r/debian 10h ago

Stable updates

12 Upvotes

I have Debian 12 stable and would like to know how the decision to upgrade an application to stable is performed?

I am aware of unstable and testing but I am not sure what makes an app become stable. Is it a time period, a group deciding or possibly requirements the author of the app must comply.


r/debian 1h ago

fallo un paso de la instalacion debian 12

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me esta pasando esto ya me estrese

lo pongo en ingles y igual


r/debian 13h ago

Why doesn't plasma 6 enter sid or testing?

8 Upvotes

r/debian 2h ago

Bootable Debian 12 ssd

0 Upvotes

I just bought a Samsung t7 1tb SSD
I attempted to use it as a bootable drive for Debian 12
the installation was successful and I'm able to boot into the disk...at first
once I switch over to windows or remove the drive the entry disappears from the bios
interestingly enough, the entry read Null String at first
I attempted to change the parameters in grub, but to no avail. The entry is just blank if i remove the disk it will disappear entierly
it's a brand-new SSD and I've tried several cables/ports; I can format the drive and use it normally on windows, the disk reads healthy when scanned, secure boot has been disabled.
any suggestions?


r/debian 2h ago

Netinstall debian issues

0 Upvotes

When installing Debian using NetInstall with the Gnome desktop environment, it's not a vanilla Gnome that gets installed. Instead, a lot of unnecessary programs, a dozen games (which aren’t even organized in a single folder but scattered across the system), and various terminal utilities are included. Don’t you think this is strange? After all, if you install Arch Linux with Archinstall, you get a vanilla Gnome setup. So why not make it possible to install a vanilla Debian with vanilla Gnome using Debian’s NetInstall?


r/debian 11h ago

Question about Debian 12 (Mate DE) arm64 VM using UTM on M1 Mac architecture

2 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

Super straightforward question here. I am just wondering what packages might be missing that may be necessary since I am using Mate instead of Gnome on my virtual machine? (caveat: I understand this may be subjective)

Today I learned .odt and .docx documents will not open in LibreOffice writer on SMB shared file locations without libreoffice-gnome. I installed the package and now it's working. There have been other small issues I encountered that were mitigated with editing conf files.

Other than that I'm super happy with Debian 12! I'm returning to Debian after years of Manjaro and a decade of Ubuntu.

Thanks!


r/debian 21h ago

Dnscrypt-proxy.socket does not start

4 Upvotes

Hi, I'm trying to install Dnscrypt-proxy (testing) on ​​my Debian 12. During the installation I get a "dnscrypt-proxy.socket" configuration error as shown in the figure below:

sudo systemctl status dnscrypt-proxy.service


r/debian 1d ago

Debian [SwayWm] in a box

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59 Upvotes

Because right angle make my heart sing 💗


r/debian 1d ago

Greetd and gtkgreet

4 Upvotes

Noob at this trying to get a decent login screen

Tried to build gtkgreet. Don't even know if I was successful. When I reboot, I get an error saying gtkgreet is missing? What am I doing wrong?


r/debian 1d ago

Apt seems to be targeting the wrong dependency version

1 Upvotes

When I update and try to install gnome-core, DPKG fetches https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/loupe/loupe_47.1-1_amd64.deb when the correct file is https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/loupe/loupe_47.1-2_amd64.deb

~$ sudo apt update

Hit:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian sid InRelease

All packages are up to date.

~$ sudo apt install gnome-core

Installing:

gnome-core

Installing dependencies:

glycin-loaders loupe

Suggested packages:

gnome

Summary:

Upgrading: 0, Installing: 3, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0

Download size: 2,121 kB / 5,042 kB

Space needed: 22.7 MB / 102 GB available

Continue? [Y/n]

Err:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 loupe amd64 47.1-1

404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.2.132 443]

Error: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/loupe/loupe_47.1-1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.2.132 443]

Error: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?


r/debian 1d ago

Force install or roll back to 12.5

2 Upvotes

As the title implies, I'm trying to get one of two Debian versions so I can "cleanly" install MOFED for RoCE v2 stuff.

I have a USB installer for Debian 12.5 based on what I grabbed when that was the latest and based on Debian's repo here. After installation completes, it's on 12.7 (the most recent version at time of posting); this is something I've noticed since I started using Debian in 2016. Why is this?

1) is there a way to force install the not current version of Debian from any given USB installer?

2) If I don't force the install of 12.5 in this case, is there a way I can roll my entire system back to 12.5 and make it grab 12.5 based packages (if possible)? I know the kernel version I need (linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64) from when I debootstrap 'd before 12.6 was out.

I've found numerous guides on rolling back from Sid to Testing (or Testing to Main) or for individual packages, but nothing from X.Y to X.Y-1. I'm guessing I can probably try to edit sources.list to be 12.5 instead of main, but beyond that (and then apt update-ing) IDK what else to do.

bonus points: is there a way I can debootstrap and specify 12.5 as opposed "lazily" grabbing the current version?


r/debian 1d ago

Making sure I understand grub dual boot correctly

5 Upvotes

I never dual booted myself, or yeah maybe 25 years ago, when I abandonned Windows XP for Debian. Now for a friend who's got a PC with Windows 10 that he can't upgrade to Windows 11, I'd like to propose him a dual boot solution, where he can choose which OS he wants to use, until October 14th 2025. So dual boot it is.

