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Bear in mind that any updates to the kernel will overwrite your shiny new driver and you'll need to "sudo make install" again to compensate. At least until debian 9 when it will all work out of the box flawlessly (in theory).
The version number is old, but there's enough backports on it, it is not really that old. The clickpad on the hp stream 11 requires version 3.19+, but works fine on debians 3.16. You'll need linux-headers and build tools as I said.
And the previous should work fine. Otherwise apt-file can help you slim that down a bit since you don't really need all of build-essential and devscripts (until you do).
Well, apt-get still works, and most of that is just front ends to dpkg. So not that most notice many of the changes, since you don't have to change with it to stay functional. Although the dpkg -l change gets me a bit. I compensate with dselect update and dpkg-query, where I should (by new methodologies) be using apt-cache search --names-only for most of the same functionality.
apt-get and apt(not to confused with APT) behave differently.
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6.2. aptitude, apt-get, and apt Commands
APT is a vast project, whose original plans included a graphical interface. It is based on a library which contains the core application, and apt-get is the first front end — command-line based — which was developed within the project. apt is a second command-line based front end provided by APT which overcomes some design mistakes of apt-get.
Numerous other graphical interfaces then appeared as external projects: synaptic, aptitude (which includes both a text mode interface and a graphical one — even if not complete yet), wajig, etc. The most recommended interface, apt, is the one that we will use in the examples given in this section. Note however that apt-get and aptitude have a very similar command line syntax. When there are major differences between apt, apt-get and aptitude, these differences will be detailed.
root@ION:/home/gelapir/linux-firmware_20161229/rtlwifi# for FILE in *.bin; do echo $FILE; cmp $FILE /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/$FILE; done
rtl8188efw.bin
rtl8188eufw.bin
rtl8192cfw.bin
rtl8192cfw.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin differ: byte 3, line 1
rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
rtl8192cfwU_B.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin differ: byte 5, line 1
rtl8192cfwU.bin
rtl8192cufw_A.bin
rtl8192cufw_B.bin
rtl8192cufw.bin
rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
rtl8192defw.bin
rtl8192defw.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin differ: byte 4, line 1
rtl8192eefw.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192eefw.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8192eu_ap_wowlan.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192eu_ap_wowlan.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8192eu_nic.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192eu_nic.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8192eu_wowlan.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192eu_wowlan.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8192sefw.bin
rtl8712u.bin
rtl8723aufw_A.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723aufw_A.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8723aufw_B.bin
rtl8723aufw_B_NoBT.bin
rtl8723befw_36.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723befw_36.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8723befw.bin
rtl8723befw.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin differ: byte 7, line 1
rtl8723bu_ap_wowlan.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bu_ap_wowlan.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8723bu_nic.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bu_nic.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8723bu_wowlan.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bu_wowlan.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8723fw_B.bin
rtl8723fw.bin
rtl8821aefw_29.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw_29.bin: No such file or directory
rtl8821aefw.bin
rtl8821aefw.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin differ: byte 3, line 1
rtl8821aefw_wowlan.bin
cmp: /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw_wowlan.bin: No such file or directory
root@ION:/home/gelapir/linux-firmware_20161229/rtlwifi#
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