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Re: [trinity-users] Problems with TDEsu

From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@...>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 04:38:21 -0400
On Friday 26 July 2019 19:25:59 Snidely Whiplash wrote:

> > > No, well not intentional. Its looking, or trying to,
> > > at /opt/trinity/lib64 but there's only a lib dir. Maybe this
> > > explains other stuff thats wonky too.  Like my index problems with
> > > kmail a couple months back, etc etc.
>
> Hey Gene, if it's not finding libtdecore, it's game over, that's why
> it's not working. You can symlink a lib64 to the lib directory as a
> workaround for now until you get your packages in sync or whatever the
> cause of this is.
>
> cd /opt/trinity
> ln -s lib lib64
>
Done. But it strikes me there ought to be a better way. 99% of it is 
working fine. I'll see what works now that didn't before.

Thanks.

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 7:52 AM Gene Heskett <gheskett@...> 
wrote:
> > On Friday 26 July 2019 00:17:21 William Morder via trinity-users 
wrote:
> > > On Thursday 25 July 2019 20:40:45 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 25 July 2019 16:17:27 Mike Bird wrote:
> > > > > On Thu July 25 2019 10:51:52 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > > gene@coyote:/etc/cron.daily$ tdesudo synaptic
> > > > > > tdesudo: error while loading shared libraries:
> > > > > > libtdecore.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such
> > > > > > file or directory
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Gene,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have no idea how you can have TDE installed and running
> > > > > without one of the most important TDE libraries.  Perhaps a
> > > > > path problem.
> > > >
> > > > No, well not intentional. Its looking, or trying to,
> > > > at /opt/trinity/lib64 but there's only a lib dir. Maybe this
> > > > explains other stuff thats wonky too.  Like my index problems
> > > > with kmail a couple months back, etc etc.
> > > >
> > > > This was a 32 bit install until I updated to stretch for amd64
> > > > on this machine.
> > > >
> > > > So how do I convert an uptodate r14 install from 32 bit to 64
> > > > bit?
> > > >
> > > > here's the trinity.list
> > > > # Trinity repositories
> > > > deb
> > > > http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/deb
> > > >ian/ stretch main
> > > > deb
> > > > http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r
> > > >14.0 .0/debi an/ stretch main
> > > >
> > > > So I don't see an amd64 spec.
> > > >
> > > > > Meanwhile have you considered setting a root password? 
> > > > > Requiring a key instead of a password for ssh root login makes
> > > > > sense.  And requiring sudo on systems with multiple admins
> > > > > with different privilege levels makes sense.  But I don't see
> > > > > why you are making things hard for yourself on your systems
> > > > > but not having a root password.
> > > >
> > > > 1. I'm the only active, warm blooded user 1000.  There are of
> > > > course other "users" but most of that is just sandboxing.
> > > >
> > > > And 2, debian has never been real fond of pw's for root.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > >
> > > I'm with Gene on part 1 of this question: no root password for a
> > > single user system. I don't see any real purpose in making oneself
> > > log in as root to perform administrative tasks; it is enough to
> > > use sudo or su, so long as the admin is the only user, and the
> > > password is very secure. (If somebody wants to take 20 million
> > > years to brute-force my password, go right ahead, as it isn't
> > > written down anywhere, and it is really long, and has lots of
> > > messy characters. Oh, and I also alternate among 4 different
> > > complex passwords.) Of course, quantum computers will change all
> > > this, but maybe by then we'll also have some kind of comparable
> > > quantum encryption.
> > >
> > > However, part 2: tdesu is very useful for getting things done; and
> > > it never makes me log in as root. To do that, you have to set up
> > > your system for root logins, so it seems to me that you must have
> > > done this either on the original installation (one of the
> > > questions asked by the installer), or maybe you did it under the
> > > Trinity Control Center:
> > >
> > > TCC / System Administration / Login Manager / Convenience /
> > > Miscellaneous / Allow Root Login
> > >
> > > I never clicked that box, but maybe Gene did.
> > >
> > > Bill
> >
> > Nope. I don't allow an ssh login anyplace on my home network as
> > root. That  makes  moving stuff that needs root a 2 step process,
> > but thats ok, mc can handle both steps, just takes two sessions to
> > do it.
> >
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>