Re: Follow recent stable Python versions

2023-06-23 Thread Yoann LE BARS
Hello, everybody out there! Thank you for your answers. I realize I have not made myself clear, my bad. Indeed, I do not want to change the Python version of the whole distribution: I do not want to mess up the system. My need is to follow the up-to-date Python stable version for m

Re: OT: Forwarding and top posting (was: Re: OT: Pedantic, yet wrong)

2023-06-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 04:24:47PM -0700, Manphiz wrote: > Personally I don't have a strong preference either way, but would like > to hear more opinions on this. The complaint about a top-posted forwarded message just because it had a contextual hint at the top, seemed excessive to me. I

Re: OT: Pedantic, yet wrong

2023-06-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 10:06:04AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I though it would have been easier to read if I had forwarded it. > In hindsight, I could have just copied it over. It seemed fine the way it was. The only reason why I didn't answer is that I don't know anything about remov

Re: OT: Pedantic, yet wrong

2023-06-23 Thread Nicolas George
Andy Smith (12023-06-23): > It seemed fine the way it was. The only reason why I didn't answer > is that I don't know anything about removing systemd! Me I know just a little about it, enough to know that discussion with people who want to remove it but are not already capable of doing it by thems

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Default User
On Fri, 2023-06-23 at 10:51 +0500, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > 2023-06-23 4:44 GMT+05:00, Default User : > > > Other than that, is there any good reason not to do sudo apt clean? > > Only if you have many machines which share /var/cache/apt (via nfs > for example) > > You may use `apt-get autoclea

Re: OT: Pedantic, yet wrong

2023-06-23 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-06-23 11:58, Nicolas George wrote: Andy Smith (12023-06-23): It seemed fine the way it was. The only reason why I didn't answer is that I don't know anything about removing systemd! Me I know just a little about it, enough to know that discussion with people who want to remove it but a

Re: OT: Pedantic, yet wrong

2023-06-23 Thread zithro
On 23 Jun 2023 16:41, mick.crane wrote: On 2023-06-23 11:58, Nicolas George wrote: Andy Smith (12023-06-23): It seemed fine the way it was. The only reason why I didn't answer is that I don't know anything about removing systemd! Me I know just a little about it, enough to know that discussio

Re: OT: Pedantic, yet wrong

2023-06-23 Thread Fred
On 6/23/23 08:12, zithro wrote: On 23 Jun 2023 16:41, mick.crane wrote: On 2023-06-23 11:58, Nicolas George wrote: Andy Smith (12023-06-23): It seemed fine the way it was. The only reason why I didn't answer is that I don't know anything about removing systemd! Me I know just a little about

Re: OT: Pedantic, yet wrong

2023-06-23 Thread zithro
On 23 Jun 2023 17:56, Fred wrote: Or you could try Devuan which is Debian without systemd. I did, when I didn't know Debian still had sysv. But since you can do it on Debian directly, I don't see the point now. Maybe more polished packages, ie. no surprises like "if you install this package, I

FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Is there a CLI and FOSS tool that creates stats from text indata - e.g., $ txt2stats path/to/indata/*.txt I mean a general tool, but with options to tweak the report included, of course. To produce neat stats, maybe even figures, and generate fun facts of the kind The longest word that occ

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Default User wrote: > I am considering just running sudo apt clean (or sudo > apt-get clean) [...] This is what I eventually landed at and it has worked ever since - a1 is to maintain, a2 to upgrade as well. #! /bin/zsh a1 () { sudo apt-get -qq update sudo aptautoremove >

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-23 Thread paulf
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 22:20:50 +0200 Emanuel Berg wrote: > Is there a CLI and FOSS tool that creates stats from text > indata - e.g., > > $ txt2stats path/to/indata/*.txt > > I mean a general tool, but with options to tweak the report > included, of course. > > To produce neat stats, maybe eve

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
paulf wrote: > I don't know about all of your wishlist, but gnuplot is the > proper tool for taking data from, say, a CSV file, and > putting it into graphs of various types. Well, gnuplot is great obviously but is more a tool to visualize data, organized data, here we need a tool to analyze and

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Emanuel Berg wrote: > Default User wrote: > > > I am considering just running sudo apt clean (or sudo > > apt-get clean) [...] > > This is what I eventually landed at and it has worked ever > since - a1 is to maintain, a2 to upgrade as well. > > #! /bin/zsh > > a1 () { > sudo apt-get -qq

