Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'

2020-09-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include automatically installed packages?  Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed, including those that would otherwise have been automatically installed. Marc

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Sep 2020 at 15:18:10 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400): > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > >> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted > >> https://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: Create 3D text?

2020-09-11 Thread Carl Fink
On 9/11/20 4:55 PM, Cousin Stanley wrote: You might try gimp $ apt show gimp Google-ize ... gimp 3d text There will be a learning curve but 3d text variations seem virtually endless My original request was perhaps not clear. I meant text as a 3d object. GIMP mak

Re: Create 3D text?

2020-09-11 Thread Cousin Stanley
Carl Fink wrote: > Can anyone suggest a Debian repo-installable program > to create 3D text ? > You might try gimp $ apt show gimp Google-ize ... gimp 3d text There will be a learning curve but 3d text variations seem virtually endless -- Stanley C. Kitching

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-11 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
Marco Möller writes: > On 10.09.20 18:43, David Wright wrote: >> So what would your version of an installer do when presented with: >> >>│ [*] Debian desktop environment │ >>│ [ ] ... GNOME │ >>│ [ ] ... Xfce │ >>│ [ ] ... KDE

Re: qemu - some confusions

2020-09-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:46:54PM +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > Kamil Jo?ca wrote: > >> Dan Ritter writes: > >> > >> > >> Sorry, I do not understand. > >> If LSI 53c810 / 53c895a is not supported, how output > >> "qemu-system-x86_64 -device help" should b

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-11 07:21, David Wright wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 16:15:05 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-09 23:02, David wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:26, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-09 08:03, David Wright wrote: ... having been bitten by https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-b

Re: qemu - some confusions

2020-09-11 Thread Kamil Jońca
Dan Ritter writes: > Kamil Jo?ca wrote: >> Dan Ritter writes: >> >> >> Sorry, I do not understand. >> If LSI 53c810 / 53c895a is not supported, how output >> "qemu-system-x86_64 -device help" should be interpreted? >> >> KJ > > Read Reco's message. Sorry, still does not understand that: "L

Re: qemu - some confusions

2020-09-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Kamil Jo?ca wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > Sorry, I do not understand. > If LSI 53c810 / 53c895a is not supported, how output > "qemu-system-x86_64 -device help" should be interpreted? > > KJ Read Reco's message. -dsr-

Re: qemu - some confusions

2020-09-11 Thread Kamil Jońca
Dan Ritter writes: > Kamil Jo?ca wrote: >> >> I try to migrate some my ancient virutal machines from virtualbox to >> qemu, and some things are unclear for me. >> 1. scsi devices: >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> %qemu-system-x86_64 -device help|grep l

Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI)

2020-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-09-11 11:42 (UTC-0400): > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: >> That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/03/msg01030.html >> (which dealt mainly with a more serio

Re: qemu - some confusions

2020-09-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:10:28AM +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > I try to migrate some my ancient virutal machines from virtualbox to > qemu, and some things are unclear for me. > 1. scsi devices: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > %qemu-system-x8

Re: qemu - some confusions

2020-09-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Kamil Jo?ca wrote: > > I try to migrate some my ancient virutal machines from virtualbox to > qemu, and some things are unclear for me. > 1. scsi devices: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > %qemu-system-x86_64 -device help|grep lsi > name "lsi53c810", b

qemu - some confusions

2020-09-11 Thread Kamil Jońca
I try to migrate some my ancient virutal machines from virtualbox to qemu, and some things are unclear for me. 1. scsi devices: --8<---cut here---start->8--- %qemu-system-x86_64 -device help|grep lsi name "lsi53c810", bus PCI

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:35:46AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > That's the first mention of this phenomenon I recall seeing since I posted > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/03/msg01030.html > (which dealt mainly with a more serious problem). > > I never install a DE/DM and all that stuff

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Sep 2020 at 10:35:19 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:02:30AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > I am actually curious, what SystemD does, if it expects graphical.target, > > yet the tools (x11, desktop, etc) are no longer available? > > It boots just as you would

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:02:30AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I am actually curious, what SystemD does, if it expects graphical.target, > yet the tools (x11, desktop, etc) are no longer available? It boots just as you would expect. If there is no display manager installed, then none will be e

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Sep 2020 at 13:03:44 (+1000), David wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 08:30, David Christensen > wrote: > > On 2020-09-10 09:44, David Wright wrote: > > > > I don't like parted particularly, and don't know what "free" does. > > > Can you elucidate? > > > > $ man parted | grep -i free >

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 16:15:05 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-09 23:02, David wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:26, David Christensen > > wrote: > > > On 2020-09-09 08:03, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > ... having been bitten by > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo

Re: Create 3D text?

2020-09-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 9/9/20, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 10/09/2020 13:53, Carl Fink wrote: >> Can anyone suggest a Debian repo-installable program to create 3D text? > > Blender. > > Kind regards, Which always instantly makes me think of Inkscape. Openshot (openshot-qt) brings in both Blender AND Inkscape as

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-11 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 7:56 AM Henning Follmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:33:21PM -0500, Michael Morgan wrote: > > Dear friend, > > > > > > > > I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it > for > > scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reas

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-11 Thread rhkramer
Thanks for the explanation of the autoremove intent (I had never seen that explanation before (never looked for it, didn't think I needed it (so far), but the understanding is helpful). Nothing new below this line. On Friday, September 11, 2020 07:53:26 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > In the more gen

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-11 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:33:21PM -0500, Michael Morgan wrote: > Dear friend, > > > > I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it for > scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reason, I installed > the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:33:21PM -0500, Michael Morgan wrote: > I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. So, not the current stable release > What is the correct way to > completely remove GUI? Well, in this *particular* case, your best course of action would probably be a clean ins

Bug in Clamav Package

2020-09-11 Thread Volker Bäurer
Hello, I use the Clamav/Buster. When restarting the service I get: "... mkdir[17696]: /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/clamav': File exists" This message is useless because the directory exists and I have seen it since Btretch. Perhaps it was current already bevore. To get rid o fit,

Re: Bug in Clamav Package

2020-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 sep 20, 07:26:21, Volker Bäurer wrote: > Hello, > > I use the Clamav/Buster. When restarting the service I get: > > "... mkdir[17696]: /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/clamav': File > exists" > > This message is useless because the directory exists and I have seen it since >

Re: OT: Virtualbox - ISO or VDI?

2020-09-11 Thread Hans
Dear Reco and Linux-Fan, thanks for the fast response. Well, space is really a thing, that is important. I intend using virtualbox for teaching purposes. The goal is, to have very easy and fast a kali-linux and metasploitable available, without changing the running system and independent of the

Re: Can one install packages from Parrot or Kali on Debian testing? (Was: Re: Hi :))

2020-09-11 Thread Andrew Cater
Parrot and Kali both have their own support lists. Kali, in particular, use a modified Debian testing as the basis of their rolling release but modify kernels and other packages. In general, people would suggest not mixing Debian stable and Debian testing. Using packages from another Debian-derived

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-11 Thread Joe
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:33:21 -0500 "Michael Morgan" wrote: > Dear friend, > > > > I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use > it for scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some > reason, I installed the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during > i