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Bearded_Blunder

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Did cifs-utils get dropped somewhere along the line?

I'm sure I remember it being installed in previous versions, doesn't appear to be in Boron, it's kind of very extremely useful when dealing with Windows network shares.

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Gaucho

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Re: Did cifs-utils get dropped somewhere along the line?

I'm not sure cifs-utils was included. I don't see it under bunsen-meta-all in the lithium package list...

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/repoidx.html

Anyway, it's in the Debian repos for bookworm, trixie and sid.

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Bearded_Blunder

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Re: Did cifs-utils get dropped somewhere along the line?

Indeed it is, shame the thunar-shares-plugin isn't that'd be fantastic to either be there or be able to apt-get, might have to try building that from source (yuck), unless the one in the mx-linux repos works, but I don't think it does.

As for cifs-utils, it might not be listed & still might get pulled in, especially if I'm remembering from metapackage installs where --no-install-recommends may or may not have slipped my mind. I'm quite capable of such silly slips.

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Gaucho

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Re: Did cifs-utils get dropped somewhere along the line?

If you're on bookwork, the MX package should work...

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php … 65#p789298
https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/t/ … es-plugin/

If you want to try building it, see the first post in the Debian thread I linked.

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Bearded_Blunder

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Re: Did cifs-utils get dropped somewhere along the line?

"Should" being the operative word, unfortunately not without also fetching a library from them. It turns out libexo-1-0 isn't in the Debian repos (well it's in the Buster repos), only -2-0, which apparently upstream are also now using, but not it appears MX, who must have kept the old lib around.

I'd found that thread earlier myself, but thanks for the link anyway.  I really don't like stepping outside Debian unless I have to (touchscreen drivers for the laptop as an e.g.) prefer not to for a "nice to have but not essential to make things work". Now were it in Sid, I wouldn't hesitate to do the backporting thing.

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