On Sat 19 Jul 2025 at 22:37:38 (+), Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 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
On Thu 17 Jul 2025 at 23:39:02 (+0200), lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote:
> Video durations are formatted in youtube's .info.json files as "HH:MM:SS";
↑
On Fri 18 Jul 2025 at 01:21:08 (+0200), lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote:
> OK, the Math is right, but the assumptions made by date aren't sm
On Thu 17 Jul 2025 at 15:26:15 (-0400), Šarūnas Burdulis wrote:
> On 2025-07-17 2:46 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
>
> > My internet service is by way of a dish out in the yard, and I have
> > no idea where the base station is for the uplink to that particular
> > satellites. How best to deal w
On Thu 17 Jul 2025 at 12:42:29 (+0200), Flo wrote:
> I tried to reinstall: This time I said guided partitioning the whole
> disk but it only creates a 1M partiion for biosgrub and a big one
> (3TB) for everything else (+ swap). I have EFI enabled in BIOS and
> it's not the first time I install Debi
On Mon 14 Jul 2025 at 18:29:33 (+0200), Hans wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> is anyone using kmail?
>
> I have added a rule, when a string is in the subject, let us say for
> example "advice", then a wav file is played.
>
> But this is also played, when I am sendin a mail with the word "advice" in
>
On Sun 13 Jul 2025 at 09:06:19 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 23:47:15 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > You can write your own sequences, so that they are meaningful to you.
> > For example:
> > : "𝄫" U1d12b #
On Sat 12 Jul 2025 at 08:13:34 (+0100), Chris Green wrote:
> Roger Price wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Chris Green wrote:
> >
> > > I'm running Debian 12 with XFCE on two systems.
> > > ... because I just needed a 'degrees' symbol.
> >
> > On this Debian 12 machine (QWERTY keyboard) with Xfce,
On Sat 12 Jul 2025 at 02:51:25 (+), David wrote:
> Again: when you mount something on a mountpoint, all underlying data of
> that mountpoint becomes hidden and inaccessible and irrelevant.
In linux, that isn't entirely true, as you can use a bind mount
to read what lies "underneath". (I haven
On Sun 06 Jul 2025 at 19:51:01 (+0200), Hans wrote:
> > But the regular trash folder? My first guess is "the user did
> > that" (of course without noticing: "modern DEs" are complex enough
> > to make such a scenario plausible). My second guess would be some
> > bug in the desktop environment (or i
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.
In which case, I think you should install the equivs package (it's
in every suite) an
On Thu 03 Jul 2025 at 18:15:42 (+0200), Federico Kircheis wrote:
> On 03/07/2025 5:28 pm, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Federico Kircheis 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 noti
On Thu 03 Jul 2025 at 17:56:29 (+0100), Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Thu Jul 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM BST, Borden wrote:
> > Aside from the "If you want it so much, you implement it and
> > submit a PR," objections, what do people think of this?
>
> I'd suggest the next step would be refining the idea a
On Thu 03 Jul 2025 at 10:13:08 (+0200), Borden wrote:
> I think the usefulness of this feature is self-evident, especially
> when deciding which package from several options to install. [ … ]
> If two packages, superficially, do the same thing, I'll probably
> want the newer package. Alternatively,
On Fri 20 Jun 2025 at 12:12:09 (-0400), Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:40:59 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wro
On Fri 20 Jun 2025 at 08:28:11 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 05:40:24PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > It might be worth mentioning that if the package owns sources.list,
> > then you should not edit it. You should allow the package maintainer
> > to edi
On Thu 19 Jun 2025 at 17:40:24 (-0400), Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> It might be worth mentioning that if the package owns sources.list,
> then you should not edit it. You should allow the package maintainer
> to edit or replace sources.list. Place your changes in
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.
>
> But ag
On Sun 15 Jun 2025 at 13:33:41 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 12:14:30 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > Well, I just plagiarised /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99needrestart:
> >
> > $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99redogrub
> > DPkg::Post-Invoke {"tes
On Sun 15 Jun 2025 at 11:33:09 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:07:41 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote:
> > So ultimately, my problem is addressed; however, the larger question
> > is still open: is there in fact a straightforward way for a user, not
> > the package maintainer, t
On Sun 15 Jun 2025 at 06:23:20 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2025-06-15 at 04:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > OK, here is the screwdriver (from man apt.conf(5)):
> >
> >Pre-Invoke, Post-Invoke
> >This is a list of shell commands to run before/after
> >invoking
On Mon 02 Jun 2025 at 21:28:50 (+0100), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 6/2/25 2:03 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 13:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > >> I'm over 80. My only phone just died.
