Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread john doe
On 11/17/2018 8:35 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Reco composed on 2018-11-17 09:53 (UTC+0300): > >> On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 12:52:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > >>> Web searches have not been helpful for these: > >>> 1-Which of apt* returns version numbers along with package names, one line >>> pe

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
Reco composed on 2018-11-17 09:53 (UTC+0300): > On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 12:52:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> Web searches have not been helpful for these: >> 1-Which of apt* returns version numbers along with package names, one line >> per result, when >> searching? (in openSUSE, versions ar

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 12:52:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Web searches have not been helpful for these: > > 1-Which of apt* returns version numbers along with package names, one line > per result, when > searching? (in openSUSE, versions are returned by zypper search via the -s

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread solitone
On 16/11/2018 14:46, Stefan Monnier wrote: I would expect the clone to work just fine. I'd expect your initrd contains drivers for both SATA and NVMe anyway. OK. Now that I know that initrd does contain NVMe drivers, I would ask whether my strategy for cloning is sensible. Firstly, here's m

discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
Web searches have not been helpful for these: 1-Which of apt* returns version numbers along with package names, one line per result, when searching? (in openSUSE, versions are returned by zypper search via the -s switch (one line per package)) 2-http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/firefox-

Re: ssh

2018-11-16 Thread Alan Taylor
Thanks Everyone. I am getting that together to show you. A question though - are you sure this is not normal behavior ? Most of my research on the net (with caution I know) seems to suggest that ssh disconnection after authentication because of /bin/false is normal ? BRgds/Alan On 16 Nov 2018,

Re: Failed to load libGL

2018-11-16 Thread mb
On 16.11.18 04:20, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 20:41:48 +0100 mb wrote: On 15.11.18 19:20, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:32:47 +0100 mb wrote: Hi! I am running a newly installed Debian stretch stable 64Bit. When i try to execute a game via wine or playonlinux i get an error

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread deloptes
James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Actually, I'd call WinDoze a DISservice. > > (I don't allow WinDoze in my house.) Be pragmatic. Even big crappy hammer can be useful someday, if you want to smash something and don't have other tool or your company policy is telling you "this is the tool". So let us

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread James H. H. Lampert
mick crane wrote: "Windows is a service..." Actually, I'd call WinDoze a DISservice. (I don't allow WinDoze in my house.) -- JHHL (Currently using PCDOS-2000, OS/400, MacOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Android, and occasionally, at work, CentOS and WinDoze XP.)

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 November 2018 15:02:53 deloptes wrote: > mick crane wrote: > > "Windows is a service..." > > Service or not it is still the same crap :) Great minds... -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in t

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > "Windows is a service..." Service or not it is still the same crap :)

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I've got 8 of them: > > So you should be all set. It is worth trying, though Appli plays always dirty, but chances are good.

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread Brian
On Fri 16 Nov 2018 at 18:36:01 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2018-11-16 17:29, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 16 Nov 2018 at 12:01:39 -0500, Doug wrote: > > > > > > > > On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: > > > > > > > > I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. > > > > I noticed tho that there

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-16 17:29, Brian wrote: On Fri 16 Nov 2018 at 12:01:39 -0500, Doug wrote: On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: > > I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. > I noticed tho that there is a new message > "Windows is a service..." > This is that thing where they want people to pa

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-16 17:29, Brian wrote: On Fri 16 Nov 2018 at 12:01:39 -0500, Doug wrote: On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: > > I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. > I noticed tho that there is a new message > "Windows is a service..." > This is that thing where they want people to pa

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 05:21:00PM +, mick crane wrote: > On 2018-11-16 17:01, Doug wrote: > > On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: > > > > > > I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. > > > I noticed tho that there is a new message > > > "Windows is a service..." > > > This is that thi

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 04:32:55PM +, mick crane wrote: > > I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. > I noticed tho that there is a new message > "Windows is a service..." > This is that thing where they want people to pay a monthly fee to use the > OS, like adobe apparently did with their

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread Brian
On Fri 16 Nov 2018 at 12:01:39 -0500, Doug wrote: > > On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: > > > > I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. > > I noticed tho that there is a new message > > "Windows is a service..." > > This is that thing where they want people to pay a monthly fee to use

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread Joe
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 12:01:39 -0500 Doug wrote: > On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: > > > > I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. > > I noticed tho that there is a new message > > "Windows is a service..." > > This is that thing where they want people to pay a monthly fee to > > use t

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-16 17:01, Doug wrote: On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. I noticed tho that there is a new message "Windows is a service..." This is that thing where they want people to pay a monthly fee to use the OS, like adobe apparently did with

Re: that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread Doug
On 11/16/2018 11:32 AM, mick crane wrote: I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. I noticed tho that there is a new message "Windows is a service..." This is that thing where they want people to pay a monthly fee to use the OS, like adobe apparently did with their photo suite. Just saying

that other OS

2018-11-16 Thread mick crane
I use windows I'm not ashamed to say that. I noticed tho that there is a new message "Windows is a service..." This is that thing where they want people to pay a monthly fee to use the OS, like adobe apparently did with their photo suite. Just saying, prepare for stampede of ex windows users.

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I've got 8 of them: So you should be all set. Stefan

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread solitone
On 16/11/2018 14:46, Stefan Monnier wrote: I would expect the clone to work just fine. I'd expect your initrd contains drivers for both SATA and NVMe anyway. But it's easy to check: zcat /boot/initrd.img- | cpio -vt | grep nvm will show you the relevant files in the your initrd. You shou

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> However my main concern is with the linux partition. How can I migrate it? > If I simply clone the linux partition from the old drive to the new drive, > I fear something would go wrong, as the new drive is different and would > require different drivers, missing in the original linux system. I

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread solitone
Another issue I have is--how to migrate my debian system from the old original SSD to the new larger SSD? As for macOS [1], it should be easy. There is a macOS application called Time Machine that allows to backup macOS from the old SSD and to restore it to the new SSD. This would work with a

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread solitone
On 15/11/2018 21:48, deloptes wrote: Check first if someone has used it on your type of hardware and what is the feedback - I assume you are not the first. NVMe is working fine - debian provide the kernel which provides the support and I have seen M.2 working just fine Late 2016 - Mid 2017 MacB

Re: Failed to load libGL

2018-11-16 Thread mb
On 15.11.18 19:20, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:32:47 +0100 mb wrote: Hi! I am running a newly installed Debian stretch stable 64Bit. When i try to execute a game via wine or playonlinux i get an error like this: 0009:err:wgl:init_opengl Failed to load libGL: libGL.so.1: cannot open

Re: Debian 8 install via pxe-boot

2018-11-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Latif, On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:02:05AM +0530, Latif Shaikh wrote: > By mirroring via internet, its install properly, I want to install > debian OS by mounting dvd of debian 8.7 on pxe-server means install mirror > by local pxe server. That would have been very useful information to have put

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-16 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 16.11.2018 10:48, Greg Marks wrote: > As of October 2017, I found that running the command "nvidia-detect" > followed by "install nvidia-driver" (as recommended by the first > command) conflicted with the lightdm display manager and prevented > graphical login. Does that problem remain? Sincerel