I have a noob qn, if I installed a program with yum, will I be able to see the details of the installed program with rpm -qa? My linux has no internet access so I can't test it out.
View 11 RepliesI have packer installed for AUR packages, but I want to be able to use the pacman command for both. I think I will need a function for this -- what I mean is that whenever I use pacman, it will try using packer and if that fails (invalid option) it will use pacman-color. It could also decide which program to use based on the arguments. I can't just use packer (alias pacman='sudo packer') because packer doesn't have some options like -R to remove packages. I want to always use it to install and upgrade packages however, because It can install from the default repositories as well as AUR.
Does someone know how to accomplish this, or could point me in the right direction? I'm new to bash scripting. error (e.g. pacman -V prints packer: Option '-V' is not valid.).
I've been looking further into Linux from Scratch, and I am particularly interested in the package management side of the system. I understand that this is not covered in the book, but if I were to attempt LFS, package management would be a major convenience. From what I have read, when upgrading packages like glibc, you have to recompile everything to reflect the change.
If that is true, how do package managers like pacman and apt get around this issue? Isn't lacking glibc for even the time it takes to replace the files catastrophic to the system?
Is there an easier way (without using a package manager) to upgrade programs? For example, I just want to upgrade Amarok. In order to do this, I've had to upgrade every one of it's dependencies because they've all had minor upgrades from the versions I already have installed.
Is there an easier way to compile programs and their dependencies manually or are package managers the only way?
My problem is whit the package managers all of it is not responding (update,GDebi,synaptic), it bater if any one know application replacing them because i'm always having problem whit them and this picture could help ;
View 5 Replies View RelatedAll my package managers are crashing. I will try to start them up, they will begin loading, and then will crash. The problem began with the Update Manager putting up the red circle error icon that says: "An error has occured, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: 'Error: BrokenCount > 0'. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies."
The recommended fix for this looks to be on this post that I got from LaunchPad: [url]
It says to: "Open the Synaptic package manager. System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager
If anything is broken it will tell you.Choose 'Custom' from the buttons at the bottom then click on 'Broken'
Right click on the offending package and choose to remove it."
Unfortunately, Synaptic won't open.
I have been using kubuntu 10.04 for a while now and its working great. The main problem is that as far as I know it lacks a simplified package manager like ubuntu software center. Kpackagekit is fine as a synaptic replacement but searching for programs among all sorts of unrelated packages is very tiring. Are there any other options?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI had debian squeeze on my personal computer at home, 3 days ago i've upgraded it to the debian testing. last day i've installed virtualbox which i've gotten from virtualbox.org . today non of package managers work. an example of installing sumthin new with apt:
root@fairyland:/home/timmy# apt-get install clamav
Reading package lists... Done
Segmentation faulty tree... 50%
root@fairyland:/home/timmy#
also synaptic can't be started. i've run apt-get clean and removed /var/lib/apt/list i also tried apt-get update but these don't work sum useful info:
root@fairyland:/home/timmy# tail -n 40 /var/log/dpkg.log
2011-06-26 11:58:07 status half-installed virtualbox-ose 3.2.12-dfsg-1
2011-06-26 11:58:07 status config-files virtualbox-ose 3.2.12-dfsg-1
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just don't tell me i've to refresh its base, shit i hate to do this, i'd never done that about debian, this is one of the reasons i luv debian.
I don't know whats happening. the second i open either the update manager, add or remove programs, or the package manager tehy close instantaneously and when i click the button for updates on the top bar of my computer it shows a picture of a minus sign in a red circle. hwo can i fix this. i have ubuntu 9.04 and im trying to upgrade it and get new programs but it wont let me. ive tried the sudo get updates etc etc
View 1 Replies View Relatedi belive its an x server issues or x windows issues or gnome. whats happeing is when you logg into the window manager gnome it will some time's freeze and then restart the whole computer without warning. somtimes it loads but it will start up with a red screen instead of gray or black with a the x cursor. and a square flashy mouse cursor that dosnt look liek a mouse cursor at all and when you move to any of the control bars it flashes the whole screen turns back to red and when you move off it goes back to normal. on top of it movies that require flash will pause, stop, not load after commercials, or just simply not work. it is 100% slower loading anything. programs such as deluge will open but stay white.
