26 Apr
2009
26 Apr
'09
1:35 p.m.
Hi List,
I was so glad to find out the possibility to install KDE 3.5.10 in Jaunty.
Thanks very much too all of you who have contributed!
The installation went more or less smooth but now I'd like to ask a few
questions or discuss certain matters according a few remaining quirks.
That's why I first tried to find a mailing list archive of this list to look
what is already discussed but --- no success here. I prefere to first read
the archive not to spam the list with well discussed subjects.
Can anyone point me into the right direction please?
Thanks a lot
Gerhard
26 Apr
26 Apr
6:28 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] looking for the list archive
Hi List,
I was so glad to find out the possibility to install KDE 3.5.10 in Jaunty.
Thanks very much too all of you who have contributed!
The installation went more or less smooth but now I'd like to ask a few
questions or discuss certain matters according a few remaining quirks.
That's why I first tried to find a mailing list archive of this list to
look
what is already discussed but --- no success here. I prefere to first read
the archive not to spam the list with well discussed subjects.
Can anyone point me into the right direction please?
Thanks a lot
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
I don't have a web archive available--yet. The archives AFAIK are in the
bowels of my Email server but I need to find a way to bring them out to a
Web interface. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm running qmail and
ezmlm...
Tim
9:21 p.m.
New subject: Archival test message--please ignore
Archival test message--please ignore
Tim
10:10 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] looking for the list archive
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Gerhard Zintel <gerhard.zintel(a)web.de> wrote:
That's why I first tried to find a mailing list archive of this list to look
what is already discussed but --- no success here. I prefere to first read
the archive not to spam the list with well discussed subjects.
We haven't discussed all that much. Go ahead and ask your questions.
Michael
10:16 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] looking for the list archive
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Gerhard Zintel
<gerhard.zintel(a)web.de>
wrote:
I have the two list archives up (finally):
http://kubuntu-kde3.5-users.pearsoncomputing.net/
http://kubuntu-kde3.5-announce.pearsoncomputing.net/
Thank you for your patience!
Tim
That's why I first tried to find a mailing list archive of this list to
look
what is already discussed but --- no success here. I prefere to first
read
the archive not to spam the list with well discussed subjects.
We haven't discussed all that much. Go ahead and ask your questions.
Michael
27 Apr
27 Apr
10:47 a.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] looking for the list archive
On Monday 27 April 2009, kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
Wow, that was fast! One remark, if I try to search the list I get:
--------------- snip -------------------
Error: Unable to access mailing list
kubuntu-kde3.5-users(a)pearsoncomputing.net.
Its directory may not exist, or the webserver may not have appropriate
permissions to read archives, or the mailing list may not be both archived
and indexed (as required).
--------------- snip -------------------
Searching isn't really necessary by now - but hopefully later on ;-)
Gerhard
On Sun, Apr
26, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Gerhard Zintel <gerhard.zintel(a)web.de>
wrote:
> That's why I first tried to find a mailing list archive of this list to
> look
> what is already discussed but --- no success here. I prefere to first
> read
> the archive not to spam the list with well discussed subjects.
I have the two list archives up (finally):
http://kubuntu-kde3.5-users.pearsoncomputing.net/
http://kubuntu-kde3.5-announce.pearsoncomputing.net/
Thank you for your patience!
Tim
28 Apr
28 Apr
7:30 p.m.
New subject: "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
Hello,
I tried to edit a text file as root by using the right mouse button menu
Actions --> Edit as Root item. I am asked for my password afterwords a pop-up
with title "Error - KDE Sudo" tells me: "Command not found!". Nothing
more
happens.
Any hint?
Gerhard
9:31 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
I tried to edit a text file as root by using the right
mouse button menu
Actions --> Edit as Root item. I am asked for my password afterwords a
pop-up with title "Error - KDE Sudo" tells me: "Command not found!".
Nothing more happens.
Answering to my own posting: I realized that the path to the kde-3 executables
is set for a normal user but not for Root. I found the File responsible for
the "Edit as Root" behaviour, it's
/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/edit-as-root.desktop
As a work around I changed the line
Exec=kdesu "kwrite" "%U"
into
Exec=kdesu "/opt/kde3/bin/kwrite" "%U"
That's surely not the correct way but as for now it works for me.
Gerhard
10:05 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
Hi Gerhard,
Do you have sudo-kde3 installed? It has /opt/kde3/bin added to the RPATH
(root PATH variable) so that this sort of thing does not happen.
Tim
I tried to edit a text file as root by using the
right mouse button menu
Actions --> Edit as Root item. I am asked for my password afterwords a
pop-up with title "Error - KDE Sudo" tells me: "Command not found!".
Nothing more happens.
Answering to my own posting: I realized that the path to the kde-3
executables
is set for a normal user but not for Root. I found the File responsible
for
the "Edit as Root" behaviour, it's
/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/edit-as-root.desktop
As a work around I changed the line
Exec=kdesu "kwrite" "%U"
into
Exec=kdesu "/opt/kde3/bin/kwrite" "%U"
That's surely not the correct way but as for now it works for me.
