On 4/07/19 3:34 AM, Reco wrote:
> You cannot change your fingerprint (legally, that is).
Say what? Are you saying there's a jurisdiction in which it's illegal
for me to sand off, cut, or otherwise mutillate my own fingerprint?
Richard
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On 07/02/2019 04:05 PM, Linux-Fan wrote:
...
For my local purposes, I have created my own metapackage (not in Debian...)
-- this is why I suggested a list of packages: I expect that installing all
of the packages yields the same result (except for automatically vs.
manually installed
On 07/01/2019 01:43 PM, Linux-Fan wrote:
Richard Owlett writes:
[...]
I do not understand.
It was an attempt to give you a list of packages that may allow you to
start using VMs without further checks ...
That your answer was "a list of packages" is key to the communicatio
On 1/07/19 7:12 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> What 32 bit VMs which DO NOT depend on non-FOSS components are available
> for 32-bit Debian?
>
LEARN TO WRITE!!
A VM is a Virtual Machine. You appear not to be asking for a Virtual
Machine, but software to host a Virtual Machine!!!1!
I
*CAVEAT LECTOR*
If I can't win,
may I aspire to "break even"?
Recently I was chastised for expecting people to *read*.
if no hmr, *DENT* rd frthr ;/
caveat finis ;/
On 06/30/2019 10:44 AM, Linux-Fan wrote:
Matthew Crews writes:
On 6/30/19 5:34 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'
I'm considering using a VM for some experiments.
Although my web searches have turned up articles about particular
aspects of particular VMs, I've found no inventory of what VMs are
available in Debian.
My firm requirement is that all required software be in set of install
DVDs for i386
On 06/28/2019 08:58 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:50:02AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 28 Jun 2019 at 08:04:43 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
"apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be
installed when it asks for confirmation.
I
On 06/28/2019 08:50 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 28 Jun 2019 at 08:04:43 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
"apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be
installed when it asks for confirmation.
I'm looking for something similar which will base its calcula
"apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be installed
when it asks for confirmation.
I'm looking for something similar which will base its calculation *ONLY*
on the contents of /var/lib/apt/lists/ {ignoring what is already on the
current system}.
On 06/25/2019 06:51 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
I want the first (only) *wired* interface. Do the new names even
distinguish between the types? (I haven't paid them enough close
attention to have the necessary awareness of what names result in order
to be able to answer that question with any
On 06/25/2019 03:49 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[1]
https://wiki.debian.org/NewInStretch#If_you_install_fresh_instead_of_upgrading...
You do read the release notes, don't you? ;-)
That reference leads to two pages worth reading by fellow newbies.
For good description of the problem
access to /bin/mount unless you are okay
> with them being able to become root proper if they really want to.
Haven't you just set your own (bob) password there? Not saying you
couldn't set root's instead, but ... it looks like in this case you
already knew it.
Cheers,
Richard
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On 22/06/19 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 19 Jun 2019 at 04:23:15 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote:
>> On 19/06/19 4:12 AM, David Wright wrote:
>>> On Mon 17 Jun 2019 at 10:38:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>> But that opens yet another contain
for TVs.
>
I think we (or at least I) must be missing some context here. For
starters, this must be some specific group of teenagers. And I'm sure
they're not given permission to take over running the whole TV station.
Is this some specific educational environment? Or is it a TV station
spec
are still perfectly serviceable and useful.
Richard
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gt; now the icedtea plugin seem not available anymore.
> does someone konw how to get it working?
>
Can't you get simpler access via ssh or similar? At least to a virtual
serial console, if not full remote control?
Richard
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see ipv6 on this side
> of the modem. I'm not holding my breath.
If you never try setting it up, when do you expect to understand it? And
I see IPv6 on my side of the modem; I suspect many others do too. I
expect you'll get it sooner or later.
Richard
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On 19/06/19 2:11 AM, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:47:08PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
>> On 18/06/19 10:32 PM, Reco wrote:
>>
>> Custom routes? When routing between 2 networks using the same range,
>> either with a VPN or some kind
On 18/06/19 10:32 PM, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 09:56:17PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
>> On 18/06/19 3:38 AM, Reco wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:38:27AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>&g
g a VPN
between both chose 192.168.1.0/24, and I can't change either ...
