Data from a serial port

2014-09-27 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I have an Avery Berkel POS [Point Of Sale] scale which I wish to integrate into a POS system. The output is sent to a RS232 port. I do not know how to extract the data. Here is what I have about the RS232 port: ethan@meow:~$ dmesg | grep tty [0.00] console [tty0] enabled

Adding entry to /dev

2012-09-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - How do I add a new entry to /dev; eg, /dev/sdb? Thanks, Ethan Rosenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504eaa45.3020...@hygeiabiome

Adding entry to /dev

2012-09-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - How do I add a new entry to /dev; eg, /dev/sdb? Thanks, Ethan Rosenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504eb283.4020...@hygeiabiome

Modoarchive - Again

2012-10-28 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Any Ideas?? I am having problems w/ Mondoarchive. 1] For some unknown reason the system thinks that the hard drive is sda. Maybe, the file system was corrupted and I ran fsck with hard drive unmounted. 2] My com

help

2012-11-28 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
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Re: Help - My apologies

2012-11-29 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - My messages were bouncing, and Hostway  thought that it was from your  end. I thought, mistakenly, that was the format to get a feedback on list list operations. I NEVER intentionally send spam.  Both you and I are way to busy for that.

Re: Brainydeal Receipt Printer

2014-09-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
the paper, as opposed to perpendicular. How do I change it? TIA Ethan -- Ethan Rosenberg, PhD /Pres/CEO/ *Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc* 2 Cameo Ridge Road Monsey, NY 10952 T: 845 352-3908 F: 845 352-7566 erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Installing Thunderbird

2014-05-26 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Will you please give me instructions how to install Thunderbird. I've tried multiple methods listed on the web to no avail. I am not satisfied with Icedove; eg, never have been able to start from the desktop icon, inability to prevent it from running in the background, which mak

Re: Installing Thunderbird

2014-05-27 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 05/26/2014 04:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 26 May 2014 21:09:50 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: The object is to be able to close Thunderbird, leave the computer on, and read my email via webmail w/o any extra manipulations. Yes, but is not usual for Icedove to run in the background

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/14/2013 03:16 PM, m...@neidorff.com wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message "SSDT not found." How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan Did you check the media that you booted from and make

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD Pres/CEO Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc 2 Cameo Ridge Road Monsey, NY 10952 T: 845 352-3908 F: 845 352-7566 erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com On 03/14/2013 05:01

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/14/2013 06:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:18 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD Pres/CEO Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc 2 Cameo Ridge Road

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/14/2013 07:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:45 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/14/2013 06:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:18 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/14/2013 07:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:45 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/14/2013 06:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/03/13 06:18 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/16/2013 05:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Ethan :) 1. In your position, I would follow the advice to reset the BIOS settings. 2. Can you run the Parted Magic live media? http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/files/partedmagic/ Or a similar light weight Linux live media?

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message "SSDT not found." How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan Did you check the media that you booted from and make sure that it passedthe MD5SUM or other t

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/17/2013 06:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 00:16 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 05:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Ethan :) 1. In your position, I would follow the advice to reset the BIOS settings. 2. Can you run the Parted Magic live media

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/17/2013 12:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/03/13 12:29 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message "SSDT not found." How do I fix it?

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/17/2013 04:53 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:13:58 +0100, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/17/2013 12:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/03/13 12:29 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: how old is it >>2007 how much memory d

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-18 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/18/2013 03:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:33 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Please be careful when you write that image to the USB stick, make sure to not get the /dev/sdX device name wrong, or you can cause data loss. Good advice! It can't harm to backup

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS {If this is not a "Good Question", please tell me how to improve it.} Here is what I did: 1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it was /dev/sdf 2] Downloaded the image: ethan@ro

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
See Below... Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS {If this is not a "Good Question", please tell me how to improve it.} Here is what I did: 1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it was /dev/sdf 2] Downloaded the i

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas - Problems

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am not trying to spam the list. I am afraid that this message was not noticed/read since you might have thought it was a restatement of previous messages. It outlines the problems that I am having with the USB stick. Thanks. Ethan == See Below... Dear List - I am ha

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/20/2013 11:34 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/03/13 05:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: See Below... Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 08:17 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 13:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :) What'

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD Pres/CEO Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc 2 Cameo Ridge Road Monsey, NY 10952 T: 845 352-3908 F: 845 352-7566 erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com On 03/21/2013 07

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
u are nearly there! On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 00:20:39 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I'm doing something wrong and can’t figure it out. Downloaded and unzipped - rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lh total 32M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31M Ma

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 09:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:34 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails to the list

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it - rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 81 Mar 21 10:29 /dev/sdf1 rosen

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am going to be on vacation until 3 April. We'll continue this thread then. Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/514b3475.5080...@hyg

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to boot from the usb stick. Computer freezes. Noticed that the laptop recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to boot from the usb stick. Computer freezes. Noticed

