Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-25 Thread COMCAST
/var/lib/NetworkManager/internal-05c32b5f-6a7e-4b7b-a858-a19fd3d6a5a3-wlo1.lease /var/lib/NetworkManager/internal-4eb92ca8-bc1c-3546-9ba9-cfd0dc4fda00-enp0s25.lease These are the two files I was looking for. I found them quite by accident. I hope you will find them useful.

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-23 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-20, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2025 12:04:16 -0400 > COMCAST wrote: > >> That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can >> publish? > > It's rather good advice, even if it is a bit much and unsolicited. I'll > add to it: insulting people does not end

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 04:39:56PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-05-19, David Christensen wrote: > > When posting to a mailing list, the Subject line is crucial. Yours is > > No, it is not, and it should not contain essential information because > hardly anyone ever gives it more than a rap

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-22 Thread Nicolas George
Greg (HE12025-05-22): > > When posting to a mailing list, the Subject line is crucial. Yours is > No, it is not, Yes it is. >and it should not contain essential information because It definitely should contain all the information essential for deciding if the mail is worth read

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-22 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-19, David Christensen wrote: > > When posting to a mailing list, the Subject line is crucial. Yours is No, it is not, and it should not contain essential information because hardly anyone ever gives it more than a rapid glance. And please refrain, now that we're giving posting advic

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 12:04:16PM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can > publish? If this is your reaction, I'll spare you my drivel, too. You won't hear from me further, promised. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 20 May 2025 12:04:16 -0400 COMCAST wrote: > That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can > publish? It's rather good advice, even if it is a bit much and unsolicited. I'll add to it: insulting people does not endear you to them. We're all volunteers here, and w

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-20 Thread COMCAST
That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can publish? On 5/19/25 19:53, David Christensen wrote: Please use interleaved posting style rather than top-posting style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style On 5/18/25 06:42, COMCAST wrote: > What file

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-19 Thread David Christensen
Please use interleaved posting style rather than top-posting style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style On 5/18/25 06:42, COMCAST wrote: > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? On 5/19/25 11:11, COMCAST wrote: Close bu no cooky. My install of Debian doc

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-19 Thread COMCAST
Close bu no cooky. My install of Debian docent even have those files. On 5/18/25 11:35, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2025, 9:16 AM wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? If you mean "what

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 10:35:37 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > If you mean "what file contains the IP address and hostname of my own > server?": It depends whether you use NetworkManager to configure networking > or the older style. > > In the older style the

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Of course if you are installing as a Debian desktop workstation your networking is configured by DHCP. Your ISP allocates an address and network hostname to your machine at startup. That can also be configured "by config file" but only rarely requires it. On Sun, May 18, 2025, 10:35 A

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, May 18, 2025, 9:16 AM wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? > If you mean "what file contains the IP address and hostname of my own server?": It depends whether you

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread Felix Miata
COMCAST composed on 2025-05-18 09:42 (UTC-0400): > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? That depends on context. e.g. local ethernet port may be configured via ifupdown, or Network Manager, or systemd-network, and you may be using DHCP to determine its IP, or set it

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? Whose network address? And: what do you mean by "store"? Could you please explain what you are trying to do? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread COMCAST
What file does in Linux use to the store network address in?

Re: Broken file system?

2025-04-13 Thread Nicolas George
pe...@easthope.ca (HE12025-04-13): > [0.463676] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root > fs on "/dev/sda6" or unknown-block(0,0) ]--- > My best guess is that the drive or file system is broken. My better guess is that your kernel does not see your d

Broken file system?

2025-04-13 Thread peter
(outside TXT) disabled by BIOS ... [0.463676] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on "/dev/sda6" or unknown-block(0,0) ]--- My best guess is that the drive or file system is broken. I can connect the drive to a working system and apply fsck. If that fails,

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-04-12 Thread Eben King
On 4/10/25 05:26, Roland Mueller wrote: When starting the terminal with some command from command line one can add the -H flag to keep the terminal open. This way the window does not close after completion of the command but it cannot be used for running commands. /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-04-10 Thread Roland Mueller
> > "Open terminal here" in Xfce desktop is very handy but still have to > > list the directory contents, find the one I want and type or paste it's > > name. > > Is there a way to get Thunar to run selected file in a terminal? > > mick > > >

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-04-01 Thread mick.crane
op is very handy but still have to list the directory contents, find the one I want and type or paste it's name. Is there a way to get Thunar to run selected file in a terminal? mick I added a Custom Action to Thunar as follows: Thunar -> Edit -> Configure custom actions... -> +

