Re: external drive

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Monday, December 02, 2019 03:09:57 AM Frank Weißer wrote:
> Hi Gene,Gene Heskett:
> > Just for S&G:
> > gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install exfat
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > E: Unable to locate package exfat
> 
> has to be
> ~$ sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

And, from the peanut gallery, if you use a GUI (for instance, apper, which I 
don't know if it still exists in Buster, for example), and search for exfat, 
it would tell you the packages that are available / needed for exfat (i.e., -
fuse and -utils).

(Aside: apper works fine for me in Wheezy.  It still exists in Jessie, but has 
some kind of permission problem that I've never bothered to dig into -- it 
will search for packages, but it won't install them and doesn't prompt me for 
a password, it just displays a message that starts: ~"You have failed to 
provide proper authorization." (from memory, as I'm on the Wheezy system, not 
the Jessie).

So, at that point, I use apt-get with the displayed package names  (or things 
like apt-get update and upgrade).