> https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/package-helpers/merge_requests/267
> does this mean keepassx 2.0.3 got backported?
No, sorry. It means I tried to backport it, but something went wrong
and it didn't work. Then I got tied up working on Etiona stuff and
forgot to return to this. I'll take
> There is not much room left on the 8gb usb stick even though nothing has
> been downloaded, exept palemoon browser.
Palemoon is not free software.
> I don't understand linux file
> structures. Have tried to delete all the libre office software but can't
> seem to do it.
Are you trying to
> to use a newer enlightenment (enlightenment | 0.22.3-0bionic0)with
> trisquel, because i really like E but development with the EFL
> (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) is not possible because some
> libraries are missing. So, I think it's not possible with trisquel. -
> but maybe somebody
> But does having that value set to "false" mean that I won't be able to
> use free WiFi that relies on a connection portal instead of a WiFi
> password?
Yes, that's what it means.
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> At this point, rebooting would be appropriate, but I cannot do so because
it's a live image and logging in and out made no difference.
Given what you are trying to do, I suspect that you do not need to reboot. I
think you just need to restart X. Logging out doesn't do this, but I think
> I often come across folded/hidden text in
> Reddit threads
If you replace `www.reddit.com` with `old.reddit.com`, you'll get a version
of the page which is not 100% functional without JS, but better than the
normal interface.
> Why is the sources DVD 6GB? Does it contain the code for EVERY package
available for Trisquel?
No, that would be way more than 6GB. I think it contains the source code for
the packages included in the other Trisquel ISOs.
> TLDR: No, it looks like Debian doesn't handle my bad graphics card any
> better. Nothing for Trisquel 9 to learn from Debian here.
Sorry about that. AMD graphics cards are often a problem. I recently
acquired four used laptops for quite cheap ($40 each). I take
opportunities like this when
> On Trisquel 9, is there / will there be a way to get rid of fonts that are
dependencies of trisquel-desktop-common, such as fonts-stix and
fonts-mathjax?
You can remove them like any other package, but doing so will also remove
trisquel-desktop-common and some other metapackages. This
> we have switched to Jami and Jitsi Meet now
How well do they each work? Do you have a preference for one over the
other?
> How can I access the backports repository?
Go to Control Center -> Softwre & Updates and make sure that the
backports repository is enabled. Then update your system
> I can't describe everything. I haven't looked at everything. But
window decorations show up small. I'd really just like everything to be
set to stock GNOME defaults from upstream, no tampering.
Trisquel has no GNOME flavor, and does not customize GNOME's settings, AFAIK.
Maybe there is a
> Can this package be fixed so that it installs?
The package should probably be removed. It's a metapackage to install
Ubuntu's GNOME flavor. It's not useful in Trisquel.
> Trisquel's default setting really mess up GNOME.
Can you be more specific?
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> ubuntu-gnome-desktop : Depends: ubuntu-drivers-common but it is not
installable
Trisquel does not package ubuntu-drivers-common.[1]
[1]
https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/ubuntu-purge/blob/master/purge-xenial#L125
> I can't see the picture.
https://trisquel.info/files/Screenshot%20from%202020-02-02%2014-35-52.png
> When will the forum software put images as attachments in the mailing list?
When someone with the ability to make that change decides to. Probably not
any time soon.
> Trisquel's default setting really mess up GNOME.
I think that Trisquel's MATE settings are probably not the cause of whatever
you're experiencing, unless you have mate-settings-daemon running during your
GNOME session for some reason. Look at "System Monitor" and see if m-s-d is
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/
> I know the pip repo contains proprietary software, but why did you just
> rip it out instead of making a free repo?
Why don't you create a free pip repo? Is it because it would take time and
effort to learn how to do so and then do it? If so, there's your answer. I
actually looked into
> My ~/.mozilla/abrowser/ folder doesn't contain user.js or prefs.js. Only
installs.ini, profiles.ini, and rwjebu0c.default.
