i am making the shift from centos to debian as i have heard that debian has lot of packages compared to centos and can make you learn more,i want to know how can i match the md5sum provided on the download page with the DVD images
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I am new to Debian but not Linux-based systems. I have been experimenting a lot with Debian Lenny/Squeeze. I am growing more comfortable each day with the Debian design. Yet there remain many unexplored areas. I am creating a migration check list. Things to check, prepare, or reconfigure when moving from one Linux-based system to Debian.
I have a good computer background and my current check list probably is fairly good. Yet I would appreciate input and opinions from experienced Debian users of things to watch in such a migration. Login defs, passwd/group files, different directory locations, keymaps, services and daemons, etc. I am not too concerned with the desktop as I plan to stick with KDE 3.5 for a while and I can basically move those settings across.
Below is the recipe I've used to compile dwm from source on Squeeze
su
apt-get install devscripts debian-keyring
apt-get build-dep dwm
exit
It all seems to work, however debuild gave an error about secret keys. Is this a sensible procedure? What happens in the (probably unlikely) event there is another source patch?I've gone to a tiling window manager as the result of the purchase of a wide screen LCD monitor. I like to have some stuff down the right hand side when running Firefox and OpenOffice in the main panes. Any configuration tricks welcome. Modern screens are the wrong shape!
I expect to check the RAM speed and type. I ran following command;
$ sudo dmidecode 2.9SMBIOS 2.5 present.
65 structures occupying 2385 bytes.
Table at 0x000F06E0.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
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I have a fresh installed debian server.
I am not sure if an FTP was installed or not.
How can I check that?
I have an Debian System on which GUI is not enabled. How to Check that GUI can be started by some command or that has to be reinstalled.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have this deb from a package in unstable...
It calls for libhdf5-openmpi, which is not compatible with libhdf5-serial which in turn is used by several packages that i have installed...
It's either the serial or the openmpi version... not both.
Since this specific package from sid calls for this dependence, which way do i have to check that if i override dependency checking it wont overwrite anything along the way...?
All other dependencies can be met... except this particular one...
And i wont be using the functionality that calls for openmpi...
I am not sure whether I ask this question on the right forum. My debian mailserver is depending on a MySQL database. Every reboot it takes around 30 minutes to boot because of the database check. I could not find the right command or setting to boot without this check. Do you know how to do this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedBut, given that I've mixed some source and unstable packages in with my stable system, I'm now experiencing a few eccentricities (which really should make me swear off screwing around with my system, but, alas, I don't seem to learn from experience).
I digress. Anyway, in trying to play cdroms (with xplaycd and with kaffeine), it does not work. Kaffeine gives me the following feedback:
Code:
The host you're trying to connect is unknown.
Check the validity of the specified hostname. (unable to resolve)
PS, I am a member of both audio and cdrom.
Howto check from the command line which modules were loaded after Lenny restart?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy system from and after that at startup as it was doing a file system check I got this:
Checking file systems ... fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
/dev/sda1: clean, 30/124496 files 34735/248976 blocks
/dev/hda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
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Is it possible to check out the log as well when you are checking out a version from some repo. For instance this is a game I like :-
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The game is called dawn-rpg and one can find about it at dawn-rpg.sourceforge.net but that's not what I want to talk about. The thing it would be so much more convenient for me if instead of going to the svn mirror or whatever it is and checking out the log, it was local. I know I could do something like this :-
svn log > svnlog150611.txt
This would download the log file and put the contents in some text file I have named as svnlog150611.txt . The problem with this way of doing things is that each time I have to check out I would have to create a new txt file with that date. If there was a way one could check out the log as well when checking out a new version/release it would be nice. Its also possible that this might be already be there and there might be another command to use locally that I am not aware about. In that case, would look forward to people to share the same.
freshly installed Debian-netinst, configured internet connection. Pinged Google - all transmitted packets were received, 0% loss.
Yet I am not sure if I have internet connection for what ever package I am trying to install using apt-get install package_name, I receive
E: Unable to locate package package_name
How can I check internet connection from CLI?
I want to install Debian Stable 8 Jessie. I've tried the main website, of course, first. But there are a lot of options there to download Debian 8: CD, DVD, Live etc. I downloaded debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso and I booted live in VirtualBox. It boots fine and the operating system looks in order.
Questions/problems:
1. The desktop icon for the installer says "Install Debian sid". But from what I know "sid" is unstable version. I do not want unstable, nor testing. I just want normal Stable. Did I got the wrong version? The website is a bit confusing about which version is which.
2. How do I check the md5 of the iso? I know how to do that with other distros, they usually specify it near the download link and I can execute in terminal the command 'md5sum' followed by the specific linux distro iso and then compare the numbers. But I can find no such thing for Debian. I searched the website but could not find any clear info.
3. After I install, what should I do in order to make Iceweasel work with Flash and multimedia codecs? I also need Skype and the proprietary Nvidia drivers.
And if I enable these non free, do I get automatic updates for them like for the rest of standard Debian software? Or, if not, what should I do?
The idea is that I want a system that is as stable and bug free as possible, but I won't use many apps beyond these ones. I don't need the latest and greatest software as long as these get security updates. Should I be ok with this configuration?
Also how do I check the latest version available? I gather to update a driver I need to update the kernel so ill not be doing that but im trying to get more familiar with linux here. I know how to do this in windows so it would be good to be able to check driver versions in linux too. Im on debian 8.1 with intel HD4400 graphics.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do you check if a computer's video card will support Kernel Mode Switching BEFORE OS installation?
