> It looks like only version 1.1.8 and onward is proprietary.
FYI, there is a free fork that doesn't use any code from after the
license change.
https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite
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> there is a problem with trisquel and that it has aseprite in the repo i
> just wanted to notify people of this mistake
>
> http://dev.aseprite.org/2016/09/01/new-source-code-license/
It looks like only version 1.1.8 and onward is proprietary. Trisquel 8
has version 1.0.9, which is GPLv2.
> Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)
Unfortunately, I think that all Intel WiFi cards require proprietary
firmware. If your BIOS allows it, maybe you can replace the WiFi card.
What is the vendor and model of your computer?
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>Anyway, I installed Trisquel on a usb stick and on one computer the
> wifi doesn't work. The other I booted it on the the wifi worked fine.
> From what I gather, that might mean the one it didn't work on probably
> doesn't have a free wifi driver available, and, the one it does have a
> free
> All I'm getting on 32-bit ABrowser is
> an error message saying the browser is unsupported and asking me to
> install the latest "Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Microsoft
> Edge" (eww).
As far as examples of graceless degradation go, "Please install..." is
one of the more infuriating.
> I'm having trouble using a number of websites in ABrowser on my 32-bit
> Trisquel 8 system.
Have you tried the same sites in Firefox and Icecat? That will help
narrow down where the problem could be.
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> But installing extensions does not seem to work in Abrowser or IceCat. I
> search for an add-on, select it, click on "Install extension" and nothing
> happens.
Try installing directly from https://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons
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> > openjdk is a dependency of NetBeans, so it will be installed automatically.
>
> This is new to me, thanks
You can view a package's dependencies in a terminal with
"apt depends [package-name]". For example,
$ apt depends netbeans
netbeans
|Depends: default-jdk (>= 2:1.8)
Depends:
> I was using
> Hooktube and then they got a cease and desist letter from YouTube, so
> apparently they were spooked and switched to using normal YT embeds. Is
> this an inevitable fate for Invidious too?
Unlike Hooktube, Invidious does not use YouTube's API, so I think it
should be at less risk
> In the past in windows I used a Java + Netbeans bundle, is there
> something similar also as Free Software for Trisquel?
NetBeans and openjdk are in the repository. You can install NetBeans via
Add/Remove Applications, Synaptic Package Manager, or the command line.
See here:
> I do not think "it is a part of the libre world to think and find out by
> yourself". At least, it is not a core value: there is not wrong in
> requiring/getting help.
If anything, cooperation is a core value, so helping each other is
encouraged.
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> I just realized that the volume button/slider which is usually next to the
> network button on the bottom panel is missing.
It's possible that this applet had pulseaudio as a dependency, got
uninstalled when we removed pulseaudio.
Run
$ sudo apt install trisquel
to install the "trisquel"
> Hello dear friends,
> I can't install any sofware/package with pip!
pip searches and installs from the PyPi repository. This repository
contains proprietary software. Since Trisquel can't control what goes
into the PyPi repository, the only solution was to remove pip from
Trisquel.
What
> The SDK Platform Tools are great for removing bloatware from phones that
> can't be rooted, particularly the command-line tools.
>
> I believe that at least the source is made available, but do not know how
> free the tools really are, especially since they are developed by Google.
>
> Does
@Liberated, I'm glad everything's working now.
@Lil Beanie, If you are still having trouble with sound, can you try
$ rm -rf ~/.config/pulse
and see if the problem goes away as it did for Liberated?
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> Sound still does not work after deleting that folder.
Then the problem might be unrelated to pulseaudio. To confirm though,
can you run
$ sudo apt remove pulseaudio
reboot, and see if sound works (in vlc or something, not your browser).
Then reinstall pulseaudio with
$ sudo apt install
> Can anybody confirm me that encrypted home folder (not encrypted disk)
> will work after running this script on lubuntu 16.04 LTS?
I have not used the script myself, but I've looked it over to get a
sense of what it does.
First note that the script is for Ubuntu 12.04 to Trisquel 6, so you'll
> Unfortunately, running that command as well as running both of those apt
> commands separately did not fix the configuration problem.
I forgot to mention that you'll need to reboot next. Have you already
done that?
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> Yes, sound works perfectly in a guest session.
That means that the problem is specific to your user's configuration. It
sounds like ALSA works, since you got sound when testing your speakers
in Sound settings. (I have since learned that a faster way to do this
would have been to run
> PCI vs USB WI-FI results argument is totally void. There is no such thing.
>
> Check stock TL-WN721N/TL-WN722N or what thinkpenguin/tehcnoetical have.