Sorry, there was an error in my post. `~/.mozilla/abrowser/` contains all of
your Abrowser profiles, which are directories of the form
`$RANDOMSTRING.$PROFILENAME`.
Try running
$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
if you have not already.
> deb http://deb.leap.se/client release bionic
This is correct. Did you run `sudo apt update` after editing `leap.list`
before trying to install the package?
Thanks. Can you now post the contents of `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/leap.list`
and see if there are any errors when you run
$ sudo apt update
?
Okay, I was wrong. The [bionic repository][1] only includes packages
for bitmask-vpn, not riseup-vpn. The [buster repository][2] does
include riseup-vpn, so that's what you need. Note however, that there
is only a 64-bit binary package for riseup-vpn. There is [no 32-bit
package][3], so if you
Yeah, this software is clearly proprietary. https://www.sdr-radio.com/legal
> I was told sdr-console is free/libre software and available for Ubuntu
Where did you get this idea? According to [their website][2] it is
Windows-only. With the source code, one could potentially port it to
GNU/Linux, but as far as I can tell they only publish Windows binaries, not
Did you add Riseup's apt repository? What is the output of
$ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
and
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> I'm wondering the cause for blocking Cataclysm.
I don't see an Ubuntu package called that.[1]
Here[2] is the list of purged Ubuntu packages. Specific reasons for each
package are not given, but they are grouped into "non-free packages", and
"free software packages or metapackages only
> I use the stock Liferea software for my RSS feeds. When I launch it through
> the GUI, it never starts the first time. When I try a second time, it does
> start but the feeds are not automatically refreshed (the option is checked
> in the settings).
Launching Liferea once starts it running in
I see a few problems:
* All of the repositories are commented out. You need to remove the `# `
from the repositories you want to use, or they will be ignored.
* `deb-src` lines are for downloading source packages. In order to be able
to download and install binary packages, you need to
> Sorry. :-(
No worries.
> https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat-addons/tree/master/python/teknik
The source code is [here][1]. It looks like it hasn't been maintained for
several years and uses Python 2 which reached EOL a few months ago, so it's
probably not a great long-term solution.
> Interest in learning more about encryption keys and utilizing encryption
for email messages and other forms of contact lead me to view discussions
regarding fairly recently revealed exploits attacking encrypted messages
tricking email clients to expose and even transmit decrypted portions
> A9: Try to move the icon to the left area. You can't; moving will only
> squish the central area.
Did you unlock the window list too?
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> Thank you. I'm looking forward to it, but won't have time to try a live
> Debian ISO before Thursday UTC 20:00 at the earliest; weekend would be
> better.
No rush. Let me know when you get around to it.
> But I do need instructions / a walkthrough for determining
> Debian's driver and its
> I see unlocking the window list lets me move the other icon back
> across it.
The reason is that, while the window list is locked, it refuses to give
up its position to other panel items.
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> Right-click anywhere on the desktop or in Caja, hold that click, don't move
the mouse. In my setup (I tested with application font sizes 8 and 18), one
menu item will ALREADY be "selected" (visually prominent; what's the proper
word for this?), so your suggestion (right click and release
> On the Trisquel 9 preview, in the Popup Notification Settings, does
> the preview button work for you? For me, nothing happens
Are notifications working at all?
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> I am also interested in Brave. Wikipedia says it is licensed
> under the Mozilla Public License, which I understand qualifies as
> a Libre Software License. Why do you say Brave is proprietary?
The binaries they distribute are proprietary.[1] You need to compile
the browser
> I installed Plasma yesterday. All windows lack window decorations.
I'm less familiar with Qt environments than Gtk environments, but it
sounds like you might be missing at least one package which should have
been installed along with the rest of the desktop environment. What is
the exact name
> dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libalkimia4' missing;
> assuming package has no files currently installed
This is okay. We'll just reinstall the package once apt is working
again.
> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
> files list file for package 'libgwenhywfar60' is
> sudo apt install -f gets me the same error
Try this:
$ sudo apt install --reinstall libalkimia4
and if that doesn't work try this:
$ apt download libalkimia4 && sudo dpkg -i libalkimia4*.deb
and if that doesn't work try this:
$ sudo apt purge libalkimia4 && sudo apt install libalkimia4
> Everything worked fine after I installed kwin and rebooted my laptop.
Cool, I'm glad you have it working now.
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> 1. The menu in IceDove, ABrowser and other firefox
> based browser like Tor Browser and IceCat has a
> transparent border around it. I believe this is an
> issue in how compton does shadows and I think the fix
> is to exclude shadows for argb with these firefox based
> programs.
>
> "class_g =
> Running Trisquel 8 and When I sudo apt-get upgrade I get the following error:
>
> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
> files list file for package 'libalkimia4' is missing final newline
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>
> Also, am not able to install or
> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
> files list file for package 'libalkimia4' is missing final newline
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Okay, it seems like apt isn't going to let us do anything while that
corrupted file is in there. Do
$ sudo rm
> it is shiny
I can assure you that no one working on Trisquel has time to spend on
major cosmetic improvements. It would be nice if we did, so that we
could get our Gtk theme to have the correct window buttons for
applications with client-side decorations. Instead, cleaning up after
Ubuntu
> Removed libkabc4 ran commands which now says libofx6:amd64 is missing final
newline
I have found some threads online where people experienced this issue. In
some cases there was only one corrupted package and removing
[thepackage].list was enough. In other cases many packages were
> Yes the files in c: drive, not the os. I think it will need
> re-formatting and that will wipe all data, although there is a backup.
> Just wondered if it was possible to install linux without wiping data
> with a re-format.
Sorry, no. You'll need to backup your files to another medium and
I just upgraded and experienced the same issue. Since liberpoolesque
reported that Abrowser 72 works with a fresh install of Trisquel, I suspected
that there has been some non-backward-incompatible change Firefox making
older profiles files invalid. I ran
$ mv .mozilla/abrowser
I found that it was the "network.captive-portal-service.enabled" setting
that cause the segfault for me. Editing ~/.mozilla/abrowser/user.js (if
you don't have user.js, edit prefs.js instead) and changing this setting
from 'true' to 'false' fixed the issue for me.
quidam was unable to replicate
Last year, Magic Banana explained to me how to configure backups to
another machine over my local network. I have been using it to backup
my Trisquel laptop onto another machine running Hyperbola. This is my
last machine still running Hyperbola, and I would now like to wipe it
and install
> 3. The program torbrowser-launcher does not work by default. I had to
> follow the steps below to get it working.
Sorry, this is a wontfix. Since it's a downloader instead of a proper
package, quidam does not want to include it in Trisquel at all.
I think I can fix the compton thing, but I
> I have installed mysql-server but ran into one problem. According to
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-ubuntu-18-04
What do you need this server to do? I recommend installing and setting
up what you need as you need it. You may
> I would like to recover a directory which I deleted from my Desktop
> directory several months ago. My understanding is that I should be
> able to do this in Caja by right clicking and selecting "Restore
> Missing Files..." When I do this, a window pops up which says that it
> is scanning for
Trisquel 9's version of Linphone is now available in Trisquel 8's
backports repository. Make sure that you have the backports repository
enabled (let me know if you need help with this), install the new
version, and let me know if you run into the same issue.
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> Do you know if Déjà Dup was tested again for Trisquel 9? Were the
> bugs still present? If not, what justified the the choice of Back In
> Time? Is that choice definitive?
I actually did not realize that deja-dup is not installed by default in
Trisquel 9, because I upgraded from Trisquel 8.
