On 4/4/25 16:41, George at Clug wrote:
Hi, I believe you are using a terminal from another computer, and not using a remote X or Wayland client like VNC? (e.g. "I usually access it via ssh")
That is correct, ssh in bash in xfce4-terminal in XFCE in X11 under kernel 6.1.0-32-amd64.
If so, please use apt to install software.
If you need to reboot to complete the installation # systemctl reboot
shutdown doesn't. I mean it acts like it does, goes through the motions, and ends up with a computer that's unresponsive and off the network, but fans & drives are still spinning. "poweroff" works, but I don't know if it shuts down the OS gracefully or is equivalent to pulling the plug. Also it suspends the OS after a few minutes, so I gotta find out where that's controlled.
to run synaptic you would need to do this on the computer itself, not remotely unless you are using a remote X or Wayland client like VNC.
So ssh is right out? That sucketh much. It's not all X clients that don't work, so what's the determinant for not working? Those that use root? GTK?
