May 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Kiwi Problems
by Gabriel Stein 29 May '08

29 May '08

People, I´m trying to make a USB pendrive with openSUSE using KIWI. But, when I try prepare with command: kiwi --prepare /usr/share/kiwi/image/kwliveCD -suse-10.3 --root /tmp/kiwi-tmp --add-profile KDE --logfile terminal I receive the error: <3> : chroot: cannot run command `smart': No such file or directory Anyone have the same problem? Cheers. -- /\ Gabriel Stein gabrielstein(a)gmail.com MSN: gabrielstein(a)hotmail.com Administrador de Redes - Network Administrator Linux User #223750 +55 51 9357 3886 Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Need a windoze expert - for Linux of course
by Bob S 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hello SuSE people Where does Thunderbird keep it's email addresses? (In windoze) (C:/Program Files/Mozilla Thunderbird/?) I want to copy the file from an old Windows Thunderbird install to a new SuSE Thunderbird install. Don't care about the messages, Just the dozens of email addresses. Same deal with Firefox. Just the bookmarks Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] downloading 10.3
by Damon Register 29 May '08

29 May '08

Has anyone tried downloading 10.3 recently? I just tried downloading 10.3 32 bit x86 DVD but the iso file seems to be corrupt. It is only 105MB. I checked several mirrors and they are all the same. Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Getlibs equivalent for SuSE x86_64 ?
by David Looney 29 May '08

29 May '08

Is there an equivalent package for the debian/ubuntu "getlibs" for x86_64 suse releases (getlibs identifies and downloads 32-bit libraries needed to install to run dynamically linked apps under x86_64 systems) ? I didn't get anything on software search at opensuse.org. I've just gone through individually identifying the packages containing the 32-bit libs needed for the amazonmp3 downloader (8 different libs from 4 different packages), downloading those from the i586 10.3 suppository, installing the packages to an alternate root, finding the needed libs, and creating a new rpm package to install them. It works, but this is a painful process. Some other 32-bit apps reveal their complete dependencies in stages (i.e. rpm balks initially at installing the 32-bit app, you install the libs it says are needed, and then you get an entirely new list when trying to install the rpm again). A tool to automate this for rpm-based distributions would be useful. David Looney -- Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it. - Harry Truman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Flash success/nspluginwrapper was: How to obtain 32 bit firefox?
by Jim Henderson 29 May '08

29 May '08

On Thu, 29 May 2008 12:08:25 +0800, Joe Morris wrote: > flash-player is in the non-oss repository, not flash-plugin My bad. I assumed that the goal that Simon had was to get flash running, so I based my answer on what is actually working on my system, and totally missed that he actually had named the file he was installing from. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Google Earth Problem
by Jim Henderson 29 May '08

29 May '08

On Wed, 28 May 2008 20:19:33 +0100, malcolm wrote: > I bought the box about 2 years ago and have not changed the driver. > Where can I look to find out which driver is in use? Look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the device section - there's a line that says "driver" and the name of the driver. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Flash success/nspluginwrapper was: How to obtain 32 bit firefox?
by Simon Roberts 29 May '08

29 May '08

----- Original Message ---- From: Joe Morris <Joe_Morris(a)ntm.org> On 05/29/2008 03:26 AM, Simon Roberts wrote: > Then I reinstalled from Yast, just firefox and flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release > Then I did "rpm -q -filesbypkg flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release" to determine the name of the actual plugin file (which was reported as /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so) > Then I used "nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so" to get the wrapper to notice the 32-bit driver > Then I restarted firefox, and it works a treat :) It does seem to be generating some warning messages to stderr, but these don't seem to prevent it from working properly ------ That isn't the way it works normally. Browser plugins are installed to /usr/{_lib}/browser-plugins. So, joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qf /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so flash-player-9.0.124.0-0.1 joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qa | grep flash flash-player-9.0.124.0-0.1 nspluginwrapper automatically installs, I believe via a post-install script, the plugins it finds in the 32 bit location, i.e. /usr/lib/browser-plugins. Since you installed something that did not install in the default location, i.e. a non suse package according to pin, you needed to setup nspluginwrapper manually. If you would have installed the flash-player from the install media (which would have been upgraded via online update), it would have worked out-of-the-box. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unfortunately, that's not quite true either. It's now lost in a long string of messages, responses, and so forth, but this all started with a completely virgin install of 10.3. Not an upgrade, but completely new install on a fresh partition. It did _not_ work out of the box. After much messing around, trying many things (both reasonable and unreasonable :) I cleaned out a lot of accumulated junk and went back to Yast and those were the packages that came from the OpenSuSE 10.3 repositories. After telling Yast to install the packages, it still did not work, however, when I configured nspluginwrapper by hand, that's how I got it to work. The only thing about my install that wasn't "textbook" was that due to a dying CD/DVD drive, I was forced to install from the 10.3_Gnome CD, rather than using the DVD. Cheers, Simon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] how to give a name to external HD?
by Daniel Bauer 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hello, I have an external USB HD with 4 encrypted partitions (reiserfs). When they get mounted they are named /media/disk-1 etc. I'd prefer if I could give them a fixed name like "backup1" or something... How can I do that? (I don't mean to just mount them on a named mountpoint, I mean that I can give the partition itself a name that will appear no matter to which computer I attach the disk. When I bought the disk it was formatted somehow windowish and had such a name that appeared after mounting...) thanks for hints Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] virtualbox shared directories
by Sampsa Riikonen 29 May '08

29 May '08

Dear List, I have trouble in mounting the shared directories for virtualbox. ---------------------- mount -t vboxsf share /comun/virtualbox/windoze mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf' --------------------- I even tried (after some googling): -------------------- mount -t vboxfs share /comun/virtualbox/windoze mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxfs' -------------------- .. am I missing some packages / modules? I have installed also the "guest packages" from the suse repo. I am running 64-bit suse 10.3. Regards, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenOffice quickstarter fails with OO 2.4 64 bit
by James Knott 29 May '08

29 May '08

I recently installed 64 bit OpenOffice 2.4 on my computer. I have now noticed that the quickstarter no longer works. When I try to start OpenOffice with it, I get an error message such as "/home/jknott/private:factory/swriter does not exist". I can start OpenOffice with the usual icons. This problem does not occur on a 32 bit system. Any ideas? tnx jk -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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