Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

Upgrading your OS could result in the indexed search database to become rebuild, and this can take a very(!) long time and meanwhile painfully rendering your system almost unresponsive until the database is fully recreated. I am speaking about days, on old hardware. I have had this, and

Re: New RAM, does Debian has a tool to benchmark?

On 10.04.20 08:26, dalios wrote: (...) CPU Cache: 3 MB (...) Working with much older hardware than you and using Debian as a Desktop with GUI (KDE) and not as a Server, I found the CPU Cache to be the most important piece of hardware letting you "feel" your desktop "responding" slow or

Re: paquetes retenidos

On 15.04.20 14:23, diego leon giraldo garcia wrote: buenos días lista. pregunto porque en Debian 10 luego de ejecutar apt update aparecen dos paquetes para actualizar, ejecuto apt upgrade y dice paquetes retenidos (dos) . trato de instalar paquete por paquete con install pero sigue los

Re: paquetes retenidos

On 15.04.20 15:34, diego leon giraldo garcia wrote: con dist-upgrade tendría una nueva versión del sistema Simplemente recibirías el upgrade de 10 o de 10.1 o de 10.2, depende de lo que por el momento tienes, al más actual 10.3, de todas formas te quedarías en la rama del Debian "Buster"

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

Once you have your list of packages in a text file, for each package one line, you could apply the list like this: apt install $(< mylist.txt) Consider to first do a simulation run for finding problems in the list: -s Consider to use the following flag in order to not draw in a maybe

KDE System Settings "Default Applications" not working as expected

(it's quiet on the KDE list, so trying it here now) The KDE System Settings "Default Applications" is not working as expected. System Settings - Personalization - Applications - Default Applications I am on Debian testing ("bullseye"), all up-to-date Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux KDE

Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

I am not sure if this has anything to do with your problem, but maybe check also for this: Using KDE Plasma and knowing that PulseAudio is in use, I am observing since roughly 3 months now that for unknown reason Firefox started to kind of randomly appear configured with the application

Re: Package integration date into repository

On 25.04.20 22:53, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: is there a CLI command to get the date from which a specific package is available through my configured repositories please? Or am I expected to directly check dates in "versioned links > changelog" at  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/

Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working [SOLVED]

I created a new profile only once. I then copied the old directories and their contents (recursive) to the new profile, *not* the files (approx. 64) in the profile's root directory. Then I followed https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile to get most of

Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

I copied recursive all directories I had to reinstall the extensions, they were still listed under Extensions, but not working and the icons were gone I am glad that you have solved you problem! For understanding: (1) So, for testing purpose you simply copied ALL the content of the old

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

On 23.04.20 21:24, deloptes wrote: (...) While there are good articles on the debian wiki, there are also bad once and if you are not familiar with linux and debian, you never know what you are dealing with. There are also many not well maintained or outdated (and don't ask for examples please).

Re: mount an external usb hdd and share it through samba

On 06.05.20 08:35, Michael Morgan wrote: Dear all, I have an external usb hdd. I would like to automount it on boot and share it through samba. 1) So I put it in the fstab. It automounts correctly on boot, no problem: UUID=XXX /usb-hdd ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0 2) I then share

Re: Usuario root bloqueado

On 18.05.20 00:54, José Manuel (Abogado) wrote: Hola Tengo Debian 10. No se lo que paso pero llevo varios días sin poder actual como root. Arranco el sistema bien y entro pongo usuario normal y contraseña. Ya dentro puedo hacer todo lo que puede hacer un usuario normal sin problemas. Pero

Re: Usuario root bloqueado

> Yo prefiero usar los manuales y guías específicos para Debian, pero > bueno, que el procedimiento suele ser similar y es sencillo: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Root > If you forgot your root password, you first need to reset the password, > then log as root (now accessible without password) and

Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

On 14.05.20 13:09, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Concerning the Cherrytree and python-chardet problem my plan is to even more trust in 'hope' that cherrytree will after years soon find its way back into the currently updating Debian repositories. :-( Debian intends to remove Python 2 as soon as

