Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gordon Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Date: 24 May 2025 08:00:39 GMT Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net 6/daG01rWlDSUbCEn/IxegiIAW889tRRcCofed1xzamSSVNWd/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Embitm+nIX6nLbCg2nGVSTxyGpo= sha256:7kGcBlFZNI1n2GGKeAgO2gYxCkOIld0YmVrHwHVzZHc= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.os.linux:23630 On 2025-02-22, Davey wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:41:41 +0000 > Daniel James wrote: > >> On 20/02/2025 09:59, Davey wrote: >> > Yesterday, I ran Linux Mint on the desktop, which took ages to laod, >> > and at a first glance, it did not seem able to locate, and therefore >> > install, vlc. It did give me functioning Facebook and Thunderbird, >> > though. I did not try Clawsmail. >> > I assume that there is a different process to find and install other >> > programmes such as VLC, but I will not load Linux Mint again for a >> > while. >> >> Running any distro from a USB stick is slow, if that's what you were >> doing. >> >> VLC should be no trouble ... >> >> Mint is derived from Ubuntu is derived from Debian. >> >> I use Debian and have in the past used Ubuntu. I have only played >> briefly with Mint some years ago so I can't claim intimate knowledge >> of it ... but it's a Debian-based distro, so uses apt as the package >> manager and can run synaptic if you want a GUI. >> >> > I now need to find how to move the Launchbar to the bottom of the >> > screen (GNOME?). >> >> It depends which desktop environment you have downloaded and >> installed -- is it Xfce, Mate, or Cinnamon ... or something else? >> >> In Mate that's just a few clicks (right click on the bar, select >> "Properties", change "Orientation" from "Top" to "Bottom", click >> "Close") but I can't speak for other DEs (nor understand why you'd >> want to do that, but each to his own). >> > > Ok. I have fixed some things, but I keep on finding others. > My latest problem concerns ssh and rsync. > I found that ssh would not work, and that I need to write: > ssh -v -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa david@192.168.1.164 > to get to that PC. > But I can't get rsync to work, and I assume that it needs a similar > modification to the command. The fault message is exactly the same as > it was for ssh: > > Unable to negotiate with 192.168.1.164 port 22: no matching host key > type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss rsync: connection unexpectedly > closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: unexplained > error (code 255) at io.c(232) [sender=3.2.7] > > But I cannot find how to do that in rsync. > Again, any help most welcome. > You have lost the ssh Key in the upgrade. https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/keygen as an example, unless you can get the old one from a backup in ~/.ssh