Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

From	Richmond <richmond@criptext.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root
Date	2022-05-16 11:40 +0200
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David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:

> On 5/15/22 06:53, Richmond wrote:
>> David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:
>>> On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote:
>>>> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
>>>>> On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote:
>
>>>>>> Is there a debian package for this? :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce-polkit
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "A simple PolicyKit authentication agent for XFCE"
>
>>> My Debian 11 Xfce has the following, installed by
>>> debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso:
>>>
>>> 2022-05-14 15:13:47 root@laalaa ~ # dpkg-query -l '*polkit*'
>>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>>> |
>>>    Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>>> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name
>>> Version Architecture Description
>>> +++-===========================-================-============-=================>
>>> ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 GObject
>>> introspec>
>>> un gir1.2-polkitagent-1.0 <none> <none> (no description a> ii
>>> libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd64 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 PolicyKit Authent> ii
>>> libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 PolicyKit Authori>
>>> un polkit-1-auth-agent <none> <none> (no description a>
>> 
>> I got it working! that's the good news, the bad news is I am not sure
>> how. I installed all the packages above (except polkit-1-auth-agent
>> which seems to be an unreal package) but it still didn't work. Then I
>> went into synaptic (which incidentally did not prompt for a password)
>> and searched for xfce and found some packages relating to the panel
>> which were not installed, nor part of the xfce meta package. Also I
>> installed policykit-1-gnome which unfortunately doesn't come up on
>> searches for polkit. I think this last one may be the culprit but not
>> sure.
>> Thanks for your help, and the others.
>
>
> I would say "you are welcome", but it sounds like your system is in a
> crumbling state.  I would backup/ check-in, pull the OS drive, insert
> a fresh OS drive, do a fresh install, and check-out/ restore/
> reconfigure.
>
>
> David

It isn't in a crumbling state, it just had a missing package. And this
was probably due to an undeclared dependence.

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Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-05-11 16:20 +0200
  Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-11 22:50 +0200
    Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-05-12 16:40 +0200
      Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-13 01:20 +0200
        Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-05-13 18:30 +0200
          Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-13 21:00 +0200
            Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-13 21:10 +0200
              Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-13 22:50 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-13 23:30 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-14 02:50 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-14 06:40 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-16 05:50 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-16 13:20 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-16 17:50 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-14 06:40 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-05-16 01:40 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-16 17:50 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-14 07:20 +0200
              Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-14 00:10 +0200
            Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-05-13 21:50 +0200
              Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-05-14 12:20 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-14 13:30 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-05-14 15:20 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-15 00:20 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-05-15 16:20 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-16 02:30 +0200
                Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-05-16 11:40 +0200

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