On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:58:48 - (UTC)
Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-29, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >> On 2025-07-28, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >> > The problem has become *MOOT*.
>
> >> No, it hasn't, and that's not what moot means.
> >
> > See the 2nd definition.
>
> I did. Why would
On 2025-07-29, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On 2025-07-28, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> > The problem has become *MOOT*.
>> No, it hasn't, and that's not what moot means.
>
> See the 2nd definition.
I did. Why would extracting information from, or converting a PDF to a
spreadsheet format, suddenly
On Tuesday, July 29, 2025 09:32:02 AM Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-28, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > The problem has become *MOOT*.
>
> No, it hasn't, and that's not what moot means.
See the 2nd definition.
`
moot /moo͞t/
adjective
Subject to debate; arguable or unsettled.
Of no practical importance;
Can you all please stop.
--
John Doe
On 2025-07-29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:29:25 -0400, Lee Winter wrote:
>> Nope!
>> DASH is known to be pure garbage.
>> -- Lee
>
> [citation needed]
>
> A quick Google search shows endorsements by U.S. News and World Report,
> the Mayo Clinic, and Harvard's School of Publi
On 2025-07-28, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The problem has become *MOOT*.
No, it hasn't, and that's not what moot means.
> As I reported elsewhere I've found the spreadsheets the PDF was based on.
Did you mention spreadsheets in your original problem statement?
Did you say, "I would like to conve
On 2025-07-28, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
>
>> To be frank, given the question, he'd be significantly better off just
>> asking one of the robots, where you can upload PDFs, than here, where
>> people go off in any direction and seem to have permanent chips on
>> their shoulders.
>
> Your understandi
On 2025-07-28, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> I started off with a degree of sympathy for what you were saying, but
> you haven't managed to talk about what it is you DO want, only about
> what you DON'T want.
No, you're right, though I don't need your sympathy. I don't want
anything because Debian Stable
On 7/29/25 6:13 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 7/29/25 12:28 AM, Lee wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
More explicitly:
How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by
distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
Why do I ask?
In my r
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:29:25 -0400, Lee Winter wrote:
> Nope!
> DASH is known to be pure garbage.
> -- Lee
[citation needed]
A quick Google search shows endorsements by U.S. News and World Report,
the Mayo Clinic, and Harvard's School of Public Health.
On 7/29/25 12:28 AM, Lee wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
More explicitly:
How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by
distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
Why do I ask?
In my read with PDF related questions, my response
Nope!
DASH is known to be pure garbage.
-- Lee
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM Lee wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > More explicitly:
> > How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by
> > distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particul
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> More explicitly:
> How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by
> distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
>
> Why do I ask?
> In my read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially
> "W
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:48:34 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/28/25 1:26 PM, Joe wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:39:21 - (UTC)
> > Greg wrote:
> >
> >> On 2025-07-27, Anders Andersson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The Debian user mailing list is one of the worse examples in my
> >>> (limited)
On 7/28/25 1:26 PM, Joe wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:39:21 - (UTC)
Greg wrote:
On 2025-07-27, Anders Andersson wrote:
The Debian user mailing list is one of the worse examples in my
(limited) experience. Every question gets non-answered by a bunch of
people who don't really know about
Don't you people have anything productive to do???
Please stop this nonsense and get back to work!
Find a useful job~!
On 7/28/2025 9:37 AM, Greg wrote:
On 2025-07-28, Charles Curley wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:04:12 - (UTC)
Greg wrote:
I don't need support, and in the rare case I do
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:39:21 - (UTC)
Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-27, Anders Andersson wrote:
> >
> > The Debian user mailing list is one of the worse examples in my
> > (limited) experience. Every question gets non-answered by a bunch of
> > people who don't really know about your exact situati
On 7/28/25 12:03 PM, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:18:22PM -, Greg wrote:
His question isn't complex, though. He has *this* PDF from which he
wants to extract *that* data so that it is readily exploitable, legible,
presentable, etc. If that isn't it, then the fault lies w
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:18:22PM -, Greg wrote:
> His question isn't complex, though. He has *this* PDF from which he
> wants to extract *that* data so that it is readily exploitable, legible,
> presentable, etc. If that isn't it, then the fault lies with him, not us.
