CUPS permissions

CUPS permissions when I go to http://localhost:631/admin the dashboard is displayed as expected. Manage Printers does display my MFCL3770CDW and I am (apparently) able to manage and edit the settings. however Add Printer gives> Unable to add printer: Forbidden is this normal behavior? I do

Re: CUPS permissions

On 8/25/21 9:27 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 05:40:36AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: CUPS permissions when I go to http://localhost:631/admin the dashboard is displayed as expected. Manage Printers does display my MFCL3770CDW and I am (apparently) able to manage and

Re: CUPS permissions

On 8/25/21 12:11 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 11:47:33AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 8/25/21 9:27 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 05:40:36AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: CUPS permissions when I go to http://localhost:631/admin the dashboard is

Re: CUPS permissions

On 8/26/21 5:07 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 09:16:31 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 25/8/21 22:40, Peter Ehlert wrote: CUPS permissions when I go to http://localhost:631/admin the dashboard is displayed as expected. Manage Printers does display my MFCL3770CDW and I am

Re: CUPS permissions

On 8/26/21 5:53 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 01:37:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 13:23:58 +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2021-08-26 12:59, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 8/25/21 12:11 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Some people report restarting the browser is enough

Re: CUPS permissions >Fixed

On 8/26/21 5:53 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 01:37:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 13:23:58 +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2021-08-26 12:59, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 8/25/21 12:11 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Some people report restarting the browser is enough

Re: Debian stable + backports + testing

On 8/28/21 5:35 PM, Yoann LE BARS wrote: Hello everybody out there! On 2021/08/29 at 02:26 am, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: That said, Dan's advice is quite solid: have your mixed environment in a VM, chroot, or other virtual environment. When it gets into an unusable state (it very likely will

Re: Debian 11 and Win10 dual boot -- SOLVED

On 8/28/21 1:07 PM, Intense Red wrote: The problem was that Win10 would constantly overwrite the MBR and blow away GRUB which forced the computer to boot straight into Windows. The solution is to go into Windows, open a command prompt/shell as the Windows administrator and run: "bce

Re: Make wider selectable edge in Mate windows

On 9/19/21 5:31 AM, songbird wrote: Dedeco Balaco wrote: ... My theme is a personalized one. I can give information about it, Jeremy. Just tell me what and how. i've been running MATE via testing for a long time now (and also keep a spare stable partition for booting in case of trouble) an

Re: Access to files in wiki.debian.org.

Is there some reason why the wiki is not shown on the https://www.debian.org page? It seems logical that a link would be on https://www.debian.org/support On 9/22/21 3:48 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Ken wrote: Does anybody know when access to wiki.debian.org will be opened? There are two files

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

Respectful sir, please review what you just wrote on a public facing page. I for one would not want you in my work place. Best Wishes with your job search. BTW: the internet is Forever. It can't be cancelled. On September 24, 2021 10:38:01 AM Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/24/2021 8:04 AM, B

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

On 9/25/21 5:10 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-09-25 at 20:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 07:51:18PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, September 25, 2021 07:43:04 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I had to look up the meaning of FAOD. Are you kidding me? What di

Re: Printing bug: which package to report?

On 10/3/21 3:01 PM, David Jarvie wrote: I've found a new printing bug which I want to report, but I don't know which package to report against. My Samsung M2885FW printer now always prints double sided even when I set the duplex print parameter to Off. This is on Debian Bullseye. It didn't hap

Re: Buster to bullseye upgrade: Worth it or not?

On 10/11/21 5:59 AM, local10 wrote: Hi, Am considering upgrading from buster to bullseye and looking for some feedback from those who have already done so. Was it worth it, in your opinion? Anything you like in particular about bullseye? Any problems/issues or degradation of performance/fun

Re: Trouble connecting to wifi, Debian 11

On 10/13/21 6:14 AM, kaye n wrote: Hi Friends I've installed Debian 11 LXQT in my hard drive. I noticed connman does not automatically run on startup, which is fine. I manually open Connman. It can detect my usb wifi adapter because under Wireless tab, it says Wifi technologies: 1 Found, 

Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

On 10/13/21 8:16 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that netinst.iso assumes that there are *exactly* two choices for internet connectivity:    an ethernet device   *OR*   WiFi However, I use a USB device [ an Alcatel Linkzone from T-Mobile ] The installer is unable to

