Linux-Noob Forums - Debian

Adding repositories on Debian

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:55:48 +0200

I am thinking on installing Debian squeeze to replace my ubuntu 9.10 instead of going to 10.04 but I want to know how to add repositories among other things,can anyone please tell me how to step by step?

problem compilation linux kernel 2.6.26 with debian etch r0

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:41:45 +0200

Hi, I have a problem after one compilation. My computer is a DELL Vostro 200, Intel Core2 Duo CPU E4500 (2.20GHz, 800FSB 2MB L2) with a hard drive: 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive 7200RPM, 8MB Cache.

I've installed debian etch r0 which had a kernel 2.6.18 and I decided to install a 2.6.26 kernel.

I've done anything right like this tutorial says (http://wiki.loli-grub.be/index.php/Compi...bian_Etch, sorry it's in french).

Everething was ok, after compilation, I reboot my computer, and try to go in the new installed kernel. But I get this :

usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver (hangs up for a long time here - few minutes)

Done.

Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline

or missing modules, devies: cat /proc/modules ls /dev

ALERT! /dev/sdb1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-4) Built-in shell (ash)

Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

(initramfs)

Then I'm in the shel model.

I have to sayy that for the installation of the first system debian etch r0, I've disabled the SATA mode in the bios, I put it to RAID, instead of IDE...beacause in IDE mode, at the begining of the installation he don't recognise the dvd.

Can somebody help me pleeeeeease!!!!!

Configuring ssh after a Synaptic install?

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:29:37 +0200

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Hi. I running on Debian 4, installed the openssh-server /w the blacklist & rssh & molly-guard using Synaptic Package Manager, but can't connect using PuTTY from my Vista box. Could somebody show me what I need to enable in the config files (see below) to get it to work? Thanx.

The story so far...

I've read the man pages, which seem pretty daunting at this point, and been trawling the net, where I've found lots of juicy tidbits, but nothing that walks me thru it line by line. It's not PuTTY cause I had it working last nite when I did a commandline install using "apt-get install ssh", but I also got some sort of legacy message. As I've done a reinstall since then, I thought I'd try and avoid the legacy issue and use Synaptic. From what I have found on the net, all the needed files "seem" to be in the right place, but it looks like there's a bunch of stuff that is commented out that shouldn't be (I think...)

Code:
# /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# Package generated configuration file

# See the sshd(8) manpage for details

# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for

Port 22

# Use these options to restrict which interfaces/protocols sshd will bind to

#ListenAddress ::

#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0

Protocol 2

# HostKeys for protocol version 2

HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key

HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

#Privilege Separation is turned on for security

UsePrivilegeSeparation yes

# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key

KeyRegenerationInterval 3600

ServerKeyBits 768

# Logging

SyslogFacility AUTH

LogLevel INFO

# Authentication:

LoginGraceTime 120

PermitRootLogin no

StrictModes yes

RSAAuthentication yes

PubkeyAuthentication yes

#AuthorizedKeysFile    %h/.ssh/authorized_keys

# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files

IgnoreRhosts yes

# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts

RhostsRSAAuthentication no

# similar for protocol version 2

HostbasedAuthentication no

# Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for RhostsRSAAuthentication

#IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes

# To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED)

PermitEmptyPasswords no

# Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with

# some PAM modules and threads)

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

# Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords

#PasswordAuthentication yes

# Kerberos options

#KerberosAuthentication no

#KerberosGetAFSToken no

#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes

#KerberosTicketCleanup yes

# GSSAPI options

#GSSAPIAuthentication no

#GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes

X11Forwarding no

X11DisplayOffset 10

PrintMotd no

PrintLastLog yes

TCPKeepAlive yes

#UseLogin no

#MaxStartups 10:30:60

#Banner /etc/issue.net

# Allow client to pass locale environment variables

AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server

UsePAM yes

Code:
# /etc/ssh/ssh_config

# This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file.  See

# ssh_config(5) for more information.  This file provides defaults for

# users, and the values can be changed in per-user configuration files

# or on the command line.

# Configuration data is parsed as follows:

#  1. command line options

#  2. user-specific file

#  3. system-wide file

# Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set.

# Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the

# configuration file, and defaults at the end.

# Site-wide defaults for some commonly used options.  For a comprehensive

# list of available options, their meanings and defaults, please see the

# ssh_config(5) man page.

Host *

#   ForwardAgent no

#   ForwardX11 yes

#   ForwardX11Trusted yes

#   RhostsRSAAuthentication no

#   RSAAuthentication yes

#   PasswordAuthentication yes

#   HostbasedAuthentication no

#   BatchMode no

#   CheckHostIP yes

#   AddressFamily any

#   ConnectTimeout 0

#   StrictHostKeyChecking ask

#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity

#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

#   Port 22

#   Protocol 2,1

#   Cipher 3des

#   Ciphers aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc

#   EscapeChar ~

#   Tunnel no

#   TunnelDevice any:any

#   PermitLocalCommand no

SendEnv LANG LC_*

HashKnownHosts yes

GSSAPIAuthentication yes

GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no

Application Nightmare

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:17:06 +0200

I am currently using Xebian, an Xbox distro that supposedly has full Debian support. I'm new to Linux but have followed the guides well. (Or so I hope.) I've tried to install new apps, but it has resulted in disaster. App A needs dependency B, dependency B needs dependencies C, D, E, F, G, H, i, J, etc. I was told I needed to update my sources file, and I did. I added some repositories I found on the web like Skype's - yet when I tried "apt-get install skype" (or Opera as I had the repository for that in there) I was again reminded of missing dependencies. What can I do? What have I done wrong? Help.

p.s. And yes, I did use apt-get update afterwards. I'd take a screenshot but don't know how.