When I began migrating to free software, I bought several ThinkPenguin
WiFi dongles and used them for a year. It was extremely frustrating. I
> chaosmonk - how do you feel about the fact that the government was so
> heavily involved in creating and financing Tor? I've always been wary of
> it - wondering what your opinion is.
Are you implying that it could be a honeypot of some kind? If so, that's
something I worry about a lot with
> I'm assuming you've tried the full-sized USB dongles with the flip
> antenna, like this one?
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atheros-AR9271-802-11n-150Mbps-Wireless-USB-WiFi-Adapter-for-Linux-Kali-Linux/302918103655?hash=item4687537267:g:NpsAAOSwAI9bv-wl
>
> I've had a lot of luck with them.
No, I
> It's not a laptop but there's also the TALOS II. You'll never see POWER9
> in a laptop. If I had to give up the laptop form factor in order to have
> a future in freedom then I could do that. I'm already there. Most of my
> computers are not laptops.
Portability aside, the TALOS II is extremely
> What is the difference between "scrapping content" and "executing it"?
As I understand it, scraping means reading the page/code to get
information, whereas executing means actually running the software.
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> Also, one very important question... How many of you use Tor when
> accessing Youtube?
I do encourage using Tor, even at times you don't need it, because more
people using Tor improves the anonymity of the Tor network. However,
watching videos or downloading large files slows down the network
> chaosmonk Doesn't every recent AMD/Nvidia graphic card require
> proprietary firmwares for 3D accel?
I think so.
> EVERY device that runs Trisquel you stick PCI or USB card if you want
> WI-FI period.
Yes, and I have had great results with PCI and very poor results with
USB.
> How this works
> Well, because when I disable javascript I can't read the comments.
> think in mobile for example you can only read the first comments, if you
> want to "scroll down the comments" you need Javascript again.
Invidious uses JavaScript to load more comments without having to leave
the page, so it's
> I should add that when I start the computer and the login screen shows up,
> the sound that is supposed to play still plays.
Hm. If you log into a guest session do you have sound?
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> But what about if you run it in your own computer then?
You mean run your own instance of Invidious? In that case, you would
scrape YouTube and the information would be stored on your server.
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> I mean, Invidious doesn't have an index file with all Youtube videos,
> right?
Actually, I think it does. If I understand correctly, Invidious crawls
through YouTube indexing channels and videos.
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Suspend/hibernate is often a problem with Linux (the kernel), and when
it does/doesn't work seems to be hardware-specific. This is an issue in
Ubuntu as well. Trisquel's kernel is created by running a script[1]
which automatically removes the proprietary blobs from Ubuntu's kernel,
so if this
> What about Electron?
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/electron-again
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> So, FreeTube is a good option then?
I've never used it, but it looks good (depending on your stance
regarding Electron). I've found youtube-viewer[1] useful as well. It has
both a cli interface and a GTK interface.
[1] https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer
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> I am afraid to switch to a generic kernel and because my system is
> perfectly working
You can always switch back to the low-latency kernel. You have nothing
to lose.
$ sudo apt install linux-generic
> I am going to open an issue regarding the suspend / halt issue.
Don't do this until you
> Testing the speakers and headphones did result in sound, both with the
> speakers and the headphones.
>
> Turning up the faders while playing music did not fix the problem.
Okay, it sounds like everything is fine between ALSA and the sound card,
in which case the problem is higher-level than
> Yes, the other 2 kernels (4.4.0-142-generic and 4.4.0-141-generic) did
> not fix the problem.
I'm going to assume that "the problem" is that you have no sound. If the
problem is more specific than that then let me know. I'm also assuming
that you are using MATE, the default Trisquel desktop
> Pinebook pro can work natively
> with ubuntu and proprietary blobs and if you buy a usb-wifi adapter, it
> could even work 100% freely with Trisquel (for example).
This has been true of every laptop I've encountered, so it isn't
remarkable. The only problems I often run into with laptops are
> Same problem here on Trisquel 8.
Do you mean sound? If so, can you describe the problem in more detail so
that we can troubleshoot? I just updated my Trisquel 8 system and sound
works fine, so I need to know more about your situation in order to
help.
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> 7 is compatible with my
> computer system.
Then Trisquel 8 almost certainly is too.
> I am ruing the fact that I accepted the suggestion from
> Trisquel to upgrade yesterday.
So you tried upgrading and have experienced problems? Chances are that
the problem is not Trisquel 8, but with the
> Such part/accessory information can be found in the hardware maintenance
> manual (HMM) for older ThinkPad models, but not newer ones. For more
> recent models (starting Nehalem or SandyBridge), the HMMs no longer
> contain a rather verbose "Part List" section.