Re: dead lock

On 10/14/21 5:54 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi After  a Debian install on my amd64 laptop, I'm faced to what looks like a beautiful dead lock: I wanted to set a root account, but that was refused because I'm not in /etc/sudoers, and to put me in this file, I need root privilege! providing some

Re: Debian

On 10/19/21 6:08 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: piorunz wrote: On 19/10/2021 13:10, lou wrote: On 19/10/2021 12:11, courtneyxshort wrote: I am a Computer Science Masters student and part of my degree involves me downloading Debian on my Mac. I have tried this countless times and I have been unsuccess

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

On 11/5/21 4:50 AM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: Hi, I did some test by installing 2 identical virtualbox instances (EFI turned on) with the same netinst image . I typically use XFCE, so I wanted to test if leaving "Debian desktop environment" marked would affect or not my XFCE ins

Re: aboutdebian.com

On 11/19/21 6:52 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, 1:05 AM Nate Bargmann > wrote: * On 2021 18 Nov 23:00 -0600, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Does anyone remember the site existed in the past, aboutdebian.com ? I can't

Re: why Debian?

On 12/2/21 3:56 AM, Piper H wrote: For debian and ubuntu, which one should I choose as my personal development  system? Thanks. pleas do some more research. it is Personal choice: for a Stable and Secure, with no problems, everyday computer use, use Debian for experimental plunking around y

Re: Debian 11.1 Firefox ESR 78.15.0esr add-on icons

On 12/4/21 7:47 PM, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I installed debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso on a Dell Latitude E6520 today: 2021-12-04 19:28:18 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a ; dpkg-query -W firefox-esr 11.1 Linux laalaa 5.10.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debi

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

On 12/6/21 1:56 AM, fran...@libero.it wrote: Hello, unfortunately, nothing David suggested worked, so I finally set it on in the bios Legacy (via F12) and then reinstalled Debian. Now if I turn on, Grub appears with Debian that starts (even if it takes a while to boot) and if I want to use

SID: update-grub ---Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.

the full error message at the end of update-grub: Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions. Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration. Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry. Question: why would this desirable? it's totally new

Re: Mate desktop environment: anything akin to update-notifier

On 12/12/21 9:01 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Hi, is there anything in Debian's flavour of the Mate DE which notifies the user of pending APT updates? I use package-update-indicator I don't care for the default so I set the command for installing updates as synaptic-pkexec I'm not looki

Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

On January 9, 2022 10:02:21 AM Hans wrote: Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2022, 18:45:22 CET schrieb Tixy: However, I believe, hibernating will use the swap partition, so I think, it might be a good idea, to create a swap partition twice as big as the memory, if you want to use it. Double the 64 GB

Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

On January 9, 2022 3:24:18 PM Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 22:27:20 +0100 Marco Möller wrote: It might be difficult to start without a swap partition, but then realize over time that you need it and getting headaches from where to free space for it. Gparted, do a little file

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

it's Historical I'm old, I was there I'm old, so I don't remember the details On 3/14/21 3:49 AM, Susmita/Rajib wrote: While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? For instance, my current laptop is Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN 15.6-inch Laptop (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Gr

Re: graphic tablet

On 3/17/21 3:04 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote: Does somebody can recomend graphical tablet to use with debian (I mean device to drawing conenected by usb/bluetooth) Maybe this will help: https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2021/01/remote-whiteboard.html I thought about HUION 1060p, but there are di

Re: MATE desktop - changing icon of a Launcher

On 3/23/21 7:26 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been use MATE almost since it came out. IIRC I used to use a series of mouse clicks to determine the file name {including path} of the current icon. On my current systems {one Stretch, one Buster} if I: 1. right click on the Launcher 2. select p

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

On 3/25/21 8:23 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I don't, sorry. I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to also use it myself. But I do have experience with using Debian f

Re: MATE desktop - changing icon of a Launcher

On 3/26/21 3:09 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/25/2021 08:06 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 3/23/21 7:26 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been use MATE almost since it came out. IIRC I used to use a series of mouse clicks to determine the file name {including path} of the current icon.

