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rebhana | # 1791 | 2010-09-19, 10:20 | Report

qole, eric and calibre from squeeze need an upgrade of libpulse0 and as a consequence also of libpulse-browse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils. After that sound is again broken in Easy Debian. Running

Code:

debbie  xmms2d -o pulse
debbie lxmusic

which fixed sound before, now produces the errors:

Code:

 INFO: ../src/xmms/log.c:49: Initialized logging system :)
12:08:42  INFO: ../src/xmms/ipc.c:795: IPC listening on 'unix:///tmp/xmms-ipc-user'.
12:08:42  INFO: ../src/xmms/main.c:517: Using output plugin: pulse
12:09:00 ERROR: ../src/xmms/outputplugin.c:439: Could not open output
12:09:00  INFO: ../src/xmms/xform.c:1471: Successfully setup chain for 'file:///usr/share/xmms2/mind.in.a.box-lament_snipplet.ogg' (1) containing file:magic:vorbis:segment
12:09:06  FAIL: xmms_pulse_flush: assertion `output' failed
12:09:09  INFO: ../src/xmms/log.c:55: Logging says bye bye :)

I don't really need sound in Easy Debian, but in case others would, how to fix that?

sandipkrsharma | # 1792 | 2010-09-19, 10:21 | Report

hi....can someone help me with my prev post?

rebhana | # 1793 | 2010-09-19, 10:22 | Report

Originally Posted by sandipkrsharma View Post

hi...need urgent help pls!!

hi,please help. i tried downloading nitdroid ...

Please post in the corresponding thread, not here!

EDIT: Seeing that you are posting the same in different threads, please delete your posts to this thread!

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mscion | # 1794 | 2010-09-19, 14:52 | Report

Originally Posted by rebhana View Post

In principle you could move any directory into /home/user (though not into MyDocs) and symlink to it - provided you have space there to spare. I would choose directories on the basis that it would make sense to share them between different Debian images. Besides /usr/share/doc I would consider /usr/share/texmf-texlive.

Making a symlink for texmf-texlive did the trick. Thanks!

rebhana | # 1795 | 2010-09-19, 15:38 | Report

Playing around with calibre I must say I like this program more and more. Although really sluggish on startup, it seems to be a nice news reader which has a large and interesting repertoire of web sites providing news, which one can download into e-book format for later perusal. It also has a cool animation for flipping through book covers. Thanks extendedping for drawing my attention to it!

I also can report that upgrading calibre to 0.7.18 as provided by Debian sid is no problem. Below is a screenshot of that version.

EDIT: If you want to install calibre, see my post above on how to install from squeeze. Upgrade to the sid version of calibre only in a second step, and get back to lenny as soon as you are done!

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mscion | # 1796 | 2010-09-20, 17:31 | Report

Originally Posted by rebhana View Post

Playing around with calibre I must say I like this program more and more. Although really sluggish on startup, it seems to be a nice news reader which has a large and interesting repertoire of web sites providing news, which one can download into e-book format for later perusal. It also has a cool animation for flipping through book covers. Thanks extendedping for drawing my attention to it!

I also can report that upgrading calibre to 0.7.18 as provided by Debian sid is no problem. Below is a screenshot of that version.

Hi, This version of calibre definitely looks nicer than the earlier version
posted but I am unable to find it. How do I directly install
using apt-get from the sid repository?

Also I'm a little confused about interpreting version numbers.
The squeeze version is 7.7 the sid version is 7.18. In this case,
do you just compare the number to the right of the decimal
so it reads as version seven point seven vs seven point eighteen?

rebhana | # 1797 | 2010-09-20, 17:39 | Report

Originally Posted by mscion View Post

Hi, This version of calibre definitely looks nicer than the earlier version
posted but I am unable to find it. How do I directly install
using apt-get from the sid repository?

You have to edit /etc/apt/soures.list and uncomment the line with "sid" in it. Then

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install calibre
apt-get clean

Thereafter you should not forget of putting the "#" back.

Btw, the central picture with flipping book covers is also there in version 0.7.7, when you click the appropriate button in the lower right. The general outlay has however changed.

And, yes, version numbers are not like decimal numbers.

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mscion | # 1798 | 2010-09-21, 13:09 | Report

Originally Posted by rebhana View Post

You have to edit /etc/apt/soures.list and uncomment the line with "sid" in it. Then

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install calibre
apt-get clean

Thereafter you should not forget of putting the "#" back.

Btw, the central picture with flipping book covers is also there in version 0.7.7, when you click the appropriate button in the lower right. The general outlay has however changed.

And, yes, version numbers are not like decimal numbers.

Ok. I had actually uncommented sid. The problem was that I had not commented out squeeze. Apparently, when given the choice between programs in the repositories squeeze and sid, apt-get picks, by default, those in squeeze, independent of the version number. I would think the rankings would be set in /etc/apt/preferences but this was not the case in my preference file. Must be done some other way or is implicit.

Obvioulsy the safest set up would be to set the Pin-Priority

First: stable (lenny), Second: testing (squeeze), Third:unstable (sid).

Jef91 | # 1799 | 2010-09-22, 14:38 | Report

Originally Posted by rebhana View Post

I have previously shown how xmaxima, an open-source symbolic math program runs under Easy Debian's LXDE window manager. Maxima is not as powerful as Wolfram's Mathematica or Maple, but comes surprisingly close. If you often need higher math, you might be interested in having maxima as an app on your N900.

Now I have discovered that there is an alternative GUI for maxima, wxmaxima, which has the advantage that it also runs nicely with debbie and is much more convenient to use. It can be installed from lenny-backports by

Code:

apt-get -t lenny-backports install wxmaxima

Maxima commands are executed by Shift+Return, provided one has selected "Enter evaluates cells" in the configure menu and xbindkeys is running (the "Set Deb HW Keys" icon). If the configure menu is too much scrambled under debbie, you can also do it from LXDE.

Producing a file /usr/share/applications/hildon/wxmaxima.desktop with content

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=wxMaxima
GenericName=wxMaxima
Exec=debbie "xbindkeys; wxmaxima"
Icon=maxima-icon
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
Terminal=true
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true

gives a pocket symbolic math calculator that can be easily launched. A nice maxima icon is obtained by copying (one line!)

Code:

cp /.debian/usr/share/pixmaps/maxima-icon.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/

Here are two screenshots. The first shows an indefinite integration, and an embedded 3d plot; the second the same 3d plot rendered with "openmath" option, which opens the plot in a separate window, where one can rotate it with stylus or finger!

I have wxMaxima installed and I have the application launcher created, however I cannot get shift+enter to evaluate the cell like it should (I've tried running debbie xbindkeys and the fix lxde keyboard from my menu - neither work)

Am I doing something wrong?

Regards,
~Jeff Hoogland

mscion | # 1800 | 2010-09-22, 18:28 | Report

Originally Posted by Jef91 View Post

I have wxMaxima installed and I have the application launcher created, however I cannot get shift+enter to evaluate the cell like it should (I've tried running debbie xbindkeys and the fix lxde keyboard from my menu - neither work)

Am I doing something wrong?

Regards,
~Jeff Hoogland

Can you evauate a simple function in the input area like sin(0)?