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#11

Newbie questions / Re: How to install Wine?

Last post by AxL - March 26, 2025, 01:02:15 PM

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I need to install wine and I think wine32, what is the safe way to install wine on sparky? --

EDIT: sparkylinux-2025.03-x86_64-xfce (semi-rolling)

  And, you have already tried, using apt and the official debian testing repositories:





Because, apparently you will be able to install it without any problem.









Cheers !! 

#12

Newbie questions / How to install Wine?

Last post by ken - March 25, 2025, 07:57:11 PM

Hello,

I need to install wine and I think wine32, what is the safe way to install wine on sparky? -- I tried to follow these instructions here: https://wine.htmlvalidator.com/install-wine-on-debian-13.html -- but can't be followed, it will uninstalls many Sparky apps (?)...

Thanks for your advice

EDIT: sparkylinux-2025.03-x86_64-xfce (semi-rolling)

#13

Introduction / Hello!

Last post by brogild - March 23, 2025, 01:41:54 AM

Hi forum. I have been a user of Lilidog (an Openbox distro inspired by Bunsenlabs, in turn inspired by Crunchbang), but that is not going to be supported for much longer and I want to stick with Openbox. I was planning to build a Lilidog clone off of plain Debian when Trixie drops but Sparky fits the bill for me. I would like the option to use the Debian installer before booting into live but Calamares seems to be working ok so this isn't a big issue for me.

 Being an Openbox fan the MinimalGUI is perfect for me to build upon, the minimal version of Lilidog (Beardog) was a bit too barebones so I used the full version, Sparky gets it just right IMO. Looking forward to Trixie..

 
 

#14

System upgrading / Re: Problem when upgrading Spa...

Last post by AxL - March 20, 2025, 02:35:03 PM

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Many thanks to AxL for the fast and useful response.

You're very welcome !!   

#15

System upgrading / Re: Problem when upgrading Spa...

Last post by paul74 - March 20, 2025, 01:56:49 PM

Hi,

Many thanks to Axl for the fast and useful response.

Have a nice day !

#16

System upgrading / Re: Problem with updating/upgr...

Last post by AxL - March 19, 2025, 09:45:54 PM

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Thanks All

You're welcome !!

#17

System upgrading / Re: Problem with updating/upgr...

Last post by joealuminium - March 19, 2025, 08:08:39 PM

The problem has gone away. I'd just started to look at the reply from AxL and thought I'd give it a try again before doing anything and all was OK.

root@T5600:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease           
Hit:3 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease               
Hit:5 https://repo.sparkylinux.org core InRelease                       
Hit:6 https://repo.sparkylinux.org orion InRelease                     
Hit:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease             
Hit:8 http://deb-multimedia.org bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.


Thanks All

[SSL Server Test: repo.sparkylinux.org]

#18

System upgrading / Re: Problem with updating/upgr...

Last post by AxL - March 19, 2025, 07:43:10 PM

I've been using SparkyLinux for a while now and I've always updated via the command line as root using
# apt update
#apt upgrade
[....]
As far as I'm aware nothing on my system has changed since last time I did this.
Can anyone help?

Well, it seems that there is an obvious problem with the certificate:




See also:
SSL Server Test: repo.sparkylinux.org (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)

To try to fix this, you can change/use a different mirror. Such as one of these:

Code Select Expand


https://de2.repo.sparkylinux.org/
https://sf1.repo.sparkylinux.org/



• You can change it in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sparky.list
  
  
• See also: Repository_Stable - [Sparky Wiki]
  
  Good luck !!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cheers !!
  

#19

System upgrading / Problem with updating/upgradin...

Last post by joealuminium - March 19, 2025, 07:09:32 PM

I've been using SparkyLinux for a while now and I've always updated via the command line as root using
# apt update
#apt upgrade

Today I got an unexpected error
root@T5600:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease                                           
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease                                   
Hit:4 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease                                       
Ign:5 https://repo.sparkylinux.org core InRelease                                               
Hit:6 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease                                     
Hit:7 http://deb-multimedia.org bookworm InRelease                         
Ign:8 https://repo.sparkylinux.org orion InRelease                         
Ign:5 https://repo.sparkylinux.org core InRelease     
Ign:8 https://repo.sparkylinux.org orion InRelease
Ign:5 https://repo.sparkylinux.org core InRelease
Ign:8 https://repo.sparkylinux.org orion InRelease
Err:5 https://repo.sparkylinux.org core InRelease
  Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate issuer is unknown. The name in the certificate does not match the expected.  Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification. [IP: 184.174.34.74 443]
Err:8 https://repo.sparkylinux.org orion InRelease
  Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate issuer is unknown. The name in the certificate does not match the expected.  Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification. [IP: 184.174.34.74 443]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: Failed to fetch https://repo.sparkylinux.org/dists/core/InRelease  Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate issuer is unknown. The name in the certificate does not match the expected.  Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification. [IP: 184.174.34.74 443]
W: Failed to fetch https://repo.sparkylinux.org/dists/orion/InRelease  Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate issuer is unknown. The name in the certificate does not match the expected.  Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification. [IP: 184.174.34.74 443]
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
root@T5600:~#


As far as I'm aware nothing on my system has changed since last time I did this.
Can anyone help?

#20

System upgrading / Re: Problem when upgrading Spa...

Last post by AxL - March 19, 2025, 03:57:48 PM

And here are the images of how repos should be set up:























And finally, a recommendation. If you plan to continue using testing.

Try to keep your system up to date. And at least update the system once a week, so you will avoid problems









Cheers !!