Curious yum problem
by Timothy Murphy
I just installed FC-5 on a new disk,
and when I tried "yum update" it failed because, it reported,
kdebase required htdig .
On the other hand, I can update kdebase on other FC-5 systems
which I have kept up-to-date.
It doesn't particularly matter - I as able to update nearly everything
by "yum update [a-j]\*", etc,
but I am puzzled why this problem arises,
and interested to know if there is a simple way
of determining exactly what is looking for what?
(It seemed that other packages were looking for htdig.)
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
17 years, 7 months
vi editor
by Kaushal Shriyan
Hi ALL
How do i select the entire contents of the file using vi to copy and
then paste it to the other file
For example
vi copy --- > select the entire contents on one machine
vi paste ---> paste it on the second machine
Thanks
Kaushal
17 years, 7 months
Adding FC5 to an XP computer -
by Bob Goodwin
I'm about to add an 80G sata second drive to a Dell 2.8G XP computer
that I wish to boot to both Linux and Windows XP. I have the FC5 DVD
from which I intend to do the install.
What do I need to know before I start? XP Home is already installed and
I have no way to reinstall it, no o/s CD's are provided. There will
probably be choices for locating boot and grub, what is best to do there?
Any suggestions, reference material, etc. appreciated.
Bob Goodwin
17 years, 7 months
Coding Error in ./net/tux 2.6.17-1.2174 FC5
by R. G. Newbury
Compiling 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 fails:
CC [M] net/tux/proto_ftp.o
net/tux/proto_ftp.c: In function ‘ftp_accept_pasv’:
net/tux/proto_ftp.c:897: error: ‘icsk’ undeclared (first use in this
function)
net/tux/proto_ftp.c:897: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
only once
net/tux/proto_ftp.c:897: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [net/tux/proto_ftp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [net/tux] Error 2
make: *** [net] Error 2
I have no idea what needs to be done to fix this.
Geoffrey
17 years, 7 months
Re: What is the language "British"?
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
(Sorry, I was overzealous in cleaning my maildir and can't find the
beginning of this thread) but I seem to remember that the OP objected to
the use of "British" as opposed to "English".
Granted, this is from an American dictionary but it does show that
"British" is an acceptable American usage.
From Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary:
Briticism, n. ...peculiar to British English.
British, n.
1. British English
2. the language of the ancient Britons
And certain to fan flames:
Since we were also discussing the -our vs. -or we have this. An excerpt
from H. L. Mencken's 1921 "American English"
The logical superiority of American spelling is well exhibited by its
persistent advance in the face of all this hostility at home and abroad.
The English objection to our simplifications, as Brander Matthews once
pointed out, is not wholly or even chiefly etymological; its roots lie,
to borrow James Russell Lowell’s phrase, in an esthetic hatred burning
“with as fierce a flame as ever did theological hatred.” There is
something inordinately offensive to English purists in the very thought
of taking lessons from this side of the water, particularly in the
mother-tongue.
Ouch!
:m)
17 years, 7 months
Seven Percent
by Andy Green
Results from the 2006 Desktop Linux Survey
15,000 voters... still, self-selected. Anyway -->
''...
Ubuntu, with 29.2 percent of the vote, has been the hottest community
Linux since early 2005. While this Linux has had its problems lately,
such as the update fiasco on August 21st and 22nd, users continue to
download, install, and love it.
And, why not? It's an excellent distribution. It's not just users who
think this; reviewers have also labeled it the Desktop Linux Champ.
A little closer peek at the data, and some comparison with the
Distrowatch page hit list, reveals that "classic" Ubuntu with the GNOME
interface is the real winner. Kubuntu, with its KDE desktop, and the
educational Edubuntu distributions have their fans, but Ubuntu is what a
plurality of Linux desktop users appear to be running today.
In a distant second place, with 12.2 percent, we find Ubuntu's ancestor,
Debian. Close behind it, there's openSUSE with 10.1 percent of the
users. If you included in openSUSE's totals its corporate big brother,
Novell's SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) numbers, 2.9 percent, the
SUSE-twins would be in second place with 13 percent.
