TitanMech - that worked! Thanks so much for the help. I'll mark this one solved.
1 2012-05-10 22:20:43
Re: [SOLVED] Errors opening libre-office apps (10 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
2 2012-05-10 22:04:53
Re: [SOLVED] Errors opening libre-office apps (10 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
TitanMech - I just looked for cb-libreoffice-pipemenu under /usr/bin (in fact everywhere in my path) and it doesn't seem to exist. Perhaps I had a bad libre-office install? I installed it from the cb-welcome script.
3 2012-05-10 01:29:43
Re: [SOLVED] Errors opening libre-office apps (10 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
machinebacon - I appreciate your persistence. Unfortunately the 4 steps above did not work. I haven't tried entering the block manually, but will when I have more energy and patience. Thank you again!
4 2012-05-09 22:50:35
Re: [SOLVED] Errors opening libre-office apps (10 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
KerrMD - thanks for the reply. Yes, I've done both the upgrade and the dist-upgrade.
5 2012-05-09 21:23:50
Topic: [SOLVED] Errors opening libre-office apps (10 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
When I attempt to open any libre-office app from the "Office" Openbox menu, I get a "Failed to execute command for pipe-menu" error. A screenshot is attached below. I am able to open a file in OpenOffice format via Thunar, but can't launch otherwise.
6 2012-05-09 01:26:09
Re: [SOLVED] debian-multimedia repo for waldorf? (8 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
I did need a key. Installed like so:
sudo apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring...did another "sudo apt-get update" and then was able to install from the repo. Thanks again for the help!
7 2012-05-09 01:23:16
Re: [SOLVED] Errors installing new packages (23 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
It seems to be at least as functional as cheese so far, so I'm quite pleased! 
8 2012-05-09 01:21:07
Re: [SOLVED] debian-multimedia repo for waldorf? (8 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
Thanks for the tips! I added the wheezy multimedia repo by appending the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
## DEBIAN MULTIMEDIA
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free9 2012-05-09 01:15:48
Re: [SOLVED] Errors installing new packages (23 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
machinebacon - I installed camorama and reinstalled terminator and not only did gconf2 install cleanly, but very few additional gnome-like packages installed as dependencies. Thanks so much for the help!
10 2012-05-08 22:14:46
Topic: [SOLVED] debian-multimedia repo for waldorf? (8 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
Looking at http://packages.crunchbang.org/ it appears that there is no waldorf equivalent of statler-mm. Does this mean that we should use the multimedia repo from Debian Wheezy instead? I use it for apps like grip and banshee.
11 2012-05-08 21:56:34
Re: [SOLVED] Errors installing new packages (23 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
Some good news: I removed cheese, rhythmbox and then everything related to gconf2, and the errors all went away. 
I held off, however, on installing camorama, since it seems to want to install gconf2 as well:
pablo@cochituate=> sudo apt-get install camorama
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gconf2 libart-2.0-2 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libidl0
liborbit2
Suggested packages:
gconf-defaults-service libbonobo2-bin libgnomevfs2-bin fam
Recommended packages:
libgnomevfs2-extra
The following NEW packages will be installed:
camorama gconf2 libart-2.0-2 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common
libidl0 liborbit2
0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,442 kB/7,875 kB of archives.
After this operation, 30.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.12 2012-05-08 21:34:58
Re: [SOLVED] Errors installing new packages (23 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
ivanovnegro - I didn't realize that cheese was a Gnome component. I don't mind exorcising it in favor of camorama, assuming it provides similar functionality.
13 2012-05-08 19:45:06
Re: [SOLVED] Errors installing new packages (23 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
Sadly, I did "apt-get clean && apt-get autoremove", followed by "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" and then "dpkg-reconfigure" but still end up with this nagging error:
pablo@cochituate=> sudo dpkg-reconfigure gconf2
[sudo] password for pablo:
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: gconf2 is broken or not fully installedOddly enough, gconf2 was one of the packages listed when I did a dist-upgrade. Considering that it touches everything (and vice versa) is a reboot required for the changes to take effect?
14 2012-05-08 02:03:52
Re: [SOLVED] Errors installing new packages (23 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
pablo@cochituate=> sudo dpkg-reconfigure gconf2
[sudo] password for pablo:
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: gconf2 is broken or not fully installedI'm tempted to start from scratch, but apart from the errors I like the look and feel of Waldorf and don't really want to undo some of my tweaks. 
15 2012-05-08 01:41:01
Re: [SOLVED] Errors installing new packages (23 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
Also, when I attempt to install gconf2, it tells me that the latest is already installed; and if I want to remove it, several packages that are dependent upon it would also be deleted. 
16 2012-05-08 00:35:50
Re: [SOLVED] Errors installing new packages (23 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
@machinebacon - thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I still get the same error regardless of whether I run apt-get or dpkg. Oddly enough, the packages mentioned in the error message (cheese, rhythmbox, etc.) seem to install, but I'd rather not see the error messages at all. Here's the result of "dpkg --configure --pending":
pablo@cochituate=> sudo dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up gconf2 (3.2.3-4) ...