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-03-31 Thread David Christensen
ctory contents, find the one I want and type or paste it's name. Is there a way to get Thunar to run selected file in a terminal? mick I added a Custom Action to Thunar as follows: Thunar -> Edit -> Configure custom actions... -> + (Add a new custom action) Pop-up dialog "

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-03-31 Thread Eben King
ctory contents, find the one I want and type or paste it's name. Is there a way to get Thunar to run selected file in a terminal? mick Right click -> "Open with" -> "Open with other application" -> Xterm works. I think after the first time you do this, the termi

Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-03-31 Thread mick.crane
d type or paste it's name. Is there a way to get Thunar to run selected file in a terminal? mick

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> visible for Windows. The awful part is that, > I need to run a commercial software on > the Windows system of that device, and that > commercial software frequently performs > full-disk scan 'for the sake of user security'. If at all possible, you might be better off turning the Windows part int

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 10:56:47AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:45:32 +0100 > wrote: > > Hello to...@tuxteam.de, > > >I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does > {snipped} > > Okay, fair enough. I'm new to

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, wrote: > > You don't need apt-file update anymore. Apt update or apt-get update do > the trick. (Apt-file update won't hurt, though). Maybe you could fix the wiki in this case. https://wiki.debian.org/apt-file

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 04:29:56PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, wrote: > > > > I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does > > that job, too (I was always wondering to find my apt-file database > > up to date and suspected some well

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, wrote: > > I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does > that job, too (I was always wondering to find my apt-file database > up to date and suspected some well-meaning cron job, but that seems > to be the secret :-) apt-get update o

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:45:32 +0100 wrote: Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does {snipped} Okay, fair enough. I'm new to apt-file so haven't fully absorbed all required knowledge yet. >Hanlon's Corollary: it's

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 09:19:12AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:59:49 +0200 > Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > > Hello Henrik, > > >> Why when I run `apt-file show phoenix` nothing happens? > >Just to confirm, you ran `apt-get update` before that, c

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:59:49 +0200 Henrik Ahlgren wrote: Hello Henrik, >> Why when I run `apt-file show phoenix` nothing happens? >Just to confirm, you ran `apt-get update` before that, correct? apt-*file* update (emphasis is mine), surely? -- Regards _ "Valid si

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
Modaresi Soft Hard writes: > I added our Repo to sources.list.d/ > > Why when I run `apt-file show phoenix` nothing happens? Just to confirm, you ran `apt-get update` before that, correct?

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 02:13:05AM +, Modaresi Soft Hard wrote: > We created several packages in > https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:celenity (OBS) Apt-file relies on the Contents file, which your repository must provide (possibly you have to tell your instance of apt-file

Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-12 Thread Modaresi Soft Hard
We created several packages in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:celenity (OBS) I added our Repo to sources.list.d/ Why when I run `apt-file show phoenix` nothing happens? What should I observe in the packaging? You can download deb files and the files we use to create a deb

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-11 Thread Miriami
Hi Stefan: I agree. There is a Windows VM set up in the Debian environment of that device to execute 'normal' Windows applications - just that that commercial software requires too much resources for that device to run in VM, so it gets a real system. If that device would be upgraded to be pow

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-10 Thread Max Nikulin
to store filesystem. Of course, it is necessary to check if dynamic growth is supported. Due to this, I come up with the idea of only leaving *one* file visible to the Windows system - that disk-scanning software - so that there would be less trouble. Another idea: a custom live image is

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-09 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/8/25 8:07 AM, Miriami wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > > I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also > > has this: 1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click > > menu, chooss 'open this file wi

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Miriami wrote: > About the projects I've found - I searched with > three terms on GitHub - 'sqlite', 'fs' and > 'fuse'. It is surprisingly large number of > projects come up with the same idea of using > SQLite as a backing file system storage

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-09 Thread Miriami
27;ve found - I searched with three terms on GitHub - 'sqlite', 'fs' and 'fuse'. It is surprisingly large number of projects come up with the same idea of using SQLite as a backing file system storage. This probably has something to do with how the SQLite developers ha

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/03/2025 21:30, Marco Moock wrote: xdg-mime query default application/pdf Just a word of caution. It does not necessary mean that applications or xdg-open will use the reported handler. E.g. in corner cases Gtk and KDE interprets mimeapps.list in a bit different way. exo-open (that i

Re: TEMORARY workaround - was [Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable]

