Encrypted containers & the Debian installer.

2018-05-15 Thread Diagonal Arg
On my first tries with the Debian installer, I am struggling with the limited resources for installing to encrypted disks. I am using the same technique I have used with Ubuntu, but failing at the last step: I create my luks disk(s) before-hand, then run the installer. I find I have to anna-i

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-15 Thread John Crawley
On 2018-05-15 22:24, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/15/2018 12:48 AM, John Crawley (johnraff) wrote: Policykit brings its own complications, but I think it should be possible to create a .pkla file in /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority to allow a certain user, or group member, to perform an action

Re: How to rebuild the keys for APT.

2018-05-15 Thread deloptes
Philip wrote: > I recently had to move a disk image from machine to another machine > however when I fired it up on the new machine the APT keys were > broken/corrupted. The errors I'm getting are below... Is there a simple > way of fixing this? perhaps it is not only the gpg keys that got broken

Re: flyspell with hunspell error complaining about utf8

2018-05-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I spend some time yesterday on IRC (#emacs) and it seems it is a bug > related to the language (French). Another french user was affected but > didn't find a solution. The problem is still present when starting > emacs with the `-q` option. Then I recommend you file a bug about it, Ste

How to rebuild the keys for APT.

2018-05-15 Thread Philip
I recently had to move a disk image from machine to another machine however when I fired it up on the new machine the APT keys were broken/corrupted. The errors I'm getting are below... Is there a simple way of fixing this? philip@cetus:~# apt update Ign:1 http://mirrors.linode.com/debian stre

Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/05/2018 à 03:23, David Wright a écrit : In this particular instance (the Lenovo), its PDF says: (...) The default boot mode for your computer is UEFI mode. If you need to install a legacy operating system, such as Windows (that is, any operating system before Windows 8)

Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting

2018-05-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/05/2018 à 03:37, David Wright a écrit : But GRUB is not the only available bootloader. No. It's difficult to divine which bootloaders the author is familiar with. My own experience of the last twenty years is limited to Lilo and Grub. Same here. I would not trust LILO any more now be

Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting

2018-05-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/05/2018 à 08:51, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Summary: - Boot flag on MBR partition of type 0xEE is bad on several EFI implementations. - No MBR partition with boot flag is bad on some very few BIOS implementations. Not so few in my experience. - Compromise is to set the boot flag on

Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web browser renders them

2018-05-15 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:58:04AM +, davidson wrote: > And I seem to have a partial solution to this problem: I can make XSLT > stylesheets[1] that will transform a web page A, as received from a > remote site, into a XHTML document B that better suits my purposes.[2] > I find it entertaining

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-15 Thread Glenn English
When I've logged in as a mortal to my XFCE GUI, I can just type, in the terminal emulator, 'sudo gparted' and the GUI comes up and works like I expect it to. After I quit gparted, there's some stuff it's written on the screen (I've never tried to figure out what it's about). I haven't tried that w

Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web browser renders them

2018-05-15 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 15 May 2018 14:52:16 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:58:04AM +, davidson wrote: > > I would like to launch a web browser[3], browse pages at domain X, and > > know that when I go to http://X/page, or https://X/page, etc, the > > browser will render not th

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 May 2018 at 06:20:17 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/14/2018 07:40 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Mon 14 May 2018 at 08:01:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>Only 1 of the four machines within arm's reach are physically > >>capable of connecting to the internet. Is there a wa

Re: dpkg-scanpackages instructions on the Debian wiki

2018-05-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-05-15 16:12 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > It seems that the dpkg-scanpackages instructions on the Debian wiki > are wrong. In the generated Packages file, for libltdl7, I get only: > > Package: libltdl7 > Source: libtool > Version: 2.4.6-2.1+local2 > Architecture: i386 > Maintainer: Kurt

Re: flyspell with hunspell error complaining about utf8

2018-05-15 Thread Pétùr
On 14/05/18 11:48, Stefan Monnier wrote: I have the following error when activate flyspell-mode (with hunspell set as the default dictionnary): "Error enabling Flyspell mode: (UTF-8)" My flyspell configuration (below) worked flawless for years. No one is affected by this bug in debian sid? I

dpkg-scanpackages instructions on the Debian wiki

2018-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
It seems that the dpkg-scanpackages instructions on the Debian wiki are wrong. In the generated Packages file, for libltdl7, I get only: Package: libltdl7 Source: libtool Version: 2.4.6-2.1+local2 Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Kurt Roeckx Installed-Size: 417 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) Filename: ./

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/15/2018 07:37 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-05-15, Richard Owlett wrote: To block a group, I think you'd have to use a packet filter to drop their outgoing packets. Take a look at http://ipset.netfilter.org/iptables-extensions.man.html under the heading "owner". That gives just enough inform

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/15/2018 12:48 AM, John Crawley (johnraff) wrote: On 2018-05-14 16:56, Joe wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2018 14:43:55 -0500 If your micro-installation contains them, gksu and gksudo are graphical equivalents of su and sudo. I start Synaptic from a menu entry, which uses gksudo. gksu is now depre

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-15 Thread Curt
On 2018-05-15, Richard Owlett wrote: >> To block a group, I think you'd have to use a packet filter to >> drop their outgoing packets. Take a look at >> http://ipset.netfilter.org/iptables-extensions.man.html >> under the heading "owner". > > That gives just enough information to tantalize ;[ > W

Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web browser renders them

2018-05-15 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 15.05.2018 05:58, davidson wrote: > Do I want a local proxy server that I can instruct to apply > appropriate transformations to documents received from certain > domains? This seems sensible, but I haven't examined too deeply what > is available along these lines, and I would rather not spend t

Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web browser renders them

2018-05-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:58:04AM +, davidson wrote: > I would like to launch a web browser[3], browse pages at domain X, and > know that when I go to http://X/page, or https://X/page, etc, the > browser will render not the page served from the remote site, but will > render inste

[SOLVED] How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture?

2018-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-01-25 23:03:50 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2018-01-25 15:30:02 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 02:56:17PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > To rebuild a Debian package, one can use: > > > > > > debuild -i -us -uc -b > > > > > > But how to rebuild a De

Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

2018-05-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/14/2018 07:40 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 14 May 2018 at 08:01:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: Only 1 of the four machines within arm's reach are physically capable of connecting to the internet. Is there a way to block internet access for members of one group - similar to how "dialo

Re: How to rebuild APT keys on Debian 9.

2018-05-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 06:48:15PM +1200, Philip wrote: > Hi there, > > I've managed to break my apt keys is there a way to regenerate them? If I understand you correctly, you want to re-install the package "debian-archive-keyring". Of course, you'l

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2018-05-15 Thread dft
Thank you, Richard Hector and Richard Owlett.

How to rebuild APT keys on Debian 9.

2018-05-15 Thread Philip
Hi there, I've managed to break my apt keys is there a way to regenerate them? Phil