On 4/8/25 14:49, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
It shows you that warning because LibreOffice's support for opening and
saving Excel files is not perfect and does not support a few edge cases.
It should work fine though 99% of the time.
Asides from saving in Excel File format it has some problem wit
On Sun, 2025-08-03 at 19:46 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> If Gnumeric is working for you then that is great. Concerning the
> issue with saving a .xlsx file in LibreOffice -- it always gives me
> that warning when I go to save a .xlsx file, but it always saves the
> file just fine. At least, when
ard Owlett wrote:
I found a USDA published spreadsheet[1] [in xlsx format] containing
needed
data. I saved it to a local directory with no problems.
I copied it to another directory to prevent accidents.
I opened it - Debian defaulted to LibreOffice Calc.
I tried to save it [unedited] to file2.xlsx
I use gphoto2 all the time with Debian 12 Stable, transfering from a Canon
Powershot Sx40 HS.
On 2025-08-03 16:08, Bernard wrote:
Gphoto2 no longer operates on Debian 11 ever since recent update, same
problem on other laptop on Debian 12.
<...>
If there is no way to get gphoto2 to operate , would there be another
means to operate my Canon EOS on Debian ?
I think I usually p
Bernard wrote:
> Gphoto2 no longer operates on Debian 11 ever since recent update, same
> problem on other laptop on Debian 12.
>
> gphoto2, for many years, was my tool for downloading image files (RAW,
> JPG…) from my Canon EOS 600D camera.
>
> When upgrading to Debian
Gphoto2 no longer operates on Debian 11 ever since recent update, same
problem on other laptop on Debian 12.
gphoto2, for many years, was my tool for downloading image files (RAW,
JPG…) from my Canon EOS 600D camera.
When upgrading to Debian 11 about 2 yrs ago, I started to occasionnally
;
> I keep reading about third party programs that ease the burden by keeping
> them synched, but they are pricey and I hate to get tied inwith them unless
> my Debian friends can vouch for them OR offer some better solution.
If you're willing to run your own server, radicale is th
t ease the burden by keeping
them synched, but they are pricey and I hate to get tied inwith them unless
my Debian friends can vouch for them OR offer some better solution.
Thanks.
Best regards,
-Tom
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:39:35 +
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 06:04:13PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > I was going to add that the default sshd installation does leave it
> > open to brute-force password attacks.
>
> sshd is not installed by default though.
>
>
It would seem
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 06:04:13PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> I was going to add that the default sshd installation does leave it
> open to brute-force password attacks.
sshd is not installed by default though.
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:00:21 +0100
Joe wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:28:05 +0200
> Detlef Vollmann wrote:
>
> > On 7/30/25 15:18, John Dow wrote:
> > > Further to this, I’d be completely unsurprised is fully 99.9% of
> > > Linux users consider an SSH client essential. Which is why it’s
> >
On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:28:05 +0200
Detlef Vollmann wrote:
> On 7/30/25 15:18, John Dow wrote:
> > Further to this, I’d be completely unsurprised is fully 99.9% of
> > Linux users consider an SSH client essential. Which is why it’s
> > installed by default.
> >
> > It’s worth bearing in mind that
On 7/30/25 15:18, John Dow wrote:
Further to this, I’d be completely unsurprised is fully 99.9% of Linux users
consider an SSH client essential. Which is why it’s installed by default.
It’s worth bearing in mind that while Linux is becoming more and more useful to
Windows users, Linux is not W
> On 30 Jul 2025, at 13:57, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 14:30:56 +0200, Oleg Goncharov wrote:
>> One of the things that surprised me is that Debian ships with components
>> like ssh and related services (such as sslh) by default,
>
> Huh?
Greg Wooledge (HE12025-07-30):
> An ssh server is *not* installed by default, and I don't even know
> what "sslh" is.
Description-en: Applicative protocol multiplexer
sslh lets one accept HTTPS, SSH, OpenVPN, tinc and XMPP connections on the
same port. This makes it possible to connect to any of
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 14:30:56 +0200, Oleg Goncharov wrote:
> One of the things that surprised me is that Debian ships with components
> like ssh and related services (such as sslh) by default,
Huh? What are you talking about?