2025-03-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/03/2025 01:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I do not believe using xdg-mime is a *legitimate" technique in this instance. It wasn't used to *cause* the problem. It *shouldn't* be used to supposedly "solve" the problem. A wrong assumption. On 08/03/2025 23:27, Richard Owlett wrote: Before toda

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/03/2025 04:55, Mike Kupfer wrote: I don't have any ideas for how you ended up with a different PDF viewer. Behavior varies across various DE. It may be enough to just install another application that may open PDF files. If media type association is not explicitly configured then it is i

SUCCESS!!! - was [Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable]

2025-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
future readers of this thread. 1. In the primary menu {Panel} chose System->Control Center 2. In the that appears chose "Set Preferred Applications" 3. In the panel that appears select "Office" 4. Select preferred "Document Viewer" {see note below} 2. I

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Marco Moock
On 08.03.2025 17:30 Uhr Richard Owlett wrote: > Before today I never heard of anything beginning with "xdg". Now you have heard about it, so use it. > I'm looking for the specific MATE tool. ;} I think that is maybe handled by the file manager. Which one do you use? -

TEMORARY workaround - was [Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable]

2025-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
ot;solve" the problem. I know Caja can change what program opens particular files. Two questions: 1. What is Caja's method for changing default program to open a file? 2. How do I diagnose the underlying problem? I spent over twenty years in QA/QC (even if hardware not software). That gives a certain mindset. Suggestions please.

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Mike Kupfer
tions" (in the "Personal" section). In the window that appears, click on the "Office" tab. Set "Document Viewer" to Atril. 2. In Caja, right click on a PDF file. Click on "Properties". Click on the "Open With" tab, select Atril. I don'

Re: TEMORARY workaround - was [Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable]

2025-03-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 12:21:43PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I do not believe using xdg-mime is a *legitimate" technique in this > instance. It wasn't used to *cause* the problem. It *shouldn't* be used to > supposedly "solve" the problem. You don't know that. As Marco already explained,

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-08 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Thomas Schmitt wrote: But if, instead, what you want is the backing store to grow then use a sparse file as the backing store. This idea reduces the search to filesystems which don't hop around and write without need to new random places on their storage m

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Max Nikulin wrote: > On 08/03/2025 19:31, Miriami wrote: > > Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single > > file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size? > > Qemu's qcow2 disk images may grow in size while initially they may be >

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/8/25 8:07 AM, Miriami wrote: Hi Richard, I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also has this: 1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click menu, chooss 'open this file with ...' 2. In the then-popped-up dialog asking which program to be us

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/03/2025 19:31, Miriami wrote: Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size? Qemu's qcow2 disk images may grow in size while initially they may be smaller than size exposed to virtual machines. However l

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
Now the browser wants you (very badly) to believe that it IS the world -- and seems to be succeeding, alas. But it isn't You want to tweak your desktop environment's preferences. Now I'm the wrong people to ask about DEs, because I try to avoid them, but I've been told that you

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Miriami
Hi Richard, I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also has this: 1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click menu, chooss 'open this file with ...' 2. In the then-popped-up dialog asking which program to be used to open this PDF file, select the

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/8/25 8:30 AM, Marco Moock wrote: On 08.03.2025 14:50 Uhr Richard Owlett wrote: It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril. I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad. I assumed that Edit Preferences was the place to go. But under Browser->Helper Applications i

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
a burn program for optical media. (I praise it for being first to offer free DVD and BD burning and for giving me code examples for the SCSI specs SPC and MMC when i developed support for these media types in libburn.) But it is not fuse based and i never could get it to work with a data file instead o

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/8/25 7:55 AM, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2025 at 8:41 AM From: "Richard Owlett" To: "debian-user" Subject: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 It used to be that clickin

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread tomas
the context menu chose "open with" - select your favourite application, BUT - somewhere on that way you'll get a choice to "always open this kind of file with...": select that. > I used to know what to do ;< That's why I hate DEs. They subtly sabotage one&#

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-08 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Miriami wrote: Hi! Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size? It's like using a fuse ext4 filesystem, just that with self-growing - I tried the fuse ext4 filesystem, but it seems that

How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril. I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad. I assumed that Edit Preferences was the place to go. But under Browser->Helper Applications it says "always ask" indicating system isn't

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Miriami wrote: > > Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single file as > backing storage, and could self-growing in size? > > It's like using a fuse ext4 filesystem, just that with self-growing - I tried > the fuse ext4 filesystem, but

Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-08 Thread Miriami
Hi! Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size? It's like using a fuse ext4 filesystem, just that with self-growing - I tried the fuse ext4 filesystem, but it seems that fuse ext4 filesystem requires the us

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-03 Thread gene heskett
removable/purgeable w/o screwing up the system, leaving a 30 second total freeze anytime I want to open a file I own. As far as I'm aware no one has ever been able to replicate the problems you are having and we're not even sure if this is the root cause, so it's fairly unlikely that any

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-03 Thread Andy Smith
ewing up the system, leaving a 30 second total freeze anytime I > want to open a file I own. As far as I'm aware no one has ever been able to replicate the problems you are having and we're not even sure if this is the root cause, so it's fairly unlikely that any behaviour wil

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-03 Thread gene heskett
ory, did an ls -r on what was a nearly empty directory, got many screens full of filenames. added a |wc -l and got 448xx file names. So I removed that flatpak, which left it all behind so I fired up a root session of mc and removed the whole flatpak subdir from /var/lib. Then I had apt purge

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-03 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
plication, though it is shared among all Flatpak apps using the same runtime. Additionally, remember that OSTree employs hard links to have multiple copies of the same file. You can investigate this by running find /var/lib/flatpak -links +1 -ls Flatpak effectively functions as container techn

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread gene heskett
rusa-slicer that executes that command and putting it in /usr/local/bin. This is all documented on the prusa site and the flathub prusa page. To remove a flathub package type "sudo flathub uninstall ". Its all purged after I found the 45000 file install of what in AppImage is one fi

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
John Hasler writes: > There isn't any executable: that isn't how flatpak works. There's no > need for you to deal directly with anything under /var/lib/flatpak. To > run prusa-slicer type "flatpak run com.prusa3d.PrusaSlicer". I suggest > making a script named prusa-slicer that executes that com

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread John Hasler
There isn't any executable: that isn't how flatpak works. There's no need for you to deal directly with anything under /var/lib/flatpak. To run prusa-slicer type "flatpak run com.prusa3d.PrusaSlicer". I suggest making a script named prusa-slicer that executes that command and putting it in /usr/lo

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread gene heskett
On 3/2/25 16:34, John Hasler wrote: gene writes: I've done that. Where did you get the debian flatpak? Tn Debian flatpak *package*. Type apt-cache show flatpak Flatpak is the tool that you use to install flatpaks. The flatpaks themselves do not come from the Debian archive. To in

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread John Hasler
gene writes: > I've done that. Where did you get the debian flatpak? Tn Debian flatpak *package*. Type apt-cache show flatpak Flatpak is the tool that you use to install flatpaks. The flatpaks themselves do not come from the Debian archive. To install flatpak type sudo apt install

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread gene heskett
On 3/2/25 13:35, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:01:17AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] I lost track, with all those side tracks with ff and vpns and things, but my tentative diagnosis is that prusa broke your Debian. But then that's OK because you told it to do so. Not

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread gene heskett
On 3/2/25 12:07, John Hasler wrote: I just now installed PrusaSlicer by installing the Debian flatpak package and following the instructions on the prusa site. The only perquisite I see is "sudo apt install flatpak" I've done that. Where did you get the debian flatpak? Tnx . Cheers, Gene

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:01:17AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] I lost track, with all those side tracks with ff and vpns and things, but my tentative diagnosis is that prusa broke your Debian. But then that's OK because you told it to do so. Not nice of them, no. Cheers -- t signature.a

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread John Hasler
I just now installed PrusaSlicer by installing the Debian flatpak package and following the instructions on the prusa site. The only perquisite I see is "sudo apt install flatpak". -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread gene heskett
is amd64 box. In this case the pre-requisites install fails by not specing where the "*.flatpakrepo" file is supposed to go. As configured here, the /vat/lib/flatpak directory is the top of an extensive tree that flatpak searches to see what is available. But with no flatpak's

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread John Hasler
(>= 1:1.0.11), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.5) Recommends: ca-certificates, default-dbus-system-bus | dbus-system-bus, desktop-file-utils, hicolor-icon-theme, gtk-update-icon-cache, libpam-systemd, p11-kit, polkitd, shared-mime-info, xdg-desktop-portal (>= 1.6), xdg-desktop-p

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread didier gaumet
as a prerequisite to installing the flatpak version of PrusaSlicer-2.9.0 in a debian 12 system.  There are several flatpak utils available for debian 12 in the synaptic menu. So this is confusing.  Step 3 of the prerequisite setup for debian 12 assumes this file will be installed properly, but

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 02:11:53AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 3/2/25 01:40, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 04:42:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > flathub.flatpakrepo > > Nowhere. > > And this is to indicate that flatpaks will not be accepted by debian? What do you m

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64system?

