On Sb, 04 apr 20, 11:01:24, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>
> Python provides virtualenv, plus one can install most of the modules
> locally with pip3 install --user which will install the modules
> in ~/.local/lib and tools in ~/.local/bin, so don't forget to add this
> to your PATH.
At least in bus
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 14:43:24, Beatrice Torracca wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to make mutt open pdf files from the
> view-attachment dialog.
>
> I am using a Debian buster (Linux beapc 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
> 4.19.98-1 (2020-01-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux) with Mutt 1.10.1
> (2018-07-13).
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 19:30:05, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > You have to keep also a Python 2 interpreter for it.
>
> same question: why would it disapear ?
Because it's not supported upstream anymore.
https://legacy.pytho
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 12:32:06, Carl Fink wrote:
> So, I removed firefox-esr and replaced it with stable firefox. I ran
> update-alternatives to point to firefox-esr. The current listing doesn't
> even include firefox-esr:
This makes no sense to me, could you please rephrase? What browser do
you hav
On Vi, 03 apr 20, 20:41:06, Bernard wrote:
> Hi to Everyone,
> Having done some minor resettings on alsamixer with no results, I thought I
> had to reboot.
>
> But : "Oh no, something has gone wrong..."
>
> So, I am writing this message from my other laptop running Ubuntu 14.04
>
> I tried to re
On Du, 05 apr 20, 07:35:00, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:12:54AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > Please post the output of
> >
> > update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
>
> carlf@debian-NUCi5:~$ update-alternatives --config x-www-
On Du, 05 apr 20, 14:31:06, gru...@mailfence.com wrote:
> with bash completion returns a message like
> Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n)
> how can i turn this off
man readline
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On Du, 05 apr 20, 19:21:31, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>
> > let them remove getmail if thay are not able to support it.
> > As I'm perfectly happy with the present Debian version,
> > I'll just keep it, disabling my upgrade process, until getmail support
>
On Du, 05 apr 20, 23:35:45, Bernard wrote:
>
> Le 05/04/2020 08:24, Andrei POPESCU a écrit :
> >
> > Log in with your normal user and try running 'startx' from the console.
> > In case it stops with some error messages we need those.
>
> The on
On Du, 05 apr 20, 16:20:42, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:03:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>
> > If I'm getting it right, you are using Xfce, so first place you should
> > look at is "exo-preferred-applications" [1] applet.
>
> And that was it. Thank you. Now if only r
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 09:46:50, Curt wrote:
> On 2020-04-06, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> >> This is getting well beyond Debian, but why would GNU/Linux in general have
> >> so many overlapping ways to register default applications?
> >
> > Probably a case of co
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 10:33:36, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > Long term you might need a hold or pin for that (my preference would be
> > a pin).
>
>hi Andrei,
>I felt that the description of the pinning process is rathe
On Du, 05 apr 20, 11:52:32, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> From what I've seen, it looks as if debian-installer also flags some
> packages as manually installed, during initial install of the Debian
> system. I don't know which ones do and don't get that treatment.
At least the packages installed during
On Du, 05 apr 20, 11:59:17, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I did a test run. I think I see the pattern of which packages it marks as
> manual.
> E.G. It shows systemd related items as "manual". But for *MY* purposes I
> would class them as "auto". That will not be a problem in practice. I'll
> just do
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 10:51:06, john doe wrote:
> On 4/6/2020 8:26 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> > I think that, to begin with, I need to find a good explanation of the
> > concept of "localhost". Hopefully that is somewhere in the Apache 2.4
>
> localhost is simply a name to specify 127.0.0.1 or
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 18:30:02, kaye n wrote:
> Sorry about that. I should have tested it first.
>
> What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to save files and to run
> executable files (like .sh file) from an NTFS partition of the hard drive,
> as well as from a USB flash drive.
>
> It seems that
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 12:41:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >
> > *UUID=2E7B-BA02 /media/myflashdrive vfat
> > user,rw,noauto,uid=1000,gid=users,umask=0,dmask=0,fmask=0,users,exec,x-systemd.device-timeout=5s,
> > 00 *
>
> It looks right to me (I asume the asterisks at the start and end
> of the
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 12:30:06, Bernard wrote:
> Le 06/04/2020 09:46, Andrei POPESCU a écrit :
> >
> > Please attach the file /home/bd/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log. It should
> > be small enough to be accepted by the list.
