<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Tom, Great discussion of your process. I am struck by the mkusb part as I sometimes manage with dd and sometimes not. I have used unetbootin, but try to do more via command line as I grow. Of interest is the current commercial version of Linux Live on usb: "Xtra-PC"(tm). A company is cashing in on the end of life of certain software running on adequate hardware. Some of my neighbors asked me about this and I have offered to install on a usb if they buy the usb. I used to give away disks, but I cannot afford to toss away the $10 or so that a single usb costs and I am not in a position to bulk order. Anyway it is great to have more people doing what we have been up to for several years. Thank you, Ted P.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:35 PM Tom Ashcraft <<a href="mailto:trailerdog234@comcast.net">trailerdog234@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In some respects I guess I could call this a case of "be careful what <br>
you wish for".<br>
<br>
Thanks largely to input from Mars and Akkana I was able to succeed in my <br>
goal of obtaining a build of Clementine in which the Add Podcast > <br>
iTunes Search functionality works properly.<br>
<br>
I thought all I really wanted was to get something relatively <br>
commonplace to work in the manner it should with respect to particular <br>
things I happened to have need of. But now I suspect all the failures <br>
and unintended consequences endured will eventually prove to be more <br>
valuable than my initial desired outcome. I learned a lot of things <br>
along the way.<br>
<br>
I got my head wrapped about about half-way around the apt_preferences <br>
man page and went through four iterations of attempts to build different <br>
versions of Clementine from source. The one that finally built to the <br>
point of completion was the generic current version on git hub.<br>
<br>
Apparently the developer has little interest in "the debian way". Only <br>
about half the dependencies he listed as required happened to be <br>
available from Debian repos and installed. Nevertheless, Clementine <br>
proceeded to build and do everything I currently feel a need to do with it.<br>
<br>
A bunch of the streaming services I have little or no interest in don't <br>
work. Not that that matters much in any way I can justify. But <br>
aesthetically, anything sloppy or half-complete hanging around always <br>
*bugs* me.<br>
<br>
Of course the one thing I didn't try yet was to actually completely <br>
follow through and expand onhttps://<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial</a>. <br>
That is, I didn't try to build the current debian version I was trying <br>
to replace, the one with the bug, from source and see if I could <br>
actually try a little to fix it and maybe learn something worthwhile <br>
about debugging. That's a subject I know exactly zero about. So I may <br>
decide I have to continue and find out.<br>
<br>
The thing I definitely did right was to do all my experimenting on a <br>
live USB installation that I created a few weeks ago with mkusb. This <br>
was good because not only is it a really bomb-proof way of sandboxing <br>
any booby traps, vulnerabilities and non-free blobs, but the USB stick <br>
also runs on multiple machines and has a large sharable cross-platform <br>
data partition. I didn't have to dedicate any disk space and put time <br>
and effort into creating a virtual machine. (Though that would be a good <br>
way to do things too.)<br>
<br>
Also, now I'm thinking that though it lacks some convenience, I can <br>
always use any OS on a live USB stick with sharable data partition and a <br>
sound version of Clementine as a general work-around to satisfy my <br>
desires, even if I can't completely fix Clementine for my Debian laptops.<br>
<br>
But I do think if I can't ever get a Debian version of Clementine to <br>
work exactly right that I'd like to try a VM headless server and <br>
lxc/lxd/Docker container as a possible middle way.<br>
<br>
If anyone has any thoughts or opinions about any of this please let me know.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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