Re: Reverting back to the previous Chromium version

On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 10:31:26 +0200, local10 wrote: > Apr 12, 2025, 05:44 by cbr...@t-online.de: > > > You could grab the .deb files from snapshot.debian.org > > Thanks, I found Cromium files I needed there and copied them to > "/var/cache/apt/archives/". I know I can install them with dpkg b

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 14:41:04 +0200, Hans wrote: > Without any checks, my first thing would be, to check in both computers if > any > of the executables related to cups might have different rights settings. > > Especially the executable, which creates the file in /tmp. A file which is > crea

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 14:16:17 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > I have edited the source code of cups a little to get a some more > more detailed information about the problem (the actual code > only gives a meaningless message “The print file cannot be opened: > Permission denied") and then foun

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 13:44:14 +0100, James Freer wrote: > b] 'Sudo' - i thought came in with ubuntu (and some other > derivatives). Many distros use 'su -' for admin rights and i thought > Debian was one of those. Sudo i thought was introduced as a level of > safety for newbie users so they coul

Re: Fw: Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 19:15:31 +, Matt Timpson wrote: > I'd also like to know what "numpy" is and what is does. apt-cache show python3-numpy or do a Google/Duckduckgo/Bing search for it.

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 09:34:08 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Disabling root logins by default is especially important when a > network attacker can use the login, like via SSH. The network attacker > is usually your #1 threat, There may be systems where this is true; for example, a public web s

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 10:50:54 +0100, James Freer wrote: > I've just done my install of Debian 12 Live XFCE version. I really don't understand why so many people do this. Why would you install using a "Live" medium instead of the real installer? Anyway, the Live version doesn't set a root pass

Re: Package kde-config-mobile-networking - what does it do?

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 19:54:19 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Try running `sudo apt info kde-config-mobile-networking` and see what the > info says. You don't even need sudo for that.

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re:Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 10:46:35 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Which is to fix the reason for a 30 second all system freeze of the > > system when trying to access a file I own, or want to create, in my > > /home/me directory. > > This happens only in that directory and only when yo

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 22:15:57 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Yeah, I'm going to lookup what Stevens has to say about the hosts file > in TCP/IP Illustrated. I need to figure out where the confusion lies. Here's what the Debian manual has to say about it:

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:59:19 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I think the idea is, software can always use 127.0.1.1 to find the > host's fully qualified domain name, No. Absolutely not. You have it exactly backwards. The purpose of putting the "127.0.1.1 my_hostname" line in /etc/hosts by de

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 22:28:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > 127.0.1.1 coyote.coyote.den coyote > [...] > I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send > something to coyote.coyote.den, why do you want the LAN address > when 127.0.1.1 is just as good. If the line is correct, it do

Re: Perl module Digest::SHA256 and Debian package libdigest-sha-perl

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 16:07:36 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > But installing libdigest-sha-perl does not provide Digest::SHA256: They are different modules. https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA256 https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA Digest::SHA256 appears to be much, much older and probabl

Re: Web server access

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 12:03:32 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 11:25 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 01:17 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > I am able to reach The Van Snyder's Web Site using the above IP > > > address and URL on port 80 but not 443. I

Re: Web server access

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 13:01:10 +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 11:04:17AM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > > wrote: > > > GET index.html > > > > should be: > > > > GET index.html HTTP/1.0 > > Well, practically it makes no difference. If I sen

Re: Web server access

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 17:52:55 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > The server is on the LAN side of the router (192.168.1.65). It's not in > the DMZ. My server isn't running Apache ACLs or iptables or TCP > wrapper. The router is running a firewall.  I've forwarded WAN-side > ports 23, 80 and 443 to my se

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 15:03:34 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:19:48 -0400 > Michael Stone wrote: > > > If you touch /run/utmp it will magically start working again. > > Thank you. > > To be pedantic, any logins subsequent to touching it will show up. It > is necessary to

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 19:38:16 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:19:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > What makes the debian people treat hosts file users, like 3rd class users?   > > I'm a (heavy!) hosts file user. I'm being treated by Debian 1st class. > Perhaps it's

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 05:36:46 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > *TILT*!!! > I don't believe them to be spam. Show us an example of what you are talking about. Go to the list archives and find one of these messages, then paste its URL here.

