I am trying to install the sarge backport of amarok available at:
http://people.debian.org/~adeodato/packages/amarok-sarge/
but I can't figure out how. I've been using Debian for years but never had
this much trouble installing packages.
I did apt-get update, and it looks to me like the reposit
I have been amazed at how difficult it is to create arbitrary keyboard macros
in Linux if you're not running KDE or Gnome. The only thing I have found
(after much searching) is xbindkeys combined with xmacro. xmacro works if I
run it from the xterm where I want to send X events, but not if it get
I've been using Debian for 5 years, so I thought I understood how package
priorities work, but apparently I don't. Why is it pulling the packages from
unstable instead of stable?
$ apt-get source -b fakeroot
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 981kB of sourc
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:20:19PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> I can't believe that it would be a problem, as I imagine your
> /etc/apt/preferences would cause an error, but do you have a "stable"
> line in your /etc/apt/sources.list?
>
> all i can say is that's weird
Yes, I regularl
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:38:57PM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> If you have deb-src lines pointing at stable and unstable apt-get source
> will get the latest (ie, unstable) version. Use apt-get source
> = to get other versions.
>
> From the apt-get manpage
>
>source source causes a
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:39:35AM -0500, Brenden Eng wrote:
> I just bought a Thinkpad T43p (2668-H8U) and I am currently running Debian
> Unstable on it.
> Everything works, bar the odd SATA->PATA converter that IBM stuck on. I am
> happy with it.
>
> There are plenty of resources for thinkpad
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Ed Paris wrote:
> I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano
> and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English?
> Thanks.
If you use an editor much, it's in your best interest to learn Vim. I still
ki
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:17:31AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> moving slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day about my critical
> backups. they arent very big, a few MB. I currently backup to another
> machine on my network, which I know is not really secure. (why would the
> fi
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:24:37PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote:
> I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the
> exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/...
>
> Is it possible do a bare-metal restore using this?
Yes. Like others said, though, you really have to try it to be c
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:19:49PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> 1) a copy of the critical files (accounting, databases, spreadsheets
> etc.) that are needed for day to day operations in the event of
> corruption or accidental deletion and the like. These are just copies,
> in my case,
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:08:40PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> I've got a personal account at earthlink and it comes
> with 10(?)MB of storage that sits there unused. so far as I know its ftp
> only access, though, hence my question earlier in the thread -- is there
> a way to automat
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:05:15PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote:
> Now in theory, (I have done the bare-metal restore using mondorescue before...
> so I /know/ that works) the procedure would be restore the system to a working
> state via mondo, log in as root, rsync everything back from rsync mirror. N
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:48:43PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote:
> > Why don't you mirror /dev/?
>
> I use udev and /dev/ is created at boot time to the best of my knowledge
Oh, I am behind the times on that issue, that makes sense.
(pulls out my slide ruler to figure out when it's dinner time).
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:01:04PM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote:
> One thing to consider is that it's safer to use a LVM snapshot while
> copying a mirror. That way it won't matter if the files change during the
> mirroring. This issue won't keep the system from booting
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:31:19PM -0500, Frye, David CIV wrote:
>
> >Once you've tried these for a week or so, then slide to a Debian
> >install. Debian stable will work well - but "feels" very old
> >to some people.
>
>
> I prefer Debian stable. I just want my laptop to work without having t
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:16:29AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
One nit to pick here:
> - find | tar | gpg meeets all of my requirements for most all possible
> potential disasters and recovery
As I describe on my backup page, that's a terrible idea. One corrupt bit and
you lose *huge* amounts o
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:36:23PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> if you don't trust find|tar ... you have major problems with the machine's
> reliability and these brand new commands nobody used for 30 yrs :-)
>
> using any other "favorite backup programs" will suffer the same fate of
> losing "huge
Alvin,
Thank you, you have answered my question. I apologize for being rude, I
should not have worded it that way.
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:11:07AM +0100, Michael Dominok wrote:
> Why don't you just answer all the questions? Too busy?
> Even too busy to read the man-page?
He may be new enough that he doesn't realize which man page to look in. My
experience is that that is the hardest thing in Unix systems.
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:30:08AM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote:
> rm triva:
And another trivia: are there any other GNU tools where option position causes
different behavior and both ways are valid?
