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LaTex package “float” broke after texlive 20190830 After updating texlive to the 20190830 version, the “float” package started working, giving ! LaTeX Error: Unknown float option 'H'. even if the same file was compiling correctly before and \usepackage{float} is used. You need to downgrade at least to the 20190227 version. I did apt purge texlive* then tried to install texlive from the stable distribution (buster is shipping 20190227) but even after having purged everything related to texlive the system could not install that version for broken dependencies/wrong versions....

Just to name a few, Teamviewer, megasync, and MATLAB requires some dependecies that are still not in stretch/debian repo. Tuning apt preferences and sources you can mix repositories and satisfy some dependecies with packages from backports, testing or even experimental, just expect something to break (you shouldn’t do this on a production system). Some useful resources to start playing around with apt: AptPreferences Apt pinning My actual apt Configuration

I recently got a Thinkpad P14s Gen 2 with an Intel i7-1165G7. Here are some first impressions on how well it works with Linux/Debian. TL;DR Don’t buy it. It sucks. The machine it’s absolutely terrible. Just google for “p14s gen 2 intel throttling” to get an idea. Before initiating with the installation, disable SecureBoot and set the standby/sleep feature to “Linux” on the BIOS. I installed Debian Sid starting from the non-free netinstall image of Buster then did a full upgrade after having added Sid in the sources....

Confirmed to help with Portal, The Stanley Parable with these errors on start: error while loading shared libraries: libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory error while loading shared libraries: libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 SDL failed to create GL compatibility profile (whichProfile=0! SDL failed to create GL compatibility profile (whichProfile=0! Be sure to have these libraries installed: libtcmalloc-minimal4:i386 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386 libstdc++. Rename every occurency of the file libstdc++....