| kbmonkey | morning all | 04:29 |
|---|---|---|
| Kilos | morning superfly and everyone else | 04:51 |
| superfly | morning kbmonkey and Kilos | 04:51 |
| Kilos | i store my archives on my external as packs for maverick and Packs for karmic. now i copied the wrong one to this karmic | 04:52 |
| Kilos | hiya kbmonkey | 04:53 |
| kbmonkey | morning guys :) | 04:53 |
| kbmonkey | I got up early to fix this network, its giving me a hard time :) | 04:54 |
| kbmonkey | networking not my strong pt | 04:54 |
| Kilos | now i am sukkeling to remove them and get the right ones | 04:58 |
| superfly | kbmonkey: mine neither, but what's the problem? | 04:58 |
| Kilos | i tried sudo aptitude remove /var/cache/apt/archives with and without the last / and /* | 04:59 |
| kbmonkey | well superfly, a few things: ping between two ubuntu pc's by hostname (can ping by IP tho) | 04:59 |
| superfly | Kilos: aptitude deals with packages not files | 05:00 |
| Kilos | i tried apt-get as well superfly | 05:00 |
| kbmonkey | and setup samba shares for the maties who visit. but let me tackle one at a time. just trying to get wins resolution working | 05:00 |
| superfly | kbmonkey: hrm, I've never really been able to do that on my network, but it wasn't a huge problem for me... Windows does it because it wraps TCP/IP around NetBEUI | 05:01 |
| Kilos | how can i get rid of the maverick ones only | 05:01 |
| Kilos | or even all of them and then replace with the right ones | 05:01 |
| superfly | Kilos: how do you delete all the files in a directory? | 05:01 |
| Kilos | will that --delete work here | 05:01 |
| Kilos | i dunno superfly | 05:02 |
| Kilos | i thought the /* would do it | 05:02 |
| superfly | Kilos: how do you normally delete a file? | 05:02 |
| Kilos | right click delete | 05:02 |
| Kilos | i normally sudo apt-get remove | 05:03 |
| Kilos | it doesnt want to | 05:03 |
| superfly | Kilos: a file, not a package - there's a difference | 05:03 |
| superfly | Kilos: what's the difference between Nautilus (your file manager) and Synaptic? | 05:04 |
| Kilos | i think nautilus opens things and synaptic installs and updates them | 05:04 |
| Kilos | things/packages | 05:05 |
| Kilos | i tried sudo gedit as well | 05:05 |
| Kilos | but got a no entry sign | 05:05 |
| superfly | Kilos: so when you want to delete a file in your home directory, what do you do? | 05:06 |
| Kilos | sudo gedit /var/cache/apt/archives | 05:06 |
| Kilos | in home i normally just use right click delete | 05:07 |
| Kilos | or use cli and give the path | 05:07 |
| kbmonkey | Kilos: you copied the archives into /var/cache/apt/archives, for the wrong release? | 05:08 |
| Kilos | but now i need to delete everything in archives | 05:08 |
| Kilos | yip | 05:08 |
| Kilos | no , | 05:08 |
| kbmonkey | yes you may need to remove them all, and re-copy the right ones back | 05:08 |
| Kilos | must i try with the , | 05:09 |
| Kilos | i only know the dos for all files and folders | 05:09 |
| Kilos | *.* | 05:09 |
| kbmonkey | from the cli, you use rm | 05:10 |
| kbmonkey | but for that location you must use sudo with rm | 05:10 |
| Kilos | ok so | 05:10 |
| Kilos | sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/* | 05:10 |
| kbmonkey | correct, that will remove all files, but not the /archives/ dir | 05:11 |
| kbmonkey | all files in /archives/ of course | 05:11 |
| Kilos | ok i try that ty | 05:12 |
| kbmonkey | note | 05:13 |
| superfly | Kilos: using aptitude to delete files is like trying to use Synaptic to remove a .txt file from your home directory | 05:13 |
| kbmonkey | that there are subdirectories, and it will probably error on those | 05:13 |
| Kilos | ah stupid me | 05:13 |
| Kilos | yes it says partial is a directory | 05:13 |
| kbmonkey | or error when it hits those subdirs at least, to remove everything, you must use rm -rf (recursive, and force even if subdirs contain files) -- be Careful with this command :) | 05:14 |
| Kilos | ok i try that | 05:14 |
| Kilos | is the -rf after rm | 05:15 |
| Kilos | like sudo rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/ | 05:16 |
| kbmonkey | yes, -rf are arguments to 'rm' | 05:16 |
| Kilos | with or without the * | 05:16 |
| kbmonkey | actually it would work without the f too, | 05:16 |
| kbmonkey | use the /* | 05:16 |
| Kilos | i need to find a book on these commands and arguments etc | 05:17 |
| kbmonkey | because you want to keep the /archive dir, otherwise it will remove /archives as well | 05:17 |