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 15:46:15 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > $ su > # make install > > Whoopsie! The Makefile just pwned you. That's a COMPLETELY separate discussion. Obviously I was referring to software from reputable sources. > $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/i install > $ sud

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:48:35 -0500, David Wright wrote: > It could be argued that it would be simple enough to communicate > the user's cwd to root, as a workaround, so that it didn't have to > be retyped. You know what does that for you? sudo -s. Or su if you've configured it with a one-lin

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers#

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 13:58:49 +, Andy Smith wrote: > I think all DHCP clients in Debian have a "Recomends" relationship on > resolvconf to do this modification for them. hobbit:~$ apt-cache show isc-dhcp-client | grep -e Recommends -e resolv Recommends: isc-dhcp-common Suggests: resolvconf,

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 13:06:54 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 09:38:02PM +1030, Mal wrote: > > Without the conf package, I still don't get why it populated only one > > ipv4 nameserver target and ignored the ipv6 target. > > Are you sure this is not just what the ins

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 14:34:13 +1030, Mal wrote: > root@debian:/home/user# more /etc/network/interfaces > source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* > # The loopback network interface >  auto lo >  iface lo inet loopback > >  allow-hotplug enp1s0 >  iface enp1s0 inet static >  address 12.34.56.78 >  net

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:48:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/26/25 6:55 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I normally use "sudo -s", which is the closest sudo approximation to > > the traditional behvior of "su" (before it was broken in buster). > >

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 12:23:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 02:15:03PM +0300, J wrote: > > And i thought *sudo -i*, you speaking about, is something like > > *--interactive*, which is not, how i see now... > > The long form is "--login", not interactive. But the "-i"

Re: selecting text with mouse

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 18:41:29 +, mick.crane wrote: > I don't know why I don't seem to be able to replicate what people say they > can do with my basic bookworm install, xfce4 and Vivaldi browser. Because Vivaldi is Chromium-based, not Gecko-based. Multiple selection ONLY works in Firefox a

Re: selecting text with mouse

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:55:44 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > Use of for discontinuous selection seems pretty much ubiquitous. > is usually associated with continuous selection. Only in Microsoft Windows, or in GUI applications that try to emulate Windows behavior. And even then, the selection y

Re: selecting text with mouse

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 23:00:54 -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Hi, mick.. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. I > clicked CTRL then dragged the cursor to select 3 or 4 words as a > phrase. I was able to then choose a few more random snippets while > holding the CTRL key do

Re: Linux image package install failure

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:05:32 -0500, Barry Newberger wrote: > Setting up linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 (6.1.129-1) ... > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms: > dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.1.0-32-amd64. > dkms: autoinstall for kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64. > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initram

Re: recursively share NFS

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 14:53:51 -0400, Eben King wrote: > I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas > via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount > point appears empty, even though you can ssh to it and see everything > there that should be. How

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 14:33:11 -, Greg wrote: > My robot says: > > One result: > > yt-dlp "ytsearch:QUERY" > > But for the life of me, after searching for twenty minutes, I can't > determine whether this is correct or not. hobbit:~$ wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 15:22:29 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > It appears that the update Valve pushed out this morning was a Ubuntu > update that was mistakenly installed on Debian Stable. > > [2025-03-11 14:48:26] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version > 1741636428, installed v

Re: LC_TIME set incorrectly

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 17:40:35 +, Nils wrote: > riccy@riccy:~$ cat /etc/default/locale > # File generated by update-locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 > > (after a reboot) > riccy@riccy:~$ echo $LC_TIME > en_DE.UTF-8 > > Searching /etc for the config string reveals nothing: >