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Wednesday 03 April 2013 21:54:27 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear List - > > > Back from vacation. > > HEADACHES!! > > I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. > > The laptop

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Wed 03 Apr 2013 at 13:00:05 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. At this stage we are left to guess. 1. What do you mean by formatting the usb stick? If you used dd afterwards, any formatting was a waste

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/04/13 04:54 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas -- SOLVED

2013-04-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Finally solved!! I had removed the Bios battery [so I thought] {incorrect pictures and information on the internet #$%@}. I then removed the real BIOS battery and the problem was solved. My apologies for "running you around a tree". I learned a great amount from all of you. Et

Modifying Iceweasel Start Parameters

2013-04-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am trying to start Iceweasel with a specific program. The following sort of works from the command line, iceweasel -No-Remote localhost/choice.php -width $1280 -height $1024 but throws a bunch of errors, and does not start in full screen. If I use this #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

Migrate from Icedove to Thunderbird.

2013-04-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - How do I migrate my 1] email 2] filters 3] mailboxes 4] address book from Icedove to Thunderbird? Thanks Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.de

Starting Iceweasel

2013-04-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - Thanks for all your help. Finally, I can start Iceweasel from the command line [sort of]: iceweasel -no-remote localhost/choice.php width $1280 height $800 The above works. But ... in a store.desktop multiple windows are opened. #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Encoding=

Re: Starting Iceweasel

2013-04-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/11/2013 10:42 AM, Verde Denim wrote: On 04/11/2013 12:41 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Thanks for all your help. Finally, I can start Iceweasel from the command line [sort of]: iceweasel -no-remote localhost/choice.php width $1280 height $800 The above works. But ... in

Re: Starting Iceweasel -- Any more Ideas?

2013-04-13 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/11/2013 10:42 AM, Verde Denim wrote: On 04/11/2013 12:41 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Thanks for all your help. Finally, I can start Iceweasel from the command line [sort of]: iceweasel -no-remote localhost/choice.php width $1280 height $800 The above works. But ... in

Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific file. A search on Google gives the start command as google-chrome. I can't make it work. rosenberg:/

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/15/2013 07:25 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:09:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/15/2013 07:37 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 04/15/2013 07:09 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific file. I

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/15/2013 07:59 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:48:39PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Kumar - Thanks. It would be useful to know how you installed Google Chrome. If you have installed it from the deb file, google-chrome should be the executable. Package

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/15/2013 09:41 PM, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2013 07:09 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command

Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-16 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - This will be a combined reply to all the suggestions I received: ethan@rosenberg:~/Desktop$ ls -l /usr/bin /usr/local/bin | grep -F chrom -rwxr-xr-x 1 rootroot3256 Apr 2 09:30 chromium lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 32 Apr 6 01:13 google-chrome -> /opt/google/chro

Problem with flash drive

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - I am trying to copy FreeDOS to a flash drive. I can't make it work. This is what I have done - Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes 125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (lo

Tray Icon

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - How do i get the icon that indicates there are updates to download to return? Thanks. Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51c38fbb.

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
the. cu ?.s a t" and ".std to that.fil conditio.n i e follow.ing ilename1.] [ Loads a.pro ?.ng prompt t.he sage "pa.cke tch prog.ram tring is. sp Thanks for everything, but I am still stuck. Ethan ===== On 06/20/2013 07:22 PM Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: De

Re: Tray Icon

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Ralf - Tried it all. No luck. Any other ideas? Ethan === On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 19:26 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: How do i get the icon that indicates there are updates to download to return? Perhaps it's provided by "update-manager*"? I don't like

Re: Tray Icon

2013-06-22 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
2013/6/21 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD : Ralf - Tried it all. No luck. Any other ideas? Ethan === On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 19:26 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: How do i get the icon that indicates there are updates to download to return? Perhaps it's provided by "update-ma

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-22 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
-r--r-- 1 klaus klaus    36 Jun 21 08:48 test.txt On 21/06/13 05:29, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Ken - Tried what you said, but I cannot make it work. Here is what I did: fdisk /de

Re: Problem with flash drive - SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2013-06-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
n 06/22/2013 11:56 PM Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 06/21/2013 04:00 AM, Klaus wrote: Ethan, when you create a new partition table on the device, then the kernel needs to know about it. With a flash memory card, just unplug and re-plug it. You don't need to run fdisk first, since you co

Keyring

2013-06-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I get this message when the Keyring appears. "The password that you use to login to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring" What can I do? Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Apache2

2013-06-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - There is an error with Apache2, I cannot remove it or install it. From the terminal: dpkg --configure -a Setting up apache2 (2.4.4-6) ... * Restarting web server apache2 [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error processing apache2 (--configure