An ssh server is *not* installed by default, and I don'
Dear Debian Team,
First of all, I want to express my gratitude for the incredible work you do
with Debian. It’s a powerful and flexible distribution, and I’ve been
enjoying it as I transition from Windows to Linux. However, I’ve
encountered a few challenges that I believe could be addressed to
On 2025-07-28, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> No accounting for taste and I'm glad you found some software you get
> along with, but you do understand that the "Gnu" in "Gnumeric" has no
> association whatsoever with GNU as in the Free Software Foundation,
> right? Gnumeric is a GNOME project.
Richard's a
On 7/28/25 08:44, Richard Owlett wrote:
I found a USDA published spreadsheet[1] [in xlsx format] containing
needed data. I saved it to a local directory with no problems.
I copied it to another directory to prevent accidents.
I opened it - Debian defaulted to LibreOffice Calc.
I tried to save
On Mon, 2025-07-28 at 12:27 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> Is there Debian software that can work with, and especially convert,
> WordPerfect files?
There is a library called libwpd which is used by LibreOffice, Abiword
& Calligra Words, as well as a number of commandline tools (and
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:27:36 -0700
Van Snyder wrote:
> Is there Debian software that can work with, and especially convert,
> WordPerfect files?
charles@peregrine:~$ apt-cache search wordperfect
abiword - efficient, featureful word processor with collaboration
ebook-speaker - eBook reade
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > [1]
> > https://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/file/TFP-2021-Disaggregated-Market-Basket.xlsx
> >
>
> I was unable to download this with wget -- it just hung for a while.
> But when I pasted th
On Mon, 2025-07-28 at 20:21 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> OOXML's spec is roughly 6000 pages compared to roughly 900 for
> LibreOffice's
> ODF [1]. The reference also describes how the ISO approval process
> was
> highly controversial.
Knuth's "The TeXbook" is 483 pages. Books about LaTeX, such
On Mon, 2025-07-28 at 12:01 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Reading a document is often easier to implement than writing it out
> correctly. Reading is also safer, because you're not overwriting any
> data; if you try to save the document, you might be doing so to an
> existing filename, and if the re
follow the same path too?
Is there Debian software that can work with, and especially convert,
WordPerfect files?
On 7/28/25 20:50, Joe wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:43:52 +0200
Detlef Vollmann wrote:
On 7/28/25 20:13, Richard Owlett wrote:
Also gnumeric seemed faster.
That's definitely true.
I'm using gnumeric for essentially all my spreadsheet stuff.
But it doesn't have as many functions as Excel.
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:23:48PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/28/25 12:22 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > Libreoffice generally works - but you could always try Gnumeric from
> > the GNOME project.
>
> Someone else suggested Gnumeric.
> Tried it. It appears more satisfactory. For me
On 7/28/25 20:13, Richard Owlett wrote:
Also gnumeric seemed faster.
That's definitely true.
I'm using gnumeric for essentially all my spreadsheet stuff.
But it doesn't have as many functions as Excel.
And it doesn't really support conditional formatting where
the format depends on other cell
On 7/28/25 18:01, The Wanderer wrote:
Reading a document is often easier to implement than writing it out
correctly. Reading is also safer, because you're not overwriting any
data; if you try to save the document, you might be doing so to an
existing filename, and if the resulting format is inva
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> [1]
> https://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/file/TFP-2021-Disaggregated-Market-Basket.xlsx
I was unable to download this with wget -- it just hung for a while.
But when I pasted the URL directly into a web browser, the b
.
I opened it - Debian defaulted to LibreOffice Calc.
I tried to save it [unedited] to file2.xlsx. Got dire warning and suggestion
to save in ODF format.
Does Debian have a spreadsheet program that can competently read/write xlsx
format? [never happy with LibreOffice text processing $#^$%YU
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:55:57AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
[...]
> I did see a blog post somewhere recently from someone griping about how
> unnecessarily dense, complex, and impenetrable the Microsoft Office
> document formats are, to such an extent that it makes implementing
> support for th
ve as xlsx by default, if you want.
Does Debian have a spreadsheet program that can competently read/write xlsx
format? [never happy with LibreOffice text processing $#^$%YU]
LibreOffice is very good at this.
What was the actual problem (except for the warning)?
/ralph
I haven't check
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I found a USDA published spreadsheet[1] [in xlsx format] containing needed
> data. I saved it to a local directory with no problems.
>
> I copied it to another directory to prevent accidents.
