On Sep 08, 2025, Van Snyder wrote:
> I had been having trouble getting an antique NVidia FX 1300 to work. I
> couldn't install the 174 driver. I found a GF 630 in my basement. It
> wants the 390 driver.
That's also pretty old for the nVidia drivers -- which version of Debian
are you using, and whi
On Sep 12, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 9/12/25 5:36 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > > My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager.
> > > SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser.
> > >
> > > While searching my disk for a one PDF I discove
On Sep 08, 2025, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 18:10 -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > > While running NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.157.run:
> > >
> > > fatal error: autoconf.h: No such file or directory
> > > 1 | #include "autoconf.h"
> &g
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
>
> Can I install all of the desktop environments and switch between them as and
> when I like?
Yes.
David Christensen wrote:
> On 9/4/25 01:54, Stefan K wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Geoff wrote:
> > > One point is that you have to be actively monitoring for any drive
> > > failures.
> > In all my cases the filesystem (in my case zfs) know that something is
> > wrong with the drive long time before
David Christensen wrote:
> On 9/1/25 14:57, Karl Vogel wrote:
> > > > On Mon 01 Sep 2025 at 16:15:39 (-0400), David Christensen wrote:
> > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable
> > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard
> > > lin
David Christensen wrote:
> On 9/2/25 06:05, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > David Christensen wrote:
> > >
> > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable
> > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than h
On Sep 03, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote:
>
> I got a DELL laptopwhich started getting problematic and manifesting
> "a mind of itsown" right on arrival (remove the battery, WiFi card and
> let it sit for more than 24 hours for it to start trying to call home
> by itself). It came with what DE
David Christensen wrote:
>
> a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable
> block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links
> alone.
This is generally not a good thing to recommend; one of the
authors of the system wrote a good article which
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
>
> If I want XFCE desktop environment, I need to do a lot with the terminal?
No. Almost everything about XFCE is configurable through its
control panel / settings manager.
-dsr-
Gary Dale wrote:
> >
> But doesn't that also kill Zoom?
Zoom works in your browser.
-dsr-
> > If so, please post your ddclient.conf after removing any
> > passwords.
> >
> >
> If ping works doesn't that suggest that ddclient is working?
No. It implied that dyndys has a mapping from your domain name
to an IP address which has a machine answering pings.
If your ISP has re-assigned the
Hans wrote:
> I discovered the following issue:
>
> Running KDE, and when looking at a video or picture or video in some
> application on and make the video fullscreen, then the frame of the
> application grows bigger than the screen.
>
> Biger means, you can see half of the top bar, but click
Paul Scott wrote:
>
> On 8/28/25 3:00 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Paul Scott wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I started asking about this recently from a slightly different point of
> > > view.
> > >
> > > My desktop compu
Paul Scott wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I started asking about this recently from a slightly different point of
> view.
>
> My desktop computer is not always easily accessible. I often access it from
> my laptop through dyndns.org.
>
> I can ping my desktop from my laptop with its dyndns.org address
Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Hi all,
> Was going to mark this as off topic. then I realized it may be where many
> of you engage with Debian.
> Having a discussion on the board of the lug in my area.
> someone feels lugs are largely failing.
> Do you find this to be true?
> If not, why not?
The Bos
On Aug 25, 2025, Tran Duc Minh wrote:
> Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions
>
> Dear Debian Community,
>
> I have a question about Wi-Fi support on older Debian releases.
> If my laptop’s built-in Wi-Fi is not supported by Debian 11 or 12, is it
> possible to us
Steinar Bang wrote:
> >>>>> Dan Ritter :
> > However, arguing about font choice is completely ridiculous: find
> > something you like.
>
> But I don't know what I like! Only what I don't like!
Oh, OK:
https://www.programmingfonts.org/
has about
Faton Ramadani wrote:
> I have Debian 12.11 (64-bit) in my Vps but now need to change in new
> version..
> can you send to me a script code to update new version Debian 13..
> I have a lot of files on the VPS, and I want them not to be deleted after
> the update.
Debian has a complete guide to u
Fred wrote:
> On 8/15/25 09:26, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Fred wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be
> > > used for all (browser) use?
> >
> > A VPN is a network connec
Fred wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can a VPN be used on a per instance basis or once installed it has to be
> used for all (browser) use?
A VPN is a network connection that (usually) appears just like
another network interface.
It can be configured to send all traffic elsewhere, or traffic
to a particul
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 02:04:30PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > Dan Ritter (HE12025-08-13):
> > > That's correct. gpm doesn't set the pointer color.
