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Published at LXer: Although the cpio archiving utility is nowadays used less than other archiving tools like tar, it is still good to know how it works, since it is still used, for example, to...

"Thanks for your time, my name is Les, how can I make your reality better today?" is how I answer my business phone. Disarms the disgruntled and I'm immediately NOT identified as their enemy. One day...

I am on CentOS 7. Not sure this is specific to CentOS 7 or there is some kind of X11/Wayland stuff that triggers a bug that I have not seen before. When I use xmgrace software to plot a graph,...

Published at LXer: The sixty-first installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 28th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in...

I pulled the latest current-iso today and noticed the environment variables for fcitx are not being set after setting additional languages. I have historically used an 'fcitx.sh' file in...

Slackware 64 -current (2021-11-28) Tab to complete a file name in xterm, using ksh, doesn't seem to work. For example, I try to extract Rainlendar-Pro-2.17.1-amd64.tar.bz2 : I type *tar xjvf...

Published at LXer: Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source NoSQL database management system drawn to manipulate large amounts of information across many servers, providing high availability with...

Let's give you some background why I created this thread: I wrote and maintain a Raspberry backup tool called raspiBackup which is available on on github under GPL and used by a lot of people. As...

Has anyone got the kio gdrive on dolphin working for current?

I have a new ArchLinux install with KDE Plasma 5. no problems booting or logging into the desktop. But when I try to run the following: pacman -S kde-applications or pacman -S...

Hi all, i'm writing a simple init program only for study purpose. Now, how can i fastly test it? I tried to use systemd container but even if I replace the init symlink making it point to my init...

I'm looking for a graphical way to manipulate ( de/uninstall language-packs and fonts, office ) the squashfs file in an ISO. I know an ISO is read only, so I have to unpack it, and mount the squashfs...

I recently downloaded the ubuntu 20.04 distribution. When i connect to my home wifi, it shows connected but I am not able to use internet i.e the pages keep loading forever. Note : This happens only...

I recently downloaded the ubuntu 20.04 distribution. When i connect to my home wifi, it shows connected but I am not able to use internet i.e the pages keep loading forever. Note : This happens only...

Ignore this. I was wondering why no updates were coming to Razpi OS which is Debian based, but it seems they've released a new version, which I'm downloading now. So I'll go away feeling stupid for...

A question about git/gitlab that I can't figure out and I hope you can help me. First, I use Vanilla Arch with AwesomeWM Long time ago I cloned a repository from github, 'lain', which is an addon...

I just reinstall elilo with eliloconfig, and I just want to skip the menu entry to keep my custom one So, I launch : eliloconfig INSTALL ELILO? answer : install INSTALL BOOT MENU ENTRY?...

Hello all! Here's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to create a chroot to create a custom debian live cd image and then to test or modify it via chroot directly either as a virtual or emulated...

Published at LXer: SQLite 3.37 has just got better with added new features such as CLI enhancements and additional interfaces. The biggest new feature in this release is support for STRICT tables....

Show cursor location when not immediately visible: 1. $ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer true - works in 18.04-Ubuntu via any Ctrl, available in X11 (by...

I have a computer running ubuntu server with three drives. sda is my boot drive. The two drives I made a RAID 1 are sdb and sdc. I formatted the two drives with ext4 file system. I then used...

There are tons of anti-Slackware threads out there - and they seem to be marching on in columns of ten. We, the Slackers all know (or do we?) what got us here and keeps us using the best distro out...

Hello there. I changed my root (/) filesystem from ext4 to btrfs. I made a copy of root folders /usr /sbin /lib /bin /etc ... (minus /home /dev /sys /proc /mnt /media /run e.t.c.), restore to...

Hi, For now, I have a physical network with his DNS (bind) (one zone: iii.cccccc.bb - network 89.bb.cc.dd/xx). But maybe, I will must split his network on 2 physical network with a...

Testing the just released Devuan Chimera (more an Alpha considering the hours spent to tune it IMHO) I crashed against the error "Unbound can't connect to port 53 - port already in use". I...

Published at LXer: In the world of cloud computing, containers are becoming more and more popular because they offer isolation and consolidation for applications. You can install all the files an...