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

On 14.05.20 18:22, Richard Hector wrote: Really handy for upgrading the BIOS/whatever when the only alternative is a Windows executable. Unfortunately I'm not good at making notes, so I have to figure out how that works each time I try :-) I am searching for this! I have the BIOSupgrade.exe

Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

On 14.05.20 08:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 13 mai 20, 17:40:45, Marco Möller wrote: Unfortunately I now see that there are already many packages from /sid residing in my supposed to be /testing installation. FrankenDebian detected. This might happen if the package has the same version

Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

On 13.05.20 16:23, Marco Möller wrote: As package python3-chardet defines to break package python-chardet, I cannot upgrade python3-chardet because I am still very satisfied using software "cherrytree" which depends on python-chardet. My finding is, that I would have to remove pyth

package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

As package python3-chardet defines to break package python-chardet, I cannot upgrade python3-chardet because I am still very satisfied using software "cherrytree" which depends on python-chardet. My finding is, that I would have to remove python-chardet, which subsequently would also remove

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

On 12.05.20 07:25, Keifer Bly wrote: Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a package that needs to be restarted is upgraded? Thx. Restarting might not be needed at all if applying some "live patching" mechanism. It might not be helpful for you, but I thought to mention

Re: no upgrade of libkpmcore8 to libkpmcore9

From apt's perspective they are different packages -- each with its own version. "Upgrade" (see apt's man page) *promises* *never* to remove a package. It would have to remove libkpmcore8 to install libkpmcore9. I understand. I will try to contact the package maintainers and ask them if they

no upgrade of libkpmcore8 to libkpmcore9

The dependency libkpmcore9 cannot be upgraded from libkpmcore8, therefore the package partitionmanager is hold back from upgrades. What exactly causes "apt upgrade" to not be able to upgrade to libkpmcore9 from libkpmcore8? Below I will show what I figured out so far. Is there some more detail

Re: non function firefox

But it appears to have 20 or more all named by a hash generator. And for the most part, all identical to the newly generated one. Sounds as if you already created many new profiles. Use one of the newly created ones to do your desired shopping activity. Test all profiles to find out which is

Re: non function firefox

> The -p option wiped out my history replacing it with links to fb etc, Are you sure that it didn't simply create a new profile, and what you now see is this new, fresh, empty, profile? The new profile is supposed to be empty, this is why you created it. Most likely the newly created

introducing myself, I am new to the Debian lists

Hello! I am Marco, new to the Debian lists, and thought to quickly introduce myself before joining conversations or asking questions. I have several years of experience as a desktop user, always using Debian or once for some year a very close derivative of it called Sparky Linux. After having

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

If the newer version (currently v9.50 in bullseye (testing)) would solve the problem, then you may want to ask if someone could place this newer version from bullseye into the buster-backports repository. Afterwards you could install the backported version 9.50 from there without hassle. This

Re: Usuario root bloqueado

On 19.05.20 18:36, José Manuel (Abogado) wrote: El 19/5/20 a las 16:32, Camaleón escribió: El 2020-05-19 a las 16:21 +0100, José Manuel (Abogado) escribió: El 18/5/20 a las 18:07, Marco Möller escribió: (...) Podrías hacer el boot a una consola y pedir a ignorar el mecanismo de seguridad

Re: APT::Install-Recommends "0";

On 22.05.20 07:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 21 mai 20, 19:46:44, Marco Möller wrote: (1) I understood that setting the following parameter in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/myconfig will have the same effect as manually using the flag --no-install-recommends as in apt install --no-install

APT::Install-Recommends "0";

(1) I understood that setting the following parameter in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/myconfig will have the same effect as manually using the flag --no-install-recommends as in apt install --no-install-recommends somepackage . APT::Install-Recommends "0"; But how is this parameter respected if

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

On 30.08.20 00:01, Long Wind wrote: (...) [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=8M status=progress (...) 14386462720 bytes (14 GB, 13 GiB) copied, 151.001 s, 95.3 MB/s dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device 1719+0

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

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

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

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: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

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

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

On 29.08.20 10:18, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 29.08.2020 07:59, Long Wind wrote: installation of linux to sdb1 fails i believe hard disk has bad sector If hard drive has bad sectors or recently encountered them, information about this should be noted to hard drive's SMART table.

