackupPC seems to have loaded and started on boot up. Does this help. Gary R. On 6/11/21 2:10 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 01:48:47PM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: I have been trying to install Backuppc on my system and have run

$PATH problem

2021-06-11 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM I have been trying to install Backuppc on my syst

passwordless SSH

2021-05-29 Thread Gary L. Roach
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM I have been trying to setup passwordless SSH for a Backupp

Re: /run/user/1000 errors

2021-05-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
-0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: When trying to install the Bacula backup system on my computer, I get the following error: *QStandardPaths: wrong ownership on runtime directory /run/user/1000, 1000 instead of 0* Well, that error message is wrong. The correct owner of /run/user/1000 is 1000, not 0

/run/user/1000 errors

2021-05-13 Thread Gary L. Roach
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM When trying to install the Bacula backup system on my comp

Re: Zoom.

2021-04-25 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, OS debian10 amd -64 system I've been using zoom for some time and have had to reinstall twice due to system problems. I have used the "dpkg -i  install" method followed by --fix-missing clean up. Everything has worked fine both times. My only problem is with the sound. I use bluetooth

Debian Buster and backuppc

2021-04-24 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Has anyone gotten backuppc version 4 to work on Debian Buster. I tried to install version 4 and got a missing dependency. The version of libgci-pm-perl has changed from version 4.40-1 in buster to version 4.51-1 in Bullseye. Can I safely upgrade to version 4.51-1 without breaking my s

Access to PPA's

2021-04-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Some of my most useful software is only available through Ubuntu PPA's . I can no longer access PPA's since Debian changed their security policies. When trying to access a PPA I get the following:  The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/elmer-csc-ubuntu/elmer-csc-ppa/ubuntu hirsute

Installing anbox on Debian 10

2021-01-29 Thread Gary L. Roach
Has anyone successfully installed anbox on debian. I have tried a couple of different ways starting with the debian stable package. The debian stable anbox package requires a lot of manual installation of support packages. I never did get things to work. I finally loaded the snap version which

Installing anbox on Debian 10

2021-01-24 Thread Gary L. Roach
Has anyone successfully installed anbox on debian. I have tried a couple of different ways starting with the debian stable package. The debian stable anbox package requires a lot of manual installation of support packages. I never did get things to work. I finally loaded the snap version which

Re: Setup sound for zoom conferencing

2020-07-21 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 7/18/20 4:52 PM, Bob Weber wrote: On 7/18/20 6:46 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Installed Alsa, asound OS Debian 10 Hi all, I have standard alsa sound installed in my system and it works fine for most things. Recently I started using Zoom, have installed a Logitech C920 webcam with stereo

Setup sound for zoom conferencing

2020-07-18 Thread Gary L. Roach
Installed Alsa, asound OS Debian 10 Hi all, I have standard alsa sound installed in my system and it works fine for most things. Recently I started using Zoom, have installed a Logitech C920 webcam with stereo microphones and a Sennheiser HD4.50BTNC headphones with stereo microphones. I now

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/16/20 12:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:21:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 15.06.20 21:47, Gary L. Roach wrote: Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security risk. So the problem has propagated to at least a half dozen

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/15/20 1:05 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian OS. Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-15 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/14/20 1:22 PM, Default User wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:12 AM Marco Möller wrote: On 09.06.20 23:55, Default User wrote: (...) Now, a final note. When I did my main install, it was a day or two before the release of Buster 10.0. I immediately upgraded to Unstable. But it is still

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation (SOLVED)

2020-06-13 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/12/20 9:25 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 12 Jun 2020 at 14:22:03 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote: On 6/11/20 1:24 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On mercredi 10 juin 2020 19:53:53 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: The sequence of events on boot up are Bios screen, Debian Window with OS selection, Boot

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-12 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/11/20 1:24 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On mercredi 10 juin 2020 19:53:53 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: The sequence of events on boot up are Bios screen, Debian Window with OS selection, Boot up sequence, login/password ( Xorg not running), startx -> error window. So to answer your quest

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-10 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/10/20 12:10 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:53:53AM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: On 6/10/20 5:17 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On dimanche 7 juin 2020 21:14:20 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-10 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/10/20 5:17 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On dimanche 7 juin 2020 21:14:20 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4 and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/7/20 12:14 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4  and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze with the following message: The current

Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4 and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze with the following message: The current input timing is not supported by the monito

Qt4 and Bullseye

2020-05-30 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I am using Bullseye (testing) because some of the software I use need some of the newer libraries. Unfortunately Bullseye no longer includes the Qt4 libraries and some of my packages still need Qt4. How can I get Qt4 packages for Bullseye. There is probably a backport for this but I

Excess security measures

2020-05-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Could someone please show me how to bypass some of the recent security measures that have been installed in Debian and Ubuntu. I have a fire-walled 3 computer local network that doesn't contain anything that is not replaceable. I have antivirus software installed and my wife and I are the only

