dpkg package list

Hi, Is it possible to remove packages with 'pn' and 'rn' from the 'dpkg -l' listing? # dpkg -l libera* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad

Re: login manager problem for root

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:51:08 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:19 +0530, Mohammed Rashad wrote: > >>I am using Debian Lenny 5.0 > >>when i open login manager select properties of root account home > >>directory for root changes from /root to /home/ro

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

On 2009-09-06 19:27, Hashimoto wrote: [snip] Now my laptop is working around 48C, but I was forced to closed the several tabs opened. Using just one or just some few ones. I believe the problem is not the java/flash, the firefox doesn't work very well with many tabs. At least now it's in a go

StuffIt Archive / sit file

Hi there, Does anyone knows what tool I can use to decompress the following file: http://www.informit.com/content/images/0201729148/CDContents/0201729148_CD.sit file says: $ file 0201729148_CD.sit 0201729148_CD.sit: StuffIt Archive $ macunpack -v 0201729148_CD.sit This is a "StuffIt" arch

Re: StuffIt Archive / sit file

I think I found the answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StuffIt "Short version: If you want to open a StuffIt (.sit) archive on Linux, you're out of luck, because none of the tools can deal with recent StuffIt compression methods." Ref: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/stuffit-archives.html On M

Re: StuffIt Archive / sit file

you can use unstuff. Download it from http://www.box.net/shared/cho9u5tog8 Then change the permission, make it executable . Then run ./unstuff On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Mathieu Malaterre < mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > Does anyone knows what tool I can use to decomp

Re: StuffIt Archive / sit file

waw ! Thank so much you save me quite a *lot* of time :) I usually don't like downloading arbitrary exe file from the net, but in this case I was really stuck ! Thanks again ! On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Kousik Maiti wrote: > you can use unstuff. Download it from http://www.box.net/shared/ch

Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

Lee Winter wrote: [snip] > > He is pretty well known in the fields of computer security and > data deletion. Here is a link to his paper. > > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html > > > > Yup, tha

Viziteaza profilul meu Netlog

Hei, Am creat un profil Netlog cu pozele mele, filme, bloguri si evenimente si vreau sa te adaug ca prieten astfel ca tu sa il poti vedea! Dupa conectare, iti poti crea propriul tau profil. Arunca o privire: http://ro.netlog.com/go/mailurl/type=invite_1&mailid=119068013&id=1&url=-L2dvL3JlZ2lzdG

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > [snip] The primary reason I switched to Linux (Debian) in 2001 was due to an overheating laptop (Clevo rebranded for the UK). It transpired that the design was poor and there was a 1GHz PIII desktop processor in it, the budget conscious method to h

sharing an ipp printer with a mac client

I'm using cups 1.4.0 from debian sid and I have a deskjet printer connected via USB. This printer is shared (ticked "Share printers connected to this system" and "Allow printing from the Internet" in the web gui) and should be visible. I can print from linux clients. Configuring the printer on linu

Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

* s. keeling [090907 02:14 +] > Elimar Riesebieter : > > I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript > > > > Shellscript: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > exec xterm -e mutt "$@" > > > > The xterm only pops up for 1 second. > > > > Any hints? > > Ben at linuxgazette.net and I've been p

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

On Monday 07 September 2009 03:08:49 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Purging bittorrent and the othes leaves me with obsolete init.d scripts > > from jackd and timidity. I want these packages but not necessarily the > > init.d scripts to start them. (In fact, Timidity now h

[SOLVED]Connecting to the Internet

Thanks for the advice. It turned out that getting the Internet connection was even simpler than your suggestions. I left-clicked on the network connection icon in the upper right corner of the GNOME screen and selected "wired network". -- Jason Hsu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

next orientation using xrandr.

hello list, my laptop has a button that under normal configuration is supposed to rotate the screen by 90* increments. for instance on press one the screen would rotate from normal to left. on press two from left to right. on press three right to inverted. on press four inverted to normal. i know