>
> Here is the file.
>
> Bernard
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On Lu, 06 apr 20, 14:51:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 06 apr 20, 12:30:06, Bernard wrote:
> > Le 06/04/2020 09:46, Andrei POPESCU a écrit :
> > >
> > > Please attach the file /home/bd/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log. It should
> > > be small enough to be ac
On Ma, 07 apr 20, 03:15:21, kaye n wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 7:28 PM Andrei POPESCU
> wrote:
>
> > > As for the flash drive, I have to add this line to the /etc/fstab file
> > (so
> > > I can run .sh files from the flash drive)
> >
> &g
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 20:49:53, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>
> Regarding Python and R modules of unknown quality. What quality? Debian
> doesn't magically make any python module better or safer. Debian just
> packages a python module provided by upstream and can possibly provide
> some additional patche
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 22:49:13, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>
> R packages and python modules as everything else packageable for Debian
> comes as source code, so how it is build is up to you and tools you use.
> Even more, binary packages might be suboptimal compared to locally built
> ones.
In most c
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 21:44:31, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote:
> Thank you for sharing it with us, however I would prefer all the
> instructions to be through the terminal and not with VirtManager GUI.
Neah, it would take the fun out of discovering it for yourself ;)
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Ma, 07 apr 20, 14:53:01, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> At this point, it's pretty clear the file system is mounted without
> exec permission, so just fix the mount options.
Most likely the script is trying to execute some other scripts and/or
executables on the
same filesystem, so that's why it fa
On Ma, 07 apr 20, 22:31:18, Alexis Grigoriou wrote:
>
> You could press Alt-F2 and enter sudo thunar.
> Since I don't use sudo, I can't test if it works. But I can see no
> reason why it shouldn't work.
It won't work if sudo needs to prompt for a password (because there's no
terminal).
Kind re
On Vi, 10 apr 20, 08:24:41, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
>
> I don't know if somehow ISPs here have a more detailed (precise
> location) database based on IP, or if that is possible at all.
As far as I can tell it depends a lot on the ISP.
My current one apparently maintains its database down to
On Sb, 11 apr 20, 19:06:59, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:
>
> I understand most of you respondents don't use anti-malware at all. A
> good hygiene or other kind of solutions like system hardening
> (AppArmor, SELinux) are way more efficient.
>
> NB : I've been told SELinux is so complex, people eventua
On Sb, 11 apr 20, 23:01:28, Joe wrote:
>
> My feeling is that running as root is considered an extreme no-no in
> Linux (probably apart from the toy distros) and it is this that makes
> Linux viruses non-viable.
Compromising regular user accounts is bad enough already.
https://xkcd.com/1200/
C
On Sb, 11 apr 20, 20:31:46, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> And I have discovered a way to have a fixed IPv4 address. My router's mac
> which I have cloned into a second emergency router, is how they assign
> an ipv4 address to me, net result has been a fixed dns address, so I am
> now on my 3rd 5 year
On Sb, 11 apr 20, 18:43:38, John Hasler wrote:
> David Wright writes:
> > What sort of upgrade? Just the regular security fixes (which seem to
> > be quite frequent recently), or point-releases, or what? And what
> > parts of your profile do you lose? Bookmarks, cookies (like the ones
> > you migh
On Sb, 11 apr 20, 11:07:40, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> Gparted had led me to a unwarranted assumption of expecting
> information about both mounted and unmounted partitions.
For ext2/3/4 filesystems you can calculate it from the output of
dumpe2fs.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Sb, 11 apr 20, 21:02:39, riveravaldez wrote:
>
> Strangely, 'speaker-test -c2' doesn't produce a sound. But 'sudo
> speaker-test -c2' works flawlessly. (The idea to check that came from
> [1].)
Any error message? Is your user a member of group 'audio'?
Some program might be blocking the sound
On Du, 12 apr 20, 09:17:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 09:52:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > There are sufficient tutorials advising to download random scripts and
> > run with root privileges.