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_applications_at_visual.schemas:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_applications_at_visual.schemas:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/apps_xchat_url_handler.schemas:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/apps_xchat_url_handler.schemas:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_applications_at_mobility.schemas:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_applications_at_mobility.schemas:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_default_applications.schemas:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_default_applications.schemas:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
dpkg: error processing gconf2 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386:
gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386 depends on gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2); however:
Package gconf2 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 depends on gstreamer0.10-gconf; however:
Package gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libcheese3:i386:
libcheese3:i386 depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (>= 0.10.23); however:
Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libcheese3:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-video-effects:
gnome-video-effects depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good; however:
Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-video-effects (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rhythmbox:
rhythmbox depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (>= 0.10.20); however:
Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing rhythmbox (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libcheese-gtk21:i386:
libcheese-gtk21:i386 depends on libcheese3 (>= 3.4.0); however:
Package libcheese3:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libcheese-gtk21:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cheese:
cheese depends on libcheese-gtk21 (>= 3.4.0); however:
Package libcheese-gtk21:i386 is not configured yet.
cheese depends on libcheese3 (>= 3.4.0); however:
Package libcheese3:i386 is not configured yet.
cheese depends on gnome-video-effects; however:
Package gnome-video-effects is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cheese (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
gconf2
gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386
libcheese3:i386
gnome-video-effects
rhythmbox
libcheese-gtk21:i386
cheese17 2012-05-07 22:37:31
Topic: [SOLVED] Errors installing new packages (23 replies, posted in Devel: CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf")
I installed Waldorf on a spare partition for the first time last night. Everything was going well until I tried installing a package I've deployed without issues in Statler: namely "cheese". Each subsequent attempt to run "apt-get install" results in a mess similar to the following:
Setting up gconf2 (3.2.3-4) ...
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_applications_at_visual.schemas:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_applications_at_visual.schemas:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/apps_xchat_url_handler.schemas:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/apps_xchat_url_handler.schemas:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_applications_at_mobility.schemas:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_applications_at_mobility.schemas:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_default_applications.schemas:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/desktop_default_applications.schemas:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
dpkg: error processing gconf2 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386:
gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386 depends on gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2); however:
Package gconf2 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 depends on gstreamer0.10-gconf; however:
Package gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libcheese3:i386:
libcheese3:i386 depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (>= 0.10.23); however:
Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libcheese3:i386 (--configure):
configured to not write apport reports
configured to not write apport reports
configured to not write apport reports
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libcheese-gtk21:i386:
libcheese-gtk21:i386 depends on libcheese3 (>= 3.4.0); however:
Package libcheese3:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libcheese-gtk21:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-video-effects:
gnome-video-effects depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good; however:
Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-video-effects (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cheese:
cheese depends on libcheese-gtk21 (>= 3.4.0); however:
Package libcheese-gtk21:i386 is not configured yet.
cheese depends on libcheese3 (>= 3.4.0); however:
Package libcheese3:i386 is not configured yet.
cheese depends on gnome-video-effects; however:
Package gnome-video-effects is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cheese (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libunistring0:i386 (0.9.3-5) ...
Setting up libquvi-scripts (0.4.4-1) ...
Setting up libquvi7:i386 (0.4.1-1) ...
Setting up libgmime-2.6-0 (2.6.7-1) ...
Setting up libtotem-plparser17 (3.4.1-1) ...
Setting up growisofs (7.1-10) ...
Setting up brasero-common (3.2.0-4) ...
Setting up libbrasero-media3-1 (3.2.0-4) ...
Setting up libtracker-sparql-0.14-0 (0.14.0-2) ...
Setting up brasero (3.2.0-4) ...
Setting up gir1.2-cogl-1.0 (1.8.2-1) ...
Setting up gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 (1.8.2-1) ...
Setting up gir1.2-json-1.0 (0.14.2-1) ...
Setting up gir1.2-clutter-1.0 (1.8.4-1) ...
Setting up gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 (0.10.36-1) ...
Setting up gnome-js-common (0.1.2-1) ...
Setting up libseed-gtk3-0 (3.2.0-1) ...
Setting up libpeas-common (1.4.0-2) ...
Setting up libpeas-1.0-0 (1.4.0-2) ...
Setting up librhythmbox-core5 (2.96-3) ...
Setting up media-player-info (16-1) ...
Setting up python-gst0.10 (0.10.22-3) ...
Setting up rhythmbox-data (2.96-3) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rhythmbox:
rhythmbox depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (>= 0.10.20); however:
Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing rhythmbox (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for menu ...
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
gconf2
gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386
libcheese3:i386
libcheese-gtk21:i386
gnome-video-effects
cheese
rhythmbox
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)I'm curious to know if anyone has seen anything like this, and if so, if there's a workaround.
As always, thanks to Corenominal for his work, and to everyone on this forum for being so helpful.
