texlive and Arduino do not show up in gnome-menu
Brad Salai
bsalai at gmail.com
Sat Mar 11 15:50:40 UTC 2017
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.
Brad Salai
(585) 708-9235
Bsalai at gmail.com
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> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:05:33 -0600 (CST)
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> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:42:42 -0500
> From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>
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> Subject: daily security run output (setuid)
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> 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?
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> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:04:34 +0000
> From: Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: daily security run output (setuid)
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>> 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
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> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:11:57 -0500
> From: Lowell Gilbert <Lowell at Be-Well.Ilk.Org>
> To: "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions"
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> Cc: byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
> Subject: Re: daily security run output (setuid)
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> "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> writes:
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>> 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.
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> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:03:09 -0600
> From: Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com>
> To: questions list <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Reboot hangs on a FreeBSD system I'm building
> Message-ID: <20170310190308.GA29798 at rancor.immure.com>
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> I'm building a system to act as a fileserver for my network and things are
> 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:
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> FreeBSD yoda.immure.com 11.0-STABLE FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE #1 r315001: Fri Mar 10 08:38:20 CST 2017 bob at yoda.immure.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/YODA amd64
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> 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.
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> Note that the root/boot drive is ZFS in case that matters.
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:51:35 -0500
> From: Brad Salai <bsalai at gmail.com>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Noob question
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> 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
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:11:45 -0800
> From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx at gmail.com>
> To: Brad Salai <bsalai at gmail.com>
> Cc: "freebsd-questions at freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
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> 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 at 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
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> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:39:33 -0500
> From: Sergei Akhmatdinov <sakhmatd at inventati.org>
> To: Brad Salai <bsalai at gmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Libreoffice and Arduino do not show up in gnome-menu
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>> 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. :)
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> Cheers,
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> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 01:41:01 +0000
> From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Noob question
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>> 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
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