> > >> I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set whic
On Mon 02 Jun 2025 at 10:33:57 (+0200), Frank Guthausen wrote:
> I use ``aptitude'' with configuration below ``/etc/apt/''.
>
> From some old legacy configuration and an online manpage[1] recommended
> packages are included or excluded by ``Aptitude::Recommends-Important''
> option when using ``ap
On Sat 31 May 2025 at 18:00:30 (+1000), rob stone wrote:
> if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in
> /etc/default/keyboard?
I had a British Latitude D430, and I had:
XKBMODEL="latitude"
XKBLAYOUT="gb"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
On Sat 17 May 2025 at 15:11:14 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf has
> [smtp]
> client = yes
> accept = localhost:106
> connect = mail.easthope.ca:465
>
> Then
> swaks -s localhost -p 106 -f pe...@easthope.ca -t pe...@easthope.ca
> sends a test message.
>
> Whereas ex
On Mon 26 May 2025 at 10:11:50 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 5/26/25 01:32, riveravaldez wrote:
> > Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I
> > need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I
> > can use in any desktop/laptop) wi
On Fri 16 May 2025 at 14:57:15 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 16:39:15 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> > > when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
> > > numeric and names
> > > where do they come from
> >
> > Assuming you are using
On Tue 13 May 2025 at 09:06:22 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote:
> On 5/13/25 8:55 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 08:45:41AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> > > On 5/12/25 10:25 PM, Paul Scott wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > I see where it says that the wlp2s0 is DOWN
> > >
> > > I'm not
On Thu 08 May 2025 at 19:04:55 (+0200), Bernard wrote:
> On 02/05/2025 02:34, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote:
> > > On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote:
> > > > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file p
On Tue 06 May 2025 at 07:36:36 (+), Tim Woodall wrote:
> These are the older debian versions with their release dates
> #wheezy 7 2016-06-04
> #squeeze 6 2012-03-10
My notes show:
6 squeeze 2011-02-06
7 wheezy 2013-05-04
8 jessie 2015-04-25
9 stretch 2017-06-17
On Mon 05 May 2025 at 22:01:18 (+0200), Rafał Lichwała wrote:
> Is it possible to install Debian on a VERY VERY OLD hardware? If so,
> what "image" should I use?
See below.
> Hardware spec:
>
> CPU: Intel Celeron 400MHz
> RAM: 32MB
> HDD: 6GB
> BIOS year: 1998
> CD-ROM, FDD 1,4MB, RS-232, 1x USB
On Sat 19 Apr 2025 at 11:40:52 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 08:12:02 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > In https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles the sixth paragraph states, "You
> > should therefore always have command source ~/.bashrc at the end of
> > your .bash_profile i
On Sat 03 May 2025 at 06:22:45 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:
> I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key mounted on a directory
> under /media.
>
> I can change the ownership of that directory to that of the user, but
> when I mount the the key on it the ownsrhip reverts to root.
There
On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote:
> On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote:
> > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if
> > that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly
> > possible that the Debian v
On Thu 01 May 2025 at 13:12:06 (-0700), latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
> Does somebody know how to turn on the keyboard light of a MacBook Pro mid
> 2009 running Debian? Please.
In my experience, laptops having this facility will have the keycap
engraved, usually as a small horizontal rectangle with r
On Wed 30 Apr 2025 at 16:53:43 (+0200), Bernard wrote:
> On 30/04/2025 01:34, David Wright wrote:
> > And at that point, I would have looked again at ls -ult
> > to see whether anything had changed.
> > Well, running vlc at about the same time as reinstalling it
> > m
On Tue 29 Apr 2025 at 13:39:23 (+0200), Bernard wrote:
> bd@debian-stretch:/usr/local/lib$ ls -l
> [ … ]
> 10 april must be the date I installed that awful ISPY/Agent package
> 17 april 2023 must be the date of install of my current Bullseye
>
> then :
>
> bd@debian-stretch:/usr/local/lib$ ls -u
On Tue 29 Apr 2025 at 13:46:18 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:12:10 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> > On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 08:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > Your run levels are incorrect. "3" included the graphical Display
> > > Manager and "2" did not.
