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General Questions • is security.debian.org broken

that may be truei haven't tried updates/upgradesi was looking at the directory structure and the filesor trying toStatistics: Posted by fxkl47BF — 2024-05-19 18:12 — Replies 4 — Views 95

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Forum information, requests, and feedback. • [Best-Of] Threads for the week.

[Software] pulling in sid-packages to stable to make hardware work / a good idea?“you're likely going to see apt skipping stable updates [...] you may also find one day that semingly unrelated...

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System and Network configuration • Wireguard on an ARM64 board with self...

That seems like just trying stuff without understanding how it really works.Surely there is a definitive kernel option that makes the nft protocol work.The suggestions you have already received from...

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General Debian • Why do you use debian?

Stable. Good for gaming, large library of games and other software. Easy to install, easy to manage, and like the only os that does not force wayland onto youStatistics: Posted by vincentkanin —...

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General Questions • [Solved] update-grub fails (use rEFInd instead!)

Grub works fine for multi-boot. I use it on four computers and several multi-boot VMs. If you don't like it, take a look at rEFInd. rEFInd is my new friend. Tried for hours to get systemd-boot working...

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Forum information, requests, and feedback. • [Forum] Verification emails not...

What email provider are you supposed to use then?!Looks like you used Gmail to register. Possibly the issue is solved as donald posted in his message above.Statistics: Posted by sunrat — 2024-05-20...

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Beginners Questions • [Software] Best System Snapshot: grsync, backintime,...

Maybe someone else can understand what you're trying to say, but I can't. Good luck.Simply, I am asking what is the best app to take system snapshots. Is it worth it converting or reinstalling with...

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Testing And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] Laptop idling at over 30 Watts

This just started happening so I think it might be due to the latest upgrade. It makes no difference if I shut everything down except the terminal. When I do "top" there doesn't seem to be anything...

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Beginners Questions • Is installing NVidia driver worth it?

I thought I had answered the question but was not 100% sure. My hope was that I do not need to install the NVidia driver because it is one more thing to manage and it recently caused me some havoc...

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Graphical Environments & Desktops • screen flickering on stable with KDE...

I think, that information about system and graphics could be useful here (e.g. to find similar error, or try to find cause by try to change driver, kernel, etc.)E.g.Code: inxi --edid -S -zHow exactly...

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Graphical Environments & Desktops • Does Gnome updates now use appstream...

Just what I found.packagekit package:/usr/share/doc/packagekit/README.DebianThe following components of PackageKit aren't shipped in the packages: - cron job: APT does this already, no need for...

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General Questions • [Software] only one tab visible when returning to firefox

Interesting...was this a full screen issue or a multiple tabs disappearing issue? Was the original issue that when you are in full screen with multiple tabs open, the problem appears? If F11 is...

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Programming • unable to build chromium package: rustc-web

It fails after installing Code: librust-web-sys-dev. As a debian user, I assumed I would be able to build it any debian package from source simply using Code: apt-get source Code: apt-get build-dep...

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Hardware • invert colors results in extremely bright, white unreadable screen...

Thanks, it is somewhat helpful. Although I still think I have a graphics driver issue, since even without color inversion my screen is often too bright to read most non-black text on white background...

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Installation • Install Debian on Mint Partition

Here are a few links to get you started...Debian Install Instructions from Debian.org ... Install BookwormDebian Install Instructions from forum member Hallvor... Install Bookworm by HallvorDownload...

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General Questions • [Software] bash root clamav clamscan - can't scan folder

I was using kde5 and last destro before Debian had a plain folder with no symlink icon. Clamav's last version in terminal showed the scan of the '/bin/' folder. KDE upgraded was to v6, does this now?...

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Installation • [Solved] Undetermined error with apt update

Note: marked the topic as [Solved].Statistics: Posted by fabien — 2024-05-21 19:12 — Replies 34 — Views 677

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Testing And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] apt-dist-upgrade removes LXQT??

LXQt has different meta-packages for installation lxqt-core gives the basics (core components) and the lxqt package is all the bells and whistles and then some.The link that @anticapitalista shared...

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Hardware • GPU question.

The AMDGPU open source driver covers products since the Volcanic Islands series of cards, ~2013 onward. Anything older than that will probably fall back to the older opensource radeon driver.I've...

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Beginners Questions • bash variables, newlines and double-quotes...

Hi,could somebody point me to the formal explanation for this behaviour please?Code: $ JUNK=$(seq 1 4)$ echo "$JUNK"1234$ echo $JUNK1 2 3 4Statistics: Posted by bitrat — 2024-05-21 21:58 — Replies 0 —...

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