>
> My fave still is
>
On Du, 12 apr 20, 08:05:49, Curt wrote:
>
> Surely there must be a way of stracing the Maps app in Gnome to
> determine what it is doing and how, with a view to seeing whether the
> OP's privacy settings are being respected or not. It does appear,
> though, at any rate, that a 50 m radius geolocat
On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:45:02, Reco wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> [1] came to my attention today. To quote relevant parts:
>
> What about the mailing lists?
> This may or may not be a replacement for any particular list. I
> suspect there are some thet would benefit greatly from having Discourse
>
On Du, 12 apr 20, 10:52:08, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> But in a more general sense...
>
> - the snotty way to put it is that they have the Midas touch
>(just it's not gold things turn into at their touch, alas).
>If you want to know more about the Midas touch, do read on
>the strang
On Du, 12 apr 20, 12:05:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:40:06PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > So far it seems Microsoft's intention is to use Github to host its own
> > Open Source software while also making a profit from it. Nothing wron
On Du, 12 apr 20, 13:31:27, Michael Howard wrote:
>
> I still remember when Debian was for the community.
In my opinion it still is, though the community probably changed.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:10:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> I know I will be out here.
I seriously doubt this (or any) mailing list will be shut down as long
as there is significant activity (spam and off-topic doesn't count).
Kind regards,
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On Du, 12 apr 20, 12:03:12, Reco wrote:
>
> The million euro question here is how actually good (or bad) is that
> "e-mail interaction with Discourse" is.
Having a highly e-mail centric community like Debian using it is likely
to have a significant impact on its development.
Kind regards,
Andre
On Du, 12 apr 20, 09:43:08, Curt wrote:
> On 2020-04-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the
> > internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using
>
> That's not my un
On Du, 12 apr 20, 15:32:29, Tobias Brink wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info, but I will rather contact systemd upstream about
> this, so that this software can be fixed.
Great attitude and thanks for your contribution :)
Kind regards,
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On Du, 12 apr 20, 16:43:12, Reco wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 04:30:05PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > Having a highly e-mail centric community like Debian using it is likely
> > to have a significant impact on its development.
>
> While I admire you
On Du, 12 apr 20, 16:23:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:57:22AM -0600, Keith Christian wrote:
> > Is there a general "war on mailing lists" going on?
>
> I'd say there always has been a "war on mail". Starting with Outlook
> which brought upon us the plague of top-quoting
On Du, 12 apr 20, 15:48:08, n...@dismail.de wrote:
>
> > Be specific!
> > Ok... I think *debian-user*, debian-vote and possibly debian-project
> > would be better off in Discourse. […]
> While I'm not eligible to vote in debian matters, I'd say that *especially*
> debian-vote should *not* be in
On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:39:52, riveravaldez wrote:
>
> $ groups
> thinkpad cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev
Ok.
> $ speaker-test -c2 [Still not sound.]
And no error...
> $ sudo speaker-test -c2 [Sounds OK.]
That would indicate that sound is handled differently for the regular
On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:26:18, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> This might also be true. But at the risk of stating the obvious, if
> github gets forked by an open source advocate, I'd sure investigate
> moving our open source efforts away from the M$ tentacles.
As far as I know the software behind the Git
On Du, 12 apr 20, 15:45:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >
> > Microsoft has been moving to the cloud and buying Github seems to be
> > part of the same direction. Github might not need to make a profit in
> > order to benefit Microsoft's profits,
>
> But that was my point: Github's value for them
On Du, 12 apr 20, 10:55:48, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> I've been hearing/reading this old saw about "less technical users" for
> well over two decades, and not just in Linux land but amateur radio as
> well, and it really touches a nerve of mine. How are less technical
> users ever going to progres
On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:45:02, Reco wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> [1] came to my attention today. To quote relevant parts:
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/04/msg00074.html
For those who are not following the discussion on -project here are two,
from my point of view, excelent
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 08:47:22, Reco wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote:
>
> > How many people use a dnssec validating resolver?
>
> See above. Besides, DNSSEC is for integrity of zones, not privacy.
