[Tfug] Today's meeting

[Garrett Weaver]

Marcia,

Yes, I am on Debian Jessie; yes, I have installed sudo. I installed sudo to
be able to run things like apt-get without having to log in as root.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:51 PM, marcia wilbur <marcia.k.wilbur at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>>
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