Re: Lenny Annoyance

I tried turning off ACPI and it still seems to be doing the same thing. However, I tried starting Skype and it didn't crash the network connection this time. So, maybe it fixed that problem. David Mark Wilson wrote: >David, > >I had some odd problems with lenny on a Toshiba Satellite 4060 X

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

Am 07.09.2009 15:04, schrieb David Baron: > 2. It may be a while before many debianers will in fact migrate. Some may > never do so. Sysv-rc is uninstallable if the safety-check comes up with > "errors". Since, once these errors are fixed and one rally wants to go over, > one must run dpkg-reco

Re: Lenny Annoyance

The laptop has 256 MB of RAM and 705 MB of swap. However when this happens, the memory usage shown on the System Load Monitor is only about 60% and the swap space usage is less than 10%. David >Pretty vague; what are the specs ? How much ram/swap etc. ? > >I have that happen every once and awh

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

On 2009-09-06 19:30:40 +0300, David Baron wrote: > The upgrade from sid finds it unsafe to change to dependency based > boot and leaves it unconfigured with a couple of missing .rc files. Unconfigured? This is probably the following bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545261

failure to upgrade linux-image squeeze

Hi: Upgraded i386 from lenny to squeeze. OK, except for (from several days) on apt-get upgrade errors with linux-image-2,6.301-686-2.6.30-6_i386.deb Following with apt-get -f install probably is a remedy, but why any time? am I alone with such an issue? francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [SOLVED]Connecting to the Internet

On 2009-09-06 20:11, Jason Hsu wrote: Thanks for the advice. It turned out that getting the Internet connection was even simpler than your suggestions. I left-clicked on the network connection icon in the upper right corner of the GNOME screen and selected "wired network". IOW, Network Mangl

Re: Lenny Annoyance

Scratch that. Skype does still crash the network connection. It just took it a little longer than normal this time. David On Monday 07 September 2009 09:46:28 am David wrote: > I tried turning off ACPI and it still seems to be doing the same thing. > However, I tried starting Skype and it di

How to use apache2-dbg with gdb

Hey all, I'm in the process of debugging a stange Apache+PHP related problem. (process taking cpu time, but strace -p $PID doesn't show anything for this process) I'd like to use gdb to look into the apache process and therefore installed the debugging symbols for apache2 (package apache2-dbg).

how to manually activate my broadcom wireless?

i'm sitting in front of a lenny system which does not have either network-manager or network-manager-gnome installed on it, but i would dearly love to activate the broadcom wireless. the installed broadcom firmware worked fine a while back when the manager packages were installed, and the app

How to install updated terminfo entry in home directory?

I have been having DEL/delete/backspace problems, the cause of which I have traced to the following bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319554 In summary, version 5.5-5 of libncurses5 (and libncurses5-dev) is installed on this system, it has an incorrect terminfo entry fo

Setting new Wireless connnection on Lenny

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Re: how to manually activate my broadcom wireless?

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm sitting in front of a lenny system which does not have either > network-manager or network-manager-gnome installed on it, but i > would dearly love to activate the broadcom wireless. > > the installed broadcom firmware worked fine a while back

Setting new Wireless connnection on Lenny

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Re: next orientation using xrandr.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:45 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > hello list, my laptop has a button that under normal configuration is > supposed to rotate the screen by 90* increments. (...) > i know of the xrandr command and xrandr -o 0,1,2,3 work fine. what i > need to know is how would i map multiple

Re: how to manually activate my broadcom wireless?

