Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 sep 20, 09:32:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > When removing them you might need to add > > -o APT::Autoremove::SuggestsImportant=no > > and even > > -o APT::Autoremove::RecommendsImportant=no Err, these won't do much on removing the package, they work only in combination

Re: how to remove GUI

2020-09-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 sep 20, 23:33:21, Michael Morgan wrote: > > So it seems the desktop package was removed. But why it still has GUI? As you found out, removing collections of packages is more difficult than installing them. Try running this: apt -o APT::Autoremove::SuggestsImportant=no autoremove

Can one install packages from Parrot or Kali on Debian testing? (Was: Re: Hi :))

2020-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richard, Your question is one of user support but you've sent it to the debian-project list, which is about the Debian project itself and not for asking user questions. So, I have directed replies to the correct place which is debian-user. On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 04:14:35PM -0400, richard loom

how to remove GUI

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Morgan
Dear friend, I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it for scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reason, I installed the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during installation. Later I decided to remove them. These two commands were executed

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-10 20:03, David wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 08:30, David Christensen... wrote: On 2020-09-10 09:44, David Wright wrote: I don't like parted particularly, and don't know what "free" does. Can you elucidate? $ man parted | grep -i free $ info --output=/dev/stdout --subnodes par

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-10 Thread David
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 09:15, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-09 23:02, David wrote: > > parted /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3300622AS_ 'unit compact print > > free unit s print free unit b print free' > That parted(8) incantation has issues It works for me, but then again my disks are n

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-10 Thread David
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 08:30, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-10 09:44, David Wright wrote: > > I don't like parted particularly, and don't know what "free" does. > > Can you elucidate? > > $ man parted | grep -i free > > $ info --output=/dev/stdout --subnodes parted | grep -i free > I al

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread David
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 22:40, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/10/2020 01:11 AM, David wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 15:50, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> The manpage > >> [https://manpages.debian.org/buster/aptitude/aptitude.8.en.html] makes > >> multiple references to "the aptitude reference manu

Re: Re: OT?: FAT32(/16?) Question: Max. files in top level

2020-09-10 Thread M Edwards
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parted(8) Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.

2020-09-10 Thread David Christensen
271sFree Space Use sfdisk(8) to dump the disk layout: 2020-09-10 14:16:31 root@tinkywinky ~/hardware/seagate/ST3300622AS/ # sfdisk --dump /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3300622AS_ > sfdisk-20200910-1417.dump The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that w

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-09 23:02, David wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:26, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-09 08:03, David Wright wrote: ... having been bitten by https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923561 I have a 300 GB drive that has been causing me some confusion. Did I elicit

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-10 09:44, David Wright wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 16:02:59 (+1000), David wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:26, David Christensen wrote: ,,, I'm not sure what to ask for in terms of the encryption: See cryptsetup(8) with the 'isLuks' action and/or the '-v' option. For exampl

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-09 14:27, Richard Owlett wrote: My proposed alternative is to leave unchecked all options on the "Software Selection" menu[1] and create appropriate pseudo-packages to be installed with "apt-get --no-install-recommends" I suppose if you were *that* concerned you could install a basi

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:44:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 14:15:49 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: People are overthinking this. If you want more control, just skip the software selection screen altogether. If you're going to nit-pick over what gets installed when using it, you ar

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 19:34:24 (+0200), Marco Möller wrote: > On 10.09.20 18:43, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 08:24:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 09/10/2020 02:28 AM, Marco Möller wrote: […] > > > > You should remind, that if in the tasksel menu deselecting all > > > >

Why is my account is been bugs

2020-09-10 Thread Lowles
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Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 14:15:49 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:34:24PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > I agree with Richard's criticism and would suggest to not present that > > first line "Debian desktop environment" at all, because it is redundant > > with the second line

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:34:24PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: I agree with Richard's criticism and would suggest to not present that first line "Debian desktop environment" at all, because it is redundant with the second line "... GNOME". If someone deselects the second line because no wanting

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/10/2020 12:34 PM, Marco Möller wrote: I agree with Richard's criticism and would suggest to not present that first line "Debian desktop environment" at all, because it is redundant with the second line "... GNOME". If someone deselects the second line because no wanting GNOME, but does

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Marco Möller
On 10.09.20 18:43, David Wright wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 08:24:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/10/2020 02:28 AM, Marco Möller wrote: On 10.09.20 08:13, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/09/2020 12:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Sep 2020 at 19:56:05 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 09

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 08:24:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/10/2020 02:28 AM, Marco Möller wrote: > > On 10.09.20 08:13, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 09/09/2020 12:12 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > On Wed 09 Sep 2020 at 19:56:05 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Mi, 09 sep 20, 08:27:1

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 16:02:59 (+1000), David wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:26, David Christensen > wrote: > > On 2020-09-09 08:03, David Wright wrote: > > > > ... having been bitten by > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923561 > > > I have a 300 GB drive that has been

Re: OT: Virtualbox - ISO or VDI?

