Okay folks, Debian ain’t all sunshine and roses when Nvidia’s involved. Mint, shockingly, might be the answer to my graphics card woes. Let’s dive into this…
solved debian dpkg dependency problems
24/09/2022
I’m in a routine of running update and upgrade each time I logon… today Debian returned an error dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libffi 8:amd64: I tried several things, configuring the erroring package, reinstalling, removing, purge… no success. So how did I resolve my dpkg dependency problems? Navigate to the Debian package management info directory: cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/ Burn all of the prerm files: sudo apt-get remove *.prerm Then update…
Lost Linux Home
29/09/2018
I tried upgrading Ubuntu to the 18.10 Beta Friday night, all seemed to go well except for when I tried to reboot the desktop wouldn’t load. Tired of looking for a solution I tried installing Manjaro from an iso I have as a working Virtual Box, but each time I tried from a USB I was told corrupt / incomplete file, WTF! So I downloaded it again, check the hash,…
from Ubuntu to Debian
06/01/2017
Yesterday I did something that I’ve been considering for a while; I burned my installation of Ubuntu and installed Debian. I’ve been a long time fan of Ubuntu, since before the Unity days, I stuck with the Canonical distro through the Amazon debacle, and the community as been awesome and supportive over the years, and I have loyalty to them. Although yesterday the KDE plasma installation started having issues, as ever with…
Serious geek out
26/05/2013
I’ve not been using the processing power of my 8 core PC, so decided to see what it could do this afternoon. I’ve installed VirtualBox direct from Synaptic Manager, and have created Virtual boxes for Debian and Windows 7. Both are currently installing, and I have not seen so much activity across all cores before. Having Windows as a VM will save me heaps of time and frustration, as I…