Gerhard
10:45 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Wednesday 29 April 2009, kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
Hi Tim,
I just realized that I have installed both, kdesudo-kde3 and kdesudo. I don't
know how this happens. The same is for konsole and konsole-kde3. Might it be
that with default Ubuntu Jaunty install those packages are installed by
default?
By deinstallation of kdesudo the two packages update-manager-kde and
update-notifier-kde are deinstalled. Is there a replacement in KDE3?
After deinstallation of kdesudo I changed the file edit-as-root.desktop to
it's original state but now I have the same problem like before: "Command
not found!"
Thank you
Gerhard
On Tuesday 28
April 2009, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
Hi Gerhard,
Do you have sudo-kde3 installed? It has /opt/kde3/bin added to the RPATH
(root PATH variable) so that this sort of thing does not happen.
Tim I tried to edit a text file as root by using the
right mouse button menu
Actions --> Edit as Root item. I am asked for my password afterwords a
pop-up with title "Error - KDE Sudo" tells me: "Command not found!".
Nothing more happens.
Answering to my own posting: I realized that the path to the kde-3
executables
is set for a normal user but not for Root. I found the File responsible
for
the "Edit as Root" behaviour, it's
/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/edit-as-root.desktop
As a work around I changed the line
Exec=kdesu "kwrite" "%U"
into
Exec=kdesu "/opt/kde3/bin/kwrite" "%U"
That's surely not the correct way but as for now it works for me.
Gerhard
10:49 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Wednesday 29 April 2009,
kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
responsible
Hi Tim,
I just realized that I have installed both, kdesudo-kde3 and kdesudo. I
don't
know how this happens. The same is for konsole and konsole-kde3. Might it
be
that with default Ubuntu Jaunty install those packages are installed by
default?
By deinstallation of kdesudo the two packages update-manager-kde and
update-notifier-kde are deinstalled. Is there a replacement in KDE3?
After deinstallation of kdesudo I changed the file edit-as-root.desktop to
it's original state but now I have the same problem like before: "Command
not found!"
Thank you
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
I was talking about sudo-kde3, not kdesudo-kde3. It's a special sudo
recompile with the RPATH fixed for KDE3 apps.
Sorry for the confusion!
Tim
On
Tuesday 28 April 2009, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> I tried to edit a text file as root by using the right mouse button
menu
> Actions --> Edit as Root item. I am asked
for my password afterwords
a
pop-up
with title "Error - KDE Sudo" tells me: "Command not found!".
Nothing more happens.
Answering to my own posting: I realized that the path to the kde-3
executables
is set for a normal user but not for Root. I found the File for
the "Edit as Root" behaviour, it's
/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/edit-as-root.desktop
As a work around I changed the line
Exec=kdesu "kwrite" "%U"
into
Exec=kdesu "/opt/kde3/bin/kwrite" "%U"
That's surely not the correct way but as for now it works for me.
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
Do you have sudo-kde3 installed? It has /opt/kde3/bin added to the
RPATH
(root PATH variable) so that this sort of thing does not happen.
Tim
29 Apr
29 Apr
9:24 a.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Wednesday 29 April 2009, kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
Hi Gerhard,
I was talking about sudo-kde3, not kdesudo-kde3. It's a special sudo
recompile with the RPATH fixed for KDE3 apps.
Sorry for the confusion!
Tim
Hi Tim,
trying to install kdesudo-kde3 with "apt-get install " I am told that apt-get
tries to remove package sudo what gives me an error message that in that case
I can not longer log into my system as root because no Root password is set.
As long as that is the case I don't want to force installation of sudo-kde3.
Gerhard
9:35 a.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
Gerhard Zintel schrieb:
On Wednesday 29 April 2009,
kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
You can set the root password via "sudo passwd" test it via "su".
Stefan
Hi Gerhard,
I was talking about sudo-kde3, not kdesudo-kde3. It's a special sudo
recompile with the RPATH fixed for KDE3 apps.
Sorry for the confusion!
Tim
Hi Tim,
trying to install kdesudo-kde3 with "apt-get install " I am told that apt-get
tries to remove package sudo what gives me an error message that in that case
I can not longer log into my system as root because no Root password is set.
As long as that is the case I don't want to force installation of sudo-kde3.
Gerhard
10:22 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Wednesday 29 April 2009, Stefan Endrullis wrote:
I have done this meanwhile but I'm nevertheless uncertain if I should
deinstall the sudo package for installation of sudo-kde3?! Is it a complete
replacement of this system tool?
Gerhard
trying to
install kdesudo-kde3 with "apt-get install " I am told that
apt-get tries to remove package sudo what gives me an error message that
in that case I can not longer log into my system as root because no Root
password is set.
As long as that is the case I don't want to force installation of
sudo-kde3.
Gerhard
You can set the root password via "sudo passwd" test it via "su".
Stefan
11:17 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Wednesday 29 April 2009, Stefan Endrullis wrote:
I have done this meanwhile but I'm nevertheless uncertain if I should
deinstall the sudo package for installation of sudo-kde3?! Is it a
complete
replacement of this system tool?
