Re: Detect upgradable packages in shell script ran as a non-root user

2016-12-01 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 17:09 +0200, Martin T wrote: > I would like to run a cron job which periodically checks if I have > upgradable packages. One way to do it is probably like this: What do you want to do with the information once you got it? I ask because Debian includes some packages to do vari

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 December 2016 15:30:12 emetib wrote: > gene i can understand your pain. one of the reasons that i don't > necessarily like sudo systems. > > one of the first things that i do when i have a sudo system, ubuntu, > lmde, raspbian, is to 'sudo su' and then 'passwd' to actually set a >

Re: Paket Quisk-Error

2016-12-01 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 09:29:31PM +0100, Peter Seifert wrote: > root@raspberry:~# quisk > > > 20:24:28: Warning: Mismatch between the program and library build versions > detected. > The library used 3.0 (wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread emetib
gene i can understand your pain. one of the reasons that i don't necessarily like sudo systems. one of the first things that i do when i have a sudo system, ubuntu, lmde, raspbian, is to 'sudo su' and then 'passwd' to actually set a root password. i have found that this has remedied the situat

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2016 at 18:38:45 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Curt writes: > > > I think in the OP's case having asked for the whole Gnome kit and > > caboodle upon installation he's got lots of stuff he might not even be > > aware of necessarily that doesn't fall into the auto category (or the

Paket Quisk-Error

2016-12-01 Thread Peter Seifert
root@raspberry:~# quisk 20:24:28: Warning: Mismatch between the program and library build versions detected. The library used 3.0 (wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1010,wx containers,compatible with 2.8), and wxPython used 3.0 (wchar_t,co

Re: Is this really the way to get your name out?

2016-12-01 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 04:49:15 -0600 Doug wrote: > On 11/29/2016 03:23 PM, David Niklas wrote: > > Every so often I see something very much like this on the debian > > mailing list. > > I want to know, do people really get a job this way? > > Is this list really intended for these kinds of emails?

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Joe
On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 14:17:52 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Only then could I load up the software I needed to do the job I > bought 3 of these SBC's to do. Not even the first user can "sudo apt > install" anything that is not in the supplied repo list. So even he > cannot actually put a raspberry

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Speaking of aptitude, it does remove automatically installed package if no other package depends on it, or recommends it. This behavior can be changed by configuration entries in /etc/apt/apt.conf, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*, etc. To show any installed packages that aren't "auto" and which are dependen

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 December 2016 12:58:59 Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote: > Le 01/12/2016 à 18:45, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > Greetings; > > Hello, > > > The arm folks, like unbuntu and raspian, are distribution for > > installation usually on an micro-sd card, install images with the > > first user pre-con

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Suppose that, during months and years, you have installed many packages in > your > Debian system that you no more want and no more use, and that you want to free > some space on disk because your machine is old with a small hard di

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Curt writes: > I think in the OP's case having asked for the whole Gnome kit and > caboodle upon installation he's got lots of stuff he might not even be > aware of necessarily that doesn't fall into the auto category (or the > high priority required category either), but that he didn't expressly

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Le 01/12/2016 à 18:45, Gene Heskett a écrit : > Greetings; Hello, > > The arm folks, like unbuntu and raspian, are distribution for > installation usually on an micro-sd card, install images with the first > user pre-configured. He is in the sudoers file, but the ability to > install other soft

arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; The arm folks, like unbuntu and raspian, are distribution for installation usually on an micro-sd card, install images with the first user pre-configured. He is in the sudoers file, but the ability to install other software to actually DO something is restricted to a root pw only,

Desktop freeze

2016-12-01 Thread Gianluca Guidi
Hello, I would like to report a bug I experienced in sid but I have no idea about what package could be involved. I use Xfce, including its window manager, and Compton to add some effects. Every few seconds everything on the screen freezes except for the mouse pointer, which can still be move

postfix-cluebringer problem

2016-12-01 Thread Gokan Atmaca
Hello I'm getting a table error. I got the database files from the site. Can you help with this ? Error: postfix-cluebringer[32765]: [2016/12/01-20:04:28 - 306] [CORE] ERROR: Database query failed: cbp::dblayer::DBSelect(107): Error executing select: Table 'policyd.access_control' doesn't exist

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-01 Thread Curt
On 2016-12-01, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 08:47:21 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto. >> > The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant >> > by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you

Re: Manually installed packages

2016-12-01 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 08:47:21 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto. > > The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant > > by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you appear to assume it does, > > that you w

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Hans
> By default it does remove automatically installed packages (but not their > configurations), see the manual page and [1]. So it's quite possible that > it did just that on your system. > > Next time you do an experiment like that, make sure to set up a suitable > control group[2] :-) > > [1] ht

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:06:03PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Peter Ludikovsky writes: > > > What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that > > aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the > > only

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Peter Ludikovsky writes: > What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that > aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the > only one with dependencies. > > Regards. > /peter aptitude said it was just removing , not those packages that were installed

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the only one with dependencies. Regards. /peter On 12/01/2016 12:26 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2016, 11:49:20 CET schrieb Rodolfo Medina: > Nicolas George writes: > > Le primidi 11 frimaire, an CCXXV, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > Same result: none of them. > > Rodolfo Try aptitude purge `deborphan --guess-all` But look, what is going to be deinstalled. In rare

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Nicolas George writes: > Le primidi 11 frimaire, an CCXXV, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >> I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install >> ', and along with it a certain number of other packages were >> installed. Then I did: `aptitude purge ' followed by `deborphan' >> b

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Nicolas George
Le primidi 11 frimaire, an CCXXV, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install > ', and along with it a certain number of other packages were > installed. Then I did: `aptitude purge ' followed by `deborphan' but > in the output of `deborphan'

deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install ', and along with it a certain number of other packages were installed. Then I did: `aptitude purge ' followed by `deborphan' but in the output of `deborphan' none of those packages that were installed along with was present