Elimar Riesebieter writes:
>> Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop
>>
>> I want to get rid of pulseaudio.
>
> I've found [0] very useful
>
> [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1381284
Great thread, thanks.
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Running Wheezy - kde plasma
Running Debian / windows7 on a KVM switch (IOGEAR miniview 4 port DVI)
Keyboard is from `Unicomp' and weighs about 10 lbs. Its not that old
but is in the old style with serious stand up keys and lots of clatter
when typing.
I've been running thru this switch for seve
Tony Baldwin writes:
>> Even that doesn't really work, since numbers stay upper case to what
>> ever symbols are the upper case for each (sometimes).
>
> Upper case numbers?
Read it again...
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Bob Proulx writes:
> By the way... The IBM Model M keyboard is an example of one of the
> finest keyboards ever made. Unicomp bought the rights to continue
> making that same keyboard. By all reports they are excellent.
I agree. I got this one on the strength of reviews and friends advice
wh
Running wheezy - 3.0.0-1-686-pae
I'm getting confused by what I see in /etc/network/interfaces,
compared to what I see with ifconfig -a.
What I see in /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Does not match what I see with ifconfig
Camaleón writes:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:13:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Running wheezy - 3.0.0-1-686-pae
>
> Wheezy has now 3.1.0 :-?
I've missed a couple of updates... the last notice I received on my
kde desktop showed 200+... yikes.
>> I'm gett
Brian writes:
> I can think of no way ifupdown is able to bring up an interface it has
> no knowledge of. Other network configuring programs could be in on the
> act though.
Its been a pretty good while since I set up networking but I think I
did it by hand edit of /etc/network/interfaces.. I'm
Andrei Popescu writes:
> On Sb, 11 feb 12, 17:29:25, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> A little more to the story is that the address shown in ifconfig -a
>> for eth0 (192.168.1.54) is ping-able from around the network.
>>
>> There is only 1 ethernet wire connected
Jesse Thompson writes:
> the interfaces file is really only going to come into pay during
> bootup, or when using eg ifup/ifdown scripts.
>
> You indicated that you may have configured the interfaces by hand via
> ifconfig; if so those changes will not survive a reboot. How long
> since your last
Camaleón writes:
[...]
Harry wrote:
Running wheezy - 3.0.0-1-686-pae
>>>
Camaleón replied:
>>> Wheezy has now 3.1.0 :-?
>>
Harry:
>> I've missed a couple of updates... the last notice I received on my kde
>> desktop showed 200+... yikes.
Camaleón:
> He... yes, that hurts :-)
I've made
Jesse Thompson writes:
> There's a lot of things which aren't clear to me. Let's recap the
> following for clarity:
Sorry for the lack of clarity... I just posted new information that
fills in most of what you requested
> You mention there are two, wired nics in your box, only one is wired
> up
I've made a thorough going mess of this thread by changing the game a
couple of times during the course of it. Very foolish of me, and a
number of people have put time and effort into trying to help.
Thank you.
I really am sorry for causing the confusion. My poorly thought out
posts and bad des
Andrei Popescu writes:
Harry wrote:
>> The way I did do it was to reverse the names in:
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> ...
>> Can any anyone tell me if that will survive an upgrade?
Andrei responded:
> Yes
Harry wrote:
>> Or can anyone tell me if there is a better or canonical w
Brian writes:
>> So, it seems there is no way around thinking both addresses are on a
>> single nic since there is only one ethernet wire attached to
>> localhost.
>
> As above; erroneous. Find out about MAC addresses and ARP. They are
> basic to communication on an ethernet network and will help
I'd like to know exactly how to start/stop retart etc the network
configuration.
But first it seems one must determine what is actually running them.
in /var/log/boot I see:
grep -i NetworkManger /var/log/boot
Mon Feb 13 13:27:14 2012: Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager.
