- Roundtable - muug.ca

Packages in Ubuntu
by Mike Pfaiffer 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

I was going through the list of packages in the package manager. There is always something I don't want and I can remove (eg. IM clients). I found something interesting... There was a package titled rpm and the description matched what I used to do under Fedora. Has anybody tried it yet? Is it worth installing? Later Mike

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Ubuntu newbie question
by Mike Pfaiffer 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

OK. I shot myself in the foot with this one... I'll admit it up front. I did the upgrade from Dapper to Edgy. It went better than most. Suffice it to say I got the GUI back as well as a number of other things which messed up. While tracking down one problem (something wasn't finding files for verification I burned onto a DVD - source or copy I don't know) I figured the problem might have been a library (libdvdread1). I thought I'd uninstall and reinstall. The problem is it took out mplayer. Again I figured an uninstall and reinstall may do the trick. Well now I can't reinstall it or vlc because both depend on this library and the library is unavailable. Figured I'd try compiling it myself but Ubuntu complains about no acceptable C compiler in the path. Later Mike

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Re: [RndTbl] Fedora mirror useless for yum
by Trevor Cordes 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

On 29 Oct, Sean Walberg wrote: > I'd almost think that establishing a local mirror would be easier on your > sanity! I would if the boxes were all local, but they're all scattered across the city. :-( > I don't think it's public knowledge. Gilbert announced it a few years ago > at a meeting when he was talking about how he was rate limiting FTP to > appease the UofM bandwidth police. Ah, if it's not a secret, best to put the info on the web site. If it is a secret, let's hope the enemy doesn't read the roundtable!

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Fedora mirror useless for yum
by Trevor Cordes 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

The MUUG mirror appears to be useless for using for yum updates. Running yum against it works for a while but often dies with: ---> Downloading header for ntp to pack into transaction set. ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/.1/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/ntp-4.2.0.a.20050816-0.FC4.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] [Errno ftp error] 502 Command REST not allowed by policy. Trying other mirror. It looks like REST is denied by ftp.muug.mb.ca and yum doesn't seem to provide a way to disable using REST. Any chance the server could be made to allow this? Or any chance of mirroring it via http too?

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Re: [RndTbl] Fedora mirror useless for yum
by Trevor Cordes 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

On 28 Oct, Sean Walberg wrote: > There's been an http mirror for a while. Same url structure any everything, > just use http instead of ftp, ie > > http://muug.mb.ca/pub/ Thanks! This'll make my yum upgrading of 10 fc3 boxes to fc5 much easier! With FC6 having just come out, all the RH-hosted mirrors are el-crappo. PS: I searched around the site for the info before posting but couldn't find a link or hint. There's a link to the FTP URL tree and a "search our www" link but no link to the above.

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Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 release. Release party, anyone?
by Scott Balneaves 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Well, after a lot of hard work, we've managed to get the Eft out the door. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/610released Does anyone fancy a release party? Party, perhaps, being a bit of an overstatement, but if anyone would like to meet at a watering hole, to be decided here on the list, I could bring along some burned-and-magic-markered cd's for interested parties. Let me know! Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us Systems Department | To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side..." Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Pink Floyd "High Hopes"

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experiences with 64-bit virtualisation?
by Gilles Detillieux 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

I'm thinking of putting together a system that can run both 32-bit (i686) and 64-bit (x86_64) versions of a few different Linux distros, as well as Windows XP (or maybe Vista) in a virtualised environment. The idea is to be able to build and test software for several Linux distros, as well as run a few required Windows applications. Do any of you have experience with running such a mix of virtual machines, and how would you recommend doing it? I noticed from VMware's web site that they claim to support such a mix. Are their others? How well do they work? Also, VMware seems to have a fairly limited set of Linux systems that can serve as host OS -- notably they support RHEL but not Fedora. Has anyone successfully used VMware under Fedora or under an RHEL clone system? Thanks for any advice you can provide. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil(a)scrc.umanitoba.ca> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada)

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FC5 kernel rpm
by Trevor Cordes 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Can the FC5 users out there do me a favor? Check your yum cache for the 2174 kernel-smp rpm: find /var/cache/yum/ | egrep 'kernel-smp.*2174.*rpm' If you have it, could you email it to me, or put in on the web somewhere, or arrange with me to setup FTP space for you? I desperately need this package as it's now 2 versions behind and so is no longer on the mirrors or anywhere I can find @redhat.com. I can't use 2187 as it has a horrible e1000 panic bug (206744), and I don't yet know if 2200 fixes it. I do know that 2174 is stable and I need to put it on another box. Thanks!

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Video Overlay cropped
by John Lange 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

I finally have a MythTv box up and running with everything mostly working. I have one final problem which I can not solve. When any video is played back on the box it displays "cropped". In other words, the video shows only about the top-left 2/3 of the video. It doesn't matter if its full screen or in a window. Both mplayer and xine exhibit the same behavior and it happens with both live video and recorded clips. Adjusting the video capture resolution does not make a difference. I'm almost certain there must be a video overlay setting or something but having spent most of the weekend searching I'm mystified. Any tips? John

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Random election promises
by Sean Walberg 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Winnipeg/2006/10/11/1999917-sun.html >From a trendy coffee shop at The Forks yesterday, Mayor Sam Katz said he'll launch a high-speed wireless internet service downtown if re-elected mayor later this month. Sean -- Sean Walberg <sean(a)ertw.com> http://ertw.com/

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