On Thursday 27 August 2020 09:38:08 am William Morder via trinity-users wrote:

Okay guys, so I am stumped and confuzzled.

I just did an upgrade to Devuan Beowulf (= Debian Buster), and everything went fine; except once up and running, I couldn't download more than a few of Trinity's packages.

After trying different repositories, and playing with my sources list, I managed to do just a bit better, then I saved the day with some extreme voodoo using about config (scrolling through the manpages to find something that work). I ended up getting enough the Trinity packages to download by using --ignore-hold and dselect-upgrade options. I even searched out the links to deb packages on the developers' repositories, and downloaded them with wget, so that I could try forcing install using dpkg.

Now at least (at last) I do have a working system which is a reasonable facsimile of my previous one, but it does seem like it ought to have been easier. For about the past three days now, I've lived in the command-line.

Also I would like recommendations for a firewall that displays active connections and rules, etc., like the old Firestarter used to do. I catch all kinds of problems by noticing activity on my firewall, but now I cannot seem to find one that displays active connections, and Firestarter can no longer be hacked to make it work on a newer system.

Hi Bill,

Ah, yeah, something’s wrong with Devuan Beowulf then? Maybe a bad base install? I installed MX19 (Debian Buster) a month ago and had zero problems installing TDE on it (other than my own typo’s). For various testing I’ve installed it to two machines about 6 to 8 times since.

Also I would like recommendations for a firewall that displays active connections and rules

The firewall I’m using is this (which does both of those):

michael@local [~]# aptitude show gufw Package: gufw Version: 18.10.0-1 State: installed Automatically installed: no Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Python Applications Packaging Team python-apps-team@lists.alioth.debian.org Architecture: all Uncompressed Size: 3,534 k Depends: gir1.2-gtk-3.0, gir1.2-webkit2-4.0, policykit-1, python3-gi, ufw (>= 0.34~rc), python3:any Description: graphical user interface for ufw gufw is an easy and intuitive way to manage your Linux firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common p2p, or individual port(s), and many others! Homepage: https://gufw.org/ Tags: admin::configuring, implemented-in::python, interface::graphical, interface::x11, network::firewall, role::program, scope::utility, security::firewall, uitoolkit::gtk, use::configuring, x11::application

active connections> Report tab rules > Rules tab

It came included in MX (guessing it’s standard Buster). ufw (backend of gufw) does seem to spam your log files though with with [UFW BLOCK] and [UFW AUDIT] entries*, so I eventually turned ufw logging off.

In: Edit, Preferences

HTH!, Michael

* Filled a 50GB root partition in 30 days. https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=60085

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