OK,
Tom H writes:
> If a package's installed, use
> dpkg -S /path/to/file
>
> If it isn't installed, install apt-file, run "apt-file update", and use:
> apt-file search /path/to/file
Ok, again talking through my hat. I miss-remembered apt-file as
apt-cache.. So sure was I that it was the one I was
Brian writes:
> On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> [Snip]
>
>> Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way
>> by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the
>> tools that control networking.
Tom H writes:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Brian wrote:
>> On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>>> Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way
>>> by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply wor
Andrei POPESCU writes:
[...]
> Unless ifupdown is smart enough (don't know, you have to research this)
> the "second" DHCP might override the default gateway of the "first"[1].
> Assuming you may want to connect other devices to the OpenWrt you
> probably don't want to tinker with it's DHCP s
Tom H writes:
[...]
Thanks for all those details ... very helpful
[...]
> To use "/etc/init.d/networking", you can either change
> "allow-hotplug" to "auto" (or "allow-auto") or add
> "auto"/"allow-auto" lines to the "allow-hotplug" ones (I've never
> tried the latter but Bob Proulx suggested
With this sources.list:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://emacs.naquadah.org/ unstable/
deb-src http://emacs.naquadah.org/ unstable/
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian import
An
Brian writes:
> apt-cache has no knowledge of one.
>
> From
>
> http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net/
>
> 5/29/2005 - Nobodys home :( I have been unable to work on this project,
> too much going on and no help. Sorry :( maybe someone can help out with
> this project
>
> It bit the dust.
Yike
Florian Kulzer writes:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 00:14:02 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
>> Over the weekend, I upgraded a sacrificial copy of my current 'lenny'
>> to 'squeeze' and ran into a rather odd keyboard issue:
>>
>> Specifically, the Down and PgDown keys were no longer working.
>
> [...]
>
Jochen Schulz writes:
> Harry Putnam:
>>
>> understanding that document right, the idea is to move away from
>> setting up X with an xorg.conf. So how would settings like that one
>> be handled in that case.
>
> I don't think the X.org people intend to ig
I have a light minimalish system (noX) and not a lot installed but for a the
last few weeks, when I try to update with emerge -vuD world
It caves about a perl versioning problem, and specifically about:
perl-core/Module-Build-0.400.0
Abbreviated output:
,
| >>> Emerging (1 of 12) perl-core/
Harry Putnam writes:
Please disregard the Original post... it was inadvertently posted to
the wrong group.
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I still do not fully understand the debian system of versioning at its
relationship to the install isos.
If I wanted a new system that was the stable released version, which
install iso would I use?
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Its been a good long while since I tried anything like this. So let
me try to describe what I want to do and see if anyone can coach me a
bit.
I'm running a linux OS now and have been for yrs, I want to switch
whole hog to debian, which I've also done, but yrs ago.
I don't want to shut down my w
Andrew Reid writes:
> On Saturday 05 February 2011 23:01:56 Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Once all that is working wouldn't I be able to move the whole thing
>> onto the existing linux desktop by doing a network install of debian,
>> formatting whatever space then u
The only netinst iso I see that has anything to indicate it is 64 bit
is named amd64. So when a PC is running Intel64, is there a 64 bit
ISO for that?
I am installing Debian as guest in a vm running on win7 64 bit. Since
the ARCH is not amd, is there a 64 bit iso to use in that case?
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I don't know much about what all sources are available for debian and
currently just using the /etc/apt/sources.list established by the
default install:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb http://security.debian.or
Scott Ferguson writes:
> Follow the instruction on that page with the following modification to
> step 6:-
> 6. Run make all *checkinstall* clean to build and install Tarsnap.
I see asterisks fore and aft of `checkinstall'. Were those for
emphasis or part of the command.
Is the command
ma
Camaleón writes:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:15:53 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> The only netinst iso I see that has anything to indicate it is 64 bit is
>> named amd64. So when a PC is running Intel64, is there a 64 bit ISO for
>> that?
