Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread Dalios
On 05/23/2015 08:58 AM, mudongliang wrote: > Yesterday I installed the LMDE(Linux Mint based Debian Jessie),which is > a rolling release issued by Linux Mint! > The installation is of no question! But when I want to install > openyoudao from ppa , it returns me "not support ppa"! > > So I search

Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-23 Thread Juha Heinanen
Patrick Bartek writes: > 2. How UEFI compatible is Debian Wheezy? What I'm running on the > Desktop. Or is Jessie the better choice. Or something else entirely? > Except Ubuntu variants (Hate it!). I don't want to run in Legacy mode > for future compatibility. I won't be installing a desktop,

Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread mudongliang
On 05/23/2015 02:37 PM, Dalios wrote: On 05/23/2015 08:58 AM, mudongliang wrote: Yesterday I installed the LMDE(Linux Mint based Debian Jessie),which is a rolling release issued by Linux Mint! The installation is of no question! But when I want to install openyoudao from ppa , it returns me "n

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:53:14 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to > replace my aging Desktop (1 to 8.5 years depending on which parts). > Going to abandoned the Big Box forever. Need to be very portable in > the next year or two. Two

Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 15:13:33 +0800 mudongliang wrote: > On 05/23/2015 02:37 PM, Dalios wrote: > > That said you can try to install the .deb package with other ways > > (for example using gdebi) but the main drawback (apart from any > > inconsistencies already mentioned) is that the package won't

Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread mudongliang
On 05/23/2015 03:28 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 15:13:33 +0800 mudongliang wrote: On 05/23/2015 02:37 PM, Dalios wrote: That said you can try to install the .deb package with other ways (for example using gdebi) but the main drawback (apart from any inconsistencies already m

Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 16:28:19 +0800 mudongliang wrote: > On 05/23/2015 03:28 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > The major problem with using a ppa is that the software has not been > > vetted by the Debian project. It could contain malware or other > > security problems, and the maintainer of the ppa can

Re: Problems getting started with QtQuick and QtCreator

2015-05-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 08:24 +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for the noise. > > I started trying more of the suggestions in different forum threads > regarding this problem, and > >aptitude install qtdeclarative5-dev > > solved it. That sounds like a dependency problem, be sure

Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:28:55 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2015 15:13:33 +0800 > mudongliang wrote: > > > On 05/23/2015 02:37 PM, Dalios wrote: > > > That said you can try to install the .deb package with other ways > > > (for example using gdebi) but the main drawback (apart

Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 01:58:16PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Yesterday I installed the LMDE(Linux Mint based Debian Jessie),which is a > rolling release issued by Linux Mint! LMDE is based on Debian but not exactly a Debian. It's Linux Mint. > The installation is of no question! But when

Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Sephen P. Molnar
VI am running Wheezy (v-7.8.0) in a VM and have encountered rather a strange problem .with an application, MOPAC (a well established quantum chemistry program). The application is installed in /opt/mopac (required by the executable) and, in order to execute the program the following is an ent

Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 "Sephen P. Molnar" wrote: > VI am running Wheezy (v-7.8.0) in a VM and have encountered rather a > strange problem .with an application, MOPAC (a well established > quantum chemistry program). > > The application is installed in /opt/mopac (required by the >

Testing - login screen and console very dark

2015-05-23 Thread Jape Person
At some point during the recent slew of updates in testing I noticed that one of my four systems began exhibiting a strange behavior. When I log out from a desktop session to the greeter or switch to a console screen, the display is so dark I can hardly see its content. I would point out that t

RE: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
-Original Message- From: Petter Adsen [mailto:pet...@synth.no] Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:47 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem Running Application with Alias On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 "Sephen P. Molnar" wrote: > VI am running Wheezy (v-7.8.0) in a VM

KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread German
Hi list, I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch. For now, I am not even sure what type should I get. What are advantages to have DVI instead of VGA interface? Are there any justifications in price? VGA KVM is about $20, where is DVI is $100. If money is no object, DVI KVM is better than

Running Debian with only 213MB Ram?

2015-05-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. On my old laptop I chose Openobex as window manager because Gnome is too heavy for it. I get though: $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 213207 5 4 23111 -/+ buffers/cache: 73

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 10:30:33 -0400 German wrote: > Hi list, > > I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch. For now, I am not > even sure what type should I get. What are advantages to have DVI > instead of VGA interface? Are there any justifications in price? VGA > KVM is about $20, wher

udev hwdb question

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
In followup to the question I asked about a Logitech mouse a couple of days ago; I can add a file in /etc/udev/hwdb.d and remap a binding as such: KEYBOARD_KEY_70007=back But where can I find a list of what I can map them _to_ (ie, the "back" in this example)? Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you

Re: Running Debian with only 213MB Ram?