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:53:58PM +0100, belbo wrote:
> I've already considered this solution, but it doesn't work, because of root
> permissions needed: if I run this command as a normal user, here's the result:
>
> $ nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer
> nice: cannot set priority: Permission de
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:05:40PM +, michael wrote:
> I was thinking about using the bibliography 'database' in OpenOffice to
> store all my references (and to include short notes such as 'read/not
> read', 'contains vital info on XY and Z'). But I need to share said info
> across machines, g
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:02:44AM +, michael wrote:
> Sorry for not being clear. I want a place to store my refs, that I can
> access (ie both read the refs but also cut'n'paste into Linux/OpenOffice
> and Windoze/Word) from several machines (if that means copying the
> database about that is
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:05:38PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2005-12-20 04:04:24, schrieb Teilhard Knight:
> > What's the command to stop a service like gdm?
>
> It depends.
>
> 1) For killing it the current bootet Computer
>
> /etc/init.d/gdm stop
>
> 2) Only from the runl
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:20:37AM +, michael wrote:
> mm... not sure which Java SDK is required for this... the Debian/Java
> FAQ just confuses me!
Yeah, Java yuck. I agree. There are two programs that are so good it was
worth it to me to install Java: jabref and jbidwatcher. They are bot
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 04:55:15PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
> It would be better to avoid non-free software (speaking as one of the
> maintainers of vrms), of course.
>
> If you have problems running your applications with some of the Free
> JVMs, then please let the maintainers (or upstream)
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 04:43:28PM +0800, Katipo wrote:
> Maybe it'd be an idea to put in a bug report to the crew drawing up the
> new GPL agreement, and request that in the growing incidence of this
> sort of arrangement happening, that an itemised invoice is issued in
> order to ensure ethic
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:32:48PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Daniel Webb writes:
> > I'm wary of that, because I don't really trust that 50 years from now the
> > GPL is still going to reflect my values.
>
> So what? You can distribute your code under any licen
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 07:44:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> In any case, I don't think anything should stay in copyright for 50 years.
Well, I agree. I think it should go back to the original (if you're in the
U.S.) of 14 years + 14 renewal. European copyrights are even more insane than
ours
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:25:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I wonder, how many copyrights or patents do you hold?
>
> If you're a drug company or a big hardware/software company <...>
Going a bit off-topic here, but having worked in drug development, I can tell
you that no drug would be devel
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0800, Chris Purves wrote:
> I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what
> is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older
> than six months.
>
> Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a cro
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:16:21PM -0500, Chinook wrote:
> I had gotten that far - just unfamiliar with the specifics of the Linux
> file system. Found some more info though, like
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html
> and http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
> whic
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:53:46PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> FWIW, I haven't seen a single one of these come back to me. Could it be
> that only some are getting this or is it list-wide? (I assure you I am
> not authenticated on petsupermarket...) could be someone only has
> selecte
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:00:48PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> I can't answer this for either of you, but I certainly have been
> getting them, both here and on Fedora.
Can you put the full headers up? I'm curious if they're trying to send to me.
I have greylisting (the Debian greylistd package
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:12:27AM -0500, Chris Howie wrote:
> When I configured exim (with `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config`), I told it that
> my system mail name was "foobar.com" (actually I didn't, but we'll pretend
> that's what I called it). /etc/mailname contains "foobar.com" as well, but
>
I've been Googling for the answer to this and failing, so:
What happens when you have a 2-disk LVM volume group and disk 1 fails?
Obviously this will depend on the filesystem you put on top of the volume,
right? So which filesystems will recover gracefully if you chop them in half
like that?
It'
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:02:20PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> If you've got enough spindles, each physical volume is typically a RAID1
> or RAID5. Then you can add and remove physical volumes from
> your volume group as needed. A single disk failure is harmless.
>
> Other than adding and removin
I have been using the greylistd Debian package by Tor Slettnes for well over a
year now, and have found something quite astonishing: when I started using
greylistd, I received around 30-50 spams a day. I installed greylistd and it
cut that by about 80%, which is similar to reports by others. In t
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:32:40PM +0100, Doofus wrote:
> I'm in the market for a printer and would appreciate any
> recommendations. I should think this is an oft asked question, but since
> the printer market seems to move at a rapier like pace, thought it ok to
> ask again for any recent exp
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:41:59PM +0200, Andreas Rippl wrote:
> have you thought about using something like rsync? It will speed up the
> process of taking images tremenduously. As you are talking about a diary
> backup - I'm not too sure what you mean by that - have you looked at
> rsnapshot? He
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