This beginner’s guide explains the steps to install Debian 10 Buster. The following process includes the step by step guide with screenshots and prepared to be followed by any user. Debian is a “true” free and open-source GNU/Linux Distribution. It is probably the oldest Linux distribution based on Linux Kernel. Today, Debian is the most.

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However the default installation for Debian only includes the ‘main’ repository which is directly maintained by the Debian community and fulfills the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). The two other repositories ‘contrib’ and ‘non-free’ are not enabled by default as it contains software that either does not meet DFSG. For installation images and documentation about how to install bullseye (which is currently Testing), see the Debian-Installer page. To install Debian 10.9 ( buster ), download any of the following images (all i386 and amd64 CD/DVD images can be used on USB sticks too): netinst CD image (generally 170-470 MB) amd64.

This will also install the recommended wireless-tools package. DKMS will build the wl module for your system. (Optional) Rescue if install/build fails in previous step # apt-get install -f # dpkg-reconfigure broadcom-sta-dkms (Optional) Check all the built DKMS kernel modules. There should be 'wl.ko' in the list. # find /lib/modules/$(uname -r.
For convenience for some users, this unofficial alternative build includes non-free firmware for extra support for some awkward hardware. Memory usage Live images tend to be resource hungry by nature - they need to use memory to extract and store the compressed system as well as the memory that the running software would normally need.

I hit this same (I think) issue with gdebi. Working from Thunar, it opens a .deb file fine, but when you click the 'install' button, instead of putting up a pkexec password window it crashes, leaving a creepy error message in ~/.xsession-errors:

There is this Debian bug, but with no response so far.

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Googling on the dead parents message only brings a few results eg this, but the message is that when pkexec is invoked it checks the PID of its parent process, and if it's 1 (ie init) then it (correctly) errors out. The bug is in whatever is invoking pkexec. Gdebi starts up with normal user permissions, then invokes pkexec when needed to do system work. (This is much more secure than running the whole app as root, as some people seemed to be advocating.)

To check the parent thing: in a terminal, run:

and it works fine because the terminal is providing the parent process. Gparted and synaptic avoid the issue by providing wrapper scripts. Gdebi could do the same, but in fact all that is needed is to add an extra sh process as parent.

QUICK FIX:

Now find the Exec= line in your local copy of gdebi.desktop (around #155) and edit it to

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