Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On 09/05/2013 12:09 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Joe Zeff > wrote: > > AFAIK it installs the most recent version. Why would you expect it > to do anything else? > > > I somehow got the mistaken idea that "yum install" installed t

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > AFAIK it installs the most recent version. Why would you expect it to do > anything else? I somehow got the mistaken idea that "yum install" installed the base package from /os/packages and yum update retrieved stuff from /updates/ on the mirro

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On 09/04/2013 10:31 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Suppose we're talking about a package which is not part of the base install. Or that we're talking about Fedora XFCE whose default browser is not Firefox :) AFAIK it installs the most recent version. Why would you expect it to do anything else?

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > Yum would always default to installing the highest version available, > unless you provide the specific version number at the command. > Thanks Rejy! FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Dur

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On 09/05/2013 11:01 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Martin S > wrote: > > > Yum default behaviour would be (AFAIK) to install version 23.0 as it > would report 21.0 already installed. And find nothing to do. > > > Suppose we'

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Martin S wrote: > > Yum default behaviour would be (AFAIK) to install version 23.0 as it would > report 21.0 already installed. And find nothing to do. > Suppose we're talking about a package which is not part of the base install. Or that we're talking about Fedor

Making yum say what mirror it is downloading from

Any idea why yum doesn't show by default from what mirror it is downloading from? It's not like there's no space on the output strings layout... Instead of -- Transaction Summary Install 1 Package (+3 Depend

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On Thursday, September 05, 2013 01:08:50 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: Hi there, This is a probably stupid question, but I never checked what strategy yum uses. If I do "yum install firefox" on a freshly installed F19 system, and the initial version of FIrefox on F19 (the one shipped on the Liv

Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

Hi there, This is a probably stupid question, but I never checked what strategy yum uses. If I do "yum install firefox" on a freshly installed F19 system, and the initial version of FIrefox on F19 (the one shipped on the LiveCD) is, say, 21.0, but the latest update on the repos is, say, Firefox 2

how long (repo update)

does it usually take for repos to catch up with releases? Just recently it was announced that Choqok 1.4 contains "Support for Twitter API v1.1 (Thanks to Daniel Kreuter for his effort on it)" Currently what is in the repo is 1.3, therefore the question. Just curious. /M. -- users mailing li

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

On 09/04/2013 06:47 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: You just mentioned things that one should not do, specially on a system where curious students are bound to fool around. Mentioning the suid bit was just, for me, a matter of being complete. Using besu (Not beesu, as I wrote.) will work if you've set s

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 05:52:59PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/04/2013 05:44 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > >I don't think sudo works from a menu, you need gksudo or ksudo for that. > >That said, sudo is a hammer compared to polkit. For example, polkit can > >restrict allowed actions to a user present

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

On 05.09.2013 02:52, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/04/2013 05:44 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> I don't think sudo works from a menu, you need gksudo or ksudo for that. >> That said, sudo is a hammer compared to polkit. For example, polkit can >> restrict allowed actions to a user present at the physical term

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

On 09/04/2013 05:44 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: I don't think sudo works from a menu, you need gksudo or ksudo for that. That said, sudo is a hammer compared to polkit. For example, polkit can restrict allowed actions to a user present at the physical terminal (as the OP wanted), I don't think sudo ca

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 12:31:46PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Jehan Procaccia wrote: > >Le 04/09/2013 17:08, Bill Davidsen a écrit : > >> > >>3 - However, if it is your intention to let any user reboot at any time, > >>use visudo to add a line: > >> %bootersALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sb

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

On 04.09.2013 17:55, Jehan Procaccia wrote: … > however, it is confusing those two "items" > consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users and > login1.reboot-multiple-sessions, what is the difference between them ? $ repoquery --whatprovides */org.freedesktop.consolekit.policy $ repoquery --repoid=upd

Re: add to favorites

Very good, Thank you. > - Original Message - > From: Roger > Sent: 09/05/13 01:17 AM > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: add to favorites > > On 09/05/2013 07:53 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In fedora 19, how can I add an application launcher to the favorite

Re: kernel IO_PAGE_FAULT error messages

On 04.09.2013 16:09, Lester M. Petrie Jr. wrote: > Hi > > The following message (its one line) is swamping /var/log/messages, occurring > many times per second. Does anyone know what it means, and especially how to > fix it, or at least turn it off. The machine seems to be running OK. Thanks.

Re: add to favorites

On 09/05/2013 07:53 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, In fedora 19, how can I add an application launcher to the favorites menu? Thank. Call it up from by entering the name in the search field, when the Icon appears right click on it and click Cheers Roger -- users mailing list users@lists.

add to favorites

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Re: Firefox/Flash vs. Pulseaudio; Audio can't be directed to the desired device

On 4 September 2013 18:13, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 08:32 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 4 September 2013 06:49, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> > Pulseaudio can control which output device receives main audio output via >> > >> > kmix->Mixer->Settings->Audio Setup->... >> > >

Re: Firefox/Flash vs. Pulseaudio; Audio can't be directed to the desired device

hello jonathan, On 09/04/2013 12:13 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: <<>> I am using Fedora-19. Kmix works just as you describe, only allowing adjustment of output by category. Here's the version info for Kmix: KMix Version 4.3 Using KDE Development Platform 4.10.5 No category controls t

small error when starting Fedora

Hi, I had to get a new laptop because my last one had a hinge issue. After installing Fedora 19 onto this laptop, When clicking Fedora 19 from grub I get a message saying: irq 9: nobody cared(try booting with the "irqpoll" option) It stays for about 5 seconds then Fedora boots normally. Its m

