Re: might be off topic -- using digitalocean to test

2023-12-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/how-do-i-clone-or-make-a-copy-of-a-droplet/ Might or might not help. Works for me. -- Richard -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedora

Re: wordpress problem

2023-07-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > I have the server edition installed and log into firefox and enter > https://localhost/wp-admin and I always get there's no such url. Try https://localhost/wp-login.php or.. http://localhost/wp-login.php -- Richard ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: Gigabyte: "we cannot offer full support on Linux"

2022-05-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I used to build workstations and servers for the Computacenter in St Albans England. 200 machines a night. I've just had a long session with a Gigabyte board and an NVIDIA card. A GK107GL Quadro K600 card which refused to work with anything. I tried Debian 11. Linux Mint. Arch Linux and Fed

Re: HTML/PDF -

2020-11-23 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi https://html2pdf.com/ This might work. -- Richard ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-05-13 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi https://meet.jit.si/ I've built my own Jitsi server. Seems to be a good video conference system. Digital Ocean offer a one click install package or you can build a working server on whatever you choose. Does a good job. Richard On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 12:14, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > > On

Re: [OT] best (Linux based!) all-in-one NAS-VPN-firewall?

2019-06-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi > I have been just asked to, quoting, "suggest an all-in-one > NAS-VPN-firewall for the school". We are talking ~80 students in the > 8/13 years age range, maybe more after summer, plus teachers and > administration. The "all-in-one" part is the key requirement, and also > the reason why I am a

Re: browser virus: how to get rid of them?

2019-01-13 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi On 13/01/2019 11:23, Frédéric wrote: Preferences ---> Search settings? Add-On added by mistake? nothing there, it's really hidden... Install clamscan and freshclam. Then ... sudo freshclam to update the virus patterns. Under /home/user create a virus folder for isolation of viruses.

DNF Doesn't Complete

2018-11-05 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Yes. The upgrade from f28 to f29 went well. Many thanks to everyone out there. However, after running 'dnf update' I can now see this error message... terminate called after throwing an instance of 'libdnf::File::CloseException' what(): Cannot close file: /var/cache/dnf/fedora-modular-ce4

Re: Tor browsers

2017-03-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
How does one check to see if it is working? https://check.torproject.org/ -- Richard ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Tor browsers

2017-03-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> > These instructions are for Fedora 14. Is there anything more recent? It's still relevant. Works if you follow what they say. Privoxy can be a problem. Easier not to use it. In /etc/tor/torrc you can uncomment... SOCKSPort 9050 ControlPort 9051 HashedControlPassword 16: Then start Tor

Re: Tor browsers

2017-03-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> > Download... https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en# > downloads > > Unzip and use. Or you can use this... > > https://www.banym.de/linux/fedora/install-tor-on-fedora > See also https://www.privacytools.io/#webrtc https://www.scalescale.com/tips/nginx/installing-tor-c

Re: Tor browsers

2017-03-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> > > How much effort is involved in setting up tor port(s) and running tor > browsers? > > I have never done it to-date, and would like some installation / setup / > configurations links. > Download... https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en#downloads Unzip and use. Or you can

Re: Fedora 25 GUI Problem

2016-12-16 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday, 16 December 2016 17:13:35 GMT Georgi Tsanov wrote: > Thanks to responding i ran blkid to see the partitions and ran fsck > comman only for swap partition (dont know what this is) and home > partition. when i tried to run the fsck command for the root > partition it said that the root is

Re: Fedora 25 GUI Problem

2016-12-16 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday, 16 December 2016 15:25:15 GMT Georgi Tsanov wrote: > My issue: I installed fedora 25 a few days ago alongside windows7. I > had no problems with fedora i did an update, installed nvidia > drivers and all the apps i need made the necessary configurations > and everything was okey. Today (

Re: PulseAudio

2016-03-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> Ok, so either you haven't loaded the necessary kernel module for > your sound card (the modules typically have the text "snd" in their > name) or your sound card went bye-bye. Try "lspci | grep -i audio" > and see what you get. On my desktop (with several physical sound > devices) https://ask.fe

Re: PulseAudio

2016-03-28 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Monday 28 March 2016 14:21:45 Rick Stevens wrote: > > PulseAudio Sound Server > > > > aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found. > > Ok, so either you haven't loaded the necessary kernel module for > your sound card (the modules typically have the text "snd" in their > name) or your s