Oh boy, you have just d
Hi,
Greg wrote:
> [...] not one woman among them, to be sure, not one. None.
> Not a single, single one [..]
We cannot help you until you tell us maker, model and firmware
version of your gender bias.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
On 2025-07-28, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:04:12 - (UTC)
> Greg wrote:
>
>> I don't need support, and in the rare case I do, don't ask questions
>> here.
>>
>> I use a search engine and usually find an answer to my query on stack
>> exchange, or reddit, or somewhere else,
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 04:04:12PM -, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-28, Andy Smith wrote:
> > It really depends on what you're looking for.
>
> I don't need support, and in the rare case I do, don't ask questions here.
>
> I use a search engine and usually find an answer to my query on stack
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:04:12 - (UTC)
Greg wrote:
> I don't need support, and in the rare case I do, don't ask questions
> here.
>
> I use a search engine and usually find an answer to my query on stack
> exchange, or reddit, or somewhere else, but *never* in the debian-list
> archives, which
On 2025-07-28, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> I would encourage you to try some other venues for support. I don't say
> that to be dismissive. I say it because it seems like the only practical
> choice (and it's the choice that I think ~everyone is going to converge
> on). It really depends on what you're
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 02:39:21PM -, Greg wrote:
> Every question is non-answered by an intimate clan of aging men with
> toxic attitudes and enormous anal-retention, who believe everyone
> should be using mutt or gnus like them and don't know or give a shit
> about anything else.
>
> I
> This, precisely. They are only talking to themselves, as I have noted
> previously (maybe Max N., who seems interested in this kind of
> foolishness, can verify the date stamps). Every question is non-answered
> by an intimate clan of aging men with toxic attitudes and enormous
> anal-retention,
Greg (HE12025-07-28):
> It's really time for a change here.
Everybody loves people who have been there barely more than six months
and want to throw everything away.
This kind of discourse evokes, more than anything else, somebody who is
pissed that the answers they got for their question were al
On 2025-07-27, Anders Andersson wrote:
>
> The Debian user mailing list is one of the worse examples in my
> (limited) experience. Every question gets non-answered by a bunch of
> people who don't really know about your exact situation, but think
> they have some valuable input. Often the same bun
On 2025-07-27, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
>
> But my main point: Asking questions is an interactive, iterative
> process. For any realistically complex problem, there will be no simple
> answer on the first try, in most cases. Even describing the problem
> correctly will take a few tries.
His questio
On 7/27/25 6:06 PM, Michael Paoli wrote:
Ooops, meant to send to (or at least include) list:
-- Forwarded message -
From: Michael Paoli
Date: Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: How to ask a question?
To: Richard Owlett
Why of course ask the smart way!
http://catb.org
On 7/27/25 4:11 PM, Anders Andersson wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
More explicitly:
How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by
distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
Why do I ask?
In my read with PDF related questions,
On 7/27/25 9:09 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:33:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Now I have to relearn how to extract specific content from spreadsheets.
Something I haven't done in close to two decades.
What I usually ended up doing was opening the spreadsheet in Libre
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 02:30:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/27/25 7:53 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
[...]
> > The confused reactions should be a giveaway to you that something might
> > need adjustments on your part:
>
> Agreed. That prompted my post.
The one specific
On 7/27/25 8:55 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Why do I ask?
In my read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially "Why
are you trying to do?" rather than an answer to to a narrowly
focused question.
Sometimes the "Why" you might get in return is misguided
(e.g. paternalistic), but I
On 7/27/25 7:53 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Hi Richard,
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:33:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
More explicitly:
How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by distractibility
{cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
Asking good questions is not e
Ooops, meant to send to (or at least include) list:
-- Forwarded message -
From: Michael Paoli
Date: Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: How to ask a question?
To: Richard Owlett
Why of course ask the smart way!
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Uhm, yeah
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> More explicitly:
> How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by
> distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
>
> Why do I ask?
> In my read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially
> "W
Richard Owlett wrote:
> More explicitly:
> How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by
> distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
>
> Why do I ask?
> In my read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially
> "Why are you trying to do?" rathe
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:33:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by distractibility
> {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
As a long time lurker, occasional poster: You can't.
One large part of asking questions on practical p
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 10:09:05AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:33:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Now I have to relearn how to extract specific content from spreadsheets.