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

On 29.08.20 14:20, Long Wind wrote: it pass write test!  i really don't know where installation go wrong. After the disk itself seems to not cause the problem, at least not because of bad blocks, confirm that the data highways on your motherboard and any involved data caches are all still

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

On 30.08.20 03:03, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2020 20:39:29 Marco Möller wrote: On 30.08.20 00:01, Long Wind wrote: (...) [liveuser@localhost-live <mailto:liveuser@localhost-live> ~]$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=8M status=progress (...) 14386462720 bytes

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: Agreed. Where the menu says "Debian desktop environment" I would:    1. remove the check-box.    2. rephrase it as "Chose a Debian desktop environment".    3. add a default check by GNOME. YES, Exactly

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

On 17.09.20 20:58, Brian wrote: On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 09:29:35 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: Agreed. Where the menu says "Debian desktop environment" I would:    1. remove the check-box.    2

apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in packages do not become removed automatically. The system is swelling with no more wanted packages! I hope I am simply missing the simple step how to return

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

On 25.05.20 23:24, Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] It's OK. I understood your question the first time. The simple answer is that the '--no-install-recommends' option applies only to the current install command. The result of a subsequent remove command will depend on the state of the dependency

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

On 25.05.20 22:34, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 25 May, 2020 at 22:12:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 25/05/2020 à 22:04, Marco Möller a écrit : If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in packages

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

On 29.05.20 21:48, David Wright wrote: On Fri 29 May 2020 at 21:57:06 (+0700), Victor Sudakov wrote: (...) "apt has a bug, cannot believe it!" https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/05/msg00567.html Well, I must admit, I can sympathize with this person's frustration. He just got confused

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

On 30.05.20 05:00, David Wright wrote: On Fri 29 May 2020 at 22:23:23 (+0200), Marco Möller wrote: On 29.05.20 21:48, David Wright wrote: On Fri 29 May 2020 at 21:57:06 (+0700), Victor Sudakov wrote: (...) "apt has a bug, cannot believe it!" https://lists.debian.org/debian-us

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

On 01.06.20 04:52, Tom Dial wrote: On 5/31/20 03:28, Victor Sudakov wrote: David Wright wrote: On Fri 29 May 2020 at 21:57:06 (+0700), Victor Sudakov wrote: David Wright wrote: Finally, pkg delete -a sounds like something from the abattoir, rather than anything you'd do to a pet (to

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

On 01.06.20 04:41, emetib wrote: this has been an interesting topic, so what the hell, here's my two cents. for my vm's, i have a list off packages that i install as soon as the minimum/base install and reboot is done. 4 vm's, testing, stable, centos7, opensuse. i have no gui's on these

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

On 01.06.20 08:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 30 mai 20, 19:54:09, Marco Möller wrote: From the view of a user, it does not sound so complicated ;-) . I guess, and this will be fair, that I am now asked to program it, it's open source and I should contribute. But unfortunately I can only

[OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

Is it possible (how?) to restrict a user to only be allowed to make use of its sudo usage permission if working at the physical console, not granting to this user sudo permission when i.e. logged in via ssh? To keep it simple, I could imagine to even have all sudo for all users deactivated

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

On 04.08.20 10:38, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 4/8/20 5:47 pm, Marco Möller wrote: I have the root account already deactivated, and am using in principal only one main user who also has the sudo permissions for being able to do all the system administration, exactly as Debian was setting

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

On 04.08.20 10:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:47:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: Is it possible (how?) to restrict a user to only be allowed to make use of its sudo usage permission if working at the physical console, See pam_securetty(8) for that. Sorry I can't give

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

On 04.08.20 13:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 11:44:04AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: As my root account is disabled, I do all administration as the "normal" user with the help of sudo for running administrative commands. The user "root" sha

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

On 04.08.20 15:50, Henning Follmann wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 11:44:04AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 04.08.20 10:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:47:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: Is it possible (how?) to restrict a user to only be allowed to make use of its sudo

my Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!!

