Re: How to create dictionary and spell checker for my locale language (Malay) ?

2021-06-26 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 6/23/21 12:16 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Try asking on debian-i18n. Thanks for your suggestion, I will ask on debian i18n -- Robbi Nespu D311 B5FF EEE6 0BE8 9C91 FA9E 0C81 FA30 3B3A 80BA https://robbinespu.gitlab.io | https://mstdn.social/@robbinespu

Re: Debian 11 and Clementine music player

2021-06-26 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 6/21/21 4:57 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi all, I use Debian 11 (which is still testing) and I have installed Clementine music player version 1.4 rc2. The problem is that when I try to listen particular stream I get this error message "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in." Wi

Re: Debian 11 and Clementine music player

2021-06-26 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 6/26/21 11:41 AM, Robbi Nespu wrote: > On 6/21/21 4:57 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I use Debian 11 (which is still testing) and I have installed Clementine >> music player version 1.4 rc2. >> >> The problem is that when I try to listen particular stream I get this >> error mess

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/25/2021 04:06 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 08:48:47AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Installing the Base System"[2]. That paragraph states: When packages are installed u

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 iun 21, 16:42:34, Marco Möller wrote: > On 21.06.21 07:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 20 iun 21, 10:20:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Package: release-notes > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, a...@packages.debian.org > > > > > > On Sb, 19 iun 21, 22:07:35, Marco Möl

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 25 iun 21, 19:29:31, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: > > > It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without > > ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any > > other ISP. > > It seems to me they do not honour the "delete" reque

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:04:13, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in > > > > that > > > > list. > > > > > > Why? Not blurry at

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > Despite Signal making some of their source available, you can't > write your own Signal client and have it talk to their

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 25 iun 21, 20:44:51, Francesco Florian wrote: > > You may want to change all instances of 'buster' to 'stable', so that > you don't have to bother changing it whenever new version of debian is > released as stable. > This is, if you really want to track 'stable', i.e., automatically > sw

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

2021-06-26 Thread Marco Möller
On 26.06.21 11:54, Andrei POPESCU wrote: (...) Very good points, all appreciated. Feel free to suggest patches for it through bugs against the harden-doc package, or merge requests in Salsa if the Maintainer is accepting them. I'll do so. I decided, motivated also by observing how you are d

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 25 iun 21, 15:02:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Christian wrote: > > Hi altogether, > > [...] > > > I quote: > > > [...] There is a tradeoff, though. The software in Debian Stable is > > usually fairly outdated. > > In fact, it's usually outdated w

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iun 21, 13:31:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > > Despite Signal making some of their source available, you ca

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 25 iun 21, 15:50:56, steve wrote: > Le 25-06-2021, à 06:38:32 -0600, D. R. Evans a écrit : > > > For years I have run debian stable on my main desktop machine (the one I > > am using to type this e-mail). It has had fewer major issues than any > > other distribution I have tried. > > Some

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > > Despite Signal making some of their source available, you can't > > write your own Sign

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Jun 2021 at 19:29:31 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: > > > It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without > > ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any > > other ISP. > > It seems to me they do not honour the "de

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-26 Thread Christian
Hi and a very good day to all of you, 😁 thank you very much for the new input of yours. You're too kind. @T.J. Duchene: Thanks a lot for the warm welcome. That' s really nice. I enjoy it very much here. Your instruction to update policies used by Debian stable is very good; I understand it

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

2021-06-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/26/21, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Andrei, thanks for having picked up my problem and having cared for the >> release notes to comment on it, and also for supposedly having motivated >> Julian Andres Klose to publish a very helpful blog post on the related >> subject. Brad Rogers here in the thr

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 14:14:13 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 26 iun 21, 13:31:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > > > server that isn't produced/managed by the central auth

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > I've found that switching fetchmail from pop3 access to imap access, > restores that delete function. However that may be server dependent, > my server at shentel.net is dovecot. Very few problems. Google uses gsmtp, their own implementation. It's likely that they are selective in

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-26 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > Unstable is challenging when you rely on that system for any kind of > useful work, regardless if a movie night with friends or a big > presentation at work, as each and every upgrade has the potential to > break your system in new and interesting ways. I've run Unstable on my des

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iun 21, 07:41:51, Dan Ritter wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Sure. In my opinion, a communication service that does not > federate with open-source clients and servers is a proprietary > service, even if it is free-gratis to use. The owner of that > service can do whatever they want,