Okay, so my friend has an X201,
> I think
> it's fixed in the version in Trisquel 8.
Never mind, just saw OPs comment.
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> I had trouble trying to set up Linphone for JMP (it wasn't accepting the
> tilde in the SIP username)
This was definitely a problem with the version in Trisquel 7. I think
it's fixed in the version in Trisquel 8. The workaround was to omit the
tilde during the setup wizard, then go add it in
> This card (42T0825) should work on any 945/965 chipset based ThinkPads
> (R6x, T6x, X6x and Z61 series).
I'm interested to know where you got this information, as this sort of
thing is very valuable to know. Each laptop listed in h-node has a
"wifi model" field saying whether or not the WiFi
> [User]~40[DOMAIN][AT]jmp.bwapp.bwsip.io
>
> Where [USER]=username, [DOMAIN]=dismail.de, and [AT]=@
To clarify why this is, dismail.de is only your XMPP provider, not your
SIP provider. JMP is your SIP provider, which is why the domain after
the @ is jmp.bwapp.bwsip.io. Since JMP knows you as
> > Registration on failed: no response timeout
Sorry, I forgot that the forum replaces anything that appears to be an
email address with "name at domain", so the SIP ID did not come out
correctly the way I wrote it. It should look like this
[User]~40[DOMAIN][AT]jmp.bwapp.bwsip.io
Where
> I stumbled upon something called JMP while browsing this forum and got setup
> with it. But I didn't see anywhere how you are supposed to make and take
> calls with it.
I use Linphone.
$ sudo apt install linphone
For SIP identity use
[USER]~40[DOMAIN].d...@jmp.bwapp.bwsip.io
where
> Just updated to 65.0.1 (64-bit) and hanging on downloads seems to be fixed.
I'm using 65 now and just ran into the download issue again.
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> I installed Middleton's BIOS on my X61 and it works - I was then able to use
> different wifi card. I was hoping to solve an intermittent wifi problem, but
> that remains.
What WiFi card are you using? I've had intermittent WiFi problems with
the Atheros USB dongles, but the internal cards have
> I guess it only works because the built-in Icecat package is 8 major
> versions behind the latest stable (52.3.0 instead of 60.3.0)
No, Icecat 60ESR works too (it's just not in the repo). This is only
seems to be a problem for FF64+
> I wonder if there's a reason for Abrowser to exist.
I
> benou.fr/~ben/updating-thinkpad-x61-bios.html
Middleton's BIOS isn't more free than the factory BIOS, and it might be
worse security-wise, so I only want to resort to that if it is the only
way to install a freedom-respecting WiFi card. I have ordered an AR5418,
and if nadebula is correct that
> I'm using the default MATE.
In that case, the easiest thing to do will be to go to Control Center
and select "Keyboard". In the window that opens, go to the "Layout" tab
and select "Options". There, go to "Caps Lock key behavior" and either
disable Caps Lock or map it to something useful like
> Yes, i´ḿ trying to install the newest version of Midori.
See
https://trisquel.info/de/forum/icecat-seems-very-outdated-what-browser-should-one-be-using#comment-138858
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I do all my key remapping with xmodmap, but depending on your desktop
environment there may be an easier way. Are you using MATE (Trisquel 8's
default) or are you using a different DE?
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> Is it possible to install snap on Trisquel Mini?
Snap was removed from Trisquel's repository because it recommends and
can install proprietary software. See here:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/23918
Is there a particular package you were going to install from Snap? If
it's free we can help
Thanks everyone. I'll look into the AR5418 for now.
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> Thanks for your reply and help. I think I'm good unless I failed to check
> completely. I'm still learning terminal, so bare with me.
It looks to me like you did everything correctly, so assuming that this
program is reliable, it looks like your computer doesn't have Intel ME.
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In this thread[1] someone suggested Middleton's BIOS, which appears to
be a modified version of the Lenovo BIOS for the X61 that removes the
hardware whitelist. It doesn't seem to be free, but neither is the BIOS
it replaces, and if it makes it possible to install a freedom-respecting
WiFi card
> gandalfthegrey@gandalfthegrey-VGN-NR310E:~$
The ~ before the $ means that you are in your home directory
(/home/gandalfthegrey). mei-amt-check isn't there, so that's why the
command isn't found.
First install git, if you haven't already.
$ sudo apt install git
Then clone the mei-amt-check
> No results with shortcut to terminal session.