> >
> > Level
On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 15:29:39 (-), Greg wrote:
> On 2025-04-25, David Wright wrote:
> >>
> >> Considerable extra typing susceptible to error, and as I suffer from a
> >> digital deformity, I prefer less to more.
> >
> > You could read man bash
On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 09:24:14 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:
> I did a new install of debian and find that exim and spamassassin are not
> recognized
> services. That is, in /etc/systemd/system/ exim and spanassassin are not
> listed.
>
> So when I do
>
> # systemctl start exim.service
> RR
On Thu 24 Apr 2025 at 02:14:47 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM David Wright wrote:
> > > I would assume that uninstalling the Display Manager would free up
> > > the
On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 14:23:52 (-), Greg wrote:
> On 2025-04-25, Lee wrote:
> >>
> >> I never run 'apt list --upgradable' because 'apt upgrade' shows the same
> >> info, while offering the chance to say no.
> >
> > ^shrug^
> > it's harder to fuck up 'apt list --upgradable' if all you want is a
On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 12:01:57 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 13:55 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 11:48:49 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:40 -0400, Eben King wrote:
> > > > On 4/2
On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 11:48:49 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:40 -0400, Eben King wrote:
> > On 4/23/25 11:01, David Wright wrote:
> > >
> > > When I had an IBM clicky keyboard, I think I got the same effect
> > > as a windows key
On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 19:00:25 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote:
> I use an IBM PS-2 keyboard, the kind with 102 keys, and therefore no
> "Windows" key.
>
> How do I set up a windows key, for example "Pause" or "Ctrl-Pause"?
>
> I tried
>
> XKBOPTIONS=Pause:Menu
>
> and
>
> XKBOPTIONS=pause:menu
>
>
On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 14:48:01 (+0200), Bernard wrote:
> On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote:
> > I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before
> > taking further actions.
>
> Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated
>
On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 18:03:09 (+), Arbol One wrote:
> As stated in the OP, with the USB containing the installation files for
> Debian 12 already inserted in the computer, I booted up the computer and
> instead of going to the installation files, as it should, I get a message
> saying
>
>
On Fri 18 Apr 2025 at 11:09:52 (+0800), jeremy ardley wrote:
> On 15/4/25 22:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I don't know how to approach the problem.
> > What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file
> > containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of
> > [
> > https://
On Mon 21 Apr 2025 at 15:38:45 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:
> I am doing a cross install from my current Debian daedalus systm to a target
> disk /dev/nvme1n1.
>
> I enter chroot, and create /etc/festab on the target. I use the UUIDs repored
> by # blkid for
> the target disk,
>
> Then I attemt
On Mon 21 Apr 2025 at 20:30:01 (-0400), Arbol One wrote:
>
> In my Debian 12, the keyboard stopped working all of the sudden, i
> tried using the 'Screen Keyboard', but it didn't work either. Coming
> from the world of Windows 10, I intended to reinstall the Debian.
> With the memory stick contain
On Mon 21 Apr 2025 at 18:03:04 (+0200), Bernard wrote:
> I did reply to your message, sending the output of suggested aptitude
> search below... but my reply does not appear to the list messages,
> maybe because there were too many lines in it. In any case, I didn't
> find anything meaningfull to m
On Sun 20 Apr 2025 at 23:55:22 (+1000), George at Clug wrote:
> On Sunday, 20-04-2025 at 01:12 pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > Debian 12 here, obtained by upgrading Debian 11.
> >
> > In https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles the sixth paragraph states, "You
> > should therefore always have command source
On Sun 20 Apr 2025 at 07:27:12 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using
> "regular expressions".
>
> I had stated using Kate for the project.
>
> I'm reviewing my regular expression related web searches. It would be
> helpful if I could
On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 16:32:26 (+0200), Bernard wrote:
> vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11
>
> ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays
> their audio part :
>
> « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264 »
> (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) »
>
>
On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 14:24:35 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 4/16/25 8:35 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > Ironically, a copy/paste from xpdf seems to do a better job
> > than -layout at preserving the columns widths over the page break.