> > >
> > > Whatever application is running on the console gets
Mike McClain wrote:
> I've searched 'man gpm', 'man setterm' but found nothing relating to
> pointer color on a text teminal.
That's correct. gpm doesn't set the pointer color.
Whatever application is running on the console gets to do that,
by emitting escape sequences.
An article discussing w
Steinar Bang wrote:
> Upgrade of my laptop from bookworm to trixie went smooth and well.
>
> Most noticable change was the font used in emacs, which was, I have to
> say, uglier.
>
> Ah well! I will get used to it in time, I guess...
Why not change it to what you like?
Either you are using em
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 10:31:38 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> Recipe:
>
> 1) Install screen.
> 2) On /dev/tty9, run "screen -S shared" to create a named session.
> 3) In X, open an xterm (ideally with the same dimensions as the VT).
>
On Aug 11, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 8/11/25 8:42 AM, Ming Kuang wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 08:30:09AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I run Debian 12.8 with MATE.
> > > I'm prepping to to do needed housekeeping prior to Trixie install.
> > > Current disk partitioning is *UGLY*!
>
Mike McClain wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 11:28:08PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying here. When you
> > say "copy my entry", does that mean you want to type stuff on one
> > terminal, and have it appear on the other terminal?
>
> Sorry I
On Aug 11, 2025, mailinglist.skid...@aleeas.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 11th, 2025 at 5:27 PM, wande...@fastmail.fm wrote:
> > On 2025-08-11 at 07:23, mailinglist.skid...@aleeas.com wrote:
> > [...]
> > How are you initiating the shutdown or reboot?
>
> I am Initiating the shutdown/reboot by go
Antonio Russo wrote:
> In case anyone else is using nginx and cloudflare:
>
> The documentation for ssl options on your origin server that cloudflare
> provides [1] indicate that you should use
>
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
>
> I found that setting this option caused a
>
> SSL_do_handsha
Grigory Fateyev wrote:
> I recently installed Debian Trixie on my new Lenovo ThinkPad T16 Gen3
> (Intel Core i7-155H, Meteor Lake-P). While everything works smoothly
> under Xfce, my Fn keys (brightness, volume, etc.) stopped functioning
> after switching to i3wm.
>
> Could you advise on how to e
On Aug 08, 2025, Mike McClain wrote:
> Is there any way to stop this most annoying message from appearing on
> the commandlineas I'm entering some command?
Seems the system has sent your user some mail. Check / clear it - as I
recall, the 'mail' command is what you're after.
Afterwards, maybe ch
mick.crane wrote:
> On 2025-08-05 14:49, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> > I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
> >
> > I have been using ssh to login to remote machines for years. Many of
> > which I
> > use a private key - so I just go "ssh machine-name" and login without
> > needing
> > to give a pa
Max Nikulin wrote:
> I decided to post to debian-user rather than to the bug tracker to discuss
> it from more general point of view: whether this kind of features should be
> considered as controversial and whether Debian maintainers should disable it
> in default configuration overriding upstrea
Alain D D Williams wrote:
> I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
>
> https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Tutorials/Unix-And-Linux/ssh-passwordless-login.html
>
> I have disk hardware problems, I decided to reboot (first time in ~2 months)
> to
> see if this would fix it (no it did not - I will buy a new one
On Aug 05, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
> [...]
> So: After reboot (logging in again) I needed to re-identify myself and
> used ssh-add as usual.
>
> It tells me: Bad passphrase, try again for /home/addw/.ssh/id_rsa:
>
> I tried many times, I know that I am
fred.kite@mailo.com wrote:
> My family computer has a main Btrfs partition (@ and @home sub-volumes) and
> several users use this computer. I currently use Jdupes to perform the
> deduplication of each user's home folder.
>
> Would it be safe to perform the deduplication with a single comma
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Aside: note that I'll say because DHCP leases are persisistent, that
> complicates things a little -- I try to address in these notes:
>
>* load-balancing / sharing with failover (in normal operation two (or
> more,
> iiuc) servers share the load, if one (and
On Aug 04, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 10:48:00AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
>
> > If you're thinking of the physical DE9 port that was typically used for
> > connecting "Serial" peripheral devices, you are absolutely correct that
>
On Aug 04, 2025, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-08-04, wrote:
> >
> > Note that 'serial console' in Linux usually designates the system's
> > boot up messages, that also can be picked-off some pins and watched
> > remote. The non-X user interface entered by [alt]+[F] is called
> > 'Linux console'.
