Hi,
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 04:13:14AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:09:46AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> > Do you have the "fonts-recommended" package installed?
>
> That did the trick thanks - then a reboot. I might have been able to get away
> with a logout.
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:09:46AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> Do you have the "fonts-recommended" package installed?
That did the trick thanks - then a reboot. I might have been able to get away
with a logout.
I also now seem to be able to see all the emojis that my daughter sends me.
Thanks
On 29/12/2024 02:28, Alain D D Williams wrote:
I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display properly. Eg:
메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy Christmas in Korean).
[...]
They fail to display in either Mate terminal 1.26 or in Firefox 128.5 so I
suspect it is a system
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:28:47 +
Alain D D Williams wrote:
> I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display
> properly. Eg: 메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy
> Christmas in Korean).
Well, I don't have that font installed, so I see little boxes with the
Unicode values
Alain D D Williams (12024-12-28):
> I suspect that I could see them if I used the testing version of some package.
> Which one(s) and how do I do this ?
I strongly doubt a common font will be “upgraded” with Korean
characters. More likely, the package is just not installed.
So: find out which fon
I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm.
I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display properly. Eg:
메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy Christmas in Korean).
These do however display properly on my laptop which runs Mint 21.3.
I suspect that I could see them if I used the te
On 23/7/24 23:22, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
Another is to fetch the epoch time value (%s) and then use that value
in all future calls. With GNU date:
now=$(date +%s)
julian=$(date -d "@$now" +%j)
dom=$(date -d "@$now" +%d)
Good evening All - especially Greg
This process has work
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 21:08:29 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> So when I opened my xterm this morning, I saw:
> keith@lenv0
>
> Tue 23Jul2024@19:19:30 205.2024 AEST
> :~ $>
>
> You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/keith
>
>
> Pressed enter, and the day# updated:
>
> keith@lenv0
>
>
On 23/7/24 23:22, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
On 23 July 2024 9:42:27 pm AEST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc
then
:/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR
So you're setting
On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 15:00:12 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 13:38:48 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:31:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> > > > The day# in my command prompt inc
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 13:38:48 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:31:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> > > The day# in my command prompt increments when I start in the morning.
> > > Maybe I need to press ent
On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:31:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> > The day# in my command prompt increments when I start in the morning. Maybe
> > I need to press enter.
>
> That makes it sound like you're setting the YEAR et al. var
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> The day# in my command prompt increments when I start in the morning. Maybe I
> need to press enter.
That makes it sound like you're setting the YEAR et al. variables in the
PROMPT_COMMAND variable.
If that's the case, it's *less*
On 23 July 2024 9:42:27 pm AEST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
>> From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc
>>
>> then
>> :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR
>
>So you're setting those variables one time inside you
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc
>
> then
> :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR
So you're setting those variables one time inside your .bashrc file?
This is quite bad. What happens when you have a
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 17:02:08 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> mkcd ()
> {
> mkdir -p $1
> cd $1
> }
You're missing quotes. Two sets. You probably also want && between
the two commands, to check for the success of the mkdir before attempting
a cd.
> in the form :~ $> mkcd
> /mn
Addendum 2
adding the full path to .bashrc failed
So I tried opening a new xterm tab and ran
Tue 23Jul2024@17:07:43 205.2024 AEST
:~ $> mkcd /tmp/$DOYR.$YEAR
and landed in /tmp/205.2024 $>
Looking good
From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc
then
:/tmp/205.2024 $>
Addendum
So I tried opening a new xterm tab and ran
Tue 23Jul2024@17:07:43 205.2024 AEST
:~ $> mkcd /tmp/$DOYR.$YEAR
and landed in /tmp/205.2024 $>
Looking good
From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc
then
:/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR
and landed in
Good afternoon All
For reference, today is Tue 23Jul2024@15:41:47 205.2024 AEST
This is part of my command prompt, generated by
PS1='\n \u@\h \n\n $(date +"%a %d%b%Y@%H:%M:%S %j.%Y %Z") \n :\w $> '
My calculation is that today is day 205
When I run this function
mkcd ()
{
mkdir -p
(Sorry, this should have gone to the list in the first place.)