2025-03-01 Thread Geert Stappers
ing.  Step 3 of the prerequisite setup for debian 12 assumes this > file will be installed properly, but actually puts it wherever that shell is > cd'd to.  Hence the subject line question as to where it actually belongs. https://xyproblem.info has XY-problem described. > There is a m

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64system?

2025-03-01 Thread gene heskett
version of PrusaSlicer-2.9.0 in a debian 12 system.  There are several flatpak utils available for debian 12 in the synaptic menu. So this is confusing.  Step 3 of the prerequisite setup for debian 12 assumes this file will be installed properly, but actually puts it wherever that shell is cd&#

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64 system?

2025-03-01 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 04:42:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > flathub.flatpakrepo Nowhere. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64 system?

2025-03-01 Thread gene heskett
flathub.flatpakrepo Tnx. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-06 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
> Thanks. > > Glenn > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" > To: > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 1:28 PM > Subject: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the > suder's file] > > > [Follow-up s

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Chris Green
K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hi Andrew, > Using other distros, like Ubuntu and Raspbian, I would get tired of typing > sudo in front of everything, so I would just do sudo su and become root for > everything, so I wouldn't have to constantly be reminded that as a regular > user, I can't do something, and

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Max Nikulin
(debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org is dropped from Cc:) On 06/02/2025 06:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote: With respect to other operating systems, like Solaris, root is a role, not a user. Jeffrey, it is interesting topic to discuss, but I am afraid, this stuff and SELinux may confuse K0LNY even

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [Follow-up suggested to the mailing list at debian-user@lists.debian.org] > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:50:44AM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > > How is Debian different with regard to apparently there not being a problem > > installing things

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
ew M.A. Cater" > To: > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 1:28 PM > Subject: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the > suder's file] > > > [Follow-up suggested to the mailing list at debian-user@lists.debian.org] > > On Wed,

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Dan Ritter
K0LNY ?? wrote: > Using other distros, like Ubuntu and Raspbian, I would get tired of typing > sudo in front of everything, so I would just do sudo su and become root for > everything, so I wouldn't have to constantly be reminded that as a regular > user, I can't do something, and I had been to

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread K0LNY ??
uary 5, 2025 1:28 PM Subject: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file] [Follow-up suggested to the mailing list at debian-user@lists.debian.org] On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:50:44AM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hi Andrew, > How is Debian different with regar

Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
[Follow-up suggested to the mailing list at debian-user@lists.debian.org] On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:50:44AM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hi Andrew, > How is Debian different with regard to apparently there not being a problem > installing things as root? > I know that there are issues if some packag

Tardy Thank-you [Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?]

2025-02-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/4/24 3:13 PM, David wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 at 12:22, Richard Owlett wrote: I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . [...] 2. Is there a script that would download it to a specific local

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread Michael
and found the contents of the txt file :- ii enteauth 4.2.8 amd64ente two-factor authenticator This indicating the package name is enteauth and is for version 4.2.8 I have another, non Debian, issue with Ente Auth which I need to resolve with

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 14:27:28 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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) :- > > >

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:42:02PM +, Michael wrote: > The deb names may be unconventional but the executables worked (at least > v4.2.8 worked). They are IMHO wrong, since they quite probably will end up as *different packages* instead of as *different versions of a package*. If you just ins

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
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 pa

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
r removed on the system, ie APT records history, whereas dpkg lives entirely in the present. > 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 of /your/ files invo

Re: Ente Auth install problems [WAS Installing a debian file]

2025-01-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
package from https://github.com/ente-io/ente/releases?q=tag%3Aauth-v4 > I ran, as root :- > > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb > > to create an executable file enteauth, which runs the Ente Auth app. > Ente Auth appear to have a Github repository - see below for the download li

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread Michael
The deb names may be unconventional but the executables worked (at least v4.2.8 worked). Can you please suggest suitable Debian package management commands to use to investigate the current status of the v4.2.8 and v4.3.1 data in the Debian system. On Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 4:26 PM wrote: > On Thu,

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:14:00PM +, Michael wrote: > Thanks very much for your help and suggestions. > > I am running Debian 12 on a desktop. > > My aim is to set up and use a TOTP authenticator app called Ente Auth. > > I ran, as root :- > > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb [...]

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