!THANK YOU! Thank You Debian Developers! My Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!! My old laptop running on Debian/testing since the update from today flies like a rocket!! It before was fine, I didn't feel any need to upgrade the hardware. Concerning its

Re: what calculator do you use?

On 13.07.20 09:31, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my Debian os. What do you guys use? I'm having trouble with Galculator. Thank you! I prefer: speedcrunch Good Luck! Marco.

Re: how to install cherrytree?

On 13.07.20 22:42, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends! Having trouble installing cherrytree app. /kaye@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update/ [sudo] password for kaye: Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Get:3

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 15.06.20 21:47, Gary L. Roach wrote: Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security risk. So the problem has propagated to at least a half dozen other distros (Ubuntu,Kubuntu, Mint) to name a couple. To my knowledge, this is not true! It is the Dolphin

Re: X11 / KDE Plasma 5 periodically freezes when I use GUI app inside LXC container

On 16.06.20 12:59, John Radek wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 09:41, Marco Möller wrote: sudo sysctl vm.swappiness= sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure= sudo sysctl vm.dirty_background_bytes= sudo sysctl vm.dirty_bytes= Thank you Marco. I checked my current values --- sudo sysctl vm.swappiness

Re: X11 / KDE Plasma 5 periodically freezes when I use GUI app inside LXC container

On 16.06.20 10:11, John Radek wrote: It usually takes 30sec and then the desktop unfreeze and everything is fine again. This could be caused by the "vm.swappiness", "vm.vfs_cache_pressure" or "vm.dirty" settings. These could be configured permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf or

Re: Disabling recommends - was [Re: bash-completion pros/cons]

On 19.06.20 23:12, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/19/20 09:28, Brian wrote: On Thu 18 Jun 2020 at 14:15:00 -0500, David Wright wrote: On Wed 17 Jun 2020 at 20:48:50 (+0100), Brian wrote: AFAICT, it appears Recommends are *always* installed using the Installer, irrespective of preseeding. Not

Re: technical terms overhaul

On 19.06.20 21:14, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On the danger of starting a flame war ... thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms: "allowlist" and "rejectlist" instead of (for example on disk drives) "master"

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

On 07.06.20 19:54, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: (...) And I will add, it was never the ambition of Debian to replace the User experience with Windows or OSX, unlike Ubuntu and many others. I've stuck with Debian for what I cannot find in Ubuntu; stability and security. But user experience is well

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 07.06.20 02:42, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 7/6/20 8:30 am, Marco Möller wrote: I would easily agree with you concerning not to log into a graphical session as the user root. But Dolphin is also not running with sudo prepended. And here I was thinking that the dolphin issue ran here

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 09.06.20 23:55, Default User wrote: (...) Now, a final note. When I did my main install, it was a day or two before the release of Buster 10.0. I immediately upgraded to Unstable. But it is still originally based upon Stretch. It was set up with both root and user passwords. And I use

Re: Buster: network takes long pauses

On 06.06.20 20:54, Henning Follmann wrote: (...) Any suggestions on debugging/fixing? No log = it didn't happen. Please, how to activate the necessary log(s), and where to find them afterwards? Marco.

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 06.06.20 23:37, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:20 PM Default User > wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User mailto:hunguponcont...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, all. As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 06.06.20 23:20, Default User wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User > wrote: Hi, all. As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, and installed kde on it. I have not tried kde in many years, so am not

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

On 08.06.20 01:49, Gary L. Roach wrote: On 6/7/20 12:14 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4  and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

On 04.06.20 21:46, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-06-04 at 10:30, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 Jun 2020 at 12:15:02 (+0200), Marco Möller wrote: The short answer to this thread is that unfortunately Debian is not prepared with a simple solution for this simple task, but sophisticated

Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages

On 11.06.20 13:03, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm interested in the installer  menu titled "Software Selection". I want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop environment" and/or "MATE" is checked. TIA The for me most important observation is, that if deactivating all listed

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On 04.12.20 13:00, deandre wrote: Hi My problem is when I try to boot up deepin(Debian 10 buster) I get the message “cannot open access to console, the root account is locked See sulogin(8) man for more details” and after I press Enter it continues to give me the same message, at this point

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On 12.12.20 15:18, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? It is not even required to mount your disk from other

cherrytree is available again, now in testing !THANK YOU!