> I opened it - Debi
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I tried to save it [unedited] to file2.xlsx. Got dire warning and suggestion
> to save in ODF format.
I think you can configure away the "dire warning" and make LibreOffice
save as xlsx by default, if you want.
&g
> On 2025-07-28 at 11:52, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I suspect you will find it unusable in anything but Microsoft
> > software since that is their proprietary format.
If that is the case, the odds are it will not work with a different
enough version of Excel.
I mean, are not documents produced by Fre
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I found a USDA published spreadsheet[1] [in xlsx format] containing
> needed data. I saved it to a local directory with no problems.
>
> I copied it to another directory to prevent accidents.
> I opened it - Debian defaulted to LibreOffice Calc.
>
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:56:45AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/28/25 10:52 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I have never had an issue with LibreCalc's xls support. If an xls file
> > is so complicated that LibreOffice can't read/write it properly, I
> > suspect you will find it unusable in an
On 2025-07-28 at 11:56, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/28/25 10:52 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>>> Does Debian have a spreadsheet program that can competently
>>> read/wri
On 7/28/25 10:52 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Does Debian have a spreadsheet program that can competently read/write xlsx
format?
I have never had an issue with LibreCalc's xls support. If an xls file
is so complicated
On 2025-07-28 at 11:52, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> Does Debian have a spreadsheet program that can competently
>> read/write xlsx format?
>
> I have never had an issue with LibreCalc's
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Does Debian have a spreadsheet program that can competently read/write xlsx
> format?
I have never had an issue with LibreCalc's xls support. If an xls file
is so complicated that LibreOffice can't read/writ
I found a USDA published spreadsheet[1] [in xlsx format] containing
needed data. I saved it to a local directory with no problems.
I copied it to another directory to prevent accidents.
I opened it - Debian defaulted to LibreOffice Calc.
I tried to save it [unedited] to file2.xlsx. Got dire
ping
>>>> pdfsam - PDF Split and Merge
>>>>> The poppler-utils package includes:
>>>>> pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
>>>>> pdftotext -- text extraction
>>>>> pdftohtml -- PDF to HTML converter
>>>
On 7/23/25 11:23 AM, Greg wrote:
On 2025-07-23, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
I wish to edit those 2 files.
How?
[Simple question
On 2025-07-23, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I'm running Debian 12.8.
>>
>> I have a 100+ page PDF document.
>> I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
>> I wish to edit those 2 files.
>> H
On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
I wish to edit those 2 files.
How?
[Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple.
What I've read confuses
On Tue, 2025-07-22 at 09:35 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > I used to use pdfjoin to join pdfs (though there was a bug where
> > > some
> > > pages would be oriented wrongly) and I needed to join some pdfs
> > > recently. But there were so many dependencies for pdfjoin that I
> > > decided
> > > t
On 7/22/25 1:31 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 13:17:52 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm running Debian 12.8 and package install failed with
Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-17/openjdk-17-jre
There's no vers
On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 13:17:52 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm running Debian 12.8 and package install failed with
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-17/openjdk-17-jre
There's no version number on that f
On 7/22/25 11:19 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Tue 22 Jul 2025 at 10:14:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
[ … ]
I should
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 02:09:48PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> I discussed this upstream:
>
> https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/discussions/9049#discussion-8603003
>
> and was asked me to report it as a Debian bug, so it's #1109667 and is
> as yet unresolved.
It seems lik
On Tue 22 Jul 2025 at 10:14:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I'm running Debian 12.8.
> >
> > I have a 100+ page PDF document.
> > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
[ … ]
> I shou
The poppler-utils package has tools like:
pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
pdftotext -- text extraction
pdftohtml -- PDF to HTML converter
Many others as well, but those might be of immediate value to you.
Years ago, pre-PDF, there used to be tools like ps2ps, pstops
(different tools, I think
On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM Greg wrote:
> Evince can fill in fillable forms, as can Chrome.
> But evince seems the natural choice.
Firefox can draw onto a PDF. When using text to draw, it allows one
to make it act like a fillable form when it isn't.
Evince does not seem to offer such a feat
Hah! Thanks for all of the Firefox follow-ups.
I had stumbled across the info about fonts shortly after I posted.
While printing from FF didn't work, using good old fashioned "lp" from
the command line worked on the filled-and-saved PDF.