> > Something I haven't done in close to two decades.
>
> What I usually ended up doing w
Greg Wooledge (HE12025-07-27):
> What I usually ended up doing was opening the spreadsheet in Libre Office,
> then saving it as a "CSV" (comma-separated values) file. I'm not aware
> of any way to do that purely from the command line.
I have in my notes somewhere:
libreoffice --headless --conver
On 7/27/25 05:33, Richard Owlett wrote:
More explicitly:
How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by
distractibility {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
Why do I ask?
In my read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially
"Why are you trying to do?"
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:33:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Now I have to relearn how to extract specific content from spreadsheets.
> Something I haven't done in close to two decades.
What I usually ended up doing was opening the spreadsheet in Libre Office,
then saving it as a "CSV" (comma-s
> Why do I ask?
> In my read with PDF related questions, my responses were essentially "Why
> are you trying to do?" rather than an answer to to a narrowly
> focused question.
Sometimes the "Why" you might get in return is misguided
(e.g. paternalistic), but I think in the present case it's becaus
On 2025-07-27, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> But *THE* question remains.
> How to ask narrowly focused questions which will get answers in this forum?
It's quite difficult because many of the people who answer questions
here really don't care about your question, they only care about their
answer.
S
Hi Richard,
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:33:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> More explicitly:
> How should I [who has *ability* to hyperfocus mitigated by distractibility
> {cf ADHD}] ask questions in this particular forum?
Asking good questions is not easy. You've got to wrap your brains around
On 2025-07-23, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>
>>> For convenience of future readers - these tools have been suggested to
>>> me in this thread.
>>>
mutool - all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files
pdftk - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
qpdf- PDF tran
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 but I s
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 but I suspect answer
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 me.]
TIA
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 07:42:10PM +0700, масляков дмитрий wrote:
> how to delete my bug report
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107874 ?
> That nothing was opened at this address.
I don't think a user will be able to delete content out of the bug
tracker.
Practically sp
масляков дмитрий wrote:
> Hello.
> how to delete my bug report
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107874 ?
> That nothing was opened at this address.
>
Don't try to delete it.
Send a report to 1107...@bugs.debian.org saying:
that you found the problem (and what the solution
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 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 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.
>
On 7/21/25 2:25 PM, 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.
mrc
I just used Firefox 140.0.
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
On 2025-07-20, Hans wrote:
>> >
>> > 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 do what you want, and more.
> Try "
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
"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
Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2025, 20:46:18 CEST schrieb Van Snyder:
> 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
> >
>
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.
> What I've read confuses me
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
On 03.07.2025 19:10 Uhr масляков дмитрий wrote:
> I accidentally attached the file [$$$ (application/octet-stream,
> attachment)]. How can I delete it?
You can't, as it is part of the mail and that got stored at the
bugtracker and maybe on other places.
Although you can use the this bug log cont
On 7/3/25 09:40, масляков дмитрий wrote:
Hello.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107874
I accidentally attached the file [$$$ (application/octet-stream, attachment)].
How can I delete it?
I suspect that you cannot delete an attachment to a bug report once the
bug report has
Thank you all for your replies.
I finally could delete them with qpdf(1) with
the dedicated long-option --remove-attachment
Best wishes,
Jerome
On 17/06/2025 19:42, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello,
I have a PDF file with undesirable attachments:
is there a simple way to delete them ?
Thanks in ad
On Tue, 2025-06-17 at 14:43 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.
> >
> > I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.
> >
>
> The poppler-utils package contains:
>
> * pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
> * pdfseparate
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.
>
> I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.
>
The poppler-utils package contains:
* pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
* pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
* pdfunite -- document merging tool
Which tog
On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 02:21:04PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.
> >
> > I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.
>
> Then you're most likely stuck with it. PDF isn't really "editable" in
> that sense (ignoring Adobe Acro
On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.
>
> I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.
Then you're most likely stuck with it. PDF isn't really "editable" in
that sense (ignoring Adobe Acrobat or whatever it's called).
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Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.
I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.
On 17/06/2025 19:59, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello,
I have a PDF file with undesirable attachments:
is there a simple way to delete them ?
re-generate the PDF without the embedded f
On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a PDF file with undesirable attachments:
> is there a simple way to delete them ?
re-generate the PDF without the embedded files.
