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Author: Paolo Redaelli

Does Debian dislike AGPL?

Today I was going to compile dash cryptcoin from the sources. Debian ships Berkeley DB version 5.3 by default so the configure script of dash argued that it likes version 4.8 for portability reasons. Too bad that current Debian version don’t ship 4.8 anymore. What’s worse thought is that 4.8 and 5.x packages are mutually…

Upgrades

Upgrading oldish releases are a pain. I tried “official” ways to upgrade my Saucy Salamander Eeepc. No way. I got to do it the hard way, treating that Ubuntu like the Debian it is underneath. A power blow of apt-fu: %s/saucy/wily/gc :wq apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Now, that’s taking an hellish of time on…