After today’s upgrade of ‘apt’ package up to version 2.9.16 on Sparky testing “Seven Sisters” based on Debian testing “Trixie” ONLY (not stable, not oldstable), you can find such APT issue: https://repo.sparkylinux.org/dists/core/InRelease: The key(s) in the keyring /usr/share/keyrings/sparky.gpg.key are ignored as the file has an unsupported filetype. To fix it, do: Copy Sparky GPG key: … Read more
There is a new application available for Sparkers: Nala What is Nala? Nala is a front-end for libapt-pkg. Specifically we interface using the python-apt api. Especially for newer users it can be hard to understand what apt is trying to do when installing or upgrading. We aim to solve this by not showing some redundant … Read more
The last update of ‘apt’ package returns with an issue like that: W: https://repo.sparkylinux.org/dists/core/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details. It means, signing repos via ‘apt-key’ in the: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg file is deprecated now. How to fix it? Simply make system upgrade, specially the ‘sparky-apt’ and … Read more
There is an update of Sparky APTus 0.4.1 available in Sparky repository. Changelog: – integration of sparky-aptus-extra, sparky-skype-installer, teamspeak-installer into APTus – added new modules & apps of the following categories: Audio, Video, Graphics, IM, Email, RSS, Filetransfer, Security – added a few more apps to System module – moved tabs to the left panel … Read more
There is an update of Sparky APTus 0.4.0 available in the testing repository. This update provides integration of a few Sparky tools, such as: sparky-aptus-gamer, sparky-codecs, sparky-desktop, sparky-office, sparky-webbrowser-installer and vmplayer-installer into one tool of APTus 0.4.0. Other changes: – aptus scripts divided into two modules (tabs) now: Accessories and System – added buttons of … Read more