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| tzufli | hello | 04:19 |
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| ibuclaw | o/ | 04:21 |
| tzufli | i am trying to install maya in ubuntu ...i've read the instalation guidelines, and i believe that i installed everithing i would need to proceed ....but every time I try this it gives a couple or errors: | 04:22 |
| tzufli | sudo rpm -ivh AWCommon-11.5-19.i686.rpm Maya2009_0_64-2009.0-101.x86_64.rpm --force-debian | 04:22 |
| tzufli | error: Failed dependencies: | 04:22 |
| tzufli | /bin/sh is needed by AWCommon-11.5-19.i686 | 04:22 |
| tzufli | /bin/sh is needed by Maya2009_0_64-2009.0-101.x86_64 | 04:22 |
| tzufli | any ideas how to make this work? I would apreciate it ...have been trying all day long | 04:22 |
| ibuclaw | rpm is for Fedora/RedHat-like distributions | 04:23 |
| ibuclaw | Ubuntu uses dpkg | 04:23 |
| ibuclaw | you'll have to convert the package using 'alien' | 04:23 |
| tzufli | the installer kept telling me that but i don't really know what it means | 04:24 |
| tzufli | is that a software to convert rpm to dpkg? | 04:24 |
| ibuclaw | yes - sorta kinda... :) | 04:25 |
| ibuclaw | it's not the cleanest thing in the world, but it is suitably efficient | 04:25 |
| ibuclaw | tzufli, usage would be: | 04:25 |
| tzufli | is a command that i have to execute on the maya rpm file | 04:25 |
| ibuclaw | fakeroot alien -d AWCommon-11.5-19.i686.rpm | 04:25 |
| ibuclaw | fakeroot alien -d Maya2009_0_64-2009.0-101.x86_64.rpm | 04:26 |
| ibuclaw | tzufli, and that should create two new .deb files for you. | 04:26 |
| tzufli | in the same folder i supose | 04:27 |
| tzufli | and the debian files will be executable? | 04:27 |
| ibuclaw | tzufli, via command-line, you will be able to install them using dpkg -i | 04:29 |
| ibuclaw | rather than rpm -ivh | 04:29 |
| tzufli | ohhh | 04:29 |
| tzufli | i will try it right now :) | 04:29 |
| tzufli | please excuse my stupid questions....but i am kinda new to linux...i use it at work ...but there... it's all set up by the admin | 04:30 |
| tzufli | and thank you for the help | 04:30 |
| tzufli | fakeroot alien -d AWCommon-11.5-19.i686.rpm | 04:31 |
| tzufli | /usr/bin/fakeroot: line 176: alien: command not found | 04:31 |
| tzufli | i am guessing that i have to install some library to get this to work? | 04:32 |
| duanedesign | morning all | 11:22 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello | 11:23 |
| duanedesign | hey there Silver_Fox_ | 11:24 |
| duanedesign | good weekend? | 11:24 |
| Silver_Fox_ | No worse than usual. How was yours ? | 11:25 |
| duanedesign | we've had the third major snow storm in as many months | 11:25 |
| duanedesign | so stayed in all weekend | 11:25 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Is everyone okay? | 11:28 |
| duanedesign | there have been about a half dozen deaths mostly car accidents and elderly people succumbing to exposure. All my family is ok thank godness. | 11:32 |
| Silver_Fox_ | That is some relief. | 11:37 |
| Flare183 | What's the default buffer size for Audacious? | 12:13 |
| ndefontenay | Hi everyone | 12:37 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello | 12:40 |
| ndefontenay | Hiya | 12:54 |
| ndefontenay | hi | 14:15 |
| ndefontenay | I should write a script to say hi every once in a while | 14:16 |
| ndefontenay | never know | 14:16 |
| leoquant | /nick/the_undertaker | 14:16 |
| leoquant | oops | 14:16 |
| ndefontenay | hi leo | 14:17 |
| leoquant | hi | 14:17 |
| ndefontenay | hey you're a seedling for the unanswered questions tonight right? | 14:17 |
| leoquant | uh, i missed something here | 14:18 |
| ndefontenay | lol | 14:18 |
| ndefontenay | well maybe not then x) | 14:18 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hi swoody :) | 14:46 |
| nigelb | hey Silver_Fox_, swoody :) | 14:46 |
| swoody | hello Silver_Fox_ and nigelb :) | 14:58 |
| swoody | how are you two doing? | 14:58 |
| nigelb | doing good. had a tiring monday | 14:58 |
| swoody | nigelb: I know that feeling ;) | 14:59 |
| nigelb | heya PabloRubianes | 16:11 |
| PabloRubianes | hey nigelb | 16:11 |
| romulus_ | hey | 16:22 |
| romulus_ | i'm looking for help | 16:22 |
