[Tfug] Today's meeting

[marcia wilbur]

I think you would have to install sudo... I mean, you could, but why ??
why!!! anyway, sorry I missed it.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:47 PM, marcia wilbur <marcia.k.wilbur at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
>>> Subscription Options:
>>> http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
>> Subscription Options:
>> http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tfug.org/pipermail/tfug_tfug.org/attachments/20160911/2f0cbb90/attachment-0001.html>