--
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|_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert
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Dan Ritter wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > I have an SD card which is vfat formatted. There's a file on it that
> > I want to remove but when automounted it is read only. How can I get
> > it to mount with write permission?
> >
> > This is on debian 12.
>
> First, check to see if the SD card h
On 10/06/25 at 18:11, Chris Green wrote:
I have an SD card which is vfat formatted. There's a file on it that
I want to remove but when automounted it is read only. How can I get
it to mount with write permission?
This is on debian 12.
Probably is already mounted read/write but you haven't w
Chris Green wrote:
> I have an SD card which is vfat formatted. There's a file on it that
> I want to remove but when automounted it is read only. How can I get
> it to mount with write permission?
>
> This is on debian 12.
First, check to see if the SD card has a readonly switch. (Many
SD card
On 05/06/2025 01:09, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote:
Unfortunately, Debian text Installer and even Camalares installer do not
cooperate with my UEFI firmware.
I think, installer assumes default use case with loaders for all OSes
installed to the same EFI System Partition.
Create another EFI System
On 6/4/25 11:09, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote:
Dear advanced users and developers,
Debian is making so big joy to Me that I want to install it to my USB
external SSD harddisk.
Unfortunately, Debian text Installer and even Camalares installer do not
cooperate with my UEFI firmware.
So Grub is being
Hi,
i wrote:
> > Would it be ok to install "grub-pc-bin" and "grub-efi-ia32-bin" ?
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Yes. That's exactly the design of the packaging here: the -bin
> packages contain the binary grub code that you're looking for, and
> grub-pc and grub-efi-$arch do the configuration to use o
Thomas wrote:
>
>i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need
>the directories
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi
>alongside the already installed
> /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi
>in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI together.
>Gentoo and Arch obviously
Hi,
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Would downloading the deb packages, then un-ar'ing them in a tmp dir
> get you most of what you want?
Maybe. But i was looking for a way to create BIOS+EFI grub-mkrescue
ISOs by regular Debian means.
To answer my own question:
https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need
> the directories
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi
> alongside the already installed
> /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi
> in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI together.
> G
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 15:34:39 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > ... and I have set UMask in the systemd apache2.service:-
> >
> > chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf
> > [service]
> > UMask=0002
>
> Shouldn't that square-bracket heade
On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 15:34:39 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> ... and I have set UMask in the systemd apache2.service:-
>
> chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf
> [service]
> UMask=0002
Shouldn't that square-bracket header be capitalized? [Service]
instead o
On 28/05/2025 21:34, Chris Green wrote:
chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf
[service]
UMask=0002
[...]
chris$ systemctl show apache2.service | grep -i umask
UMask=0022
So why can't I set it!!??
I think, you can, but you need to fix a typo
On 5/28/25 10:34 AM, Chris Green wrote:
[...]
... and I have set UMask in the systemd apache2.service:-
chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf
[service]
UMask=0002
It may necessary to reset UMask first, i.e.:
[Service]
UMask=
UMask=0002
--
Šarūnas Bur
On Mon, 19 May 2025, songbird wrote:
Tim Woodall wrote:
Short script below that shows my problem.
fusermount -u (and umount) both return before all the data is written
out to the backing file on a fuse FS. Is there any way to tell when this
is complete? I tried running fuse in the foreground a
Tim Woodall wrote:
> Short script below that shows my problem.
>
> fusermount -u (and umount) both return before all the data is written
> out to the backing file on a fuse FS. Is there any way to tell when this
> is complete? I tried running fuse in the foreground and then doing a
> wait $PID b
Hi,
On Sun, May 04, 2025 at 08:03:39AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> Thank you , David. My problem was a simple blunder, but your respose was
> usefully informative.
It would be helpful to say what the blunder was so that other people
who find this thread by search later on may not be left wonde
Thank you , David. My problem was a simple blunder, but your respose was
usefully informative.
On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 02:12:23PM +, David wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 11:09, Haines Brown wrote:
> Now to assist you, here's an actual example cut and pasted from the machine
> I'm using ri
On Sat 03 May 2025 at 06:22:45 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:
> I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key mounted on a directory
> under /media.
>
> I can change the ownership of that directory to that of the user, but
> when I mount the the key on it the ownsrhip reverts to root.
There
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