Make install fails for Intel PRO/1000 NIC

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:25:24 +0200

Hi!

I've installed

Can't mount fat32 drive

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:39:11 +0200

Hi all,

I have just installed Debian 4.0 on an old Dell Optiplex gx1. Everything installed great (apart from the onboard sound which i fixed after googling) but i can't access the fat32 hard drive which has some files i need to transfer. When i try to access it i get the following errors:

Unable to mount the selected volume.

libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set.

process 4663: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application.

error: device /dev/hda1 is not removable

error: could not execute pmount

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

How do I Offsite LAN Netinst?

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:59:21 +0200

Hi.

I want to install debian etch on my LAN using a minimal netinst CD or via PXE(I know how to set up this).

What I want to know is which files/directories I need to copy over from a mirror and put it on my local server.

I can then set up apache or NFS to serve these files. I just need to know how and which files/directories to copy over.

Thanks.

cant apt-get install conky

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:05:03 +0200

So I have moved from Gentoo -> To Debian (Still left Gentoo on my Pentium III)

I can't EFFING "apt-get install conky"

Ive been using gentoo and emerging stuff since forever, whats wrong with apt-get ????

Can anyone help walk me through it..

Enlightenment E17

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:51:48 +0100

If you don't know about enlightenment, it is one of those externally "in development" packages. The e16 release was sometime ago and whilst it was beautiful it suffered (at least for me) from constant slowness . So I gave up and went back to my then standard desktop of Fluxbox. Then somewhere alone the way I discovered that e17 was actually available (as a CVS package) from Gentoo's Portage! So I gave it a go and was instantly disappointed it was so buggy it was unusable. So back to Fluxbox again. I then gave it another go, I was determined that the very pretty middleweight window manager! And so it was that I began happily using e17, installing its various modules (take a look at some of my screenshots). In fact .. what the hell here is a couple of screenshots:

[img]/monthly_03_2007/post-798-1172771394.png[/img]

[img]/monthly_03_2007/post-798-1172771296.png[/img]

[img]/monthly_03_2007/post-798-1172771154.png[/img]

So how do you get this pretty desktop .. well it just so happens that edevelop supplies several Deb packages.

Setup these two sources. Then you can use apt to install it.

Code:
deb http://edevelop.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

deb-src http://edevelop.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

Please note you can replace "sid" with "sarge" or "etch" depending on your current Debian version. Enjoy!

  znx.ss.20070226162736.png (Size: 1.73 MB / Downloads: 0)

  Devilish_Enlightenment__by_znxster.png (Size: 564.84 KB / Downloads: 0)

  44226123.png (Size: 1.33 MB / Downloads: 0)

Debian to rebrand firefox

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:14:20 +0200

read here to find out more

[/url][url=http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=16009]http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=16009

Quote:Debian adheres to a strict interpretation of what is Free Software and what isn't. The Firefox logo is trademarked, so Debian doesn't consider it to be Free and will not include it as part of its distribution. Mozilla claims that using the Firefox name without the official branding is a trademark violation. Furthermore, Mozilla claims that if Debian runs any patches to the version of Firefox included with Debian distros, it has to run them by Mozilla first for approval. What all this ultimately could mean is that the Firefox name is wiped from the face of Debian and its offshoots. Debian developer Eric Dorland confirmed to internetnews.com that Debian will re-name Firefox and that the re-naming process could be completed as soon as next week.

lol

cheers

anyweb

trashcan io problem

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:05:04 +0100

I am currently running Sarge. I did a dist-upgrade from Woody and everything works fine except when I press the delete key, I get this error message:

Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:

klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'trash'.

I get the same error if I drag a file to the trash. Shift-delete works just fine. I've checked permissions on the trash, they are fine.

Any suggestions?

Rescue Cd for Debain

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 19:26:13 +0200

Let's say you comiled your kernel & on boot you get an old kernel panic or something else;

Get your DVD OR CD install disk or even a netinstall disk should work

Boot from the dvd or cd install disk & at the prompt put in # rescue root=/dev/hda5

example_where (dev /hda5 is your debian partition) your root partition

don't hesitate to discover different options with F1

Your box should boot up normally with the kernel of the cd or dvd where you will find all your partitions and all your data untouched at the same place you left it before.

Now, as everything is almost back ,fix the error or mistake you have done where you have last compiled your kernel & you should be done .

johnny06 [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img]

Blocking Incoming Traffic

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:45:49 +0200

You want to block all incoming network traffic, except from your system itself. Does not affect outgoing traffic.

For iptables:

# iptables -F INPUT

# iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

# iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT

For ipchains:

# ipchains -F input

# ipchains -A input -i lo -j ACCEPT

# ipchains -A input -p tcp --syn -j REJECT

# ipchains -A input -p udp --dport 0:1023 -j REJECT

johnny06

good stuff for noobs

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:05:57 +0200

[/url][url=http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/]http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/

Good documents i found writen by noods 4 noobs

but its pritty simple stuff but good resourse 4 learning.

Install True Type Fonts: Using a Font Server

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:26:59 +0200

You can add your own fonts and sharing them by putting them into /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype. You need to run a couple of commands to make them available to X:

# cd /usr/local/share/fonts

# mkdir truetype

# chmod go+rx truetype

# cd truetype

# wget [/url][url=http://www.children2children.net/promos/fonts/kidprint.zip]http://www.children2children.net/promos/fonts/kidprint.zip

# unzip kidprint.zip

# rm kidprint.zip

# mkfontscale (or ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale ?????)

# mkfontdir

You need to add the path to the catalogue entry in /etc/X11/fs/config:

/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/

A couple of other paths that should also be included there for the defoma package managed fonts to be available are:

/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID/

/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/

enjoy,

to bee continued B)

johnny06