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How I got apt update and install to work (with Debian Jessie retired)
OK, so I started off creating my own local Debian repository. Not recommended -- it's a lot of work. But with a lot of Googling and experimenting, I finally got apt to work using an online source. ...
I have been trolling through this thread for a couple of days now. "jump here, do this, then another entry to do that etc etc"
I suggest the GURUs on here would serve the needs of those asking questions by producing a document with step by step instructions and screen prints. A user guide if you will. This will save the gurus being annoyed by us nubes and will save us nubes being none the wiser after reading multiple entries pushing and pulling us all over the place.
Instructions should be written for the lowest common denominator. This shows you care and understand. The use of comments indicating annoyance with the questions being asked shows a lack of consideration.
Helman wrote:
I suggest the GURUs on here would serve the needs of those asking questions by producing a document with step by step instructions and screen prints.
There are only two of us who regularly respond to questions here. Neither of us work for Netgear, and as ArchPrime says, we are just volunteering some of our time to help others.
This particular discussion thread has gotten long and tangled over the past 2 years, but both post 1 and post 37 have what is needed. Neither of us have the forum privileges required to create sticky read-only "how to" guides. Over time, discussion threads will get tangled and go off topic as other users post. For instance, your own posts move this thread in a very different direction.
Screen prints would require me to do a factory default (to undo the changes I've already made), and then go through the process step by step. I'm not going to do that on my own NAS, as it takes too long to rebuild it and restore it from backup.
I made my instructions as simple as I dare. To be very frank: If anyone cannot understand the instructions I gave, even when I provided the files needed, then they shouldn't be trying. Mucking with the OS of a ReadyNAS is a very easy way to make it completely inaccessible. And many still don't understand that they need a real backup of their data and would lose a lot if they lost access to their NAS.
I wish I knew how to make them as a add-on, but I don't. My expertise is actually hardware, not Linux. I knew some Unix and Multics back in the day, but only learned what I need of Linux for the purposes of getting more from my ReadyNAS and did so via this forum, Google, and mucking with ReadyNAS VM's and "sandbox" units I could always just factory default if something went sideways. Nobody has ever produced a "ReadyNAS add-ons for dummies" -- the given instructions assume the reader knows more about Linux development than I do.
There is also the reality that this is really just a temporary fix. Apps that work on Debian Jessie are getting long in the tooth and it's time people who rely on them start looking at other options.
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