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Hi, Jonas<br>
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I created unallocated space of 50gb and installed debian. During the
installation it was unable to set up networking because of two
missing 'proprietary' files.<br>
I did deselect all (it was a different message about installing
related software). The result is that Debian boots to the login
prompt. The command <br>
apt install sucrose lightdm fails for lack of network support.<br>
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This install was on the second laptop. The preferred laptop has
uefi's protected boot. I was able to get around this to install
ubuntu but don't remember the process. It involves entering a user
password supplied by the manufacturer somewhere. <br>
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UEFI claims to be a more robust replacement for BIOS - a solution
which has worked very reliably for over a quarter century. In my
experience UEFI has invariably been an obstacle to overcome and has
never come close to its claim to supplant the need for grub.<br>
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Tony<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/22/2017 09:02 PM, Jonas
Smedegaard wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Quoting James Cameron (2017-04-22 11:45:06)
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 10:14:50AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> 1) Download the installer for soon-to-become-stable Debian Stretch:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/">https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/</a>
2) When asked mid-way through install what to include, deselect all
3) Log in as root, and run this command:
apt install sucrose lightdm
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4) run this command:
service lightdm start
5) in the greeter, change to Sugar rather than the default X session,
6) log in as the non-root user created during install.
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Thanks, James!
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<pre wrap="">Existing bugs reproduced;
- Write #848838 "constant flicker of cursor and document" is most
likely AbiWord #851052 (orphaned), and I'm working to test an
AbiWord patch for it,
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Yes, I saw your conversation with pabs when I got up today. Looking
forward to progress on that.
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<pre wrap="">- Browse #848840 "does not start, complains about collabwrapper",
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Sebastian is (maybe) working on this...
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<pre wrap="">- Journal #848841 "multiple select does not show actions toolbar" is
fixed upstream, though I've not got the exact commit handy,
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Perhaps <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar</a> commit 2752c4b - referencing
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4971">https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4971</a> ?
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<pre wrap="">New bug reported for Jukebox, waiting for the bug number; possibly
related to #554906 but also a problem with Python path, fixed upstream
sugar-toolkit-gtk3 495eed8 "Prepend instead of append to path".
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Fixed. Thanks!
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<pre wrap="">For what it is worth;
- #849092 "Port to Python 3 and python3-gst-1.0" is not yet planned to
be fixed upstream, we're still on Python 2.x, but I do appreciate
the problem.
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Yeah, that's a major task not suitable for Stretch (next Debian release)
but certainly valuable for future releases - and for derivatives like
Ubuntu with faster release cycles too, so preferrably _long_ before
Buster (the next-next Debian release).
- Jonas
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