>
> A PC can be running
I'd like to run and maintain my own version of emacs so am building
from tarball.
I'm hitting an error during ./configure about not having X:
configure: error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries
were found. You should install the relevant development files for X
and for the
I'd like to see a few example sources.list when running testing.
Especially ones that show the hosts for accessing a bigger selection
of packages.
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I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system.
I get the error C compiler cannot create executables
Googling on that, gets several different answers.
apt-get install build-essentials (didn't didn't help)
apt-get install g++ (didn't help)
apt-get install libc-dev (did
lee writes:
> Harry Putnam writes:
>
>> I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system.
>
> Where did you get version 24?
>From the bzr server on savannah.org where emacs devel is done.
>> I get the error C compiler cannot create executable
lee writes:
> Harry Putnam writes:
>
>> lee writes:
>>
>>> Harry Putnam writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system.
>>>
>>> Where did you get version 24?
>>
>>>From
Axel Freyn writes:
>> >> Do you know which packages might be needed?
>> >
>> > Not yet; give me some more time and I'll try to compile emacs24 and let
>> > you know what I find out ...
>>
>> OK, thanks for the effort.
>
> The easiest solution might be to run
>
> aptitude build-dep emacs23
>
> th
Tom Furie writes:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I got past that now... apparently finally got whatever it was
>> installed. But now ./configure complains about X libraries:
>>
>>error: You seem to be running X,
Harry Putnam writes:
> Still though, I hit a little snap at the end of compile I haven't
> figured out yet:
>
> [...] snipped all but last of `./configure'
>
> creating src/epaths.h
> cd /usr/local/src/bzr/emacs/trunk && autoheader
> /bin/sh: autoh
NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something
of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting
here too since the tools are all debian tools.
- - --=-- - --- -
Due to unbridled personal bungling, I
Carl Fink writes:
> However my preferred method:
>
> "sudo aptitude install postfix"
>
> Postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail that can be configured by mere
> mortals.
Do you know of a case where postfix was made to use Smarthost
smtp.comcast.net? I'd probably drop sendmail after year
Darac Marjal writes:
>> So, can anyone recommend some method to get past this, and get the
>> pkgs fully installed and configured?
>>
>
> I imagine that, while configuring sendmail, dpkg tries to stop the
> sendmail process by invoking the init script. The init script isn't
> there, so it thinks
Joe writes:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:42:58 -0500
> Harry wrote:
>
>> Joe writes:
>>
>> > 1) If you need a mail server but have no previous experience, have
>> > heard of sendmail and are unaware of anything else, then yes, I'll
>> > join in the recommendations that you pick a different one. It
For many years I've been able to get a really big desktop, so big you
have to pan around on it. I used some code in xorg.conf to do it, but
now that X and desktops are generated quite a lot different. I don't
begin to understand the process but would like to find a way to get my
old high resoluti
Scott Ferguson writes:
>> Is there some way to get a `Virtual' resolution using whatever
>> techniques are now employed to generate our desktops?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yes
>
> xrandr --panning
>
> *Just an example - DO NOT use on your monitor/screen* eg:-
> xrandr --output LVDS --panning 2048x1536
Wha
Equipment: Older P4 3.00Ghz running wheezy.
I've got a nasty little problem here this morning... My debian box
will not show anything on the monitor. I fear the graphics card has
gone south... I have one side off the box so removed the card and
reinserted hoping it might fix things.. of course i
Camaleón writes:
>> Is there some way to get a `Virtual' resolution using whatever
>> techniques are now employed to generate our desktops?
>
> Yes, I would try to set it with xrandr:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
some (alot) of that is pretty confusing to me.
It seems to
Camaleón writes:
>> I've got a nasty little problem here this morning... My debian box will
>> not show anything on the monitor. I fear the graphics card has gone
>> south... I have one side off the box so removed the card and reinserted
>> hoping it might fix things.. of course it did not.
