Stephen R Laniel wrote:
sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}'
Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon?
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You need to install alsa-ossOn 6/14/06, Nicolas Sabouret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,I use debian etch on my Compaq laptop and I don't understand how the soundcard works. I installer alsa packages, the sound card was detected andsome applications (like gcompris) work perfectly.However, most o
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:25PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> >sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}'
> Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon?
Had I done
sudo find / -uid [old UID] -exec chown [new UID] '{}' \;
then yes. But with xargs, no.
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Dear Debian users,
According to the [1]FHS, /usr is supposed to be sharable between
computers, mounted using e.g. NFS. Likewise, /usr/share is supposed to
be sharable between machines of different architectures.
[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
What would be the preferred way for doing such thin
(1) I had used tasksel to do the installation, selecting desktop only.
(2) from apt-get -s -V install x-window-system:
-
stdout:
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if yo
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:02:43PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in
> the file system, say from 1234 to 5000?
chown --recursive onion: foo
will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion,
and
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:07:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> chown --recursive onion: foo
>
> will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion,
> and change their gropu IDs accordingly. Leave off the colons if you
> want them to stay in the old group.
But this will
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Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 6/14/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> And returning to the original topic, I don't get the hate for
>> the GTK file picker. Given a choice, I will take the QT
>> version, but ever since I learned that you can ju
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
>
> A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box
> to record (with permission) radio shows in background,
> on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still
> n
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:00:19 -0400
Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the
> package is not already installed, I would not want it to be
> installed. Is this possible?
>
> Currently when I use
>
> apt-get install
>
> a
On 6/14/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Marsh wrote:
> Where the suckitude of the new GTK file picker really shines is when
> you need to specify that a file should be opened with a program in
> /usr/bin. Unless they've fixed that recently. I really don't like
> typing "/usr/bi
On 6/14/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can add direct, persistent links to the File Picker dialog box.
That should alleviate some of your pain.
Which dialog box do you mean? If you mean the one that gives you the
option of saving to disk, opening with the default, or selecting
Wow...here's a silly one for the archives.
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:46, Bill Thompson wrote:
> In addition, the command "aptitude" is now recommended in place of
> "apt-get". The aptitude program handles package dependencies better
> than the apt-get program.
When you do apt-get --help, at th
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 16:36 -0500, Dale Hair wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
> > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
> >
> > A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box
> > to record (with permission) radio shows in background,
>
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:46:04PM -0700, Bill Thompson wrote:
> apt-get upgrade
> will upgrade a package if it is already installed in your system and an
> upgrade is available.
I'm pretty certain that you can't do 'apt-get upgrade
[package]'; you can only do 'apt-get upgrade' -- the latter
of w
I wrote this on one of the forums I visit.
I have been running breezy without any problem, and when I did a
apt-get update dist-upgrade it borked my system.
I have quake4 and utk4 installed, after the upgrade quake4 would not
even run, xorg was broken. This is what I get from filling a bug
re
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:15:05AM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> I believe the issue is that /bin/sh is expected to be a bourne shell, or at
> least closely compatible. zsh, "most closely resembles ksh but includes many
> enhancements." ksh has "command language [that is ] is a superset of
What are the odds I can plead someone into forking FireFox to use a
different set of widgets, either QT or something more generic (wxWindows?)?
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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your
government when it de
On 6/14/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wow...here's a silly one for the archives.
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:46, Bill Thompson wrote:
> In addition, the command "aptitude" is now recommended in place of
> "apt-get". The aptitude program handles package dependencies better
> th
On 6/14/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What are the odds I can plead someone into forking FireFox to use a
different set of widgets, either QT or something more generic (wxWindows?)?
There is some QT code in FF already, but I think it is unmantained,
so I don't know if it will actual
Somehow I've gotten into a big mess with the 6.9-> 7 transition.
My initial upgrade failed with the message that there was stuff
remaining in /usr/X11R6/bin and I should move it out of the way. I
did so, actually moving the entire bin directory (perhaps part of my
problem).
apt-get d
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:08:15 -0400
Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty certain that you can't do 'apt-get upgrade
> [package]'; you can only do 'apt-get upgrade' -- the latter
> of which upgrades *all* packages on your machine. See the
> manpage for apt-get(8):
Whoops! You
After running with Perl for some 7+ years I decided I would see what else is out
there and my pick was to go from Perl directly to Ruby, passing Python entirely.
And so it's been an interesting adventure so far.
But I have two questions about Debian and Ruby and playing well together.
I've run
* Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-15 00:49]:
> try "apt-get moo"
> then "aptitude moo"
> then "aptitude moo -v"
> then "aptitude moo -vv"
> and so on
Now that was funny!