There are online random ULA generators - but I'm not convinced one of
them didn't give me the same block twice, or whether it was my own error.
Richard
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replaced by ULAs
(fd00::/8) in IPv6.
Richard
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es are strictly limited to the link, whereas fd00::/7
addresses are for your site, so you can route them around your own
networks as much as you like - I'm linking a few networks and VPSs with
them over openvpn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
Richard
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rimenting with openvpn, and have a tun interface,
there's a good chance it's changed your default route.
Richard
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On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the
association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical
partition
On 06/15/2019 11:55 AM, songbird wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
...
If I had been looking for information one of them could provide, is
there a URL that attempts to summarize such tools?
i go in roughly this order.
command line:
man -k keyword
apt-cache search keyword
browser
On 06/15/2019 09:22 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 15/06/2019 à 15:15, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian
in order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half
dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot.
For my
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on.
The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap.
TIA
I was looking for /etc
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on.
The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap.
TIA
The filename I had
On 06/14/2019 06:20 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 14.06.19 06:10, Richard Owlett wrote:
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The
file I'm looking for also identifies which partition
On 06/14/2019 06:20 AM, john doe wrote:
On 6/14/2019 1:10 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on.
The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on.
The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap.
TIA
will be far more confusing
> for me :-(
>
>
> Perhaps it is time to switch to a different movie franchise.
> LOTR?
> How could you run out of names? Just pick a language :-)
So we'll need support for runes etc just for the name of the distro? :-)
Richard
On 06/03/2019 07:33 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 01:00:36PM +0100, Brian wrote:
The OP's declared motivation is "self-education" and what is wanted is
that it "should just work".
These seem like contradictory statements. If everything works out of the
box, he won't learn
On 06/03/2019 12:07 AM, mick crane wrote:
On 2019-06-02 12:47, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/01/2019 07:08 PM, mick crane wrote:
On 2019-05-31 13:20, Richard Owlett wrote:
With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M
I edited sources.list to read
deb
On 06/01/2019 07:08 PM, mick crane wrote:
On 2019-05-31 13:20, Richard Owlett wrote:
With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M
I edited sources.list to read
deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes
When running Synaptic's
On 06/01/2019 02:58 PM, Curt wrote:
On 2019-06-01, Brian wrote:
It can happen that a line such as
deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount pool/main/
gives the error message " ... does not have a Release file
Leaving aside the validity of the line, this message is an indication
that an o
On 06/01/2019 05:11 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Sat 01 Jun 2019 at 09:12:16 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
[snip]
I suspect I'm running up against two things:
1. Documentation (esp man pages) authors assume *ALL* readers have
the same background they do. I don't. {I was on the other side
On 05/31/2019 01:31 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
new idea after googling and finding several examples like Dan Ritter's
proposal:
Try the "exact path" form of "suite":
deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount pool/main/
deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount pool/contrib
On 05/31/2019 08:53 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Dan Ritter wrote:
deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib
Richard Owlett wrote:
I now get a different error message:
How about adding "/pool" to the URI ?
deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount/pool st
On 05/31/2019 08:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
On 05/31/2019 07:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M
I edited sources.list to read
deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main
On 05/31/2019 07:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M
I edited sources.list to read
deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes
When running Synaptic's
Edit->Reload Pack
With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M
I edited sources.list to read
deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes
When running Synaptic's
Edit->Reload Package Information
I receive an error message:
The repository 'file:/h
On 05/30/2019 07:51 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2019-05-27, Richard Owlett wrote:
That left me with the problem of telling the instance of apt being run
internally by mmdebstrap that dvd1.iso is trusted. I unsuccessfully
tried using the distribution DVD itself.
What is the proper syntax to use dvd1
On 05/29/2019 03:04 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
mmdebstrap does not take debian-installer organized data as input.
According to the man page:
[https://manpages.debian.org/testing/mmdebstrap/mmdebstrap.1.en.html]
In contrast to debootstrap it uses apt to resolve dependencies
and is thus able
On 05/29/2019 01:00 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-29 19:02:51)
On 05/27/2019 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
[snip]
What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.iso {preferred} or DVD in drive
{last resort} as my repository?
mmdebstrap (and multistrap which you
On 05/27/2019 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
[snip]
What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.iso {preferred} or DVD in drive
{last resort} as my repository?
mmdebstrap (and multistrap which you originally mentioned) are unrelated
to dealing with ISO files.
