ngs the hard way, but whatever. In any case that
Klipper box is not running Debian: your are on the wrong forum.
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to do the latter.
BTW my network experience goes back to bang paths. I'm currently using
both hosts files and DHCP.
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a dhcp
server somewhere on your network (on the router is conventional) and it
will give that machine an ip number.
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without actually
changing anything. It needn't be run as root.
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dhcpcd is a DHCP client with a remarkably poorly chosen name.
DHCPCD(8)System Manager’s Manual DHCPCD(8)
NAME
dhcpcd — a DHCP client
dhcpd is a DHCP server.
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do you want to
do that?
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anything when you add a machine.
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Install chrony. But first fix that address.
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On 11/28/23 22:51, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Lets keep the possibility of being able to send constructive e-mails
through mailing lists so we can avoid having to move to a forum based
set up.
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Removing the Gnome desktop will not break anything. There are several
"desktops" in Debian: Gnome is merely the default that you get when you
indicate that you want one but don't say which. There is in fact no
requirement for a "desktop" at all.
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eavesdropping.
If you pay a VPN provider, you need to trust that provider for it to be
worth paying.
In other words, the VPN provider can still look at what you are doing as
they are providing the service.
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https://webkitgtk.org/
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-/var/log/mail.log
user.* -/var/log/user.log
#
# Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
#
*.emerg :omusrmsg:*
On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:17:55 -0500,
Marco Moock wrote:
>
> Am 21.11.2023 um 05:15:24 Uhr schrieb John Covici:
>
> &
:35 -0500,
Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:
>
> [1 ]
> Am Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 05:01:50PM -0500 schrieb John Covici:
> > Hi. I am using bookworm with latest updates and /var/log/syslog is
> > empty, even though rsyslog is runniing. I am also using logwatch and
> > not gettin
thread, but it does not seem to apply
to my situation.
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How do
you spend it?
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cov...@ccs.covici.com
pa...@quillandmouse.com writes:
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:48:14 -0600
> John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Why does "accepted/popular" matter?
>
> Not a great choice of words, perhaps. I was thinking in terms of those
> password managers which are written by o
Much about Debian *doesn't* change. A book about it with
Bookworm/Trixie as an example and including a discussion of how it does
change could be quite useful. It could be updated every few years.
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
technical problem.
I think that to most people their "devices" (cellphone, desktop,
whatever) are appliances. They have no more interest in learning about
the internals of those than in the internals of their washing machines.
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Why does "accepted/popular" matter?
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
John Darrah writes:
> On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> > Folks:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of
> > user-defined information for each login, and not store that
> > information
>
)?
>
Take a look at 'secrets' which is a Gnome native app. It uses a
database and key file compatible with Password Safe.
-- john
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> IT'S A CONSPIRACY! UNICORNS AREN'T REAL!!!
Of course they are real. It's virgins (the only people who can see
them) that don't exist.
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Dan Ritter wrote:
> No, we're just riffing about the lack of a fantastical magical
> world in which everything works consistently.
Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Ah.. that world is called DOS.
Well, a resident monitor is a lot easier to make consistent than an
operating system.
--
John
I wrote:
> On System III directories were files.
Nicolas George writes:
> On Linux, directories are files.
Try to edit one.
On System III the same system calls operated on files and directories.
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Paul Duncan writes:
> Yes, but we (on Linux and I *think* on good old System V and BSD 4.3)
> have mkfile and mkdir - so surely that means that everything (stored
> on a bit of rotating rust) is *not* a file :-)
On System III directories were files.
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John Hasler
j...@sugarbit.com
El
Greg writes:
> The use of "directory" in the Unix sense predates graphical UI
> development.
> ...
> ...
The whole point of the desktop metaphor was to hide all of that from the
user. I'm not defending it: just describing a bit of its history.
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Elmwood, WI USA
w you squint).
On System III there was no restriction on hard links: you could create
an an arbitrarily complex cyclic graph.
Fortunately, I backed up the system before experimenting with this.
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
the early years weren't thinking about personal computers. They were
working on office automation.
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Hi. So, I am trying to upgrade a server I have in the cloud from
bullseye to bookworm and it fails with the following message:
Setting up libgcc-s1:amd64 (12.2.0-14) ...
Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.36-9+deb12u3) ...
/usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1:
cannot open
op which might
have actual file folders on it. Every icon was supposed to be an image
of a familiar office object. In that context a directory is a phone
book.
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
;desktop metaphor". The idea was to hide scary
technical jargon behind familiar office jargon.
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Gene writes:
> That is informative, thanks Felix, but what is wrong with publishing
> the correct address?
Correct address for what? You don't want bugzilla.org: that's the home
page for the Bugzilla bug tracking program which whoever you are trying
to contact uses.
--
John Has
Gene writes:
> But bugzilla knows me by name and I am not me when coming from a new
> ISP.
So use a different name.
> Mail sent to ad...@bugzilla.com bounces.
bugzilla.com is a site about customized Volkswagen beetles.
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
rs.
I believe you can adjust memory usage in about:config in Firefox.
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
I wrote:
> Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all?
Gene writes:
> Std image dd'd to u-sd card install on the arm64 stuff, can't get away
> from it.
Why won't "sudo apt remove --purge network-manager" work for you?
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all?
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Gene writes:
> possibly, its a Buffalo Netfinity with a now elderly dd-wrt reflash,
> and whose pw I've long since forgot, and its 30 chars of random
> gibberish IIRC.
Write the password on the router. Write all your passwords down.
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
David Wright writes:
> I'm just wondering where this file /etc/domainname came from in the
> first place. I can't find it with apt-file (killing two birds):
Gene created it, having been confused by the hostname man page.
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Gene writes:
> s/t be an xsensors.conf to edit?
/etc/sensors3.conf is it.
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Elmwood, WI USA
Install xsensors and read the man page. You may need to run
sensors-detect and perhaps edit /etc/sensors3.conf.
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does have
/etc/init.d/hostname.sh. However, a recently installed Bookworm does
not.
> Whatever's reading /etc/hostname comes from another location.
systemd-hostnamed
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Elmwood, WI USA
The NIS stuff should be evicted from the hostname man page.
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Erwan writes:
> Here are the first lines of 'man domainname" :
That doesn't help very much with no hint as to what NIS is and that it
isn't relevant to DNS.
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Gene writes:
> Define NIS please.
Network Information Service. You've never heard of it because it's
obsolete. You should ignore it.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service>
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On 10/26/23 15:47, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Because shellworld is theonly such door I know of, I need a completely
objective sftp location for testing, username and password.
Googling around would lead you to something like [1].
[1] https://www.sftp.net/public-online-sftp-servers
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stands for "Address and Routing
Parameter Area” <https://www.iana.org/domains/arpa>.
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
atically truncated to zero bytes, every few days.
Does anyone know if there are any recent changes to gcc/libraries for
fork(2) and/or system(3)?
Be safe,
John
--
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ased of what
> YOU know works. Makes one wonder about the motives.
I use host files and I don't have that problem.
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
I wrote:
> It's for people who haven't a clue as to what a domainname or address
> block is.
Gene writes:
> If that is an insult, so be it.
I just meant to explain that though it is not a solution to your problem,
it is a solution to a problem some other people have.
--
John
f.org/doc/html/rfc7788
--
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On 10/6/23 13:26, Nicolas George wrote:
john doe (12023-10-06):
I do not understand why you would want multiple repos, to me this looks
like this would fit the bill for a Git branching workflow.
Please elaborate. How do you work around the fact that Git is terrible
at removing data
parameters can be tweaked.
So, does anybody know of existing packages in Debian that could make my
work easier?
Thanks in advance.
I do not understand why you would want multiple repos, to me this looks
like this would fit the bill for a Git branching workflow.
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ist of
packages none of which I have installed.
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${db:Status-Abbrev} ${Package}\n' outputs a few lines
that don't start with "ii" like all the installed packages. I guess they need
to be filtered out?
--
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Add a CNAME record to your DNS.
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j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On 26/09/2023 12:06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:52:09AM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
On 25/09/2023 20:21, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Given the presence of an /etc/sudoers.dpkg-dist file on my system,
which does in fact contain this:
# This fixes CVE-2005-4890 and possibly breaks
ot;$temp")
:~$ echo "$errors"
E: Unable to locate package nopkg
:~$ rm "$temp"
It would be nice to unpick the rest of the mystery though...
