Ask Ubuntu General Room

12:00 AM

Luis pays Braiam 10K of Gold... no one never knew Braiam was the mastermind behind the fight.

@LuisAlvarado I like french, but too heavy for me atm. If you have been trying to learn Mandarin for more than 3 days, you are a genius!

Luis Alvarado

hahahah

terdon

@LuisAlvarado You're beginning to worry me... You enjoyed that mindless violence way too much.

Luis Alvarado

I REALLYYYY understand what you are saying

Lucio

Lol:

@terdon :Thanks for editing the question for me :P. I will copy your line and give it a go. — Superpajamarama 1 min ago

Luis Alvarado

12:02 AM

@terdon what are you talking about... pays Lucio a bunch of gold and gives him a knife. Lucio positions himself behind terdon while he talks to me. Roll a 20 sided die to see if you survive.

Lucio

xD

terdon

@LuisAlvarado OK. Now just go with these nice gentlemen in the white coats. They'll take good care of you.

Luis Alvarado

haha

terdon

:)

Luis Alvarado

Anybody here also a D&D addict. I don't mean video games but board games.

Lucio

12:04 AM

yep

I friend mentioned one of those games to me

I said "lets play it next week" ... 2 months since

terdon

lol, turns out the "rar" file was empty :)

@LuisAlvarado Not an addict but played some RPG in uni. ONly played a single (short) D&D campaign though.

Lucio

What means "D&D"

Rinzwind

@LuisAlvarado yes me

@Lucio dungeons and dragons

but it is years since I last played :P

Luis Alvarado

I knew the rar had a problem

if it had a password it would had mentioned something about "hey you forgot the password". It was either corrupt or empty.

@Rinzwind Well my character was left in Venezuela so I have to start from scratch

@Lucio hahaha 2 months

My D&D experiences always started at 11 AM and ended at 11:30 AM... the OTHER day.

JohnMerlino

Im following exercise chapter 4 of C Programming Language book. Unfortunately when i try to compile math.h on ubuntu, gcc gives me the following error:

undefined reference to `fmod'

Luis Alvarado

12:09 AM

D&D = 20 glasses of coffee, coke, pepsi, caffeine like crazy.

JohnMerlino

I tried compiling as follows: gcc -lm -o calc calc.c

any idea of what is going on here?

Lucio

@LuisAlvarado and summer glasses!

terdon

@LuisAlvarado Heh, yeah, I know gthe feeling. Our shadowrun games would last at least 12h too.

Lucio

@JohnMerlino paste the code on paste.ubuntu.com

and link it here

Luis Alvarado

@JohnMerlino Maybe am confused right now but shouldn't you compile the .C or .CPP instead

JohnMerlino

12:12 AM

@Lucio paste.ubuntu.com/7444677

Luis Alvarado

they would add the library headers to the code in the compiling process no?

JohnMerlino

@LuisAlvarado I am compiling with .c

Lucio

*calc.c

Luis Alvarado

I see, sorry when I read "when i try to compile math.h on ubuntu" I thought you were actually compiling math.c

terdon

@JohnMerlino that compiled with no errors here. What\s your OS and gcc version?

Luis Alvarado

12:13 AM

ok let me run it here and see

JohnMerlino

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release:	12.04
Codename:	precise

terdon

$ gcc --version
gcc (Debian 4.8.2-1) 4.8.2

JohnMerlino

$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-2ubuntu1~12.04) 4.7.3
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

terdon

Seems strange. I have 0.3 C-fu so I really can't be sure but it sounds like you're missing one of the included libraries. Does anyone know who provides fmod?

Lucio

math.h

he included it

wait, that is cpp

terdon

12:17 AM

@Lucio Are you sure?

grep fmod /usr/include/math.h

returns nothing

Lucio

Nop

@JohnMerlino you need this library: cmath

terdon

/usr/include/tgmath.h

Lucio

So adding #include <cmath> at the top should do it

terdon

@Lucio So, why did it compile OK on my machine then?

