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michael louwe wrote:Bear in mind that the Intel microcode update only applies to 3rd-gen Haswell processors(= 2012) or newer.

Just for the record, Haswell is fourth generation and from 2013. As far as I'm aware, there are no microcode updates yet for third generation (Ivy Bridge) or older.

It doesn't look like a 'Debian mistake', as the thunderbird package contains a README.Debian file dated 8 April, which documents the (upcoming, at that time) changes. Apparently nobody at Mint read that or realised the implications. It has to do with changing the names of the (binary) icedove packag...

Cosmo. wrote:Note, that this workaround will end with the release of FF 53.

Nope. Still works.

What you could do is what's listed on the VBox download page , under Debian-based Linux distributions : add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list - or much better - create a .list file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and download and install the public key. After that, synaptic and apt/aptitude should be able...

The gdisk webpage is http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
It has a link to the man page, among lots of other things, but using the command man gdisk in a terminal should bring that up as well.

What do you mean what's the difference between gdisk and GParted? They're two different programs! Why would you expect them to be the same? According to gdisk's man page, the w command writes the changes made in the program's memory to disk. So if you started by asking gdisk to change a GPT disk to ...

GParted isn't involved. You need a CD or DVD which has the gdisk command and that could be the GParted Live CD. Assuming sda is still the hard disk if you boot from the CD/DVD, /dev/sda should be correct. And that looks like a lower case w on the site you linked to. Sorry, but it's been a while sinc...

Matthew_Wai wrote: Does the following work?
http://slavisa-jovanovic.com/linux/2015 ... o-gpt.html

Yes, in my experience gdisk does work. But do make a backup, just in case.

You mean Mint is actually using that file? It's an outdated miscreation of GNOME for crying out loud! It shouldn't be used by anything else.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ ... atest.html

Create a symlink with that name pointing to where it really is?

However, if it expects that library file in the wrong place, there's a good chance it will expect others there as well. So be prepared to create more symlinks.

The bits in /etc/grub.d/ come from the grub-common package. Wouldn't clearing out that directory and then reinstalling grub-common with the right dpkg switches (--force-confmiss and/or --force-confnew if I'm not mistaken) get rid of anything grub-customizer did? After that, an update-grub (possibly ...

xenopeek wrote:and it having been 1.5 years since the last bit of maintenance was done

Actually, version 0.84 was uploaded to Debian unstable the day before yesterday (0.84.1 yesterday). Maintenance and several bugs fixed.
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/synaptic

The terminal command should get you the most recent version (24.0.0.186 - yes, that's the new NPAPI version, in case anyone is wondering...).

Provided you have Canonical's Partner repository in your sources list, of course.

Well, if you use the freshplayerplugin, trying the 21 version does make sense. You should be able to copy it across. Be aware that a version that old is bound to have a lot of security holes, so it really isn't something I would advise anyone to do. I tried to visit games.com, to check whether my 23...

Firefox won't work with anything other than the 11 series flash player *), so trying 21 makes no sense. The best course of action would be to install the adobe-flashplugin package from Canonical's Partner repository. This is maintained by Adobe and (also) provides the most recent 11 series plugin. _...

I also know that the problem was NOT a download glitch (I downloaded the file from this source TWICE and always got the same wrong SHA256) Hate to disappoint you, but I just downloaded that file from that same url and: p07@asus /data/opgehaald $ sha256sum linux* 2151852abb34bd62350fab807acc04b3f337...

Nonetheless I would like to explain a different approach. Maybe it is going to help you in case the problem re-occurs and maybe it is going to help someone else who encounters the same problem. Check. I saw this happen on a Debian Testing machine (SolydXK/Xfce) yesterday. Killed the process and for...

Join the club. I admire your perseverance. I gave up already. I stand by what I wrote in my previous posting: this firmware is broken. It simply can't handle legacy booting with a GPT disk. I did a bit of searching with the name of the motherboard before I wrote that posting and found several forum ...

Look at what's in the adobe-flashplugin package's Maintainer control field: "DL-Flash Player Ubuntu <FlashPlayerUbuntu@adobe.com>". So it's maintained by someone @adobe.com. Not 'official' enough? Also, that package contains both plugins, so anyone needing both (i.e. someone using both Firefox and C...

You cannot use pepper flash/libpepflashplayer.so with Firefox *) as that uses the wrong API (PPAPI). You need the 'old' NPAPI plugin. The package adobe-flashplugin provides that, as well as the pepper flash plugin, which can be used with Chrome and Chromium (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-...