On Tuesday 26 July 2016 18:47:11 Johann Klammer wrote: > On 07/26/2016 04:50 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Telling us your requirements, will make making a recommendation easier. > > I did. it's just those two things... > ... > kinda thought it was obvious, that the problem is my boxen being too > old to run that stuff.
How old is old?? I have been running Debian on some pretty old stuff, but then I don't use Stretch for it. Anyhow: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=linux+distro+good+for+old+computers&oq=linux+distro+good+for+old+computers&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.13778j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 I'm sure you have done that! I second Felix's recommendation of Trinity DE for old computers. It will even run on a Raspberry Pi A (just, and it has to be a specially adapted TDE!) Lisi > To be more specific, something I tried to install had a dependency on > apt-transport-https, and pulled in new versions of: > Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 libapt-pkg5.0 i386 > 1.3~pre2 [898 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 > apt-utils i386 1.3~pre2 [402 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian > testing/main i386 apt i386 1.3~pre2 [1,166 kB] Get:4 > http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 apt-transport-https i386 > 1.3~pre2 [157 kB] > > those would not run: > > Dump of assembler code from 0xb7eb4a73 to 0xb7eb4a87: > 0xb7eb4a73 > <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr >aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2275>: cmp -0x288(%ebp),%eax => 0xb7eb4a79 > <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr >aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2281>: cmovne -0x1bc(%ebp),%edx 0xb7eb4a80 > <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr >aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2288>: lea 0x1(%edi),%ecx 0xb7eb4a83 > <_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_tr >aitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2291>: mov %ecx,-0x274(%ebp) > > Luckily, there were still versions 1.2.1 in the local > /var/cache/apt/archives, I dpkg -i 'd them, so all is working for now... > > But I'll have to look for alternatives.