| Kilos | ok i try ty | 05:17 |
| kbmonkey | man rm is all the book you need :) | 05:18 |
| Kilos | ty. it rm ed the dir archives as well but i did mkdir and got an empty one there | 05:22 |
| Kilos | will cp from external again | 05:22 |
| Kilos | ty guys | 05:23 |
| kbmonkey | thats strange, i did a test in /tmp and it shouldve kept it. | 05:33 |
| Kilos | not serious kbmonkey my pc does funny thjings | 05:34 |
| Kilos | things | 05:34 |
| kbmonkey | okay well I checked for you and seems like the default permissions are fine for archives :) | 05:34 |
| Kilos | sometimes all the desktop icons disappear | 05:34 |
| kbmonkey | yes my conky does that too, so I dont have any icons anymore | 05:35 |
| Kilos | and apps close on their own | 05:35 |
| Kilos | hehe | 05:35 |
| kbmonkey | oh... umm | 05:35 |
| kbmonkey | your pc sounds self aware | 05:35 |
| Kilos | even xchat just closes | 05:35 |
| kbmonkey | thats not good | 05:35 |
| Kilos | but not here on the P3 with a 6g drive | 05:35 |
| kbmonkey | oh oops I cant be late, cheers laters! | 05:36 |
| Kilos | this is my safety net | 05:36 |
| Kilos | cheers | 05:36 |
| nlsthzn | morning all | 05:38 |
| Kilos | hi nlsthzn | 05:38 |
| nlsthzn | Kilos: missed you at trible council last night ;) | 05:39 |
| Kilos | aw | 05:39 |
| Kilos | sorry i forgot and hit the hay | 05:39 |
| nlsthzn | np... it was long on nothing much happening :p | 05:40 |
| Kilos | i still want to get to one and ask if there is anyone with the necessary skills to write something for ubuntu to do a mbr repair | 05:41 |
| Kilos | same as in xp you go to recovery and tell it fixmbr and fixboot | 05:42 |
| Kilos | but then it only takes xp after that and wont take ubuntu | 05:42 |
| nlsthzn | Sneaky MS | 05:43 |
| Kilos | yeah | 05:43 |
| Kilos | there must be one of the guys that can do it better | 05:43 |
| nlsthzn | have you tried the forums? | 05:45 |
| Kilos | i hjave been very busy just trying to get a styable mbr on 2 drives for over 2 weeks | 05:46 |
| Kilos | but will look into that as wewll | 05:46 |
| Kilos | well | 05:46 |
| Kilos | lotsa peeps throw away drives because of faulty mbr's | 05:47 |
| nlsthzn | that sounds expensive | 05:47 |
| Kilos | thats fine if you can afford a new one | 05:47 |
| Kilos | there is lots of stuff online about mbr probs | 05:48 |
| nlsthzn | but you could have had two then :p | 05:48 |
| Kilos | but no linux tool specifically for repairing it | 05:48 |
| Kilos | yes i agree | 05:48 |
| nlsthzn | strange that there isn't... but can't you just re-install what is needed on the mbr? | 05:49 |
| Kilos | yes but mainly for ms | 05:49 |
| Kilos | there must be a linux only solution | 05:50 |
| Kilos | would be better if it was an ubuntu solution | 05:50 |
| nlsthzn | true | 05:54 |
| Kilos | Maaz, coffee on | 07:16 |
| * Maaz puts the kettle on | 07:16 | |
| Maaz | Coffee's ready for Kilos! | 07:20 |
| * nlsthzn goes to fix himself a spot of tea ;) | 07:23 | |
| Kilos | hehe | 07:25 |
| Kilos | Maaz, ty | 07:25 |
| Maaz | You're Welcome I'm sure | 07:25 |
| Kilos | i gotta beer mug full of tea but cybercoffee is lekker too | 07:25 |
| Kilos | lo amanica | 08:50 |
| amanica | hi | 08:50 |
| Kilos | Maaz, whats for lunch | 08:58 |
| Maaz | Hmm Kilos . Methinks Kentucky and coleslaw would go down well | 08:58 |
| === Owkkuri is now known as Owk | ||
| Kilos | hi Owk | 09:29 |
| Kilos | hehe | 09:29 |
| Owk | :) | 09:38 |
| Esquire | Hi | 16:37 |
| * nlsthzn waves at Esquire | 16:38 | |
| Esquire | nlsthzn :) | 16:39 |
| Esquire | Maaz: coffee on | 16:41 |
| * Maaz starts grinding coffee | 16:41 | |
| Esquire | Maaz: with sugar, please | 16:41 |
| Maaz | Esquire: What? | 16:41 |
| Esquire | Maaz: with sugar | 16:41 |
| Maaz | Help yourself outa the sugar pot | 16:41 |
| Maaz | Coffee's ready for Esquire! | 16:45 |
| Chat7935 | sup | 17:50 |
| Chat7935 | hunnies around gauteng in here? | 17:51 |
| drubin | Chat7935: this isn't that type of chnanle | 17:52 |
| drubin | channel* | 17:52 |
| Chat7935 | hello? anybody in ere? | 17:53 |
| Morganvd | how stupid can people be | 18:17 |
| superfly | Morganvd: more than likely a bot | 18:22 |
| Esquire | whois bnezya | 18:39 |
| Esquire | wow my first day back and I forget a / | 18:40 |
| === Owk is now known as Owkkuri | ||
| nlsthzn | good night all | 20:41 |
| afrodeity | C64 | 21:56 |
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