| romulus_ | i can't custmize my gnome | 16:23 |
| romulus_ | i try to install a gdm theme | 16:23 |
| romulus_ | anyone can help me ? | 16:23 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Which version of ubuntu are you using romulus_ ? | 16:25 |
| romulus_ | the last one i guess | 16:25 |
| romulus_ | 9.10 | 16:25 |
| romulus_ | karmic | 16:25 |
| Silver_Fox_ | system -> administation -> login window | 16:26 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Then click local tab | 16:26 |
| Silver_Fox_ | You should see a button labeled "Add" on the right | 16:27 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Find your theme (should be a tar.gz file) | 16:27 |
| romulus_ | i dont see any tab | 16:27 |
| romulus_ | i can only choose to connect auto | 16:27 |
| romulus_ | maybe it's because i already changed the appearence | 16:30 |
| romulus_ | with gtk theme changer | 16:30 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hmm, okay, a thought: | 16:31 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Try this System > Preferences > Appearance > Theme | 16:31 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Then choose install and find where you downloaded your theme. Then click okay | 16:31 |
| romulus_ | it doesn' work | 16:33 |
| romulus_ | should i extract the file ? | 16:33 |
| Silver_Fox_ | No, you should not need to. | 16:34 |
| romulus_ | the file is .gz and not tar.gz | 16:35 |
| romulus_ | but this is a gmd theme | 16:35 |
| romulus_ | gdm* | 16:35 |
| hobgoblin | romulus_: hi - theming in gdm changed in karmic (and looks like lucid is the same ) | 16:37 |
| hobgoblin | gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties | 16:37 |
| hobgoblin | should open the theme window for gdm | 16:37 |
| hobgoblin | it looks very similar to the normal one - shoudl be able to drag and drop the theme onto there and it install | 16:38 |
| romulus_ | ok but there is no special tab for the login screen ? | 16:43 |
| romulus_ | i'm happy with my current theme but i want to remove the old login sreen | 16:44 |
| romulus_ | i'm lost with gdm compiz gtk ... is there a how to i can read ? | 16:46 |
| romulus_ | ifound nothing clear on google | 16:46 |
| hobgoblin | no - there is no tab for the login screen afaik | 16:46 |
| hobgoblin | it all changed in karmic and in lucid too | 16:47 |
| romulus_ | so i drag and drop and there is no confirmation | 16:47 |
| hobgoblin | romulus_: gdm compiz and gtk are all different things | 16:55 |
| romulus_ | they are desktop engines ? | 16:57 |
| benny1 | Hello I wonder if someone can give a little assistance with VLC Media player? | 17:27 |
| benny1 | I have somehow hidden it completely. If i right click an .mp3 it will play it, but I see no window or control options... very frustrating! | 17:29 |
| benny1 | anyone?? | 17:30 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Alt + Tab | 17:32 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Is VLC shown in the running applications ? | 17:32 |
| benny1 | If i look in system monitor it is | 17:34 |
| swoody | benny1: is it minimized to your notification area? There may be an orange traffic-cone icon there? | 17:36 |
| benny1 | but alt + tab has no active window apart from one labelled " VLC (X11 Output)" | 17:36 |
| swoody | (notification area, not the taskbar) | 17:36 |
| benny1 | Which is the notification area? | 17:36 |
| swoody | the area with your sound icon, network icon, etc. | 17:37 |
| swoody | right next to the clock | 17:37 |
| benny1 | There is nothing there apart from Rhythmbox which I just closed in case it was hiding something | 17:37 |
| swoody | hmm... | 17:37 |
| swoody | benny1: and you right-click on the file and select 'open with VLC' correct? | 17:38 |
| benny1 | I have tried uninstalling and completely removing VLC but to no avail, exactly the same issue. it was working not half an hour ago! | 17:38 |
| benny1 | Yeah open with VLC, I can play a song, infact I can open many instance until I get a cacophony of simultaneous songs, but still no interface to actually control anythng | 17:39 |
| swoody | benny1: well, if you don't mind losing any VLC settings, I would try closing VLC (via system monitor) and delete your ~/.config/vlc folder | 17:40 |