(Also, if some day bash had a way of making a variable look like a file for
writing.)
--
John
Many thanks to Michael for finding the change in sudo behaviour!
For historical accuracy:
On 25/09/2023 20:24, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 01:35:38PM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
4) In a bash shell as root (e.g. "su" or "sudo -s"), do:
errors=$(apt-get
On 25/09/2023 12:42, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 11:58:13AM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
adduser tmp
adduser tmp sudo
Log in to tmp (no graphical session set up), and the results are the same:
behaviour in a bash shell is wrong, everything else works.
I simply can't reproduce
On 25/09/2023 11:58, John Crawley wrote:
So the 32bit system is different??
Doesn't semm to be that.
amd64 Bookworm VM behaves the same way.
--
John
Thanks for the ideas!
On 25/09/2023 09:36, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 09:10:28AM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
I just tried, and yes it runs OK when the commands are in a script.
But type directly into the terminal:
errors=$(sudo apt-get install mirage 2>&1 1>/dev/tt
put: $errors"
[...]
It waits until I type 'n'
Same here.
Thanks for testing.
I just tried, and yes it runs OK when the commands are in a script.
But type directly into the terminal:
errors=$(sudo apt-get install mirage 2>&1 1>/dev/tty)
To see the immediate abort.
(But not on Debian 11, or after invoking 'sh'.)
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exec 3>&-
say 'Installation finished sucessfully.' 1
return 0
else
exec 3>&-
errorExit "There were problems installing ${*}" "${apt_error:-Install
Aborted}"
return 1
fi
}
--
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fine before)
debian trixie.
error message says
qemuBlockStorageSourceGetBlockdevFormatProps:1227 : internal error:
mishandled storage format 'none'
You might want to post this as well to the Libvirt mailing list.
--
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t all.
Reinstall it from scratch without a DE! ;^)
You could use 'tasksel' and/or 'apt-get --autoremove purge '.
HTH.
--
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Jason writes:
> Or how does your backup look like?
Just rsync.
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> I would use the emacsclient command in the terminal. `emacsclient -c
> -a ""` somehow does the work, but it occupies the terminal until the
> new emacsclient frame is killed,
Try
emacsclient -c -a "" &
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-manager when desired.
Your mileage may very!
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]'
>
Generaly, the '.git' extension symbolises a bare repository!
--
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!!! ;^)
I would strongly suggest you to reconsider your approach and to spend
more time getting a correct set up instead of going with what you know!!! :)
If lack of time is a constrain for you, please say so and we will not
spend time trying to make you go in an other direction.
--
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Christoph writes:
> I have almost the same setup and use local git repositories. Instead
> of syncing them by the git tools I use rsync to update the backup from
> time to time. This is a dumb method but it works.
This is what I do as well.
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by pushes and never by pulling!
So my suggestion in your case would be:
- One repo to work in and to push to upstream
- One upstream bare repo
If you want a working repo on the same box as the bare repo is located,
use the file protocol to pull using a cron job for automation!
HTH.
--
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Gene writes:
> And that order of arguments is not mentioned in the bash scripting
> manual
It isn't an argument. It's an instruction to the shell. See the
REDIRECTION section of the bash man page.
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it.
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expected to use instead? (I assume that I *could* install
cron, but there must be a reason it's not installed by default anymore,
right?)
I just install a new Bookworm VM and 'cron' is present! :)
--
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On 7/31/23 20:47, Tom Browder wrote:
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 13:28 john doe wrote:
On 7/31/23 19:23, Tom Browder wrote:
...
Any recommenndations from fellow Debian folks?
I have two APC and I'm pretty happy with those.
Would you mind saying the model numbers? Do they have
requirements?
I'll also assume that you are posting in here as you want something that
is Debian compatible! ;^)
--
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Source Code writes:
> So sorry everyone if my questions have distracted you in any way.
Apology accepted.
> I will try to figure with my problems out myself in future.
It's ok to ask for help again. Just respond politely when people try to
answer your questions.
--
John Has
hmm, I thought I had this correct, but I will recheck and try again.
Thanks for the hint.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 09:35:44 -0400,
Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 09:27:18AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > i915 :00:02.0: Direct firmware load for i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bi
is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici wb2una
cov...@ccs.covici.com
n Bookworm.
