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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Python rebuild on its way to [testing]
by Ng Oon-Ee 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Just a question on this topic - does the new [staging] mean that [testing] should always be complete (ie. not having any unupdated-for-lib-bump packages)?

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[arch-general] Extracting deb packages
by Christian 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi, what is the most easiest and convenient way in the console to extract a .deb package? Many thanks, Christian

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[arch-general] Question about pacman and installing Gnome
by Christian 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi all, I had to do a reinstall of my machine so I did that and for some reason, Gnome doesn't start proprely. I am visually impaired so I can't see the screen until I have logged into Gnome and started Orca, the screen reader for Gnome. Here is what I do. pacman -S xorg xf86-video-ati xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse gnome gnome-extra gnome-system-tools Then I did: pacman -S gamin pacman -S gdm I have however got a protocol error so I had to restart some of the downloads above, but will pacman check the packages so that they are completely downloaded? Anyway, I then did: /etc/rc.d/hal start /etc/rc.d/gdm start and I did all of this as root. Then I can read that the screen goes into the graphical environment since BRLTTY and Speakup, the console screen readers tell me that. I wait for about 30 seconds before I login as my user but nothing happens when I press enter after I have entered my password. Have I missed something? This is like I did before. I have added my user to the video group as well as the others recommended on the beginners guide. Any thoughts? Many thanks, Christian

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[arch-general] KDE and output to two monitors
by Ondřej Kučera 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hello, from time to time I connect my laptop (1280x800) with another display (usually an old 19" at 1280x1024). My preferred configuration is to set both displays to their natural resolution with the laptop display being set to be "left of VGA1". I do this all via KDE system settings. It always used to make the KDE panel and all windows stay on my laptop display, until I grabbed a window and moved it rightwards. However, since a couple of days or weeks ago (unfortunately I'm not sure which upgrade changed this) no matter what I do the KDE panel appears on the external display, so does my wallpaper and so do some of the windows (most, but not all of them). This doesn't really work for me much, does anyone know what to do to return to the previous behavior? Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[arch-general] RPM Question
by Lew Wolfgang 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi Folks, New Arch user here. I really like it! Another Arch user recommended it to me after I started noticing quality issues with another of the main distributions. I'm currently working on a test install to see if Arch will function in a very restricted environment. So far I've successfully installed KDE and configured for a true IPv6 network. Yet to be done is support for Common Access Cards and their USB readers. I've been having issues with pcscd but I'm not ready to ask for help yet. I also tried fake-raid but gave up in favor of the much simpler JBOD (two disks) config. But I ran into a problem installing something called HBSS from McAfee. This is a package for Windows that is nothing more than a root-kit that allows remote administrators to set policy, remove/block programs, report versions, etc. Unfortunately management mandates that non-Windows systems also run it. So McAfee labored mightily and emitted a Java port of the Windows package that gives minimal reporting capabilities for Linux installs. It works on all the major distros but fails to install on Arch due to an RPM dependency. Their install script just fails saying it can't find rpm. The script contains much ugliness and is McAfee proprietary, so I doubt hacking it will be productive. So the question is: can Arch be configured/tricked into an rpm install? Thanks for a great distro, and your wiki is amazing! It's a little light on IPv6 info, but I might be able to help there later. Regards, Lew Wolfgang

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[arch-general] Problem with keyboard in Gnome
by Christian 03 Oct '10

03 Oct '10

Hi all, I have got everything up and running, but I am having a problem. I want to use the swedish keyboard layout in Gnome but what file to specify that in? In the console I have svlatin1 and country is sv_se. Any tips? Many thanks, Christian

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[arch-general] Need help with compilation
by Christian 03 Oct '10

03 Oct '10

Hi all, I am trying to compile a package from source called BRLTTY. The current version that is in the repository is v4.1 so I looked in the PKGBUILD script and I installed the dependencies, but most of them were already installed when I installed the version that was in the repository. But I am getting an error 2 when I run make after some time. Would anyone be interested in eventually trying compiling it? Go to: www.mielke.cc/brltty and download the new v4.2 release. Many thanks for any help, Christian

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1
by Guillaume Brunerie 03 Oct '10

03 Oct '10

2010/10/2 Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> > Hi, > > I just pushed a new abs release to [testing]. The "major" changes are: > - use the tarball method for initial sync > - fix tarball method to work with $arch in mirrorlist > - updated prototypes for pacman-3.4 > - addition of bzr prototype > > I will push it to [extra] if I hear about no breakages in the next day or > two. Hi, It seems that the bzr prototype is not there: $ pacman -Qi abs | grep Version Version : 2.4.0-1 $ pacman -Ql abs abs /etc/ abs /etc/abs.conf abs /usr/ abs /usr/bin/ abs /usr/bin/abs abs /usr/bin/makeworld abs /usr/share/ abs /usr/share/pacman/ abs /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto abs /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto abs /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-git.proto abs /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto abs /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto abs /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-hg.proto abs /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-perl.proto abs /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto abs /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-svn.proto abs /usr/share/pacman/proto-gnome.install abs /usr/share/pacman/proto-haskell.install abs /usr/share/pacman/proto-info.install abs /usr/share/pacman/rc-script.proto abs /var/ abs /var/abs/ abs /var/abs/README abs /var/abs/local/ $ Guillaume Brunerie

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] packages are newer in extra than in staging
by Evangelos Foutras 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > some packages have been updated in extra and have been mark as done in the > python todo list but they weren't rebuilt against staging. > > looking quick on the list, django (staging removed on 9 september) > > extra 1.2.3-1 > marked as done and nothing in staging. > > mercurial > 1.6.4-1 in extra, 1.6.3-2 in staging > > please, check your packages again because i don't intent to fix any of this > inconsistencies > > -- > Ionuț I wrote a script [1] to check for packages in [staging] and [community-staging] that are not newer than their [core], [extra] and [community] counterparts. So, below are a few more possibly problematic packages. mercurial isn't included because the ABS tree hasn't been updated with it yet. ==> Checking [staging] denyhosts (2.6-4 isn't newer than 2.6-4 in [extra]) python-pip (0.8-2 isn't newer than 0.8.1-1 in [extra]) python-virtualenv (1.4.9-2 isn't newer than 1.5.1-1 in [extra]) ==> Checking [community-staging] cdemu-client (1.2.0-2 isn't newer than 1.3.0-1 in [community]) griffith (0.11-3 isn't newer than 0.11-3 in [community]) lilypond (2.12.3-5 isn't newer than 2.12.3-6 in [community]) openshot (1.2.2-1 isn't newer than 1.2.2-1 in [community]) python-sphinx (1.0.3-2 isn't newer than 1.0.4-1 in [community]) recoll (1.13.04-3 isn't newer than 1.14.2-1 in [community]) trac (0.12-3 isn't newer than 0.12-4 in [community]) ---- [1] http://gist.github.com/608121

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[arch-general] Xorg 1.9 - This traing is going to hell.
by Fess 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Well, i think, i should say some words. But some of you will say that i'm "out of line". So, i'll just dicribe details of the update. If someone else have such problems, reply me, and i'll post this to bugtracker. Because, i may have "wrong arms" or "bad carma" or whatever. 1)Synaptics. Errors that no synaptics devices found. Google says nothing, except the same errors and "wtf is going on". 2)Bug or feature? Using caps_toggle: X now won't switch on\off your cute led, while you changing language. 3)2d\3d slowdown. Epic slowdown. No erros, both ati drivers(catalyst | xf86-video-ati). RADEON HD4570, .35 stock kernel from repos. --

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