On 20140307_173105, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:56:40AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I run Wheezy, desktop Xfce. I want to start using a password > > safe. I've done some searching on the Web and would like to use Bruce > > Schneier's "Password Safe". There is a package in Sid by the name > > "mypasswordsafe.deb". I hope that this is a version of Schneier's > > software suitable modified to word with Debian. But ... I have never > > installed anything from Sid before and I want some help/guidance. > > I'm not sure where you're getting this "mypasswordsafe.deb" package > from. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mypasswordsafe reports > no results. If you've downloaded the package from Mr Schneier's site > then it's not "in sid" (it's not "in Debian" at all). That doesn't
I got it from browsing the https://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/ So, although it may not be in a Debian repository, it does display on a Debian web site right not, today. It seemed like it might be a false positive, and you confirmed that it is, indeed, not what I'm looking for. I haven't tried downloading anything from Scheier's site because I already know he has turned over future maintenance and development to a group at source forge. The site I found is http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ They claim they are continuing his work. But for security stuff ... I worry about whether I should trust them, given what we have learned from the Snowden security breakage. Oh well. I hope that Debian will get in touch with the sourceforge people and do some due-diligence before they package the product. > necessarily mean it won't work, though, just that you shouldn't expect > support here (i.e Go pester Bruce if it breaks). > > If you trust the package, you can try: > dpkg -i mypasswordsafe.deb > apt-get -f install > > Though perhaps a saner way to manage that is to install the gdebi > package (apt-get install gdebi, or gdebi-kde if you use KDE), then run > gdebi-gtk mypasswordsafe.deb > > GDebi will tell you what packages the .deb depends on BEFORE it installs > it. It will also tell you if those dependencies aren't satisfiable. (It > might be that, if the package is compiled for Sid, it depends on > libraries newer than you have, for example). > Thankyou for the compliment of presuming I know what I'm doing. I doubt very much that I could get gdebi and use it correctly without a lot of hand holding. I don't want to do that. I'm not lazy. I just can't believe I would be convinced of my answer, so why exercise people on such a project? > > > > There doesn't seem to be a back-port, but I may not have the right > > backport line. > > Is "deb http://mirrors.geeks.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main " what I > > need? > > No. Wheezy-Updates and Wheezy-Backports are different things. > Wheezy-Updates is what used to be called "volatile": a small repository > of packages which need to be updated frequently (virus signature > updates, API changes etc). Wheezy-Backports is a more-or-less adhoc > repository of newer packages compiled for stable. The apt-line for > wheezy backports would be: > deb http://mirrors.geeks.com/debian wheezy-backports main Thanks. That will go into my sources.list as soon as I finish this email > > > -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140307194147.gc5...@big.lan.gnu