Lucio

mm.. it depends on the machine? :P

JohnMerlino

12:19 AM

fatal error: cmath.h: No such file or directory

Lucio

I'm confusing C with C++

JohnMerlino

This is C program. It's an exerise I was working on from C Progrmming Language book

terdon

@JohnMerlino Try tgmath, that's the one that has the fmod definition on my machine.

Luis Alvarado

@JohnMerlino Am doing a bit of cleaning of the code and making it more indented/standard. Give me a second.

terdon

OK, @JohnMerlino it works on my LMDE (Debian) but fails on my 14.04 VM. Looks like an Ubuntu problem somehow.

JohnMerlino

12:21 AM

tgmath didn't work either

Rinzwind

@terdon no Ubuntu has no flaws. Must be debian not throwing an error where it should >:D

terdon

@Rinzwind Ah, yes, of course. I should have realized.

Lucio

lol

Luis Alvarado

I got an error: collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Lucio

@LuisAlvarado This is my first Portuguese post :)

Luis Alvarado

12:26 AM

so maybe the problem is from the linking part

@JohnMerlino you there

JohnMerlino

@LuisAlvarado yes

Luis Alvarado

Can you put the linker line at the end so it is not processed first

gcc -lm -o calc calc.c --> gcc calc.c -o calc -lm

terdon

@LuisAlvarado Wow, that worked. Why?

JohnMerlino

This here didn't throw any errors: gcc calc.c -o calc -lm

Luis Alvarado

@Lucio Wow, that's some Portuguese you got there. You know you are on the right track when I read the question and understand 10% of it.

Lucio

12:31 AM

haha, yeah

I like how brazilians talk

Sim, estou na biblioteca swing, é para desktop normalmente, um joguinho! — Isaac Reinaldo 36 secs ago

joguinho! <-- lol

funny people

Luis Alvarado

@terdon Because the error was WTF for the normal errors gcc gives me. So maybe it was not the compiler but one of the steps

so I created only the object first

you know -o

then ran nm with it because ubuntu already has it lol

terdon

@LuisAlvarado So you're saying that the linking happened afterwards?

Luis Alvarado

somehow yeah

terdon

I wouldn't have thought the order of the flags would matter. Wow. I'm so glad I rarely need to write C :)

Lucio

@JohnMerlino you should open a new question

JohnMerlino

12:34 AM

@LuisAlvarado thanks the program seems to be working fine

Luis Alvarado

@JohnMerlino yeah well I think you found a bug

that's not normal

terdon

And it seems Ubuntu specific (Sorry Rinzwind).

Luis Alvarado

yeap

UBUNTU HAS A VIRUS!

Lucio

Bug on gcc. This is an exciting night!

lol

terdon

@LuisAlvarado But, but, that's impossible!

Indubitable!

Lucio

12:37 AM

You are all a piece of nerds who found bugs on Saturday nights!

I love you all :P

Luis Alvarado

Saturday Night Live!!! Starring... Lucio Ferrel..... Terdon Phelps....Rinzwind Lovitz and musical star John bonjovi

4

terdon

Lol

Lucio

haha

I like the final impression

Seth

Hey @Luis long time no see! :D

terdon

> I am very aware of the dangers of what I am asking and remind people I am no where near the level of the common user. So posting about how dangerous it is and the risk involved will get an auto-flame on from Johnny Fantastic. I am looking for work arounds and answers that would aid me.

From here: askubuntu.com/questions/464072/…

Luis Alvarado

12:43 AM

@Seth who in the heck are you

terdon

Man, does his question belie his claim.

Seth

He doesn't remember me :(

Luis Alvarado

@Seth LOL JK sup buddy how are you. Me moving from country, working and stuff

Seth

@LuisAlvarado I'm doing good. Just helped dig a huge drainage pit, very tired now ;-)

How's it going?

