crasic's questions

I am building a package for my ppa that requires a newer implementation of libboost than what is provided in my target distro (precise). I've copied libboost1.55 from the boost ppa into my ppa. I'm using pbuilder-dist to test my package build. I have successfully used the answer to this question to get pbuilder to get libboost packages from the ppa into the chroot environment.

Unfortunately, while all the dependencies can be installed from the ppa as libboost-libname1.55-dev, none of them satisfy the meta package libboost-libname-dev and the pbuilder-dist build fails due to unsatisfied dependencies.

So, this question is not necessarily only tied to pbuilder-dist, but how would I either let pbuilder ignore the packages for dependencies (as I'm sure the dependency is met), or make apt-get consider the meta package dependency satisfied? I would prefer not to mess with the debian/control unless there is no other way.

The Unity/gtk volume manager that comes with vanilla Ubuntu lets you increase the volume past 100%, which is useful for hearing quiet youtube videos. Is there a way to achieve the same thing with the KDE mixer app?

Is there a way to print the comments that are associated with a pdf on the linux version of Adobe Acrobat 9? Both acroread and evince display the comments just fine, however the linux version of the reader lacks the button in the print dialogue to enable printing comments.

Specifically I'm looking to recreate this feature (image taken from adobe.com) where the comments are printed on a seperate page with lines to the main document indicating where the comment was inserted.

Please Note: I am not asking to modify or write comments and annotations (typically a feature associated with Acrobat Pro), but to merely print them in a conveniently readable way.

I primarily use the terminal for file management and day-to-day tasks on my computer. There is one feature that I miss consistently and that is a copy/cut and paste for files (not clipboard text).

More specifically say I'm organizing files and I need to copy several files to different locations on the drive, I would do something like cp /path/to/first/file /path/to/where/it/goes, when dealing with lots of files with long file-names it is a little bulky. Its annoying especially if you aren't sure where the file is supposed to go (i.e. which specific subfolder)

I was wondering if there is a utility similar to the copy/paste paradigm in most graphic file managers. I.e. you do something like copy file, navigate to the the directory you want and do paste file. Rather than explicitly writing out the copy-to path as with cp above.

I already have a rudimentary script that I wrote doing this, but I was wondering if there is an "official" or a fully-featured command line utility for this.

A friend of mine (somewhat new to linux) recently upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 and his OS broke from the upgrade. A few minutes of troubleshooting showed that the culprit was the PAE kernel that the upgrade decided to install since it determined he had 4GB of phyisical RAM. More specifically the upgrade forgot to install the linux-headers-generic-pae required by the closed source nvidia drivers.

I'm not entirely sure how to report this bug to the devs. Its an easy fix (after booting into the non-pae kernel and installing the package everything worked), but they are encouraging users to use the built-in bug reporting system and I'm not entirely certain how to report update bugs.

I'm setting up a Maverick server on a spare PC. The install completes fine and the system boots up into the shell. However, when I try to do a apt-get update , apt hangs on almost every entry with the message 99% [Waiting for headers] sometimes a message of 96 b/s appears on the far right. The actual percent that it claims also varies.

Searching around online gave a potential solution by using the option Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth="0" this somewhat alleviates the problem, i.e. it stalls on every other entry with the same message as above.

If you wait it out (the whole update took about 4 hours), the update still fails as a good portion of the hits show a "unable to connect" or similar message, despite the fact that I can ping the server from the pc just fine.

The problem is also unrelated to the mirror used since I've tried about a dozen mirrors with no success, I've even tried commenting out everything but the main entry in sources.list and it still refuses to update.

The network connection is fine since I can ping and wget (apt won't let me install lynx until I run a successful update) just fine. I've also reinstalled the distro with no luck.

The only thing weird about the setup is that the PC is connecting to the internet through my windows laptop with ICS configured properly, but as I've said before, the network connection is fine.

For those of you who don't do python programming on ubuntu, ipython is a python shell on steroids, but it has this amazing feature that it not only autcompletes based on known names (i.e. the same way bash does when you press tab), but if you start typing a command and press up, it doesn't scroll through the entire history (like bash) but only through the recent commands that started with the same string of leters.

So if you did some long command like scp -r -P 8000 -l user server.com:~/dir/to/copy ./ followed by several other commands. If you started typing scp and pressed up, bash would display the command shown before instead of just scrolling through the entire history.

Is there an extension like this for bash? or is there any shell that offers this kind of feature?