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:03:48 +, Miriami wrote: > I plan to deploy Steam on my Debian but I haven't begun to. I remember that > on the Steam website, the website says that the requirement of the Steam app > is 'a xxx version *Ubuntu' system'. They might have hardcoded this in the > binary

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 22:47:16 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > Update: Steam runs successfully on Debian Trixie and on Arch Linux. Still > failing on Debian Bookworm. Now I'm scared. I've got a running instance of Steam which has already downloaded an update. [2025-03-11 07:26:21] uninstalle

Re: web browser recommendation

On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 11:34:41 -0400, deb...@kcburns.com wrote: > On 3/9/25 1:05 AM, Christopher David Howie wrote: > > Many of my friends keep recommending Brave, but I cannot get past the > > fact that their business model is to strip ads from sites and insert > > their own ads instead (if the

Re: Native systemd services.

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 20:04:16 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > # ls -1 /lib/systemd/system/stunnel* > /lib/systemd/system/stunnel@.service > /lib/systemd/system/stunnel.target > > What is stunnel@.service, rather than stunnel.service? systemd.service(5): SERVICE TEMPLATES It is possib

Re: Apache2 permissions?

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 17:14:44 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > I want to be able to change the web without logging in as root. I > occasionally need to send files to recipients that are big enough > suffocate their mail readers. Putting a soft link to it in /opt/www > without hooking it to my index is

Re: web browser recommendation

On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 07:04:30 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > That long line of code, might not be completely stupid. It might have some > hidden AI thing (that they figure no member of the public would find, due to > the length of the line), that starts playing "Rubber Ducky, you're the one", > in a

Re: web browser recommendation

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 13:39:18 -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Sat Mar 8 13:29:36 2025 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > D MacDougall wrote: > >> https://duckduckgo.com > > > > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word > > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 23:26:55 +0100, 🦓 wrote: > 2025-03-07[Fri]23:14 🦓 read that > 2025-03-07[Fri]07:21 Greg Wooledge wrote > > That's conceptually similar to the little program that I wrote, which > > you can get from <https://wooledge.org/~greg/ds>. It's

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 10:20:30 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > For Debian packages specifically, you can use dpigs from the debian-goodies > package. I wrote an alternative for situations where I don't want to install > debian-goodies and its transitive dependencies: > > awk -v RS='' '/St

Re: Problem with /var

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 23:36:34 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > David Christensen [2025-03-06 18:58:12] wrote: > > I prefer: > [...] > > # du -d 2 -m /var | sort -rn | head > > Agreed. I personally use just `du | sort -n` (I can't see the benefit > of the `-d2` and I rely on the terminal's scroll

Re: Problem with /var

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 02:41:33 +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:33:40PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: > > root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var > > > > root@debian:/var# du -sh* > > > > du: invalid option -- '*' > > Missing space between 'h' and '*' so the '*' was treated as a

Re: Problem with /var

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 20:24:36 -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: > I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that > my /var is almost full.  What can I safely delete to make more room for it.  > It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G.  I >

Re: web browser recommendation

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 21:50:27 +0100, KISER JD wrote: > The Chromium-based browsers will soon lose many adblock capabilities due to > Manifest V3. > When I updated google-chrome-stable the other day, it informed me that it was disabling uBlock Origin. Thus began my own search for some answers

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:59:47 -0500, Eben King wrote: > Yeah. Many of the packages in deborphan's output are things I actually > want to keep, and I think that that if you remove something, all of its > requirements are still installed. Unless there's a smart package > manager that goes throug

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 15:21:32 +0100, 🦓 wrote: > what would i want to sudo aptitude purge here to free 1 gig? Why are you assuming that the space you want can be freed by removing packages? For the vast majority of people, if disk space is running low, it's because *data* files are piling up, a