Lucio

Beware SE community. I'm about to write a new Portuguese answer!

Luis Alvarado

12:45 AM

@Seth WOWWW. Damn

Seth

@terdon eww..

terdon

Johnny Fan-effin-tastic baby!

Seth

People who claim they know the dangers, but please enable root, have no clue what they're talking about.

terdon

Yup. Mind you, I do and I have :)

Seth

Haven't we all ;)

terdon

12:49 AM

C'mon! Somebody post a nice regex question. I want to reach 10k this weekend!

Lucio

dinner!

see you later guys

bye luis, terdon, seth and john bon jovi :P

Seth

Adios!

terdon

later!

Seth

reads transcript.. Did I.. miss something?

Luis Alvarado

Well everyone take care.

Seth

1:02 AM

See you!

Mateo

@terdon keep an eye out, one of the fantastic-four might show up...

terdon

@Mateo I think I've already seen The Thing somewhere.

@Seth Yeah. @Rinzwind and I had a fight. There was blood everywhere. I lost.

Mateo

ah, he is the one that can't turn off his powers, must have been rough

Glutanimate

Sorry to interrupt but here's an important PSA:

Use [YAD](http://sourceforge.net/projects/yad-dialog/) for your scripts folks. It's [really powerful](http://askubuntu.com/a/464122/81372)

(*shameless answer plug*)

ahh, no markdown ☹

terdon

Anyone have any ideas on this?

1

Q: trying to install terminal window managers

I'd like to try some terminal window managers such as Viper Window Manager (VWM) and Twin ("Textmode WINdow"), but I'm having difficulties getting them running in Ubuntu. Are packages available for these or other similar efforts or are there some guidelines for installation? EDIT: I have added...

Mateo

1:11 AM

@Glutanimate so a graphical wget, sounds intresting

Glutanimate

@Mateo yup, just one of the many things you can do with yad. It's a shame it's not in the repos yet :/

terdon

@Glutanimate You call that shameless? Watch this!

I need 35 more rep to hit 10k, please? Pretty please with a cherry on top?

Glutanimate

FWIW, here's the packaging request: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/796633

@terdon I think you miscalculated. You only need 5 more.

terdon

Sweet! Thanks :)

Braiam

@terdon Y U INSTALING DEV LIBRARIES FROM SOURCES?

terdon

1:15 AM

@Braiam Yeah... no idea why he did that.

Braiam

also, mismatched versions!

D:

terdon

Whohoooo! 10k :)

Glutanimate

@terdon grats!

terdon

preens

I now have access to the mod tools on 4 sites grin

Braiam

@terdon tsk, tsk, when you are at Gilles level, we talk :P

terdon

1:18 AM

@Braiam Yeah, right. Give me another 4e7 years.

Oh the joy of being able to see deleted content...

Braiam

if you are not going to see the Indian Hacker Team, then there's nothing much :*

Mateo

wow, this is kind-of epic

►

terdon

@Mateo Yeah. That does look sweet.

terdon

1:43 AM

Sometimes rep is annoying. 5 people have upvoted @Braiam's answer and none of them have notices that it throws an error if run :)

Kalamalka Kid

is there anyway to disable nullmailer? after looking at my syslog file it seems that this app or process is always trying to connect to some non-existent mail service

Braiam

@terdon the dot will get in the way :(

terdon

@Braiam Yeah, just noticed and reedited.

I think it should work fine now.

Nice post by the way.

Braiam

trailing ) D:

is not complete btw, it should ignore directories too

terdon

@Braiam Nope, you just broke it. That was the closing one of the $()

Mateo

1:54 AM

hm, the google oracle thing was overturned

terdon

@Braiam will apt-file check against uninstalled packages?

Yes it will. Nice.