>
> I
Mike Castle wrote:
>
> Serial multiplexors used to be common in datacenters. Connect to the
> multiplexor over ssh or equivalent, and select which physical device
> on the rack to connect to. Most enterprise hardware would output the
> boot screens (including BIOS) to the serial port. These da
Tom Browder wrote:
> I have been using Google contacts since it became available. I have been
> sucked into using Apple's contacts since my first iPhone well over 10 years
> ago. Keeping them synched has always been a problem, but it's getting worse
> over the years.
>
> I keep reading about thir
On Aug 01, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
>
> On 01/08/2025 11:17, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 7/31/25 4:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:30 +0100
> > > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello All,
> > > >
> > > > I'm being tempted by an ASUS laptop - ASUS-Viv
David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 31 Jul 2025 at 19:07:30 (+), Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 08:01:56PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> >
> > We have learned in this thread that sudo does already have a check in its
> > prerm that prevents its removal if the system has a root account wi
On Jul 31, 2025, John Dow wrote:
>
> > On 31 Jul 2025, at 13:45, Dan Purgert wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 31, 2025, mick.crane wrote:
> >> I've never really known what a serial console is.
> >> Say in relation to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino
> >
> &g
On Jul 31, 2025, mick.crane wrote:
> I've never really known what a serial console is.
> Say in relation to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino
Skipping a *LOT* of history (and linguistics, etc), a "serial console"
is a "console" (user interface) provided remotely to the device in
question over a serial com
José Esteban wrote:
> Is it realistic to hope you to remember such many little things like this
> each time you setup some system ? How many headless systems usually work
> without sudo ?
People who install many headless (or any other kind) of system
should use an automated management system.
a
Greg wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a "server" running 24/7 with a lot of RAM. I would like to speed up
> disk system by giving much higher priority to reads and delaying writes.
>
> YES, I KNOW THE RISK!
>
> As I understand, there are two things to tune:
>
> 1. I/O Scheduler. The default is mq
Aryan Wankhede wrote:
> Hello i am Aryan Wankhede i am a user of Debian i wanted an help from you i
> am launching a command line tool for linux and Debian and also i want to
> launch it on Apt repository so people can easily download it.The name of
> the app is Next and it shows gui and command l
something that is in progress or has been
abandoned might also be useful.
Thanks in advance for any links or pointers or advice.
dan
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Ref. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/01/msg00110.html
>
> From: David Wright
> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:26:54 -0600
> > "Debian helps fix the Web." Not a headline I expect ever to see, ...
>
> Too simplisitic and a Web topic rather than Debian topic.
масляков дмитрий wrote:
> Hello.
> how to delete my bug report
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107874 ?
> That nothing was opened at this address.
>
Don't try to delete it.
Send a report to 1107...@bugs.debian.org saying:
that you found the problem (and what the solution
On Jul 21, 2025, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is it reasonably accurate (at a simple level) to say that dkim involves
> applying a digital signature to an email by the domain (as opposed to a
> digital signature applied by the user / sender of an email)?
>
> And that the domain uses the private k
On Jul 20, 2025, Nicolas George wrote:
> Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20):
> > And it'd break signatures for those of us who use them. I *hated* yahoo
> > groups (and, now, groups.io) for doing that.
>
> Can you explain what it means? I am subscribed to
> <https://f
On Jul 20, 2025, Andrew W Rambus wrote:
> Hello , I have a Microsoft Surface 4 ; I bought at a yard sale. ,and I’m
> trying to turn it on , and I can’t get past the Debian login GNU/Linux 12
> login & password !!
> Can someone please help me , open this laptop
Reinstall your preferred OS over the
On Jul 20, 2025, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:48:01PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Perhaps, the List Administrators could find worthwhile, to add a footer to
> > the mailing list messages, something like
> >
> > "To unsubscribe, change your subscription mode, or view the
Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been Googling around trying to find a Trouble Ticket System written
> in PHP, JavaScript and MariaDB. Does anyone know of any good ones?
I know the best one, but it's not written in PHP.
apt install request-tracker5
-dsr-
On Jul 18, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote:
> OK, it makes some more sense now. The range of digits in the octal
> system is from 0 to 7, so it would complain with "08" and "09" (but
> not with "10" which would then be "8" in octal), but why would command
> line utilities assume you are encoding n
On Jul 17, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote:
> Video durations are formatted in youtube's .info.json files as "HH:MM:SS";
> so, I went monkey and did the conversion myself, but I got two errors which I
> can't make sense of whatsoever with only two values:
>
> _HHMMSS="19:09"
> _HHMMSS="19:08"
>
Ivan wrote:
> Thank you for quick replay, Dan.
>
> One detail what is grub prompt?
You seem to have missed copying the list on this. Common
mistake.
Grub is one of the possible boot methods that operates between
the computer starting itself and the Linux kernel loading.