View 12 Replies View RelatedIf I install a new desktop manager without uninstalling the old one, how do I specify which one to use? I wanted to look at LXDE, so to see what would happen, I installed it without uninstalling KDE. KDE apparently just sat underneath, and was unaffected. I didn't keep LXDE, but I might, if I could switch back to KDE to do work until I understood LXDE. (Keeping up-to-date in MEPIS will force me to learn KDE 4 despite that KDE 3 was fine, so I might as well examine other desktop managers.)
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm in Gnome but if I logout I can get to a menu where I can choose KDE as well as other window managers. The problem is I have a program that's running inside Gnome and I don't want to stop it. Is there some way I can get into KDE without having to stop this program?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was attempting to create an XKB layout that would allow me to type Polish characters and mathematical symbols, which I attempted to do by editing /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pl. When the computer tried to load it it said there was an error loading the XKB configuration. Here is the code:
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Could someone give me some direction on how to use the IRC channels. I want to register an account, and i found the procedure documented here: URL..I see the commands i have to type, but i'm a little unclear where it needs to be typed. Where is the "server tab"?I probably just over-complicating this. I need someone whose done this before to steer me right.Also what is the best IRC clients to use? I have Xchat and pidgin installed. Xchat keeps crashing on me every 5 minutes, not sure whats going on there.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to get my GetNet 300 GN-621U USB wireless device working for a while now. When I first booted into my clean meerkat 64-bit install, both my wired and wireless were visible in network connections but neither could connect. I have since figured out what was wrong with the internal NIC and am happy to say i'm connected to the net, but need wireless to work. Having blacklisted the generic wireless driver, i see nothing anywhere that the device is on the system
My initial attempt led me down the route of installing ndisgtk for running the windows driver. I've since removed the driver/device from Windows Wireless Devices and have been trying to install the bona fide linux driver from getnet.
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I have a Dell Mini Netbook, running Ubuntu 8.04 - "The Hardy Heron". Other than Skype and Chrome, I don't have any programs on my netbook that I didn't get from the "Add/Remove" program.For a long time now, I have been having an issue with my netbook where after being on for about 5 minutes, sometimes as long as 10 minutes, the system will star to freeze up, to the point where nothing works, not even the mouse. I know it's freezing and not locking because you can move the mouse a little bit, but it is too slow to be able to do anything, and normal processes that take seconds normally, will take upwards of 5 minutes. At least.
At one point I found and ran the Ubuntu-version of Task Manager, System Monitor. I sat and watched it for the 5 minutes it took for the freeze up started happening. RIGHT as the system froze up, both of the CPU's and the RAM maxed out at the same time.At this point, I would normally just go into Task Manager and see what shouldn't be running, and end whatever I see that I don't like, and then go delete the files for that program(s). Or at the very least, just system restore (because I ALWAYS have backups off the computer). But I don't know how to do any of that on Ubuntu.The netbook ran fine for almost 1 1/2years before this started happening, and at first it wasn't an issue that happened all the time. It happened every now and then, but restarting the netbook would fix it for a few days. And it slowly became an every week thing, then every day, and now every time the netbook turns on... which kinda sounds like a hardware issue, because software shouldn't change over time if there is no change put into it.
By the way, at the very least I'd like to know if there's a way to totally wipe and re-install my netbook from scratch. I don't need any of the files on it, so that's not an issue. Also I've heard that I might actually want to be using Xubuntu of I'm having a memory issue, so is there a way to replace Ubuntu altogether with this Xubuntu?
I am running a dual boot with Ubuntu 10.04 and vista. Anyway both systems are very healthy as far as I can see. I have a very fast internet connection at 50Mbs. Under vista I can pull around 4 - 5MBs where under Ubuntu I can only get about 350KBs. I have a single PC hard wired into a Netgear WNR3500 router/firewall. Anyway, I was wondering if there is anything I can do with my packet sizes or receive windows to help it along? I am only using a very small part of my available bandwidth obviously. Is there a kind soul here who could tell me how to optimize my internet connection in Lucid?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have 2 hard drives with originally Win XP on one of them, and i thought it would be cool to have one with WinXP and the other one with Linux.so i choose Ubuntu. i just wished someone would have told me how Pro you really have to be for Linux.and that its totally not what i was looking for,...and apparently im a total Noob.so i Installed it, wasnt that hard, and first i thought what a cool OS ill keep it!than i tried Booting my Old OS *WinXP* from the other Harddisk (worked perfectly until than)/so Basically Ubuntu ****** up my WinXP because now i get the NTLDR Missing Error trying to start WinXP, that never happend before with that Pc.
