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I would like to install some packages which aren't available in the repositories and for this I would like to use a virtual enviroment.

Can someone explain what the basic difference is between chroot and lxc?
Which one is best suited for this case?

Thx!!

Maybe you can take a look at virtual systems like chroot .... I'm also new to this concept, but maybe someone else can help you out. extract from debian wiki Another strategy for using software not available in Debian stable is to run the software in a virtual Debian system contained in its on direc...

Install inxi and post the terminal output of: inxi -G output: Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Carrizo Display Server: X.org 1.19.2 drivers: ati,vesa (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,radeon) tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root As sunrat mentioned, your problem might be graphics....

I was thinking the same thing

Just one last question, when I try to power off or reboot, I get a black screen and it takes a while before
the shutdown actually happens.

Could this be related to the efi mode?

Does the `efibootmgr` command work after you have booted in "Legacy" mode? ^ Please answer this question. I think that perhaps you are in fact booted in UEFI mode even though you have selected "Legacy" mode — UEFI firmware is absolute rubbish in my experience so perhaps that kno...

why do I need a BIOS partition when I should run in UEFI mode? You don't. A BIOS boot partition is needed by GRUB to start a non-UEFI system on a GPT disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition#/media/File:GNU_GRUB_components.svg As you do not have such a partition then you cannot be bo...

Is grub-pc only for i386? No, grub-pc is the non-UEFI version of GRUB and it conflicts with grub-efi. Your system appears to be installed and booting in UEFI mode and cannot be booted in non-UEFI ("Legacy") mode using GRUB because you have a GUID partition table on your hard drive but it ...

apt install grub-pc update-grub You somehow didn't install grub. I did like you said, but when I change to EFI boot instead of Legacy, still the same problem Btw the message I got when installing grub-pc was: removing "grub-efi-amd64".... Is grub-pc only for i386? I'm running on 64bit

apt policy grub-pc grub-pc: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.02~beta3-5 Version table: 2.02~beta3-5 500 500 http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages find /boot/efi /boot/efi /boot/efi/EFI /boot/efi/EFI/debian /boot/efi/EFI...

I left the original efi partition untouched...

Yeah I cleared both fast and secure boot...

It's really strange. Should I've done something with the efi partition?

Just installed Debian 9 alongside w10 with netinstall. The problem though is that when I choose to start Debian, I see a black screen with a couple of logs. But nothing else happens and the screen is suspended. If I set the boot mode in bios to legacy support, the system does start. Can anyone expla...

But I do want the latest version of these. If you want the latest versions of stuff, Debian probably isn't your best choice of distro. Actually I meant a specific version. I would like to do web development with the following tools: - nodejs - visual studio code But I do want the latest version of ...

Example:
https://code.visualstudio.com/download

It says Debian/Ubuntu, but for all we know it could be compiled for only Ubuntu...

Hi guys,

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to check if a .deb file was compiled for Debian and not for another distro like for example Ubuntu?

Thx

Why isn't Debian good for development ? I mean if you host node.js "web app" on a server you probably gonna use Debian Stable anyway, so you will have same version as on your dev system. This seems logical, but I 'm just afraid of breaking the system: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebi...

Ok thx for the replies. Which distros would you advice then?

Doesn' t this screw up apt because they're not in the Debian repositories? This was actually the reason why I asked the question.

Hi everyone, Been looking alle over, but I seem to find different answers. Maybe you can help me out? I would like to do web development with the following tools: - nodejs - visual studio code But I do want the latest version of these. What is the safest way to accomplish this? Btw In can't find the...