> I believed the rather detrimental change was justified by Déjà Dup
> (and possibly duplicity) not being maintained: we were doomed to
> suffer from its bugs for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, I
> discovered it is not the case:
deja-dup is still being maintained in Debian,[1] so I don't
> As far as I know, SeaMonkey is free software.
It is on Trisquel's purge list.[1] I'm not sure of the reason. Perhaps
it has similar restrictions to other Mozilla software (Firefox,
Thunderbird)?
[1]
https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/ubuntu-purge/blob/master/purge-bionic#L113
> * It's not free software.
Can you please link to some proof of this (such a file with a non-free
or missing license)? I have heard the claim that Chromium has files
with unclear licensing, but when I looked into it I was unable to find a
current example of such a file.
> Why do people "need"
> I guess I'm giving up on being able to fix this Mullvad issue. I did
> what you said and brought the config file over, but due to the older
> kernel OpenVPN won't work on Trisquel without updating the kernel.
I didn't realize this. I thought it was just the Mullvad client.
> I'm not that
> 1. I can confirm that settings fixes the issue. Adding the following
> onto the default compton command resolves this issue with the
> transparent box around the menus: --shadow-exclude "class_g =
> 'Firefox' && argb" --shadow-exclude "class_g = 'Abrowser' && argb"
> --shadow-exclude "class_g =
> Contents of libofx6.amd64.list file shows this:
> ^@^@^@^@^@^WL|ٴ���*~^�*~^�*~^^@^@^@^@
> @^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@]��
I see. The script I linked to is intended for otherwise valid files which
are just missing a newline character. All it does is check for files missing
a newline and
All of the reference I can find online to you error message are kind of old,
and the version of Linphone in Trisquel 8 is kind of old. It's possible that
a newer version will work better. I have backported Trisquel 9's version of
Linphone to Trisquel 8.[1] At tomorrow's meeting I will ask
> I'm guessing I need a even more updated kernel for Mullvad as it still
> doesn't work.
Does work how? What did you try, what did you expect, and what happened
instead?
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> I never thought of that, but I bet you're right. I just don't mess
> around in TOR at all.
Why not? While a VPN is better for some uses (Tor is unsuitable for
BitTorrent for example), in most situations Tor is better. With a VPN,
you have a single point of failure. Your IP address and web
> Tails, very probably Mint, probably Fedora, possibly Suse, Xubuntu,
> Ubuntu.
Hm. I think those distros all include non-free firmware. Have you ever
tried it with Debian main?
> This is the worst and only Trisquel 7 does this
That makes me worry that this could be an issue with non-free
> Contents of python3.list:
>
> /.
> /usr
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/lintian
> /usr/share/lintian/overrides
> /usr/share/lintian/overrides/python3
> /usr/share/doc
> /usr/share/doc/python3
> /usr/share/doc/python3/copyright
> /usr/share/man
> /usr/share/man/man1
> /usr/share/pixmaps
>
> Whats the speed using your X60 with TOR ?
Tor Browser used to be quite slow, but it has gotten better, partly
because Tor itself is no longer as slow as it used to be, and partly
because Firefox has gotten faster. It takes a while to start up
> Is TOR safe to use as your everyday browser like
> Sorry for hijacking this thread but wouldn't Ungoogled Chromium be a
> great addition for future Trisquel releases? I think most of the
> people that install Brave on Linux distros do so because they need a
> chromium-based browser. (for certain addons most likely?) Ungoogled
> Chromium would be
> Why do people say not to use a VPN with TOR ?? I would think you
> should use a VPN, but the TOR site said or says not to ( I feel like
> I've read on their site you don't need to use a VPN, but this was a
> year or so ago, maybe things have changed )
I have read reasons that
You -> Tor -> VPN
> I greatly appreciate your effort to help me; would you please tell me
> whether you would prefer to look into this BEFORE or AFTER you finish
> and properly release Trisquel 9?
We can look into it now. If there is something we can do to better
support AMD GPUs in Trisquel 9 using only free
> I currently have the netinstall on the USB as downloading the larger iso
> over TOR seems to be infeasible.