Re: PulseAudio

2016-03-28 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday 25 March 2016 14:01:32 Stan wrote: > While you're at it run > aplay -lL It says aplay -lL train-door-close-2a-no-beeping.wav null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) jack JACK Audio Connection Kit pulse PulseAudio Sound Server aplay: devic

Re: PulseAudio

2016-03-25 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday 25 March 2016 14:05:24 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 13:20:46 + > The command line pactl interface, however, worked flawlessly > and I was able to change setting that way (after figuring out > the obscure syntax). > > After a few week, the gnome control panel started work

Re: PulseAudio

2016-03-25 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday 25 March 2016 09:41:05 Daniel J Walsh wrote: > What avcs are you seeing > > ausearch -m avc -ts recent -- Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

PulseAudio

2016-03-25 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I know a lot of people don't like PulseAudio but that's what comes with Fedora 23. My problem is this. After a dnf update I find that selinux has done something it didn't do before. PulseAudio has ceased to work properly. I'm looking at a dummy output the sound card is not found by PulseAud

KDEnlive

2016-03-13 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Fedora 23. Does anyone know why my entire desktop freezes up when I drop a new clip into kdenlive for editing ? kdenlive version 15.12.2. Qt 5.5.1. xcb windowing system. I've done the usual Google search. Can't find anything that makes a lot of sense. -- Richard Sheffield UK -- users mail

Re: Port 21 Open

2016-03-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Ed Greshko wrote: > > Strange > > Are you saying you have control of 195.154.162.172? That is the > system with port 21 open. > > You showed... > > tcp 0 0 192.168.2.10:60088195.154.162.172:21 > > The source port of 192.168.2.10 is 60088 connecting with port 21 on > 195.154.162.172. Swit

Re: Port 21 Open

2016-03-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Saturday 05 March 2016 06:14:56 Tim wrote: > Are you doing *any* kind of peer-to-peer? > No. All P2P switched off. -- Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Cod

Re: Port 21 Open

2016-03-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday 04 March 2016 12:00:55 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/04/2016 11:44 AM, Tim wrote: > > Oh, and just because it's using port 21 doesn't necessarily mean > > that it's doing FTP, that's just the recognised common use of the > > port. If you're infiltrated, it could be doing anything. You, > > mo

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

2016-03-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday 04 March 2016 15:23:05 Timothy Murphy wrote: > > See also gnome-chess and knights and xboard. I use Knights. You > > can > > choose which chess engine you want to use. > > I have installed knights and xboard. > But how do you use them with gnuchess ? > > I know I could use pychess, > b

Re: Chess under Fedora-23

2016-03-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday 04 March 2016 13:48:48 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is it possible to play gnuchess with a board > using either knights or xboard > (both of which I have installed in my Fedora-23/KDE laptop). > I tried "gnuchess --xboard" but no board appeared. dnf search gnuchess See also gnome-chess and

Port 21 Open

2016-03-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Does anyone know what this might be about ? Fedora 23 with a Gnome/KDE/LXDE desktop... netstat -nap | grep :21 shows tcp0 0 192.168.2.10:60088 195.154.162.172:21 ESTABLISHED netstat -aunt shows... tcp0 0 192.168.2.10:60088 195.154.162.172:21

Re: Desktop Does Not Start Up

2016-02-21 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I thought I should reply to this one due to the fact that I think that no one else is going to work it out... Would be useful to leave this in the Fedora Users archive > I did a dnf update on my F23 workstation. After rebooting to make > sure that the updates were working properly I fin

Desktop Does Not Start Up

2016-02-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I did a dnf update on my F23 workstation. After rebooting to make sure that the updates were working properly I find that I can't get to the login screen. I see the blue Fedora logo for a split second. Then the command line appears with a message to do Ctrl-D or login as root. Nouveau dr

Desktop Does Not Start Up

2016-02-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I did a dnf update on my F23 workstation. After rebooting to make sure that the updates were working properly I find that I can't get to the login screen. I see the blue Fedora log for a split second. Then the command line appears with a message to do Ctrl-D or login as root. Nouveau driver

Re: Kmail

2016-01-23 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Saturday 23 January 2016 08:34:16 ven...@billoblog.com wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >[snip] > > > > Can't really help since I gave up on Kmail years ago, but you > > might > > want to mention at least what kind of account this is (POP, IMAP, > > ...) as it could mak

