Fresh install package today
Debian/LinuxCNC

After going through all the set up, I followed some basic instructions given to me to get going...

I began here...

jeff@LinuxCNC:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for jeff:
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB]
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [51.9 kB]
Hit:4 http://www.linuxcnc.org buster InRelease
Get:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease [1,811 B]
Get:6 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages [1,083 B]
Fetched 120 kB in 10s (11.5 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Looks to me that I updated the packages fine

Then I did this...

jeff@LinuxCNC:~$ sudo apt install openssh-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
openssh-server is already the newest version (1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 67 not upgraded.
jeff@LinuxCNC:~$

Then...

jeff@LinuxCNC:~$ sudo service ssh start
jeff@LinuxCNC:~$


So far so good...

Then I installed Chrome with no problems. But I couldn't get the remote plugin installed. So I passed that set of instructions, and went on to getting Discord set up

I typed the following in and it took about four minutes to get back to a command line prompt.

jeff@LinuxCNC:~$ sudo wget -o discord.deb "https://discordapp.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=deb"
jeff@LinuxCNC:~$

I'm guessing this command got the files needed from the Discord server. But there was no acknowledgment here.

Then...

I did the install command

And then I get this...

jeff@LinuxCNC:~$ sudo dpkg -i ./discord.deb
dpkg-deb: error: './discord.deb' is not a Debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive ./discord.deb (--install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
./discord.deb
jeff@LinuxCNC:~$

Just so I can grow in my Linux knowledge, I am guessing that I in fact have apt-get on this build. And I see in my file manager, download folder, the Discord download is there.

I've tried right clicking on that file to use a different program builder. I see I have Synaptic, but truly don't have a clue what I'm doing with that.

I found Discord in there by searching for it. But then I didn't know which files to click. Nor is there anything that makes me think I'm installing Discord.

I could just use a little bit of direction help here. I'm just trying to learn enough to get me going in the right direction. Thanks

You updated the repository lists, not Debian. You would need to follow up the update command with upgrade: ---> sudo apt-get upgrade
I'm not familiar with that Debian derivative, however Debian 10 Buster uses systemd init service. To enable a systemd service the command would be something like: ---> sudo systemctl start ssh
To install a bash script in the same directory you are in from command line typically is done as such ---> ./run-this-script.sh
To install a Debian binary package with dpkg package manager you typically would do it like so ---> sudo dpkg -i discord.deb

Wrong option here. It should have been the capital -O, not -o. Instead of discord.deb, you saved the downloaded package as download?platform=linux&format=deb. And the text log of wget operations was saved to discord.deb.

Appreciate you both!