Re: Apache2

2013-06-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
dpkg --configure -a Setting up apache2 (2.4.4-6) ... * Restarting web server apache2 [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error processing apache2 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered

Re: Apache2

2013-06-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Understood. For purpose test, try to move SXXapache2 to other location and see if dpkg recreate a new (stable) init symbolic link. Pol === Pol - Beautiful!! Worked!! Thanks a million Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Apache2

2013-07-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:09:54PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - There is an error with Apache2, I cannot remove it or install it. From the terminal: dpkg --configure -a Setting up apache2 (2.4.4-6) ... * Restarting web server apache2 [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2

Owner change on USB stick

2013-07-04 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I formatted a usb stick on my desktop into two partitions, vfat and ext2 and then setup a directory structure in the Linux partition. I then moved the usb stick to my laptop and inserted files into the directories that were created. When I moved the sub stick back to the desktop,

Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-05 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
I'm not sure that this ever got to the list, so I am resending. Dear list - I apologize for having to revisit this, but I can't get it to work, which I cannot understand. I followed the instructions I used previously, and no luck. Download from Google. cd /home/ethan/Downlo

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-05 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Friday 05 July 2013 17:14:20 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I'm not sure that this ever got to the list, so I am resending. Dear list - I apologize for having to revisit this, but I can't get it to work, which I cannot understand. I followed the instructions I used

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Friday 05 July 2013 18:03:01 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: locate google-chrome | less --- gives no results. [except the files in the Downloads directory]. Are you changing into the directory where you have placed the .deb before typing the command? Otherwise you need to give the whole path

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend

2013-07-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - These are the errors I get on the dpkg install. - The following packages have unmet dependencies: google-chrome-stable : Depends: gconf-service but it is not installable Depends: libgconf-2-4 (>= 2.31.1) but it is not installable

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend added info

2013-07-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - This is what I tried next 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Type in the following commands then hit Enter after each. For 32-bit systems: wget -c https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb dpkg -i google-chrome-*.deb apt-get install -f These are the

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend

2013-07-07 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 2013-07-07, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: google-chrome-stable : Depends: gconf-service but it is not installable Depends: libgconf-2-4 (>= 2.31.1) but it is not installable Depends: lib

Update

2013-07-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am a newbie am running version 6 [squeeze]. My update fails with the following message. I am totally confused. Starting with the eglibc package version 2.13-5, the libraries are shipped in the multiarch directory /lib/ instead of the more traditional /lib, where is

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend --SOLVED

2013-07-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 2013-07-07, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: google-chrome-stable : Depends: gconf-service but it is not installable Depends: libgconf-2-4 (>= 2.31.1) but it is not installable Depends: lib

Re: Update - SOLVED

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:31:39AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am a newbie am running version 6 [squeeze]. My update fails with the following message. I am totally confused. This probably ISN'T a failure. It looks to my like the output of "apt-listchanges"

New Gnome in Wheezy

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I updated and now have the new Gnome. The desktop is impossible, and almost unusable. I do not have the old desktop entries, and cannot find Google Chrome. How do I get the old desktop back? Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
There was a new way to do everything I might have thought couldn't be done. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I updated and now have the new Gnome. The desktop is impossible, and almost unusable. I do not have the old desktop entries, and cannot find

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy - more info

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
There was a new way to do everything I might have thought couldn't be done. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I updated and now have the new Gnome. The desktop is impossible, and almost unusable. I do not have the old desktop entries, and cannot find

New Gnome in Wheezy - irc

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I would like to try another modality to try to solve this mystery. How do I get to and use irc #debian-mate channel on FreeNode? I have never used irc befpre. TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall. For some reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc channel, with no results. I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck. This is the output from apt-get: root@meow:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# dpkg -

Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Thanks for your suggestions. I followed them, and it solved some errors, but some remain... root@meow:/etc/apt# apt-get update Get:4 http://repo.mate-desktop.org wheezy Release.gpg [836 B] Hit http://repo.mate-desktop.org wheezy Release Ign http://repo.mate-desktop.org wheezy Rel

Installing Mate - Sources List

2013-07-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - You will probably need my sources list to help with my previous question. Here it is: root@meow:/etc/apt# cat sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20110322-15:11]/ squeeze contrib main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Sque

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-12 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - My apologies for starting another thread. Anyway .. Corrected the typo, updated, installed, accepted w/o verification, rebooted IT INSTALLED and WORKED YIP, YIP, YIPEEE! Thanks to all Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-07-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - The sound on Skype (sid) is impossible!! It is so chopped up that it is impossible to make a call. The sound recorder and audio streams [YouTube, video on Wall Street Journal] work perfectly. Any suggestions? TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-07-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
You could check if Skype is using pulseaudio. If so, you could try alsa. Regards, Vivek. - Original Message - From: "Ethan Rosenberg, PhD" To: "Debian Users List" Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 10:49:24 AM Subject: Sound on Skype (sid) Dear List - The sou

