Re: Installing Debian with preseed file using qemu

On 11/7/2018 2:58 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 02:27:32PM +0100, john doe wrote: >> On 11/7/2018 7:26 AM, Reco wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:44:08PM +0100, john doe wrote: On 11/6/2018 5:05 PM, john doe wrote: > On 11/6/2018 4:02 PM, Reco

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On 11/07/2018 09:43 PM, local10 wrote: Hi, Is there a way to revert firefox-esr upgrade to version 60 in Buster and install back firefox v 52.9.0? Thanks Here: https://pkgs.org/download/firefox-esr -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linu

Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

On 09/11/2018 00.59, Reco wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 03:53:54PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 10:53:01AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: www-browser and x-www-browser being different things, this would be a bug in the LXDE metapackage? It is indeed, yes,* but what's t

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On 09/11/2018 03:53, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: But... bank account STILL does not work... It yelled javascript was not enabled and basically*almost* KICKED me out IMMEDIATELY because it wasn't available. Which led to me sitting here thinking... I THOUGHT javascript was security issue prone to the

Re: Scribus has stopped importing PDF files - repost - original thread was hijacked

On 2018-09-26 2:45 p.m., Gary Dale wrote: For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but some older frames within the doc

Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 13:01:26 -0500 Gregory Sharp wrote: Hello Gregory, >1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed? Doesn't want to remove xorg here. As nvidia-driver is a metapackage, it's not entirely necessary to install it in any case. -- Regards _ / )

Re: I may volunteer to be a package maintainer

Thank you all for the advice. I'm currently reading the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide". I will also join the https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ list and let them know I'm volunteering.

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On Thursday 08 November 2018 12:37:42 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, November 08, 2018 09:53:24 AM Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > I got... *sigh*... hacked/cracked two weekends ago. "That other > > operating system" that has been running as my dialup modem via a > > networked laptop. Could

Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

I am currently running stretch with the nvidia display driver. The nvidia-driver package is not installed. Instead, the nvidia-kernel-dkms package and other packages needed for the display driver and CUDA are installed. While attempting an upgrade to CUDA 9 in backport, I learned that install

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On Thursday, November 08, 2018 09:53:24 AM Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > I got... *sigh*... hacked/cracked two weekends ago. "That other > operating system" that has been running as my dialup modem via a > networked laptop. Could have come from outside the country, but I'm > leaning toward +1 more that

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:24:57 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: Hello Dan, >believe that they are expert users. And as a consequence, they >don't care one whit about actual security. Not entirely true; They don't care about *customer* security. Their own they do. How well (read:poorly) they manage it is

Re: 100Base-FX (SC) card PCI/PCIe

dekks herton: > On 11/07, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Good day *, > > > > I am running on my Organic Farm and my Forest into problems with the > > lenght (100m) of Ethernet cables and want to use now for this case > > Fiber Multimode 1310nm cables. > > Is microwave between buildings not an optio

Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

Hi. On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 03:53:54PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 10:53:01AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > > www-browser and x-www-browser being different things, this would be a bug > > in the LXDE metapackage? > > It is indeed, yes,* but what's the fix: wha

Re: 100Base-FX (SC) card PCI/PCIe

On 11/07, Michelle Konzack wrote: Good day *, I am running on my Organic Farm and my Forest into problems with the lenght (100m) of Ethernet cables and want to use now for this case Fiber Multimode 1310nm cables. Is microwave between buildings not an option - overhanging & line of sight not w

Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 10:53:01AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: www-browser and x-www-browser being different things, this would be a bug in the LXDE metapackage? It is indeed, yes,* but what's the fix: what should the metapackage actually depend upon, given x-www-browser virtual package does not

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

Cindy-Sue Causey: > But... bank account STILL does not work... > > It yelled javascript was not enabled and basically *almost* KICKED me > out IMMEDIATELY because it wasn't available. > > Which led to me sitting here thinking... I THOUGHT javascript was > security issue prone to the point folks