> You need DNS-over-TLS if you need last one.
>
>
> > At least Cloudflare
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 10:09:40, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:24:04AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > For those who are not following the discussion on -project here are two,
> > from my point of view, excelent messages [...]
>
&
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 10:32:55, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 08:23:40AM -, Curt wrote:
> > On 2020-04-13, wrote:
> > >
> > > It is as easy to moderate a mailing list as it is a platform la
> > > discourse. So this isn't a criterion to decide between both.
> >
> > It is, on t
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 09:29:50, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Aside: for my own self respect, I want to make some sort of disclaimer here
> (with maybe several points): I'm sure that sometimes I post things that do
> any of (1) make other people cringe (for one reason or another), (2) make me
> look
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 18:43:53, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:01:47PM -0500, Jason wrote:
> >
> > As another option, both getmail and thunderbird can be configured to
> > leave messages on the server and then delete them a certain number of
> > days after retrieval. Using that
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 20:30:45, Brian wrote:
>
> If the proposer and supporters of the idea that debian-user would be
> be better off in Discourse were prepared to engage here, we might have
> a better understanding of the intention. I fear such engagement will
> be conspicuous by its absence.
It doe
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 20:37:29, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:19:56 -0500
> John Hasler wrote:
>
> Hello John,
>
> >Though described as a mailing list manager Sympa has a full Web
> >interface that might satisfy email-phobic millennials.
>
> It's not something I'd heard of. I'll chec
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 22:38:11, Sven Hartge wrote:
>
> Same example from my circle of friends and aquaintances:
>
> - some use WhatsApp
> - some use Facebook
> - some use Mail (like me)
https://xkcd.com/1782/
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Andrei
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On Ma, 14 apr 20, 07:25:28, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 09:51:38AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > I suppose I need to reduce the limit of the number of messages
> > > downloaded in a sesson, so as to enable more frequent checks for
> > > in
On Ma, 14 apr 20, 07:57:50, Curt wrote:
>
> As Brian P. has already sort of implied, some might find it hard to
> believe in the total sincerity of a change to Discourse for debian-user
> (a community of users for users by users) in the name of inclusiveness
> and respectfulness (dixit Steve M.) t
On Ma, 14 apr 20, 08:19:50, Curt wrote:
> On 2020-04-14, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't matter much as nobody is proposing to replace debian-user
> > with Discourse.
>
> Nobody but Neil McGovern himself.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-pro
On Ma, 14 apr 20, 16:47:43, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> Good afternoon from Singapore,
>
> Can I install Debian on Raspberry Pi? When I am downloading Debian ISOs, do
> I choose the arm64 architecture?
Depends on the model.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Ma, 14 apr 20, 07:32:58, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote:
> > dnssec just adds a cryptographic signature to the data -- everything
> > is still done "in the clear" (like Debian updates. or has buster
> > switched to using https for downloading updates?
On Ma, 14 apr 20, 09:49:16, Curt wrote:
> On 2020-04-14, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > To me "may or may not be a replacemnt" and "would be better of" are
> > very far away from "I propose to replace X with Y".
>
> It is also rather distant
On Ma, 14 apr 20, 10:35:57, John Hasler wrote:
> Dan Ritter writes:
> >There's this general problem: when you place incentives, even
> > {etc.}
>
> Brad writes:
> > Despite my relative maturity (read: I'm old), I've fallen prey to this
> > myself, on occasion.
>
> Likewise.
Guilty :)
https://gr
On Ma, 14 apr 20, 13:34:30, John Hasler wrote:
> Brad writes:
> > I /thought/ Discourse was a service similar to, say, google groups.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software)
>
> The company behind it offers such a service. I would be appalled if
> Debian made use of it.
Debian is
On Mi, 15 apr 20, 16:21:19, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> What is debootstrap?
https://packages.debian.org/buster/debootstrap
https://manpages.debian.org/buster/debootstrap/debootstrap.8.en.html
Such questions are usually quickly answered by your favorite search
engine ;)
Kind regard
On Jo, 16 apr 20, 18:49:40, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> When attempting to listen to a recorded pipe organ broadcast posted on
> a web site of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), I am taken to a page which
> has the message,"To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and
> Adobe Flash Player must be
On Vi, 17 apr 20, 13:44:23, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> On 2020-04-16 23:04, deloptes wrote:
> > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> >
> > > Isn't it better to install Debian in a virtual machine rather than
> > > using
> > > debootstrap?
