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This does point to a frustration that a lot of people had that actually started raising it's head with Windows Vista and it's UAC.... parents getting annoyed at having to to be drug to the computer to input the password to install something random and eventually just giving the password because it ...

What the heck? Can you reinstall that kernel now, or is it still one or the other?


Yeah it re-installed... complained about vhba (had to do busywork I can only half remember to get it working at some point, has it's own thread here) but it's just a backup so don't care atm. Just weird that a ...

Stevo wrote: Sat Sep 13, 2025 1:47 amDid it work?

Yes... oddly its compromise involved uninstalling the 6.1 kernel.... not a problem because I only had it as a backup.

Stevo wrote: Fri Sep 12, 2025 12:25 pm Usually aptitude on the command line can do a more surgical downgrade of the backports packages...make sure you go through its multiple options.

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sudo aptitude install audacious-dev

Interesting, some ignorance dispelled on my part.... which feels odd after so many years.

Thanks

Have to install it to compile a plugin for wem playback https://github.com/vgmstream/vgmstream/blob/master/doc/BUILD.md

If I actually try to downgrade any of the packages it depends upon to the versions it wants apt wants to remove 200 or so other packages.

Can this be resolved or should I make ...

I uninstalled the metapackage for now.

I guess cdemu is kinda odd because internal package or not it requires vhba-dkms for at least deamon startup. Might be an oversight on the part of the developers I dunno. I lack the skill to find out how to fiddle with it to use the internal module instead ...

Once again dear friends the new kernel wants to remove vhba-dkms to install itself.... no update for the module has happened on sourceforge since march so am I forced to defer updating the kernel for now?

How do I tell Discover to do that if this is the case?

At what point do we suspect skynet?

Only half joking at this point....

That is something only people of relative wealth can do.... the rest of us keep our HDD's and SSD's until they croak.


Hard disks are cheap. Certainly cheaper than the cost of repairing or replacing all of the data you cared about and lost after repurposing a disk for a reinstall and having it ...

I've seen a few people say that they have their data on a separate drive (rather than keeping it in /home?) - for myself, I see it as an extra step. When I backup to an external drive, everything gets backed up, including all my data in /home.

I'm curious - are there advantages to leaving /home ...