Please search the log for module nvidia.
grep -i -C 3 nvidia /var/log/Xorg.0.log
If you have installed package nvidia-driver in stable or testing, I
can't imagine that it is too old for any software. Nouveau should be
blacklisted by i
Hi all,
I was told to "update the DirectX/OpenGL driver" when I tried to use some
software.
One example is
Renderer: Error creating Canvas3D graphics context
I have general problems with the graphic rendering.
$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeF
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 10:17:21AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote:
> > I just installed Debian using netinstall image. I thought I install testing
> > version, but apparently it's Debian 11. So now my source.list looks like
> > bel
On 4/09/21 2:17 am, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
You might consider using bookwork rather than testing, however.
Or bookworm, even.
Richard
I will change to testing with all keyword switched to testing because my case
is more often needing to use newer version software compared to stable, which
also works fine w/t a problem for most of time.
Thanks for all your help, and advice! Appreciate it!
Sep 4, 2021, 09:30 by riveravaldezm.
On 9/3/21, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-09-03 at 15:16, Brian wrote:
>
>> On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 13:40:52 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>
>>> (...)
>>> In the absence of "pinning", using the two lines that The Wanderer
>>> posted would gi
On 2021-09-03 at 15:16, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 13:40:52 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>>> Surely - if you have a package installed from a previous release,
>>> it does not get removed simply because testing does not have it?
On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 13:40:52 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 10:40:32 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testi
On 2021-09-03 at 13:40, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>
>> On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 10:40:32 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>>
>>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free
>>> contrib deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
>>>
On 2021-09-03 at 13:06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 10:40:32AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> I have been running with (e.g.)
>>
>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>>
>>
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 10:40:32 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> Surely - if you have a package installed
On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 10:40:32 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
[...]
> Are you sure about that last part?
>
> I have been running with (e.g.)
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>
> for over a dec
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 10:40:32AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> I have been running with (e.g.)
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>
> for over a decade, and [...] there have been some problems
On 03/09/2021 11:40, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2021-09-03 at 10:17, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote:
If you change all instances of bullseye -> testing, then you are not
mixing. Go ahead with that, modulo the standard caveats associated
with
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 04:25:39PM +0100, piorunz wrote:
> On 03/09/2021 15:17, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > If you change all instances of bullseye -> testing, then you are not
> > mixing. Go ahead with that (...)
>
> Yep, that's all there is to say. testing word instead of bullseye
> everywher
On 03/09/2021 15:17, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
If you change all instances of bullseye -> testing, then you are not
mixing. Go ahead with that (...)
Yep, that's all there is to say. testing word instead of bullseye
everywhere in sources.list will do the trick.
AFAIK, you may also disable "-se
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 10:40:32AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-09-03 at 10:17, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote:
> >
> >> I just installed Debian using netinstall image. I thought I install
> >> testing version, but apparently
On 2021-09-03 at 10:17, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote:
>
>> I just installed Debian using netinstall image. I thought I install
>> testing version, but apparently it's Debian 11. So now my
>> source.list looks like below:
>>
>> deb
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote:
> I just installed Debian using netinstall image. I thought I install testing
> version, but apparently it's Debian 11. So now my source.list looks like
> below:
>
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contri
I just installed Debian using netinstall image. I thought I install testing
version, but apparently it's Debian 11. So now my source.list looks like below:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib
Sven, awesome! You were right, I already have them - using your
glxinfo statement I get:
> $ glxinfo |grep "OpenGL core profile version"
> OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 13.0.6
>
SOLVED
Thank you!