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-23 14:14, Dan Ritter wrote: It seems unlikely to me that you want to do an autoremove before you have done an upgrade. I'd not say unwise. Useless, pointless, perhaps; but it doesn't hurt anything. autoremove removes packages that were installed as dependencies of other packages

Fwd: Problem verifying iso file

2023-06-23 Thread Thomas George
I thought I had posted this to the debianlist but somehow it seems to have been posted to myself Weeks went by with no response from the list so I gave up, burnt the iso to dvd and used it install bookworm on a new pc. The installation went smoothly and I am using the new pc. Should I be con

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Dan Ritter wrote: > It seems unlikely to me that you want to do an autoremove > before you have done an upgrade. a1 is to maintain and a2 is to upgrade, so the idea is to always upgrade from a maintained state, that's why a2 first calls a1. One could do a1 after a2 as well as before, actually. >

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Steve Sobol wrote: >> In general people don't want to dist-upgrade automatically. > > Seconded. I'm not following, when these functions are invoked, be it scheduled by some other software or by the user from the shell, they are intended to do their work automatically (non-interactively) if that i

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-23 15:26, Emanuel Berg wrote: Steve Sobol wrote: In general people don't want to dist-upgrade automatically. Seconded. I'm not following, when these functions are invoked, be it scheduled by some other software or by the user from the shell, they are intended to do their work aut

Re: Fwd: Problem verifying iso file

2023-06-23 Thread DdB
Am 24.06.2023 um 00:09 schrieb Thomas George: > I tried md5sum SHA512SUMS.txt debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > > The outputs do not match Seriously? i would have tried sha512sum -c ShA512SUMS.txt in the folder, where the iso can be found. gl next time DdB

Re: Fwd: Problem verifying iso file

2023-06-23 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jun 23, 2023, Thomas George wrote: > I thought I had posted this to the debianlist but somehow it seems to have > been posted to myself [...] > > What am i doing wrong? > [...] > I tried md5sum SHA512SUMS.txt SHA512SUMS.sign.txt If you're trying to verify the signature on the checksum file, yo

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Steve Sobol wrote: In general people don't want to dist-upgrade automatically. >>> >>> Seconded. >> >> I'm not following, when these functions are invoked, be it >> scheduled by some other software or by the user from the >> shell, they are intended to do their work automatically >> (non-inte

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Emanuel Berg writes: > But if I have to do an in-place upgrade, I'm going to sit and watch it > happen... just in case something goes wrong. I think has been about twenty years since I've had an in-place upgrade from oldstable to stable go wrong. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-23 16:54, Emanuel Berg wrote: Ah, don't worry, it is safe, I've done it a lot. I don't doubt that it is quite safe, most of the time. But I run my servers on Ubuntu and Debian. (Mostly Ubuntu right now; slowly migrating to Debian.) I get paid for hosting, as well as work I do th

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-23 Thread paulf
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:05:10 +0200 Emanuel Berg wrote: > paulf wrote: > > > I don't know about all of your wishlist, but gnuplot is the > > proper tool for taking data from, say, a CSV file, and > > putting it into graphs of various types. > > Well, gnuplot is great obviously but is more a tool

Re: Fwd: Problem verifying iso file

2023-06-23 Thread Thomas George
Interesting. Your suggested command reports Debian-12.0.0-and64-DVD-1.iso OK Followed by 20 lines of failed to read Debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-x.iso where x is in 2-20 These are I suppose lines from the full set of Debian DVD's So the DVD  iso I burned and used to install Debian is OK Thank you

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-23 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 10:20:50PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Is there a CLI and FOSS tool that creates stats from text > indata - e.g., > > $ txt2stats path/to/indata/*.txt > > I mean a general tool, but with options to tweak the report > included, of course. > > To produce neat stats, mayb

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-23 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 10:20:50PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Is there a CLI and FOSS tool that creates stats from text > indata - e.g., > > $ txt2stats path/to/indata/*.txt > > I mean a general tool, but with options to tweak the report > included, of course. If you can bear some tweaking,

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 05:29:22PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: [...] > I'd much rather err on the side of extreme caution. If something goes bump, > I'm screwed. To be fair, autoremove can improve safety: when it removes old kernel versions filling up your boot partition. Having a new kernel inst

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread Steve Sobol
On 2023-06-23 21:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 05:29:22PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: [...] I'd much rather err on the side of extreme caution. If something goes bump, I'm screwed. To be fair, autoremove can improve safety: when it removes old kernel versions filling u

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-23 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 10:57:55PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > On 2023-06-23 21:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 05:29:22PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I'd much rather err on the side of extreme caution. If something > > > goes bump, > > > I'm screwed.