i tought great now i have to reinstall Xp, but it came much worse,...i boot from the XP cd, and cant use the "normal" install funktion, because some errors say that i cant use the Partitions etc (no idea) up to cd reading errors,...so i wanted to try the Windows Repair console and easy Format C and D to get rid of Linux and reinstall a clean WinXP/
which OFC needs a stupid Admin Password, which i honestly NEVER have choosen.(i have no idea what the admin PW could be).than i made the big mistake of all, and tried to learn to Format anything with Linux,...20 stupid "tutorials" Later i still couldnt make it because im not that good with English and Linux,.
and all that programming speech, fdisk etc really is to complicated for me,...(i spent 1 hour finding where to enter the any command, because all tutorials ofc know that you ofc need the Terminal application,....half of the "how Tos: and Tutorials simply dont work because he doesnt know the Commands im entering probably Wrong, and and the other half is way to complicated for me to understand and requires knowledge i simply dont haveholy mother of god, i can tell you i never missed Windows so much,... right click, format done,... (again im not that good with Pcs)trying to get a windows admin pw is even more complicated than simply formating,... i guess.so now after aproxx 5 hours of trying to Format a hard drive under Linux i give up and came to you.
what i would need is simply a totally Idiotproove Manual to format Everything!
i have NO Idea how Linux works,.. so please if you could tell me step by step, just what to type or what buttons to press in this stupid Terminal,....i want the whole Pc clean again, so i never have to Suffer under Linux Pro"ness" again seriously its been a long time since i was so angry with my computer, and youre my last hopeand yes im very aware that im posting a kinda antiLinux thread in a Linux forum,
I had Ubuntu 10 installed for a long time, but rarely used it. Today, i decided to update from ubuntu 10 to 11.04 which took about 2 hours. After the update completed, my computer rebooted fine and i was enjoying ubuntu 11.04 without a problem. I decided that i should probably reset compiz to its default settings since there might be some sort of compatibility issues but once i did, all the task bars and icons glitched out and broke. i restarted again, and now i have no bars or anything. thanksfully i got a keyboard shortcut wallpaper and have been able to use the terminal to do things like open firefox and browse around although im not sure at all what could be wrong.
i used "compiz --replace" i think it was in the terminal, to no avail. aside from that, i have no idea what is even wrong so im having a hard time searching for solutions. im sure this issue is simple and im just retarded, so excuse my ignorance. thank you so much for any help, i've included a screenshot of what im seeing now incase i sound like a loony
I am using ubuntu 11.04 I believe and I am a noob to using ubuntu all together now I need to connect to the internet via my router wireless Is there a good tutorial I can be linked to or if someone could provide the steps that would be awesome I have a "broadcom 802.11n network adapter"
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to understand dns and I think the following commands should give me an "OK" or something... what am I missing?
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# dig @a.root-servers.net . ns >| db.root
# named-checkzone . db.root
zone ./IN: NS 'K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET' has no address records (A or AAAA)
zone ./IN: NS 'L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET' has no address records (A or AAAA)
zone ./IN: NS 'M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET' has no address records (A or AAAA)
zone ./IN: has 0 SOA records
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I have been running happily on Knoppmyth R5F27 (on Debian GNU 4.0/Etch) for a good long time. Everything has been operating well. My kids get to record their Mythbusters. Life is good. Tonight, though, I tried to make things better. And that was the mistake.
I read that we could use our PS3 to watch videos on Hulu. But, I needed a kind of proxy server or something to mask that I was using the PS3 browser. So, I thought I would install squid on the myth box.
I first tried apt-get install squid But, that didn't quite work. So, at a friend's suggestion, I ran: apt-get update Which had problems, too. Still, being a noob, I reran the apt-get install squid and a bunch of stuff came down. It has problems, too.
So, I turned back to apt-get update and realized there was a problem in sources.list. I updated it to have a more current repository and received the update. Then I realized that the apt-get for squid was pulling down resources for lenny. I struggled trying to kill the install for Squid. Failed. And then rebooted just to see if I have problems.
And I do. Mythbackend won't start. The command to do so produces a segmentation fault. Ditto for mythfrontend and mythtv-setup. I don't know what to do. Can someone help me roll this back to a stable setup of Etch? If you want to see my (very messy) attempt to install squid and update the system you can look at[URL]..
