[Tfug] Today's meeting

[marcia wilbur]

Using sudo on Debian? Is that correct?

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Garrett Weaver <wagarrettweaver at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It was a great meeting, really enjoyed it. I completely agree the latest
> version of openScad is on backports
> <https://packages.debian.org/testing/graphics/openscad>, so I don't see
> any reason to create a backport for it. I'm hoping I can just install the
> testing version. I'm messing something up on the installation though.
> I added the backport line to my sources.list file
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main
> $ sudo apt-get update
> Did this guy
> $ sudo apt-get install -t jessie-backports "openscad"
> but I got this
> $ openscad --version
> OpenSCAD version 2014.03 (Not 2015.03)
> And this
> $ sudo apt-cache policy -t jessie-backports "openscad"
> openscad:
>   Installed: 2014.03+dfsg-1
>   Candidate: 2014.03+dfsg-1
>   Version table:
>  *** 2014.03+dfsg-1 0
>         500 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/ jessie/main amd64
> Packages
>         500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Unfortunately there's no troubleshooting section on the Debian backports
> instructions page, so if things don't work the way it should, users are
> left to guess. So I've run sudo apt-get upgrade, logged out and in again,
> and changed the order of sources in my sources.list file (just in case that
> matters), but saw not changes in output.
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks to everyone who came to today's meeting.
>>
>> Here's a few hyperlinks to follow up our discussion:
>>
>> Garrett wanted to run the latest version of openscad on Debian Jessie.
>> There isn't currently a backport.  This is a simple guide to making one:
>> https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation
>>
>> If that fails, you could submit a request to the openscad package
>> maintainer.  Use the `reportbug` command on a Debian system.
>>
>> Michael was interested in ensuring the longterm integrity of backups to
>> removable media.  It was suggested that he take a look at git-annex
>> (easily installable with apt-get).  Here is an introductory video:
>> https://downloads.kitenet.net/videos/git-annex/git-annex-lan.webm
>>
>> --
>> Sean Whitton
>>
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