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 15:44:11 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 3/3/25 à 15:25, Joe a écrit : > > You can install any random .deb package from any source using dpkg [...] > > dpkg won't install missing dependencies. > gdebi will. So will apt-get and apt. It's just undocumented. apt install

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 06:14:40 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/3/25 5:49 AM, Steven Speek wrote: > > I would like this feature in apt-get. > > > > Exactly *WHAT* feature?? > You supply *NO* context. This is why I advise people NOT to put the details of their request only in

Re: WAS Firefox adds a controversial ToS

On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 22:55:06 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 15:43:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > Chromium has hijacked port 80 for google's exclusive use, bypassing > > > > > totally > > > > > my /etc/hosts file for my local network. [Turn off DNS over HT

Re: WAS Firefox adds a controversial ToS

On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 16:49:05 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 3/1/25 16:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 15:43:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > Chromium has hijacked port 80 for google's exclusive use, bypassing > > > totally > > >

Re: WAS Firefox adds a controversial ToS

On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 15:43:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Chromium has hijacked port 80 for google's exclusive use, bypassing totally > my /etc/hosts file for my local network. You keep saying this, but nobody else is having this issue. The closest approximation to your experience that anyone

Re: Hardware question

On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 04:06:37 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM Joe wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:27:40 -0800 > > Van Snyder wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 22:35 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Your kernel is older than your CPU by about a ye

Re: Hardware question

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 12:46:35 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > On Fri, 2025-02-28 at 14:34 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 11:27:40 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > > "apt update" says everything is up to date, but the kernel is > > > 6.1.0-

Re: Hardware question

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 11:27:40 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > "apt update" says everything is up to date, but the kernel is 6.1.0-18. > I believe there are several newer ones, maybe up to 6.1.0-31? That's correct. You're probably missing the metapackage that brings in new kernels automatically. Fo

Re: OpenDmarc dosnt start

On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 14:35:22 +0100, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > Feb 26 14:26:10 nmail opendmarc[4891]: /usr/sbin/opendmarc: symbol lookup > error: /usr/sbin/opendmarc: undefined symbol: opendmarc_spf2_test Huh, that's wild. No obvious matches on a google search, either. > root@nmail:/etc# dpkg

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 21:52:43 +0100, Chris Jölly wrote: > chris@laptop:~$ inxi -Gaz --za > Graphics: >   Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel >     arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1 >     empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 21:41:33 +0100, jman wrote: > If I wanted to remove rsyslog (because I want just one logging system), how > do I know if it's used anywhere? Your plain text log files will stop being written to. They'll just sit there, frozen in time, forever. Anything that reads them loo

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:27:19 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > > Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm. > > I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (via ~/.xinitrc) when I log > > i

Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:40:31 -0600, David Wright wrote: > I do that with lynx -localhost. One consequence is regular > communications (sometimes by email!) from some banks etc, > complaining that you don't open their emails. Some are so > stupid as to offer no way of denying that fact electro

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 14:36:35 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > I just read that trixie is removing rsyslog, [citation needed] says: * trixie (testing) (admin): reliable system and kernel logging daemon 8.2412.0-1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

> On 17/02/2025 01:23, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > > On Sunday, February 16, 2025 8:53 AM, I wrote: > > > That should not *literally* be ~/.Xauthority of course. > > > > Yes, the output is literally > >/u/steve/.Xauthority A thought just occurred to me. Having your home directory outs

Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt?

On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 17:46:18 -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-02-16, wrote: > > > > I don't quite know what you mean by "modern". > > Mutt was written in 1995. Alpine was publicly released twenty years later, in > 2007. Mutt is the successor to elm. Alpine is the Free version of pine. If anyt

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 13:53:21 +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > echo $DISPLAY -> :0 > xhost -> access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect > > > echo $XAUTHORITY > > > > The last usually points to ~/.Xauthority. > > echo $XAUTHORITY -> ~/.Xauthority That should no

