30 Nov
2021
30 Nov
'21
4:51 p.m.
On Tue November 30 2021 16:41:41 Hunter Ellett via tde-users wrote:
This is a bit of an offshoot but if I recall you were
the one who told me
you use Debian with sysvinit. How did you manage to get it to work? I use
Devuan at the moment (albeit with almost every TDE app memory leaking..),
but I am aware Debian is opening up to more init systems. I tried Debian a
month or so ago and following the wiki's guide to switch inits during
installation. While I was successful in changing to sysvinit, I couldn't
install packages like synaptic (and more) without it prompting to replace
sysvinit with systemd again. Is there something you did to prevent this?
Hi Hunter,
For Bullseye I also block usrmerge so I have a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d
which starts with:
# BLOCK usrmerge
Package: usrmerge
Pin: version *
Pin-Priority: -1000
# BLOCK *systemd* AND upstart
Package: *systemd*:* upstart:*
Pin: version *
Pin-Priority: -1000
(Buster was a little trickier as I still needed libsystemd0 back then.)
FWIW I just successfully installed and then uninstalled synaptic although
I don't normally use it.
--Mike