Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

On 3/22/19 4:22 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:52 PM deb > wrote: They won't all be admins, but the top tech folks will be. (But, those are likely the ones who will cause the most trouble). Do you know how to "disable" select a

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

On 3/22/19 7:43 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:44:15AM -0400, deb wrote: Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL? If in your /etc/apt/sources.list you stick to one distribution

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

Hello, On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:44:15AM -0400, deb wrote: > Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro > or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL? If in your /etc/apt/sources.list you stick to one distribution and don't include "contrib" and "non-f

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:52 PM deb wrote: > > They won't all be admins, but the top tech folks will be. > (But, those are likely the ones who will cause the most trouble). > Do you know how to "disable" select administrative commands using /etc/sudoers? It can be useful in these situations. You

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

On 3/22/19 3:14 PM, bw wrote: in-reply-to= Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL? Well... that's a deep subject. You mention three different categories of pkgs, but I think many people would say the

Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

in-reply-to= >Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / >out-of-stable-distro or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, >PRE-INSTALL? Well... that's a deep subject. You mention three different categories of pkgs, but I think many people would say there are only two main catego

Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

Hello folks: Again, for someone trying to pull Windows (and Mac) users into Linux ... Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL? A portion of the users are going to have the ability to sudo apt-get ins