Aaugh! Sound devices changed again!

2015-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
Every single fedora release, and sometimes even just from an update where there wasn't a full release, the sound devices get renumbered or renamed. The last time I tried to play a movie and send the sound to the optical output connected to my receiver, this worked: pacmd set-card-profile 1 off mpl

KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
not. After having installed kde-desktop on Fedora 22, and chosing Plasma as environment from gdm I am greeted by a grey screen with only a pointer to move. Looks like it doesn't even load a window manager. cat /var/log/messages | grep plasma reveals Sep 2 13:42:22 localhost /usr/libexec/gdm-

Re: Aaugh! Sound devices changed again!

2015-09-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 September 2015 at 12:27, Tom Horsley wrote: > Every single fedora release, and sometimes even just from > an update where there wasn't a full release, the sound > devices get renumbered or renamed. The last time I > tried to play a movie and send the sound to the optical > output connected to

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/15 20:06, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > After having installed kde-desktop on Fedora 22, and chosing Plasma as > environment from gdm I am greeted by a grey screen with only a pointer > to move. Looks like it doesn't even load a window manager. > > cat /var/log/messages | grep plasma > > r

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 20:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/02/15 20:06, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > After having installed kde-desktop on Fedora 22, and chosing Plasma > > as > > environment from gdm I am greeted by a grey screen with only a > > pointer > > to move. Looks like it doesn't eve

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/15 21:38, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > Yes > > $ sudo dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" > [sudo] password for marskj: > Last metadata expiration check performed 2:14:49 ago on Wed Sep 2 > 13:21:41 2015. > Environment 'KDE Plasma Workspaces' is already installed, skipping. > Depen

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 1 September 2015 at 17:09, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Unfortunately, pdfshuffler does not have the same capabilities than pdftk. > It has a graphics interface. > There is one command easy with pdftk: > pdftk file.pdf cat 3-4 output file2.pdf Something like this should give you the same functionali

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Btw, I have put my rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm I personally have found pdf-stapler to be a very good, perhaps better, commandline replacement for pdftk (for my purposes, but of course, your needs ma

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 21:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/02/15 21:38, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > Yes > > > > $ sudo dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" > > [sudo] password for marskj: > > Last metadata expiration check performed 2:14:49 ago on Wed Sep 2 > > 13:21:41 2015. > > Envir

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thank. Can we get the version for fc21? Thank. === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Martin Skjöldebrand
Quoting Martin Skjöldebrand : On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 21:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/02/15 21:38, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > Yes > > $ sudo dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" > [sudo] password for marskj: > Last metadata expiration check performed 2:14:49 ago on Wed Sep 2 > 13:21

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Try it now, with 1 instead of 2 (you know where). Ranjan On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 17:02:46 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Thank. > Can we get the version for fc21? > > Thank. > > === > Patrick DUPRÉ

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
pdf-stapler --help Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pdf-stapler", line 5, in from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2713, in parse_requirements(__requires__), Environment() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
You need PyPdf installed. On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:17:03 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > pdf-stapler --help > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/pdf-stapler", line 5, in > from pkg_resources import load_entry_point > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", l

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
pyPdf. On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:17:03 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > pdf-stapler --help > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/pdf-stapler", line 5, in > from pkg_resources import load_entry_point > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2713, in > >

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
Package pyPdf-1.13-7.fc21.noarch already installed and latest version Nothing to do === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Btw, I have put my rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: > > http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm > > I personally have found pdf-stapler to be a very good, perhaps better, > commandline repla

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Well, I can not test it, sorry. I have F22 installed everywhere. Perhaps it is time for you to upgrade? Ranjan On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:22:59 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Package pyPdf-1.13-7.fc21.noarch already installed and latest version > Nothing to do > > ===

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Paul, I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ people are not to be blamed for this however. The issue is a license file which exists on the git site, but not in the tar file on the pypi site. I have written several times to the author (Philip Stark) of the package

