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Well... there's kind of hackish way to upgrade LMDE 2 MATE to LMDE 3 Cinnamon+MATE... https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3635#comment-145312 https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3635#comment-145378 Actually, no need to install Cinnamon before the upgrade... dealing with the mint-info + mint-user-guide combo is...

Old age. https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2016-October/009673.html Uh, that post and its follow-ups doesn't sound quite optimistic… The there-mentioned https://downloads.mariadb.org/connector-odbc/ would probably also take some work to set it up properly for LibreOffice, I'...

Yes, in LMDE2 an apt-file update was needed, I see now. Thanks again!

Ah, Monsta to the rescue again — thanks a lot! Didn't think of apt-file. did the trick, BeeBeep is now up and running.
Funnily, that search returns no results on another LMDE2 system although libqt4-network is installed there…

Another of the many little troubles installing LMDE3 and to get the previus setups running again… The nice little intranet LAN messenger BeeBeep is built using Qt4, needing several libs. http://beebeep.sourceforge.net/ On LMDE2 I did — apt install libqt4-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui libqt4-xml libxcb-...

Since regrettably there is no easy upgrade from LMDE2 Mate I'm now starting to do fresh installs of LMDE3 (on ≈14 quite different machines… ugh!), running into many small troubles. One of them is this: For LibreOffice to access a MySQL database on a server I need to install and set up several things...

Thank you monsta, this explains it.
So, LMDE should now probably have such a ~/.xsessionrc as a copy from ~/.profile, I think.

@catweazel — right, I was still thinking SysV, I'm not used to SystemD yet.  Will look into that. Since I plan on rsync, the Samba shares on the server won't be used and may be unmounted; the local drive need only be readable, network must still be active (was connected via user's NetworkManager). B...

Hmm, that all sounds quite convoluted.  Maybe I should not look at Linux's shutdown but at Cinnamon (Mate) logout? Is there a way to hook into the desktop's shutdown (and delay it as necessary), before it finally calls system shutdown? When the user clicks the DE's button “Shutdown” (or logout)? For...

What would be the best way to run a script in userspace at shutdown? I'd like to reliably synchronize mail folders and profiles from the local disc to a server when the user shuts down its LMDE3/Cinnamon machine, like so: rsync -vahz --delete /home/<user>/eMail/ <user>@server:eMail/ rsync -vahz --de...

Hmm… that's a bit surprising.  And the virtual terminals / ssh behave different.  I see that as a bug. 
Where where they sourced in LMDE2 (Mate)? Can't see it.

Just did a fresh install of LMDE3 and found this: In Cinnamon desktop, a freshly opened gnome-terminal does not have $HOME/bin in its path. Which it should have according to ~/.profile, and did have in LMDE2. While the virtual terminals (CtrlAlt-F1) do add my ~/bin to their path, a ssh shell also ad...

Yes, it's just arrived.  The simple way, by retiring TB from the Mint repos, thus freeing the Debian repos. A little problem is that the binary has now moved:  from /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird to /usr/bin/thunderbird → /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird.  So user–modified scripts and links may need t...

Thank you!
I understand most work is going into LMDE3 right now (and I'm eagerly awaiting that).
But this also affects security updates for all normal LMDE2 installations…

That was clear:  the Mint team set a higher priority on its own packages (branding, sponsoring) which is alright so far. The proper fix is also obvious:  Mint should then provide the current version, hence my request. Some workarounds come to mind, but they are not the proper fix and require manual ...

Well, this is the LMDE2 forum…  using LMDE2 Mate. $ apt policy thunderbird thunderbird: Installed: 52.9.0~linuxmint1+betsy Candidate: 52.9.0~linuxmint1+betsy Version table: 1:52.9.1-1~deb8u1 0 500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages 1:52.8.0-1~deb8u1 0 500 http://debian.ne...

It's out since 20 days now and I do need its fix for a bug that bugs me.
Plus its „Various security fixes“.

Thanks, Hans

Wow.  19 steps including compiling a newer kernel… respect! Thank you, but I think I'll stay with my current Nvidia.
Mind you, only the RX550 seems to need Mesa >= 17.1 because of an oversight in the Radeon driver…

I've seen in the blog that LMDE3 is now expected in June (2018?) — I really hope that Clem & the team will achieve this: I do like LMDE (Mate!) and I do appreciate the effort put into it, I'm not at all thrilled at the thought to switch to another dist.  It is just that ever more problems come up wi...

The critical part of that quote is the and you do not have a distribution supporting you bit. ;) The Debian oldstable team still supports the 3.16 kernel, so fixes should be pushed out to Debian 8, and LMDE 2, soon. Well, the 3.16 kernel patches have arrived; but I still don*t see the patched intel...