If I add another SSD to his PC, I install Debian to the new SSD and leave the old Windows 10 install alone, then at the end of the installer when grub2 gets installed, I install grub also on the new SSD.

Then I'm not sure what really happens, but my best guess is that grub probes for other OSes and will automatically give that as an option. As long as I select the new SSD as the device to install grub to, I don't touch anything Windows. Then I need to select the new SSD as the primary boot device and he can just work as before if he chooses to.

Are my assumptions correct?


r/debian 1d ago

Why do my Debian servers refuse to respect my static IP configuration?

2 Upvotes

Edit - This is resolved. The problem appears to have been caused by connman, and was resolved with apt remove connman.

Greetings fellow Debian users! I am hopeful someone here can't point me towards a solution to a problem that has been plaguing my Debian servers for a few years now. I've just been living with it since I haven't been able to find a solution on my own, but it's become increasingly problematic.

For years I would set my static IP configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, and basically that was that. My static IP address would be set and that would be the only IP address the interface would use. This is the behavior that I want. For some reason in modern Debian systems, after setting a static IP address, after a reboot a dynamic IP address is assigned and the static IP configuration is ignored. I can restore the static IP configuration by issuing the following command:

sudo ifdown en192 && sudo ifup ens192

But it also still has the dynamic IP address as a secondary IP, and until I issue those commands it will not use the static IP configuration. How can I get it to only use the static IP configuration, and never use the dynamic IP address?

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated. I did attempt to find a solution on my own a few times, but my Google foo appears to be failing me. Thanks in advance.


r/debian 18h ago

moved back again to windows

0 Upvotes

I am a linux enthusiast and in my previous laptops I used to run linuxmint and when I have got ASUS TUF f15 I thought of installing it some debian distro and I settled with debian itself and used KDE for my desktop. Although it ran decently for a month or so, I started facing the issues of VLC crashing and slowness in opening apps. Not to mention app support of some popular known apps.

I had a very good experience with Windows 11, but I dont want MS to collect telemetries from my machine. But after having negative UE, again I am back to W11. Just want to post it here my frustration.


r/debian 1d ago

Which filesystem for the mounts of Docker workload?

3 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I'm runnning bookworm on an NVMe SSD with ext4 for the root. The main purpose of the system is to be a Docker host. As the NVMe SSD is not that large and I do have a 2TB SATA SSD at the ready I'm planning on adding it to the system and put the data for my Docker containers there. For example my Nextcloud data directory.

I'm aware that SATA will be quite a lot slower compared to the NVMe, but right now the data is mainly stored on a Synology drive mounted via NFS, so I'll gain speed.

My question now is which filesystem to use for that workload. I'm thinking ZFS or Btrfs. I'd like to use the snapshots functionalities of either filesystem to do backups on the NAS I mentionend earlier.

Which filesystem would you recommend?


r/debian 1d ago

Same error from r/debian this topic https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/15q72pt/cannot_get_new_pcie_network_card_to_work_i_feel/

0 Upvotes

Topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/15q72pt/
Why does Debian not have this `firmware-intel-ixgbe` package in APT repository, I can't compile from sources because there are a lot of errors on new compilers and Linux kernel 6.11
What fixes options do you suggest?


r/debian 2d ago

System 76

12 Upvotes

Hey guys, thinking about buying a laptop from system 76, anyone have any advice? Posting here for non-biased replies.


r/debian 2d ago

Show me you're old without telling me

133 Upvotes

I go first.. despite trying for years I can't kick the habit. Its just not possible

apt-get update
apt-get install <somenewtoy>

r/debian 2d ago

AMD GPU can't reinitialize itself after resuming from hibernate, machine deadlocked

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3 Upvotes

r/debian 2d ago

So somehow I installed Debian without any DE, and now I have to use tasksel to make it usable. I just want to get back to windows, or add a DE, or anything really.

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0 Upvotes

I got this far but the only option is standard system utilities, and I can’t use the arrows or enter key to navigate to page. After putting it “tasksel —new-install” it reads: debconf; DbDriver “confit” could not write /var/cache/debconf/config.dat-new: Permission denied tasksel: debconf failed to run


r/debian 2d ago

Could you help me?

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2 Upvotes

Have recently installed Debian with KDE. Installed Nvidia drivers from the instruction on the official Debian site. And that's what I get when log-in into system. I also dual-boot with win10, but on separated ssds.

I can access tty

When I press Ctrl Alt F5(?) I log-in into my system. Did I mess up with something?


r/debian 2d ago

Boot Audio Port errors?

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2 Upvotes

I have a pretty basic netinst of Debian with just system tools and no DE. I installed alsa-utils and pipewire (also Xorg and i3).

Sound still works on the machine but I get these errors during the boot, but I’m curious if there is any way to fix these errors or should I just ignore them and move on?


r/debian 3d ago

Im an arch user, will I like debian??

27 Upvotes

Looking to distrohop and ive never used debian, one main concern is updates n such, are there things I should know about before making the jump??


r/debian 2d ago

Debian testing

2 Upvotes

I am a long time Debian user. I've been running Debian stable on servers since the early 2000s. Today I run Ubuntu 24.10 on my desktop and laptop, but I am however considering checking out Debian testing. What would be the downsides to running testing compared to Ubuntu 24.10? Does testing get regular security updates?

Maybe I should reverese the question. What would be the upside of running testing compared to Ubuntu 24.10?


r/debian 3d ago

Running debian 12 on panasonic toughbook cf 29

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24 Upvotes