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Hello everyone, I have Mint 21.2 MATE and I subscribe to express vpn. How to I make express vpn one of my "vpn connections" Thank you for your time and EXCELSIOR!

My Debian-based distro doesn't respond well for some reason lately. I can't find any causes as the CPU usage, memory, and swap are low. One particular case is about browsers. I can't get the Brave...

From what I can tell, this should be possible but I'm not sure of the steps. It seems that firstly the nvidia drivers need to be installed (are they installed by default if I went with an AMD card or...

So I recently had an "excellent" idea to add a second locale to my computer (zh-CN). To test it, I set it to the primary. It worked, so I changed it back to the old one (en-CA). However, now all of my...

Hi. I have a .deb file that my archive manager tells is constituted by two files: control.tar.gz and data.tar.xz I want to replace data.tar.xz by data.tar.gz. So I extracted data.tar.xz, which...

Published at LXer: The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.2 as the second ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 iBookwormi operating system...

Hi there! I am thinking about programming some kind of "touch-screen-compatible" UI to the at-daemon. Before I start further action I thought it might be good to ask if something like that...

HOW can I move Thunderbird (windows) to Thunderbird ( Linux Mint Cinnamon ). I'm 81 and very new to Linux. I have usb booted and tried cinnamon, just worried about getting aall my Thunderbird files.

Hi. I am trying to boot an iso file through grub I followed the example given here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot#Downloading Code: --------- menuentry "Ubuntu 12.04 ISO" { ...

Published at LXer: Also included in this weekis FOSS Week in Review: OpenPubkey goes to Linux Foundation, adding vector support to MySQL for AI, and the results of last weekis rolling release poll....

Self Encrypting Drives (SSD, NVMe, pendrive) are on the market for quite a long time now and they usually offer AES256 hardware encryption. Strange thing is that it is still lack of information how to...

I sat through a one-day Assembly of ~600 folks today, and the sound was awful. I was in a hotel, in an overflow suite upstairs (or up lifts), with two big tvs, connected to the suite below by (wait...

I'm trying to understand TUN as I'm working on a toy VPN implementation. I have a point-to-point TUN with local IPs of 10.0.1.170/10.0.1.171. If I ping 10.0.1.171, I can see the packet in my agent...

In my Linux program that relies on libxml2 I keep seeing messages about the library hitting debug breakpoints, and xmlfree messages. I want to suppress those messages from appearing as part of the...

i have got a second screen set up but it has this green box at the top rhs saying its the hdmi screen... similarly the laptop screen has a red box.. how do i get rid of these pls...have looked in...

Dear all, I am running out of ideas and need inspiration how to track down my current security issue. *Why I think that my server got hacked?* From time to time, when I execute this command ...

Hi, I'm using a PC running debian stable for signal processing. A few years ago it was just fast enough to do the job, but over the years it got slower and now it isn't fast enough anymore for the...

I installed the Fedora 39 beta on my Lenovo ThinkPad X280 i5-8250U 1080p Laptop but in the settings app and on the command line the screen resolution of my built-in display is shown as 1366x768 with a...

I have to use such URL: Code: --------- mysql://User:Password@MariaDB_address/rest_of_url --------- But the problem is that password ends with @ So how can I properly use quotation because...

I have recently installed Debian 12 on a laptop (VGN-Z92JS). I am now trying to set it up so that I can also use Japanese input. I have already installed these packages: *ibus*, *ibus-mozc*. ...

Published at LXer: Fail2ban is a free and open source software we can use to mitigate brute force and DoS/DDoS attacks: it scans log files for multiple failed authentication attempts and bans...

As a part of SNORT, I am trying to install PF_Ring on my Ubuntu LTS 20.04, I am following this guide https://www.ntop.org/guides/pf_ring/thirdparty/snort-daq.html#compilation Every thing went fine...

Published at LXer: Qualys has discovered a nasty security hole, dubbed [he]#039[/he]Looney Tunables[he]#039[/he], in the glibc C library. This means almost all Linux distributions have a bad...