After this, we come to what I think of as the first surprise in our
survey. Gentoo took fourth place with a total of 9.6 percent. Gentoo, to
me, is a Linux expert's Linux. I know many serious Linux users who work
with Gentoo to better understand Linux, but almost no one who uses it as
their first choice for day-to-day work.
In fifth place, we find Fedora, Red Hat's community distribution.
Fedora, while still somewhat popular with 7 percent of the vote, seems
to have lost some of its charm to users in the last year.
...''
http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5816278551.html
Does it matter, so long as there is some arbitrary population of users?
Is ubuntu up there, with basically the same stuff in it as Fedora, due
to PR alone? Should Fedora compete, does it having any meaning with a
Free OS?
17 years, 7 months
Gnome Disapeared from the boot menu
by Guillermo Garron
Hi all,
I have just missed my Gnome from the boot menu, i only have KDE as option,
any clues?
sorry i can not give you any more details, but i really don't know
where to start.
Will i have to remove and reinstall all Gnome? hope not it will take
my lot of time on the internet :(
regards,
Guillermo.
17 years, 7 months
Unable to detect network cable unplugged event
by Ankur Saxena
Hi All,
I am new to Linux, I have one Client-Server application which I have ported
from Windows 2003 to FC5.
But while testing the application if I am plugging out the Ethernet cable
Both Client and Server applications
Are not able to detect that network connectivity is lost, Client application
is able to send data on connected
socket but Server is not able to get it (here at client side send API is not
returning -1) and after putting the
cable back they start receiving data again.
Can any body help me out?
Regards,
Ankur.
17 years, 7 months
FC5 ACPI modules - how to add missing modules
by Laurence Vanek
Im currently running the latest FC5 kernel (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5). Looking in:
/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5/kernel/drivers/acpi
I see only:
ac.ko
battery.ko
ibm_acpi.ko
video.ko
asus_acpi.ko
button.ko
toshiba_acpi.ko
I was hopeing to find a fan & thermal module also. I assume this means
these
were not compiled into this kernel. Is that a correct assumption? I am
fearful that
to get these I will need to recompile this kernel - something that makes
me break out
in hives.
thoughts anyone?
17 years, 7 months
NTFS partition resized at last
by Nigel Henry
Many thanks to Charles Curley for the links. QTparted on Knoppix 5.0 crashed
when trying to get info from hda with an NTFS formatted XP on it. He
suggested Finnix, which I downloaded, but it runs in init2, and I apologise,
but didn't look forward to resizing NTFS partitions in text mode. Saying that
I'll use Finnix from time to time, and try to do stuff in text mode. After
all it's all good experience. The link to.http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
solved the problem. I downloaded the gparted live cd, version-0.2.5.5.iso.
Now I always use KDE, but have to give credit to Gnome for this. this DL was
only 27.9MB (on dialup again, because I'm stuck on that), and I'm feeling
very pessimistic that this is going to solve the problem. Anyway I burn the
iso to CD-R, and go for it.
I put XP in it's harddrive caddy into the machine, press go, and insert the
CDROM with gparted on it, press enter to boot gparted, and I get a GUI.
Amazing. Highlight hda, which is already there, click on resize (I bet XP
won't like this, but hard cheese), give XP 12GB (more than it deserves), and
click on apply. Well it's doing something, and runs for about 40mins, but
does say it might take a while.
OK. gparted says "job done". I must admit that pessimism is still hanging
around. Click on eject, and reboot. The disc is ejected but no reboot. No
problem. A hard reset reboots XP. XP for the the first time that I know runs
CHKDSK (probably annoyed that it's file sysem has been messed with), then
having accepted that it's ok, reboots, in the usual Windows style.
Well, all I can say is that Gparted has done the job. XP is now showing that
it's using 11.72GB of the 40GB drive, and all the rest is free space, and
certainly enough for a couple of Linux distro's.
Enough said.
Nigel.
.
17 years, 7 months