If you don't require anonymity and are only using Tails because it's
what you have that's bootable, I think Tails has an "Unsafe Browser"
which connects to the clearnet. When using Tails
> When trying to boot into the hard drive I got an error message “failed
> to boot both default and fallback entries” I couldn’t get the entire
> message because it timed out.
Does another error appear immediately before?
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> So two things I'd like to try:
> Reaccess the GUI of the target user 'jais'.
The fact that you can log into a graphical session as another user means
that the problem is not system-wide, but specific to your user's
configuration. It is likely that the culprit is in your .config
directory.
> I currently have the netinstall on the USB as downloading the larger iso
> over TOR seems to be infeasible.
And you can't boot into the netinstall? Do you have a working Trisquel
8 system? If so, you can try upgrading to Trisquel 9. In
/etc/apt/sources.list, replace every instance of
> I've only used Mullvad with OpenVPN. I'm VERY new to Linux and honestly
> could never figure out how to install the app. I would give it a try if I
> knew how to install it.
https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/releases/download/2018.6/MullvadVPN-2018.6_amd64.deb
I have found that newer
> The Libreboot screen is seen for a lil bit then it automatically
> chooses ‘Load Operating System’ and then says ‘’Failed to boot both
> default and fallback entries.’ Then it says press any key to continue
> to take me back to the libreboot main screen
Something important is likely missing. I
> What about having a web-based app store, like Mint does, or the
> Firefox addons site?
I spent several weeks migrating gnome-app-install from python2->python2,
gtk2->gtk3, and gksu->pkexec, and fixing a bunch of long-standing bugs,
so we're using it. :)
Since it's no longer maintained
> I don’t think that I can enter a live cd environment
> with the netinstall, should I download the graphical
> iso for this?
I thought you weren't able to download the graphical ISO.
> Or should I be booting into live usb
> tails and then inserting the Trisquel usb and managing
> it through a
> Nevermind! I was able to reinstall the Trisquel 9 netinstall and did not
> use LVM this time. I am able to see my computer name on tty1. This means
> I am able to execute commands and install a DE. Thank you so much for
> helping but it seems LVM was the perpetrator.
Cool, I'm glad you have it
> I finished my first digital work.
It looks great! Did you do it all in Inkscape?
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> I'm on the mailing list. I cannot see the artwork.
https://trisquel.info/files/C85CFE61-70DA-4399-8334-7A0963AFCF75.jpeg
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> The Alt key solved the problem. But Krita still requires "at least
> OpenGL 2.0 or ES 2.0". The current installed version seems to be
> OpenGL 1.4.
It sounds like Krita the X60 graphics card might be too old for Krita.
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> > Everything in Debian's main repository (including pip) is under a
> > free license.
>
> Since Pip is used to install proprietary software, it's odd that
> Debian has not put Pip into contrib.
Debian would probably only move it to contrib if it *required* non-free
software. Same goes for
> On the contrary I would like to ask, for my purpose, which editor is
> suitable for my purpose do you think? I tried to use Gimp, I clicked an
> icon that seemed to function as a pen. I moved the digitizer on the
> tablet to draw something and, indeed, the pointer on the screen moved,
> too. But
> Since you asked for any issue that we run into. I'd like to complain
> (again) that the download site (still) hasn't HTTPS correctly configured.
Sorry about that. I let David know about this the first time you
mentioned it, but did not hear back. I'll try to remember to ask quidam
about it at
> Thank You !! I use Mullvad and didn't have any issues using Mullvad with
> OpenVpn on Debian 10 They even have a page for specifically installing it
> on Ubuntu and Debian.
I also use Mullvad, and on Trisquel I just use their app. It's nice to
be able to switch servers when I run into
> Ah I see. I guess what I have is PCI already then since I installed it
> where my other wifi card used to be. I suppose I just need to figure out
> the specific type to get them on eBay not that i need one anymore.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you meant you had one of these.