> >
> > these are apples and oranges and
On Sb, 18 apr 20, 20:19:43, riveravaldez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the situation of trying to install 'reportbug' and
> 'virt-manager' (but the question is in general, for any
> package/situation) in Debian Testing and both have dependencies with
> serious bugs which make the installation potentiall
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On Du, 19 apr 20, 04:59:54, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>
> I am on Debian testing (bullseye, fully updated ) and have found some
> oddities . For instance gedit and kate appear smaller but with full
> window decorations by which I mean the minimize, maximize and close
> icons on the top left of the appl
On Du, 19 apr 20, 02:25:14, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/19/2020 02:03 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > * DO report spam only by bouncing it to report-lists...@lists.debian.org
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#posting-spam
> >
> > No
On Du, 19 apr 20, 09:36:17, Ben Tris wrote:
>
> Some package maintainers/uploaders seem inactive and/or email is gone.
> Can I report this somewhere? And how, if so.
Are you sure the persons are inactive or is it just one ore more
packages that appear to be unmaintained?
Maybe the e-mail addres
On Du, 19 apr 20, 19:11:55, elvis wrote:
> On 19/4/20 5:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > * DO report spam only by bouncing it to report-lists...@lists.debian.org
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#posting-spam
> >
> > Note: "boun
On Du, 19 apr 20, 11:41:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:21:02PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Apparently the "official" name (to be confirmed) is "remailing" and it
> > involves resending the message (mostly un
On Du, 19 apr 20, 10:03:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> * DO report spam only by bouncing it to report-lists...@lists.debian.org
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#posting-spam
>
> Note: "bouncing" is also called "redirect" in some mail clie
On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:27:40, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >>
> >> Ah, I see. I was betting on "forwarding", but later it occurred to me
> >> that this would wrap the original message (probably without headers
> >> :-( into a part of
On Du, 19 apr 20, 11:51:27, Chris Ramsden wrote:
>
> I'd invite Andrei to define what he means by "bounce".
I thought I already did in follow-ups. The Debian specific instructions
explicitly mention mutt as an example.
As far as I can tell it is what Wikipedia calls "remailing"[1], though I
mi
On Du, 19 apr 20, 09:43:46, Carl Fink wrote:
> So this has bugged me every time I run Debian Stable: you find a bug. You
> try to report it, and are told not to bother because there's a newer
> version.
By? I'm guessing you mean the standard request from reportbug to try a
newer version.
> Why
On Du, 19 apr 20, 18:40:44, Michael Howard wrote:
>
> I don't think apt and dpkg are linked in this respect, they didn't used to
> be. i.e. holding through apt had no affect on dpkg.
More like apt didn't have any interface to set/clear holds.
It seems to me like dpkg is the "keeper" of hold stat
On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:28:57, Ihor Antonov wrote:
>
> Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on root
> and make snapshots prior to big upgrades as a pre-caution, but so far
> I did not have a reason to revert anything.
It's just a matter of time. Even if Debian does
On Ma, 21 apr 20, 17:07:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> Is there a way to avoid this behavior automatically, i.e. by
> forwarding the "manually installed" state automatically to the
> new package? Shouldn't this be done by default?
I'm not aware of apt/itude having the feature you are looking for,
On Mi, 22 apr 20, 22:13:36, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Debian's package management should remove packages that were installed
> automatically, if they are no longer needed. Unfortunately, that
> often seems to not work correctly. See this example on my Raspberry
> Pi running Raspbian jessie:
[...]
On Mi, 22 apr 20, 18:42:05, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> This started after I attempted to use systemd to create the mount first
> as a system service and then I scrapped that and chose to create the
> mount as a user service. That is when I ran into the five minute
> timeout. Even after disabling a
On Mi, 22 apr 20, 17:44:00, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 21 Apr 2020 at 20:07:55 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> >
> > At the same time, what is the point of discusssion? A user thinks a
> > technical point on the wiki is wrong; they know it is wrong; they change
> > it. Where's the problem?
