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can I upgrade Q4OS to Bookworm I know probably not recommended don't care going to clone hard drive so easy to go back just looking for the easiest way to upgrade want to keep KDE its ok whit me if it...

I need to resize my sda4 to be able to install a program that needs quite much GB. I booted to my USB stick and tried Gparted but I couldn't make it to work resizing. I have an unallocated space of 3...

Published at LXer: The sixty installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 21st, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the...

Hi, I'm a near-complete Linux newbie. I installed Linux on an old laptop for practice, and then took the leap to do it to my "real" laptop, but it is not working. Steps to reproduce: 1. ThinkPad...

Hi folks, so I understand SBo is frozen pending 15 but is accepting PRs. I'd like to clearly understand how this works. My personal Github workflow is pretty simple and goes something like: - pull...

Have inadvertently deleted OS and want to use computer while arranging for new Apple OS. Subject covers it; I suspect one may need to have an Apple computer to properly "format/prepare" a flash drive...

I have a GoPro Hero4, VLC and Debian on an ASUS laptop. The GoPro is plugged into the laptop via USB. The GoPro screen says "USB Connected" whenever I plug it into the laptop. I don't seem to be...

Apparently a couple years ago a patch was committed to change the VBT ( https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/intel-gfx/patch/20170531151739.26500-1-jani.nikula@intel.com/ ). But I cannot find any...

Is anyone else seeing messages like this in a terminal window or ~/.xsession-errors from Firefox after the last week or so updates to -current (64bit)? Code: --------- Crash Annotation...

Published at LXer: Pinta, the open-source and cross-platform drawing and image editing software for GNU/Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD, just got another hefty update. Read More......

I would like to read the following logfile so I can capture the file names starting from *File: * Code: --------- cat /home/flora/logs/9681-T13:17:07.091363777.org %rec: dynamic Ptrn: Gnu...

This is my first post!:) Novice Linux user. I'm doing Linux From Scratch 11.0 stable (sysVinit) and am at the very end of Chapter 8 Installing Basic System Software, which is done in the chroot...

How, the definitive way, do we do in Perl 5 (akin to C syntax) switch-case ? what so concerned is it has so rare documentation either form, that or given-when, so please help answer or solve the...

Hello my name is Jeremy and I spend way to much time messing around with Linux from Scratch. That is all :)

*Summary* 1. I've just installed the 32-bit version of the "4k Video Downloader" package into /opt/4kvideodownloader/ using the instructions at ...

I'm trying to build pcsx2 on a multilib system, however the compilation fails: Code: --------- [ 8%] Building CXX object...

I thought I had covered all the boxes during VB setup of Solaris 11.4 and finally the install started. After choosing language, location, blahbhlah it seemed to be doing fine. Then it stopped with two...

Tried 5.15.3 and 5.15.4, same issue. The device /dev/sdc5 (more generally /dev/sdc) has not been created when needed to switch root during the boot sequence. However the same kernel installed on...

I in chapter 8 of the lfs book, and am building zstd. When I run 'make check' the tests fail. Below is the output make gave me. Code: --------- make[1]: Entering directory...

Published at LXer: I must say, I appreciate the attention to make things not only simpler but less breakable lately. First we had APT being patched to stop users removing essential packages, now...

Published at LXer: The time has come to say goodbye to another Linux kernel series, Linux 5.14, which is now end-of-life and it won’t receive further updates, so it’s time to upgrade to a newer...

Using Roman Numerals to count, I've run into this conundrum. This varies by the command?

Published at LXer: must say, I appreciate the attention to make things not only simpler but less breakable lately. First we had APT being patched to stop users removing essential packages, now the...

Hi, I have MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 and I'm trying to set up a partition. As I understand setting up volumes instead of partitions are suggested. So, I did but when trying to install Ubuntu 20.04.03...

Decade ago a German city (Munich ?) tried but had to come to Windows. I wish them better luck this time. Slashdot....

