Tagged: Debian
USB stick update: Debian is back, plus GRML
In the on the multi-boot usb stick, Debian had to be dropped, due to missing support of iso-loading in the Debian installer iso images. Thanks to helpful comments from Jonathan McDowell and private emails,...
USB stick update: TAILS 1.4, GParted 0.22, SysResCD 4.5.2, Debian Jessie
I have posted a view times ( and ) about how to get a multi-boot/multi-purpose USB stick working. Now that TAILS has seens a major upgrade, and Debian 8.0 Jessie has been released, I...
Debian/TeX Live 2015 preparations
I have uploaded a preliminary version of the texlive-bin based on the 2015 sources (plus the first fixes) to the Debian archive, targeting experimental. As there are four new packages built from the sources...
Plex Home Theater 1.4.1 for Debian Jessie and Sid
Recently Plex Plex Home Theater was updated to 1.4.1 with fixes for some errors, in particular concerning the new music handling introduced in 1.4.0. As with , I have compiled PHT for both jessie...
Plex Home Theater 1.4.0 for Debian Jessie and Sid
Recently Plex Plex Home Theater was updated to 1.4.0 introducing new features regarding music handling. In the meantime, Debian/jessie has been released, and from now on jessie and sid will drift apart. Thus, I...
Plex Home Theater 1.3.7 Debian
Update 2015-05-04: 1.3.7 is gone from the repository, and locations have changed depending on sid or jessie in use, please see for Version 1.4.0. Recently Plex Plex Home Theater was updated to 1.3.7 fixing...
Sigil for Debian
After long and painful back and forth, we finally uploaded Sigil to Debian. Sigil is a great multi-platform epub editor. First time the intention to package was uttered was in 2010, see bug 590180,...
TeX Live pre-2015 for Debian
Now that jessie is close to release, and TeX Live 2015 release is planned for around June, I thought I start working on integrating the current status of TeX Live svn and tlnet into...
Debian updates (MusixTeX, PMX, mu, cafeobj)
It has been a while that I have updated some Debian packages. As we are in pre-release freeze there is not much to do, and uploading would disturb the release process. But well, these...
Plex Home Theater 1.3.6 Debian amd64 and i386
New builds of Plex Home Theater for Debian, this time with both amd64 and i386 architecture. WARNING Due to the addition of new architectures I have switched repository layout, thus the old entries will...
Plex Home Theater 1.3.6 Debian build
I finally managed to get a build of Plex Home Theater for Debian that actually works. Version 1.3.5 was a no go, but with 1.3.6 we are back to full speed! And in combination...
Fixing (Debian, X, PDF viewer) font setup for Japanese
I have been experiencing crazy switches in my fonts displayed in the browser, in applications, etc. In particular, stuff written in Japanese was displayed with Chinese characters instead of Japanese. The differences are subtle,...
Tails 1.2.1, Debian jessie installer, System Rescue CD on USB
Back in May I on how to set up a usb stick with Debian/jessie installer, System Reschue CD and Tails. Since then several new versions of Tails and SystemRescueCD have been released, and the...
Plex Home Theater 1.3.2 Debian build
I have updated my build of Plex Home Theater to the lastest release 1.3.2. All the builds from 1.3.0 onward had connection problems with my server. I have now changed to a different packaging...
texlive-base update for jessie 2014.20141024-2
I just uploaded a new texlive-base package targeting jessie. Although we are well past freeze time, I still hope that the release managers allow this package to enter jessie, as it contains an important...
