There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 1397BC53640DB551

Seeing the above warning? Then you're probably using Google Chrome in Linux, and you need to update the public key:

# wget -q -O - https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -

(NB: Modified for Debian systems- the version in links below uses Sudo.)

Ubuntu Forums, Reddit, debian.org

Free backup in the cloud

I was looking for a backup solution for my documents and came across the excellent Déjà Dup.

Now backup in the cloud would obviously be a good idea because things that could cause me to lose my computer (fire or burglary, for example) could also cause me to lose my external HD.

There are many cloud storage provides, but some are intended for users with  huge amounts of data and are paid, and some don't allow direct backup and restore to the cloud.

I came across an article at maketecheasier which describes how to use box.com with Déjà Dup, but try as I might, I couldn't get it to work.

Debian User Forums and bester69 to the rescue!

The setup details in the 2012 article seem to be out of date.

These are the settings that worked for me:

box.com provides 10GB of storage for free: enough for my 1GB of backup, but more storage is available for a fee.

Gnome introduces offline updates

I'm running Debian Testing (Stretch) on my old laptop and I noticed that updates are now done offline. The reasoning, according to the Gnome Blog,is that it's safer and updates are applied immediately, rather than waiting till the next reboot.

Here are some screenshots to illustrate the process:

In distros which use a boot splash, like Fedora, users will see a message like this:

Just as long as offline updates doesn't resemble Microsoft updates...

Just talking care of a few more things
Almost ready
Won't be long now
Have you read War and Peace? Now might be a good opportunity

Iceweasel now Firefox in Debian Jessie Backports

If you have the release version of Iceweasel installed from Debian Backports, you will notice an error message when updating:

Failed to fetch http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/jessie-backports/Release Unable to find expected entry 'iceweasel-release...

This is because Iceweasel is no more and Firefox has taken its place, as I described in my previous post.

Changing the sources.list file to the entry given by the Debian Mozilla team now installs Firefox, as the above screenshot shows.

Now I just have to try to uninstall Iceweasel without uninstalling the whole of Gnome...

Update: "Debian stable will receive Firefox ESR after Iceweasel/Firefox ESR38 is end-of-lifed, in about 3 months." Glandium.

Son of Firefox returns to Debian

Over five years ago I wrote that Iceweasel was going to be renamed Firefox in Debian.

Well, now it finally seems to be happening, according to pcworld.com.

Scanning the bug report, the change might happen in June in Debian Jessie.

Things that are fixed in Debian Stretch - File transfer from mobile phone

I wrote a while ago (checks... over a year ago) about some things that were (and still are) broken in Debian Jessie. Like the ability to transfer files via Bluetooth from a mobile phone.

I am happy to report that file transfer from a mobile phone is fixed in Debian Stretch- from which I am now posting.

What? No proof without pictures? Go on then:

Debian Stable users will be able to access this basic functionality (again- it worked in Wheezy) about a year later when Stretch becomes stable.

Not sure why Bluez5 not accepting file transfers from a mobile phone wasn't a blocker bug, but hey ho.

Update Notifications are also fixed in Stretch: I will blog about this when I grab a screenshot.

Video thumbnails in BunsenLabs

I'm trying out BunsenLabs Linux on my old laptop. I came across the same problem I encountered in its predecessor CrunchBang Linux, namely I didn't get a thumbnail preview of video files in Thunar.

The solution I found at the time (see my review of CrunchBang), which was to install ffmpegthumbnailer, didn't work.

The solution this time was to install tumbler-plugins-extra.