Re: Mistake on https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
On 04/04/18 14:28, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: Hello Jonny El 04/04/18 a las 13:40, Jonny Grant escribió: Hello There is a mistake "sudo" is missing https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Thanks for caring about the Debian website. Thank you for your reply Laura = We strongly recommend that you report bugs in Debian using the reportbug program. To install and start it, simply run: # apt-get install reportbug $ reportbug == It's not a mistake: The sign "#" is to show that the apt-get command has to be entered with root privileges, and the "$" shows that the reportbug command can be entered as normal user. Each user can decide how to get the root privileges: using su, sudo, or whatever they think it's best. I think this is the difficulty debian will have "going mainstream". We're not all sysadmins. Of course I know what "#" means, but users aren't sysadmins. What I explain is just what other modern distros do, eg Ubuntu. eg https://askubuntu.com/questions/766071/install-gnome-shell-on-ubuntu-16-04 Most beginner users have no idea what "su" or "sudo" is Based on this, would debian follow a modern approach? We're in 2018, not 2001! Jonathan
Re: Mistake on https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Jonny Grant wrote: > Based on this, would debian follow a modern approach? We're in 2018, not 2001! We don't have any web-based package managers AFAIK ;) How about this? reportbug is installed by default so you should be able to start reportbug from the "System" category of your menus. If (reportbug)[apt://reportbug] is not yet installed, you can install it using the package manager installed on your system (such as GNOME Software, KDE Muon, Synaptic, Aptitude GTK etc). If you don't have a graphical package manager installed, you can open the terminal application and run a command-line package manager as root. If you are using a modern desktop such as GNOME or KDE, you can run this command: pkexec apt install reportbug If you did not set a root password or your user has sudo access, you can run this command: sudo apt install reportbug If you set a root password, you can run this command: su -c 'apt install reportbug' -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
Re: Mistake on https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
On 05/04/18 13:28, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Jonny Grant wrote: Based on this, would debian follow a modern approach? We're in 2018, not 2001! We don't have any web-based package managers AFAIK ;) How about this? reportbug is installed by default so you should be able to start reportbug from the "System" category of your menus. If (reportbug)[apt://reportbug] is not yet installed, you can install it using the package manager installed on your system (such as GNOME Software, KDE Muon, Synaptic, Aptitude GTK etc). If you don't have a graphical package manager installed, you can open the terminal application and run a command-line package manager as root. If you are using a modern desktop such as GNOME or KDE, you can run this command: pkexec apt install reportbug If you did not set a root password or your user has sudo access, you can run this command: sudo apt install reportbug If you set a root password, you can run this command: su -c 'apt install reportbug' Hello Paul Thank you, yes I feel this is much clearer. Jonny
