Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

2021-06-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 iun 21, 17:40:34, Michael Grant wrote: > > It's a little odd for Debian to host a documentation wiki for upstream > tools. The package maintainers would need to look after the wiki page > that corresponds to the package they are maintaining. Not everyone is > going to be happy with mor

Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

2021-06-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 iun 21, 05:23:04, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-06-19 at 02:51, Richard Hector wrote: > > > On 19/06/21 2:28 pm, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > > >> Aren't the ML members aware that Debian already has a Man Wiki > >> pages repository? Debian Man Wiki Pages are available at: > >> https://manp

Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

2021-06-19 Thread Susmita/Rajib
The file: "ls_proposal_man_debian.html", in the Drive folder: https://bit.ly/Apt_readingManPages, contains the example on how I would have wanted all the man pages to be, for Newcomers to learn coding and systems handling with minimum / optimal help when in need. I desire that GNU FSF and Debian,

apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

2021-06-19 Thread Marco Möller
Hello, Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but do not suggest an instead recommended tool. It is only mentioned that keys would now be organized in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ . But how should I manage the keys saved there, for instance how to update them, or what t

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread Felix Miata
William Lee Valentine composed on 2021-06-19 10:19 (UTC-0600): > I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a > 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and > MS-DOS. > When I had finished installing Linux, on that machine, Grub wanted to > know whether I wan

Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

2021-06-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Now, I will also note that this poster has sent me private email telling > me in flowery language to shut up and stay out of their threads. > Screw you. I will respond when I feel there's a reason to respond. > I also mention this primarily for informational purposes, to le

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread Douglas McGarrett
On 6/19/21 12:19 PM, William Lee Valentine wrote: I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and MS-DOS. When I had finished installing Linux, on that machine, Grub wanted to know whether I wanted it installed in

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 19/06/2021 13:19, William Lee Valentine wrote: I have now another 64-bit computer, running Windows 10, whose BIOS provides the option of booting from a USB device. If I install Debian 10.2 in a partition on this computer, would I tell Grub to make the partition bootable? Would Grub instead ins

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread IL Ka
Hello. You do not need to reinstall Windows to fix boot problems. Download Windows iso from the Microsoft website along with a special tool to burn it to the flash drive, boot from it and Windows will repair most booting issues. Motherboard firmware may act in Legacy/BIOS mode or UEFI mode. Mast

Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread William Lee Valentine
I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and MS-DOS. When I had finished installing Linux, on that machine, Grub wanted to know whether I wanted it installed in the master boot record. It reported seeing Windows 20

Re: Complaints from mousepad.

2021-06-19 Thread peter
From: Sascha Silbe Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 11:26:35 +0200 > Have you tried setting the DISPLAY environment variable like the warning > mentions? That's the standard mechanism for X11 applications to know > which server to connect to. Additional observations. peter@joule:/home/peter$ echo

Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

2021-06-19 Thread Curt
On 2021-06-19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Now, I will also note that this poster has sent me private email telling > me in flowery language to shut up and stay out of their threads. > Screw you. I will respond when I feel there's a reason to respond. > I also mention this primarily for informationa

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

2021-06-19 Thread Anssi Saari
Andy Smith writes: > Ansible can be very simple and quick to learn and everything you've > mentioned in your post can easily be done with it. Thanks, I'd heard of Ansible before and I tried it and cdist and decided to do this with Ansible. Mostly because I couldn't get anywhere with cdist. Ansi

Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

2021-06-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 07:58:58AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > The Drive Folder for a sample Man file and an attempt at pictorial > analysis along with visual explanations of a sample command: > https://bit.ly/Apt_readingManPages OK, I finally took the bait and clicked on this link. For informa

Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

2021-06-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-06-19 at 02:51, Richard Hector wrote: > On 19/06/21 2:28 pm, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > >> Aren't the ML members aware that Debian already has a Man Wiki >> pages repository? Debian Man Wiki Pages are available at: >> https://manpages.debian.org/ > > I'm pretty sure that's not a wiki. > >

Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

2021-06-19 Thread Susmita/Rajib
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Richard Hector Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 18:51:04 +1200 [...] > I'm pretty sure that's not a wiki. > It looks like a set of automatically generated static pages. > Richard Okay, thank you Mr. Hector, for correcting my notion. The proposal remains the same with