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Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky news 2025/11
The 11th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2025: [...]
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Guido Günther: Free Software Activities November 2025
Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Hand holding the release machinery for Phosh 0.51.0 but there's more: [...]
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[Old] Chris Sinjakli ☛ Waiting for apt locks without the hacky bash scripts
Tl;dr: If you’re running apt-get in a script and need to wait for other apt-get process to finish (i.e. you’re running into DPkg lock errors), set the DPkg::Lock::Timeout option (e.g. apt-get -o DPkg::Lock::Timeout=3 dist-upgrade).
If you want to know more about locking in apt and how I got to the solution, then carry on!