Hello All I am running a Pi4 with Buster. On the Pi itself, I can read and write files in a folder. I then shared the folder via samba. I can read the same files from a Linux client but if I...

Hoping someone with more make knowledge can help me out, I am using the make file example here...

Published at LXer: Back in September we were first to report on Intel developing "Software Defined Silicon" support for being able to activate extra licensed hardware features not otherwise...

I apologize for the too broad subject line. I use LUKS to encrypt the physical volume of my LVM setup on this laptop. I always use the generic kernel with an initrd. On this laptop, I had...

Published at LXer: ZombieTrackerGPS (ZTGPS) Linux fitness tracker can manage collections of GPS tracks from biking, hiking, rafting, light aircraft, snowboarding, and many other activities. The...

Please help with this error. I can't unable to login, Im stuck in a loop of boot menu and this error screen. Note : I recently changed my motherboard and smps. Image of errors: ...

I just installed a new kernel on Slackware-current and noticed a couple of new recommended modules for the initrd that involve crc32c. I gather from DDG that this has something to do with calculating...

Published at LXer: The holiday season is upon us once again, and this year I decided to celebrate in an open source way. Like a particular famous holiday busybody, I have a long list (and I do...

Hi! I am not sure what I did but my Openvpn in Debían 10 stopped routing traffic. I believe it happened in some recent update. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the openvpn package but I had no...

while building cdrtools there are a bunch of "fatal errors" but without stopping the package to built despite the " | exit 1" at the end the "make ..." line in the cdrtools.SlackBuild....

I have a machine with two wifi interfaces. I would like to find a way to permanently turn off just the built-in interface so the off state persists across reboots. Similarly I would like to leave...

hi. -using 'guake --version' in the terminal i see i am using version 3.0.5 -but i see they are up to 3.8.1: https://github.com/Guake/guake/releases -the software centre in ubuntu shows no...

Published at LXer: We give you a preview of the new KDE Plasma Overview Effect. Here's how it looks, and our opinion around it. Read More......

With the changing of Python versions recently my versions as root user seem to be out of sync. If I run Code: --------- pip3 list -o --------- I see

The following *grep* command that returns the files that contain the string *ptrn*. Code: --------- grep -rl "${isufx[@]}" -e "$ptrn" -- "${fdir[@]}" >> $logfl --------- This would be the...

in SFS, I'm stuck by a circular dependency between: - pyparsing - python-mardown ------------------ 1st order: pyparsing then python-markdown ----------------- self.require(*args, **kwargs)...

Howdy, I just had an interesting experience installing Webmin, it installed cleanly, the install wasn't the problem. Webmin doesn't recognize MariaDB and or that Apache / httpd is running. I'm...

When I try to open minecraft java (deb) it will either not do anything or just load forever (and i know this cause i left it to load for 5+ hours and it did nothing.)

Published at LXer: Many Ubuntu users coming to Linux from Windows find themselves looking for a way to make their new Linux system minimize open windows when the corresponding dock or taskbar icon...

Whenever I run apt-get commands such as update, upgrade I get this error message pertaining to one of my external hard drives. Is it something I should worry about ? This error has been haunting me...

Published at LXer: With more than 40 million units sold and a powerful community of makers and fans behind it, Raspberry Pi is more than a single-board computer; it's a huge platform with an even...

My system (see att 1 - system) While trying to install Solaris 11.3 in Virtualbox 6.1.26_Ubuntu r145957 I have an error message in settings: "The hardware virtualization is enabled in the...

Published at LXer: In today’s article we will dive into whatever remains of Unity’s ghost in Ubuntu Unity 21.10, and see how possible to use the nostalgic desktop is in its current form and shape....

This is for an Odroid-c2 I was attempting to update the kernel and one of the required packages was flash-kernel. During the install process, in Synaptic package manager an error occurred and it could...

Published at LXer: Removing background of an image is super easy if you know how to do it. Here in this tutorial we will explain 5 different ways which you can use to remove background in Image...