Re: Can I install Debian on Raspberry Pi?

2020-04-28 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
On 2020-04-22 17:10, Joe wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:05:48 +0800 Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > The original 1988 ARM and many generations since did not have > floating point hardware. It's only when multiple cores became > popular that it became worth doing. Floating point hardwa

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:53:39PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: [...] > If Jitsi is really Libre Software, then it should be installable from > sources. This is the tutorial I am looking for. Sigh. LMDDgIFY Jitsi home page: https://jitsi.org/ List of projects: https://jitsi.org/projects/

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-28 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (12020-04-28): > Sigh. LMDDgIFY So, my take is that nobody here managed to install Jitsi from sources. That should tell you something. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-28 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:15:00AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12020-04-28): > > Sigh. LMDDgIFY > > So, my take is that nobody here managed to install Jitsi from sources. I never tried, mind you. I've got better things to do with my time than wrangling down a Java Monster (TM

Re: Package integration date into repository

2020-04-28 Thread l0f4r0
Hi Andrei, 27 avr. 2020 à 08:35 de andreimpope...@gmail.com: > On Lu, 27 apr 20, 01:12:29, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > >> 26 avr. 2020 à 09:09 de andreimpope...@gmail.com: >> >> > What are you trying to achieve? >> > >> I just would like to make some correlation between when new code is >> publicly

Re: Boot so slow it never completes, while Windows boots fine

2020-04-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 04:57:03PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > TL;DR: My laptop starts ~20x slower than normal. Booting Debian hangs > before the kernel starts. Windows 10 boots slow, but then works fine. Many thanks to everyone who responded! As usual, one can count on the Debian community! T

Re: Boot so slow it never completes, while Windows boots fine

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/28/20 5:33 AM, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 04:57:03PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: TL;DR: My laptop starts ~20x slower than normal. Booting Debian hangs before the kernel starts. Windows 10 boots slow, but then works fine. Many thanks to everyone who responded! As usual

Re: mplayer can't play big file by mencoder

2020-04-28 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2020. 04. 27. 22:57 keltezéssel, Long Wind írta: > You are right. Thanks! > but mencoder return normally, i didn't see any error msg > maybe i have to delete it. > > On Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 3:17:28 AM GMT+8, wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 06:58:19PM +, Long Wind wrote: > >  zhou@debi

Re: /etc/default/keyboard not loaded at startup

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Sun 26 Apr 2020 at 10:00:37 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 25 apr 20, 16:39:24, gwinship wrote: > > I added following configuration to my /etc/default/keyboard > > Hint: you can use 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' to get a > text-mode wizard. I've found that odd things can

Re: Package integration date into repository

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Apr 2020 at 01:12:29 (+0200), l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > 26 avr. 2020 à 09:09 de andreimpope...@gmail.com: > > > The changelog does not necessarily show when the package was uploaded, > > e.g. the package maintainer could prepare an upload (including the > > changelog entry) and upload da

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Sat 25 Apr 2020 at 21:41:09 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2020-04-24 23:48:16 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 24 Apr 2020 at 21:07:31 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > Since you don't want to purge pdftk, why did you decide to purge it > > > above? > > > > Because in Real

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Mon 20 Apr 2020 at 00:11:08 (-0700), Ihor Antonov wrote: > On Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:30:43 PDT Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:28:57, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > > Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on > > > root > > > and make snapshots prior to big

Re: mplayer can't play big file by mencoder

2020-04-28 Thread Nicolas George
Nemeth Gyorgy (12020-04-28): > The problem is not mplayer nor mencoder but the vfat. Though the vfat > can store max 4GB file but the seek parameter on vfat is a signed > integer instead of an unsigned so the seek is not possible on larger > than 2GB files. You are clearly confusing several issues

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread Default User
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:28 PM Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:34:24 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > ... > > > Something like restic backup is a very good all around solution. > > OP: also look at borg. > > > You could consider backing up to a cloud like Amazon S3. Using the > > Infrequ

Changing timestamps in video files

2020-04-28 Thread Steve Keller
Is there any tool in Debian that is able to change the timestamp in video files, e.g. .mov, .avi, .mp4, etc.? For image files I use jhead -ta but I haven't found anything for video. Steve

Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Steve Keller
What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, i.e. xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm -ls What are pros and cons? I see one: Th

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 05:46:33PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm -ls > > What are pros and cons? I see one: The latter will produce more > overhead as it runs the X11 protocol through the ssh tunnel. I would absolutely prefer the first one, unless y

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 apr 20, 11:43:22, Default User wrote: > > Andy Smith wrote: > > 1 - First, regarding: > > [vast mounts of quoted text snipped - please don't quote too much!] > > I didn't realize some trimming might be needed. I guess I just > figured you can't scroll through an email for information

Re: Package integration date into repository

2020-04-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:20:26AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 27 Apr 2020 at 01:12:29 (+0200), l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > 26 avr. 2020 à 09:09 de andreimpope...@gmail.com: > > > > > The changelog does not necessarily show when the package was uploaded, > > > e.g. the package maintainer co

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-28 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > What's missing? Jitsi from source - is a pain

Re: Boot so slow it never completes, while Windows boots fine

2020-04-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-04-28 05:33, Marcin Owsiany wrote: I noticed, that in order to prevent this slowness, I just need to have some USB device plugged into any USB port while the laptop is starting! It does not need to be used, its mere presence helps. - once booting nice and fast, it still goes slow as s

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

2020-04-28 Thread Nicolas George
Steve Keller (12020-04-28): > Is there any tool in Debian that is able to change the timestamp in > video files, e.g. .mov, .avi, .mp4, etc.? > > For image files I use jhead -ta but I haven't found > anything for video. What timestamps do you want to change exactly? For video files, the most obv

