Debian

shouldn't apt-get upgrade, you know, upgrade ?
Hi all, I was having some problems with ooffice so I did "apt-get update" and then ran "apt-get upgrade" to see if ooffice was among the packages to be upgraded. It wasn't, but I tried "apt-get install ooffice" anyway, and presto it started upgrading ooffice. So I looked at the man-page: upgrade is use... 6 Apr 2010 09:40

How to list packages in various priorities or sections
Hello, I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given package. In the output of the vlan package for example one gets output like: [snip] Priority: extra Section: misc [/snip] How might one determine all packages (installed or not) that fall under a particular "Priority" ... 30 Apr 2010 11:43

horrible mc colorscheme
Hi, I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1. And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-( No kidding! How do I get back to what I had? Anybody? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a ... 18 Apr 2010 16:24

Umont ownership?
hello list, after a recent system drive migration ive noticed that the right click unmont in lenny 5.0.2 no longer cleanly unmounts. i get a dialog box saying cannot unmont blah blah... the drives are not being accessed at the time. since umount is not a package that i can reinstall [as far as i know] im wonder... 7 Apr 2010 13:30

NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 04:43, Stan Hoeppner <stan(a)hardwarefreak.com> wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 4/4/2010 9:08 PM: Your analogy, regardless of how cute, sarcastic, and applicable you believe it to be doesn't fit.  If I run lshw, it will lock the system every time, not only after adding salt to the ma... 5 Apr 2010 03:58

Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?
So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86 processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox, opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a crawl and becomes slow and sluggish. The system load increase up tp 5, the CPU usage also sho... 6 Apr 2010 07:29

Problems since upgrading to Squeeze
Since my first upgrade to Squeeze, I have encountered three major issues. 1. There is no KDE option in the kdm session menu. The default is gnome. 2. Intermittently, the system failed to boot, resulting in a blank screen and disabled keyboard and mouse. Logs show DRM error. 3. My RT2500 pci card hardly detects an... 4 Apr 2010 22:35

interfaces - proper configuration
I am trying to set up the /etc/network/interfaces script properly so that all interfaces are started/stopped properly by /etc/init.d/networking. I have this set up correctly, mostly, I think, but there is a flurry of warning messages on start of the /etc/init.d/networking. First, some background information on t... 8 Apr 2010 15:10

Re (2): skype alternative
* From: Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan(a)gmail.com> * Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:08:46 +0200 What could be the best skype alternative, Twinkle works in Lenny and in Squeeze. fsf.org advocates Ekiga. Ekiga 2 worked for me a few years back but Ekiga 3 has never worked on any of my Lenny or Squeeze systems. ... 11 Apr 2010 19:01

virtualbox error log
Previously I successfully installed and launched virtualbox-ose. However, after installing a guest GNU/ Linux and building a customized kernel (2.6.33..2). The virtualbox box crashed and no longer able to be executed successfully. The log shows 03:56:22.716 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0x20 (-1 use... 4 Apr 2010 15:57