Braiam

m.... weird, using comma won't concatenate expressions, something obvious I'm missing

Mateo

sounds bad: reuters.com/article/2014/05/09/…

terdon

@Braiam In what? sed?

rajan

im wondering what happens to android now!.. @Mateo

Nathan Osman

2:00 AM

I told Google they should have gone with Python :P

7

Universal truth: don't use Java. It will bite you.

Even if you are Google... it will bite you.

Braiam

@terdon yeah, can't concatenate \/$ with yours

terdon

@Braiam What do you want to do?

Mateo

so basically you have an open source language, that you now can't make compatible with whatever oracle is calling java now?

Braiam

@terdon remove the directories, since dpkg ignores them anyways with /\/$/

terdon

:How about :

Braiam

2:06 AM

yeah, well, appending another sed... because sed

terdon

dpkg -c foo.deb | grep -oP '\.\K[^ ]+[^/]$'

That will remove the leading dot and skip directories in one fell regex

Braiam

it fails with this kinds of files:

/etc/xul-ext/itsalltext.js
./../../xul-ext/itsalltext
./../../xul-ext/itsalltext
/etc/xul-ext/itsalltext.js

maybe I shouldn't try to be smart... :D

 dpkg -c your_deb_file.deb | awk '{print $(NF)}' | sed 's/^\.//' | sed 's/\/$//'

Mateo

@rajan time for Ubuntu touch! qt!

terdon

@Braiam That won't skip directories, only remove the trailing slash from them

Mateo

hm, maybe they will make a mini chrome OS and drop java...

terdon

2:10 AM

@Braiam Ah yes, in case there's no leading ., OK, use this one:

grep -oP '\.*\K[^ ]+[^/]$'

rajan

hehhe ... maybe..

Braiam

darn is this one:

dpkg -c your_deb_file.deb | awk '{print $(NF)}' | sed 's/^\.//' | sed '/\/$/d'

rajan

but ubuntu touch is discontinued isnt it....@Mateo

Mateo

@rajan no...

Braiam

stupid clipboard

terdon

2:12 AM

:)

Oh, and you combine the expressions with ; not comma: sed 's/^\.//; /\/$/d'

rajan

heard somewherre..

Braiam

> "We conclude that a set of commands to instruct a computer to carry out desired operations may contain expression that is eligible for copyright protection,"

Mateo

@rajan you are thinking about U4A, which was just unity 2d from 12.04 slapped in an andriod app

Braiam

wth!

@terdon but, but... SO can't be wrong :(

terdon

Lol :) Comma does something also, I'm no sed guru. They probably have slightly different functions.

I always switch to perl when the sed gets complex.

Mateo

2:15 AM

@Braiam computer shutdown (gets message that microsoft copyrighted the desired operation...) must unplug computer...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:31 AM

0

Q: Is there a tool(!) to list assigned subuid and subgid values for users?

The question is basically in the title. usermod -v and usermod -w can be used to manipulate the subuid and subgid ranges for a user account, but there appears to be no tool that can merely list them. Is there one? At least on my Ubuntu 14.04 box getent doesn't seem to be prepared to handle that...

linux ubuntu users

Lucio

Pastebin is rough with copyright

Go paste.ubuntu! Go!

Kalamalka Kid

I could really use some help trying to open a debian.tar.gz file

i have no idea of how to do it, and it seems really complicated. I would love it if someone could guide me through the process

Lucio

Double click?

Kalamalka Kid

double clicking does not seem to install the file, or compile it

thats what i need to do

Mateo

do you mean install from source? there is more than just opening those...

Kalamalka Kid

2:34 AM

here is what i need to install:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scsitools/0.12-2.1ubuntu1

Lucio

do you link mateo or do I?

Kalamalka Kid

there seems to be a whole bunch of steps to compiling and installing

i usually use the software centre, but those files dont show up there

Lucio

ok, I do it

89

Q: How do I install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?