| swoody | then when you try again, it should open VLC with default settings | 17:41 |
| benny1 | OK I have closed all the instances where is the /.config folder located ? | 17:42 |
| swoody | /home/yourname/.config/vlc | 17:43 |
| swoody | you can hit ctrl+H to show hidden folders | 17:43 |
| swoody | i.e. the .config folder | 17:43 |
| swoody | (if you're using gnome?) | 17:43 |
| benny1 | OK I will give this a go. | 17:43 |
| benny1 | Do I delete the folder or just the contents? | 17:44 |
| swoody | benny1: either one, it should recreate the folder and/or it's contents if it's not there | 17:44 |
| benny1 | Should I reboot before restarting VLC or go right ahead? | 17:45 |
| swoody | benny1: shouldn't need to reboot, just try opening a file w/ VLC again | 17:45 |
| swoody | (as long as you made sure there weren't any other instances of VLC running in system-monitor) | 17:46 |
| benny1 | Success!!! thank you swoody | 17:46 |
| swoody | benny1: excellent, that's good to hear :) | 17:47 |
| swoody | yeah, must have enabled some kind of setting that was throwing it off :/ | 17:47 |
| benny1 | I wonder woudl you also know how to get the ghastly green and black vertical stripes when I go full screen to stop, i guess it can't be an issue with codecs as it works great windowed. but something to do with stretching to fir a HD tv on ps3 running ubuntu? | 17:48 |
| swoody | hmm... | 17:49 |
| benny1 | IM not sure where I'm going wrong but can't make the display options match my tv.. | 17:50 |
| swoody | maybe try going to Video>Aspect Ratio and trying various options there? | 17:51 |
| swoody | or possibly try Video>Deinterlace and try some changes there | 17:51 |
| benny1 | Yeah deinterlace helped, can I make my chosen setting a default? | 17:52 |
| swoody | benny1: yeah, you should be able to. Go to Tools>Preferences | 17:53 |
| swoody | and then on the left-hand side, click on Video, and there's a box there for deinterlacing | 17:53 |
| benny1 | Thanks!!! | 17:53 |
| swoody | then be sure to save, and close VLC | 17:53 |
| swoody | and try it out :) | 17:53 |
| swoody | benny1: it's np :) | 17:54 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Goodbye | 18:08 |
| christine11 | hi all... | 19:12 |
| pedro3005 | hi christine11 | 19:12 |
| christine11 | goin' nuts here trying to work on an assignment and new to ubuntu | 19:12 |
| christine11 | hi pedro3005 | 19:12 |
| pedro3005 | christine11, need any help? | 19:12 |
| christine11 | absolutely pedro3005 | 19:12 |
| christine11 | petra.. thanks | 19:13 |
| pedro3005 | i'll see what I can do.. ask away | 19:13 |
| christine11 | yes, I'm trying to create a shell script and am really really NEW at it | 19:13 |
| christine11 | it's for a class I'm taking | 19:13 |
| pedro3005 | i've seen better people at bash scripting than me | 19:13 |
| christine11 | and I have some background in other scripting - such as java... | 19:13 |
| pedro3005 | that means i'm a complete utter idiot at bash scripting.... | 19:14 |
| christine11 | well... it's not even the scripting that has me hung up at the moment | 19:14 |
| pedro3005 | geirha, i think i've seen you do some bash, care to help? | 19:14 |
| christine11 | it's more creating the file and getting it into my VMPlayer to run it | 19:14 |
| pedro3005 | christine11, oh | 19:14 |
| christine11 | I know I'm supposed to be able to use vi as a text editor, correct? | 19:14 |
| christine11 | but using ubuntu in the player, well... I'm just lost | 19:15 |
| pedro3005 | christine11, yes.. don't see why you wouldn't use VIm but you can use VI | 19:15 |
| christine11 | that's a good point pedro3005.... how would I use VIm instead of vi? | 19:15 |
| christine11 | (hates being the newby) | 19:16 |
| pedro3005 | christine11, type 'vim' on a terminal | 19:16 |
| pedro3005 | :) | 19:16 |
| christine11 | slapping my forehead | 19:16 |
| christine11 | lol | 19:16 |
| pedro3005 | it's okay | 19:16 |
| christine11 | okkk... well I'm just panicking since this project is due tonight | 19:16 |
| pedro3005 | don't panic | 19:17 |
| christine11 | let me see how far I can get... it's so comforting to just know you are here!!! | 19:17 |
