why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Ludovico Van
Hi all, i have debian testing/unstable on my laptop. It's been 9 years without any problems whatsoever (thank you debian devs!). Since a couple of weeks i've been having at every boot some job that automatically does apt update, but i've been unable to track it down. Of course, being the unstable

Re: why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 04:40:24PM +0100, Ludovico Van wrote: >Since a couple of weeks i've been having at every boot some job that >automatically does apt update, but i've been unable to track it down. Of >course, being the unstable distribution, i would like to avoid that. On my syst

Xsession.d ssh-agent

2017-11-25 Thread Beco
Dear users, Does anyone knows why KDE won't start if I change this file... ```Original $ head -n8 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent # $Id: 90x11-common_ssh-agent 305 2005-07-03 18:51:43Z dnusinow $ # This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed. STARTSSH= SSHAGENT=/usr/bin/ssh-a

Re: Xsession.d ssh-agent

2017-11-25 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 25.11.2017 19:19, Beco wrote: > Does anyone knows why KDE won't start if I change this file... > $ head -n8 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent  > SSHAGENTARGS="-s -t 36000" remove the quotes. at the moment ssh-agent got only one (long) argument. You will find the syntax error in ~/.x

Re: why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Ludovico Van
> > > gee, do you think this PackageKit thing might have something to do with > it? I'm on stretch, about two weeks into the new plasma, the first thing > I did was purge discover, apper, and all the other windows clone stuff. > > yeah, i get that, but the packagekit systemd service is of type dbu

Re: why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Ludovico Van
On my system I had to disable apt-daily and apt-daily-upgrade through > systemd. This command will tell you if those are installed/enabled on > your system: > > systemctl status apt-daily apt-daily-upgrade > > $ systemctl is-enabled apt-daily-upgrade.timer apt-daily.timer disabled disabled i thin

(SOLVED) Re: Xsession.d ssh-agent

2017-11-25 Thread Beco
On 25 November 2017 at 17:07, Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 25.11.2017 20:27, Beco wrote: > > I've changed the line to: > > > > SSHAGENTARGS=-st36000 > > > > removing spaces and quotes, in hope it would get it. > > > > Still no solution. > > interesting. i have tried another way and it works for me: > >

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-25 Thread Emanuel Berg
Gary R wrote: > I'm surprised that no one has mentioned > FreeCAD in this whole discussion. It is my > goto for any cad work. It has an architecture > workbench, is under heavy development and is > reasonably intuitive. It will be in your > distro. just apt-get install freecad. It also > handles A

dh-python:amd64

2017-11-25 Thread Marc Auslander
I am running Jessie x86 with amd64 as a foreign architecture. I want to replace python3 with python3:amd64 but I get a dependency on dh-python:amd64 which is not satisfied. dh-python is marked as all architectures and is installed. So it appears that dh-python all architectures is not being

dh-python:amd64

2017-11-25 Thread Marc Auslander
I am running Jessie x86 with amd64 as a foreign architecture. I want to replace python3 with python3:amd64 but I get a dependency on dh-python:amd64 which is not satisfied. dh-python is marked as all architectures and is installed. So it appears that dh-python all architectures is not being

Play On Linux, Wine, & iTunes

2017-11-25 Thread Josh W.
Hello my Linux friends!! I have installed wine and all of its dependencies/recomendeds for wine, Play On Linux and am trying to install iTunes on my Debian stretch system i just cannot find anything that is truly helpful I only have Winetricks in my application menu and have tried several way o