Since you say later that you were able to start the text installer, you
should be able to boot into a live Trisquel or Trisquel Mini session.
If you have any data on the machine that isn't backed up somewhere else,
I would boot into a live session
> libreboot only works with a small number
> of computers and a large proportion of librebooted computers happen to be
> x200's.
Good point. I've updated the wiki.
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/setup-wireless-card
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> it is related to the free bios, libreboot.
How? The hardware switch works whether or not the computer is
librebooted.
That said, I guess it couldn't hurt to add a line to this page[1]
advising the user to check for a hardware WiFi switch.
[1] https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/setup-wireless-card
> Sounds like I should start by replacing the wireless card.
You'll need to deal with the BIOS *before* replacing the WiFi card. The
current BIOS will refuse to boot if it detects an unauthorized WiFi
card.
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Run
$ sudo apt install trisquel
and reboot.
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> So it's in the main repo then? I must have been looking in the wrong place
> (I think it's 'i3' in Debian instead of 'i3-wm' perhaps that's why).
You are perhaps thinking of the i3 metapackage, which includes the i3
window manager and a handful of recommended packages.
$ apt depends i3
i3
> I purged ALSA and Pulseaudio and my computer sped up.
What if you just install ALSA and not pulseaudio?
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> Could be... I doubt it. The laptop I bought from Technoethical was
> specifically sold with this OS installed. So, unless they are foolish
> enough to sell their stock on hardware components that are incompatible
> with Trisquel, the answer is no.
I don't mean incompatible with Trisquel. I mean
> I have had much trouble with this OS. Both on my desktop and on a laptop,
> the OS will crash anywhere from 0-10 minutes after startup every time
> without incident.
This is unusual. I have installed Trisquel on many people's computers
and they have not had this problem.
> I doubt this is an
> List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
Go back to alsamixer, use F6 to change devices, and see if any of these
have usable controls.
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> audio
What do you see when you run
$ alsamixer?
What (if any) sound card are detected. Are any values set to zero, and
if so does changing them do anything?
> Wi-Fi
What is the output of
$ lspci | grep Network
?
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Also, what is the output of
$ aplay -l
?
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> Does Trisquel contain a new enough version of WebKit to meet Midori's
> requirement (Hyperbola doesn't)?
I had no problems building Midori 7 in Trisquel 8. I haven't tried with
Hyperbola, but I'm surprised it doesn't work, since Hyperbola stable is
based on a 2017 snapshot and Trisquel 8 is
> thinkwiki.org/wiki/Middleton%27s_BIOS
Looks promising. I have an X61 sitting around. I might try this out over
the weekend.
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> or just
> replace the proprietary BIOS of your laptop with coreboot or libreboot if
> that is possible.
I'm pretty sure that the X61/X61s can't be librebooted or corebooted,
but you can swap out the motherboard for an X60 motherboard and
libreboot that. The X60 motherboard is easy to libreboot
If you look at the web page Magic Banana sent you, you'll see that this
addon is under the Mozilla Public License v2, which is a free software
license.
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> I'm using the livestream / internet radio and podcast features in Quod
> Libet to listen to Creative Commons music from places like Starfrosch
> Radio¹, ccMixter², and Free Music Archive³ and then scrobbling out to
> LibreFM.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try these out this weekend.
Thanks for the explanation. It's a shame that the scrobbling data can't
be used for recommendations. What I would love to see is a
recommendation system that suggests free artists who are similar to
a non-free artist.
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> Failed to execute child process "xterm" (no such file or directory"
The desktop file is trying to launch it in xterm for some reason. Either
install xterm
$ sudo apt install xterm
or open your preferred terminal emulator and launch Emacs from there.
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> Clients to play last.fm music haven't worked since about 2010. There are
> still some clients which claim they can "scrobble" to last.fm (list the
> tracks you played on your desktop to the last.fm list of played tracks),
> but none of them will actually play the music in quite a few years in my
> I would just map those two commands to some convenient shortcuts.
Or, if you don't want to have two different shortcuts, the following
script will toggle your display on/off.
#!/bin/bash
display=LVDS1
if xrandr --listactivemonitors | grep $display; then
xrandr --output $display --off
> I also tried using xrandr --output LVDS1 --off which corresponds to my
> laptop screen and it doesn't work properly because it actually disables
> it.
Right. Then you turn it back on with
$ xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto
I would just map those two commands to some convenient shortcuts. A
> Doesn't the on/off radio buttons in MATE's monitor preferences behave
> in the same way?
I think that's what GNUser was referring to with
> I don't want to go to "Menu" "Screens" and turn it off because I want
> it back on when I move the mouse cursor.