> > (Perhaps the text at the bott
On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 10:17:54 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
> Alain D D Williams wrote:
> > I read/write email using mutt in a mate terminal. It is black & white. If I
> > ssh
> > in from my laptop it is yellow & black (I cannot remember why I set it up
> > like
> > that).
>
> For about a decade,
On Sat 12 Apr 2025 at 13:09:29 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2025, David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote:
> > > > > (That doesn't mean you have to use
> > > > > mdns, it just means that if you instea
On Wed 16 Apr 2025 at 07:21:07 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 4/15/25 11:01 AM, Kent West wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> > > Richard Owlett (HE12025-04-15):
> > > > I don't know how to approach the problem.
> > > > What I would like to end up with is a CSV
On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2025, David Wright wrote:
> > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > Or you use mdns, which is the standard way of dealing with dynamic
> > > resources on a
On Tue 08 Apr 2025 at 13:07:34 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:28:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > I disagree with you here. The 127.0.1.1 address is a placeholder put
> > >
On Mon 07 Apr 2025 at 21:34:42 (+0200), coffeeforblood.pardon...@slmail.me
wrote:
>
> > I am curious what nmcli subcommand reports when the cable is plugged in,
> > but the connection has not activated manually.
> >
> Should I pursue the strange behavior of needing to have "Make available to
>
On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.coy
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 11:50:52 (+0800), hlyg wrote:
> i install with debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>
> during final stage of installation, it fails to install grub
>
> "Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed."
> "This is a fatal error."
>
> how to solve it?
Presumably that error message was f
On Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 01:12:29 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> songbird composed on 2025-03-22 08:16 (UTC-0400):
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> >> I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining
> >> available
> >> versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. In opensuse, it'
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 17:35:18 (+0300), J wrote:
> Every time i restart the PC i have an error message while rebooting
> process: "[FAILED] failed unmounting *disk-mount-point*..."
>
> It didn't bother me really, because this message usually just immediately
> disappeared. But last time the *compu
On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> On 4/2/25 01:28, David Wright wrote:
> > On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > > On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote:
> > > > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote:
> > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > > On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote:
> > > > I don't know why you have problems with usin
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:09:31 (+0800), hlyg wrote:
> On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote:
> > Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked
> > at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages?
> >
> Thank Wright! i have solved it on m
On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote:
> > I don't know why you have problems with using /etc/hosts for lookups
> > on your LAN. I use it here without any problems, and it has to work
> > because there's
On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 11:19:30 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> The dns problem is separate I guess, but does bring up my other pet
> peeve. That is that no one at debian considers the effect on dns to
> those of us who have been using hosts files for local dns since back
> in the late 90's I have n
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 15:40:07 (+0200), Hans wrote:
> > What new hop? You said you had the setup:
> >
> > hostA≡E--cat5/6--cable--∃≡hostB
>
> no, I have no cable setup, I just said, I know, how to setup when using a
> cable. Maybe I did not use the correct English idiom...
Yes
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 05:36:46 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 3/28/25 11:29 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider
> > > spurious email
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 16:37:39 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are
> > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so
> > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just
> > ignore that.
> >
> > Example at:
> >
>
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 15:53:01 (+0100), Hans wrote:
>
> just a question: Is it possible, to connect two computers with linux via wlan
> without any router?
>
> I know, it is working with ethernet cable and crossover-cable.
>
> But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider
> spurious emails.
> The only change to my setup {to best of my memory} was subscribing to
> the "debian-...@lists.debian.org" mailing list.
On Fri 28 Mar 2025 at 08
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 22:14:03 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 08:29:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > Excellent, that solves the problem for those on old terminals or
> > lacking copy/paste. As for me, I'll continue to use /bin/su --login,
> > a
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 17:05:56 (-), Greg wrote:
> On 2025-03-26, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > As posted earlier today, a file in sudoers.d/ makes trivial admin
> > tasks like monitoring and logging easier, particularly where the
> > programs concerned can cause dama
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 13:58:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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
> >
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 12:23:26 (+0200), Anssi Saari wrote:
> David Wright writes:
>
> > host!auser 09:57:47 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3$
> > /bin/su --login
> > Password:
> > bullseye on /dev/sda5 toto05
> > host 09:57:59 ~# cd
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:37:41 (-), Greg wrote:
> On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > I assumed it was effectively the same as power down and then logging in
> > as root on power-up.