>
>
Terence writes:
> On 30 September 2011 21:27, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Just reporting back. After pulling the card blowing everything out
>> and reinstalling the card, I got video back. Not only that but a DVI
>> outlet on that card that hasn't worked for a goo
I've spent a couple of fun hours trying to understand how xrandr
works. How to come up with a command that will do what I want done.
Its quite a complex tool and there are volumes written about how to
use it. Even some examples in the manpage. However... I have not
understood very much of it.
Terence writes:
> Thank you, Harry,
>
> Cleaning never does any harm, providing it's done properly!
>
> As you say, you may never know for sure, but cleaning contacts often
> does, in my experience, solve a number of problems.
>
> I noted the fact that card previously worked, but without the DVI
Scott Ferguson writes:
NOTE: Correction to monitor native resolution posted in OP
Native resolution: 1920 x 1200 (I previously said 1900x1280)
[...]
> What Debian release are you running?
> $ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid
(Installed from new 11.4 install disc (the small one))
>
Lisi writes:
> On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:47:26 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid
>>
>> (Installed from new 11.4 install disc (the small one))
>
> 11.4??? Wheezy hasn't got a number yet, and Squeeze is 6.0. So do you in
> fact mean
I was convinced by arguments seen thru google, that I should install
`inconsolata' fonts... did so but now emacs knows nothing about it.
Googling on that subject has turned up a number of hits but so far it
all seems somewhat dated. Discussing the use of xorg.conf to point to
fonts and such.
Can
Scott Ferguson writes:
[...]
>>> It would be appreciated, greatly, if you could use "Reply" to
>>> continue a thread - saves searching through lots of posts in order
>>> to patch together all the needed information.
>>
>> I'm not sure what problem you are having with threading.
>
> This is "wre
Wim M writes:
> On 2011-10-02, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Can anyone steer me toward more recent information on how to allow
>> emacs to access the true type fonts.
> Hi,
> in your .Xresources file put the following:
>
> emacs.FontBackend: xft
> Emacs.font: Inc
Scott Ferguson writes:
[...]
>> I thought fonts were to be found at:
>> /usr/share/fonts/ Mine are there:
> They are... other possible locations include:-
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> /usr/local/share/fonts
> /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
> ~/.fonts
>
> Do you not have l
How can I see my kernel config. Kernel was selected at install, and
must not have been selected for /proc/Config.gz to be available. At
least there is no such file.
I'd like to know if fuse was selected.
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Harry Putnam writes:
> How can I see my kernel config. Kernel was selected at install, and
> must not have been selected for /proc/Config.gz to be available. At
> least there is no such file.
>
> I'd like to know if fuse was selected.
Sorry I let that message get away bef
Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Hi,
>
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> EncFS Password: fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission
>> denied
>> fuse failed. Common problems:
>> - fuse kernel module not installed (modprobe fuse)
>> - invalid options -- see usa
How does on go about figuring out the exact entry for
/etc/apt/sources.list in order to download packages
like rar?
I googled and found such an entry for lenny:
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates non-free
deb http://volatile.debia
[NOTE: This post or very similar was also posted to
gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.]
Setup:
Single user machine running Debian (wheezy) 3.0.0-1-686-pae
Graphics card: Nvidia FX 5700 LE
At present X is setup without any xorg.conf. Its pretty much the
defaults after install of new install medai, ot
Sven Joachim writes:
[...]
> It might have been easier to just restore the whole file. And
> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 might have some
> additional useful information for you.
I didn't see discussion of a bug that causes the mouse NOT to pan out
into a Virtual screen siz
I see a disconcerting behavior when in an xterm. If I do anything
that would normally ring a bell like pressing bkspc when the cursor is
already at the left most position, and there are many other instances
that provoke the behavior. If I do any of them I see something very
like a chicken blink.
Sven Joachim writes:
>> Also does the Nouveau driver prevent other drivers such as nv from
>> loading.