Re: Kmail

2016-01-23 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Saturday 23 January 2016 13:51:26 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Why do you think the KDE list isn't working? I haven't noticed any > problems (though there doesn't appear to be any traffic on it > today). It was doing some strange things earlier on. Seems to be fine now. Apparently the way to f

Kmail

2016-01-23 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I suppose I could ask this question on the KDE list but their Mailman software is doing some strange things just now. Since I upgraded to Fedora 23 I find that I get a message in Kmail when I try to delete some mail “Do you really want to delete the selected message ? “ I have to click on

Re: DNF Update Error

2015-12-12 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Saturday 12 December 2015 14:34:13 John Pilkington wrote: > Perhaps try > > rpm -e --nodeps libkworkspace5-5.4.3-3.fc23.x86_64 > > ... but I forget exactly how much of the package name is > appropriate. That's fixed it. Thanks very much. -- Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorap

DNF Update Error

2015-12-12 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Anyone any idea how to deal with this one ? FC23. I've tried 'dnf clean packages' and this still happens after running 'dnf update'.. Delta RPMs reduced 127.7 MB of updates to 104.6 MB (18.1% saved) Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test The dow

Re: avidemux install problem

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Thursday 19 November 2015 11:15:01 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 19:34 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > > > > > wrote: > > > According to Google, several people are having this issue: > > > > > > $ sudo dnf install --

Re: Get iso 23

2015-11-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> this is live media and installation media whit Gnome desktop. If you want another desktop you can do. For example dnf group install "KDE plasma workspaces" You can do something similar for XFCE or LXDE or whatever. -- Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Get iso 23

2015-11-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Sunday 15 November 2015 13:52:14 Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > How can I get an iso image for fedora 23 (workstation) ? > > > > https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ > > There is only the Live version not the DVD iso. There are other links to the right of the page. -- Richard -- user

Re: Get iso 23

2015-11-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Sunday 15 November 2015 13:52:14 Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > How can I get an iso image for fedora 23 (workstation) ? > > > > https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ > > There is only the Live version not the DVD iso. There are other links on the right hand side of the page. -- Richar

Re: Can't Install OpenShot or MLT

2015-11-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> RichardOn Sunday 15 November 2015 10:45:20 wrote: > > dnf install kdenlive mlt > > > > Error: nothing provides ffmpeg needed by > > kdenlive-0.9.10-1.fc22.i686. nothing provides > > libavfilter.so.5()(64bit) needed by > > libavdevice-2.6.3-1.fc22.x86_64 > > > > Anyone suggest how I can get out

Re: Get iso 23

2015-11-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Patrick > How can I get an iso image for fedora 23 (workstation) ? https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ -- Richard Sheffield UK https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Re: Can't Install OpenShot or MLT

2015-11-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
RichardOn Sunday 15 November 2015 10:45:20 wrote: > dnf install kdenlive mlt > > Error: nothing provides ffmpeg needed by > kdenlive-0.9.10-1.fc22.i686. nothing provides > libavfilter.so.5()(64bit) needed by > libavdevice-2.6.3-1.fc22.x86_64 > > Anyone suggest how I can get out of this ? Would l

Can't Install OpenShot or MLT

2015-11-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi After the F22 -> F23 upgrade which took out OpenShot and MLT with -- allowerasing for the purposes of the upgrade I find that I can't reinstall it dnf install mlt Error: nothing provides libavfilter.so.5()(64bit) needed by libavdevice-2.6.3-1.fc22.x86_64 dnf install openshot mlt Erro

Re: updated f22->f23 using dnf system-upgrade, no significant issues

2015-11-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Wednesday 04 Nov 2015 18:43:23 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/04/15 18:32, Christopher Ross wrote: > > On 03/11/15 14:42, Neal Becker wrote: > >> A boring update > Also, KDE users may have some problems with upgrades until > > https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-084749eee7 That pr

Re: IP Security Cameras

2015-08-09 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Sunday 09 Aug 2015 16:32:01 Dan Mossor wrote: > I've just been informed of an issue at my family's business in Ohio. > They are being targeted by some local hoodlums, and are looking for > a security camera system. > > The business runs Linux on all office equipment, so I was hoping > there was

Re: gdm busted?