Re: qemu/kvm reboot problem

2020-05-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 5/15/20 11:17 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gary L. Roach wrote: I burned a CD off of the .iso file and used it to install the system. I wonder why you need to burn a real CD (or DVD ?) for a virtual machine. Virtualization can work with the .iso file directly and make it appear in the

Re: qemu/kvm reboot problem

2020-05-15 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 5/15/20 3:19 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gary L. Roach wrote: I load the software from an .iso file in my Download directory. I wonder what this means in detail. The normal procedure with an .iso image file and a qemu VM is to start qemu with the .iso file as -cdrom and the (empty

qemu/kvm reboot problem

2020-05-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, System: Debian Buster host           qemu/kvm virtual machine           CAELinux Guest I load the software from an .iso file in my Download directory. The guest files seem to be loading and working fine until I try to reboot the Guest. Then I get the following: Booting from

Re: Guest can't see hosts network connection using QEMU-KVM

2020-03-27 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 3/27/20 6:20 AM, Bob Weber wrote: On 3/27/20 4:25 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 27.03.2020 12:45, deloptes wrote: Gary L. Roach wrote: AMD-64 4 cpu processor Host Debian Buster Guest kubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machine QEMU Why don't you take virtualbox or vmplayer? Choosing

Guest can't see hosts network connection using QEMU-KVM

2020-03-26 Thread Gary L. Roach
I have the following setup: Debian buster OS with KDE desktop AMD-64 4 cpu processor Host Debian Buster Guest kubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machine QEMU I followed the wiki instructions to set up a bridge between the two operating systems but can't get it to work. Not only does the guest networkin

gmsh errors on start

2020-03-03 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I have had gmsh installed on my system for a long time but have not used it for a while. When I tried to use it yesterday I got the following error: *    gary@ctech:~$ gmsh     gmsh: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmsh.so.4.1: undefined symbol: _ZTV20BRepMesh_FastD

Re: Dolphin as root

2020-03-03 Thread Gary L. Roach
Thanks for the information. Caja can be started as root. This solves my problem but it would still be nice if someone could fix the Dolphin problem. Gary R On 3/2/20 6:30 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 3/1/20 11:41 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 2/3/20 10:44 am, Peter Ehlert wrote: If it was me

Dolphin as root

2020-03-01 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Some time ago somebody decided that Dolphin was too dangerous when being used as root. (Don't lecture me on using sudo and not su.) My hobby work load is not subjected to any security problems, I am behind a pretty good firewall and I am a single user. I have to switch between user and

Installing ppa

2020-02-25 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi All, Debian Buster, AMD64, KDE Desktop. I installed a ppa using the following code: ***sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elmer-csc-ubuntu/elmer-csc-ppa* This installed *elmer-csc-ubuntu_ubuntu_elmer-csc-ppa.gpg* in my /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d directory. So far so good. But when I run apt-get upd

Trilinos build from source code

2020-02-05 Thread Gary L. Roach
I know that this is not a main stream debian question but I have not been able to get any response from the Trilinos (sandia labs) mailing list. I am desparate. I am running a Debian Buster KDE system and am trying to set up Elmer with Trilinos. In short, a setup for some heavy duty computer m

Re: Installation of OpenFoam

2019-12-04 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi John After a lot of fooling around, I finally settled on Salome. It was easy to install if you ignore all of the junk in the README file. It took a .step file from FreeCAD and turned out a 3D hexahedral .unv file with little trouble. The mesh may not be very optimized but I don't care. I a

Installation of OpenFoam

2019-12-02 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I have been trying to install openfoam on  my debian buster system (KDE desktop) and am having fits. Debian has a .deb version that should work out of the box but doesn't. I installed the openfoam .deb in the normal way. There is no icon installed and running openfoam on the command li

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-27 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 10/26/19 2:55 PM, deloptes wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: You haven't said what you're going to look at, but in my humble opinion, if you only want to LOOK, not record, a binocular optical microscope with a ring light and under slide illumination option is the way to go. I don't know if a high

Apache Backuppc problem

2018-08-11 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all. Debian Stretch OS I have installed the BackupPC /Apache2 package before and had no trouble accessing the BackupPC GUI at localhost/backuppc. This time (using apt install backuppc) I keep getting a window asking if I wish to save a bin file. The server downloads a file like W6gLcuk0.bi

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/24/2017 09:23 AM, Weaver wrote: On 2017-11-25 02:51, Cousin Stanley wrote: Emanuel Berg wrote: Is there a piece of software that works like gnuplot or pic/troff were you feed the program a script with instructions and data and then the program generates the drawing? You might

Re: Wanted - a Debian SOHO NAS

2017-11-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/10/2017 12:32 PM, Reco wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 06:25:01AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Reco writes: What I'm looking for is a suitable replacement with the following treats: - Able to run Debian, stock kernel is strongly preferred. - Non-x86, and I don't need another kirkwood ARM. -

