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- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Oh, no! Not the dreaded black/blank screen thing!!! Noooooo!!!!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 497
Re: Oh, no! Not the dreaded black/blank screen thing!!! Noooooo!!!!
Furthermore, perhaps you (Asqwerth, DukeComposed or anyone else) can explain why I can get the fully-functional desktop in systemd, but only to the login prompt (not lightDM) in sysVinit ? I have always used sysVinit. What broke to cause that dichotomy? if the lightdm-modified-init package is missi...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: MX News and Announcements
- Topic: MX is 10!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 268
MX is 10!
The first release of MX, MX-14, a 32 bit only release that fit on a CD, was turned loose on March 24, 2014.
I threw together a little retrospective. https://youtu.be/nJ9MMfPN00A
So to all the devs and users, thank you for the last 10 years, they've been great!
I threw together a little retrospective. https://youtu.be/nJ9MMfPN00A
So to all the devs and users, thank you for the last 10 years, they've been great!
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:04 pm
- Forum: Software / Configuration
- Topic: MX Repo Manager Selects Wrong Repo Bug
- Replies: 1
- Views: 54
Re: MX Repo Manager Selects Wrong Repo Bug
thanks will fix for next iso.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Software / Configuration
- Topic: I was trying to install the package "libfreetype6_2.13.2" (in my VM) [Solved]
- Replies: 8
- Views: 129
Re: I was trying to install the package "libfreetype6_2.13.2" (in my VM) [Solved]
because the version of libfreetype you are replacing is a dependency of all those packages.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Software / Configuration
- Topic: I was trying to install the package "libfreetype6_2.13.2" (in my VM) [Solved]
- Replies: 8
- Views: 129
Re: I was trying to install the package "libfreetype6_2.13.2" (in my VM) [Solved]
It installed. It just means the apt actions happened outside a sandbox.
But looking at the output you may have removed things you didn’t want to remove.
But looking at the output you may have removed things you didn’t want to remove.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to get MX a place at the MS Entra ID table
- Replies: 6
- Views: 111
Re: How to get MX a place at the MS Entra ID table
better question is how do they tell the difference between MX and debian. we do not alter the debian_version file or the os-release, so most things should ID mx as debian. unless they are checking something like lsb-release, which in that case that could be edited to match debian's os-release file. ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Bugs and Non-Package Requests Forum
- Topic: groff not working properly
- Replies: 6
- Views: 125
Re: groff not working properly
thank you.
those files are failing to be created initially when groff is installed during iso build. But I can fix the issue. Thanks for the report.
I can't help current installations but I can fix it on the iso builds.
those files are failing to be created initially when groff is installed during iso build. But I can fix the issue. Thanks for the report.
I can't help current installations but I can fix it on the iso builds.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:04 am
- Forum: Bugs and Non-Package Requests Forum
- Topic: groff not working properly
- Replies: 6
- Views: 125
Re: groff not working properly
what file is missing (filename and path)
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:55 am
- Forum: Hardware /Configuration
- Topic: Question on booting a persistent USB installation in Virtualbox
- Replies: 4
- Views: 82
Re: Question on booting a persistent USB installation in Virtualbox
If you have an iso with the same kernel as the usb, you can start boot from the iso and hand off to the live usb with the from=hd boot code. That’s what I usually do.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:50 am
- Forum: Software / Configuration
- Topic: user managment utility?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 89
Re: user managment utility?
Make sure a root account has an active password. If you did not set a root password at install do this first. sudo passwd root And complete those steps. They take effect immediately. Then in mx tweak set the gui authentication to use the root password. This step takes effect immediately. Then take y...