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
Yes. It is the identical source to sudo, but with /opt/kde3/bin and
/opt/kde3/games added to the secure path. If you're a bit security
paranoid (like me) and want to make sure I didn't insert any backdoors or
the like, just download the source from the PPA and run a diff against the
official sudo version--you should only see the secure path change.
Tim
trying to
install kdesudo-kde3 with "apt-get install " I am told that
apt-get tries to remove package sudo what gives me an error message
that
in that case I can not longer log into my system
as root because no
Root
password is set.
As long as that is the case I don't want to force installation of
sudo-kde3.
Gerhard
You can set the root password via "sudo passwd" test it via "su".
Stefan
30 Apr
30 Apr
9:52 a.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Thursday 30 April 2009, kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
Thank you Tim for the explanation, I will do it.
No, I'm not really security paranoid ;-) but I was not sure to have the same
functionality after deinstallation of package sudo.
Gerhard
On Wednesday
29 April 2009, Stefan Endrullis wrote:
I have done this meanwhile but I'm nevertheless uncertain if I should
deinstall the sudo package for installation of sudo-kde3?! Is it a
complete
replacement of this system tool?
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
Yes. It is the identical source to sudo, but with /opt/kde3/bin and
/opt/kde3/games added to the secure path. If you're a bit security
paranoid (like me) and want to make sure I didn't insert any backdoors or
the like, just download the source from the PPA and run a diff against the
official sudo version--you should only see the secure path change.
Tim trying to
install kdesudo-kde3 with "apt-get install " I am told that
apt-get tries to remove package sudo what gives me an error message
that
in that case I can not longer log into my system
as root because no
Root
password is set.
As long as that is the case I don't want to force installation of
sudo-kde3.
Gerhard
You can set the root password via "sudo passwd" test it via "su".
Stefan
9:58 a.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Wednesday 29 April 2009, kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
I've just done it and it fixes the problem.
Thank U
Gerhard
On Wednesday
29 April 2009, kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
Hi Tim,
I just realized that I have installed both, kdesudo-kde3 and kdesudo. I
don't
know how this happens. The same is for konsole and konsole-kde3. Might it
be
that with default Ubuntu Jaunty install those packages are installed by
default?
By deinstallation of kdesudo the two packages update-manager-kde and
update-notifier-kde are deinstalled. Is there a replacement in KDE3?
After deinstallation of kdesudo I changed the file edit-as-root.desktop
to it's original state but now I have the same problem like before:
"Command not found!"
Thank you
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
I was talking about sudo-kde3, not kdesudo-kde3. It's a special sudo
recompile with the RPATH fixed for KDE3 apps.
Sorry for the confusion!
Tim On
Tuesday 28 April 2009, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> I tried to edit a text file as root by using the right mouse button
menu
> Actions --> Edit as Root item. I am asked
for my password afterwords
a
> pop-up with title "Error - KDE
Sudo" tells me: "Command not found!".
> Nothing more happens.
Answering to my own posting: I realized that the path to the kde-3
executables
is set for a normal user but not for Root. I found the File
responsible
for
the "Edit as Root" behaviour, it's
/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/edit-as-root.desktop
As a work around I changed the line
Exec=kdesu "kwrite" "%U"
into
Exec=kdesu "/opt/kde3/bin/kwrite" "%U"
That's surely not the correct way but as for now it works for me.
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
Do you have sudo-kde3 installed? It has /opt/kde3/bin added to the
RPATH
(root PATH variable) so that this sort of thing does not happen.
Tim
28 Apr
28 Apr
10:49 p.m.
New subject: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] "Actions --> Edit as Root" does not work
On Wednesday 29 April 2009,
kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
responsible
Hi Tim,
I just realized that I have installed both, kdesudo-kde3 and kdesudo. I
don't
know how this happens. The same is for konsole and konsole-kde3. Might it
be
that with default Ubuntu Jaunty install those packages are installed by
default?
By deinstallation of kdesudo the two packages update-manager-kde and
update-notifier-kde are deinstalled. Is there a replacement in KDE3?
After deinstallation of kdesudo I changed the file edit-as-root.desktop to
it's original state but now I have the same problem like before: "Command
not found!"
Thank you
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
I was talking about sudo-kde3, not kdesudo-kde3. It's a special sudo
recompile with the RPATH fixed for KDE3 apps.
Sorry for the confusion!
Tim
On
Tuesday 28 April 2009, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> I tried to edit a text file as root by using the right mouse button
menu
> Actions --> Edit as Root item. I am asked
for my password afterwords
a
pop-up
with title "Error - KDE Sudo" tells me: "Command not found!".
Nothing more happens.
Answering to my own posting: I realized that the path to the kde-3
executables
is set for a normal user but not for Root. I found the File for
the "Edit as Root" behaviour, it's
/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/edit-as-root.desktop
As a work around I changed the line
Exec=kdesu "kwrite" "%U"
into
Exec=kdesu "/opt/kde3/bin/kwrite" "%U"
That's surely not the correct way but as for now it works for me.
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
Do you have sudo-kde3 installed? It has /opt/kde3/bin added to the
RPATH
(root PATH variable) so that this sort of thing does not happen.
Tim
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