Replacing a missing package on debian I recently hit a problem where I wanted to install a package but debian had removed a dependency, and no package has a ‘provides’, thus breaking it. There is a mechanism for coping with this.. it’s not ideal but is occasionally necessary. This is the procedure for policykit-1 First install equivs $ sudo apt-get install equivs Create the file policykit-1 containing Section: misc Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.

Running an unprivileged lxc container with recent systemd Recent builds of systemd (around version 252) implemented a bunch of features that break proxmox/lxc containers. The canonical way of working around this is to enable nesting, but this isn’t really recommended as it gives access to the host’s /proc and /sys.. it only takes a bug and breaking out of the container becomes possible. There is a workaround script for this.. it’s not installed by default, and as far as I know not in any packages.

Fix for pipewire being silent on login Pipewire runs as a user process, and for some reason on my setup it wasn’t working on login.. Symptoms are needing to switch devices to make audio start working. This fixes it with restart on every login: In /etc/xdg/autostart/pipewire.desktop put: [Desktop Entry] Exec=/usr/bin/systemctl --user restart pipewire Name=Restart pipewire Type=Application X-KDE-StartupNotify=false OnlyShowIn=KDE; Icon=plasma NoDisplay=true I presume something like that is supposed to be there already, but currently on Debian Testing it isn’t.