Returning to the OOwrite malfuntion question.
by Aaron Konstam
Two days ago I asked whether people with Openoffice 2.2 can print
documents with OOwrite in landscape format?
The only reponse I got was from somone using Openoffice 2.3 who said he
could. Does the silence from everyone else mean that you can to with
Openopffice 2.2?
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16 years, 5 months
ever migrate from Fedora to Scientific Linux or CentOS?
by Paul Johnson
We have lots of Fedora systems and it is turning out to be too much
work to keep them up to date. I have to rebuild a lot or RPMs when
the kernel is updates, and that is getting to be a hassle. If I could
do a major system update every 18 months or 2 years, it would be fine.
The unexpected bug introduced by frequent updates (much less
re-installs) have lost some of their charm for us.
So I'm going to spend some vacation time at the end of the month to
see about these longer lived Linuxes. Got any advice? I expect some
of you Fedora users have been on the other distributions.
I only want to consider RPM based ones, because I'm very familiar with
RPM and don't like DEB as much (just not as familiar, I guess). I
don't necessarily want one that is "good for newbies." I don't want
one that closes off too many options (recently switched from Gnome to
KDE because latest KDE offers much more customizability of window
manager and desktop than Gnome).
Scientific Linux is appealing because it has a cool sounding name (for
academics) and it provides OpenAFS drivers and has a long life. But I
worry that it will be harder to get RPMS for it to play MP3s or such.
gxine has been pretty good lately for my students who listen to
Brazilian radio stations. Nothing else can, it appears. So If I
switch to SL, maybe I just buy one kind of trouble.
I started to wonder if anybody had tried to update a running F6 or F5
system onto one of the other RPM based distros. It appears to me that
CentOS or SL are RPM based, and I was thinking it might be fun to just
try to run an upgrade by installing their packages. Maybe remove
fedora-release RPM and see what happens.
In the past I've resisted adopting these longer lived distros because,
well, they get outdated and frustrating because they don't
interoperate with the rapidly changing part of the Linux world. Last
time we bought RedHat Enterprise 4 I noticed that thunderbird and gcc
were lagging behind the official releases by a long ways. When we
went to update some research software, we found we had to re-build
newer gcc and update tcl/tk in order to put in the software we wanted.
One time, the upgrade of gcc required me to rebuild the whole
toolchain starting with glibc, bison and whatever else depended on
them, so having a "long lived" distribution amounted to a lot more
work.
So maybe I don't want Scientific Linux or CentOS. Wish the
RedHat/Fedora Legacy group had not disbanded. For security updates on
a one year old distro, it was very handy.
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
16 years, 5 months
The KDE-SIG needs (your) help
by Sebastian Vahl
This is a request for participation:
The KDE-SIG [1] is atm lacking active contributors. And we really need some
help in doing our job to provide a good KDE version in Fedora - especially
with the upcoming KDE 4.0 and the inclusion in Fedora 9.
If you don't know how you could help us here is a list (which is also in the
wiki):
* Packagers: There are so many interesting packages that are not yet packaged
for Fedora. Package it to improve the user experience.
* Reviewers: Only a few persons are doing the kde-related reviews. Help us
reviewing so that more packages could be included.
* Testers: If you love KDE use the development version or the updates-testing
repository and report bugs, bugs, bugs, request enhancements or features. We
need your feedback to improve KDE.
* Bugs: Become a BugZapper and help us with kde-related bugs.
* Documentation writers: The documentation (esp. the DesktopUserGuide) is
GNOME-centered. Help us to provide an equivalent for KDE.
* Release Notes: The few people that are working on the new KDE-Spin are quite
busy with development issues. If you want to help us in writing the release
notes for the next version of Fedora we would give you all the info you need.
* Wiki: Maintain http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE and keep it updated with
end user information.
* Artists: To provide a matching theme for nodoka-metacity-theme and provide
an unified desktop experience.
But this is not a complete list. If you're interested in making KDE in Fedora
better, you're more than welcome.
The list of participants in the wiki is atm not a list of active contributors.
