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Re: loss of synaptic due to wayland



On Thursday 11 July 2019 02:57:28 Reco wrote:

> 	Hi.
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 04:50:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > The pi is running 4.19.50-v7+ right now, so this should be the
> > correct translation:
> > pi@picnc:/media/pi/workpi120/buildbot/linux-5.1.14 $ sudo apt-get
> > build-dep linux-image-4.19.50-v7+
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > E: Unable to find a source package for linux-image-4.19.50-v7+
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep raspberrypi-kernel

Which auto-subbed raspberrypi-firmware, and did not install anything.
Reading package lists... Done
Picking 'raspberrypi-firmware' as source package instead 
of 'raspberrypi-kernel'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
>
> And before you ask - it won't do you any good.
> They cheat and put already-built kernel in there.
>
> > For every step fwd, 2 back...
> >
> > > step 2: use apt-get source {the-exact-same-package-name}
>
> sudo apt-get source raspberrypi-firmware

This is pulling 193 megs of source, but I've no clue what its going to do 
with it.
NOTICE: 'raspberrypi-firmware' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' 
version control system at:
git@github.com:RPi-Distro/firmware.git
Please use:
git clone git@github.com:RPi-Distro/firmware.git
to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
Need to get 193 MB of source archives.
Get:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster/main 
raspberrypi-firmware 1.20190620+1-1 (dsc) [1,581 B]
Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster/main 
raspberrypi-firmware 1.20190620+1-1 (tar) [193 MB]
Get:3 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster/main 
raspberrypi-firmware 1.20190620+1-1 (diff) [14.6 kB]
Fetched 193 MB in 2min 29s (1,292 kB/s)
dpkg-source: info: extracting raspberrypi-firmware in 
raspberrypi-firmware-1.20190620+1
dpkg-source: info: unpacking 
raspberrypi-firmware_1.20190620+1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking 
raspberrypi-firmware_1.20190620+1-1.debian.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: using patch list from debian/patches/series
dpkg-source: info: applying 0001-Add-vmcs.conf-file-to-be-installed.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 
0002-Add-udev-rule-for-dev-vchiq-permissions.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 
0003-Fix-udev-rule-for-dev-vcio-and-vc-sm-permissions.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying kernel_conffile.patch
W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as 
file 'raspberrypi-firmware_1.20190620+1-1.dsc' couldn't be accessed by 
user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)


> As others said, this maillist is unsuitable place for Raspian-specific
> question.

But at least I got an informative answer, which may be usefull and which 
beats their forums like a white mouthed mule.

Thank you very much Reco.
>
> Reco

Now, to go find where it put it.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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