I have downloaded tar.gz files. But I don't know how to install it. How do I install this kind of file?

software-installation

Read that question (and the answer of course)

Try, and if you have issues I will help you out

Kalamalka Kid

yes i read this, but it was so very confusing

Mateo

is there a reason you need the source?

Kalamalka Kid

2:38 AM

i have extracted the files in my downloads folder. I am not sure what 'source' means, but what i need to do is install that scsi tool thing becuase my scsi drive is not showing up

Lucio

sudo apt-get install scsitools

Kalamalka Kid

oh wait. i see what you mean by source.

terdon

@KalamalkaKid Is there a file called README or INSTALL among those you extracted? If so, read it. The normal procedure is:

./configure

make

make install

Kalamalka Kid

Package scsitools is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Lucio

or even better:

install from SC

Kalamalka Kid

2:40 AM

i cant

it doesnt show up there

Lucio

@KalamalkaKid oh, now I see

what OS are you using?

terdon

He's trying to follow the suggestion of someone else here a few hours ago.

Mateo

> The following NEW packages will be installed:
libsgutils2-2 scsitools sg3-utils
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
Need to get 696 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2 226 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

no problems here...

Kalamalka Kid

i am using 12.04

Mateo

with:

ah, it is in the universe then, check your sources or: packages.ubuntu.com/precise/scsitools

Kalamalka Kid

2:43 AM

sorry, im so new, i dont know what do do with this list at that link

Mateo

pick for i386 or amd64 (32 or 64 bit)

in the download table

then pick a random link for a mirror, or one close to your location for the download

this gives the .deb file

Kalamalka Kid

ok great!

then jsut click on it once its downloaded?

Lucio

yep

Mateo

should open in software center auto ;)

Lucio

Kalamalka Kid

2:45 AM

its says Not found

Mateo

@Lucio same here...

Kalamalka Kid

"There isn’t a software package called “file:” in your current software sources"

Lucio

@Mateo routers are yelling ;)

Kalamalka Kid

same thing goes for similar package scsitools-gui_0.12-2

NOT FOUND

Lucio

what happens when you try to update?

do you see any error there

Kalamalka Kid

2:48 AM

sudo apt-get update?

Lucio

and then upgrade

Kalamalka Kid

?

sudo apt-get update ?

Lucio

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Kalamalka Kid

can you tell me what upgrade is?

Lucio

update does nothing

upgrade does update/upgrade your software

Mateo

2:49 AM

it actually installs updates, update just checks for them

Kalamalka Kid

does upgrade change up to higher version than 12.04

Lucio

not at all

Mateo

@KalamalkaKid nope

Lucio

we are talking about software, not distro

Kalamalka Kid

ok

wanted to make sure

Lucio

2:50 AM

Enter this: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

and tell us what happens

Kalamalka Kid

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

maybe there is another way to get my SCSI disk to show up ?

Lucio

aren't more lines above?

Kalamalka Kid

sudo apt-get update
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com precise Release.gpg
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com precise Release
Hit http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release.gpg
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main TranslationIndex
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com precise/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release

Lucio

Kalamalka Kid

im jstu trying to get access to a scsi drive, nost sure what i need to do. Someone said i needed those packages

Lucio

2:54 AM

Oh, thanks to you I discover that I need to update my software :)

Kalamalka Kid

glad I could be of service

= )

Lucio

You should be missing some source to get packages

Kalamalka Kid

lsscsi out is:
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD800JD-75MS 10.0 /dev/sda
[1:0:0:0] cd/dvd HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS50 TN00 /dev/sr0
[2:0:0:0] disk ATA Hitachi HDT72101 ST6O /dev/sdb
[4:0:6:0] process Kurzweil K2500 3.02 -

Lucio

Open software & sources, take a screenshoot there, upload it into imgur.com and link it here

@KalamalkaKid I don't know anything about disks

Kalamalka Kid

where is "software & sources"?

Lucio

2:57 AM

I don't know :(

Mateo