18 2012-04-12 19:37:32
Re: Has anyone integrated conkyForecast with Yahoo Weather? (1 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
Found a ruby script online and modified it slightly:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'xmlsimple'
# This script fetches the weather from the Yahoo! Weather RSS feed and prints it out.
# This can be used for Conky, for example.
# By Brian Carper
# http://briancarper.net
RSS_FEED_URL = 'http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=02451&u=Fahrenheit'
if RSS_FEED_URL == '' then
puts 'Edit the script to specify'
puts 'your RSS feed URL from'
puts 'http://weather.yahoo.com'
exit
end
begin
text = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(RSS_FEED_URL))
rescue
puts "ERROR: Failed fetching RSS feed!"
exit
end
begin
xml = XmlSimple.xml_in(text)
channel = xml['channel'][0]
rescue
puts "Error: Could not parse the XML!"
exit
end
temp_units = ' ' + channel['units'][0]['temperature']
baro_units = ' ' + channel['units'][0]['pressure']
wind_units = ' ' + channel['units'][0]['speed']
puts " Currently: " + channel['item'][0]['condition'][0]['text'] + ', ' + channel['item'][0]['condition'][0]['temp'] + temp_units
puts " Humidity: " + channel['atmosphere'][0]['humidity'] + '%'
puts " Wind: " + channel['wind'][0]['speed'] + wind_units
puts " Barometer: " + channel['atmosphere'][0]['pressure'] + baro_unitsThe script was invoked via the following snippet in conky:
${color1}$hr
${voffset -3}$alignc WEATHER CONDITIONS
${voffset -7}$hr $color
${execi 3600 ~/bin/current_weather.rb}Screen shot of the upper right-hand corner of my desktop can be found at this link.
19 2012-04-12 15:04:20
Topic: Has anyone integrated conkyForecast with Yahoo Weather? (1 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
Now that Weather.com is no longer providing its XML feed for free, the conkyForecast logic I have in my .conkyrc setup is no longer valid. Thanks to this link, however, I've been able to easily get the same type of data from Yahoo Weather in the form of an Openbox menu option, but I still miss having it as part of my conky config. Has anyone attempted this? If not, I'll likely give it a try.
By the way, here is the "weather portion" of my current conky config:
${color1}$hr
${voffset -3}$alignc CURRENT CONDITIONS
${voffset -7}$hr $color
${execi 3600 conkyForecast --location=USMA0438 --datatype=CC -i}
${font ConkyWeather:size=36}${execi 3600 conkyForecast --location=USMA0438 --datatype=WF -i}${font}
Temp: ${execi 3600 conkyForecast --location=USMA0438 --datatype=HT -i}20 2012-02-25 21:45:25
Re: Crunchbang... the best XFCE distro ever (23 replies, posted in Feedback & Suggestions)
I too was disappointed that the November 2011 and February 2012 #! images didn't feature XFCE. I'm no newbie, but I had some issues installing XFCE from the repos and making it work the way I wanted (i.e. just like the February 2011 image), so I took the plunge with the latest BPO image and set myself about understanding Openbox well enough to customize it to my taste. I'm very happy with the look and feel of it, and it positively screams on my cheap and slightly long-in-the-tooth Dell Inspiron 530. In short, while I very much got used to XFCE, I'm glad I didn't give up on Openbox. It's a very solid implementation, and I know that the forum offers friendly assistance should I need it.
21 2012-02-16 23:33:16
Re: 20110207 image + Backports (7 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
@ivanovnegro - my repo is still pointing to crunchbanglinux.org. Should it be changed? Here is my sources.list in its entirety:
## CRUNCHBANG
## Compatible with Debian Squeeze, but use at your own risk.
deb http://packages.crunchbanglinux.org/statler statler main
## CRUNCHBANG MULTIMEDIA
## Debian Multimedia Mirror
deb http://packages.crunchbang.org/statler-mm squeeze main non-free
## DEBIAN
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
## DEBIAN SECURITY
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
## DEBIAN BACKPORTS
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free22 2012-02-16 23:18:27
Re: 20110207 image + Backports (7 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
Thanks for the reply!
I've figured it out. It was this line in my sources.list file:
deb http://packages.crunchbang.org/statler-mozilla squeeze-backports iceweasel-releaseI commented it out, and ran "apt-get update" without errors. Now I'm happily churning away with an "apt-get dist-upgrade".
23 2012-02-16 23:01:41
Re: 20110207 image + Backports (7 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
Thanks for the reply. I've added the backports repository to my sources.list as follows:
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-freeThen I modified /etc/apt/preferences as per the link above and tried doing an "apt-get update". Here's the warning I get:
W: GPG error: http://packages.crunchbang.org squeeze-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 85A3D26506C4AE2AIs there a GPG I need to install before being able to proceed?
24 2012-02-16 17:43:03
Topic: 20110207 image + Backports (7 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
I've done a fresh install of the 20120207 Backports image to a new partition on my desktop, but I still prefer the default look and feel of the image from last February. So... if I want to take advantage of the 3.2 kernel, etc., is it a valid option to add the Backports repository and then perform an "apt-get update && apt-get dist-update"? I'm having a hard time tweaking XFCE on the newest image to my liking.
25 2012-02-15 02:44:49
Re: XFCE and new BPO ISO (8 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
When I set the Desktop Icons setting to "File/Launcher", the icons miraculously reappeared. Interestingly enough, they vanished again when I selected "None."