Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators. This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA buster). As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.
Types: deb deb-src URIs: http://deb.grml.org/ Suites: grml-stable grml-testing Architectures: i386 amd64 Components: main Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg
or you prefer the common sources.list setup you can use a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.list like:
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-stable main deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-testing main
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty provides more general documentation about this setup.
Highlighting the most relevant changes only:
Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are available in the Debian section. Visit dpkg_list for a detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2018.12.
Packages are taken from Debian testing as of 30th of December 2018. 26 packages have been removed, and these 76 new packages have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):
bcache-tools binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cpp-8 cryptsetup-initramfs cryptsetup-run dbus-user-session dirmngr dislocker ed fakeroot fdisk gcc-8-base gdbm-l10n gir1.2-glib-2.0 glusterfs-common gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm iso-codes linux-libc-dev lm-sensors mcollective mcollective-common ndisc6 nmap-common patchutils perl-modules-5.28 python-colorlog python-fasteners python-humanize python-monotonic python-six python-talloc python2 python2-minimal python3-certifi python3-chardet python3-configshell-fb python3-gi python3-idna python3-jwt python3-pkg-resources python3-prettytable python3-pyparsing python3-pyudev python3-requests python3-rtslib-fb python3-six python3-urllib3 python3-urwid python3.7 python3.7-minimal qemu-guest-agent qemu-system-data rdnssd restic ruby-stomp ruby-systemu ruby-xmlrpc ruby2.5 stressant targetcli-fb tcl tcl8.6 thin-provisioning-tools tk tk8.6 wdiff x11vnc x11vnc-data
These 26 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):
apt-transport-https aptitude-common btrfs-tools cpp-6 cpufrequtils dh-python e2fslibs gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent iproute lynx-cur multiarch-support perl-modules-5.24 python-talloc python-urwid python3.5 python3.5-minimal qemu-kvm realpath ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-rgen ruby-safe-yaml ruby2.3 xdg-utils
Please visit the known bugs web page.
Grml 2018.12 can be downloaded from grml.org/download/.
Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with the release please check the known bugs list and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback and feature requests to the Grml team!
Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) András Korn, Andreas Henriksson, Antoine Beaupré, Bernhard Tittelbach, Bigo, Chris Hofstaedtler, David Prévot, f0, Grégoire Sutre, Guillem Jover, Helmut Grohne, hex2a, James Tocknell joeran, karlh1, Leo Bergolth, luke2261git, Marc Haber, Marcos Mello, Markus Lindberg, Martin Besser, maximebuy, Michael Biebl, Michael Eischer, Michael Schierl, Moviuro, Mykola Malkov, Patrick Neumann, Patrick Schleizer, Paul Menzel, Ralf Moll and sl0n for their contributions.
You can find out more about Grml on our website, IRC channel, and wiki.
To sign up for future Grml announcements, please subscribe to Grml's announcement list.