2015-05-23 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 23 May 2015 14:47:27 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > On my old laptop I chose Openobex as window manager because Gnome is too heavy > for it. I get though: > > $ free -m > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 213

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread German
On Sat, 23 May 2015 16:53:37 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2015 10:30:33 -0400 > German wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch. For now, I am not > > even sure what type should I get. What are advantages to have DVI > > instead of VGA inter

Re: udev hwdb question

2015-05-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 16:38 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > In followup to the question I asked about a Logitech mouse a couple of > days ago; I can add a file in /etc/udev/hwdb.d and remap a binding as > such: > > KEYBOARD_KEY_70007=back > > But where can I find a list of what I can map them _to_ (

Re: Testing - login screen and console very dark

2015-05-23 Thread Jape Person
On 05/23/2015 10:07 AM, Jape Person wrote: At some point during the recent slew of updates in testing I noticed that one of my four systems began exhibiting a strange behavior. When I log out from a desktop session to the greeter or switch to a console screen, the display is so dark I can hardly

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 11:17:18 -0400 German wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2015 16:53:37 +0200 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 May 2015 10:30:33 -0400 > > German wrote: > > > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch. For now, I am > > > not even sure what type

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:53:14 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to > > replace my aging Desktop (1 to 8.5 years depending on which parts). > > Going to abandoned the Big Box forever.

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:04:55 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:53:14 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > > Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to > > > replace my aging Desktop (1 to 8.5 yea

CLI download interface/tool for Google Images?

2015-05-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
I like to use Google Images as a way to get images but I don't like the interface which involves looking at hundreds of tiny thumbs and clicking on numerous links to download a single image. I wonder, did anyone do a tool so you can just type, e.g. $ google-img-dl -s 1024x768 -n 100 jungle t

Re: Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > And, with Debian 6 LTS, in /etc/apt/sources.list, I have, apart from > the commented out lines, > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free > deb http://http.debian.net/debian squeez

Re: [OT] 2 dhcp server on same lan

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Eike Lantzsch wrote: > DHCP failover on a small network does not seem to be worth the > effort, except for training purposes. Exactly that is why this > thread was very informative for me. Just for kicks (training) I was > trying for a while to set up two dhcp servers on my network. One > OpenBSD o

Re: CLI download interface/tool for Google Images?

2015-05-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 19:20 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > I like to use Google Images as a way to get images but > I don't like the interface which involves looking at > hundreds of tiny thumbs and clicking on numerous links > to download a single image. > > I wonder, did anyone do a tool so you ca

Re: Boot menu entries

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The newest latest kernel installed is on the bottom. > > Not here. I have the oldest on the bottom. > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ dpkg -S /boot/vmlinuz-* > linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 > linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64: /boot/

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread David Christensen
On 05/23/2015 07:30 AM, German wrote: I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch. For now, I am not even sure what type should I get. What are advantages to have DVI instead of VGA interface? Are there any justifications in price? VGA KVM is about $20, where is DVI is $100. If money is no o

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread German
On Sat, 23 May 2015 11:18:16 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 05/23/2015 07:30 AM, German wrote: > > I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch. For now, I am not > > even sure what type should I get. What are advantages to have DVI > > instead of VGA interface? Are there any justificati

Re: CLI download interface/tool for Google Images?

2015-05-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Sven Arvidsson writes: > I have seen a couple of different scripts that > scrape the image search, for example: > https://github.com/tytek2012/givemepics That didn't work, and the style of the program including the documentation tells me it isn't "mature" in more than one sense of the word... >

Re: Fwd: rc.local and systemd

2015-05-23 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Michael, thanks for your prompt reply. Am Montag, 18. Mai 2015, 22:21:42 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 18.05.2015 um 22:01 schrieb Rainer Dorsch: > > root@nanette:~# systemctl status rc-local.service > > ● rc-local.service - /etc/rc.local Compatibility > > > >Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/sy

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread David Christensen
On 05/23/2015 11:38 AM, German wrote: So it makes sense to use for instance vga-to-dvi adapter? How about the quality of this connection? Is this worth it? My DVI-I-to-VGA adapter came with my Intel motherboard and seems to work without problems or visual artifacts (signal degradation). I sus

Re: Fwd: rc.local and systemd

2015-05-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 23.05.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Rainer Dorsch: > Am Montag, 18. Mai 2015, 22:21:42 schrieb Michael Biebl: >> As you can also see, powertop exits with a non-zero return code. Since >> /etc/rc.local uses "set -e", your script exits at this point and the >> service is marked as failed. .. > Hmmse

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
German wrote: > I am shopping locally here for a good KVM switch. For now, I am not > even sure what type should I get. What are advantages to have DVI > instead of VGA interface? Are there any justifications in price? VGA > KVM is about $20, where is DVI is $100. If money is no object, DVI KVM > i

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:04:55 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:53:14 -0700 > > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6

test if fan is working

2015-05-23 Thread Anil Duggirala
hello, How can I test if my fan is working in Debian?, thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1432411314.3937272.276553953.0ae38...@webmail.messagin