Re: Shorewall.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 09:39:29 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > # grep startup /etc/default/shorewall > # prevent startup with default configuration [Badly stated comment.] > startup=1 > > > And does 'systemctl status shorewall' show that it is enabled? > > # systemctl status shorewall > ○ sho

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 08:56:47 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 13/02/2025 01:26, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Now Debian has*two* completely separate > > ways to specify a default application for a role. > > I believed there are at least 4 ways (besides settings specific to >

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:34:32 -0600, David Wright wrote: > urlCommand "sensible-browser '%s'" hobbit:~$ type -a sensible-browser sensible-browser is /usr/bin/sensible-browser sensible-browser is /bin/sensible-browser hobbit:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/sensible-browser -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1290

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:06:53 +, Chris Green wrote: > The specific thing that bit me when I installed epiphany was clicking > on a web link in a terminal (xfce4-terminal) window. Instead of > opening the link in the already running vivaldi, in another workspace > (which is the way I like it)

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:02:13 +, Chris Green wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > The other user does NOT have the same settings as me. They have > > their own set of plugins and settings as Tomas has pointed out. You > > very much can install something for one user and not for ano

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 12:45:06 +, Chris Green wrote: > I had x-www-browser set to vivaldi but web links still got opened in > epiphany, I tried changing just about every setting I could find for a > browser to vivaldi but I still got epiphany. There isn't a single interface for defining what

Re: Firefox

On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 21:18:31 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory: > > I have 8GB memory DDR3L 1600MHz What do you expect us to tell you? Web browsers are bloated monsters. If you aren't using any extensions that might be leaking memory, th

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 13:22:50 +0200, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > On Sat, 2025-02-08 at 12:05 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > I have a few systems running Debian/Stable (Bookworm). However the kernel > > version isn't always the same for some reason. After this morning's update, > > I noticed that 2 of

Re: Modernizing apt sources files

On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 14:25:51 -, Greg wrote: > I haven't been following the long thread about the modernization of apt > sources. > > I'm running Bookworm. Is it recommended to modernize, or is the modern > method intended for some future date? As everything works nicely on this > new insta

Re: Synaptic and updated apt sources?

On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 01:13:28 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > On Saturday, 08-02-2025 at 00:39 Boyan Penkov wrote: > > After upgrading apt this week on testing (trixie), it defaults to the > > apt822 sources > > (https://repolib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deb822-format.html#deb822-format), > > whi

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 11:04:16 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 12:15:32PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 00:00:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > - apt-patterns(7) > > > > Why isn't this linked/referenced from

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 11:25:46 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 12:15:32 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 00:00:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > - apt-patterns(7) > > > > Why isn't this linked/referenced from

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 16:44:06 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 11:23:58AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > <https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/aptitude/aptitude.8.en.html> > > includes this paragraph (buried deep, searching for ~ even

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 08:12:42 -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > apt list '~o' > > Where is '~o' documented? apt(1) mentions dpkg-query, but I couldn't > find it mentioned there either. It's documented as part of "aptitude", I believe, but

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 23:33:50 -0500, gene heskett wrote: >  gene@coyote:/$ sudo -i > root@coyote:~# comm -23 <(dpkg-query -W -f '${Package} ${Version}\n' | sort > -u) > <(apt-cache dumpavail | awk '/^Package:/ {package = $NF} /^Version:/ > {version = $NF} /^$/ {print package, version}' | sort -u

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 15:18:59 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > you could check for obsolete packages, depending on the apt version, with > > $ apt list '~o' Oh, right. *That* is probably what the OP was really looking for: packages that have been installed in the past but are no longer i

Re: add user to a group and logout/login to apply

On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 16:55:25 -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Don't you need to use "newgrp" to change the current running group > membership of existing sessions? That doesn't change a *session*. It just creates a single shell with the updated permissions. Your window manager, your systemd

Re: add user to a group and logout/login to apply

On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 21:19:18 +, Joe wrote: > For a simple DE, just cat /etc/group will check that a group add > command worked. The next login will make use of the group membership. That's correct, and also: * "id USERNAME" (passing an argument) will tell you what that user's group me

