[opensuse] efax-gtk revisited
At this point, efax-gtk has been coaxed into being in its Standby mode waiting for incoming faxes, and also in queuing messages from a virtual printer, all this without error messages -- a real advance. It has a problem, however, in sending queued messages to the outside world. After I enter the addressee's fax-phone number in the field (all in numerals, no parentheses, hyphens, or other such characters), the program tries to send, but can't because it now thinks the number is preceded by a "T". It isn't hard to imagine where the spurious "T" comes from. My guess is that the "AT" prefix has a doubled "T". Be that as it may, it appears to be a bug, and therefore something I can do nothing about by way of configuration. I got the RPM from the <wberrier> repository, and found it by using the webpin utility. I wish I new a way to warn people off it. But I have learned a lesson about the use of binary packages not from SUSE repositories. A member of the group has suggested, since that the RPM from which I installed is defective, I should start again from a source package -- I know that there is a source RPM available on the program's home page. That is indeed one of the options available to me for solving the fax problem. But whatever I do, I need to uninstall efax-gtk as it is. How to uninstall this program, which YaST doesn't know anything about, is now the problem. I have read glowing reference to the RUG utility, but YaST doesn't know anything about this either. I do not know anything about what dependencies efax-gtk may have, and do not want to risk having to delete also software on which yet other packages depend. I would appreciate any comment about how to remove this unrecognized package from my system in a safe manner. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 14:46 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
After I enter the addressee's fax-phone number in the field (all in numerals, no parentheses, hyphens, or other such characters), the program tries to send, but can't because it now thinks the number is preceded by a "T".
Curious!
It isn't hard to imagine where the spurious "T" comes from. My guess is that the "AT" prefix has a doubled "T". Be that as it may, it appears to be a bug, and therefore something I can do nothing about by way of configuration.
You should have a look at the configuration strings for the modem, the dial prefix. Typically it should be "DT" or "DP".
I got the RPM from the <wberrier> repository, and found it by using the
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How to uninstall this program, which YaST doesn't know anything about, is now the problem.
If you did install an rpm, then certainly yast knows about it. If yast doesn't know, then you did not install an rpm. That's mandatory, no doubts about it at all. Do: rpm -q "efax-gtk" If nothing is found, try: rpm -q -a | grep -i fax Once the name is known, then you can try searching for that rpm in yast, or simply: rpm --erase efax-gtk or whatever the name is. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuDigtTMYHG2NR9URAvNdAJ9D9Tl04gXAW0Ufkxw/dTWX1t11DQCeMx7v vyghv3NqtLIM+fa6j0tBHKU= =Ic7I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 17 February 2008 15:37:26 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 14:46 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
After I enter the addressee's fax-phone number in the field (all in numerals, no parentheses, hyphens, or other such characters), the program tries to send, but can't because it now thinks the number is preceded by a "T".
Curious!
It isn't hard to imagine where the spurious "T" comes from. My guess is that the "AT" prefix has a doubled "T". Be that as it may, it appears to be a bug, and therefore something I can do nothing about by way of configuration.
You should have a look at the configuration strings for the modem, the dial prefix. Typically it should be "DT" or "DP"
efax-gtk does not seem to expose the dialing command to public view. It has radio buttons for choosing Pulse or Tone, but one doesn't see into the engine room.
I got the RPM from the <wberrier> repository, and found it by using the ...
How to uninstall this program, which YaST doesn't know anything about, is now the problem.
If you did install an rpm, then certainly yast knows about it. If yast doesn't know, then you did not install an rpm. That's mandatory, no doubts about it at all.
Right you are! efax-gtk is now gone. I had been told otherwise explilcitly elsewhere. The fellow was obviously wrong. With that, I can declare that, at least at the moment, I have no outstanding software problems on the system, and I can concentrate on learning Linux and enjoying it. I'm sure something will come up sooner or later however Hasta entonces, Adios, y muchas gracias a los todos. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 20:48 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
You should have a look at the configuration strings for the modem, the dial prefix. Typically it should be "DT" or "DP"
efax-gtk does not seem to expose the dialing command to public view. It has radio buttons for choosing Pulse or Tone, but one doesn't see into the engine room.
Can't comment, I don't have that program.
With that, I can declare that, at least at the moment, I have no outstanding software problems on the system, and I can concentrate on learning Linux and enjoying it. I'm sure something will come up sooner or later however Hasta entonces, Adios, y muchas gracias a los todos.
Bien! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuhFntTMYHG2NR9URAh4XAKCCWOy81DBmA9SZ1U88wBvDZBKwsQCfVRF/ 87LnFbcnQlmdh0PM/dfJXo0= =uqbe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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After I enter the addressee's fax-phone number in the field (all in numerals, no parentheses, hyphens, or other such characters), the program tries to send, but can't because it now thinks the number is preceded by a "T".
Curious!
It isn't hard to imagine where the spurious "T" comes from. My guess is that the "AT" prefix has a doubled "T". Be that as it may, it appears to be a bug, and therefore something I can do nothing about by way of configuration.
You should have a look at the configuration strings for the modem, the dial prefix. Typically it should be "DT" or "DP".
I got the RPM from the <wberrier> repository, and found it by using the
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How to uninstall this program, which YaST doesn't know anything about, is now the problem.
If you did install an rpm, then certainly yast knows about it. If yast doesn't know, then you did not install an rpm. That's mandatory, no doubts about it at all. Do: rpm -q "efax-gtk" If nothing is found, try: rpm -q -a | grep -i fax Once the name is known, then you can try searching for that rpm in yast, or simply: rpm --erase efax-gtk or whatever the name is. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuFy+tTMYHG2NR9URAhlXAJ4haS6dotElFF1i/jjwcjXNlxcXNwCfcQq3 PrEP92bcqukjlHDMHvkr8Bg= =B9Oj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 14:46 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
I would appreciate any comment about how to remove this unrecognized package from my system in a safe manner
#rpm -q <package name> confirm the package installation, it does not do anything #rpm -e <package name> removes the package. You can run the query again to confirm that it was removed. -=terry(Denver)=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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