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Raman Gupta
Ranjan, what about putting your package in copr (https://copr.fedoraproject.org/) so that people can add it as a repo easily e.g. "dnf copr enable ..."? Regards, Raman On 09/02/2015 01:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Paul, > > I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ pe

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234210 > pdf-stapler or pdfshuffler are fine tools if you just want to collate PDFs, but pdftk did a lot more. I've been using it for years to merge data into pre-built template PDFs. pdftk has a

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ people > are not to be blamed for this however. > > The issue is a license file which exists on the git site, but not in the tar > file on the pypi site. I have written s

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 2, 2015 12:51 PM, "Ranjan Maitra" wrote: > > Paul, > > I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ people are not to be blamed for this however. > > The issue is a license file which exists on the git site, but not in the tar file on the pypi site. I have written se

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Well, but for that licensing discrepancy, it is good to go for Fedora. I did not want to deal with another process so I went the official route. I do hope that the licensing issue (it is really a non-issue -- the fact that there is no license file in the pypi.org release, but is there in the gi

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I have just installed Ranjan's rpm on F22, but getting the following error: - $ pdf-stapler --help Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pdf-stapler", line 5, in from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-package

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> > Github exports archives for any given commit, tag, or branch head. If > upstream has tagged releases on GitHub, you can use that as a source. I > personally prefer to do this; it seems odd to involve a third party, and I > can reliably associate the version in the package with the source rep

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
pdfstapler -help On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:20:40 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have just installed Ranjan's rpm on F22, but getting the following error: > > - > $ pdf-stapler --help > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/pdf-stapler", line 5, in

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Try again! I just realized that the changes requested by BZ actually damaged the package. Try downloading and seeing if this works now. Best wishes, Ranjan On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:20:40 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have just installed Ranjan's rpm on F22, but getting the followi

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 09/02/2015 01:23 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Well, originally, I had posted the github source, but this had to be changed to meet Fedora's guidelines. Pointing to a github release URL is valid. Whoever told you to change "due to the guidelines" is wrong. Please post the review bugzilla URL.

Re: KDE Plasma 5 loading

2015-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/15 23:54, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > I ran an update on the system, and now everything works as supposed. A bit > sluggish though. What sort of hardware do you have? Also, what video card? -- It seems most people that say they are "done talking about it" never really are until giv

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:14:59 -0500 Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 09/02/2015 01:23 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Well, originally, I had posted the github source, but this had to be > > changed to meet Fedora's guidelines. > > Pointing to a github release URL is valid. Whoever told you to change

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Try again! > > I just realized that the changes requested by BZ actually damaged the > package. Try downloading and seeing if this works now. Thanks again, Ranjan. I have just done that, and now the command pdf-stapler --help works just fi

PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to use a PCI-e SSD for the root and swap partitions of a workstation running F22. I am thinking of installing F22 and my swap here -- the machine has 64GB memory. So I am considering getting a 128 GB PCI-e SSD, and leaving 96 GB for swap and 32 GB for /. /h

Re: Aaugh! Sound devices changed again!

2015-09-02 Thread jdow
On 2015-09-02 05:20, Ian Malone wrote: On 2 September 2015 at 12:27, Tom Horsley wrote: Every single fedora release, and sometimes even just from an update where there wasn't a full release, the sound devices get renumbered or renamed. The last time I tried to play a movie and send the sound to

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-02 Thread CS DBA
On 08/31/2015 08:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/21/15 23:41, CS DBA wrote: >> I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell M3800 laptop, been working great. >> Updating to the latest kernel however breaks my external display >> i.e. I plug the external monitor in and nothing happens, previous to the >> upda

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/03/15 09:06, CS DBA wrote: > > On 08/31/2015 08:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 08/21/15 23:41, CS DBA wrote: >>> I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell M3800 laptop, been working great. >>> Updating to the latest kernel however breaks my external display >>> i.e. I plug the external monitor in and n