KDE/Plasma 5.18 for Debian
I have been trying out the Plasma Desktop for one week now, and I am very positively surprised. Compared to the clumsy history of KDE3, the current desktop is extremely small-footprint and smooth, surprisingly....
Tagged: Debian
Fixing mate-terminal URL highlighting
One of the recent updates in Debian swept in changes so that mate-terminal couldn’t highlight URLs anymore (Debian bug report, upstream bug report). I got so fed up with this that I fixed it...
Brave broken (on Debian?)
Update a few hours later: an update came in, version 1.7.62, which fixed this misbehavior!!!! I have been using the Brave browser now for many months without any problem, in particular I use the...
Okular and restoration of tabs (plus Debian packages)
I have the need to restore my okular tab setup on restart, since I often have quite a lot of pdfs open to view at the same time. Unfortunately, the current okular doesn’t provide...
QOwnNotes for Debian
QOwnNotes is a cross-platform plain text and markdown note taking application. By itself, it wouldn’t be something to talk about, we have vim and emacs and everything in between. But QOwnNotes integrates nicely with...
Okular update for Debian
Update 20200304: okular is updated in Debian, so I rebased my packages onto the Debian work, added my tab-restore patch, and made new packages! The quest for a good tabbed pdf viewer lead me...
MuPDF, QPDFView and other Debian updates
Update 2020-02-24: The default Debian packages for pupdf and pymupdf have been updated to the current version (or newer), and thus I have removed the packages from my repo. Thanks to the maintainers for...
Debian package updates preining.info: Digikam (6.4 and 7), Elixir, Kitty, Certbot
Update 2020-02-20: I have removed digikam (version 6.4 and 7) since they are all now available in Debian itself. I have updated some of the Debian packages distributed at https://www.preining.info/debian/, the complete list as...
Debian and the privileged “gender class” some privileged people
I realized that I was doing the same failure as others attacking me of being transphobe because I criticize one trans person, that is extrapolating from one bad example to a larger class. I...
Debian breaking Unison (again)
Congratulations – Debian/sid now contains a unison binary that is incompatible with Debian/buster, the stable release. That means, everyone who relies on unison for file synchronization across servers (running buster) and development machines (running...
TeX Live/Debian updates 20191030
Another month, another update of TeX Live in Debian with the usual long list of updated and new packages. The reappearance of turtle graphics via PStricks packages pst-turtle made me laugh. I used turtle...
Calibre 4.2 based on Python3 in Debian/experimental
Following up on the last post on the state of Calibre in Debian, some news for those who want to get rid of Python2 on their computers as soon as possible. With the finally...
State of Calibre in Debian
To counter some recent FUD spread about Calibre in general and Calibre in Debian in particular, here a concise explanation of the current state. Many might have read my previous post on Calibre as...
R with TensorFlow 2.0 on Debian/sid
I recently posted on getting TensorFlow 2.0 with GPU support running on Debian/sid. At that time I didn’t manage to get the tensorflow package for R running properly. It didn’t need much to get...
RIP (for now) Calibre in Debian
The current purge of all Python2 related packages has a direct impact on Calibre. The latest version of Calibre requires Python modules that are not (anymore) available for Python 2, which means that Calibre...
TensorFlow 2.0 with GPU on Debian/sid
Some time ago I have been written about how to get Tensorflow (1.x) running on current Debian/sid back then. It turned out that this isn’t correct anymore and needs an update, so here it...