| christine11 | I'll be back in a few if I fail miserably... ok? ;) | 19:17 |
| pedro3005 | christine11, ok | 19:18 |
| christine11 | tc cya and thanks for understanding | 19:18 |
| hobgoblin | hi phillw | 20:08 |
| pedro3005 | hi hobgoblin | 20:09 |
| hobgoblin | hi pedro3005 | 20:10 |
| pedro3005 | hobgoblin, how are you? | 20:12 |
| hobgoblin | not too bad ty :) | 20:12 |
| hobgoblin | pedro3005: and you? | 20:13 |
| pedro3005 | hobgoblin, good, good | 20:14 |
| pedro3005 | hobgoblin, physics test tomorrow | 20:14 |
| hobgoblin | :) | 20:15 |
| pedro3005 | hobgoblin, yes, :) hoping for a total, like math.. probably not though | 20:17 |
| hobgoblin | he he he | 20:18 |
| hobgoblin | hi Orby | 20:18 |
| Orby | hi :) | 20:18 |
| pedro3005 | hobgoblin, math is a joke... the test was about venn diagrams and groups.. the teacher today talked slowly about stupid linear functions.. i'm like what the fuck | 20:20 |
| hobgoblin | :( | 20:20 |
| pedro3005 | hobgoblin, :/ | 20:20 |
| pombreda | Howdy: I have a problem with a 8.04 LTS install. It was orinally a stock 8.04.1. I did apg-get | 20:30 |
| pombreda | update then upgrade | 20:30 |
| pombreda | it updated t 8.04.4 with this message: | 20:30 |
| pombreda | The following packages have been kept back: bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-30 libisccc30 libisccfg30 linux-image-server linux-server | 20:30 |
| pombreda | sudo apt-get install bind9-host linux-image-server linux-server got it to install also these "kept back" packages | 20:31 |
| pombreda | after this a reboot: the system does not reboot | 20:31 |
| pombreda | there was a screen with L 99 99 99 99 99 99 | 20:32 |
| pombreda | some research showed this could be lilo propblem. | 20:32 |
| pombreda | I booted with the orinal CD in rescue mode | 20:32 |
| pombreda | and tried /sbin/lilo | 20:32 |
| pombreda | same problem | 20:32 |
| pombreda | atm, I have the system booted with the rescue CD, sheel started on my original root disk. | 20:33 |
| pombreda | all the disks seem ok, and the content is there. but it does not boot at all. | 20:33 |
| Flare183 | pombreda: Um lilo isn't supported anymore tho... I don't think... | 20:33 |
| Flare183 | !lilo | 20:33 |
| Votebot | an alternative [Li]nux Boot[Lo]ader. Note: it is recommended that you use GRUB on Ubuntu instead. | 20:33 |
| pombreda | I have no idea if lilo or grub was installed. | 20:33 |
| Flare183 | cd /boot && ls | 20:34 |
| pombreda | I used the standard install on 8.04.1 from then. | 20:34 |
| Flare183 | do you see a grub folder? | 20:34 |
| Flare183 | yup, you've got grub most likely then | 20:34 |
| Flare183 | That is, unless you've reconfigured lilo to replace grub | 20:34 |
| pombreda | no grub folder in /boot | 20:34 |
| Flare183 | yup, you've reconfigured it :/ | 20:35 |
| pombreda | I woudl not know the first thing on how to configure lilo :D | 20:35 |
| Flare183 | sudo apt-get install grub | 20:35 |
| pombreda | ok | 20:35 |
| Flare183 | tell lilo to get the mess outta your computer xD | 20:35 |
| pombreda | Flare183: sudo apt-get install grub : done | 20:36 |
| Flare183 | um did it remove lilo? | 20:36 |
| pombreda | how do I get rid of lilo beyond this? and noy hose my drives/partitions? | 20:36 |
| Flare183 | sudo apt-get remove --purge lilo | 20:37 |
| pombreda | you understand I am booted with the rescue cd right? | 20:37 |
| Flare183 | crap | 20:38 |
| Flare183 | >>< | 20:38 |
| Flare183 | >.<* | 20:38 |
| Flare183 | pombreda: I forgot >.< | 20:38 |
| pombreda | ? not sure I parse :P | 20:39 |
| Flare183 | do you know how to mount your main root filesystem that's on your HD(S)? | 20:39 |
| pombreda | this is done | 20:39 |
| pombreda | this is mounted | 20:39 |
| Flare183 | cd to that folder and look in /boot | 20:39 |
| pombreda | yes this is what I did | 20:40 |
| Flare183 | Alright, then do this | 20:40 |
| pombreda | I have 2 linux images there: the old 8.04.1 and the new 8.04.4 | 20:40 |
| Flare183 | Well don't worry about the images, I guess. | 20:41 |
| Flare183 | hmmm | 20:41 |
| pombreda | ie initrd.img-2.6.24-19-server (8.0.4.1) and initrd.img-2.6.24-27-server (the one that I installed above | 20:41 |
| pombreda | ok | 20:41 |