I also tried moving pdfs back and forth between my home c
On 7/20/25 5:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
I wish to edit those 2 files.
How?
[Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple.
What I've read confuses
On Mon 21 Jul 2025 at 10:38:55 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I used to use pdfjoin to join pdfs (though there was a bug where some
> > pages would be oriented wrongly) and I needed to join some pdfs
> > recently. But there were so many dependencies for pdfjoin that I decided
> > to try pdfunit
On 2025-07-21, Mike Castle wrote:
> Annoyingly, I am currently trying to print a filled-form PDF with FF
> and it is not working.
>
> When I try to print the page, it comes up with the form without all of
> my filling.
>
> So, treat my previous comment with suspicion.
Evince can fill in fillable
Am Montag, 21. Juli 2025, 21:25:36 CEST schrieb Mike Castle:
> Annoyingly, I am currently trying to print a filled-form PDF with FF
> and it is not working.
>
> When I try to print the page, it comes up with the form without all of
> my filling.
>
> So, treat my previous comment with suspicion.
>
Am Montag, 21. Juli 2025, 21:25:36 CEST schrieb Mike Castle:
> Annoyingly, I am currently trying to print a filled-form PDF with FF
> and it is not working.
>
> When I try to print the page, it comes up with the form without all of
> my filling.
>
> So, treat my previous comment with suspicion.
>
140.0.4 on Debian 13 (sid) to download a 1040 pdf
from https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf; the tax form opened in
my Firefox window, and allowed me to click in the Last Name and First
Name fields, and put in my name. I then "printed" the document to a new
.pdf file, and from a termi
Annoyingly, I am currently trying to print a filled-form PDF with FF
and it is not working.
When I try to print the page, it comes up with the form without all of
my filling.
So, treat my previous comment with suspicion.
mrc
For actually modifying PDFs, I have taken to using Firefox. It not
only handles editable PDFs (those with predefined fields to type
into), it can also simply overlay text and drawings.
It is not likely to work for changing the wording of the document.
But if you just want to avoid having to print
> I used to use pdfjoin to join pdfs (though there was a bug where some
> pages would be oriented wrongly) and I needed to join some pdfs
> recently. But there were so many dependencies for pdfjoin that I decided
> to try pdfunite (that somebody had recently mentioned here), which I
> already had i
I discussed this upstream:
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/discussions/9049#discussion-8603003
and was asked me to report it as a Debian bug, so it's #1109667 and is
as yet unresolved.
Thanks,
Andy
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>
>> > See man mutool. Roger
>>
>> pdftk can do what you want, and more.
> Try "pdfarranger", it is in the debian repo.
> Should work for your needs. Also "pdfsam" might also be able to do it,
> however, personally I think, pdfarranger is
On 7/20/25 9:29 AM, Roger Price wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
For a simple graphical solution, try xpdf. The print option allows you to print
specified pages to file.
We cann
On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:15:08 -0400
Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation
> script on Debian 13 Trixie?
Yes.
Oh, you actually wanted to know which package in trixie provides
mysql_secure_installation. Well:
root@tiassa:~# ap
"pdfseparate" is the tool I need.
I need to tweak content of some tables in a large PDF document.
Wish I had known about it ~2 years ago.
*THANK YOU*
On 7/20/25 9:19 AM, Roger Price wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 7/20/25 7:24 AM, Roger Price wrote:
mutool merge -o Pa
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 06:57:41 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM wrote:
>
> > Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation
> > > s
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM wrote:
> Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation
> > script on Debian 13 Trixie?
>
> google debian mysql_secure_installation shows me as the first hi
Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> All,
>
> Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation
> script on Debian 13 Trixie?
google debian mysql_secure_installation shows me as the first hit
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/mariadb-client/mysql_secure_installatio
All,
Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation script
on Debian 13 Trixie?
Thanks
Tim
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM Paul Scott wrote:
>
> I have run sid/unstable for about 20 years. The only active line in my
> /etc/apt/sources.list is
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free-firmware
>
> cat /etc/os-release gives"
>
> PRETTY_N
n to see what one is following.
But they may not necessarily be distinguished by what's currently
installed, notably, e.g.
base-files provides /etc/debian-version and /etc/os-release, and at
any given time,
the version of that package, and thus its files, in testing and
unstable may be the s
tinguished by what's currently
installed, notably, e.g.
base-files provides /etc/debian-version and /etc/os-release, and at
any given time,
the version of that package, and thus its files, in testing and
unstable may be the same.