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Do you mean for the UI or for messages? For the UI, it should use your
GTK3 theme. For messages, there are settings in the preferences. You'll
find them quickly.
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If that doesn't work, you could just use xrandr to turn the screen on or
off.
First, run
$ xrandr | grep primary
to find out the name of your laptop screen. (I'm assuming that your
laptop screen is your primary display.) For me the output is
$ xrandr | grep primary
LVDS1 connected primary
> If there is a command that I can issue I will be glad to learn it and use it.
$ xset dpms force suspend
deactivates the display on my laptop until I type or move the mouse.
However, I haven't tested to see what happens with an external monitor
plugged in.
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> It's only a freedom issue if someone uses the JavaScript engine in
> Abrowser to run non-free JavaScript.
> No, because those organizations don't have problems with us using their
> trademarks to indicate use of their search engine.
Maybe these things aren't a problem on their own, but I think
> I don't use any and I also do not have an account on libre.fm but a quick
> search turned out:
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/zomg
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/mpdas
>
> It would appear, and I just found this out, my favorite music player,
> cmus, can get you where you want to be
I have made a Libre.fm account and am trying to get it to work with
Rhythmbox. I was able to sign into Libre.fm through Rhythmbox and can
see my username and a list of recently listened tracks (which I listened
to through the Libre.fm web player). I also see the option to create
radio stations.
> jaholper1.example.com 95.182.79.24
> jaholper1.example.com 95.182.79.24
> jaholper1.example.com 95.182.79.33
> jaholper1.example.com 95.182.79.33
> jaholper4.example.com 109.248.200.4
> jaholper7.example.com 109.248.203.131
> jaholper7.example.com
> ./start-tor-browser.desktop --register-app
Good to know. Does this also add the binary to the user's path so it can
be launched from a terminal?
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> Great work! I appreciate. For Icecat, good.
>
> However, Tor Browser Bundle need not be "installed". Extract the tarball
> on your desktop or a USB stick, and you're good.
By "install" i mean "extract to an out-of-the-way directory and create
symlinks to
> The reason i haven't downloaded it from the repos is due to it
> being on version 0.4.0 and the most up to date version is on 0.6.3.Could
> someone help me out
What specific feature do you need that 0.4.0 doesn't have? If you really
need something in the latest version that is missing from
> I'd think that Trisquel could go with Icecat for a semi-rolling browser.
> It helps that it's kind of already a stable version, plus all the
> stronger privacy features it offers.
I agree that with LTS packages like Icecat it's fine stability-wise to
upgrade to the latest version, and might be
A frequent question here is what to do with an Icecat or Tor Browser
executable tarball. I find myself repeatedly describing how to make
these browsers appear in menus and be launchable from the terminal, so
to save myself and others some time I have created some scripts for this
task.
> I run trisquel in my
> T400s and X220 and I have had no issues (other than the usual issues with
> updating to Abrowser 64).
It sounds like you've stumbled onto one of the advantages of an LTS
distro. Abrowser is one of the few packages in Trisquel that is rolling,
so occasionally an update
> I could run it from a tarball but
> I'm not savvy enough to install it from one.
If you're running it from the tarball, here's what I suggest doing so
that you can launch it from a terminal or from menus as if it were
installed.
If you have Icecat 52 installed from the Trisquel repos, remove
On 02/09, Caleb Herbert wrote:
> I already tried the deb.
And I'm guessing it didn't work because you were missing dependencies?
It wants xchat and xchat-common, which as discussed aren't in
Xenial/Flidas.
You can try to grab deb files for xchat and xchat-common, and any
dependencies of those,
> However, since cwirc seems intended for use with xchat, and since you
> have not asked anyone to package xchat for you, just cwirc, I wonder if
> perhaps you plan to use cwirc with hexchat? If this is correct, the
> proper solution is to repackage cwirc to depend on hexchat and
> hexchat-common
> XChat is actually absent from Trisquel 8's repository. I do not know why.
It's not in Trisquel 8 because it's not and Xenial, but what's weird is
that it's back in Bionic.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/xchat
If it was removed from Xenial because it's abandoned, I'm not sure why
it's
> Installation of kde trough tasksel (Triskel) fails.
Hm. Try
$ sudo apt install plasma-desktop
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> I think that to have one thing you have it right or you
> remove it
I'd be in favor of removing it. If I understand correctly, Canonical has
killed Unity and is using GNOME instead for 18.04 and onwards. I'd
rather the Trisquel devs focus on Trisquel 9 and non-x86 architecture
support.
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