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iun 21, 14:05:04, Brian wrote: > On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 14:14:13 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > An interesting read. Countered at > > https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom Looking forward for them to prove Moxie wrong, really! Kind regards, Andrei (planning

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iun 21, 08:12:07, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > Unstable is challenging when you rely on that system for any kind of > > useful work, regardless if a movie night with friends or a big > > presentation at work, as each and every upgrade has the potential to > > break your system

Synaptic error message

2021-06-26 Thread Richard Owlett
I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install some non-Debian software I wanted a local repository. To have a known base to start from I extracted the contents of dvd1.iso to a local directory. My sources.list

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-26 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > How do you determine the "safe and necessary"? I follow the security list and scan -dev for warning of such things as major transitions. I upgrade individual packages as needed (usually Firefox): this occasionally leads to a general upgrade. I pay attention to the output of "apt

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 09:20:33AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of > Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install some > non-Debian software I wanted a local repository. To have a known base to > start from I extra

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/26/2021 10:11 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 09:20:33AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install some non-Debian software I wanted a local repository

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 10:46:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/26/2021 10:11 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 09:20:33AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of > > > Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 04:49:08 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/25/2021 04:06 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 08:48:47AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me grief. > > > It is part of "6.3.5. Installin

Re: Debian 11 and Clementine music player [SOLVED]

2021-06-26 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 6/26/21 12:06 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 6/26/21 11:41 AM, Robbi Nespu wrote: >> On 6/21/21 4:57 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I use Debian 11 (which is still testing) and I have installed Clementine >>> music player version 1.4 rc2. >>> >>> The problem is that when I t

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 10:46:22 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > This group keeps reading _INTO_ my questions things that aren't there. This group also continues to answer the same questions you have asked time and time before :) and received responses to. Be grateful (and graceful). > I'm in my ei

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

2021-06-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/26/2021 12:31 PM, David Wright wrote: [snip] I thought we had established last year that you need to install the initial system without Recommends: That is EXPLICITLY my goal. I vaguely recall attempting to follow some suggestions which didn't end well ;{ https://lists.debian.org/de

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

2021-06-26 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 08:42:26AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 6/26/21, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > Well, it makes perfect sense if you remember that "everything is a > > file", even if there are exceptions (e.g. network devices). > > > Hopefully I'm reading this right. While on di

Re: Synaptic error message

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iun 21, 19:11:25, Brian wrote: > On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 10:46:22 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > This group keeps reading _INTO_ my questions things that aren't there. > > This group also continues to answer the same questions you have asked > time and time before :) and received resp

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-26 Thread Albretch Mueller
Well, I found a Debien DVD $ uname -a Linux debian 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux and tried it to get the same result I was getting while using knoppix. To me it was really about the cable or the connector, because all I had to do was connecting the

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-26 Thread Albretch Mueller
Are you sure I don't need any extra drivers? $ /sbin/modinfo dm9601 filename: /lib/modules/4.9.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.ko license:GPL description:Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 ethernet devices author: Peter Korsgaard alias: usb:v0A46p1269d*dc*dsc*d

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 07:22:36PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Are you sure I don't need any extra drivers? Depends on what you mean by here. Does dm9601 need a firmware? No, modinfo says it plain and clear. Does dm9601 need some other kernel modules to be loaded? Yes, it needs

Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

2021-06-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is placed? Just curious ;/ TIA

Re: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

2021-06-26 Thread Bret Busby
On 27/6/21 4:30 am, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is placed? Just curious ;/ TIA This is not

Re: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

2021-06-26 Thread Bret Busby
On 27/6/21 5:07 am, Bret Busby wrote: On 27/6/21 4:30 am, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is placed?

Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

2021-06-26 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 22 Jun 2021, at 19:13, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 08:59:13 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > A recent dist-upgrade on Buster (in a scripted cron job run at 01:00 daily) > > failed due to apt-listbugs complaining about the boot-breaking bug in > > shim-signed, and pinning v

LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

2021-06-26 Thread Robbi Nespu
Hello Debian, I want to compile AIP Conference Proceedings LaTeX templates (https://aip.scitation.org/apc/authors/preppapers) on my machine but I keep getting: Extra \endgroup. \begin{document} Missing \begin{document}. \begin{document} Failed to recognize \@vspace, \@vspacer, \@n

Re: LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

2021-06-26 Thread Robbi Nespu
Issuing bug on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990360 -- Robbi Nespu D311 B5FF EEE6 0BE8 9C91 FA9E 0C81 FA30 3B3A 80BA https://robbinespu.gitlab.io | https://mstdn.social/@robbinespu