That's also why /etc/debian_version may a bit more fittingly a
Hello,
I have run sid/unstable for about 20 years. The only active line in my
/etc/apt/sources.list is
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free-firmware
cat /etc/os-release gives"
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VE
DF file.
> >
> > How about
> >
> >mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n
> >
> > where <100-page.pdf> is the original file
> > Page-n.pdf is the one page file extracted
> >
> > See man mutool. Roger
>
> pdftk can
On Sun, 2025-07-20 at 14:24 +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > I have a 100+ page PDF document.
> > I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
>
> How about
>
> mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n
>
> where <100-page.pd
> I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
> I wish to edit those 2 files.
I've used Inkskape in the past to edit PDFs, and more
recently LibreOffice.
As a general rule, the better option is to do something else, because
editing PDFs is fundamentally "wrong" so the tools ha
On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have a 100+ page PDF document.
> I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
For a simple graphical solution, try xpdf. The print option allows you to
print
specified pages to file.
We cannot help with the editing since you ha
On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/20/25 7:24 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> > mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n
> >
> > where <100-page.pdf> is the original file
> >Page-n.pdf is the one page file extracted
> >
> Is some demo or tutorial that would clarify what it
On 7/20/25 7:24 AM, Roger Price wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
How about
mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n
where <100-page.pdf> is the original file
Page-
On 2025-07-20, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm running Debian 12.8.
>
> I have a 100+ page PDF document.
> I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
> I wish to edit those 2 files.
> How?
> [Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple.
&
On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have a 100+ page PDF document.
> I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
How about
mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n
where <100-page.pdf> is the original file
Page-n.pdf is the one page file extracted
I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file.
I wish to edit those 2 files.
How?
[Simple question but I suspect answer may not be so simple.
What I've read confuses me.]
TIA
Hi,
On an install of the RC of the forthcoming Debian 13, I just installed
fwupd. I now go to refresh its database and get:
$ sudo fwupdmgr refresh
Updating lvfs
Failed to download metadata for lvfs: network is unreachable: Host unreachable
I am not aware of any reason why this host would have
please check if your network interface was not renamed and still the same:
iifname "ens18" accept
...
oifname "ens18" masquerade
I updated my virtual machine from Debian 12 to 13, after which it began
to work incorrectly with nftables. Incoming letters do not work,
nftables does not work correctly. It is impossible to receive or send a
letter in the local network. At the same time, from the external network
(Internet
> Aye, it’s way too big a topic for the mailing list. If you’re
> interested in the whole debate (as far back as 2003) you can find
> highlights here:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/DefaultMTA
Thanks, that very much answers my question.
I guess if `ssmtp` had been extended to allow local deli
> On 17 Jul 2025, at 20:09, Marco Moock wrote:
>
> On 17.07.2025 19:00 Uhr Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> I don't have anything against Exim4 (I just happened to choose Postfix
>> many years ago and never had a reason to reconsider that choice).
>> I know basically nothing about Exim4 other than th
On 17.07.2025 19:00 Uhr Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I don't have anything against Exim4 (I just happened to choose Postfix
> many years ago and never had a reason to reconsider that choice).
> I know basically nothing about Exim4 other than the fact that
> installing Postfix instead saved a few kB (no
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 12:54:58PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Why does Debian default to installing Exim4?
Just historical reasons I think: No great mystery, just that a choice
had to be made and that was the choice that was made.
Personally I haven't been too thrilled wit
Why does Debian default to installing Exim4?
I just crossgraded two machines (i386->amd64 and armhf->arm64) in
different ways (once with `crosssgrader` and once with a fresh install
followed by manual reconciliation) and in both cases I ended up with
Exim4 installed while I had starte
x. Then she got the new one.
> >
> > ... but also their whole website is bogus and with my luck would ALSO
> > do some user-agent checks now. Ugh, why is everything a web-app :(
> >
> Because it's platform-independent, as long as you don't do stupid
> one-br
> Right, but her laptop is pretty much dead (won't charge any longer and
> has only 4 gb of RAM) and cannot be revived for any sensible amount of
> money, so she must buy a new one.
Side note: the "new" one doesn't have to be literally new, it could be
second-hand as well.
Stefan
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