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Please support Debian stable in the future...

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Continuing from this post (https://slimbook.com/en/forum/community-forum-1/question/fans-not-detected-by-lm-sensors-executive-16-i7-12700h-9535), where the "solution" was to install packages slimbook-service and slimbook-qc71-dkms.

Alas, that's not possible in Debian stable (12, Bookworm), because of unmet depencies :


# apt install slimbook-service slimbook-qc71-dkms
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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libslimbook1 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.36-9+deb12u9 is to be installed
                Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 13.1) but 12.2.0-14 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Note that, apart from repo bookworm, I also use bookworm-backports, to be sure to have access to the latest package versions available for Bookworm (stable).

So, I checked, I'd have to install those 2 packages from Trixie (D13) in order to get acceptable versions. But that would implicate to upgrade a lot of other dependencies, a big no for me. Some prefer to use Debian stable because it is, well, stable... I don't want to create a frankendebian.

I bought the machine in August 2023, so it's not really a brand new machine, and is perfectly supported by Bookworm. Works perfectly. Shouldn't need the very latest versions of those packages...

Trixie is expected to be released somewhere in the middle of this year. I usually wait a few months before installing it, so probably end of 2025. I'll give it another try then. But I fear that by then your repo will need packages from the next testing version... I hope not !

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Enrique Medina Slimbook
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Hi! We have made a big effort this 2024 to improve Linux distro support, ie: Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu Noble, Jammy...

I know it may sound a cliche but Debian Stable is old.... libslimbook was designed to have any dependencies but libc, in order to minimize this problems. Anyway, we have to improve our build system in order to automatize this tasks.

Regarding your problem:

- For debian 12, use slimbook jammy ppa, the libc versions suits better:

deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/slimbook/slimbook/ubuntu jammy main 

- slimbook-qc71-dkms shouldn't have dependencies issues on Debian, and it is enough for your purposes

- we recommend, however, to install slimbook-service and libslimbook suit. With Jammy PPA should work.

- qc71 platform exposes fan data through embedded controller, handled by qc71 WMI/EC driver, that's why lm-sensors is unable to find it.

Regards

 

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Thanks for your help. Indeed slimbook-qc71-dkms didn't have any unmet dependencies. I now get my fans speed. Problem solved.

May I ask why you recommend to install slimbook-service and libslimbook suite ?

I took a look at your projects (https://github.com/orgs/Slimbook-Team/repositories?type=all). I don't really need slimbookbattery, because my laptop is always plugged in, with BIOS settings at desktop mode (60% charge). I'm not a nomad user. Apart of that, nothing else caught my eye...

I've used my Exec16 for over a year now, and so far everything runs smoothly. Very stable with Debian. Even Nvidia/Optimus/Wayland work nicely together. Much better than the previous XPS laptops I had. So, I wonder, what kind of improvements could I expect from slimbook-service and libslimbook ?



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Answering my own question, in case someone stumbles upon this post.
Installing slimbook-service can indeed be done on Debian 12 through the jammy repository.
It offers indeed a few interesting items, notably :
- disable/enable the touchpad through a double-tap
- show notifications from Slimbook (new BIOS available)
- disable some interesting notifications, notably when changing operation mode (normal/silent)
- shows some BIOS info (BIOS version, operation mode,...)

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