You misunderstood.
debootstrap
On 05/27/2019 12:08 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
On 5/27/19, Richard Owlett wrote:
Further re-reading of man pages suggests that my command should begin:
mmdebstrap --variant=required --aptopt="APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated
true" ...
I hesitate to try that on this machine.
Is
On 05/27/2019 10:46 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-27 17:23:17)
On 05/26/2019 10:05 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 05/26/2019 09:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-26 16:34:17)
I was investigating using multistrap, but it has been
On 05/26/2019 10:05 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 05/26/2019 09:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-26 16:34:17)
I was investigating using multistrap, but it has been orphaned.
mmdebstrap apparently has the desired features of multistrap but is
available only
On 05/26/2019 10:05 PM, bw wrote:
[snip]
It might be a bug if wicd requires systemd as init? but I have not
researched the issue. I think it's a lot of work for little gain
to fight the way things are. Systemd is here, it has been working fine
for yrs. It is the default init for debian. I
On 05/26/2019 09:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-26 16:34:17)
I was investigating using multistrap, but it has been orphaned.
mmdebstrap apparently has the desired features of multistrap but is
available only in Buster.
I do not have the available bandwidth
I was investigating using multistrap, but it has been orphaned.
mmdebstrap apparently has the desired features of multistrap but is
available only in Buster.
I do not have the available bandwidth to install Buster.
In Stretch perl is 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 but is 5.28.1-6 in Buster.
Is it feasible
On 23/05/19 3:39 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anybody run LXC and Docker simultaneously on the same host? Do they
> play nicely together?
>
> I need to migrate some containers (or at least the contents, or
> services) from LXC to Docker, without causin
that from the
Docker repo. LXC is what comes with stretch.
Cheers,
Richard
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unit file - or IIRC running:
sudo systemctl edit bind9.service
... and putting in:
---8<
[Unit]
RequiresMountsFor=/var
---8<
... followed by:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Not tested.
Cheers,
Richard
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t; failed: file not found
>
> But if I then start it manually via systemctl, it starts. But then I
> need to fix up other services which were counting on working name
> resolution when they started.
Is /var/cache (or /var) a separate filesystem, that might not be mounted
in time at boot
On 05/19/2019 12:31 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[snip]
Salsa has a significant part (if not most) of the source code for Debian
packages. It could be useful to learn at least the 'git clone' command.
The repository URL can be easily inferred from 'blob' or 'raw' links you
might stumble in the
On 05/18/2019 03:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 18 mai 19, 13:02:52, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 05/18/2019 04:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
https://salsa.debian.org/amp-guest/pine64/blob/master/pine64_buildimage
Thank you.
I've never used Salsa. I've found https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa
On 05/18/2019 04:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Mi, 12 dec 18, 09:56:09, Richard Owlett wrote:
As some of my interest was focused on finding out just how small a useful
Debian system could be, I was pointed towards debootstrap. I didn't have
needed background at that time. I've continued
eferred to the
GitHub ToC, which contained a bit about restricting accounts to those
over 13 years of age, and claiming this was due to US law (but not
specifying which law).
Richard
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On 05/10/2019 10:04 AM, An Liu wrote:
Multi-Boot allows Linux and *any other* OS to reside on the same medium.
sure, and what's next? i have 5 OS on my PC,
The order of installation is not quite the problem, as i USE UEFI
I said i was just talking about install media, not install target.
On 05/10/2019 09:34 AM, An Liu wrote:
Hi, Richard
Thank you for you information,
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s05.html.en
Chapter title: Before Installing Debian GNU/Linux
Section Title: Pre-Partitioning for Multi-Boot Systems
Still doesn't get you point.
Multi-Boot
On 05/10/2019 09:10 AM, An Liu wrote:
What worries me about this thread is that the OP (who doesn't seem to
know how the various parts of the d-i are meant to work together) has
I don't know what's d-i mean (short for ?)
just last week posted a recipe claiming to install Debian using only
On 05/10/2019 05:52 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 05:29:48AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 05/10/2019 03:48 AM, An Liu wrote:
Hi, List
Image the following case
What I Have.
a USB stick with
[...]
Missing background? Unstated goals?
