need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
(Stretch) Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says "download and install", but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or dpkg is attempted. Apt and aptitude won't install the local file because it "isn't found". The https://www.google.com/li

Mounting LVM logical volumes in break=premount

2018-11-21 Thread Sophie Loewenthal
Hi, I could not mount some LVM ext4 filesystems on a server earlier this week and was trying to work out what I had to do to make it work. I had booted into break=premount ( added to the end of the linux line in Grub ) to fix an error in /etc/fstab that caused root from mounting I could acce

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread john doe
On 11/21/2018 9:30 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > (Stretch) > Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says > "download and install", > but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or dpkg > is attempted. Apt > and aptitude won't install the local file b

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Curt
On 2018-11-21, Felix Miata wrote: > (Stretch) > Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says > "download and install", > but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or dpkg > is attempted. Apt > and aptitude won't install the local file because

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
john doe composed on 2018-11-21 10:06 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> (Stretch) >> Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says >> "download and install", >> but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or >> dpkg is attempted. Apt >> and ap

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Curt composed on 2018-11-21 09:15 (UTC): > Felix Miata wrote: >> (Stretch) >> Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says >> "download and install", >> but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or >> dpkg is attempted. Apt >> and aptitude wo

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:44:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: [...] > It seems Curt's instructions to use dpkg to install the downloaded deb > resulted in > creation of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list containing > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable

keyboard configuration issue

2018-11-21 Thread redmood
Hello, I just installed debian 9 on my laptop. I encrypted the disk, so I have to type a keyphrase before accessing the data on the disk. I also have a user account and have to type my password to log in. I have been trying to set the french bepo keyboard, instead of the default azerty one. I

Re: keyboard configuration issue

2018-11-21 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:05:51PM +0100, redmood wrote: > Hello, [...] > Now, when I power on my computer, I have to type the decrypt > password in bepo as well as my log in password, Good. > but once logged in, > the layout is still set back to

Re: pdfjoin loses web links in the PDFs

2018-11-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-11-18 16:16:21 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > This is frustrating. I'm running Debian/Buster (AMD64) and just finished > creating web links (mostly mailto: in a two-part directory I > created using Scribus. I exported the files to PDF on a Debian/Stretch > machine because Buster uses a version o

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread rhkramer
One suggestion (and, yes, I'm intentionally top posting) -- why don't you repost you're reply with: * the Subject changed to say Solved (was: need G...) * Top post the solution in as concise a fashion as you can -- my first feeble partial attempt: "I had trouble installing Google Chrome

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:44:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > It seems Curt's instructions to use dpkg to install the downloaded deb > resulted in > creation of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list containing > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main >

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 21-11-18, Felix Miata wrote: > john doe composed on 2018-11-21 10:06 (UTC+0100): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> (Stretch) > >> Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says > >> "download and install", > >> but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install

Buster Apt-Get Upgrade removed Group "nobody".

2018-11-21 Thread Kenneth Parker
I saw that message scroll by, during the processing of the Upgrade. I guess my question is, where did that come from, and why? (I thought that "Nobody" was set up, to give "little or no" Privileges to something "Automagic"). Thank you! Kenneth Parker

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:30:26 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > (Stretch) > Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says > "download and install", > but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or dpkg > is attempted. Apt > and aptitude won't install th

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. > Apt-get won't install local files, that is, not in a repo. Yes, it will. But you have to supply the filename with a leading / or ./ or ../ prefix. sudo apt-get

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2018-11-21 11:21 (UTC-0500): > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. >> Apt-get won't install local files, that is, not in a repo. > Yes, it will. But you have to supply t

Re: VLC doesn't shutdown when closed

2018-11-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-21 2:55 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 08:29:18PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Buster with a Plasma 5 desktop. After I close a VLC session [...] Note that just ending the process doesn't work. I need to send the Kill signal. Not a VLC user here, s

Re: pdfjoin loses web links in the PDFs

2018-11-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-21 6:26 a.m., Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2018-11-18 16:16:21 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: This is frustrating. I'm running Debian/Buster (AMD64) and just finished creating web links (mostly mailto: in a two-part directory I created using Scribus. I exported the files to PDF on a Debian/Stre

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:31:53AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > I did try ./google-chrome... but apt wouldn't find it. In stretch, right? What was the exact command you used, and the exact output?

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2018-11-21 11:50 (UTC-0500): > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:31:53AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> I did try ./google-chrome... but apt wouldn't find it. > In stretch, right? What was the exact command you used, and the exact > output? Sorry, I thought I had, but NAICT fr

Re: Buster Apt-Get Upgrade removed Group "nobody".

2018-11-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-11-21 10:25 -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I saw that message scroll by, during the processing of the Upgrade. > > I guess my question is, where did that come from, and why? Previous versions of systemd used to create it, a mistake that has just been corrected: , | systemd (239-12) u

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 7:46 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:44:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > It seems Curt's instructions to use dpkg to install the downloaded deb > > resulted in > > creation of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list containing > > > > deb

Re: Mounting LVM logical volumes in break=premount

2018-11-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/11/2018 à 09:31, Sophie Loewenthal a écrit : I could not mount some LVM ext4 filesystems on a server earlier this week and was trying to work out what I had to do to make it work. I had booted into break=premount ( added to the end of the linux line in Grub ) to fix an error in /etc/fst

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:21:15 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. > > Apt-get won't install local files, that is, not in a repo. > > Yes, it will. But you have to s

Re: keyboard configuration issue

2018-11-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/21/18, redmood wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed debian 9 on my laptop. I encrypted the disk, so I have > to type a keyphrase before accessing the data on the disk. I also have a > user account and have to type my password to log in. I have been trying > to set the french bepo keyboard, i

Re: Mounting LVM logical volumes in break=premount

2018-11-21 Thread Sophie Loewenthal
On November 21, 2018 8:33:25 PM CET, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >Le 21/11/2018 à 09:31, Sophie Loewenthal a écrit : >> >> I could not mount some LVM ext4 filesystems on a server earlier this >week and was trying to work out what I had to do to make it work. >> >> I had booted into break=premount

Re: keyboard configuration issue

2018-11-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
*Whoops!* The mangled one that's working is *BUSTER*, not Stretch. Just realized that as I ran another "apt-get update". That's comparing apples and oranges in that case with respect to 1 1/2 to ~2-year-old Buster's keyboard working while shiny new Stretch's is being a tiny bit flaky. Sorry about t

Re: Mounting LVM logical volumes in break=premount

2018-11-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/11/2018 à 22:09, Sophie Loewenthal a écrit : but when I ran , % mount /dev/mapper/vg0-root /tmp/a I recall a message stating the fs count not be mounted because of wrong file system type. 1) Make sure the LV is activated, e.g. with vgchange -ay 2) The mount command in the initramfs may

Re: VLC doesn't shutdown when closed

2018-11-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/21/18, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2018-11-21 2:55 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 08:29:18PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: >>> I'm running Debian/Buster with a Plasma 5 desktop. After I close a >>> VLC session [...] >>> Note that just ending the process doesn't work. I need to