Re: (solved) Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-10-05 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/05/2017 10:30 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 05 Oct 2017 at 10:00:01 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/04/2017 01:44 PM, Reco wrote: The contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf, please. The current contents of /etc/resolv.conf. The output of (terminate it with Ctrl+C after 60 seconds): tcpdump -nvi any

Re: (solved) Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-10-05 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/04/2017 01:44 PM, Reco wrote: The contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf, please. The current contents of /etc/resolv.conf. The output of (terminate it with Ctrl+C after 60 seconds): tcpdump -nvi any udp port 53 or tcp port 53 or udp port 5353 While doing: getent hosts go.dev Reco Hooray,

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-10-04 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/04/2017 11:13 AM, Reco wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 02:08:17PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 08:59:46PM +0300, Reco wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 11:59:04AM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Wed 04 Oct 2017 at 09:11:37 (+0300), Reco wrote: A correct way to fix this

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-10-04 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/04/2017 10:59 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 11:59:04AM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Wed 04 Oct 2017 at 09:11:37 (+0300), Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 01:30:11PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: OK Rico> I followed your instructions and still have

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-10-03 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/03/2017 03:53 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 03 Oct 2017 at 13:30:11 (-0700), Gary Roach wrote: OK Rico> I followed your instructions and still have the same problem. Attached are the new files. Already installed were isc-dhcp-client and resolvconf. You are right about the br1 entry

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-10-03 Thread Gary Roach
OK Rico> I followed your instructions and still have the same problem. Attached are the new files. Already installed were isc-dhcp-client and resolvconf. You are right about the br1 entry not being needed. the virtual machine works fine without it. Gary R # This file describes the network inte

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-10-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/27/2017 09:31 AM, Reco wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:16:20PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On 26/09/17 19:50, Reco wrote: Please post these things from the problematic PC: ip a l ip ro l Can I make a request? When giving example commands, can you give them in full, rather than abbr

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-10-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/27/2017 09:31 AM, Reco wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:16:20PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On 26/09/17 19:50, Reco wrote: Please post these things from the problematic PC: ip a l ip ro l Can I make a request? When giving example commands, can you give them in full, rather than abbr

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-09-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/25/2017 07:20 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 25/09/2017 à 15:54, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 03:45:06PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Prepare to be disappointed if you modify directly resolv.conf, because the software which wrote it first could rewrite it after you, as

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-09-25 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/23/2017 09:31 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 9/23/17, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all. I have been trying for several day to get firefox to work on a newly installed Debian Stretch system. It Seems that Firefox can't find a DNS server. I am having the same problem with apt-get update. No

Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-09-24 Thread Gary Roach
Don't know why but this message didn't show up on my email so am sending again. Thanks for the reply Cindy Sue. Hi all. I have been trying for several day to get firefox to work on a newly installed Debian Stretch system. It Seems that Firefox can't find a DNS server. I am having the same prob

Re: The mess of package names

2017-09-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/19/2017 11:57 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get answers faster here than any where else. This problem applies to Debian, Ubuntu and, to some extent, Mac OS. I have spent the last month and a half ( or longer) trying to compile

Can't find the DNS Servers

2017-09-23 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all. I have been trying for several day to get firefox to work on a newly installed Debian Stretch system. It Seems that Firefox can't find a DNS server. I am having the same problem with apt-get update. None of my mirrors can be reached. Ping works just fine. I can't even reach the other c

The mess of package names

2017-09-19 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get answers faster here than any where else. This problem applies to Debian, Ubuntu and, to some extent, Mac OS. I have spent the last month and a half ( or longer) trying to compile and link a program called Elmer FEM. The

Re: Workable installation of VTK and GWT

2017-09-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/09/2017 12:41 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Disclaimer: I have never used or built Elmer From the Elmer wiki at http://www.elmerfem.org/elmerwiki/index.php?title=Compilation_of_Elmer_on_Linux_using_Cmake : [...] "Furthermore, ElmerGUI will be compiled - this expects the "devel" versions of O

Workable installation of VTK and GWT

2017-09-08 Thread Gary Roach
I have been trying for weeks to install the Elmer FEM program from the Git repository. I have constantly had the problem that the program will require the installation of some program or library that Debian doesn't specifically list. If I search by program name I get a long list of library func

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/21/2017 06:00 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Borden Rhodes writes: Interesting. I have 3 machines running Stretch. I originally went from Wheezy stable to Stretch Testing and let Stretch slide back into stable. I have had absolutely no problems with stability or speed. Although I do find that the

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/06/2017 11:13 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Johann Spies writes: Some alternatives which (some of them may have been mentioned in this thread): Atom - a fairly new and versatile one as far as I know PyCharm (not a native Debian Package) but very nice to debug Python with. The community edition

Re: Windows program on Debian

2017-09-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/05/2017 07:10 PM, 黃世緯 wrote: My computer is 11 years old, with single-channel ram, 80GB IDE hard drive etc. The most important thing is the virtualisation, is it okay to install Windows programme on linux? I've been experimenting with KVM virtual machine lately. I've also used wine and

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