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  How do I report bug on Old machine via this New Laptop? "Paul Gerken" <Paul.Gerken@LMI.net> - 2020-07-13 23:50 +0200
    Re: How do I report bug on Old machine via this New Laptop? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-14 01:30 +0200
      Re: How do I report bug on Old machine via this New Laptop? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-14 08:40 +0200
    Re: How do I report bug on Old machine via this New Laptop? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-14 13:30 +0200
      Re: Re: How do I report bug on Old machine via this New Laptop? PaulG <paulg.kali20@gmail.com> - 2020-07-16 08:10 +0200

#224771 — How do I report bug on Old machine via this New Laptop?

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Hi User,

   apt-get install cups cups-client "foomatic-db*"  

fails with  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds  : Conflicts:   foomatic-db  Breaks:
foomatic-db  

  Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  unmet dependencies

 

Fri 7/10  installed Kali linux from USB, burned from
kali-linux-2020.2-installer-amd64  download of 7/7.

D/L on this laptop Intel i7  WIN7 machine that has email.  

Installed as Kali on different AMD Athalon 64x2 tower machine which has no
email on it.

 

Distro is  5.7.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.7.6-1kali2 (2020-07-01) x86_64
GNU /Linux

 

How do I go about reporting this problem? w/o email on target Kali linux
machine?

Which package is it against?  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds   OR   foomatic-db
??

New-ish to Linux, fast learning, have programmed in different O/S-s back to
1961.

 

More importantly, how do I go about fixing it? 

Or does someone else need to change the source and re-gen?

 

Tkx, Paul Gerken

 

 

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#224773

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On 2020-07-13 at 17:16, Paul Gerken wrote:

> Hi User,
> 
>    apt-get install cups cups-client "foomatic-db*"  
> 
> fails with  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds  : Conflicts:   foomatic-db  Breaks:
> foomatic-db  
> 
>   Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

That appears to be because it's not supposed to be possible to install
both of these two packages side-by-side.

They apparently both provide files that satisfy the same requirement,
such that having both of them present on the same running system
wouldn't make sense.

You'll need to narrow down your list of packages to be installed, by not
using the wildcard.

The list of package which that wildcard pattern would match can be
identified in a number of ways, but I just did it by the following:

$ apt-cache search foomatic | grep ^foomatic

(I'd expect 'apt-cache search ^foomatic' to do it, but apparently that
also matches the cups-filters package. I don't care enough to
investigate why at the moment.)

> How do I go about reporting this problem? w/o email on target Kali
> linux machine?

I did write out a fairly lengthy, step-by-step answer to this, but I
think the answer had started to become condescending and generally
unproductive, so I'm not going to include it here.

The short answer is that when you cancel an otherwise-complete bug
report from the 'reportbug' program, it saves the result into a file,
and you can take that file to another machine and (with a little work)
turn it into an E-mail that can be sent from there.

I use a similar method on my own computer, since although I do have the
ability to send E-mail from here, I can't do it from the command line or
via reportbug. I suspect I don't have a working SMTP configuration
defined anywhere those mail systems know how to access.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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#224782

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On Lu, 13 iul 20, 19:27:22, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
> The short answer is that when you cancel an otherwise-complete bug
> report from the 'reportbug' program, it saves the result into a file,
> and you can take that file to another machine and (with a little work)
> turn it into an E-mail that can be sent from there.
> 
> I use a similar method on my own computer, since although I do have the
> ability to send E-mail from here, I can't do it from the command line or
> via reportbug. I suspect I don't have a working SMTP configuration
> defined anywhere those mail systems know how to access.

Run 'reportbug --configure' and choose reportbug.debian.org as 
smarthost.

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#224791

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 02:16:03PM -0700, Paul Gerken wrote:
> Fri 7/10  installed Kali linux from USB, burned from
> kali-linux-2020.2-installer-amd64  download of 7/7.

> Installed as Kali on different AMD Athalon 64x2 tower machine which has no
> email on it.

> Distro is  5.7.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.7.6-1kali2 (2020-07-01) x86_64
> GNU /Linux

> How do I go about reporting this problem? w/o email on target Kali linux
> machine?

You type "kali bug report" into Google, and then you follow whatever
the instructions are for reporting a bug to your operating system
vendor (Kali).

This is not a Debian system, so I don't know why you think Debian users
are going to be able to help you.

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#224870

Thanks Greg,

I will report it on Kali (not Debian).

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