Dear Giuseppe Penone! Dear Evgenii Gurianov! Dear Andrius Merkys! Thank you very much for providing Cherrytree in Debian again! Maybe I missed an announcement about it. I just found it in the testing repository when searching for it before checking for updates for my flatpak installation of

apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

Hello, Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but do not suggest an instead recommended tool. It is only mentioned that keys would now be organized in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ . But how should I manage the keys saved there, for instance how to update them, or what

Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages?

On 21.06.21 17:29, Richard Owlett wrote: Many see the need for examples to be associated with man pages. Sometime back a post mentioned a web page that could return examples for most(all??) Linux commands. I failed to bookmark it and have not rediscovered it since. In another forum I was

[OT] openPGP: keeping primary key offline?

Regarding openPGP usage, it is recommended in several user guides to keep the primary key offline and keeping on the main computer only subkeys. The argumentation is that if keeping it on the main computer then it could be used in an unauthorized way. Of course, what is offline, like a good

Re: apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

On 20.06.21 17:36, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 22:07:35 +0200 Marco Möller wrote: Hello Marco, Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but do Coincidentally, I recently got notification of a pertinent blog post by Julian Andres Klode. See; https

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

On 21.06.21 07:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 20 iun 21, 10:20:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Package: release-notes X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, a...@packages.debian.org On Sb, 19 iun 21, 22:07:35, Marco Möller wrote: Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key

Re: apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

On 20.06.21 14:11, Darac Marjal wrote: On 19/06/2021 21:07, Marco Möller wrote: Hello, Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but do not suggest an instead recommended tool. It is only mentioned that keys would now be organized in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/  . But how

hashdeep abandoned? alternatives?

Hello! Package hashdeep shows activity in the Debian changelog, but this appears to only be about the packaging of the Debian package, while the upstream code did not see any version update since 2014. https://github.com/jessek/hashdeep Is this tool so reliable and widely in use that I

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

On 24.11.20 01:14, Gareth Evans wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, at 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 + mag...@autistici.org wrote: Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with iOS 14, 14.0.1 and 14.1 tethering

Re: thunderbird

On 31.05.21 16:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: Thanks, but I'll prefer a decentralised, end-to-end encryptable, well established messaging infrastructure with a rich choice of user and transfer agents. It's called e-mail. Actually, matrix.org aims to be that as well. It probably doesn't yet qualify

Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE

On 31.05.21 22:57, deloptes wrote: apt-cache show kleopatra apt-cache show kgpg I think the above parts of the package description explains quite well the use cases. With kleopatra you manage certificates in KDE (such like SSL) With Kgpg you manage GPG keys and you can encrypt/decrypt

PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE

Hello, Could someone explain for a raw beginner concerning the usage of PGP the difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, what the typical work case is for the one and the other, what important feature the one and the other is missing? Sorry for the related but low specific questions in the

Re: examples for man pages

On 29.05.21 15:41, Richard Owlett wrote: A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with adding examples to all man pages. Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name. Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it and my attempts to do a web search failed.