My system's python is the most recent 3.12.x But SDiff XL WebUI requires Python 3.10.x which is a legacy Python for my system Are there guides to set up a virt env for such a legacy Python? With my...

Published at LXer: Guide to install Wike Wikipedia Reader on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish via three methods: APT, Snap or Flatpak. Read More......

Greetings, I hope to be able to spend more time here in the near future (near probably being measured in months, I'm afraid) to help other folks. However, I've moved to a new place and I'm...

Searching my local rsync of current for the kernel config files ... Code: --------- # find /home/archive/slackware-15_X/ -name "config-*-6.1.56*"...

Hello, I am currently getting a deceptive website ahead warning by google when trying to access a free streaming tv website. I do not have cable or other access to tv shows and rely on free...

Published at LXer: Steps to install Visual Studio Code (VSCode) on Linux Mint 21 via APT or Flatpak with the command line terminal. Read More......

Published at LXer: Learn about the new features of Kubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur", bringing the latest KDE Plasma 5.27 desktop and improvements. Read More......

Fedora is one of the few distros that are supposed to work on this laptop, and after a bit I have it working, except one issue. Installed with kernel 6.2.9-300, everything works, after an update to...

Published at LXer: The Debian Project announced the general availability of Debian 11.8 in iBullseyei and Debian 12.2 in iBookwormi series as bugfix releases. Read More......

I've used linux before, and would say it's been a mixed bag of experiences and frustration for me. That was more then a decate ago.But I got this old Toshiba Satellite L40 laptop laying around, and...

How do I correct Ubuntu when /etc/passwd states bash: /etc/passwd: permission denied?

My name is Jennifer L. Chapman. I'm a homeschool parent for my Daughter. I'm a full time MU student. I look forward to making some progress with my journey of obtaining my degree in Cyber...

Published at LXer: Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java web server and Servlet container used to host web applications written in Java. This tutorial will show you how to install Apache Tomcat on...

I am having permission denied error while trying to download from owncloud using the wget command. By using the download url on a browser I could download the file but from the ubuntu server command...

Greetings, I'm Pegger, a passionate computer enthusiast who thrives on the excitement of learning and exploring new horizons within the world of computing. My journey has led me to dive deep into...

Hello, I have a Dell Vostro 3300 laptop with disabled USB ports and a broken built-in keyboard. I'm facing a challenge accessing the BIOS setup utility due to these issues. I've tried various...

Published at LXer: That is not dead which can eternal lie. Ii! Ii! IA16! Version 0.7.0 of ELKS OS, and 0.4.0 of its creator's next baby, Fuzix, are out i if you like your 'nix systems as tiny as...

I have installed and tried a couple of distros in an old laptop with no problem whatsoever, but after a hardware problem it became impossible for me to install Linux again.I will try explain the...

Hi all I have installed this on a SSD by using rpi-imager on my PC/Windows 10: openSUSE-Leap-15.3-ARM-GNOME-raspberrypi.aarch64.raw.xz I am booting on it from my Raspberry PI400 (for the first...

Ubuntu 22.x lts Even after a complete new reinstall of Ubuntu on the entire system, Firefox sometimes still does what it use to. Not very often, but often enough to make me wander what's going on....

Published at LXer: Suricata is a Network Monitoring tool that examines and processes every packet of internet traffic that flows through your server. It can generate log events, trigger alerts, and...

Published at LXer: fwupd 1.9.6 Linux firmware upgrading utility has been released today with support for more hardware devices, new features, as well as a dozen bug fixes. Read More......

Published at LXer: These days you can acquire time series data from multiple sources. In this article we will show you how to use InfluxDB, a popular time-series database dedicated to fast...

Published at LXer: This guide provides detailed instructions on installing the Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). It covers the process right from importing the Plex APT...

Is there a simple way to temporary turn off all system sound on Linux Mint, except those from online source such as Youtube and Zoom, and can be re-enabled easily ? there are notification sounds...

Good day I was trying to install Slackware but I have a problem, when I was set up the user root and the visual interfaz I forget the password therefore I try to fix in other ways that I dont...

Published at LXer: Valve released today Proton 8.0-4 as the latest version of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components that enable Linux users to...