> I don't know if this is important, but I'm using a think X60 /
> librebooted / Think Penguin external wifi antenna / I have removed the
> wifi card that was inside the computer.
If it is librebooted, then you have the option of replacing the WiFi
card, and since you removed the original WiFi
> Where do you get those PCI cards?
I got mine on Ebay.
> Do they have Bluetooth also?
I think that with the Atheros ath9k cards only WiFi works without
non-free software, not Bluetooth.
> I have some older laptops that have a separate PCI slot... I don't
> really understand the difference
> Through messing around with the command line, I have somehow made it
> impossible to login again to the GUI of main account I use on my
> system.
What did you do? Were you installing/removing packages? It's possible
that something important got removed. Try running
$ sudo apt install
> There are a lot of pen tablets of Wacom, Huion, XP-PEN etc.
It seems that Wacom tablets often work with free software and should be
supported by Trisquel's "xserver-xorg-input-wacom" package. However, I
can't promise that all Wacom models will work, particularly newer
models, so it depends on
> With pip such a fundamental part of Python
Pip is not a fundamental part of Python,
> it upsets me that this is not free, that the repositories it uses are
> not free
but it's a common way to distribute Python packages, so it's unfortunate
that the PyPi repository contains non-free software.
> I can afford to get a pen tablet. I checked h-node but there seemed no
> reported graphic tablets. Do those both all pen tablets and all LCD
> graphic tablets require proprietary something?
It seems that h-node does not have a section for pen tablets. However,
searching the web it looks like
> Based on a few days' use from the live USB, Trisquel 9 works just
> fine. I'm glad to see that the volume app won't crash when scrolled
> on the icon in the panel. I used to suffer from that nuisance a lot.
In Flidas we used a combination of indicators, applets, and systray
icons. In Etiona
That's odd. First, to determine whether or not this is an Abrowser issue,
run
$ curl -L mullvad.net
(if curl is not installed then install it via Synaptic or with "sudo apt
install curl")
This should print to the terminal the HTML source for Mullvad's homepage. If
it works, then this
> Hi everyone, while trying to install Trisquel 9's netinstall and
> graphical install I came across an unusual problem.
Can you please report this issue in a comment here?
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/26430
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> I have some feedback below, I hope some of it will be useful.
Thanks for your detailed feedback.
> The order in which I am listing my issues is not by how much they
> bother me, but aims to make this more readable. My worst headaches
> would be 1 · 9 · 15 · 17 · 22 · 23.
I will start be
> chaosmonk, any idea of when Trisquel Mini is gonna be ready?
Sorry, no. We haven't even discussed Trisquel Mini. I'll bring it up
at the next meeting.
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> I just recently tried installing Gnome desktop in Trisquel 9 but I am
> unable to. There seems to be a dependecy issue. I did not take note of
> the missing dependencies (sorry).
You may be able see in /var/log/apt/history.log what they were, or just
reattempt installation.
>"sudo apt install
> gnome-shell : Depends: ubuntu-wallpapers but it is not installable
ubuntu-wallpapers isn't in the repo. It's one of the packages we
purge.[1] We need to either (a) modify gnome-shell's control file to
remove the dependency on ubuntu-wallpapers, (b) make it depend on
trisquel-wallpapers
> Not sure what you mean by "control file".
Dependencies are specified in `debian/control` in a "Depends:" block.
Removing this line[1] or changing it to "trisquel-wallpapers" would make
gnome-shell installable. However, other packages may depend on
ubuntu-wallpapers too, in which case it would
> Still unable to access the GUI of jais, but I did manage to move the
> files into terracemill. I did not run chown -R, I simply copied them
> over with "# cp -a /home/jais/* /home/terracemill/jais-files". I am
> operating from the terracemill GUI, and I seem to have no problem
> accessing the
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