I've got the feeling that I
On 05/10/2019 03:48 AM, An Liu wrote:
Hi, List
Image the following case
What I Have.
a USB stick with
1. a portable GRUB (either UEFI or legacy)
2. a install ISO, such as debian-9.9.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (mayb would e
a LiveCD make life easier?)
What we want.Have Debian installed (could assume
On 05/04/2019 10:08 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
Hi! All,
Want to create a simple, one liner to type in to automate what I've
been doing manually: [*SNIP*]
I think the critical question is,> *WHAT* do you wish to accomplish?
On 05/04/2019 02:39 PM, Terrill Wallace wrote:
I'm just gonna quit and give up
*NOT* only is that answer *WRONG*!!!
It is worst possible . !
There are MULTIPLE Debian solutions.
Some FOSS. Some not.
What do *YOU* require?
Other responses give hints.
THImK!
On 05/04/2019 01:44 PM, Terrill Wallace wrote:
Hello Debian,
I am trying to install Debian 9 on my desktop but within the install I
am not given a Wifi Option. Can you please help me with this issue?
Thank you,
These are my specs:
HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690-0010
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
On 05/04/2019 10:37 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-04 16:56:03)
This post was prompted by recent discussion of problems/cautions
concerning UEFI. All my machines boot in Legacy BIOS mode and I have
minimal background in UEFI.
A preliminary web search yielded
On 05/03/2019 11:50 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
Hello
I'm trying to use Stretch to write a .ISO image to a USB device. The
image is the Windows 10 installer ... which I downloaded from Microsoft, and
which they claim should be able to be written to a USB device. ...
What was the URL?
I've
This post was prompted by recent discussion of problems/cautions
concerning UEFI. All my machines boot in Legacy BIOS mode and I have
minimal background in UEFI.
A preliminary web search yielded:
http://x86asm.net/articles/introduction-to-uefi/
On 04/28/2019 02:31 PM, Brian wrote:
null set
Someday he may actually read posts with which he disagrees
What is sad is that he has, in past, demonstrated technical competency.
Therefor he has not been *PLONKED*
I will continue to read his responses.
It is unlikely that I will respond.
Will
On 04/28/2019 01:17 PM, deloptes wrote:
[*SNIP*]
I've read
[ URL deleted to focus on wider issue]
but i thinks there are more questions.
Short answer: MANY**MULTITUDINOUS ;/
Ask and you will be answered.
On debian-user ???
Perhaps consider subscribing the list that will deliver the
On 04/27/2019 02:45 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2019-04-27, Richard Owlett wrote:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3.7
python3.7 is available in testing.
Using Buster was my original idea but it's not ready in ways important
to me. I had been looking for Python3.7 in backports
On 04/26/2019 09:26 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
Richard Owlett writes:
I wish to try some beta software which assumes python3.7 is
installed. I have Debian 9.8 installed on a machine dedicated to this
exercise. I did a web search and got a half dozen on topic hits. There
were enough differences
On 04/26/2019 02:39 PM, deloptes wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
I wish to try some beta software which assumes python3.7 is installed. I
have Debian 9.8 installed on a machine dedicated to this exercise. I did
a web search and got a half dozen on topic hits. There were enough
differences that I
On 04/26/2019 02:25 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On 26/04/2019 18:42, Richard Owlett wrote:
I wish to try some beta software which assumes python3.7 is installed.
I have Debian 9.8 installed on a machine dedicated to this exercise. I
did a web search and got a half dozen on topic hits. There were
On 04/26/2019 02:32 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
On 4/26/19, Joe wrote:
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 12:42:04 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
I wish to try some beta software which assumes python3.7 is
installed. I have Debian 9.8 installed on a machine dedicated to this
exercise. I did a web search
I wish to try some beta software which assumes python3.7 is installed. I
have Debian 9.8 installed on a machine dedicated to this exercise. I did
a web search and got a half dozen on topic hits. There were enough
differences that I wasn't sure if I was missing something important. The
last
On 04/26/2019 04:24 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-04-24 19:36:29)
I'm attempting a very minimal install because:
1. small size in and of itself is a good goal
2. fending for oneself is a valuable educational experience compared
to having everything handed to you
On 04/25/2019 03:15 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2019-04-24, Mark Allums wrote:
I see the error message but do not know what to do.