>
> Nouveau needs Kernel Modesetting, and both nv and vesa are not
> compatible with that and will refuse to load if the nouveau.ko kernel
> module is loaded with modesetting enabled (default).
If I wanted a special compile time flag set at compile time, for a
package, is the only way to just compile it myself, or is there some
procedure where the package manager is involved and thereby is able to
keep stats on the installed pkg?
For example: I keep a fair number of system files, like e
Curt writes:
>> that provoke the behavior. If I do any of them I see something very
>> like a chicken blink. Like when a chicken blinks its inner eyelid.
>> The white one, the one humans don't have.
>
> Visual bell turned on? I get a fowl flash too when it's enabled.
Haa, thanks. And I found
Scott Ferguson writes:
> On 07/10/11 02:44, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> [NOTE: This post or very similar was also posted to
>> gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.]
>
> It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples time?
Why is that wasting anyones time. Som
Scott Ferguson writes:
[...]
>>> It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples
>>> time?
>>
>> Why is that wasting anyones time. Some people read it here some
>> there, if they don't like the subject or content they move on.
> Nice attitude.
I'm not really sure why that
Ralf Mardorf writes:
> On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver
>> that I do not see available for debian.
>
> I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, b
Sven Joachim writes:
> The nv driver is gone and it's not coming back unless somebody
> reintroduces it, which is highly unlikely. If you think about doing
> that yourself: http://bugs.debian.org/383465 is the nut you have to
> crack before the ftp-masters will let this driver in.
It only came
Scott Ferguson writes:
[...] snipped
> An alternative approach to a similar ends is available in KDE - use a
> very large desktop and "zoom" into particular areas. Alternatively just
> use more virtual desktops.
Thanks for the nice summary of where things stand and what to do about
them.
The
Looking at what is listed like this in google:
How to install KDE on Debian - The Debian KDE maintainers website
I find this apparently out of date information:
install KDE on your existing Debian system
If you already have Debian Lenny installed and you want a complete KDE
desktop, install the
Harry Putnam writes:
[...]
> aptitude install kde-desktop
>
> But of course there some 62 pkgs with that in there name. Further
> none of them appear to be English or en, so how does an English
> speaker install a kde-desktop?
Never mind I was on the kde 4.4 page I found ou
Camaleón writes:
> Please, people... when you cite any document/source that you've found on
> Internet also put the link you are referring to, so we can check ;-)
I did intend to include that but forgot it in the end.
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde3.html
Note is says but kde3 but its re
Attempted to install a full kde setup today but landed in the soup
once it was done.
I just get a black screen with a terminal emulator running, no menus
are available with mouse clicks or anywhere on the screen in terms of
an icon. Just the terminal. Any apps I open are slapped up into the
top
Weaver writes:
> On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:13:18 -0500
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Looking at what is listed like this in google:
>> How to install KDE on Debian - The Debian KDE maintainers website
>>
>> I find this apparently out of date information:
>>
[NOTE: I've foolishly started more than one thread covering the same
subject so please allow me to revert to the original and if you would
be kind enough to follow. I would appreciate any more input you might
have:
Subject: Install kde-desktop on existing debian install
]
Chris Bannister writ
Scott Ferguson writes:
> *Don't stress - this is easily, and simply, fixed*
>
> kde-desktop is a small part of the KDE Desktop Environment.
It looked like dozens of pkgs were installed when I said:
aptitude install kde-full
> Please post:-
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> the output of: -
> dpkg --ge
Harry Putnam writes:
This is a reply to Chris B
[...]
Harry wrote:
> > I was prompted a few times about uninstalling and installing
> > things. And I remember one prompt that asked me if it was ok to leave
> > a list of dependencies unmet.
Chris replied:
>
Camaleón writes:
Sorry to cause you extra effort... I should not have started this
second thread since it way overlaps:
Subject: Install kde-desktop on existing debian install
So to keep it all in one place, if will be kind enough to look for
your reply there I will appreciate it.