Re: thunderbird

I forgot to mention another weak point if using it under KDE Plasma: I did not find how to sync its calendar with the calendar widget of KDE (the calendar popping up when clicking on the clock in the system task bar of KDE Plasma). I never have had need to sync it with other entities and

Re: thunderbird

On 30.05.21 20:29, fxkl47BF wrote: for a few decades i have used pine/alpine. i'm considering a new mail application. there are more out there than you can shake a stick at. what are your thoughts of thunderbird. I am using Thunderbird without problems for years now. I have never had it

Re: thunderbird

On 31.05.21 08:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: (...) How does "web based" and PGP go together, anyway? Web based means mail handling (and thus encryption/signing) is done on other people's computers. (...) Web based apps can process data locally at your own computer, for instance by using

Re: Buster on Win 10 Problems

On 29.06.21 15:28, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: First, let me assure the list that I am not trying to ignite a flame war. I have a legitimate reason for installing Debian Buster on my Windows 10 laptop using Windows Subsystem Linux and X410. I have a very important application for my

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

On 26.06.21 11:54, Andrei POPESCU wrote: (...) Very good points, all appreciated. Feel free to suggest patches for it through bugs against the harden-doc package, or merge requests in Salsa if the Maintainer is accepting them. I'll do so. I decided, motivated also by observing how you are

Debian statistics about the contributing entities?

Hello, Do we have for Debian some statistics about who (companies, institutions, universities, private volunteers, ...) are contributing to Debian, i.e. as package maintainers, admins, maybe Debian specific code programmers, and alike? I found the list of the Debian Developers, but this is

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

On 08.02.21 03:49, John Berden wrote: Hello. I'm installing Debian 10.8 with a console installer. I use ISO debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso. After starting the system, I get a request for the user's password. I enter the correct password that I specified during installation. But I get a

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

On 10.03.21 13:51, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: (...) My last doubt is if should use Debian 10 with KDE Plasma or Debian Bullseye instead. I recommend to use "testing" (currently Bullseye) on an individual Laptop/Desktop Computer, and leave "stable" for server or cooperate end user

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

On 10.03.21 04:34, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: Hello. I would like to install Debian 10 with the KDE Plasma task on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33 GHz, it doesn't have a GPU. Do you think it would run without problems or would it be slow and laggy? Thanks in advance

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

On 10.03.21 19:28, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: (...) I don't think there is a Debian DVD iso I can use to install Debian Bullseye. I think I'll have to install Buster and then switch to Bullseye. Is there a better option? To my knowledge, there is a Bulleye installer available here:

authentication bug (or feature?) with multiple encrypted lvm2 volume groups

Two volume groups (lvm2) exists, Each of them is encrypted and thus protected by its own password. Lets call the volume groups and their corresponding passwords like this: VGpassword "A" "pwA" "B" "pwB" "pwA" and "pwB" differ from each other. Step 1: during boot I am asked for the

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

On 20.08.21 18:22, piorunz wrote: On 17/08/2021 15:03, Marco Möller wrote: I have no experience with SSD, but running my Debian Desktop from a USB Memory Stick since years, please allow me to share information which supports the suggestion of Linux-Fan to also investigate

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

On 17.08.21 15:30, Linux-Fan wrote: Pierre Willaime writes: I have a nvme SSD (CAZ-82512-Q11 NVMe LITEON 512GB) on debian stable (bulleye now). For a long time, I suffer poor I/O performances which slow down a lot of tasks (apt upgrade when unpacking for example). I am now trying to fix

Re: Network down incorrect........

On 28.08.21 15:38, Charlie wrote: From my keyboard: Hello all, Since Bullseye went stable, updated on my 12 month old HP laptop. When attempting to bring up the wireless interface with ifup. The message on the screen tells me the "network is down",

Re: LUKS encryption help

On 29.08.21 07:09, detr...@tuta.io wrote: (...) Before: NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS sda ├─sda1 │    vfat   FAT32   A2BD-D233  70,8M    26% /boot/efi ├─sda2 │ ├─sda3 │    ntfs  

[OT] browsable archive of OFTC debian channels?

Hello! Is there somewhere publicly accessible an archive of the conversations taking place in the #debian[*] OFTC channels? Would be great, because I am not constantly online and thus am unable to fully follow conversations there. --- Always stay in good spirits! Marco

Re: [OT] browsable archive of OFTC debian channels?

On 14.08.21 13:36, Linux-Fan wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater writes: On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > Hello! Is there somewhere publicly accessible an archive of the > conversations taking place in the #debian[*] OFTC channels? Would be great, >

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