Re: Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts

On 4/3/21 8:26 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, April 02, 2021 01:11:01 AM Susmita/Rajib wrote: Thank you, Dr./Mr. Kramer, for taking time to post your kind inputs. To me, the best possible option would be an organisationally hosted wiki site with strict posting guidelines, and pages a

Re: ubuntu/snap future

On 4/5/21 4:53 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 11:39 AM George Shuklin mailto:george.shuk...@gmail.com>> wrote: It looks to me like they desperately want to jump away from debs into 'vendor friendly packaging' There's nothing user-unfriendly about .debs.  They just don

Re: Access to PPA's

On 4/7/21 2:06 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, Some of my most useful software is only available through Ubuntu PPA's . I can no longer access PPA's since Debian changed their security policies. When trying to access a PPA I get the following:  The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/el

bullseye fslint

fslint is gone. what alternatives are there? I want a GUI in the debian repos

Re: bullseye fslint

On 4/23/21 4:50 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-04-23 at 07:29, Peter Ehlert wrote: fslint is gone. what alternatives are there? I've never used such a tool myself, but a quick "apt-cache search lint | grep -i 'fs|filesystem'" finds rmlint, which looks like it might

Re: Upgrading to Bullseye?

On 5/27/21 5:45 AM, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hello list can somebody help with the correct sources.lst Bullseye please? that's kinda complicated, as the others have already said 1. I suggest you review this, lots of info https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting 2. probably a fresh install

Re: firefox file list

On 5/28/21 5:33 AM, fxkl47BF wrote: i'm using debian 10.9 and firefox 88.0.1 how do i get firefox to show dot files in file listings use the check box at the top right of the file window "show hidden objects"

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

On 6/22/21 9:17 AM, Richmond wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help please. On the menu bar of mate-terminal, select Edit -> Profile Prefer

Re: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

On 6/26/21 1:30 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is placed? to my knowledge no. there is the "or

Re: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

On 6/26/21 2:07 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 27/6/21 4:30 am, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is placed?

Re: Resolved: Can MATE DE be attractive as well as functional

On 6/27/21 3:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/26/2021 03:30 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern. I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next icon is

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

On 6/27/21 12:29 AM, Curt wrote: On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett wrote: One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Installing the Base System"[2]. Install only the standard system utilities with the installer, and then once you have a core

Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer

On 6/27/21 7:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 07:31:57AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 6/27/21 12:29 AM, Curt wrote: On 2021-06-25, Richard Owlett wrote: One paragraph of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"[1] causes me grief. It is part of "6.3.5. Inst

Re: Buster on Win 10 Problems

Have you investigated the possibility of Dual Booting? it's a bit complicated, but it works. Separate Disk Dive is best On 6/29/21 6:28 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: First, let me assure the list that I am not trying to ignite a flame war. I have a legitimate reason for installing Debian Buster

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

On 7/12/21 7:39 AM, Kevin N. wrote: Right, and I myself have lodged a ticket to ban bar after foo because it might lead to blithe attitudes concerning alcohol in our vulnerable youth. Don't get me wrong: like many other things, offensive languages is a serious one. But, instead of helping, I

Re: Please help to test latest Debian 11 release candidate on real hardware

On 7/24/21 2:54 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 7/24/21 11:14 PM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: Hello! Let's help developers to test upcoming Debian version 11 by filling out the community-driven list of tested hardware configurations: https://github.com/linuxhw/TestCoverage/tree/master/Dist/Debi

Re: location of screenshots during debian install

On 7/27/21 12:14 AM, Jupiter777 wrote: hello, I am in the middle of installing buster 10.10.x on my computer. I see that I can take screenshots as the dialog boxes tell me:   Screenshot Saved as /var/log/ But /var/log is not on the bootable  usb I am using ... Where are the screenshots?

Re: Types of Debian updates

Welcome. I suggest you spend some time becoming familiar with Debian. the Debian Wiki should be your primary resource. with your favorite search tool search "debian wiki _ " for each of the questions you listed. read each page carefully and follow the links. LMDE is Not Debian. Linux Mint

Re: ISO to external SSD

On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this, and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users. You seem to assume a 3½" form factor which either re

Re: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012

On 8/10/21 7:14 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. We need to replace an all-in-one printer-scanner, a HP Deskjet 3054A. Based on past experience, I am favoring HP, because AFAIK they mostly play fair about Libre drivers, and their ink is too expensive but not insanely so. The HP OfficeJet 8012 se

Re: Reply configuration (was: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012)

On 8/11/21 5:02 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 11/08/2021 12:25, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 11 August 2021 04:02:14 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Debian is about choice Polyna. That is mine. Quit monopolizing the conversation unless you are helping the user SOLVE his/her p

folder compression issue

I am using Debian Mate with the GUI. in Caja file manager, right click on the desired folder. "Compress" is displayed on a list of options. default is .tar.gz format this works fine, I do it regularly ... mostly big folders, ~11.4 GB and ~2,400 items. now I am following the same method with

IGNORE Re: folder compression issue

Thanks for the ideas. I got anxious, compressed the Folders individually, then the files into a separate Zip. I deleted the problem folder... not elegant, not solved. On 2/1/22 09:20, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-02-01 12:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: find | xargs stat Oops that might not wo

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

On 3/4/22 02:58, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-03-04 11:47 UTC+0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am wron

Re: update, reboot required?