>
> 1. Goin
On Jo, 23 apr 20, 23:42:35, Marco Möller wrote:
> Admittedly, I (by now) never volunteered to report a bug in the
> documentation or even write a patch, because I am afraid to introduce
> another mistake and then becoming bashed by the real experts, or even worse
> my mistakes staying uncovered and
On Jo, 23 apr 20, 18:43:25, Brian wrote:
>
> Discourse would provide a single point of contact for wiki discussion.
> That's a step up on what we have at present and is (I assume) very easy
> to implement.
>
> Does MoinMoin even allow for Discussion pages in an easy way?
It's easy to add. The FA
On Jo, 23 apr 20, 19:56:15, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> So I tried the next set of commands:
>
> $ sudo systemctl start home-nate-share.mount
> [sudo] password for nate:
> Failed to start home-nate-share.mount: Unit home-nate-share.mount not found.
This looks for units in /etc/systemd/system, but
On Sb, 25 apr 20, 16:39:24, gwinship wrote:
> I added following configuration to my /etc/default/keyboard
Hint: you can use 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' to get a
text-mode wizard.
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="gb,de"
> XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="grp:win_space_toggle"
>
> BACKSPA
On Sb, 25 apr 20, 22:53:07, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:
>
> Just a simple question: is there a CLI command to get the date from
> which a specific package is available through my configured
> repositories please?
> Or am I expected to directly check dates in "versioned links >
> changelog" at https:/
On Du, 26 apr 20, 12:24:11, 0...@caiway.net wrote:
>
> My firefox settings, permissions:
>
> Default for all websites: Allow Audio and Video
Have you tried with a new profile or in safe mode?
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Lu, 27 apr 20, 01:12:29, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:
> 26 avr. 2020 à 09:09 de andreimpope...@gmail.com:
>
> > What are you trying to achieve?
> >
> I just would like to make some correlation between when new code is
> publicly available (through GitHub for example) and when it's
> integrated into
On Lu, 27 apr 20, 12:55:20, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 27 Apr 2020 at 07:20:20 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 08:34:52AM -0400, Jack Dangler wrote:
> > > Surprised you got to the page. I get -
> > >
> > >
> > > Forbidden
> > >
> > > You are not allowed to access this!
> > >
On Lu, 27 apr 20, 22:06:53, kaye n wrote:
> Hello Friends!
>
> So I want to play a couple of classic SNES (super nintendo entertainment
> system?) games via the app called zsnes, but I can't install it.
>
> kaye@laptop:~$ sudo apt install zsnes
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependenc
On Ma, 28 apr 20, 11:43:22, Default User wrote:
> > Andy Smith wrote:
>
> 1 - First, regarding:
> > [vast mounts of quoted text snipped - please don't quote too much!]
>
> I didn't realize some trimming might be needed. I guess I just
> figured you can't scroll through an email for information
On Mi, 29 apr 20, 12:20:37, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > ...
> > The best thing about a wiki is that anyone can edit it[1]. Having to
> > check with others first would, in my opinion, just hinder contributions.
> >
> > Reverts are much easier t
On Mi, 29 apr 20, 09:35:12, Dale Harris wrote:
>
> Okay, did some of that, the one that really blows up is libicu63:i386, when
> I try to install that it was to remove most of the amd64 packages.
>
> # apt-cache policy libicu63:i386
> libicu63:i386:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: 63.1-6
>
On Mi, 29 apr 20, 14:03:42, Nicolas George wrote:
>
> Not setting LANG is an even better answer.
>
> Seriously, except for LC_CTYPE, which would be better be encoded as part
> of the TERM variable, and LC_MESSAGES when the translations happen to be
> half decent, all locales category are some var
On Mi, 29 apr 20, 13:03:47, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > This topic has been on LWN.net for the past several days and should be
> > free to view in the next day or two: https://lwn.net/Articles/817668/
>
> And subscribing is required even just to *see* the "Debian discusses
>
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