Re: Mistake on https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

Jonny Grant <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 05/04/18 13:28, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Jonny Grant wrote:
> 
>> Based on this, would debian follow a modern approach? We're in 2018, not 2001!
> 
> We don't have any web-based package managers AFAIK ;)
> 
> How about this?
> 
> reportbug is installed by default so you should be able to start
> reportbug from the "System" category of your menus.
> 
> If (reportbug)[apt://reportbug] is not yet installed, you can install
> it using the package manager installed on your system (such as GNOME
> Software, KDE Muon, Synaptic, Aptitude GTK etc).
> 
> If you don't have a graphical package manager installed, you can open
> the terminal application and run a command-line package manager as
> root.
> 
> If you are using a modern desktop such as GNOME or KDE, you can run
> this command:
> 
> pkexec apt install reportbug
> 
> If you did not set a root password or your user has sudo access, you
> can run this command:
> 
> sudo apt install reportbug
> 
> If you set a root password, you can run this command:
> 
> su -c 'apt install reportbug'


Hello Paul
Thank you, yes I feel this is much clearer.
Jonny
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