First of all, you have to bind your card against the network, this can be done with "iwconfig". For example, if you have a network called "MYWIFI" without encryption you have to do: # iwconfig wlan0 essid MYWIFI # dhclient wlan0 If you have WEP/WPA it is a little bit hard... I recommend you to rea

Linux error

Hi all: (Sorry, I'm sending this message once again because it seems to be arriving empty to de Inbox) I installed Lenny stable 5.0.2a over the weekend on my DELL Inspiron 8100 notebook. Everything worked OK including the wireless network. However, when getting at the office where an

Re: dpkg package list

Hinko Kocevar wrote: Hi, Is it possible to remove packages with 'pn' and 'rn' from the 'dpkg -l' listing? # dpkg -l libera* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (St

evolution hanging under lenny on AMD64

I am running Evolution 2.22.3.1 on my AMD64/Lenny box: 22:06:17 ~$ uname -a Linux amd64 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 14 07:12:04 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux but it frequently hangs when I quit Evo... here's a partial gdb attached log... any ideas? ta, M [Switching to Thread 0x7fb7103d6700 (LWP 60

editing configurations

I have an older laptop computer and decided that I would like to become familiar with working in the Linux operation environment. So, I downloaded an image file for the minimal installation [i386] and, after burning that image to a CD, I used the CD to complete the internet installation. Apparentl

system monitor information

I'm using the gnome-system-monitor to watch some apps and their resource usage. On the process view, it lists a %CPU column. I assume this means the percentage of the CPU that the application is currently using. THe documentation doesn't really clarify this, but seems not to contradict this inte

Re: editing configurations

On 2009-09-07 16:11, John Mundinger wrote: I have an older laptop computer and decided that I would like to become familiar with working in the Linux operation environment. So, I downloaded an image file for the minimal installation [i386] and, after burning that image to a CD, I used the CD to

Re: system monitor information

On 2009-09-07 16:31, ChadDavis wrote: I'm using the gnome-system-monitor to watch some apps and their resource usage. On the process view, it lists a %CPU column. I assume this means the percentage of the CPU that the application is currently using. THe documentation doesn't really clarify thi

Re: sharing an ipp printer with a mac client

>Anyway some time ago I managed to configure the printer on my wife's >mac. This expansive laptop is connected wirelessly (same as the linux >clients) via a router. Mac osx was able to detect the printer with the >protocol (IPP) and server address. Now it can't and upgrading cups to >1.4.0 broke pr

Re: editing configurations

(Let's bring this back to the list...) On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: I got as far as I did by doing my own research. Great! When I installed the system, the routine instructed me to create a user account, which I did, and I logon with that account. That user doesn't have the

Disabling avahi

Can anyone please give me any suggestions how I can permanently disable avahi? I don't want it playing around with any of my systems' network settings as it doesn't seem to be able to read my mind sufficiently well to get them right, yet. (It appears to manage to break static IP addresses and stat

Re: editing configurations

John Mundinger wrote: I have an older laptop computer and decided that I would like to become familiar with working in the Linux operation environment. Welcome aboard :-) So, I downloaded an image file for the minimal installation [i386] and, after burning that image to a CD, I used the CD to

Re: editing configurations

(Like I said... let's keep this on the list) On 2009-09-07 17:23, John Mundinger wrote: I think I created two accounts when I installed the system. I don't see an option for logging into a root account while the system is booting up. The only login option that I see is at the GUI. Good

starting debian wiki in my local language

Since there's no Debian wiki in Bahasa Melayu, how do I start one? Do I need somekind of permission to do that? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Disabling avahi

On 2009-09-07 16:10, Chris Davies wrote: Can anyone please give me any suggestions how I can permanently disable avahi? I don't want it playing around with any of my systems' network settings as it doesn't seem to be able to read my mind sufficiently well to get them right, yet. (It appears to m

Re: Disabling avahi

"sudo apt-get remove --purge avahi-daemon" works for me. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Users and groups in Debian

Hi. I was reading up on "Users and groups in Debian" and a friendly guy on IRC pointed my to this document: /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups It is also found here online: http://vmlinux.org/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html Now, maybe its just me, but why

Re: Disabling avahi

On 2009-09-07 17:31, John Hasler wrote: "sudo apt-get remove --purge avahi-daemon" works for me. I've got a lot of avahi packages installed, but they don't seem to be impacting me any. $ COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep avahi | cut -c1-52 ii avahi-daemon0.6.25-1 ii li