When setting up the wiki the only demand was an interest in KDE to be listed
on this page. This list would be changed in the future to be culled down to
the list of active (or reactivated) participants. This has become necessarely
because there are only (less or more) 3 active contributors atm (plus Than
Ngo). But the list indicates that there are enough people helping with KDE.
If you are interested in joining the KDE-SIG please add your name to this
list, answer to this mail, join us in #fedora-kde at freenode or attend the
weekly KDE-SIG-Meetings (every tuesday 17:00 UTC). I will also add a topic to
the agenda of the meeting next week to introduce new contributors. [2]
The attendance at the SIG-Meetings is of course not required. But this way we
would know of each other. And they are also the main place of discussing the
next steps in the development (besides fedora-devel-list).
If you have any further questions please answer to this mail or write me
directly. And be sure: If your are willing to help you're welcome (regardless
of your skills). :)
Sebastian
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2007-11-06
16 years, 5 months
Updating Firefox
by Aly Dharshi
Hello Folks,
I hope that you are well. Using yum to update firefox to the latest in
F7. I see the following errors:
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: devhelp
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: yelp
--> Processing Dependency: firefox = 2.0.0.5-1.fc7 for package:
firefox-devel
---> Package firefox.i386 0:2.0.0.8-1.fc7 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package firefox-devel.i386 0:2.0.0.8-1.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: devhelp
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: yelp
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 is needed by package yelp
Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 is needed by package devhelp
Has anyone seen this same problem where the above mentioned pkgs are
missing from the repos ? Or is it just me ? Thanks.
Cheers,
Aly.
--
Aly S.P Dharshi
aly.dharshi(a)telus.net
Got TELUS TV ? http://www.mytelus.com/tv or 310-MYTV
"A good speech is like a good dress
that's short enough to be interesting
and long enough to cover the subject"
16 years, 5 months
Flat Monitors
by Mike Chambers
Anyone got a good recommendation for one less than $200 US? Might need
to get rid of this KDS CRT one.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"Best lil town on Earth!"
16 years, 5 months
Rootkit
by Karl Larsen
I put rootkit in Google and learned they are mainly aimed at
Windows. I know Windows from about XP have a kernel but it really does
little. The rootkit designs I saw were aimed at the kernel for some
reason. No where could I find mention of a Linux rootkit.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
16 years, 6 months
R: how to split huge 8gb wmv file (VC-1 codec bluray video) ?
by Roberto Malinverni
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Message: 14
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:36:56 +0100
> From: "Valent Turkovic" <valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: how to split huge 8gb wmv file (VC-1 codec bluray video) ?
>
> I tried a few ways to split a huge 8gb video file encoded with VC-1
> codec and encapsulated in wmv file.
Maybe this is a long shot, but why don't you try to put the file in a
matroska container enabling the splitting at a given file size, say 2GB?
>
>
> ps. is there any way to burn 8gb file to 8GB DL DVD media? I see that
> k3b and the rest of the bunch have an issue with files bigger that
> 4gb.
It's not a K3b problem. It is mkisofs's.
Roberto
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Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o
contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e'
risultato non infetto.
16 years, 6 months
send e-mail without use sendmail
by Dario Lesca
I'm looking for a line command utility (MTA) which send an email direct
to a SMTP external server.
if I use: "echo bye|mutt -s bye user(a)dom.it"
the message is send to local sendmail, then sendmail send it to mx
record dom.it, but dom.it refuse me for security and anti-spam reason.
I'm looking for a command which send my message direct to my provider,
like evolution or Thunderbird do.
Is this possible do that with fetchmail?
> While fetchmail is primarily intended to be used over on-demand
> TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections), it may also be useful
> as a message transfer agent for sites which refuse for security
> reasons to permit (sender-initiated) SMTP transactions with sendmail.
Or I must use another command?
how to? (I'm not a email guru)
Many thanks
--
Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>
16 years, 6 months
RPM
by Karl Larsen
I printed out Maximum RPM in 1997 and I refer to it often. I was
told today to use:
# rpm -q --whatprovides (complete direction to a file) and it did
provide the name of the file that provides /etc/rc.d/init.d/nvideo.