2020-09-10 Thread Linux-Fan
Hans writes: Hi folks, I have a little question, which I could not solve by searching the internet. My OT question: What are the advantages or disadvantages of using a VDI versus ISO file, when using Virtualbox? I am building my own ISO-files (kali or debian-live), and the iso's are bootable i

Re: OT: Virtualbox - ISO or VDI?

2020-09-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 05:26:55PM +0200, Hans wrote: > My OT question: What are the advantages or disadvantages of using a VDI > versus > ISO file, when using Virtualbox? I am building my own ISO-files (kali or > debian-live), and the iso's are bootable in Virtualbox. In this con

OT: Virtualbox - ISO or VDI?

2020-09-10 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I have a little question, which I could not solve by searching the internet. My OT question: What are the advantages or disadvantages of using a VDI versus ISO file, when using Virtualbox? I am building my own ISO-files (kali or debian-live), and the iso's are bootable in Virtualbox.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 sep 20, 07:40:19, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I had searched for something titled "aptitude reference manual" ;/ > I found [https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/index.en.html] which > appears to be an HTML version of the "readme". > > I find HTML easier to navigate than text files

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/10/2020 02:28 AM, Marco Möller wrote: On 10.09.20 08:13, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/09/2020 12:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Sep 2020 at 19:56:05 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 09 sep 20, 08:27:13, Richard Owlett wrote:    1. Download bandwidth or data cap constraints.   {ag

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:15:56PM +, Long Wind wrote: 3rd installation failure is probably not caused by problem disk but 1st and 2nd installation failure is Almost certainly not. Turning off *is not* a symptom of a bad disk. You have at least a cooling issue, and who knows what other pr

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:36:21PM +, Long Wind wrote: i've been warned "Core temperature above threshold" for a long time i just ignore it. probably it isn't cause of shutdown if it is, it can warn explicitly in /var/log that it will shutdown surely it can beep before shutdown, but i didn'

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/10/2020 01:11 AM, David wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 15:50, Richard Owlett wrote: The manpage [https://manpages.debian.org/buster/aptitude/aptitude.8.en.html] makes multiple references to "the aptitude reference manual" but gives no link. Where do I find it? Under the Help menu whe

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Long Wind
i've been warned  "Core temperature above threshold" for a long timei just ignore it.  probably it isn't cause of shutdownif it is, it can warn explicitly in /var/log that it will shutdownsurely it can beep before shutdown, but i didn't hear any beep it shutdown unexpectedly, it means answer c

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Long Wind
On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 8:03:16 AM EDT, Michael Stone wrote: there was never anything reported that sounded remotely like a hard disk problem. 3rd installation failure is probably not caused by  problem diskbut 1st and 2nd installation failure is the pc is stable, it can

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:03:22PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: After you recently already have had difficult to explain problems with a hard disk, there was never anything reported that sounded remotely like a hard disk problem.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/09/20 6:11 pm, David wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 15:50, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> The manpage >> [https://manpages.debian.org/buster/aptitude/aptitude.8.en.html] makes >> multiple references to "the aptitude reference manual" but gives no link. > >> Where do I find it? > > Under the

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Marco Möller
On 10.09.20 11:16, Long Wind wrote: On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 1:22:36 AM EDT, Felix Miata wrote: Have you cleaned the inside of the PC? Is dust clogging cooling fins or fans or case vents? Are fans spinning? PSUs can overheat and cause breakdown as well. i don't have such skill

Re: Create 3D text?

2020-09-10 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 10/09/2020 02:53, Carl Fink wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone suggest a Debian repo-installable program to create 3D text? > I'll do CAD if I must, but I haven't touched the stuff for years (and I > was never very knowledgeable or skilled). > > Thanks. > GIMP ? A quick search for "3D text + Linux"

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Long Wind
On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 1:22:36 AM EDT, Felix Miata wrote: Have you cleaned the inside of the PC? Is dust clogging cooling fins or fans or case vents? Are fans spinning? PSUs can overheat and cause breakdown as well. i don't have such skill as pc maintenance. i have removed hea

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Marco Möller
On 10.09.20 08:13, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/09/2020 12:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Sep 2020 at 19:56:05 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 09 sep 20, 08:27:13, Richard Owlett wrote:    1. Download bandwidth or data cap constraints.   {aggravated by treating "recommends" as "depends