--
John Doe
3: CHAIN_DEL f>
Can you manually force delete a chain?
I would also post to Firewalld mailing list as to me it looks like it is
a Firewalld issue and not a Debian one!
--
John Doe
it CPU wit 8
> bit buses.
That processor was targeted at embedded systems and it made sense in
some applications. I don't understand why anyone would put it in a
desktop.
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Elmwood, WI USA
actual messages
> you see, what exactly you did, how you did it and what result you
> got when you did.
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
> --
> https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
>
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 03:26:12 -0400,
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>
> [1 ]
> On 06.07.2023 03:09, John Covici wrote:
> > On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:47:39 -0400,
> > Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> >> ...
> >> It's also a mystery why OP is trying to install &q
On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 03:26:12 -0400,
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>
> [1 ]
> On 06.07.2023 03:09, John Covici wrote:
> > On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:47:39 -0400,
> > Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> >> ...
> >> It's also a mystery why OP is trying to install &q
Socket
=
/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Option = 3
and here is my odbcinst.ini
[MySQL]
Description = ODBC for MySQL (MariaDB)
Driver =
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gn
dbc:amd64 package post-installation script subprocess
> returned error exit status 1
>
And that was my original error before putting in the proposed-updates
stanzas.
How to fix that error is my main question.
--
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How do
you spend it?
John Covici wb2una
cov...@ccs.covici.com
On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:07:27 -0400,
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>
> [1 ]
> On 05.07.2023 23:23, John Covici wrote:
> > On Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:16:33 -0400,
> > Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> >> [1 ]
> >> On 30.06.2023 03:11, John Covici wrote:
> &g
On Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:16:33 -0400,
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>
> [1 ]
> On 30.06.2023 03:11, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi. I am trying to install odcb-mariadb in bookworm. It was fine in
> > bullseye, but in bookworm I get the following error:
> > Unpacking o
would go the
easy way out and simply look up the e-mails on the working set up!
Looks like you have a unstable remote connection, troubleshooting that
kind of issues takes time! :)
--
John Doe
OK, thanks very much.
On Sat, 01 Jul 2023 10:48:10 -0400,
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>
> [1 ]
> On 01.07.2023 18:44, John Covici wrote:
> > OK, thanks much --what do I add to my sources list for the proposed
> > updates? Do I need all the lines ending with main free
OK, thanks much --what do I add to my sources list for the proposed
updates? Do I need all the lines ending with main free etc. or just
one line?
On Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:16:33 -0400,
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>
> [1 ]
> On 30.06.2023 03:11, John Covici wrote:
> > H
On 6/30/23 00:11, John Covici wrote:
Hi. I am trying to install odcb-mariadb in bookworm. It was fine in
bullseye, but in bookworm I get the following error:
Unpacking odbc-mariadb (3.1.15-3) over (3.1.15-3) ...
Setting up odbc-mariadb (3.1.15-3) ...
odbcinst: SQLInstallDriverEx failed
: error processing package odbc-mariadb (--configure):
How to fix?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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How do
you spend it?
John Covici wb2una
cov...@ccs.covici.com
.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:18:45 -0400,
Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 07:15:05PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > OK, so I installed the repo, and got php7.4, but there are still lots
> > of php82 packages installed. Do I have to install php7.4 equivalents
> &g
kages or you can use https://deb.sury.org/
>
> On 28.06.23 10:46, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi. So, I want to upgrade to bookworm, but I have an application
> > which needs php 7.4 and I guess they are not yet ready to fix. So,
> > how can I keep that version, even if it
Hello,
>
> you can hold the packages or you can use https://deb.sury.org/
>
> On 28.06.23 10:46, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi. So, I want to upgrade to bookworm, but I have an application
> > which needs php 7.4 and I guess they are not yet ready to fix. So,
> > how can I
On 28.06.23 10:46, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi. So, I want to upgrade to bookworm, but I have an application
> > which needs php 7.4 and I guess they are not yet ready to fix. So,
> > how can I keep that version, even if its just for that app?
> >
> > Thanks in adv
Thanks everyone. I will do the upgrade and see if it retains php 7.4.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:01:51 -0400,
Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 04:46:24AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi. So, I want to upgrade to bookworm, but I have an application
> > which n
it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici wb2una
cov...@ccs.covici.com
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