Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:03:29 -0400 From: Brad Salai <bsalai@gmail.com> To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: texlive and Arduino do not show up in gnome-menu Message-ID: <1061F32D-9CD4-45A0-BB21-FCCD0600C49B@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <33488.128.135.52.6.1489601276.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <mailman.81.1489233602.47884.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <9A36C317-5CFC-467C-9C20-93850159EEEB@gmail.com> <33488.128.135.52.6.1489601276.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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Valeri, That did it. I was trying to install from ports. Either I did it wrong or th= ere is something messed up in the port.=20 Thank you.=20 Brad Salai (585) 708-9235 Bsalai@gmail.com > On Mar 15, 2017, at 2:07 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> wr= ote: >=20 >> On Sat, March 11, 2017 10:50 am, Brad Salai wrote: >> Turns out that the problem with texlive was me. It installed all the > working parts but not any X11 parts. I installed TeXworks and all is > well. >> All that is left is to figure out where the ports system put Arduino. > Thanks to everyone for the help. >=20 > I have FreeBSD 10.3 on my laptop. I do have all arduino packages installed= > using pkg. In menus of MATE desktop environment (MATE is fork of GNOME) I > do have arduino: >=20 > Applications --> Programming --> Arduino >=20 > I hope, this helps. >=20 > Valeri >=20 >>=20 >> Brad Salai >> (585) 708-9235 >> Bsalai@gmail.com >>=20 >>=20 >>> On Mar 11, 2017, at 7:00 AM, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote= : >>> Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >>> freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org >>> You can reach the person managing the list at >>> freebsd-questions-owner@freebsd.org >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." >>> Today's Topics: >>> 1. [iTunes-Connect]Someone has been logged into your account >>> from another country (AppleID) >>> 2. daily security run output (setuid) (James B. Byrne) >>> 3. Re: daily security run output (setuid) (Matthew Seaman) >>> 4. Re: daily security run output (setuid) (Lowell Gilbert) >>> 5. Reboot hangs on a FreeBSD system I'm building (Bob Willcox) 6. > Noob question (Brad Salai) >>> 7. Re: Noob question (Jack L.) >>> 8. Re: Libreoffice and Arduino do not show up in gnome-menu >>> (Sergei Akhmatdinov) >>> 9. Re: Noob question (Ken Moffat) >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Message: 1 >>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:05:33 -0600 (CST) >>> From: AppleID <root@localhost.linx.com> >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: [iTunes-Connect]Someone has been logged into your account >>> from another country >>> Message-ID: <20170310140533.3A0A0A619BA@578509-app3.linx.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"iso-8859-1" >>> ------------------------------ >>> Message: 2 >>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:42:42 -0500 >>> From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: daily security run output (setuid) >>> Message-ID: >>> <0a9bbc9664cdeacc27dacadbd575ea1d.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> >>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=3Diso-8859-1 >>> Following a recent update we began to see this report: >>> Checking setuid files and devices: >>> setuid diffs: >>> --- /var/log/setuid.today 2017-01-18 03:01:01.000000000 -0500 > +++ /tmp/security.saU3IUZT 2017-03-08 03:01:01.006331628 -0500 > @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ >>> . . . >>> - 70217 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22416 Jan 12 00:09:17 2017 > /usr/local/bin/pkexec >>> . . . >>> + 30527 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22416 Feb 25 00:04:40 2017 > /usr/local/bin/pkexec >>> pkg which /usr/local/bin/pkexec >>> /usr/local/bin/pkexec was installed by package polkit-0.113_3 >>> pkg info polkit-0.113_3 >>> polkit-0.113_3 >>> Name : polkit >>> Version : 0.113_3 >>> Installed on : Tue Mar 7 15:31:14 2017 EST >>> This was a legitimate update as far as I can see. I can see that the > mtime value has changed but why does the update not account for this > with the security system? >>> -- >>> *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** >>> Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail >>> Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail >>> James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca >>> Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca >>> 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 >>> Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 >>> Canada L8E 3C3 >>> -- >>> *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** >>> Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail >>> Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail >>> James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca >>> Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca >>> 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 >>> Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 >>> Canada L8E 3C3 >>> ------------------------------ >>> Message: 3 >>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:04:34 +0000 >>> From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: Re: daily security run output (setuid) >>> Message-ID: <c9d3a981-0c3e-142c-817b-ab8c6cc5cec8@FreeBSD.org> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"windows-1252" >>>> On 2017/03/10 16:42, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: > Following a recent update we began to see this report: >>>> Checking setuid files and devices: >>>> setuid diffs: >>>> --- /var/log/setuid.today 2017-01-18 03:01:01.000000000 -0500 > +++ /tmp/security.saU3IUZT 2017-03-08 03:01:01.006331628 -0500 > @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ >>>> . . . >>>> - 70217 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22416 Jan 12 00:09:17 2017 > /usr/local/bin/pkexec >>>> . . . >>>> + 30527 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22416 Feb 25 00:04:40 2017 > /usr/local/bin/pkexec >>>> pkg which /usr/local/bin/pkexec >>>> /usr/local/bin/pkexec was installed by package polkit-0.113_3 >>>> pkg info polkit-0.113_3 >>>> polkit-0.113_3 >>>> Name : polkit >>>> Version : 0.113_3 >>>> Installed on : Tue Mar 7 15:31:14 2017 EST >>>> This was a legitimate update as far as I can see. I can see that the > mtime value has changed but why does the update not account for this > with the security system? >>> The security system? That makes it sound *way* more sophisticated than > it really is. >>> All that the setuid daily script does is run find(1) to locate all of > the setuid files on the system, creates a sorted list, and then diffs > that against the previous day's list. It tells you when there have > been >>> any changes to setuid files. It doesn't say anything about whether > those changes are legitimate or not -- that's down to the (supposedly) > intelligent administrators who read the email reports. >>> The beauty of it is that it is so simple it is very hard to bamboozle. > In this case, since it is a file from a pkg that you can verify was > re-installed during the right timeframe then you can be pretty sure > that >>> nothing untoward is going on. Also running 'pkg check -s polkit' to > verify that none of the checksums on the package's files have changed > might provide additional peace of mind. >>> Cheers, >>> Matthew >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >>> Name: signature.asc >>> Type: application/pgp-signature >>> Size: 972 bytes >>> Desc: OpenPGP digital signature >>> URL: >>> <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/201703= 10/0d5e6e9a/attachment-0001.sig> > ------------------------------ >>> Message: 4 >>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:11:57 -0500 >>> From: Lowell Gilbert <Lowell@Be-Well.Ilk.Org> >>> To: "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" >>> <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> >>> Cc: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca >>> Subject: Re: daily security run output (setuid) >>> Message-ID: <44bmt9jbtu.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> >>> Content-Type: text/plain >>> "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > writes: >>>> Following a recent update we began to see this report: >>>> Checking setuid files and devices: >>> [...] >>>> This was a legitimate update as far as I can see. I can see that the > mtime value has changed but why does the update not account for this > with the security system? >>> Because having "the security system" trust that the the port update was > initiated by an appropriately authorized user would make it too easy to > hide a security breach. >>> ------------------------------ >>> Message: 5 >>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:03:09 -0600 >>> From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> >>> To: questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> >>> Subject: Reboot hangs on a FreeBSD system I'm building >>> Message-ID: <20170310190308.GA29798@rancor.immure.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii >>> I'm building a system to act as a fileserver for my network and things a= re >>> going reasonably well so far except that when I reboot it via the > reboot >>> command it gets to the point after it has successfully sync'd the > filesystem >>> caches and the just hangs there. Note that it will respond to pings > from >>> other systems on the network but keyboard activity is ignored. >>> Here's the uname output: >>> FreeBSD yoda.immure.com 11.0-STABLE FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE #1 r315001: Fri > Mar 10 08:38:20 CST 2017 >>> bob@yoda.immure.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/YODA amd64 >>> This is running on an Asus H170I-Pro motherboard and has a Samsung 960 > EVO M.2 >>> PCIe NVMe boot drive. The UEFI BIOS settings are all at their defaults. I= >>> planning to check the BIOS settings to see if changing any of them will > make a >>> difference. >>> Note that the root/boot drive is ZFS in case that matters. >>> -- >>> Bob Willcox | If a program is useful, it will be changed. >>> bob@immure.com | >>> Austin, TX | >>> ------------------------------ >>> Message: 6 >>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:51:35 -0500 >>> From: Brad Salai <bsalai@gmail.com> >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: Noob question >>> Message-ID: <83FA4D74-AB47-45D8-A5D6-EB8892A47E4D@gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii >>> I've just finished a clean install of FreeBSD 11 on an HP desktop that > I >>> got for free (I know that's not relevant but I'm telling everyone.) I > got Gnome running and installed Libre Office without issues. Then I > tried TeXlive as a package and Arduino as a port. Both completed > successfully, but neither showed up in Gnome and I can't figure out the > path to add to start them manually. Can anyone help? >>> Brad >>> Brad Salai >>> (585) 708-9235 >>> Bsalai@gmail.com >>> ------------------------------ >>> Message: 7 >>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:11:45 -0800 >>> From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> >>> To: Brad Salai <bsalai@gmail.com> >>> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: Noob question >>> Message-ID: >>> <CALeGphzm7woDFoCPTwNt+POrh_oDKMm9OPyovKGbppo3CFtz2w@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DUTF-8 >>> You can run >>> pkg info --list-files packagename >>> and that will give you a list of where all the installed files are >>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Brad Salai <bsalai@gmail.com> wrote: > I've just finished a clean install of FreeBSD 11 on an HP desktop that > I got for free (I know that's not relevant but I'm telling everyone.) > I got Gnome running and installed Libre Office without issues. Then I > tried TeXlive as a package and Arduino as a port. Both completed > successfully, but neither showed up in Gnome and I can't figure out > the >>>> path to add to start them manually. Can anyone help? >>>> Brad >>>> Brad Salai >>>> (585) 708-9235 >>>> Bsalai@gmail.com >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> ------------------------------ >>> Message: 8 >>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:39:33 -0500 >>> From: Sergei Akhmatdinov <sakhmatd@inventati.org> >>> To: Brad Salai <bsalai@gmail.com> >>> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: Re: Libreoffice and Arduino do not show up in gnome-menu > Message-ID: <20170311013933.4qn72svt4nodgiut@silverbeast> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"us-ascii" >>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 07:51:35PM -0500, Brad Salai wrote: >>>> I've just finished a clean install of FreeBSD 11 on an HP desktop that > I got for free (I know that's not relevant but I'm telling everyone.) > I got Gnome running and installed Libre Office without issues. Then I > tried TeXlive as a package and Arduino as a port. Both completed > successfully, but neither showed up in Gnome and I can't figure out > the >>>> path to add to start them manually. Can anyone help? >>>> Brad >>> $ which binary-name >>> That should get you the path to the installed binary. >>> For Libreoffice, that would be >>> $ which libreoffice >>> I don't use Gnome, but it probably reads your >>> /usr/local/share/applications directory. >>> Try adding .desktop files to it manually. Although it's suspicious that > they aren't there already or that Gnome wouldn't pick them up if they > are. >>> Also, just a piece of friendly advice: >>> Try to give more discriptive subject lines when posting to >>> the mailing list next time. It helps other people to help you. :) Cheers= , >>> -- >>> Sergei Akhmatdinov >>> My GPG public key: >>> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys AD800D99 >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >>> Name: signature.asc >>> Type: application/pgp-signature >>> Size: 833 bytes >>> Desc: not available >>> URL: >>> <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/201703= 10/519c1341/attachment-0001.sig> > ------------------------------ >>> Message: 9 >>> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 01:41:01 +0000 >>> From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com> >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: Re: Noob question >>> Message-ID: <20170311014101.GA18045@milliways.localdomain> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dutf-8 >>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 07:51:35PM -0500, Brad Salai wrote: >>>> I've just finished a clean install of FreeBSD 11 on an HP desktop that > I got for free (I know that's not relevant but I'm telling everyone.) > I got Gnome running and installed Libre Office without issues. Then I > tried TeXlive as a package and Arduino as a port. Both completed > successfully, but neither showed up in Gnome and I can't figure out > the >>>> path to add to start them manually. Can anyone help? >>>> Brad >>> No idea about arduino, but texlive - at least in a full install - > contains a lot of different things. At a minimum, you probably want to > run one of the engines, e.g. using pdflatex on a .tex file to create a > text PDF. For more complex PDFs (adding things for images, or using > other programs for indexing or bibliographies) you will probably want > to create a Makefile. >>> For a basic PDF that, you open your term of choice (gnome-terminal, I > suppose), run 'which' to see if pdflatex (or one of the other engines, > e.g. lualatex, xelatex, or even context) is on your PATH. If it isn't, > you use find or locate to see where it is, and then add that directory > to your PATH. But I guess that installing the package will have fixed > that up. >>> Finally, you create your tex file in your preferred editor, and then > from your term you invoke the engine on the tex file, fix any errors > and repeat until you get a PDF, open that in your viewer (evince, for > gnome) and review, then fix any spelling or formatting errors and > repeat. >>> So, providing it is all on your PATH, you just go in and do it. If you > want a gui front-end, perhaps get TeXworks which appears to be a > package. In windows versions of texlive, TeXworks is included - but > not in 'nix versions : it has additional dependencies such as Qt. Happy > TeXing. >>> ?en >>> -- >>> `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for > them.' -- Small Gods >>> ------------------------------ >>> Subject: Digest Footer >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> ------------------------------ >>> End of freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 666, Issue 6 >>> ************************************************* >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>=20 >=20 >=20 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20
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