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Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian?
Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian?
Over the years a number of packages have ceased to be maintained or have been replaced, like Open Office by LibreOffice.
And of course my favourite of all time: oss4, the open sound system, formerly oss, replaced by the ubiquitous ALSA/Pulseaudio; nevertheless, I continue to use it in Buster.
As for software for servers:Squirrelmail, which ceased to be maintained both upstream and downstream. The only remaining squirrelmail is in oldoldstable, jessie. It seems that everyone now uses roundcube but for webmail I liked Squirrelmail for its simplicity.
Then I remember dolibarr, which went out a long time ago from Debian just when was getting interested in it.
Then there's a whole list of orphaned packages.
Thanks for reading and for any comments.
And of course my favourite of all time: oss4, the open sound system, formerly oss, replaced by the ubiquitous ALSA/Pulseaudio; nevertheless, I continue to use it in Buster.
As for software for servers:Squirrelmail, which ceased to be maintained both upstream and downstream. The only remaining squirrelmail is in oldoldstable, jessie. It seems that everyone now uses roundcube but for webmail I liked Squirrelmail for its simplicity.
Then I remember dolibarr, which went out a long time ago from Debian just when was getting interested in it.
Then there's a whole list of orphaned packages.
Thanks for reading and for any comments.
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
I can't think of anything right now, then my memory is not what it used to be 15 years ago when I first used Debian.
One thing I do miss, even though it's still technically available, is Amarok. In KDE4 it was one of the best music players available. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated to work properly on KDE5 and some functions are not what they used to be. It's still pretty good but one deal breaker for me is its ReplayGain implementation. I use ReplayGain for all my audio files but now in Amarok it kicks in 1-2 seconds after the song starts playing causing a noticeable level change. How annoying!
I now use DeadBeef or Strawberry (Clementine fork) both of which are not in Debian but their project pages supply .debs which work fine. I also use Audacious regularly which is in the repos.
One thing I do miss, even though it's still technically available, is Amarok. In KDE4 it was one of the best music players available. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated to work properly on KDE5 and some functions are not what they used to be. It's still pretty good but one deal breaker for me is its ReplayGain implementation. I use ReplayGain for all my audio files but now in Amarok it kicks in 1-2 seconds after the song starts playing causing a noticeable level change. How annoying!
I now use DeadBeef or Strawberry (Clementine fork) both of which are not in Debian but their project pages supply .debs which work fine. I also use Audacious regularly which is in the repos.
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
Amarok and nzbget
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
I hadn't come across nzbget, a "command-line based binary newsgrabber for nzb files" (although the web UI is not available), which I see is available from unstable:Hallvor wrote:Amarok and nzbget
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$ rmadison nzbget |grep unstable
nzbget | 21.0+dfsg-2 | unstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
nzbget | 21.0+dfsg-2 | unstable-debug | source
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root@debian:~# apt-get build-dep nzbget
Reading package lists... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
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# echo "deb-src http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && apt-get update
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$ apt-get build-dep nzbget
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Reading package lists... Done
NOTICE: 'nzbget' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at:
https://salsa.debian.org/amoog-guest/nzbget.git
Please use:
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/amoog-guest/nzbget.git
to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
Need to get 1,130 kB of source archives.
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$ ls
nzbget-21.0+dfsg nzbget_21.0+dfsg-2.debian.tar.xz
nzbget_21.0+dfsg-2_amd64.buildinfo nzbget_21.0+dfsg-2.dsc
nzbget_21.0+dfsg-2_amd64.changes nzbget_21.0+dfsg.orig.tar.xz
nzbget_21.0+dfsg-2_amd64.deb nzbget-dbgsym_21.0+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
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$ su -c "dpkg -i nzbget_21.0+dfsg-2_amd64.deb"
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$ su -c "apt install libgtk3-perl"
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
Only thing I have that's no longer in Debian is easymp3gain. I still use it so I guess I don't miss it
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
xmms audio player plus its plugins
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
kedaha: Thanks, that is a good tip!