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 14:05:02 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >I am running Trixie. Should have made that clear before. > What I can't understand is MC would open and browse ZIP files and DEB files > but would not open PDF files. > At any rate the offending macro was in the mc.ext.ini files in

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

> > > /tmp/mc-frank/mcextELJ902: 11: @EXTHELPERSDIR@/doc.sh: not found It would help if someone were to show us the offending file, though I don't quite understand why there's something that appears to be either a shell script or a perl script in /tmp. > > Hhmm, looks like it is looking for doc.s

Re: Zoom

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 07:05:32 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > Is there a way to search for "zoom" in some debian-user archive? Google accepts "site:lists.debian.org" in its search box. Using this gives you a URL like which is pretty

Re: Installing a debian file

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:01:02 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 16:14:00 (+), Michael wrote: > > So I downloaded the new .deb file and installed it (again using root) :- > > > > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.3.1-x86_64.deb > > I would purge the old package (first backing up any o

Re: Can a Bash function be named "w3m" ?

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 14:10:33 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Try prefixing the thing with the builtin `function': > > function w3m() ... That would still leave the alias in place, though. So, both the alias and the function would be defined. The alias will win out, I believe, if you actu

Re: Can a Bash function be named "w3m" ?

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 13:59:37 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > alias w3m='/usr/bin/w3m -no-cookie -o auto-image=TRUE ' > w3m() { /usr/bin/w3m -no-cookie -o auto-image=TRUE $@ ; } > > and received the error message > > bash: .bashrc: line 86: syntax error near unexpected token `(' > bash: .bash

Re: Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 02:18:23 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Some old programs use non-existent symlinks to store or persist state > information rather than create a normal file. But I don't believe > systemd uses the technique. Not on purpose, but systemd does use symbolic links to store state

Re: Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 19:07:51 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Of course, maybe I misspoke but my point wasn't about the configuration files > remaining as expected just removing the package and not purging it. It is > about > the broken symlink to its service file which is for sure no more prese

Re: mlterm configuration

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 07:51:44 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 07:04:44PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > So, my reading of that could be that *.mlterm/main* should read: > > > >     bg_color=FAF0E6 > > geometry=128x30 > > > > and *.mlterm/font* should read: > > > >

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 17:36:54 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > OK. My crontab has this: > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > > # m h dom mon dow command > * * 24 1 * aplay /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > > At the minute, no sound. I tried > id=$(id -u) > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/us

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Maybe a difference in some software? I ran > eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay > /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 > Hz, Mono >

Re: Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 17:11:06 +0100, Thomas Anderson wrote: > Here is updated version with CR in this context means carriage returns. Which is actually not the correct term -- they meant LF (line feed) or newlines. But what they *really* meant was for you to send the message as plain text, n

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 15:37:56 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > I added export PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH="/run/user/$(id -u)/pulse" to bark.sh . > File /run/user/2108/pulse contains value 1309 and command > > rprice@maria ~ ps -ef | grep pulse > rprice 13091293 0 2024 ?05:45:10 /usr/bi

Re: Need a serious help

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 13:45:50 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 11:15:20AM +, Rubens Felipe wrote: > > So a bunch of bad users are attacking and harassing me in this website > > Emperor Pyromancer - Larp City > > > > They'r

Re: ssh/ping only works to some systems, not including mine unfortunately

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 14:56:54 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Yes, that would be totally useful. As has been stated in this > list last days, ping actually does two things for you: > > - resolve the host's name to an IP address > - check connectivity to that host Well, three really. It res

Re: ssh/ping only works to some systems, not including mine unfortunately

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 13:29:41 +, Chris Green wrote: > I have a remote headless system (running bullseye, will be updating to > bookworm when I'm next there) that can connect to some systems using > ssh but not to others (to which I can connect from everywhere else). What *actually* happens

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