A Rolling Release Debian? Install The -Unstable- Branch! DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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ShadowMancer
Few mistakes here that are not really recommended and outright dangerous. 17:20 you should not use standard editor directly to edit sudoers file. Instead you should be using -visudo- for that. It will open normal editor, but there is critical difference. Visudo actually verifies the config file you edited is -correct- before applying it. With just normal editor you could break the config file and now sudo is totally broken. If you don't have access to root, your machine is practically bricked. So always use visudo to edit sudoers file.
Also in the install phase, enabling root login is a security risk. You should never enable it. If for some reason you really need it, then password login should be disabled. Also in standard install if you don't give root a password, it will automatically add first user to create to sudoers file. So the above step is unnecessary.
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Few mistakes here that are not really recommended and outright dangerous. 17:20 you should not use standard editor directly to edit sudoers file. Instead you should be using -visudo- for that. It will open normal editor, but there is critical difference. Visudo actually verifies the config file you edited is -correct- before applying it. With just normal editor you could break the config file and now sudo is totally broken. If you don't have access to root, your machine is practically bricked. So always use visudo to edit sudoers file.
Also in the install phase, enabling root login is a security risk. You should never enable it. If for some reason you really need it, then password login should be disabled. Also in standard install if you don't give root a password, it will automatically add first user to create to sudoers file. So the above step is unnecessary.
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David
I just got LMDE 5 and am running it off USB-- and it recognized my wifi INSTANTLY-- version 4 couldn't be FORCED to run it. I think i-m just going back to MINT since it's the debian issue- and I can customize it any way I like- even more than regular mint..(I hope I'm correct on that).. I'm tired of hopping- and getting kinda tired of all the fancy stuff- I think I'll just stick with this- it WORKS and will stay this way for a LONG time...which I like and need. I wish POP OS- would be all in RUST-- I like it- simply because of the tiling it does.. THAT is the only thing I miss with this LMDE 5!!!
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I just got LMDE 5 and am running it off USB-- and it recognized my wifi INSTANTLY-- version 4 couldn't be FORCED to run it. I think i-m just going back to MINT since it's the debian issue- and I can customize it any way I like- even more than regular mint..(I hope I'm correct on that).. I'm tired of hopping- and getting kinda tired of all the fancy stuff- I think I'll just stick with this- it WORKS and will stay this way for a LONG time...which I like and need. I wish POP OS- would be all in RUST-- I like it- simply because of the tiling it does.. THAT is the only thing I miss with this LMDE 5!!!
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Eugene
So I've decided to install a brand new Debian Sid. Installed the base system, changed sources and updated everything, installed xorg and wanted to install the base version of gnome (gnome-core). And apt tells me that gnome-core cannot be installed because the version of Nautilus is too high for some packages. Oh it is so good to live on a bleeding edge without a DE of choice. Nice, nice, very nice. Point is: the Testing branch is the way to go.
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So I've decided to install a brand new Debian Sid. Installed the base system, changed sources and updated everything, installed xorg and wanted to install the base version of gnome (gnome-core). And apt tells me that gnome-core cannot be installed because the version of Nautilus is too high for some packages. Oh it is so good to live on a bleeding edge without a DE of choice. Nice, nice, very nice. Point is: the Testing branch is the way to go.
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Алексей
The Expert install is too verbose as it asks just about everything. There's a better way: on the first screen that says Install (which you told not to use) hit Tab and enter -suite=unstable-, then hit Enter and proceed with the normal installation as usual. This will have the same effect as selecting unstable during the Expert installation, but without the hassle of needing to answer like 3 times more questions in the process.
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The Expert install is too verbose as it asks just about everything. There's a better way: on the first screen that says Install (which you told not to use) hit Tab and enter -suite=unstable-, then hit Enter and proceed with the normal installation as usual. This will have the same effect as selecting unstable during the Expert installation, but without the hassle of needing to answer like 3 times more questions in the process.
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Patrick
Hy DT. Im a linux user for over 6 years now. I just bought a new Dell laptop. It's a Latitude 3510. I also have a Dell Inspiron 5000. When i try install Debian 10 on the Inspiron, everythings goes well. But when i try install it on the Latitude, the system wont let me boot into the installer. Im wonder what could be the problem. Or maybe the settings on the latitude is what causing the problem. Can you help?
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Hy DT. Im a linux user for over 6 years now. I just bought a new Dell laptop. It's a Latitude 3510. I also have a Dell Inspiron 5000. When i try install Debian 10 on the Inspiron, everythings goes well. But when i try install it on the Latitude, the system wont let me boot into the installer. Im wonder what could be the problem. Or maybe the settings on the latitude is what causing the problem. Can you help?
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Aela
I used to use this because most Ubuntu tutorials work on it but then I found myself going to the Arch wiki in order to find solutions to my issues and was like... I might as well just use Arch it has slightly newer packages too
Edit: also if you just leave the root password blank it automatically makes the normal user able to do stuff with sudo
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I used to use this because most Ubuntu tutorials work on it but then I found myself going to the Arch wiki in order to find solutions to my issues and was like... I might as well just use Arch it has slightly newer packages too
Edit: also if you just leave the root password blank it automatically makes the normal user able to do stuff with sudo
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Mike
I would personally use testing instead of sid. If you need anything not in testing then apt pin the packages from sid. I-ve used Debian for over 20 years and use stable for servers, testing for desktop and Sid/experimental for building packages. It also depends on which port you have, a large amount of hardware ports exist only in unstable.
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I would personally use testing instead of sid. If you need anything not in testing then apt pin the packages from sid. I-ve used Debian for over 20 years and use stable for servers, testing for desktop and Sid/experimental for building packages. It also depends on which port you have, a large amount of hardware ports exist only in unstable.
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Lee
I'm rolling Debian unstable in a VM but I installed through the stable non-free cinnamon ISO, then modified the apt sources list to point to sid.
I've always used visudo to modify sudoers file, it supposedly performs a sanity check.
you only needed to add the dt user to the sudo group:
usermod -aG sudo dt
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I'm rolling Debian unstable in a VM but I installed through the stable non-free cinnamon ISO, then modified the apt sources list to point to sid.
I've always used visudo to modify sudoers file, it supposedly performs a sanity check.
you only needed to add the dt user to the sudo group:
usermod -aG sudo dt
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itech
To sudo in Debian: leave the root password blank during installation.
To use the root user instead: set a root password during installation or later with -sudo passwd root- (no, it's not unsafe, and administrative separation between the user account and root account is the traditional GNU/Linux way).
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To sudo in Debian: leave the root password blank during installation.
To use the root user instead: set a root password during installation or later with -sudo passwd root- (no, it's not unsafe, and administrative separation between the user account and root account is the traditional GNU/Linux way).
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Anders
Need to be noted: Usually you don't want to set password for root user. Because then sudo(8) will be installed and then the user will be added to sudo group.
If you set root password, then sudo(8) will not be installed.
This IS described in the page comments where root password is asked.
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Need to be noted: Usually you don't want to set password for root user. Because then sudo(8) will be installed and then the user will be added to sudo group.
If you set root password, then sudo(8) will not be installed.
This IS described in the page comments where root password is asked.
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