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Thanks a lot - this was a debootstrap install and I just forgot to install 'locales'.

I recently reinstalled Debian Wheezy (switched to full disk encryption) but I have a residual problem with special characters. These include both characters from non-Latin fonts - e.g., Ἑλληνικά, and any character formed using the Compose key, e.g., ê. These show up fine when typed in most applicati...

Absent Minded wrote:I should note that if you are trying to assign UIDs from 500-999 there are several admin tools the will automatically "Administrate" any user created on a Debian system with those values.

I believe you mean 100-999. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy ... tml#s9.2.2

Where are the real questions? Favorite shell? Favorite editor? Favorite dpkg frontend? :) 1.Graphical environment/window manager = Gnome 2.28 2.Terminal = gnome-terminal 3.File manager = nautilus 4..Pdf/.chm reader = evince 5.Video player = totem 6.Audio player = mpd & sonata 7.Web browser = ice...

I have libc6 v. 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5 on my Debian Sarge system and need to update it to libc6 v. 2.3.6-6. But when i try to update it, i receive an error that it already has the latest version. Updating the system to etch isnt an option. Anyone know how to work around this issue? Upgrade to Etch, and...

I'm a student at Pomona College in California.

I'm running the statically linked version of the Skype binary on 64-bit with no problems, just extract it into /opt or something, edit the desktop file, and stick the desktop file in /usr/share/applications.

As was stated on the mailing list, please remove the broken 3rd party software you have installed. Nothing should conflict with anything in binutils.

As far as I know there aren't any big unfixed security holes in qemu. These are a bit old but they can give you an idea of the kinds of problems its had in the past: http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1284 And Xen security holes which were themselves just holes in qemu: http://www.debian.org/se...

You need to remove this part from config.status in debian/rules " --build x86_64-linux-gnu" as it says in the error message. No guarantee if that would work, there may be other problems.

You'll just have to wait it out. This is a very old bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246992

Wow, very nice tip, thanks julian67.

You can only build a debian package from a source package. You can convert a rpm to deb using "alien" but that's unreliable. For a backend see the 1-3rd paragraphs of the Computer Science Section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-end_and_back-end You can try to use his guide but that mig...

You are asking the wrong question, please see my response to your other thread.

I have a package that consists of 5 files: chestnut-dialer-qt-0.3.3-1.noarch.rpm I know this is for Kde chestnut-dialer-gkt2-0.3.3-1.noarch.rpm this is for gnome chestnut-dialer-0.3.3.tar.bz2 I think this the info file chestnut-dialer-0.3.3-1.noarch.rpm I dont know why I need this one chestnut-dial...

You put the update-rc.d manpage in place of the actual binary. If dpkg works then you should: "dpkg -i --force-bad-path sysv-rc*.deb"

Any reason you're trying to recover this system from such a terrible state?

Assuming you want unified diffs, some projects prefer context diffs, don't use the 3 other kinds of diffs (see http://groups.google.com/group/linux.de ... 9778e2462c for a good summary.)

Well, to be fair: cupt has plenty of bugs in it, see e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539953 that I recently filed.

I like it because it has attempted to solve http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246992.

The ondemand governor saves the most battery power.

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