sftp + krusader in gnome

In order to use sftp with krusader (if installed) in gnome, the following package is needed:

kdebase-kio-plugins

It works!

Sound in Debian

First time I'm working on Debian, and already got some troubles with sound system. Alsa doesn't seem to help.

Accidentally, one day later, I've discovered the problem. According to the post, "by default regular users do not (they are not part of the group that is assigned to sound devices). root is the only user that by default can use the sound devices on stock Debian systems". The solution is the following (suggested here): "...making /dev/dsp*, /dev/mixer*, and /dev/audio* writeable by all."

There was still an error with volume control: ""No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found."

The issue has been resolved by running: "chmod -R a+rwx /dev/snd/". The sound is working now!

kile + texlive issue

I like to work with kile (latex editor). But I also like to have texlive installed (not tetex packages). However, kile doesn't want to "live in peace" with texlive and wants tetex to be installed instead.

The solution is to replace /etc/apt/source.list to the following one:

# etch
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

# sid
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian sid main non-free contrib

The "sid" part seems to be essential to resolve this issue. Thanks to cookie for the suggestion.

in Syndey

After a long trip from Amsterdam via Seoul, I'm finally in Sydney. I "lost" one day :)