Re: I may volunteer to be a package maintainer

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 05:41:46PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 03:04:39PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [schroot] > To be frank, even QEMU user-level emulation is too heavy for this. > Cross-compilation is a way to go here, but it has its limitations > (cross-

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On 11/8/18, local10 wrote: > Nov 8, 2018, 4:43 AM by b...@fineby.me.uk: > >> I'm no fan of the move to WE myself, despite the security issues >> claimed(1) to exist with XUL. It's one of the reasons I use Pale Moon. >> > > I was looking into PaleMoon/Basilisk/Waterfox myself but decided not to > p

Re: I may volunteer to be a package maintainer

Hi. On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 03:04:39PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 04:54:13PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:30:17AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > > Be it as may, Debian does not require any contributor to also contrib

Re: I may volunteer to be a package maintainer

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 04:54:13PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:30:17AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > Be it as may, Debian does not require any contributor to also contribute > > > directly to Ubuntu. Ubuntu just uses a lot of work that was originally > > >

Re: I may volunteer to be a package maintainer

Hi. On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:30:17AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Be it as may, Debian does not require any contributor to also contribute > > directly to Ubuntu. Ubuntu just uses a lot of work that was originally > > done for Debian. (I do not mean that as an insult, that's the wa

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 11:26:11AM +0100, local10 wrote: I was looking into PaleMoon/Basilisk/Waterfox myself but decided not to proceed at the time as they are not in the Debian repository. You're much better off using a third-party-sourced browser than sticking with an obsolete & unsupporte

Re: I may volunteer to be a package maintainer

On 11/8/18, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Robert Arkiletian: >> >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyfltk >> >> I noticed that Debian and hence Ubuntu have dropped the "python-fltk" >> package. >> >> If I volunteer to be the maintainer of the package is there >> documentation I can read to learn how to b

Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 01:52:13PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > My backup procedures are shell functions > rather than scripts That's pretty bizarre. I don't see what advantage that gives you over simply putting the commands in a script so that you can run something like "sudo backup" on de

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Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 11:26:11 +0100 (CET) local10 wrote: Hello local10, >I was looking into PaleMoon/Basilisk/Waterfox myself but decided not to >proceed at the time as they are not in the Debian repository. IDK what the position is WRT Waterfox, but I don't think Pale Moon or Basilisk are likely

Re: I may volunteer to be a package maintainer

Robert Arkiletian: > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyfltk > > I noticed that Debian and hence Ubuntu have dropped the "python-fltk" package. > > If I volunteer to be the maintainer of the package is there > documentation I can read to learn how to become a package maintainer? You already rece

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

Nov 8, 2018, 4:43 AM by b...@fineby.me.uk: > I'm no fan of the move to WE myself, despite the security issues > claimed(1) to exist with XUL. It's one of the reasons I use Pale Moon. > I was looking into PaleMoon/Basilisk/Waterfox myself but decided not to proceed at the time as they are not in

pushd/podp (was Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.)

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 01:52:13PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: push/popd are helpful when a tree structured file system is present. Are they in POSIX? Best avoided? They are not POSIX, I don't think they are covered by any subsequent standard either (great opportunity for anyone who wants

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:15:28 +0100 (CET) local10 wrote: Hello local10, >Some plugins disappeared, some no longer work the way they did (meaning >they now work worse), NoScript freaked me out when I saw what happened That's because of the change from XUL to WE. Some of your extensions will have

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

Nov 8, 2018, 2:55 AM by b...@fineby.me.uk: > Why? Apart from the move from XUL to WE extensions, going back is > simply asking for trouble security-wise. Also, more and more sites will > stop working correctly as v52 gets more out of date. > > That said, to wind back, you set up a new repo as pe

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 06:43:02 +0100 (CET) local10 wrote: Hello local10, >Is there a way to revert firefox-esr upgrade to version 60 in Buster >and install back firefox v 52.9.0? Why? Apart from the move from XUL to WE extensions, going back is simply asking for trouble security-wise. Also, more