On Wednesday 17 February 2021, alistair izzard via tde-users wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 07:30:33 GMT, BorgLabs - Kate Draven <borglabs4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Monday 15 February 2021 23:00:57 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > > > > And got caught by spamassassin. So I've not recourse but to copy/paste: > > > > Is there an rpm or apt-get comment that can batch remove repeat rpms. > > The old version of rather. > > > > A dimwit neighbour decide not allow synaptic to finish updating and force > > shut > > it down to go watch football (american). Now he keeps getting warnings of > > multiple rpm versions. I can't go fix it for obvious reasons. So I'm > > hoping > > to give him some command that would resolve this. Otherwise, he has to > > drop > > off. He's "extremely social" if you know what I mean. Sadly he's a good > > old > > friend's son, I can't really say no. > > > > This is the same person who decided his new snowblower could clean > > his "short" > > drive way without engine oil. > > > > Why crackmonkeys should not be allowed to own tech... > > > > I know I'm going to end up having to do it, but I thought I'd ask. > > > > Kate > > > > From Gene: > > > > After 86 years, my dearest kate, I have learned that trying to head off > > such behaviour is essentially thankless, they cannot be made to > > understand that you are trying to help when you object to such self > > destructive behaviour. > > > > Sometimes its best to let them sort it out themselves. His answer is > > probably to reinstall, probably loseing any work he may have already > > done with it, including his accounts receivable, which could be an > > expensive lesson. > > > > If you have to do the reinstall, you should become the first user, with a > > longer pw you never share, and no root pw, making him a non-priviledged > > user, but make sure sshd is running and that you are the only one that > > can run sudo. That way you can log in and do maintenance/updates etc > > from your place, undisturbed by prying eyes. > > > > Such self-defense is not a personality problem. All he needs to learn is > > to shut off the monitor only and leave it running, 24/7. Just make sure > > it has enough memory so he can watch football at the same time you are > > sorting his latest basket of rattlesnakes. If his network connection is > > dynamic so his net address is volatile, have a late boot script email > > you its address anytime its rebooted. > > > > Good luck girl, stay safe and well. > > Wise words. > > I'm repairing for his mother's sake. > Steve, never had the pwds. His brother ran the update with simple > instruction. Leave it alone, til he returns with his mother. > > Didn't work out. > > Oh well. > > Cheers, > > Kate > Dupeclean from the repo, and Dupeclean-gui will fix synaptic in pclos > Alie > ____________________________________________________ Thanks Alie. Will do for the future. But I'm going to reinstall to the latest version of BG PLOS. Plus I have to replace the sound card and bluray player. Speaking latest, any new ISO on the horizon? Hope all is well there with you and yours, Kate ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
