13 Sep
2024
13 Sep
'24
3:28 a.m.
On Thursday 12 September 2024 19:37:35 dep via tde-users wrote:
said Dan Youngquist via tde-users:
| You're trying to install them with apt. You may have missed the
| instructions on that page to manually download and install them:
|
| "Manually install debian keyrings from packages.debian.org (search
| debian-keyring and debian-archive-keyring packages, get the download
| link, wget it and do dpkg -i debian-*.deb on the machine."
Thanks -- still puzzled by the wget aspect -- thought that was merely
another way to get a package. anyway, that, done like that, seems to have
done the trick. Still a lot of stuff blowing up, but I suppose I can sort
through that. If not, I may never be heard from again. Don't everyone
applaud at once.
My own recommendation (and others may disagree): If you are the sole user on
your machine(s), don't have to act as admin for others, then save yourself a
world of hurt by (ticking YES) to enable shadow passwords, and (ticking NO)
not to enable login as root.
On Debian-type machines, this caused me problems which delayed my own
migration over to Debian. And now at last I have settled on Devuan, at least
for the moment, but that is another matter.
Bill