Re: Which type of FTP transfer for apt and aptitude?

On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:54:21 + Joe wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:49:21 +0100 > "M.A. Perry" wrote: > > > Dear People, > > A simple question for which I have so far found no > > answer in the Debian documentation. My computer > > is a domestic, Debian 8.6 AMD-64 box that uses > > apt-get a

Re: Which type of FTP transfer for apt and aptitude?

On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:49:21 +0100 "M.A. Perry" wrote: > Dear People, > A simple question for which I have so far found no > answer in the Debian documentation. My computer > is a domestic, Debian 8.6 AMD-64 box that uses > apt-get and aptitude for ugrades and/or installations. > > We are curren

Re: Which type of FTP transfer for apt and aptitude?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:49:21PM +0100, M.A. Perry wrote: > Dear People, > A simple question for which I have so far found no > answer in the Debian documentation. My computer > is a domestic, Debian 8.6 AMD-64 box that uses > apt-get and aptitude for ugrades and/or installations. > > We are cur

Which type of FTP transfer for apt and aptitude?

Dear People, A simple question for which I have so far found no answer in the Debian documentation. My computer is a domestic, Debian 8.6 AMD-64 box that uses apt-get and aptitude for ugrades and/or installations. We are currently writing a set of ip_tables rules for a default baseline -A OUTPUT

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:00:06 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 19 December 2016 18:58:43 Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:38:51 +0100 > > > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2016-12-16 18:06:26 +, Joe wrote: > > > > Do you have X running? > > > > > > Not always. > > > > > > >

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Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

On Monday 19 December 2016 18:58:43 Joe wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:38:51 +0100 > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2016-12-16 18:06:26 +, Joe wrote: > > > Do you have X running? > > > > Not always. > > > > > I use Synaptic in these situations, where it is easy to try packages > > > to see w

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On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:10 PM, deloptes wrote: > I have an older notebook with ATI. (Actually I gave it to a friend) Recently > I updated to OS is ubuntu 16.04 from 12.x. > > glxgears looks good, but after installing later firefox when watching some > YT it slows down and video breaks. even low

Re: firefox + flashplayer on slow pc

deloptes writes: > I have an older notebook with ATI. (Actually I gave it to a friend) Recently > I updated to OS is ubuntu 16.04 from 12.x. > > glxgears looks good, but after installing later firefox when watching some > YT it slows down and video breaks. even lowering quality to 360 is not ver

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Re: firefox + flashplayer on slow pc

On 12/20/2016 11:10 PM, deloptes wrote: > I have an older notebook with ATI. (Actually I gave it to a friend) Recently > I updated to OS is ubuntu 16.04 from 12.x. > > glxgears looks good, but after installing later firefox when watching some > YT it slows down and video breaks. even lowering qual