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve Keller wrote: > > xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm -ls Greg Wooledge wrote: > I would absolutely prefer the first one, unless you have a specific > reason to use the latter I agree. But why the -X in the first one ? Is there more desired than a shell session ? Have a n

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 28, 2020, Steve Keller wrote: > What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: > Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in > that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, > i.e. > > xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Apr 2020 at 19:09:48 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Steve Keller wrote: > > > xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm -ls > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I would absolutely prefer the first one, unless you have a specific > > reason to use the latter > > I agree. But why the -X i

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Apr 2020 at 13:43:16 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 28, 2020, Steve Keller wrote: > > What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: > > Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in > > that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread Bob Weber
6 - Finally, using rsync I actually am doing two separate backups: date; sudo rsync -avvzHAXPSish --delete --stats --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found","/home/default/*"} / /media/default/USBHD005/Backup_of_Dell_Debian_dimwit/root_partition

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread Default User
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:16 PM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 28 apr 20, 11:43:22, Default User wrote: > > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > > 1 - First, regarding: > > > [vast mounts of quoted text snipped - please don't quote too much!] > > > > I didn't realize some trimming might be needed. I gue

Re: Package integration date into repository

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Apr 2020 at 12:26:53 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:20:26AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 27 Apr 2020 at 01:12:29 (+0200), l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > > 26 avr. 2020 à 09:09 de andreimpope...@gmail.com: > > > > > > > The changelog does not necessari

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 05:46:33PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see two ways: Do not overlook the marvelous package "screen".

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread Default User
On 2020-04-28 [TU] at 14:18 EDT, Bob Weber said: > According to the manual the -x option is: > > -x, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries > > I use that option all the time to keep from backing up my large home > > directory when I only > want the system directories under ro

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 28 avr. 2020 à 21:04 de russ...@rlharris.org: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 05:46:33PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > >> What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see two ways: >> > Do not overlook the marvelous package "screen". > Or even better: tmux :) Best regards, l0f4r0

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-04-28 12:15, Default User wrote: I don't recall the specific error code I got; just that it refused to do a sync using the -x option. I keep a plain text system administration log file for each computer in CVS. I cut and paste console sessions into it. If a given command produces

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:43:22AM -0400, Default User wrote: > Andy, you mentioned restic, which I am not familiar with. Similar > considerations would seem to apply to that also. But I might also try > that out later. Note that you did not state any of these requirements for only using

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Bob McGowan
On 4/28/20 8:46 AM, Steve Keller wrote: What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see to ways: Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host, i.e. xterm -e ssh -X or ssh -X xterm

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread Bob Weber
On 4/28/20 3:15 PM, Default User wrote: On 2020-04-28 [TU] at 14:18 EDT, Bob Weber said: According to the manual the -x option is: -x, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries Question: When you use rsync, do you ever do it on a live, mounted filesystem from within said mac

python virualenv

2020-04-28 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I have a quite basic questions on virtualenv for python/pip: If I run it as shown in the example below, I see that binaries which come with pip installed packages in a virtualenv go into the ~/.local/bin directory and not into the /bin directory. E.g. shown here The script plasma_stor

Another virtualenv question

2020-04-28 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I have another basic virtualenv question: I install covidify in a virtualenv and if finds the dependency Requirement already satisfied: docopt in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from covidify) (0.6.2) installed on the system. But later, when I run the python script, it is not found: T

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-28 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (12020-04-28): > I never tried, mind you. I've got better things to do with my time than > wrangling down a Java Monster (TM). > > That said, I don't know what your point is (besides whining around a > bit here): you get the thing as a Debian packaged source. You have > shown some

Re: python virualenv

2020-04-28 Thread Tom Low-Shang
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:20:04PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Here is the full sequence I executed: > > rd@h370:~/virtualenv$ virtualenv covidify > Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python2 Virtualenv uses python2 > New python executable in /home/rd/virtualenv/covidify/bin/python

Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

2020-04-28 Thread Martin McCormick
In every flavor of unix I have used since I began learning unix in 1989, the date command would produce a string containing the current time in 24-hour format similar to Tue Apr 28 20:25:11 CDT 2020 If you run the date command in buster, you get Tue 28 Apr 2020 08:26:24 PM CDT O

Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

2020-04-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:36:11PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > In every flavor of unix I have used since I began learning unix > in 1989, the date command would produce a string containing the > current time in 24-hour format > similar to > > Tue Apr 28 20:25:11 CDT 2020 > > If you run

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:43:22 -0400 Default User wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:28 PM Celejar wrote: ... > 3 - Now on to the subject of backing up a system. I am using rsync as > my primary backup tool. Celejar, thank you for suggesting borg. I > did install it and look at it briefly. B

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-28 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:37:27 + Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:43:22AM -0400, Default User wrote: ... > The thing about cloud storage is that it is generic and it is easy. > Once you come up with a means to backup to an S3-compatible storage, > should your data di

Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

2020-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:45:23 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Is there any environment variable or local configuration > > variable which will make date produce the 24-hour time stamp > > similar to past implementations of date? > > > > You probably have LANG set, but it seems you migh

Re: mplayer can't play big file by mencoder

2020-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:50:44 + (UTC) Long Wind wrote: > but i don't have energy to learn new toolsand mencoder work fine most > of time4G limit can be avoided by using several files (instead of > single file) to record Or record to a partition that isn't VFAT. If you have to use a USB devic

Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

2020-04-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:36:11PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any environment variable or local configuration > variable which will make date produce the 24-hour time stamp > similar to past implementations of date? If you need it systemwide, consider doing this (