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
+1anticapitalista wrote:xmms audio player plus its plugins
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
xcalendar I really loved how it saved your daily events as plain text. Though last time I tried it on Debian it still installed and ran fine I suspect that would have been a wheezy install. iirc I did see it on a more recent show your desktop post but forget who was running it.
I've tried to build it from scratch for Dragora but failed miserably as it used a very old method to compile.
Anyway it did all I wanted from a calendar. Small, fast, easy to use and saved to plain text
http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/m ... ndar-i18n/
I've tried to build it from scratch for Dragora but failed miserably as it used a very old method to compile.
Anyway it did all I wanted from a calendar. Small, fast, easy to use and saved to plain text
http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/m ... ndar-i18n/
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
These are listed, in synaptic, as local or obsolete, since they're installed, I don't miss them yet...
gksu - I don't have wayland, someday if/when I'm forced to do way with gksu[do] I'm going to really be struggling.
leafpad - it's not my primary editor. Sometimes caja won't open "text" files and yet leafpad has no problems.
me-tv - this is so simple and straight forward TV viewing/DVR program. Kind of when to the wayside with the uprising of streaming.
gprename - it's in Buster, but this system is Bullseye. It's just quick and easy.
If I had a system I couldn't use synaptic I'd miss that. Having to relearn fundamental operations is a PITA.
Current version of firefox bounces from sid to none to experimental to none to sid, I miss it getting updated with the system instead of it's popups telling me.
gksu - I don't have wayland, someday if/when I'm forced to do way with gksu[do] I'm going to really be struggling.
leafpad - it's not my primary editor. Sometimes caja won't open "text" files and yet leafpad has no problems.
me-tv - this is so simple and straight forward TV viewing/DVR program. Kind of when to the wayside with the uprising of streaming.
gprename - it's in Buster, but this system is Bullseye. It's just quick and easy.
If I had a system I couldn't use synaptic I'd miss that. Having to relearn fundamental operations is a PITA.
Current version of firefox bounces from sid to none to experimental to none to sid, I miss it getting updated with the system instead of it's popups telling me.
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
anticapitalista wrote:xmms audio player plus its plugins
I use qmmp, which appears to be almost everything the old xmms was - even uses my favorite winamp2 skin4D696B65 wrote:+1
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
@oswaldkelso: Well, I downloaded xcalendar from the archive link you gave and it installed fine in buster. To find the dependencies:oswaldkelso wrote:xcalendar I really loved how it saved your daily events as plain text. Though last time I tried it on Debian it still installed and ran fine I suspect that would have been a wheezy install. iirc I did see it on a more recent show your desktop post but forget who was running it.
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user@debian:~/Downloads$ dpkg -I xcalendar* |grep -i depends
Pre-Depends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libice6, libsm6, libx11-6, libxaw7, libxext6, libxmu6, libxt6
/usr/bin/xcalendar
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
gnome-schedule. It's not like setting up a cron job is hard, but I'm a sucker for GUI programs that save me from having to look up the syntax for things I don't do very often.
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
+1wizard10000 wrote:Only thing I have that's no longer in Debian is easymp3gain. I still use it so I guess I don't miss it
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
I may be the lone ranger here, but I sorely miss Guayadeque Music Player being in the official repositories.
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
I don't think it was ever in the repos. You can't miss something you never had!rivenathos wrote:I may be the lone ranger here, but I sorely miss Guayadeque Music Player being in the official repositories.
Good player though. I use DeadBeef mainly which is also not in the repos. It does a great job of processing and tagging ReplayGain for those who "miss" mp3gain.
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
Ỳes it was!sunrat wrote:I don't think it [Guayadeque Music Player] was ever in the repos. You can't miss something you never had!
Using rmadison to query the Debian archive database:
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rmadison guayadeque
guayadeque | 0.3.7~ds0-2.1 | oldoldstable | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386
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Re: Is there any software you miss that used to be in Debian
I stand corrected.
Linux is definitely not short of alternative music players.
Linux is definitely not short of alternative music players.
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