UPC Fonts

2013-07-22 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I hope that this is not too much off topic. Does anyone know the name of the UPC font that is used for example: grocery packages? Where can I download the fonts? TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: UPC Fonts

2013-07-25 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 23/07/13 06:00, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I hope that this is not too much off topic. Does anyone know the name of the UPC font that is used for example: grocery packages? Where can I download the fonts? TIA Ethan Would the "barcode" package do what you need:

Duplicate Icons in Panel

2013-07-25 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I have duplicate icons in the bottom tray. I've tried a google search, with no luck. Any ideas? TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: Duplicate Icons in Panel

2013-07-25 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:59:36 -0400 "Ethan Rosenberg, PhD" wrote: Dear List - I have duplicate icons in the bottom tray. I've tried a google search, with no luck. Any ideas? In the bottom tray of what? It helps if you tell us

Re: Duplicate Icons in Panel

2013-07-25 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:59:36 -0400 "Ethan Rosenberg, PhD" wrote: Dear List - I have duplicate icons in the bottom tray. I've tried a google search, with no luck. Any ideas? In the bottom tray of what? It helps if you tell us you're desktop environment, and then we c

Re: Duplicate Icons in Panel

2013-07-26 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 21:07 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: In the bottom tray of what? Bottom Panel in Windows (ugh..ugh). In Debian (Hooray..Hooray) a panel. GNOME 3, right? Take a look at the "things" you put to the panel. You doubled one. I can't help since

Installing Mate

2013-07-29 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am sorry I have to revisit this, but for starters I am running squeeze. Here is what happened: apt-get install mate-core The following packages have unmet dependencies: mate-core : Depends: mate-control-center (>= 1.6.0) but it is not going to be installed Depe

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Mon 29 Jul 2013 at 20:07:44 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am sorry I have to revisit this, but for starters I am running squeeze. So you are installing many packages which are meant for Wheezy! === Brian - Thank you. --> So you are installing many packa

Mysql

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I attempted an upgrade and now Connect Error (2002) Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2 From bad to worse!!! TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Mysql

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 7/30/2013 3:32 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I attempted an upgrade and now Connect Error (2002) Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2 From bad to worse!!! TIA Ethan Is the MySQL server running? ps a

Re: Mysql

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 30/07/13 21:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 16:16 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Is the MySQL server running? ps aux | grep mysql ---> ethan@meow:~$ ps aux | grep mysql ethan 3043 0.0 0.0 3300 772 pts/0S+ 13:12 0:00 grep mysql<-- ps aux does sh

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Tue 30 Jul 2013 at 12:58:48 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: --> So you are installing many packages which are meant for Wheezy! I was thinking about that. How do I upgrade? I wouldn't bother upgrading (unless you have other reasons, of course) if I were you. I tried having

Re: Mysql

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 00:23 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Now that we have established that mysql is not running, how to I restart it? Doesn't it work, if you follow the Debian Wiki? https://wiki.debian.org/MySql It's the second hit when searching for debian start mysql by

Re: Mysql

2013-07-31 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - This is a combined answer to your questions... #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20110322-15:11]/ squeeze contrib main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20110322-15:11]/ squeeze contrib main deb htt

No Desktop

2013-07-31 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - This is an interesting day!!! I just upgraded using a sources list from a computer running Debian7. I think that Mate is installed, but now have no desktop! Here is the sources list - # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD #Binary-1 20110322-15:11]/ sq

Re: No Desktop

2013-08-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Hi Ethan :) On 07/31/2013 07:29 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > I just upgraded using a sources list from a computer running Debian7. I > think that Mate is installed, but now have no desktop! What does it mean, that you "now have no desktop"? Doesn't start X? Does

Re: No Desktop

2013-08-02 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Hi Ethan :) On 07/31/2013 07:29 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > I just upgraded using a sources list from a computer running Debian7. I > think that Mate is installed, but now have no desktop! What does it mean, that you "now have no desktop"? Doesn't start X? Does

Re: No Desktop - Anyone else??

2013-08-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Anyone else want to chime in? TIA Ethan = Hi Ethan :) On 07/31/2013 07:29 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > I just upgraded using a sources list from a computer running Debian7. I > think that Mate is installed, but now have no desktop! What does it mean, that you "

Installing mysqldump

2013-08-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am trying to install mysqldump. Here is what I get - apt-get install mysql-client-5.5 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependen

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 08/09/2013 08:05 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am trying to install mysqldump. Here is what I get - apt-get install mysql-client-5.5 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f instal

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Friday 09 August 2013 19:51:25 Bob Proulx wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > I am trying to install mysqldump. Something is broken in your sources.list file. Fix it first. A month ago Ethan had both Squeeze DVDs and wheezy http's enabled simultaneously in his sources.list

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