Then just now I got to page 51 and there it listed this capability.
I have had this capability for 8 years but didn't know it...
:-)
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
16 years, 6 months
yum Traceback in yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) ...
by potat0
Hi folks, my yum configuration seems to be messed up and I can't figure out what went wrong.
yum clean all
yum makecache
yum check-update
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
kernel.x86_64 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 updates
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 updates
kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 updates
So everything seems pretty normal at this point.
YUM UPDATE
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.23.1-10.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.23.1-10.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel-headers.x86_64 0:2.6.23.1-10.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 for package: alsa-kmdl-2.6.22.9-91.fc7
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.23.1-10.fc7 set to be installed
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.22.5-76.fc7 set to be erased
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.23.1-10.fc7 set to be installed
---> Package kernel-headers.x86_64 0:2.6.23.1-10.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.22.5-76.fc7 set to be erased
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 for package: alsa-kmdl-2.6.22.9-91.fc7
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
ERROR: MISSING DEPENDENCY: /BOOT/VMLINUZ-2.6.22.9-91.FC7 IS NEEDED BY PACKAGE ALSA-KMDL-2.6.22.9-91.FC7
I checked /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 and it seems to be ok.
ANYTIME I TRY TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT INSTALLED PACKAGES, I GET THE FOLLOWING ERRORS:
yum info kernel _(or anything else)_
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Installed Packages
Name : kernel
Arch : x86_64
Version: 2.6.22.5
Release: 76.fc7
Size : 63 M
Repo : installed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 105, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 282, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 168, in doCommand
rip = base.listPkgs(ypl.installed, 'Installed Packages', basecmd)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 129, in listPkgs
self.infoOutput(pkg)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 99, in infoOutput
print _("Summary: %s") % enc(pkg.summary)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 86, in enc
t = gettext.dgettext(d, s)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/gettext.py", line 530, in dgettext
codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/gettext.py", line 478, in translation
t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/gettext.py", line 180, in __init__
self._parse(fp)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/gettext.py", line 313, in _parse
v = v.split(';')
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split'
Any ideas ???
btw the installed yum and python packages
RPM -QA YUM*
yum-utils-1.1.7-1.fc7
yum-3.2.7-1.fc7
yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.7-1.fc7
yum-updatesd-3.2.7-1.fc7
yum-skip-broken-1.1.7-1.fc7
yum-fastestmirror-1.1.7-1.fc7
yum-kernel-module-1.1.7-1.fc7
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.0-2.fc7
yum-refresh-updatesd-1.1.7-1.fc7
RPM -QA PYTHON*
python-turbokid-1.0.3-1.fc7
python-TestGears-0.2-4.fc7
python-protocols-1.0-0.6.a0dev_r2302.fc7
python-ldap-2.3-1.fc7
python-sqlite2-2.3.3-1.fc7
python-psycopg2-2.0.6-1.fc7
python-paste-1.4.2-1.fc7
python-formencode-0.7.1-1.fc7
python-json-3.4-3.fc7
python-cherrypy-2.2.1-6.fc7
python-libs-2.5-14.fc7
python-urlgrabber-2.9.9-5.fc7
python-turbocheetah-0.9.5-7.fc7
python-decoratortools-1.4-2.fc7
python-nose-0.9.2-1.fc7
python-tgfastdata-0.9a6-6.fc7
python-paste-script-1.3.6-1.fc7
python-sqlalchemy-0.3.10-2.fc7
python-crypto-2.0.1-7.1.fc7
python-kid-0.9.6-1.fc7
python-numeric-24.2-4.fc7
python-cheetah-2.0-0.5.rc8.fc7
python-configobj-4.4.0-1.fc7
python-turbojson-1.1-2.fc7
python-virtinst-0.200.0-3.fc7
python-simplejson-1.7.3-1.fc7
python-ruledispatch-0.5a0-0.5.svnr2306.fc7
python-sqlobject-0.9.1-1.fc7
python-2.5-14.fc7
python-paste-deploy-1.1-1.fc7
python-libs-2.5-14.fc7
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