Troubleshooting apt-get -f install

Hi,

I'm following instructions[1] from Debian Wiki to install Skype
on Wheezy.

  [1]: http://wiki.debian.org/skype#Debian_7.0_.22Wheezy.22

In a nutshell:

    # dpkg --add-architecture i386
    # apt-get update
    # wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/...snip
    # dpkg -i skype-install.deb
    # apt-get -f install

Now at the point when I do `apt-get -f install`, only solution
APT offers is to remove skype:i386.  While I agree with APT
that there are much better options than Skype(tm), I need to
communicate with people inside the walled garden, so for now
I'm going to stick with Skype.

    me <at> here:~$ sudo apt-get -f install 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Correcting dependencies... Done
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
      skype:i386
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 55 not upgraded.
    1 not fully installed or removed.

virtual host/user and gui configuration

Hi folks!

I installed postfix+courier with apache and all with virtual host.

Using squirrelmail, users can check and send email.

Is there a gui tools to automatically add/remove/modify own email setting?

For now, I user userdb to handle every user but I'd like permit to do
this from gui web interface.

Any idea?

thanks!

Pol

Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

(I'm on the list, so replying back to the list is probably best.)

theartloy <at> zoho.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Check it 'deborphan', in the archive.
> It does a reverse dependency lookup on a package, similar to apt-cache's
> depends and rdepends commands, but only shows installed packages.
> 
> So to see all the packages you have installed that depend on avahi, run:
>    deborphan -a avahi-daemon
> or to see the packages that depend on or 'recommend' avahi, run:
>    deborphan -an avahi-daemon

Thanks; good to know about that one, but that's not quite what I'm
looking for.  I'm hoping that someone on the list knows if it's
something that's really needed.  I already know there are packages set
as dependent on it since it tells me all about that when I try to purge
the package. 

             --Dave

Need help setting up bluetooth file transfers

paired my desktop computer and my tablet but file transfers failed.  The
tablet said the failure was because the computer does not use obexftp so
I installed obexftp and obexfs.  hciconfig found the bluetooth device to
be hci0 so I entered the command 

obexfs -b hci0

This was accepted but did not resolve the problem.

I tried obexftpd -c /tmp/inbox -b

as suggested in the man page.  The response was

failed to register bluetooth server: Address already in use.

There isn't a HOWTO on this subject.

Any suggestions?

Tom

avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

I'm still running Squeeze for a while longer before I finally upgrade to
Wheezy - want to let it shake out a bit before taking the plunge. 

A question that I've been pondering for a while now:  Is the
avahi-daemon *really* needed?  All it seems to do is spew the occasional
message to my syslog, and based on what I've read about what it does, it
doesn't really seem like something I need for my particular setup.
However, any attempt to do an aptitude purge of it results in a warning
message that doing so makes it want to remove Gnome among other things,
which it says is dependent upon it.

I don't actually use Gnome (I'm a KDE guy, myself), but I don't mind
having it in the system, and some of the tools I use seem to expect
Gnome to be there.  And again, from what I read of the purpose for
avahi-daemon, I'm not sure why Gnome specifically wants it to be
present.  Seems more like a "it can use it if it's available" type of
thing, but maybe I'm misreading it.

So, is avahi-daemon truly essential for the system?  If not, is there a
way to remove it without removing other things such as Gnome?

                --Dave

backported vs upstream libreoffice 4

A recent thread made me aware of the availability of
LO4 in wheezy-backports. Then I started wondering what
advantages were to be gained from using this version,
given that DEB packages are provided by the upstream
developers themselves ?
Perhaps less disk space / memory bloat because system
libraries can be shared ? Better desktop integration?
Is this documented somewhere ?

wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

Hi folks, 

I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to 
open this discussion.

Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to 
debian-volatile and is intended for use of debian/stable users (aka wheezy at 
the moment). As far as I read, packages in wheezy-backports are put into, when 
the environment of those is chenged and a higher (and newer version) is 
needed. As an example I want to name here clamav (which needs a newer version, 
when the virus-database is being updated, some chatprograms like yahoo, ehen a 
new protocol must be used or new protocols have to be used, but package 
versions in wheezy do not support them).

If I am correct, then I do not understand, why packages are available in 
wheezy-backports, but not in debian/testing. According to debian behaviour (I 
think the word policy is the wrong choice here), Packages from unstable will 
be tested, then, if no big bugs appear, get into testing , and when it is 
stable enough, are put into stable.

And if I am still correct, that ALL packages in wheezy-backports are aimed for 
the use only in debian/stable, there will appear things, I do not understand.

1. So, how can it be, that i.e. libreoffice in wheezy-backports is version 4.0, 
whilst in debian/testing it is still 3.5? And the backported version is from 
unstable, it is 4.0!

2. How can it happen, that everyone is telling me, "Do NOT upgrade ALL 
installed packages from wheezy-backports in debian/stable. It will crash your 
system!" ? 

GnuTLS versus OpenSSL.

Can anyone explain why Debian uses OpenSSL rather 
than GnuTLS?  Is it just that OpenSSL was available 
first and many packages use it?

Thanks,           ... Peter E.

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