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Harry Putnam writes:
Reply to Camaleón from overlappingthread:
Subject: how to gather info for reporting problem
> On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:18:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Attempted to install a full kde setup today but landed in the soup once
>> it was done.
Camaleón
Camaleón writes:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:41:58 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Camaleón writes:
>>
>> Sorry to cause you extra effort... I should not have started this second
>> thread since it way overlaps:
>> Subject: Install kde-desktop on exist
Camaleón writes:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:51:13 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>>> I suppose you installed the right pattern for you current running
>>> Debian system, right? That is, kde-full for "squeeze" if you are
>>> running squeeze, kde-full
Scott Ferguson writes:
[...]
> Please post:-
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> the output of:-
> dpkg --get-selections
I've reposted it here in this thread... I'm sure you'll see it if your
reader shows line count. hehe.
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Camaleón writes:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:00:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Camaleón writes:
>
>>> How does your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file look like?
>>
>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
>> deb-src http://ftp
Brad Rogers writes:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:22:02 -0500
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> Hello Harry,
>
>> Brad Rogers writes:
>> > Which is known as a meta package. It's a shorthand way of pulling in
>> > (in this case) lots of other packages. The
I've looked around with google and on xorg home site for this.
xorg-macros
I find reference to it but not how to get it.
When I run ./autogen.sh in a git clone of an xorg driver I get this
output. (I added the spacing and asterisks)
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: n
Thierry Chatelet writes:
> On Monday 10 October 2011 00:31:03 Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> I did not read the complete thread, so I may be say something that has been
> said, but:
> desktop=kde
> tasksel install desktop
>
> should do the job.(Note: no space around "
Wayne Topa writes:
> On 10/09/2011 07:16 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I've looked around with google and on xorg home site for this.
>>
>> xorg-macros
>>
>> I find reference to it but not how to get it.
>
> You use the debian tools, such as apt-
Camaleón writes:
[...]
>>> Errr, did you read the said instructions, right? ;-)
>>
>> Do you mean the instructions at:
>> http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde4.html
>
> (...)
>
> Yes, I mean reading the *full* instructions, not only the *first* lines.
Not to quibble but that line is clearly i
Camaleón writes:
>> I'm willing either way, but have had some complaints about starting too
>> many similar threads so am trying to consolidate this problem which
>> after all is still about this subject:
>> Install kde-desktop on existing debian install
>
> I hardly doubt such complains coul
Is there a command similar to `dpkg --get-selections' that shows all
installed/deinstalled pkgs, but where one can get the dates of install
or remove.
A fairly quick pass thru man dpkg seems to indicate there is not.
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Camaleón writes:
>> Thanks for your helpful input. On this mornings bootup, I finally came
>> face to face with the `kde greeter' and have successfully logged into a
>> full kde Environment. In fact at this moment I have KDE running on VT
>> 7, and fluxbox running on VT 8, display :0 and :1 res
Camaleón writes:
>>> I hardly doubt such complains could have come from people on this list,
>>> or at least from people who likes following the good and old style
>>> netiquette rules (RFC 1855) which recommends to be brief and concise
>>> when posting problems on mailing lists.
>>
>> debian li
I hope someone might be able to help me with installing debian as
guest by way of vmware.
I have some small experience with both Debian and VMware and have
successfully installed it that way several times.
Its been a good while... maybe over a yr. And I'm using a newer
version of VMware... 7.1 o
Klistvud writes:
> Dne, 01. 11. 2010 16:28:53 je Harry Putnam napisal(a):
>
> I think what you got yourself are images for the Intel Itanium
> processors. What you need are either the i386 or the x64 (AMD) images.
Oh boy another 4.4 GB download...
Another poster has said it do
Chris Davies writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I hope someone might be able to help me with installing debian as
>> guest by way of vmware.
>
>> I downloaded the iso DVD (4.4 GB what a hefty download)
>
> If you've got network access you're probably
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