Re: small error when starting Fedora

On 09/04/2013 12:53 PM, Chris Roberts issued this missive: Hi, I had to get a new laptop because my last one had a hinge issue. After installing Fedora 19 onto this laptop, When clicking Fedora 19 from grub I get a message saying: irq 9: nobody cared(try booting with the "irqpoll" option) It st

Re: Firefox/Flash vs. Pulseaudio; Audio can't be directed to the desired device

On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 08:32 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > On 4 September 2013 06:49, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Pulseaudio can control which output device receives main audio output via > > > > kmix->Mixer->Settings->Audio Setup->... > > > > which invokes Phonon. At this point select the audio str

Re: "Error: connection activation failed: Device not managed by NetworkManager or unavailable" after moving machine

On 09/03/2013 03:01 PM, Aaron Gray issued this missive: Hi, "Error: connection activation failed: Device not managed by NetworkManager or unavailable" I am getting the above error and have tried all my normal mods to try and get a connection. I did move the SATA drive from one machine to anoth

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

Jehan Procaccia wrote: Le 04/09/2013 17:08, Bill Davidsen a écrit : Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: hello, I've got hundred of fedora19 station installed on computer lab for our students. these are self service multi-user stations, users needs to restart the station whenever they want to unfortunatly

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

Le 04/09/2013 17:08, Bill Davidsen a écrit : Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: hello, I've got hundred of fedora19 station installed on computer lab for our students. these are self service multi-user stations, users needs to restart the station whenever they want to unfortunatly apparently "polkit" pre

Re: "Error: connection activation failed: Device not managed by NetworkManager or unavailable" after moving machine

hello aaron, On 09/04/2013 09:27 AM, Aaron Gray wrote: Thanks, been down those routes. welcome. you did not mention. thought i would offer what i could. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. sl6.3 linux tc.hago. g . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

Le 04/09/2013 11:38, Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 4 September 2013 11:02, Jehan PROCACCIA > wrote: hello, I've got hundred of fedora19 station installed on computer lab for our students. these are self service multi-user stations, users needs to res

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to copy-paste text without transferring the format. I'm using F19 with KDE. Currently, when I copy-paste (between Firefox, LibreOffice, etc), formatting like font, font size and font attributes get also copied and pasted. But

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Bill Davidsen wrote: Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to copy-paste text without transferring the format. I'm using F19 with KDE. [snip] In many applications shift-ctrl-V calls paste-without-formatting. In some shift-ctrl-C does a c

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: hello, I've got hundred of fedora19 station installed on computer lab for our students. these are self service multi-user stations, users needs to restart the station whenever they want to unfortunatly apparently "polkit" prevents them to restart when another user is (or ha

Re: [389-users] ACI invalid syntax

On 09/04/2013 08:11 AM, Mitja Mihelič wrote: Hi! We are moving our Directory server from CentOS 5 Directory Server to CentOS 6 with 389 Directory Server. Our DIT looks like this: dc=example,dc=com |- dc=guests,dc=example,dc=com We would like the users in dc=example,dc=com to have full write

Re: "Error: connection activation failed: Device not managed by NetworkManager or unavailable" after moving machine

Thanks, been down those routes. On 4 September 2013 08:49, g wrote: > > > On 09/03/2013 05:01 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> "Error: connection activation failed: Device not managed by >> NetworkManager or unavailable" >> >> I am getting the above error and have tried all my normal mods to

[389-users] ACI invalid syntax

Hi! We are moving our Directory server from CentOS 5 Directory Server to CentOS 6 with 389 Directory Server. Our DIT looks like this: dc=example,dc=com |- dc=guests,dc=example,dc=com We would like the users in dc=example,dc=com to have full write permissions for their own entries. Users in d

kernel IO_PAGE_FAULT error messages

Hi The following message (its one line) is swamping /var/log/messages, occurring many times per second. Does anyone know what it means, and especially how to fix it, or at least turn it off. The machine seems to be running OK. Thanks. Sep 3 17:16:55 HOST kernel: [ 712.941330] AMD-Vi: Event

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

On 4 September 2013 11:02, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: > hello, > I've got hundred of fedora19 station installed on computer lab for our > students. > these are self service multi-user stations, users needs to restart the > station whenever they want to > unfortunatly apparently "polkit" prevents them

how can i make restart not require root password

hello, I've got hundred of fedora19 station installed on computer lab for our students. these are self service multi-user stations, users needs to restart the station whenever they want to unfortunatly apparently "polkit" prevents them to restart when another user is (or had been ?) connected

Re: SSH problem with kernel 3.10.9-200

On 08/31/2013 04:41 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > When using kernel 3.10.9-200, cursor stops moving and characters are > either not being transmitted or are not echoing back. Have to wait for > 3-5 seconds to be able to continue typing. If you verified that the kernel version matters, the problem co

Re: "Error: connection activation failed: Device not managed by NetworkManager or unavailable" after moving machine

On 09/03/2013 05:01 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: Hi, "Error: connection activation failed: Device not managed by NetworkManager or unavailable" I am getting the above error and have tried all my normal mods to try and get a connection. I did move the SATA drive from one machine to another and back,

Re: Firefox/Flash vs. Pulseaudio; Audio can't be directed to the desired device

On 4 September 2013 06:49, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Pulseaudio can control which output device receives main audio output via > > kmix->Mixer->Settings->Audio Setup->... > > which invokes Phonon. At this point select the audio stream you want to > divert, "Prefer" the device you want to receive