In this example I have an Acer Aspire AST180-UA381B.
Manufacture website says my video card is: Integrated nVidia MCP61
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Nouveau code list says: NV4C (MCP61) GeForce 6150LE / nForce 400/405, GeForce 6150SE Quadro NVS 210s / nForce 430
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I want to know:
1. How to tell if my graphics card will support KMS before I install the OS?
2. If it does not support KMS which kernel options should be passed to get it to work properly with the nouveau driver?
3. Ultimately I am looking for a tool that should be included in the installation screen that will:
a. identify your hardware: list the hardware detected on the screen
b. highlight with color code any hardware listed that is not supported or poorly supported: in this case graphics drivers
c. perform a quick benchmark test of your hardware: In this case I want the benchmark to tell me what capabilities my graphics card has.
d. automatically recommend and set the best kernel parameters for a successful boot: if the graphics card needs nomodeset or modeset=0 or whatever I want it to do it for me.
Also I started a personal blog about this issue which I intend to compose into guide to assist others with this question. [URL] ....
My goal is to create a boot disc that will automate proper installation of graphics or other hardware for a system BEFORE installation. I would like to see this feature included in the Debian installation screen.
i have automatic spell check on for evolution mail.. but when i compose a new mail it does not work..
View 4 Replies View RelatedCan anybody confirm whether this 2U supermicro server will work with Debian 6.0.2. [URL].
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy specs: Debian Lenny i686, 7gb ram, 1tb hdd, Pentium 4 2.2 the rest not important.
Now, i did clean install of Debian on to my 1tb hdd as such:
- 14 gb swap (as far as I understood it has to be twice as ram)
- / root 25 gb
- /home the rest
I don`t know if it`s important, but I am under Gnome+Compiz+Emerald.
So the first question is: There is a program in: Applications/SystemTools/Disk Usage Analyzer It tells me thisScreenshot-Disk Usage Analyzer.png
Correct me if I am not right, but i am running out of disk space on /home?
I want to put check menu & check list in utility dialog.i dont know how i do this
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using Debian squeeze and for an assignement, i have create 2 virtual pdf cups printers. Both are working very well. To test the different administion command; i try to disable one of the printer and move his queue file to the second one. I'm able to do it easily.
Now, i wish to write a bash script that wil test the status of the printer. So that,if the printer is disable, it just execute the "move" script. Is there a way to know the status of a cups printer and use that information in a script?
For example, a command/function that can return "O" is the cups printer is enable and "1" if not.
I've created a new group and a new user called dftp... Now I wanna do one thing... If 'dftp' connects thru ftp he should be directed to a particular location... and he shouldn't be able to see other folder except for his own including the parent folder that contains that location... I changed dftp's home folder to the location I want. However while connecting thru ftp. user dftp has been given permissions to see other folders and check out the contents of the other folders.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a program that will go through a list (one word at each line) from the file pwdlst.txt and try to log-in with the passwords entered in the file. When the program tries with a password that matches the current one, the program will stop and print out "The password is: %s" % password. This is what I created so far:
Code: Select allimport urllib
import urllib2
import cookielib
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get the error and print when the log-in attempt is deniedgo through the list (pwdlst.txt) and try each password one at a timestop the program when the password matches
I've installed live usb-hdd using live-helper on my Lenny.
How to check if on this usb live IPv6 is enabled or disabled?
I regularly compile something from a source repository that has a certain set of dependencies. Some of these dependencies are dev libraries that are provided via other libraries but are not considered installed packages in themselves, so I cannot test for some dependencies directly.
I am currently parsing an "apt-cache showpkg" output to check for some of these provided dependencies. This is somewhat kludge-y and messy, and I was looking for a more elegant solution.
Is there an APTITUDE option that will directly test for the presence of a library that is part of some other package without having to know the name of the package that the library is part of?
Whenever my debian based server is rebooted 35 times it does an automatic disc check. When it does this and completes the disc check it doesn't properly establish network comms and I can't get in using SSH and I can't even ping the server.If I reboot again, it operates as normal but the problem is that the server is remote to me and I need to travel to the site when this occurs.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just downloaded and installed Debian 6 netinstiso for testing. Everything is running ok except I cannot check items on software sources screen. This is the errors I get when trying to reload Synaptic Package manager.
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A few days ago I upgraded my debian sid system, and since then systemd does a filesystem check on every boot which takes over two minutes, disobeying the existing settings I had. How can I set systemd to do a filesystem check only once every a set number of mounts, like I had set up before the upgrade?
View 5 Replies View RelatedBecause the version of the microcode installed by the package intel-microcode in Testing (2009-03-30) is way older than the one currently offered by Intel (2010-02-09), I only installed the package microcode.ctl and let it fetch the microcode. However, after reading the Read Me files, manual pages and system logs, and checking the directory where the microcode is stored, I have not been able to find an option to check the version of the microcode in use.
This is the output of update-intel-microcode:
Local version:
Remote version:
could not extract the actual data of remote microcode
since I am on a Dell inspiron 1545 laptop, being able to display my battery charge is critical. After some extensive googling, I found I need a command 'acpi', which does not exist on my computer. I cannot seem to find it in the packages database; the closest thing being 'acpi-support' apt-get install also can't find it.
I tried cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state, but that only shows me if the battery is discharging or charging and doesn't give me an actual percentage.
