Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 25/07/18 07:41, Matthew Crews wrote: > In addition to this, be sure not to break Debian: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSoftware#Footnotes "Broken" many of us strongly believe that once the

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 25/07/18 12:17, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Crews > wrote: >> Personally, I have a low degree of trust for Mega.nz, so caveat >> emptor. > Why do you say that? (serious question!) Have there been reports > of pro

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 25/07/18 04:31, john doe wrote: > Also verifying signature using gnupg and checksum is a must > (sha512). Such verification is suspect, anyone can create gpg keys for anyone (so trust in the keys used is essential, but more difficult to attain)

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/07/18 14:35, Matthew Crews wrote: On 7/24/18 7:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: Personally, I have a low degree of trust for Mega.nz, so caveat emptor. Why do you say that? (serious question!) Have there been reports of problems? A few reaso

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 July 2018 22:35:17 Matthew Crews wrote: > On 7/24/18 7:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: > >> Personally, I have a low degree of trust for Mega.nz, so caveat > >> emptor. > > > > Why do you say that? (serious question!) Have there bee

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Matthew Crews
On 7/24/18 7:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: > >> Personally, I have a low degree of trust for Mega.nz, so caveat emptor. > > Why do you say that? (serious question!) Have there been reports of > problems? > > Enjoy! > Rick > A few reasons:

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: > Personally, I have a low degree of trust for Mega.nz, so caveat emptor. Why do you say that? (serious question!) Have there been reports of problems? Enjoy! Rick

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/07/18 13:04, Anil Duggirala wrote: Also consider using the open-source megatools package. 1.10.0 has just been released and is expected in Debian soon. megatools 1.10.0 has just been accepted into unstable and is in the build queue. I did make a search and found this package, an older ver

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Anil Duggirala
> > Also consider using the open-source megatools package. 1.10.0 has just > > been released and is expected in Debian soon. > > megatools 1.10.0 has just been accepted into unstable and is in the > build queue. > I did make a search and found this package, an older version 1.9.98-1 which see

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/07/18 09:51, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 25/07/18 03:45, Anil Duggirala wrote: I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do to ensure this is a safe package? To know that this package will not c

GarminExpress possible on Debian with WINE?

2018-07-24 Thread Roy
Garmin Express is their proprietary software for updating the maps on Garmin NUVI (and other models) of GPS units.  It is available only for Windows and Mac. I currently have it installed on a Win-7 guest in Vbox on Deian- Sid.  This works OK but uses a lot of disk space (over 13 Gb). My que

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/07/18 03:45, Anil Duggirala wrote: I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do to ensure this is a safe package? To know that this package will not create a security vulnerability on my system?

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Matthew Crews
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On July 24, 2018 9:43 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:45:38AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > > I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch > > installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do to

Re: Wine error message

2018-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/23/2018 07:56 AM, floris wrote: Richard Owlett schreef op 2018-07-21 17:02: Just installed/used wine for first time ever. The Wine version in Debian Stable is very old and unsupported. You should use the WineHQ packages or use the version from Backports Did that done dat I've T shirt

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread john doe
On 7/24/2018 6:43 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:45:38AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do to ensure this is a safe package? To know that this

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Anil Duggirala
Thanks Dan, your questions answer my question. In this case they do provide the source code, which am not competent enough to understand, but I do trust them. thanks a lot,

Re: trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:45:38AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch > installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do to > ensure this is a safe package? To know that this package will not create a > security

Re: [OT] An easier database

2018-07-24 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 Jul 2018 at 10:45:23 (+0100), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:04:39PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > >Without intending any criticism of the suggestion, particularly for > >this use case where a DE might be assumed, it looks very heavy on > >dependencies. On my system,

trusting .deb packages

2018-07-24 Thread Anil Duggirala
I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do to ensure this is a safe package? To know that this package will not create a security vulnerability on my system? What is the minimum security procedure to f

Re: Ugly Font at Certain Size

2018-07-24 Thread Max Harmathy
Am 20.07.2018 um 22:20 schrieb Kent West: > I'm running Sid, and after some recent updates (which introduced several > problems, most of which I've now ironed out), I've noticed that some of > my emails (read in Chromium via Google Mail) and a few web pages have > ugly, hard-to-read text. I've sinc

Re: Bug#900533: The most annoying bug ever: https://bugs.debian.org/900533 , fix it!

2018-07-24 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:19:42 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Sun, 2018-07-22 at 18:55 +0300, Askar Safin wrote: - 8< - >> >> I am unable listen music using https://vk.com/audio anymore.

Re: No sound/audio

2018-07-24 Thread Hans
Hi folks,. I am following this thread a little bit. As I got a new soundcard for my netbook today (the old one was broken), I discovered also the "no sound" issue. A quick check in Windows and a linux livefile system, told me, that the new sound card is working again (the old one was indeed phy

Re: [OT] An easier database

2018-07-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:04:39PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Without intending any criticism of the suggestion, particularly for this use case where a DE might be assumed, it looks very heavy on dependencies. On my system, it would require 90 packages minimum: Well, as you point out, one's mil

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

2018-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/22/2018 10:10 AM, cyaiplexys wrote: On 07/22/2018 04:07 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] I assume you mean for your own computer (since anyone can use Google to search the lists). Yes. Originally I saved them locally as a convenience - was on dial-up. Now, using SeaMonkey, I have a ch