- Felix
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~ "Any sufficiently advanced
I have the default Sarge installations of PHP4 and PostgreSQL. But I
can't get PHP to work with PostgreSQL. The php command phpinfo()
shows that it was compiled with the following parameters...
'../configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2' '--with-
config-file-path=/etc/php4/a
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 20:15, Felix C. Stegerman wrote:
> * Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-15 00:49]:
> > try "apt-get moo"
> > then "aptitude moo"
> > then "aptitude moo -v"
> > then "aptitude moo -vv"
> > and so on
>
> Now that was funny!
So it isn't super cow powers, but at least
On (15/06/06 09:56), Xavier Elizalde wrote:
> I have the default Sarge installations of PHP4 and PostgreSQL. But I
> can't get PHP to work with PostgreSQL. The php command phpinfo()
> shows that it was compiled with the following parameters...
[snip ./configure flags]
> It says "--without-pgs
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:05PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:07:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > chown --recursive onion: foo
> >
> > will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion,
> > and change their gropu IDs accordingly. Leave
On Thursday 15 June 2006 09:41, Tom Allison wrote:
> After running with Perl for some 7+ years I decided I would see what else
> is out there and my pick was to go from Perl directly to Ruby, passing
> Python entirely.
>
> And so it's been an interesting adventure so far.
>
> But I have two questio
* Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 14:51:22 -0400]:
> The strange problem of the "not fully installed or removed" packages I
> have been reporting has been resolved...
Hooray!
>
> It seems that a short while ago I have switched shells from bash to zsh
> to explore its new fe
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:04:48PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Dear Debian users,
>
> According to the [1]FHS, /usr is supposed to be sharable between
> computers, mounted using e.g. NFS. Likewise, /usr/share is supposed to
> be sharable between machines of different architectures.
> [1] http
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 17:16 -0500, Dale Hair wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there anything in Debian that can take a raw samples
> > > file and turn it into an MP3?
> > > Has some other form of documentation replaced the collection
> > > of HOWTOs at TLDP.org? Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cameron
> >
> >
Michael Marsh wrote:
> About 27s for me. I type in the path and click "OK" for the small
> dialog that pops up when you start typing. It's then about 27s before
> that dialog goes away and I can click "OK" on the actual file picker.
Ah. That delay actually occurs when the actual file picker (for
Carl Fink wrote:
> Shouldn't apt-get then refuse to run under zsh, or itself spawn /bin/sh and
> run scripts under that instead of the default shell?
/bin/sh is the default shell, and it is required on Debian that that
symlink only be pointed to POSIX compliant shells.
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signature.
i am trying to get better graphics performance from my toshiba sattelite.
apparently i have the 855GM chipset, and apparently the driver is avail' at:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?
agr=N&Inst=Yes&ProductID=922&DwnldID=9722&strOSs=39
On 6/13/06, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a fresh install of sarge stable and am trying to get totem to
work.
The only totem-gstreamer I have gotten to work well on debian is the
one that came out in sid around two weeks ago. Every version before
that was broken in some wa
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Joey Hess wrote:
> Michael Marsh wrote:
>> About 27s for me. I type in the path and click "OK" for the
>> small dialog that pops up when you start typing. It's then
>> about 27s before that dialog goes away and I can click "OK" on
>> the actual fi
On 5/1/06, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a
>hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks.
>
>DAR:
>http://dar.linux.free.fr/
>
>DARomizer:
>http://www.catherders.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1
>
Thanks, that soun
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Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 6/14/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You can add direct, persistent links to the File Picker dialog
>> box. That should alleviate some of your pain.
>
> Which dialog box do you mean? If you mean the one that gi
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael Marsh wrote:
> > About 27s for me. I type in the path and click "OK" for the small
> > dialog that pops up when you start typing. It's then about 27s before
> > that dialog goes away and I can click "OK" on the actual file picker.
>
> Ah. That del
Hello
I installed the emacspeak, but all the servers have the same error.
When I test the servers using for example "tcl accent" I get an error in
the line when is call the "stty" function, for example:
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers# tcl accent
Error: stty: standard input: In
Dave writes:
> Figure out how to make APT point to BASH and file the bug there. Be
> interesting to see what the APT people have to say.
Policy requires that /bin/sh point to a POSIX shell. Zsh is not
POSIX-compliant. You can break many things other than Apt by pointing
/bin/sh to Zsh.