--Brian
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2
On 06/28/2018 12:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
glxinfo | grep "OpenGL core profile version"
My system reports:
ric@iam:/opt/ric/Downloads/warzone2100-2.3.8/src$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL
core profile version"
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.48
ric@iam:/opt/ric/Downloads/warzone
On 2018-06-28 11:11 -0400, Brian Cary wrote:
> Greetings,
> New to Debian, long-time Ubuntu user. If is in the wrong place, apologies,
> please point me in the right direction.
>
> QUESTION:
> Can some-one tell me how (or point me to updated step-by-step docs) to
> update
> my Debian 9.4 system (w
Greetings,
New to Debian, long-time Ubuntu user. If is in the wrong place, apologies,
please point me in the right direction.
QUESTION:
Can some-one tell me how (or point me to updated step-by-step docs) to
update
my Debian 9.4 system (with Gnome) to at least OpenGL 3.3 mesa drivers?
BACKGROUND:
Hi folks,
I installed a new application (not from repo), and there is a *.desktop file in
/usr/share/applications.
But I the new application does not appear in the menus of plasma5/kde.
How can I force, to recreate the menus in plasma5? I tried "update-menus",
"kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental" a
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Thanks Norbert, that's the definitive answer that I was looking for, and
> I shall wait as suggested. :)
Next upload is planned for about the 25 August, after the holidays
here in Japan are over.
All the best
Norbert
-
Norbert Preining writes:
> On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> > I'm using TexLive 2014 from the jessie repos, and also keeping a
>> > watching brief on "comp.text.tex" where it shows updates to packages as
>> > they occur. I'm interested in the "tcolorbox" and "glossaries" packages
>>
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > I'm using TexLive 2014 from the jessie repos, and also keeping a
> > watching brief on "comp.text.tex" where it shows updates to packages as
> > they occur. I'm interested in the "tcolorbox" and "glossaries" packages
> > and see that they have recentl
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:18:08AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I'm using TexLive 2014 from the jessie repos, and also keeping a
> watching brief on "comp.text.tex" where it shows updates to packages as
> they occur. I'm interested in the "tcolorbox" and "glossaries" packages
> and see that they h
I'm using TexLive 2014 from the jessie repos, and also keeping a
watching brief on "comp.text.tex" where it shows updates to packages as
they occur. I'm interested in the "tcolorbox" and "glossaries" packages
and see that they have recently been updated.
What is the best way of getting the updated
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Edwin Zarthrusz wrote:
> Can you send me a straight-forward list of commands for updating and applying
> any necessary security patches and such on my install? And is there a way of
> getting it to update automatically?
Hi Ed,
In addition to all of the other co
On Jo, 25 oct 12, 19:41:54, Edwin Zarthrusz wrote:
> Can you send me a straight-forward list of commands for updating and
> applying any necessary security patches and such on my install? And is
> there a way of getting it to update automatically?
Additionally to what has been mentioned already
On 10/25/2012 02:09 PM, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 10/25/2012 02:41 PM, Edwin Zarthrusz wrote:
Can you send me a straight-forward list of commands for updating and
applying any necessary security patches and such on my install? And
is there a way of getting it to update automatically?
apt-get and
On 10/25/2012 02:41 PM, Edwin Zarthrusz wrote:
Can you send me a straight-forward list of commands for updating and applying
any necessary security patches and such on my install? And is there a way of
getting it to update automatically?
TIA
--
Be. Love. Ed.
The information you require is i
On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Edwin Zarthrusz wrote:
> Can you send me a straight-forward list of commands for updating and applying
> any necessary security patches and such on my install? And is there a way of
> getting it to update automatically?
apticron is pretty close to automatic. There
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:41:54PM +0100, Edwin Zarthrusz wrote:
> Can you send me a straight-forward list of commands for updating and applying
> any necessary security patches and such on my install? And is there a way of
> getting it to update automatically?
