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Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

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On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 13:48 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Two issues:
>
>
> 1) I have several Debian boxes running as kiosks, and reporting to a
> centralized Quest-branded "Systems Management Appliance" (SMA). With
> a
> recent update to the SMA, the Debian boxes stopped reporting in.
> After
> several weeks, I finally discovered that the installation of
> "lsb-compat" on several of them restored their functionality. Today,
> when I go to install "lsb-compat" on the other's, I find it's no
> longer
> available in Buster. Has it been deprecated? Why? Any ideas how I'm
> going to get my boxes reporting again to the SMA (what does "lsb-
> compat"

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The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) was a standard
core system that third-party applications written for Linux could
depend upon.

This package provides the most minimal layer to be able to install and
run selected legacy LSB packages on Debian.
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(untested) Maybe temporarily set your sources to old stable or stretch
and pick it up from there (then reset them of course).

I could only guess when you installed on the other boxes it was set to
stable (stretch) which was then stable but is now buster.

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Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-11 20:50 +0200
  Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2019-07-12 05:10 +0200
    Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-12 16:50 +0200
  Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-07-12 10:10 +0200
  Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 16:20 +0200
    Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-07-15 16:30 +0200
      Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 21:40 +0200
        Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-15 21:40 +0200
        Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-07-15 21:50 +0200
          Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 22:10 +0200
            Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-15 22:20 +0200
              Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2019-07-15 23:00 +0200
                Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 23:20 +0200
              Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-07-15 23:00 +0200
              Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-15 23:20 +0200
            Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-15 23:00 +0200
          Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-07-16 14:30 +0200
    Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-16 08:50 +0200
      Re: Where'd lsb-compat go? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-16 14:50 +0200

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