I just installed Fedora 11 KDE. Everything went pretty good. But...my printer HP OfficeJet 5780 does not print. According to the applet says its stopped. After some tinkering it says something as: "Not having permission".
View 2 Replies View RelatedTotal Linux & Ubuntu noob here Have setup my Dell Dimension 9200 Tower (Pentium 4, 3.2Ghz, 3GB RAM, Nvidea GEForce 9600) with Lucid 32 bit. I'd like to be able to play my 1080p mkv (.264) video library on my Ubuntu system that I use as a media centre.
What is the easiest method to get GPU accelerated video playback for above please ? I have tried the built-in Movie Player, Boxee (which I use for other videos anyway) and VLC - all of which play but with a small amount of stutter - enough to be annoying. As far as I can tell these apps do not use NVidea GPU acceleration. In all cases I have used the defaults provided either by Ubuntu/Boxee/VLC.
Is MPlayer the answer ? BTW I'm a relatively "non-tech-enthusiast" coming from the Microsoft environment. I'm comfortable with DOS command line but have never used Linux command line,
How do I connect to the MySQL server using phpmyadmin?It's asking me for a username and password and I was not asked for a root password when I installed MySQL (unlike in Windows).I tried no password, I tried root as a password, I tried$ mysqladmin -u root -p blahEnter password: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failederror: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'Nothing I've tried is working obviously.Why does this have to be so stupid? Why couldn't MySQL ask me what password I want to use?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSorry about this but I'm trying to find out why ubuntu wi-fi isn't working now on my laptop (it was last night). I am following a tutorial that says to start..Open a terminal window (such as gnome-terminal), and enter the following command:
nm-tool Umm..how do I open a teminal window? I know how to run a DOS prompt in Windows but no idea how to find "gnome-terminal" or run a command in ubuntu.
to be able to work on my novel on both my laptop and workstation. how i want it. if i'm at my workstation, i'll have my laptop. if i'm on laptop, i may be away from workstation. so it makes sense that perhaps i could have it so that i only really have a copy on my laptop, that can be accessed from my workstation too. alternatively, having a two way sync-up so whichever is newer updates versons on each, could be a more sensible aproach. having only a copy on my workstation, accessable from the laptop is less welcome, since sometimes i'll be in an area with my laptop without an internet connection, and still want to be working on that file.
setting up my machines so i have full access to each from each, would be extra ideal, and something i've wanted for a while, but never got around to. i've never set up file sharing before, and from my prior limited knowledge, and today's searches on the topic, i find there are many many options available to me. i am on a deadline ("nanomo") and can't really devote the time to do a more thorough investigation of the methods of how to set this up and how to specifically achieve it.
the workstation runs toorox (gentoo), and the laptop has a dual boot of arch and crunchbang (ubuntu).
as i say, i'm on limited time here, and am just looking more for the quick fix just now, rather than ultimate knowledge n power. i need it now, i dont need it perfect, so to speak. though i see no need to compromise security to achieve these ends, i'm not in that much frantic desperate urgency for it.
but I think I have a reasonable handle on the /etc/init.d, /sbin/service, chkconfig, and runlevels stuff under CentOS. However, when I install particular daemons (not part of CentOS distro), I get a weird issue. If I log in as root and do /sbin/service <daemon> status, it says "... is running...", however, if I log in as a non su, and do the same /sbin/service ... status, it says "xxx dead but subsys locked." Is the daemon running or not? I assume it's some kind of privilege issue with how the daemon is setup versus the non root login.I would like to have users be able to use service to query daemon status as works with the base daemons like sshd and httpd.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there anyway to show package size that comes up in the search so you don't have to apt-get install package individually and wait for the installation initiation and then reject to install after it gives u the [y/N] confirmation thing?
View 2 Replies View Relatedfinnaly i can run my ubuntu server 9.04 well, thnx to this great member of ubuntuforums.org now, i wanna i wannna install SNMP on my system, but after i do that, when i wanna connect with another client, it give me error like this :
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no response received
SNMPv1_Session (remote host: "10.100.7.179" [10.100.7.179].161)
community: "public"
request ID: 862383236
PDU bufsize: 8000 bytes
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10.100.7.179 is my client, i allready install snmp agent on it. but why still eror then? plz give some help. thnx before