Europun Trip

Had a Danish for breakfast,
But I'm still Hungary.
Went with France to a Turkey lunch,
Paid the Czech and climbed the tower in Paris:
Eiffel and now I'm in Seine.
Saw repairman on a Poland said:
Lift me outta here, Ukraine!

Math teacher: Why are you handing in a blank sheet of paper for your assignment?

Student: Because all my answers are imaginary numbers.

Doctor: You have acute appendicitis.
Patient: Is that better than an ugly one?

"How much do you think the chimney cost?"

"Let me guess -- nothing, because it's on the house."

"On the contrary, it was through the roof!"

If OSes were cars...

Windows user: I'll install this new filter and it should run for another 2 years.

Mac user: Oh no, something in there is broken, time to buy a new car all over again!

Linux user: (stares at floor full off isolated car parts and wonders how long it will take to recompile the entire car.)

That sounds dangerous. If the executable is linked against version 4 of the .so, substituting version 5 may introduce subtle errors or crashes due to ABI incompatibilities. If at all possible I'd recommend getting a new version of the executable that's linked against version 5 of the library, or compile it yourself against the right -dev package.

I almost always run apt-get with --no-install-recommends, because a lot of "recommended" packages are really needless bloat that I have no need of.

After this fiasco I'm almost ready to switch to a source-only distro, which I'd configure by hand to contain the absolute minimum options I need to do what I need to do, and nothing else.  Even after getting rid of systemd too many Debian packages still come with too many things enabled by default. Mostly useless things that I never actually use.

P.S. apt-file didn't find anything on my system. That probably means the required package isn't in Daedalus. However, it does show up in google in various rpm repos. Maybe what you want is to install `alien` and use it to install the needed rpm?  I'm not 100% sure this is the best approach, though, because this could mess with your system in a way that's hard to undo should you change your mind afterwards.

How did the farmer stop the aliens from invading earth?

He caught their spaceship in his tractor beam.

Relax, it's not as though I spend all day thinking up lame jokes. It's just a way to decompress after doing real work at my day job.  After work some people tend to their garden and grow herbs, some people relax and get a beer belly. But IMHO that's just a waist of thyme.

@steve_v: you're probably unaware of this, but this is what ldd's manpage says about using it on untrusted or potentially malicious executables:

In the case of the xz exploit, it's probably very unwise to use ldd to examine potentially affected executables.

Did you know that there's a species of antelope that can jump higher than an average house?

This is due to its powerful hind legs, and the fact that the average house cannot jump.