I have 8 hours uptime and 0 size /var/log/syslog. I am happy there is no errors reported but no messages, warnings either? Just nothing. What kind of syslog is that? What's wrong? Code: ---------...

Published at LXer: Linux can be found in unusual places that you may have not known before, and in today’s article we’ll be seeing some of these places. Read More......

I recently installed slackware on my pc. I have an ASUS USB AC53 Nano. I installed the drivers, used modprobe on them and rebooted. nmcli d wifi connect myssid password 'mypassword' says that dhcp...

Hello, Today I opened the /var/log/pkgtools/removed_* directories and saw that it contains more than 20,000 files. My question is: Can these files be deleted without prejudging the package pkgtool...

I need to or want to delete BIND DNS entries that match A records from another file. If the DNS entry has multiple records associated to it in File2, those need to remove too. File1 *...

Published at LXer: Originally known as Ethereal, Wireshark has developed a reputation as one of the most reliable network protocol analyzers available out there. Recently, Wireshark has released a...

Ollydbg is installable on Kali Linux so I figured it would be on Debian as well since Kali is Debian-based.I tried running sudo apt-get install ollydbg and sudo apt install ollydbg and both returned...

Recently I found mtpaint very slow to open. About 30 seconds and I have a decent PC and running Debian Testing branch Running it from a terminal gave no errors (it opens so I accept that) so I...

I'm a laptop user and when my battery discharges my laptop turns off. That abnormal shutdown causes my FFS unclean, and OpenBSD needs to clean it using fsck_ffs. Today after that automatically...

Published at LXer: This guide explains what is Gnome Boxes and how to install Boxes on various Linux distributions and then how to manage remote and virtual machines with Gnome boxes from a Linux...

I have a server at OVH that hosts all my websites as well as other people's. Nothing super serious but it's basically my main online presence. Long story short my web server was running fairly old...

After about a month or more of research, I was finally able to start the big CPU refactor, the very early parts of it were in inxi 3.3.09, but that was released mainly to get other bugs and issue...

Published at LXer: Bill Kendrick informs 9to5linux.com today about the general availability of Tux Paint 0.9.27 as the latest stable release of this open-source, free, and cross-platform drawing...

Hello. My name is Rick, & I am new here. I am a frequent distro hopper, with a very short attention span. I've tinkered with distros that range from Manjaro, Fedora, to Debian/Ubuntu. All of my...

Going to Ubuntu > Software in upper left corner, then Finance, I find "GNOME Calculator" checkmarked because it is installed. Clicking into its information page, I see "remove", "permissions", and its...

Published at LXer: Michael Tremer announced the release of IPFire 2.27 Core Update 161, a new maintenance update to the hardened open-source GNU/Linux distribution that primarily performs as a...

# uname -a Linux servername 4.19.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.208-1 (2021-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux # apache2 -v Server version: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian) Server built: 2021-09-30T03:50:49 #...

Hi! So I have an HDTV(?), and I wanted to hook up my pc to it. I have Debian Linux 11 running on my pc right now, and an AMD Radeon HD 5450 for the gpu. I connected the two using HDMI. When I turned...

Published at LXer: By 2024, the global revenue of fintech will reach €175 billion. 5000 new startups appear in the sphere every year. Because of this competition, modern technologies are widely...

Good afternoon, Running Fedora 33 with Gnome. I never see it happen by the Window tabs rearrange in the bar showing all the currently running applications. For example I want to bring up the...

Good afternoon, I am running Fedora 33. I have installed Steam to play a specific game, unfortunately that game will only play on Ubuntu with Unity, Gnome or KDE desktop. Replacing my current OS...

Published at LXer: Linux cross-platform packaging format Flatpak has come under the spotlight this week, with the "fundamental problems inherent in [its] design" criticised in a withering post by...

Hello, I was running previous version of KDE on Slackware current and update my system to the latest version running Plasma today and re install nxserver. This computer is running without...

Published at LXer: With the near infinite customization options you have on any given Linux distribution, the most visually noticeable difference is customizing the theme. Let’s take a look at some...