1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.lis
On Lu, 28 mai 12, 02:21:39, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
[snip]
Must read: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/
(or as package debian-reference)
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Sunday 27 May 2012 22:21:39 you wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Lisi wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 May 2012 12:43:45 you wrote:
> >> > I prefer to use aptitude full-upgrade routinely - but I have the code
> >> > name in my sources.list, not stable or testing. I then change the
> >> > cod
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Lisi wrote:
> On Saturday 26 May 2012 12:43:45 you wrote:
>> > I prefer to use aptitude full-upgrade routinely - but I have the code
>> > name in my sources.list, not stable or testing. I then change the code
>> > name when I want to get the more recent version.
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Lisi wrote:
> On Saturday 26 May 2012 18:04:35 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> I seem to remember the Debian Reference has a good guide to pinning and
>> it is up-to-date (thanks to Osamu Aoki).
>
> Given the OP's confusion, and the fact that he states his main aim as no
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Vi, 25 mai 12, 15:36:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:28 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>>
>>> In conclusion i found out that i should stick to stable and should not
>>> play with the source list until unless it is
On Sat, 26 May 2012 19:57:19 +0300
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 26 mai 12, 13:39:26, keith wrote:
> >
> > My understanding is ->
> >
> > If you apt-get upgrade, you are updating your system (squeeze)
> >
> > When you use apt-get dist-upgrade you change your system from squeeze to
> > wheezy
FWIW, sometime ago this book was announced here:
http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/
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On Saturday 26 May 2012 18:04:35 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> I seem to remember the Debian Reference has a good guide to pinning and
> it is up-to-date (thanks to Osamu Aoki).
Given the OP's confusion, and the fact that he states his main aim as not
crashing, would he not do better to stick to pure S
On Vi, 25 mai 12, 15:36:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:28 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > In conclusion i found out that i should stick to stable and should not
> > play with the source list until unless it is necessary. even if i add
> > a repo then i must comment it af
On Sb, 26 mai 12, 13:39:26, keith wrote:
>
> My understanding is ->
>
> If you apt-get upgrade, you are updating your system (squeeze)
>
> When you use apt-get dist-upgrade you change your system from squeeze to
> wheezy
No, see 'man apt-get' for the difference between the two.
Kind regards,
On Saturday 26 May 2012 12:43:45 you wrote:
> > I prefer to use aptitude full-upgrade routinely - but I have the code
> > name in my sources.list, not stable or testing. I then change the code
> > name when I want to get the more recent version. So, Squeeze not stable,
> > Muhammad. you could ge
On Sat, 26 May 2012 16:43:45 +0500
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>
> if i use Squeeze (the code name) instead stable, sid or anything.
> should i not to worry about system crash? is it what people here mean
> to say (who support code name "squeeze" ) that if i "apt-get
> upgrade/full-upgrade/safe-
On Sat, 26 May 2012 17:06:04 +0500
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> i was reading this article and it is very helpful and something new
> that i learned but i am a bit confuse. how come i be safe in this
> technique because what this article is saying means if i wanted to
> install a specific package
On Sat, 26 May 2012 16:43:45 +0500
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> if i use Squeeze (the code name) instead stable, sid or anything.
> should i not to worry about system crash? is it what people here mean
> to say (who support code name "squeeze" ) that if i "apt-get
> upgrade/full-upgrade/safe-upg
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:28 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> In conclusion i found out that i should stick to stable and should not
>> play with the source list until unless it is necessary. even if i add
>> a repo then i must comment it
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2012 18:23:37 Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Mika Suomalainen
>>
>> wrote:
>> > On 25.05.2012 15:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> >>> deb http://securi
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:17:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> "things" for your current install might be /home only. Perhaps xorg.conf
> and some other files, using cp -pr while you're root. But in the future
> completely backup using e.g. tar. Note, if you sync, you anyway might
> lose data, sin
On Friday 25 May 2012 18:23:37 Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Mika Suomalainen
>
> wrote:
> > On 25.05.2012 15:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> >>> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> >>> deb-src http
On Fri, 25 May 2012 19:38:31 +0100
keith wrote:
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
My apologies, I somehow missed that, as someone else has pointed out. Use
squeeze not stable.