If Raspbia
Ivan wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I wonder if you could help me out.
>
> Some time ago I got my Raspberry pi and installed Debian distribution - I
> have a backup copies with name 2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img ... so you
> see it is very old one.
>
> I was not using my Raspberrypi for some time and
On Jul 14, 2025, Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:45:56 -0400
> Dan Purgert wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Only reason my wife's not on linux (anymore) is because the new
> > paper-cutter thing (by cricut) needs windows-only drivers and I'm not
> > all
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > How come messages are numbered like Message #5, #10, #15, rather than
> > Message #1, #2, #3, ...?
>
> You mean like https://bugs.debian.org/1095863 ?
But not https://bugs.debian.org/1095866 which starts with 5 and
has a lot of multiples of 3 in it.
-dsr-
On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-14, Dan Purgert wrote:
> >
> >> I think that's already happened, more or less. The issue is that to get
> >> my wife to use Debian it would need to be preinstalled [...]
> >
> > But that's why she has
On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-14, Nicolas George wrote:
> > Greg (HE12025-07-12):
> >> That's fine as long as you realize you are in the vast minority.
> >
> > As long as you acknowledge that not being in the majority is not a flaw
> > in any way…
>
> I do completely acknowledge that.
David wrote:
> Something that I am curious to learn more about, if anyone has ideas, is
> the discussion at the above link about the need to have at least 'chmod
> 111' on mountpoint directories.
>
> I have not found that necessary, and so I wonder if that advice is
> outdated, or somehow not rel
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> Do you have a proposal then for a forum (as in, a platform for group
> >> discussion) that's more palatable to the youngsters?
>
> Zulip?
> Discourse?
> Lemmy?
>
> Ideally, such a thing would have good&nice bridges to&from email, but in
> practice I don't know any that
Hans wrote:
> > You have to chown/chmod the mount point *after* the drive is mounted. If
> > you do it before the drive is mounted it won't have any effect on the
> > mounted drive. (As you can see.) I really am not sure what else to say,
> > this is how it works.
>
> Ok, I did as adviced. Change
On Jul 11, 2025, Hans wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am struggeling with a strange behavior when automounting my inbuilt
> harddrives.
>
> I have 3 harddrives, which are mounted to
>
> /space(sdc1) ext4
> /daten1 (sdd1) ext4
> /daten2 (sde1) ext4
>
> So all are the sam
On Jul 11, 2025, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Dan Purgert wrote:
> > On Jul 11, 2025, Nicolas George wrote:
> > > Greg (HE12025-07-11):
> > > > Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move
> > > > rather
> > > > than a
On Jul 11, 2025, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-11, Dan Purgert wrote:
> >
> >> I use a mail to news gateway (gmane) that I find more convenient than
> >> email (to tell the truth, I don't even know how people handle the shitload
> >> of emails flooding int
Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2025, Nicolas George wrote:
> > Greg (HE12025-07-11):
> > > Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move
> > > rather
> > > than a copy?
> >
> > The fact that it is on the same disk i
On Jul 11, 2025, Nicolas George wrote:
> Greg (HE12025-07-11):
> > Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move rather
> > than a copy?
>
> The fact that it is on the same disk is not relevant. Apart from that, I
> suggest you re-read Dan's mail more carefully, everything
On Jul 11, 2025, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-11, Joe wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:13:05 +0200
> > Philipp Ewald wrote:
> >
> >> Am 10.07.25 um 15:14 schrieb Andy Smith:
> >> > I know a large number of people under the age of 20 who literally
> >> > say things like, "email is only for password r
Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-11, Nicolas George wrote:
> > Greg (HE12025-07-11):
> >> On 2025-07-11, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >> >
> >> > If the target location is on a different filesystem, a "move" is
> >> > a full copy followed by a
On Jul 11, 2025, mick.crane wrote:
> On 2025-07-11 10:52, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> > >
> > > On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> > > > I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to
> > > > another with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely,
> > > > when the number o
mick.crane wrote:
>
> When moving files on the same disk impression is, at least with dragging in
> the desktop file manager, it seems instant. Whereas to another disk seems to
> make new files. I guess that when on the same disk the OS changes only
> something about the file description?
That's
On Jul 11, 2025, Loris Bennett wrote:
> John Dow writes:
>
> > On 11 Jul 2025, at 09:58, Anssi Saari
> > wrote:
> >
> > Andy Smith writes:
> >
> > I think it's worth considering the fact that new computer users are
> > increasingly less likely to use email and are more likely to find email
On Jul 11, 2025, hw wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 13:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > [...]
> > Nowadays it seems like scp and sftp are the norm, not ftp.