Re: test if fan is working

2015-05-23 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 01:01:54PM -0700, Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > How can I test if my fan is working in Debian?, thanks, I've installed the xsensors package. It continually reports the RPM of three fans. Would this do? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mopac/MOPAC2012.exe:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" > > This is an obvious thing that jumps out at me, this line should be: > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mopac:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" > > as LD_LIBRARY_PATH is meant to contain directorie

Re: Fwd: rc.local and systemd

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Nevertheless I am still wondering why it has the failed status, > rc.local has an hard "exit 0" return code (?) : Look at the first line of /etc/rc.local script. > rd@nanette:/etc$ cat rc.local > #!/bin/sh -e The set -e ^^ here is what sets the -e flag for the shell. Bob

Re: Mousepad Not Saving Prefs

2015-05-23 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 18 May 2015 17:52:47 +0200 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 11:31 -0400, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I'm running Debian Stretch/testing (updated daily). I use Xfce4 and > > Mousepad as my GUI text editor. It seems that Mousepad is no longer > > saving my p

Re: CLI download interface/tool for Google Images?

2015-05-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 05/23/2015 09:55 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: Sven Arvidsson writes: I have seen a couple of different scripts that scrape the image search, for example: https://github.com/tytek2012/givemepics That didn't work, and the style of the program including the documentation tells me it isn't "mature"

Re: CLI download interface/tool for Google Images?

2015-05-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Mihamina Rakotomandimby writes: > Feel free to mature it and show us what you call > a mature piece of code. I don't have to show a lamer like you anything. The reason I call it immature as a program is that it outputs it logo using Unicode chars for no reason (especially not recommended for a

Re: KVM switch: DVI-D, DVI-I or vga?

2015-05-23 Thread David Christensen
On 05/23/2015 12:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: There is, in my opinion, a significant difference in visual quality between the digital and analog display feeds. I have one machine that can do dual-head. The primary display feed starts as analog DVI-I, is adapted to VGA, goes into the VGA KVM, and

Re: test if fan is working

2015-05-23 Thread Anil Duggirala
Ive installed the xsensors package as well, it only shows me 2 temperature readings, temp1 and core 0, cant see any rpm (Im running lxde). Is there a way for me to manually turn the fan on? thanks, On Sat, May 23, 2015, at 01:16 PM, Haines Brown wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 01:01:54PM -0700, A

Re: Boot menu entries

2015-05-23 Thread Emil Payne
On 05/22/2015 04:56 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 22 May 2015 at 16:24:29 -0500, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/22/2015 03:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: $ uname -r 3.9-1-amd64 Don't remove the running kernel nor the latest kernel. Remove all of the others. Bob BTW What is the linux-header? Is that just t

No sound at boot

2015-05-23 Thread Mark Allums
I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for Linux, I know). I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update (back when Jessie was Testing), sound quit working at boot. Of course, the first thing I tried was root@persephone:~# modprobe snd-hda-intel and that got me s

Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 14:28:54 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 > > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mopac/MOPAC2012.exe:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" > > > > This is an obvious thing that jumps out at me, this line should be: > > > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mopac:$LD

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 12:46:10 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:04:55 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I've read about that, but right now until W10 in its final form is > > > release, nobody really knows for sure. > > > > W

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 23:29:27 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for > Linux, I know). I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update > (back when Jessie was Testing), sound quit working at boot. Of > course, the first thing I tried was >

Re: SOLVED: Re: Logitech M545 button mappings

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
Ooops! A small correction for people looking through the archives and reading this: On Tue, 19 May 2015 11:50:12 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > Create "/etc/udev/hwdb.d/90-logitech-m-545.hwdb" with following: > > # Logitech M545 > keyboard:usb:v046DpC52B* > KEYBOARD_KEY_70007=back > KEYBOARD_KEY_

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 23 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: . . . Re-Installing ALSA does nothing, of course, and I guess I have no Google skills, because all I can find with Google is advice to reinstall ALSA. . . . hi Mark, I had almost the same problem, although the sound didn't work after modprobe. W

Re: Boot menu entries

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 20:27:39 -0500 Emil Payne wrote: > On 05/22/2015 04:56 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 22 May 2015 at 16:24:29 -0500, Emil Payne wrote: > > > >> On 05/22/2015 03:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >>> > >>> $ uname -r > >>> 3.9-1-amd64 > >>> > >>> Don't remove the running kernel nor the l

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 01:15 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: . . . Re-Installing ALSA does nothing, of course, and I guess I have no Google skills, because all I can find with Google is advice to reinstall ALSA. . . . hi Mark, I had almost the same problem, a

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 12:58 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 23:29:27 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for Linux, I know). I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update (back when Jessie was Testing), sound quit working at boot. O

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-23 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 05/24/2015 09:39 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > > > On 05/24/2015 12:58 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Sat, 23 May 2015 23:29:27 -0500 >> Mark Allums wrote: >> >>> I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for >>> Linux, I know). I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update