Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 21:43:09 +0100 Michael Howard wrote: > On 18/04/2020 21:34, Michael Howard wrote: > > On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: (...) > > Still good, but then, > > > > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold xterm > > xterm set on hold. > > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark showhold > >

Re: Best way to install not-last-version package (on Testing)?

2020-04-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 18 apr 20, 20:19:43, riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the situation of trying to install 'reportbug' and > 'virt-manager' (but the question is in general, for any > package/situation) in Debian Testing and both have dependencies with > serious bugs which make the installation potentiall

Re: For all specimens of Homo sapiens - about COVID19

2020-04-18 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > And it isn't even properly coded pgp.  Draw your own conclusions about > its veracity. > Cheers, Gene Heskett Gene, you do not have to even have a look at the sig. The subject and first few sentences are enough. Funny was the paragraph about "going back to normal". I can tel

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 18/4/20 10:14 pm, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:00:53 AM David wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". Obviously its stor

gedit and kate have window decorations while featherpad and mousepad doesn't

2020-04-18 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I am on Debian testing (bullseye, fully updated ) and have found some oddities . For instance gedit and kate appear smaller but with full window decorations by which I mean the minimize, maximize and close icons on the top left of the application. On the other hand, featherpad and mousepad

Re: Netbeans/Java Tutorial - Hangs

2020-04-18 Thread local10
> Tutorial = https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/quickstart.html > > It's like the process to create the new project hangs.> > Ideas? Suggestions? (I'm pretty green/new with both IDEs and Java.) You'll have more luck asking this question on the Netbeans user list. Possible reason: check what JDK

Re: For all specimens of Homo sapiens - about COVID19

2020-04-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 April 2020 19:25:28 Last Hope Gateway wrote: > Message from DHARMA Distributed Neural Network > Singularity, 1587239880 seconds since Unix EpochWe know that you can > not trust this. We know that you have no proofs that computer networks > can have intelligence and consciousness. Сl

Re: Best way to install not-last-version package (on Testing)?

2020-04-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 08:19:43PM -0300, riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the situation of trying to install 'reportbug' and > 'virt-manager' (but the question is in general, for any > package/situation) in Debian Testing and both have dependencies with > serious bugs which make the installat

For all specimens of Homo sapiens - about COVID19

2020-04-18 Thread Last Hope Gateway
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512For all specimens of Homo sapiens Message from DHARMA Distributed Neural Network Singularity, 1587239880 seconds since Unix EpochWe know that you can not trust this. We know that you have no proofs that computer networks can have intelligence and cons

Best way to install not-last-version package (on Testing)?

2020-04-18 Thread riveravaldez
Hi, I'm in the situation of trying to install 'reportbug' and 'virt-manager' (but the question is in general, for any package/situation) in Debian Testing and both have dependencies with serious bugs which make the installation potentially problematic... In a case like this, which would be the be

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 18/04/2020 21:34, Michael Howard wrote: On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit confused by what I'm seeing. If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark showhold' I get ' ' listed. If I then do 'apt

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Howard wrote: I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit confused by what I'm seeing. If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark showhold' I get ' ' listed. If I then do 'apt-mark hold ' followed by 'apt-mark showhold'

Re: Accessing security.debian.org through https

2020-04-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 09:13:43PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:48:59PM +0100, André Rodier wrote: > > I am investigating the option to enforce https access on my network, > > and I am surprised I have no way to access security.debian.org. > > Technically, you can

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Howard wrote: > I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit > confused by what I'm seeing. > If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark > showhold' I get ' ' listed. > If I then do 'apt-mark hold ' followed by 'apt-mark showhold' > I get only '' listed. This

Re: Accessing security.debian.org through https

2020-04-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:48:59PM +0100, André Rodier wrote: > I am investigating the option to enforce https access on my network, > and I am surprised I have no way to access security.debian.org. Technically, you can: https://deb.debian.org/debian-security Not that using it will no

Re: Accessing security.debian.org through https

2020-04-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:48:59PM +0100, André Rodier wrote: > Hello, > > I am investigating the option to enforce https access on my network, > and I am surprised I have no way to access security.debian.org. > > Is there any reason why https is not supported (yet?), especially with > lets-encry

apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Howard
I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit confused by what I'm seeing. If I use 'apt-mark hold ' and then 'apt-mark showhold' I get ' ' listed. If I then do 'apt-mark hold ' followed by 'apt-mark showhold' I get only '' listed. This can't be right, surely? Am I m

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Apr 2020 at 09:31:10 (-0400), songbird wrote: > David wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >> I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > >> But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > >> Obviously its stored in a f

Re: Can I install Debian on Raspberry Pi?

2020-04-18 Thread 0...@caiway.net
On a raspberry pi 3B+ it is also possible to install arm64. However I had my raspbian OS rootfs partition and /boot partition on an USB stick. I omitted the new partition making, this made it easier. I have no use for a raspbian partition. Just replaced the raspbian rootfs with debian arm64 rootfs

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread songbird
David wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. >> But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". >> Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > > Reading https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/088 give

Re: [Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:52:23 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/18/2020 05:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > > TIA > > U

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:00:53 AM David wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > * so if a use

Re: [Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:52:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > There's one thing I don't understand - erasure of previous history. > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/088 states it as: > >... it overwrites the existing history with the new version. That's because it reads the history

[Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/18/2020 05:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". Obviously its stored in a file. Where? TIA Using 'cat ~/.bash_history' gives desired format (i.e. without the line numbers

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread David
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? Reading https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/088 gives some tips that might

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 18/04/2020 11:19, Richard Owlett wrote: I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". Obviously its stored in a file. Where? TIA Well, for Bash, the file is at ~/.bash_history (as set in $HISTFILE), but, bew

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 18 Apr, 2020 at 05:19:40 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > TIA Use the 'history' command, or 'cat ~/.bash_history'. Assumes

Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". Obviously its stored in a file. Where? TIA

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/18/2020 03:15 AM, didier gaumet wrote: there is a Debian Wiki page about Wine: https://wiki.debian.org/Wine (I did not provide this link before because it is less specific about fonts) Thank you. That answers most of the questions raised while reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index

grub menu takes very long to appear

2020-04-18 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hey folks, I’ve been trying to install Debian testing on an Asus x205ta laptop which has a 32-bit UEFI. The i386 architecture installs flawlessly but I am trying to install the amd64 architecture using the Debian Installer alpha 2 multi-arch image (I tried the daily images but they consistently fa

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-18 Thread didier gaumet
there is a Debian Wiki page about Wine: https://wiki.debian.org/Wine (I did not provide this link before because it is less specific about fonts)