2015-06-01 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Just to add my 10 cents worth.  After the upgrade to Fedora 22 I found that lightdm was crippled. Had to disable lightdm and enable kdm.  Works fine now :) Richard Sheffield UK On 1 Jun 2015 14:12, at 14:12, Paul Cartwright wrote: >On 06/01/2015 08:50 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: > >It seems tha

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Just to put my own 10 cents worth in here. I went to Manchester Computing Centre throughout the 90's. At that time Dr Owen Le Blanc was writing some early code for the GNU/Linux kernel. He was in touch with Linus a lot of the time... http://people.man.ac.uk/~zlsiial/ https://en.wikipedia.or

Re: Fedupdated v20 to v21 - perfect!

2014-12-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Wednesday 03 December 2014 23:41:01 poma wrote: > Fedora 21 ain't released yet, so you and others, please stop > spamming this list for nothing. Thank you. I helped to put this together many years ago ... www.spamcop.net -- Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Fedupdated v20 to v21 - perfect!

2014-12-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Wednesday 03 December 2014 21:58:11 Ed Greshko wrote: > package-cleanup --cleandupes I've tried that. Also tried... package-cleanup --cleandupes --skip-broken .. And it says ... --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. Skip-broken could not solve problems Error: Depsolving loop

Re: Fedupdated v20 to v21 - perfect!

2014-12-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Wednesday 03 December 2014 21:22:29 Ed Greshko wrote: > Best to disable the rpmfusion repos at the moment. I don't > think they have their act fully together at this time. Disabled those and it says... Skip-broken could not solve problems Error: Package: mpv-0.3.11-1.fc20.x86_64 (@rpmfusi

Re: Fedupdated v20 to v21 - perfect!

2014-12-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> > I just updated from F20 x86_64 to F21 via fedup and although it > > took a while - it was completely painless! > > I've tried this on my own fc20 workstation > > fedup --network 21 -- > instrepo=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/21 > /x86_64/os/ --nogpgcheck --skip

Re: Fedupdated v20 to v21 - perfect!

2014-12-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
> I just updated from F20 x86_64 to F21 via fedup and although it took > a while - it was completely painless! I've tried this on my own fc20 workstation fedup --network 21 -- instrepo=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/21/x86_64/os/ --nogpgcheck --skipbroken And it s

Re: Fedora 20 does not boot

2014-11-20 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Thursday 20 November 2014 13:56:44 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > thank you Zoe, > > I did it... > > But this did not solved the problem... > > I continue to get only the prompt to the command line > and cannot change access type using http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage Thi

Re: rpm editor for MasterPdfEditor

2014-10-28 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Tuesday 28 October 2014 15:53:07 Mickey wrote: > YES , Download the MasterPDFEditor-2.1.00.i386.tar.gz, extract that > execute the master-pdf-editor and that will run in F20 Yes. Done that. It works fine :) Just wondered if I might be able to get the RPM to work. -- Richard -- users mail

Re: rpm editor for MasterPdfEditor

2014-10-28 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi My own problem with this is that after doing ... rpm -Uvh master-pdf- editor-1.9.25.x86_64.rpm on fc20 I get " file / from install of master-pdf-editor-1.9.25-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-19.fc20.x86_64 " Is there a way to round this ? -- Richard https://tw

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Saturday 15 Mar 2014 14:38:19 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 14:02 +, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > > I use a Samsung ML-1510 laser printer and a Hewlett-Packard > > Photosmart 5224 all in one. Works for me. You can get these HP > > printer

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Saturday 15 Mar 2014 13:45:31 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The Samsung Xpress M2070W looks like a good all-rounder but I'm > unsure about Linux support. Google seems to show a variety of > opinions. > > Anyone have one of these beasties, or have an alternative to > recommend? I use a Samsung

Fedora 20 Broken Dependencies

2014-03-10 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hello there I've done the usual search around the net and can't find a good answer to this one. Can anyone help ? When trying to run 'yum update' I get broken dependencies... Skipped (dependency problems): AtomicParsley.x86_64 0:0.9.5-2.fc20 ffmpeg.x86_64 0:2.1.4-1.fc20 ffmpeg- libs.x86_64 0:2.

Kmail 1.1.32 Issue

2010-04-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I've got a problem with the Fedora 12 KDE 4.4.1 and KDE 4.4.2 versions of Kmail (just upgraded). There are five messages stuck in the inbox that I cannot delete. I have tried the Kmail delete button. Also done a 'cd' to .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/cur. There is nothing in there to