On 3/19/22 06:32, piorunz wrote: On 19/03/2022 10:02, songbird wrote:    there is also package debian-goodies which has the command checkrestart.  i'm not sure which is better.    songbird All I know is that needrestart works for me, it correctly prompts for computer reboot after kernel u

Re: No dbg packages for Plasma?

On 4/6/22 06:20, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote: I just noticed that there seem to be absolutely no debug packages for plasma-desktop or for plasma frameworks. The only thing I can find online is this plasma-desktop-dbgsym package[1], which is only available for Sid. I believe the Debian Dev

Re: no update possible

On 5/3/22 06:29, Schwibinger Michael wrote: Good afternoon Thank You Terminal and root terminal do say command not found. please post Exactly what the command is that you entered and Exactly what the error message is *copy and paste please What do I do wrong? Regards Sophie --

Re: Debian desktop environment

On 5/24/22 04:53, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 24/5/22 7:27 pm, Antonino Saetta wrote: Also, what's the lightest desktop? Default, XFCE or LXDE...? I use Mate.  It's closest to the old gnome so no fancy crap I am with you on that. BTW: the mate-desktop-environment-extras is a Great enhance

Re: Debian desktop environment

On 5/24/22 05:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 01:27:29PM +0200, Antonino Saetta wrote: So I was wondering, why am I asked to choose (or not) a GNOME desktop environment, other than *Debian desktop environment*? uncheck that box, select any other Desktop you want, or None. by

Hibernate filled my /root

/root partition was 40 GB, about 15 GB was free /swap 20 GB, unused hibernate restart failed Using Gparted I found /root was full resized /root to 50 GB boots properly now /var/log now contains 29.3 GB /var/log/syslog 10.0 GB /var/log/kern.log 10.0 GB /var/log/syslog.1 4.1 GB /var/log/kern.log

Re: Hibernate filled my /root

y touch it. On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 6:14 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: /root partition was 40 GB, about 15 GB was free /swap 20 GB, unused hibernate restart failed Using Gparted I found /root was full resized /root to 50 GB boots properly now /var/log now contains 29.3 G

Re: Hibernate filled my /root

On 5/26/22 09:00, Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 08:13:39AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: /var/log now contains 29.3 GB /var/log/syslog 10.0 GB /var/log/kern.log 10.0 GB /var/log/syslog.1 4.1 GB /var/log/kern.log.1 4.0 GB That's impressive, to say the least.    I ha

multiple network interfaces...and a ghost

after a system update and a new kernel I rebooted. all seemed fine but the network would not connect... Debian Mate, network install, it just works and I never have messed with the settings. not a clue what was going on. long story short, messing around a live USB did log in fine. I decided t

Re: multiple network interfaces...and a ghost

On 7/11/22 21:35, Tixy wrote: On Mon, 2022-07-11 at 19:51 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: [...] I decided to try a fresh netinstall alongside and Boom: === multiple network interfaces eno1: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I218-LM enp5s0: Intel Corporation 1210 Gigabit Network

Re: Screenshot with Gnome

On 7/26/22 04:40, Richmond wrote: I am trying to take a screenshot of a selected area. The Wiki here: https://wiki.debian.org/ScreenShots I find it curious that only Gnome, Xfce, and KDE are listed on that page... someone should step up and flesh it out for the other common desktops, Please!

Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

On 10/5/20 10:48 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Hi folks, I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? similar: Commit Log for Tue Sep 29 13:04:22 2020 Upgraded the following packages: firefox-esr (68.12.0esr-1~deb10u1)

KopiaUI

I am a long time user of LuckyBackup, and am very satisfied. experimenting with Clear Linux OS system, I have been looking for a backup solution LuckyBackup is not readily available. reading the Kopia webpage and YouTube tutorial the KopiaUI app seems to be worthwhile. I am now making a massiv

KopiaUI backups

I am a long time user of LuckyBackup, and am very satisfied. experimenting with Clear Linux OS system, I have been looking for a backup solution LuckyBackup is not readily available. Clear OS provides KopiaUI ...reading the Kopia webpage and YouTube tutorial the KopiaUI app seems to be worthwhi

Re: KopiaUI

after using Kopia on ClearOS a bit more I experienced numerous problems and have abandoned it. thanks for the input. On 10/8/20 12:03 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: I am a long time user of LuckyBackup, and am very satisfied. experimenting with Clear Linux OS system, I have been looking for a

Re: SSD and HDD

I don't use the automatic install, I don't like what it chooses. I use the manual method to set things up exactly as desired. to answer your question you can install on any available drive, SSD or HDD... use or create some or all of your partitions wherever you like. your new fstab will point t

Re: Please be respectful

ditto On 10/15/20 6:58 AM, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: Reading this thread reinforces just how old I am The whole world seems to be wearing their feelings on the sleeve On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Weaver, On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:12:45AM -0700, Weaver wrote: Being polite

Re: Zoom.

I have zoom on a couple Debian 10 machines. Both are Mate desktop Both work as expected. this one opens the zoom window using $ zoom in a terminal and by using the Mate launcher (/usr/bin/zoom %U) On 10/17/20 1:23 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Does anyone have Zoom working in Debian 10? Here i

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

I believe the "request" for a DVD is outdated. Try inserting your USB device and proceed as normal *perhaps it should say "insert the install media" or something similar On 11/20/20 5:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've copied (using dd) the .iso of Debian 10's DVD1 to a USB flash drive. I have

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

On 11/20/20 7:35 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/20/2020 07:52 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: I believe the "request" for a DVD is outdated. Try inserting your USB device and proceed as normal I did a completely fresh install to the test machine - including a full install of the MATE de

caja-admin not working in Bullseye Mate

caja-admin not working in Bullseye Mate

Re: caja-admin not working in Bullseye Mate

On 12/8/20 1:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 07 dec 20, 09:58:26, Peter Ehlert wrote: caja-admin not working in Bullseye Mate There are many ways in which some software is "not working". Pardon me. caja-admin adds some administrative actions to the right-click men

Re: Debian 10 64bit

I can not begin to explain sudo, I don't use it, but many do. It's complicated, start reading here: https://wiki.debian.org/sudo/ On 12/14/20 4:45 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus removing the i386version I had originally instaled). The

Re: Debian 10 64bit

On 12/16/20 2:09 AM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: I was not offered to set a root passwd during the last 2 Buster installs I did. Admittedly, with mateDE and MAYBE that makes a difference. Who's going to try it to prove the point? It'll be several days before I can. Will do if I don't see somebody

Re: Totally on topic

On 12/31/20 11:33 AM, mick crane wrote: Happy New Year to all concerned and thanks for the handy tips and information on Debian users in 2020 mick and my Best to you Sir

Re: How i do upgrade my operating system to Debian “buster”?

On 1/9/21 5:04 PM, John Hasler wrote: Carl Fink writes: I'm repeating the recommendation I've seen on this very list for decades. It is an incorrect recommendation. Upgrading works well and is supported and recommended by Debian. sometimes, but not always. I prefer Reinstall, it's painless

Re: Debian and Android

On 1/17/21 6:57 AM, Celejar wrote: On 17 Jan 2021 10:41:07 GMT Curt wrote: On 2021-01-16, Dale Amon wrote: I simply want to drag my photos from the phone over a USB mount and store them on my laptop. If both your phone and your laptop are on the same LAN: https://snapdrop.net/ https://

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

On 1/25/21 3:29 PM, deloptes wrote: Nicolas George wrote: This does not look compatible with "I need it to be not expensive, because that's for taking in transports daily and sometimes leaving unsupervised in classrooms". It is good quality for the money - what means expensive?! My advise i

Sudo ... use or delete?

I don't use sudo The systems I use and the systems I setup for others never have sudo users setup ... unneeded. Should I delete the sudo package? Would that cause some internal conflicts? they all have Debian Mate desktops... if that makes any difference, I think not.

Re: Sudo ... use or delete?

