On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 12:17:27PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:48:06 +0000 > "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amaca...@einval.com> wrote: > > > Mixing .deb packages from multiple Debian/Debian-derived > > distributions is normally a very bad idea - > > https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian > > In general I agree with this. However, this is what the signal folks > tell Debian users to do. So if they answer Steve at all, that is likely > what they will tell him to do. >
Hi Charles, Thanks for stepping in with concrete help - it's good that we had someone else running Signal to help. I think the point I wanted to make is that we _can't_ be expected to help out on all third party .debs, especially when that .deb is compiled against an obsolescent version of Ubuntu. Likewise "I'm running Linux Mint / TDE and I can't find support in their channel - please help" A large chunk of the mails here are sorting out: "I don't know how to edit an /etc/apt/sources.list" or "I added some app from some site and it all broke" or "I mixed Ubuntu and Debian and now I don't know what I have" Those are almost as popular as the favourite: "I did something, then I did something else then X happened so I did Y and now it's not working but I've no idea how I got here" which is a well known thread starter here. With every good wish, as ever, Andy Cater
