Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 9/23/21 22:48, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > as for ia64 the news tell there is no kernel maintainer anymore and the > architecture is marked as orphaned, so removal might be coming soon. Architectures have been in the kernel without a maintainer before, so it's not really news. arch/sh was

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread Connor McLaughlan
Hi Adrian, as for ia64 the news tell there is no kernel maintainer anymore and the architecture is marked as orphaned, so removal might be coming soon. But you would know first of course, as your name is mentioned in the same news about it :)

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Connor! On 9/23/21 22:16, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > Unfortunately not all software in the repos and on snapshot are available > or give a bus errors and won't work. > For example all kde related stuff is not installable due to conflicts and > missing packages. It is possible to fix these

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread Connor McLaughlan
@Iggi: You have several options which all require a lot of work. Do as Adrian tells and manually collect needed packages from snapshot.debian.org This way you can get for example an old firefox (50) and an old version of Libreoffice installed and working. Unfortunately not all software in the

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Iggi! On 9/23/21 15:46, James Bond wrote: > ok, works till you select a "non default" option in "Select and Install > software". I selected "Debian desktop environment" it fails. Well after > finishing the installation manually I also tried mplayer etc and it looks > like the binary files

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread James Bond
Hi Adrian, ok, works till you select a "non default" option in "Select and Install software". I selected "Debian desktop environment" it fails. Well after finishing the installation manually I also tried mplayer etc and it looks like the binary files are not available to apt-get. Debian could

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread James Bond
Hi Adrian, thanks a lot will instantly give it a try on the Ultra 10. Cheers Iggi Am 23.09.21, 11:25 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" : Hi! I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation images. These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes

Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation images. These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes the APT problem that occurred during installation with the 2021-09-21 images. I have performed a successful test installation on sparc64 and will perform a