I would like to eject my cdrom

I don't care if 'an appication is preventing' or whatever, I want to damned cdrom to eject. I cannot believe that my hardware is being overridden by software. When I hit the eject button, I really don't give a rat's ass what someone thinks about it, I want it to eject. How can I regain control of

Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

JoeHill wrote: > I don't care if 'an appication is preventing' or whatever, I want to damned > cdrom to eject. I cannot believe that my hardware is being overridden by > software. When I hit the eject button, I really don't give a rat's ass what > someone thinks about it, I want it to eject. > >

Re: editing configurations

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:18 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > > (Let's bring this back to the list...) > > On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: ... > > The wireless card is a netgear wg511. > > That old card only supports WEP encryption, which is nothing more > than an invitation for bad gu

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

Cousin Stanley wrote: John Haggerty wrote: I would ask would a static ip really be able to allow the machines to reach the outer network? Why not? As long as the outer fixed IP is routable which it would be. OTOH dyndns.org and others provide a way to tell the outside world wha

Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

Hello Joe ! JoeHill wrote: I don't care if 'an appication is preventing' or whatever, I want to damned cdrom to eject. I cannot believe that my hardware is being overridden by software. When I hit the eject button, I really don't give a rat's ass what someone thinks about it, I want it to eject.

Re: editing configurations

On 2009-09-07 20:29, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:18 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: (Let's bring this back to the list...) On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: ... The wireless card is a netgear wg511. That old card only supports WEP encryption, which is nothing more than an

Re: editing configurations

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:45:53 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-07 20:29, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:18 -0500 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> (Let's bring this back to the list...) > >> > >> On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: > > > > ... > > > >>> The wireless car

Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

J writes: > How can I regain control of this? man eject, and pay special attention to the -a, -i, and -T options. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

John Hasler wrote: > J writes: > > How can I regain control of this? > > man eject, and pay special attention to the -a, -i, and -T options. 'eject'? well, that's kind of counterintuitive, isn't it? ;) Thanks! -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Joe ! > > JoeHill wrote: > > I don't care if 'an appication is preventing' or whatever, I want to damned > > cdrom to eject. I cannot believe that my hardware is being overridden by > > software. When I hit the eject button, I really don't give a rat's ass what > > s

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

>>> OTOH dyndns.org and others provide a way to tell >>> the outside world what your current IP is. These >>> services are free for personal use. >>> >>> I do most of what you are doing. >> >> Paul >> >>Are you using qwest dsl ? > > Yes. Paul Thanks for the acknowledge

Re: editing configurations

On 2009-09-07 20:54, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:45:53 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-09-07 20:29, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:18 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: (Let's bring this back to the list...) On 2009-09-07 16:46, John Mundinger wrote: ... The wireless card is

Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:44 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > get a Quebec government webpage in English, never mind making it easy > > to DL PDF's :) We'll see if they answer. > > Whatever happened to "government by the people, for the people"? :-( Wrong country, for that exact quote (even if it's

Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's the USA. Canada is "let's all be nice and do what the gov't > tells us...". Like Americans are immune from that stupidity. "Now let's go shopping." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

syslog is full of wlan0: switched to short barker preamble

My /var/log/syslog is full of messages such as Sep 7 23:36:32 kusumanchi kernel: [279482.279985] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:23:97:5c:5f:e0) Sep 7 23:36:33 kusumanchi kernel: [279484.023153] wlan0: switched to long barker preamble (BSSID=00:23:97:5c:5f:e0) Sep 7 23:37:06

Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:50:47PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: > J writes: > > How can I regain control of this? > > man eject, and pay special attention to the -a, -i, and -T options. -i ? CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: dpkg package list

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: > Hinko Kocevar wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to remove packages with 'pn' and 'rn' from the 'dpkg -l' >> listing? >> >> # dpkg -l libera* >> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold >> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-c

Re: sharing an ipp printer with a mac client

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > I'm using cups 1.4.0 from debian sid and I have a deskjet printer > connected via USB. This printer is shared (ticked "Share printers > connected to this system" and "Allow printing from the Internet" in > the web gui) and should be visibl