>
> (S)FTP is still in use like for cameras, scanners (printers) and phones.
> For local usages I don't want to do all the hassle the certi
On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> > > I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to another
> > > with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely, when the
> > > number of files in the distination folder is about 4,500, t
On Jul 11, 2025, John Dow wrote:
> [...]
> Granted, I’m an old fuddy-duddy who’s been using Linux since day 1
> (and UNIX before then), but email is the *perfect* medium for this
> type of interaction.
I'm not, but I agree here.
... though I did just notice the first bit of grey in my beard this
On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to another
> with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely, when the number of
> files in the distination folder is about 4,500, the "Files" application
> deadly hangs, and only restaring the
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
> >
> > Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > I don't think removing email workflows (which implies removing mailing
> > > lists) is wise.
> > >
> > > Debian can support new wa
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I don't think removing email workflows (which implies removing mailing
> lists) is wise.
>
> Debian can support new ways to participate, like Social Media and
> Chat, for Gen-Z. However, I don't believe it is an either/or
> proposition. Debian should support email, mailing
On Jul 10, 2025, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 09:44:05AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > What "trend"? That kids don't use (or perhaps understand) stuff they've
> > had no real *need* of yet?
>
> The trend that peo
On Jul 10, 2025, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 08:48:18AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > To make it REALLY clear - anybody and everybody is welcome here: if they
> > need us to answer questions that should be fine.
>
> I think it's worth considering the fact that new co
On Jul 10, 2025, Lee Winter wrote:
> Got a dell 5400 workstation configured fully (8 cores, 32gb RAM, 160gb
> fast disk & 1.0tb slow disk) and I netinstalled debian Bookworm
> 12.10.0 on it. I also got the 20 DVDs with 92.5gb of Source packages.
> The machine seems OK, but I am finding some [probl
On Jul 10, 2025, songbird wrote:
> hello all, some questions at last... it's been a while. :)
>
> I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them
> to my existing setup, but in previous years I recall that there
> was some recommendation to leave some part of the SSD unallocated
>
Federico Kircheis wrote:
> On 04/07/2025 5:32 pm, David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 04 Jul 2025 at 07:04:32 (+0200), Federico Kircheis wrote:
> > > Excluding two or three packages is much easier, and the suggested
> > > approach of appending a - works perfectly if the package was not
> > > installed.
Federico Kircheis wrote:
> On 30/06/2025 7:11 pm, Michael Paoli wrote:
> And this also holds for metapackages like lxqt.
> It still installs a lot of things, so down to lxqt-core.
> It still installs some things I've noticed and to not want, so I need to
> inspect which packages are installed, tra
Borden wrote:
> On a few projects, I've discovered how ancient some software is (like, last
> commit more than 15 years ago ancient). Unless I missed something,
> `apt-cache show` doesn't show the upstream release date.
This runs into problems quickly. Relevant issues include:
- no upstream
Federico Kircheis wrote:
> I could not use tasksel and install only what I want, but then I have to
> learn/verify all programs that are required for a functional environment.
>
Don't use a tasksel desktop.
Install one of these metapackages for KDE:
kde-full/stable 5:142 amd64
complete KDE S
Hans wrote:
> For my own purposes I want to build a package with my own content.
> It will content several wordlists I created and need them as package, when I
> build a live image.
>
> All wordlists shall be in /usr/share/wordlists1/.
>
> Now my question: Is it correct, that I create a folder
On Jun 25, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 6/24/25 7:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 6/23/25 9:00 AM, Hans wrote:
> > > Am Montag, 23. Juni 2025, 13:53:35 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett:
> > > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties.
> > > > I looking for a USB device to
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 16:33:38 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM wrote:
> > > if you want to do everyone a favour, you bounce the original message
> > > to to help the list spam team t
that mean forward the message to the report-listspam?
Do you need to attach text to it to explain why it is spam?
(Is this something i can do from gmail?)
Thanks in advance for any info.
dan
On Jun 24, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 6/23/25 9:28 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > [https://www.adafruit.com/product/1497 approaches my goal]
> >
> > That adafruit one is OK. I'm not a big fan of the MCX connector,
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties.
> > > I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debi
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties.
> I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so
> I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record
> as MP3 for listening at a more convenient tim
Chris Green wrote:
> I'm trying to install the libraries and drivers required to use a
> sqlite3 database with libreoffice writer. However when I try to
> install the required packages I get an error:-
>
> root@t470# apt install unixodbc-dev unixodbc-bin unixodbc
> Reading package lists..
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.
>
> I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.
>
The poppler-utils package contains:
* pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
* pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
* pdfunite -- document merging
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