(I know it
On Fri, 25 May 2012 18:28:29 +0500
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> ok found a website for which generates source.list
>
> http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Mika Suomalainen
wrote:
> On 25.05.2012 15:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>>
>>> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>>> deb h
On 2012-05-25 17:53 +0200, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
> Is it safe to use "stable" instead of "squeeze"?
No, this is very much not recommended.
> Are there usually any conflicts or anything what would need
> "full-upgrade" whenever new "stable" is named?
Yes, about every two years when a new major
On 25.05.2012 15:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
>>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
> deb htt
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 06:42:53AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:57:28PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > in a testing environment I was trying to upgrade the security patches
> > and I run the command
> > apt-get upgrade.
> > It ran fine, but at the end it upgraded
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:57:28 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> well, I have questions about upgrading Linux. since i have been using
> Microsoft for years the concept of upgrade I think is different from
> Linux upgrade.
>
> in a testing environment I was trying to upgrade the security patches
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 16:45 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> - one will not be aware of any possibly security related updates
Good point
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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:46:50PM BST, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> > You're issue is related to the sid repository. If you need something
> > from sid, then uncomment it and after that comment it. Don't feel secure
> > using pinning.
> >
> > You can name the repo
Hi,
>> Instead of e.g.
>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main non-free contrib use
>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib
>>
>> Than you'll get stable, what ever it's named.
>
> ... but it might catch you unprepared if you don't follow release
> announc
On Vi, 25 mai 12, 15:45:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:36 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > > A history provides information this way:
> > >package_name (1.11.4) to 1.12.0
> >
> > do you know any CLI work in same way. i am not using GUI.
>
> A script using apt, ap
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 16:50 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 25 mai 12, 15:16:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >
> > Instead of e.g.
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main non-free contrib
> > use
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib
> >
> > Than you'll
On Vi, 25 mai 12, 15:16:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> Instead of e.g.
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main non-free contrib
> use
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib
>
> Than you'll get stable, what ever it's named.
... but it might catch you unprepared
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:36 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > A history provides information this way:
> >package_name (1.11.4) to 1.12.0
>
> do you know any CLI work in same way. i am not using GUI.
A script using apt, aptitude or dpkg might be able to generate a history
too. I once
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>
>> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-b
On Vi, 25 mai 12, 14:49:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backpor
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:28 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> In conclusion i found out that i should stick to stable and should not
> play with the source list until unless it is necessary. even if i add
> a repo then i must comment it after installing the "whatever package"
Yesno. I'll say y
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> PS:
>
> I like Synaptic, a GUI for the package management. It automatically set
> up an upgrade history. You manually can set up a history when using apt,
> however, Synaptic is very comfortable.
>
> A history provides information this way:
>
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 14:06 +0100, rjc wrote:
> Lenny to squeeze upgrade is somewhat different, you need to have
> entries for both of these releases in you sources.list file(s).
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:58 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> ok ill comment the sid repo. but would you please give
ok found a website for which generates source.list
http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src ht
On Fri, 25 May 2012 17:37:16 +0500
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
[...]
> >
> > [0] It seems like you had several entries in your sources.list file(s)
> > - post the content of your file here.
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/upda
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:37:16PM BST, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> >> 1. how to upgrade only the security patches?
> >
> > aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade [1]
>
> ok it will only update the security patches, no matter if what ever i
> write in source.list?
No, this will upgrade any "u
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-back
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main
On Fri 25 May 2012 at 15:57:28 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> So the question are
>
> 1. how to upgrade only the security patches?
Install stable and stick with it. Do not be tempted to alter sources.list
in /etc/apt/
> 2. if the upgrade patch trigger any critical issue. Like any service
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:54 PM, rjc wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:57:28AM BST, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> well, I have questions about upgrading Linux. since i have been using
>> Microsoft for years the concept of upgrade I think is different from
>> Linux upgrade.
>>
>> in a testing en
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