Thanks for pointers.
Try rearranging your python(s) in your PATH. I.e., swap py2 with py3.
Or possibly your py3 version needs to be downgraded.
Something about your
On 04/24/2019 08:11 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:36:29 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm attempting a very minimal install because:
1. small size in and of itself is a good goal
2. fending for oneself is a valuable educational experience compared
to having everything
On 04/24/2019 03:42 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote:
On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 10:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I have repeatedly received the following error message:
E: galternatives: package is in a very bad inconsistent state;
you should reinstall it before attempting configuration
I don't recall
On 04/24/2019 02:31 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 04/24/2019 01:10 PM, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:36:29 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
[snip]
My base setup was installed by doing
apt-get --no-install-recommends install task-mate-desktop
apt-get install pluma gparted synaptic
All
On 04/24/2019 02:41 PM, mick crane wrote:
On 2019-04-24 18:36, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm attempting a very minimal install because:
1. small size in and of itself is a good goal
2. fending for oneself is a valuable educational experience compared
to having everything handed to you
On 04/24/2019 01:10 PM, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:36:29 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm attempting a very minimal install because:
1. small size in and of itself is a good goal
2. fending for oneself is a valuable educational experience compared
to having everything handed to you
ially sees it as a "disk" and then the
software handling general USB devices downloads "something" from the
device. After that it "just works" ;/
Check you
On 4/24/19 8:36 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm attempting a very minimal install because:
1. small size in
I'm attempting a very minimal install because:
1. small size in and of itself is a good goal
2. fending for oneself is a valuable educational experience compared
to having everything handed to you on a "golden platter" {Debian's
default installer}
My current experiments revolve around
I have repeatedly received the following error message:
E: galternatives: package is in a very bad inconsistent state;
you should reinstall it before attempting configuration
I don't recall what triggered it last week. Today I wanted to install
"apt-rdepends" which displayed the above error
On 18/04/19 5:36 AM, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 04:49:56 +1200
> Richard Hector wrote:
>
>> On 18/04/19 12:15 AM, Celejar wrote:
>>> Currently, my LAN is 192.168.0.0/24, which is also the addressing
>>> scheme of some of the networks out of my control t
etworks which clashed, and
neither of which I could renumber. In the end I gave up on IPv4, and all
my VPNs are now IPv6-only. It took some learning, but that was really an
added advantage.
Richard
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On 04/16/2019 12:36 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
On 4/16/19 10:32 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 06:27:34PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
There are 3 main ways to install packages, I have tried to explain this
in the presentation as
Apt - 1.8.0 - command line tool (universal)
ebian.org. Further
reading suggests maybe it can do other package types as well, but that's
not its core purpose?
Richard
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thought I've had in the past, but probably won't work in this
case (because one of the locations is on the same side of the router as
the other machines) is to give the laptop its own block (on the loopback
or maybe a dummy device), and adjust the routing tables (which the
wireguard server will probably do).
Richard
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On 04/15/2019 01:14 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
On 15.04.2019 18:09, Richard Owlett wrote:
Somehow I had messed up preferred application to open a file.
I fixed by selecting a file of appropriate type, selecting Properties,
and setting preferred application.
That solved almost all my
On 04/15/2019 09:15 AM, David Wright wrote:
[snip]
Using "dot -Tps dependency-graph.dot > owl.ps" I got a displayable,
if not readable, graph. There was a warning in what I had read about
"dotty" about viewablity issues if the graph was too complex. Suspect
that is problem.
Add -o
On 04/15/2019 03:39 AM, Peter Wiersig wrote:
Richard Owlett writes:
Long term goal: *personal* definition of a minimalist Debian
current goal: grok how packages interact
http://www.macfreek.nl/memory/Dependency_Graph_Debian_Packages
TLDR:
$ apt-cache dotty mate-desktop > depende
Somehow I had messed up preferred application to open a file.
I fixed by selecting a file of appropriate type, selecting Properties,
and setting preferred application.
That solved almost all my problems.
The only exception is when using Synaptic.
When I click on "Visit Homepage" it insists on
On 04/15/2019 02:12 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 08:38:48AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
In past conversations it has been suggested that I do a typical
install and just un-install the un-desired elements:
Start with what debootstrap [1] gives you and work up
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