On 1/29/21 7:50 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: * 2021-01-29 06:34:34-0800, Peter Ehlert wrote: I don't use sudo The systems I use and the systems I setup for others never have sudo users setup ... unneeded. Should I delete the sudo package? Would that cause some internal conflicts? they all

Re: Sudo ... use or delete?

On 1/29/21 11:47 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 29 ian 21, 06:34:34, Peter Ehlert wrote: I don't use sudo The systems I use and the systems I setup for others never have sudo users setup ... unneeded. Should I delete the sudo package? Would that cause some internal conflicts? the

Re: Download Pages are, Locked??!???

On 2/7/21 7:44 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Stephen wrote: Suddenly the download pages are forbidden? What is going on? Apologies, something screwed up and left the release directory not readable. Fixed now. :-/ still not working here...

Re: Download Pages are, Locked??!???

On 2/7/21 9:19 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: Peter Ehlert writes: On 2/7/21 7:44 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Stephen wrote: Suddenly the download pages are forbidden? What is going on? Apologies, something screwed up and left the release directory not readable. Fixed now. :-/ still not working

Re: Compared with debian 10.7, debian 10.8 (with realtime kernel) cyclictest test max latency has increased significantly

On 2/7/21 6:22 PM, Hongbo Li wrote: hi！My machine used to run debian 10.7 with realtime kernel (linux-img-rt-amd64)，everything is ok.  A four hours cyclictest test has a result with max latency 8 microseconds. Yesterday I upgraded my machine to debian 10.8, please read about Debian Point Rele

Re: Download Pages are, Locked??!???

On 2/7/21 7:23 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 03:51:34PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Suddenly the download pages are forbidden? My guess is that this has to do with the Debian 10.8 point release ISO image preparation. S° -- Sigmentation fault.

Re: how to set link/level in wifi configuration?

On 2/10/21 5:40 PM, Long Wind wrote: i've just installed inxi, but i don't think it's helpful try inxi -F zhou@debian:~$ inxi CPU: Dual Core Pentium E6500 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 1603/1603/2936 MHz Kernel: 4.9.0-8-686-pae i686 Up: 4m Mem: 390.5/4005.9 MiB (9.7%) Storage: 74.53 GiB (42.2% used)

package-update-indicator not working with Bullseye Mate

I use package-update-indicator with the Mate desktop. It works well on Buster, on several machines that I have and also on several I maintain. I have it set to update every hour, and execute synaptic-pkexec when it shows Red or Yellow. Now, I am testing Bullseye on a couple machines. The tool

Re: package-update-indicator not working with Bullseye Mate

Pardon me. after the latest update this morning it is now working again as expected On 2/17/21 2:36 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: I use package-update-indicator with the Mate desktop. It works well on Buster, on several machines that I have and also on several I maintain. I have it set to update

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

On 3/8/21 5:28 AM, songbird wrote: The Wanderer wrote: ... Finding actual power consumption of a motherboard is apparently brutal.= Specs in the manuals to mine say nothing about power consumption. DDG & Google i= n 20+ minutes weren't helpful either. I've encountered the exact same pro

Re: Debian Getting started

good effort, and a much needed type of promotion thanks On 5/17/19 2:04 PM, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi Following on from Francisco post, I had been thinking about writing something about getting started for a while.  So decided to just get on and do it. http://zleap.net/debian-getting-started/ I

Re: Debian Releases

looking forward to it, thanks On 5/17/19 1:55 PM, Francisco M Neto wrote: On Fri, 2019-05-17 at 21:35 +0100, Joe wrote: Don't forget: https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ I'm gonna cover that on the next post ;-)

Re: Quick test report pm buster rc1

did you try the installer? I really don't like the Calamares installer, kinda weird, lacking options. thankfully the Debian Installer is still available. On 5/22/19 11:36 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi All Just downloaded the rc1 image below and created a flash disk to test. debian-live-buster-DI-

Re: Debian 10 user accounts

that would be with the Calamares Installer? I Hate it! also it mounts all system swap partitions, nor does it read or write partition labels. I don't understand how to fix the Sudo issue, I can't even log in as root. this something that Linux Mint also does, I forget how to fix it. on my other m

Re: UEFI beginner questions

HP works, I have 5 HP machines at this time, all running Debian. "secure boot" does not exist on any of them. I do Not use UEFI, only Legacy Boot. Never figured it out or saw an urgent need to use it. BIOS/UEFI menus are all different, even on similar models and makes. there are a number of artic

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