>
> It is. But it's unnecessary and dangerous to run your entire DE as root.
> Or maybe you log in t
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 10:03:59 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 3/26/25 9:55 AM, Greg wrote:
> > On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > > > If he hasn't noticed yet, I doubt it.
> > >
> > > I agree.
> > > If I understand what people want to accomplish by using command-line
> > > options
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:24:21 (+0300), J wrote:
> ср, 26 мар. 2025 г. в 16:10, Greg Wooledge :
> > 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 t
On Tue 25 Mar 2025 at 11:38:25 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:55:44AM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:49:37 +0100 wrote:
> >
> > >since there is no "standard" way to express a "multiple" or
> > >"discontinuous" selection in the underlying window
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 23:19:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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 t
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 21:14:47 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:54 -0400
> Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
>
> > That worked, but it's hinky sometimes on webpages that are already
> > hard to copy a single block of text on. On those pages, I don't know
> > what the misfire is, b
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 18:13:12 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright wrote:
>
> On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary
> AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots
> into the GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the
>
> > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:42:10AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> > > > All 3 systems have the linux-image-amd64 metapackage installed.
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 10:44:40 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote:
> After today's upgrades, I note that RM1 showed these autoremove
> messages "Removing linux-headers-6.1
On Thu 13 Mar 2025 at 15:46:17 (-), Greg wrote:
> On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote:
> >
> > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work.
Most of the webcams I see are too bulky, probably because of their
mountings and microphone spacing.
> The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary).
On Wed 12 Mar 2025 at 11:11:21 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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 co
On Mon 10 Mar 2025 at 06:48:33 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 08:04:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > In this context, my understanding of an Internet mail server can be
> > illustrated in the following way. If your "machine in the L
On Sat 08 Mar 2025 at 18:40:22 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:16:24AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 08:08:55 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:24:41PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > Can anyone tell me how to proceed?
> >
> > I'm not sure h
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 17:55:59 (-0800), David Christensen wrote:
> I have always wondered if the decimal numbers in the smartctl(8)
> "RAW_VALUE" column are actual event counts, or a decimal
> representation of some binary bit field whose correct interpretation
> only the manufacturer knows (?).
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 17:04:12 (-0500), Eben King wrote:
> On 3/5/25 09:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote:
> > my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install
> > python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use
> > to ergonomically present installed candid
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> With Synaptic, I tried reinstallation of Evolution, but that did not
> change the response.
>
> Evolution has a dozen or so dependencies, so a complete removal may
> wreck my computer.
>
> My past messages (few of which have vaulu
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 21:12:32 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 03:46:01PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > > The "Mail Authentication Request" has only a blank (already filled in)
> > > for a password which (very stupidly) is shown as a line of dots,
> > > rather than in pl
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 22:24:57 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> So, I rechecked.
>
> After purging everything and building again, I checked the chroot. And what
> did I find?
>
> A lot of entries with "trixie" in */chroot/var/lib/dpkg/info which are mostly
> "*.postinst" files.
>
> Where are they comin
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 20:32:24 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> The only thing I got, was the message from "lb build", that a ncessary
> package
> could not be downloaded. And the necessary package was named "grub-efi-amd64-
> unsigned".
That suggests to me (with no experience of this) that its a script
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 17:44:37 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> So my idea was just to write to the live-file-maintainers, to ask them, to
> remove the dependency of the missing package in theire configurations or
> point
> it to another package, i.E. grub-efi-amd64-signed.
Presumably you meant "remove
On Sun 23 Feb 2025 at 09:47:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> On 2/23/25 00:00, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 07:29:15 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
> > [ … ]
> > > read all that in the drive label. There was a time when seagate made
> > > good hard
On Sun 23 Feb 2025 at 22:13:55 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 22/02/2025 05:02, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > With mupdf, I don't even
> > know how to copy, as the mouse just drags the page around.
>
> I have not tried it, but...
> https://manpages.debian.org/b
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