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David Zelinsky wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Michael Marsh wrote:
>>> About 27s for me. I type in the path and click "OK" for the
>>> small dialog that pops up when you start typing. It's then
>>> about 27s before that dialog g
On 6/14/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Save As" is what I'm talking about.
http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/Save_As.png
Ah. That's rarely been a problem for me. Generally, I either put all
downloads in the same directory or use wget.
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Your mail client incorrectly claims that you are using iso-8859-1 as a
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:46:59PM +0200, Mattias Wiberg wrote:
> apt-get install samba
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tr
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:19:48PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> apt-get -f remove cbb
> fails, apparently because of all the problems
> arising from being in mid-X11 transition (lots of unmet dependencies).
Don't use apt-get to fix the problem. Apt-get doesn't allow broken
dependencies...
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:44:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> If you want to fork the library, and convince app writers to use it.
Gnome and company realized that they couldn't fork GTK... no one would pay
attention. Instead they co-opted it.
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Hi. I am using a Debian testing server and I have installed horde,
imp and its sub packages on the server and configured a virtual host
at least for testing from my local box.
Now what I get isThe requested URL /horde/horde3/login.php was not
found on this server.
There are several login.php
My newly purchased Pioneer DVD-111D will not write DVDs on my Debian
Sarge Pentium 1.8 GHz system. I am using HP 8X DVD-Rs and trying to
write at 4X.
I applied the dvd-record patch to cdrecord. It writes between 30 and
200 MByte to the disk and then stops. The written area on the DVD is
clearly
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:30:29 +0300
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Other programs, ppracer, work in software mode and are unusable. Ysflight
> actually seems to be using DRI though this program works nicely in software
> mode as well.
I posted about this a few days ago when updating
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:34:31 +0200
Nicoco Kinlidex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello
>
> i can't get the brand new google earth for linux (R) (C) (TM) working.
> installation is OK but i get this :
I get that if I try the Direct option. (basically a debug message that
originated from a sig11).
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, John Covici wrote:
I have a Debian system where I have the sasl2 library set up -- there
were some problems doing that which I will get to in another message,
but the main problem is that I have used
testsaslauthd with a userid and password using my imap server for
authentic
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:46:01 -0700
"Cameron L. Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
>
> A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box
> to record (with permission) radio shows in background,
> on a predetermined schedule. It's the
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:03:39PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:19:48PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > apt-get -f remove cbb
> > fails, apparently because of all the problems
> > arising from being in mid-X11 transition (lots of unmet dependencies).
>
> Don't use apt
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:29:08 -0700
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, lame does a conversion and does not give me any errors. I can
> play the file with 'play' from sox, and sox will take it as input to
iirc it depends if sox has come with links to the libmp3lame or other
mp3 re
SID laptop:
Running KDE on a HP Compaq nx7010 with a TEAC DW-244E-A DVDR/CDRW Drive.
I get this error during boot:
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error:
status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error:
error=0x34
ahh, I didn't know they were different -- there is a mysql in sasl
itself which I might try.
Thanks.
on Wednesday 06/14/2006 Richard A Nelson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, John Covici wrote:
>
> > I have a Debian system where I have the sasl2 library set up -- there
> > wer
I have read the docs
and done some googling and I think I have everything set up right. My problem is
that although everything looks right I can not access the mount point. Here are
my docs as I have them. Can anyone offer some insight as to what I am doing
wrong. Note that I can manually mo
hi ya tony
> Tony Heal wrote:
>
> 14-series:~# cat /etc/auto.master
> #
> /opt/epace-storage /etc/auto.epace-storage --timeout=300
of you change * to epsace-storage below.. you need to change
/opt/epace-storage
it is best to use /.autofs instead of /opt/something
and use symlinks
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Why not put the alias in /etc/profile ?
>
> Greetings
> Michelle Konzack
>
>
I want have aliases set depending on the package presence/absence. So I
ideally want to make the package available through cfengine/puppet plus
put
I had that same problem when upgrading xorg because i had opera installed,I removed it by doing dpkg -r opera then apt-get -f install and that did it.On 6/14/06,
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:19:48PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> apt-get -f remove cbb> fail
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:18:45 -0500
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> Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> >> It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern: For
> >> the vast maj
A good way to move files between your cell phone and Linux machine is to
use the excellent BitPim (http://bitpim.org). Some phones will not
work with BitPim, however, in part because of their closed-source
nature. [1] This post describes an alternate solution. This should
work for nearly all
hi:Thanks.. i see gnome-core. i think this is what i need. but i got some problem while doing apt-get install gnome-core. Doing apt-get dist-upgrade doesnot have any problem. am i doing something wrong in this case ?
o/p is:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get install gnome-coreReading package lists... Don
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