| Flare183 | bah if I could ssh up to the server, I could do it for you >.< | 20:42 |
| Flare183 | But like, its hard to explain how to fix it | 20:42 |
| Flare183 | What I would do is install grub onto your main root fs | 20:43 |
| Flare183 | but the way grub looks at the HD's is whack | 20:43 |
| pombreda | hum... let me see. the server is in rescue mode, but a buddy did start and sshd there, that is how I am accessing it atm, but through a few other hosts | 20:43 |
| Flare183 | Set up images to boot from DEVICE. DEVICE must be a GRUB device (e.g.``(hd0,1)''). | 20:44 |
| pombreda | ok | 20:44 |
| Flare183 | That comes from grub-setup's man page | 20:44 |
| Flare183 | If you'd let me ssh up to it, I might be able to fix it for you | 20:45 |
| pombreda | let me see if that is possible | 20:45 |
| Flare183 | pombreda: Alright. | 20:45 |
| pombreda | Flare183: I think I should be able to get an ssh access. should take 20 minutes to get help for this. will you still be there then? | 20:53 |
| Flare183 | pombreda: yeah | 20:53 |
| pombreda | btw thx ++ for taking the time to help :) | 20:53 |
| pombreda | Flare183: thx mucho, brb as soon as the config is there | 20:54 |
| Flare183 | ok | 20:56 |
| benny | Hello everyone, are there any ipod users out there that can offer a little advice to a linux newbie? | 21:01 |
| Hellow | benny: What's your problem? | 21:04 |
| benny | Specifically, is there any software available to backup an ipod on linux? I have gtkpod, but it's usefulness in making a backup of my ipod is pretty limited as it will lump everything together in one folder, I would like to split everything up by/artist/album/ I have used a program called copy trans manager under windows to do this previously but can't find anything similar for linux | 21:04 |
| Hellow | The only things Google are returning relevant to gtkpod only. | 21:05 |
| Hellow | s/returning relevant/returning are relevant | 21:06 |
| benny | Yeah thats what I got, too Maybe gtkpod can do this and I can't figure out how. Rhythmbox that comes with ubuntu at installation is going to be fine for everyday use, it's just this once i need to backup my original ipod after my windows PC bit the dust a few years ago, I only have a ps3 running linux to do this from... hmm well thanks for looking anyways. | 21:08 |
| benny | Hellow: I wonder is there any kind of program that can do something similar to Shazam, but for music on a computer, for example "listen" or take a sample to parts of a tune then automatically fill out a completed ID3 tag? Without me having to sit and play every song then type all the info into things I don't know the names of? | 21:09 |
| Hellow | benny: What I have found, however, is that, if gtkpod maintains the correct tags for your music, you could sort them using a program known as "id3tool" and a bash script: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/bash-script-for-sorting-and-renaming-multiple-mp3-files-by-id3-tags-602105/ | 21:09 |
| benny | Hellow: That seems like it will pretty much do what I need and anything further I can fiddle with at my leisure, Thank you! | 21:12 |
| Hellow | Glad I could be of assistance. | 21:12 |
| benny | very much so! | 21:13 |
| pombreda | Flare183: re. | 21:26 |
| benny | If I want to install a piece of software that isnt under synaptic or ubuntu software manager, Which version do I download is it ther ".deb" or a "tar.gz" ? | 21:27 |
| BGL-[e] | benny: a lot of times a .deb can be easier to deal with | 21:31 |
| benny | Okay, can I assume they will both work then? I will go for the .deb if it's easier. but just for reference what is the difference? | 21:32 |
| pombreda | Flare183: thx ++ for being so helpful, and have a great day! | 22:18 |
| Flare183 | pombreda: Alright you too :) | 22:18 |
| pombreda | off to bed . ciao yo fine newbies helpers! | 23:02 |
| willa | I've taken away my ability to use the LAMPP installation, and placed some other server in its stead. How do I undo this? | 23:41 |
| willa | Yes, it's a pickle ... | 23:42 |
| willa | Is there a different chat room I could ask in? | 23:43 |
| willa | Is this channel open? | 23:48 |
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