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So I recently updated from nvidia-460 to nvidia-470 on 20.04.2 LTS (which is otherwise up to date), and it fully broke suspend (and suspend's brokenness fully breaks the machine). I reverted to...

I've been using my motherboard's VGA output for my display but its way too slow, to the point that I can't stream video in greater than 720p. So I got a GTX 8800. I can use it to view the BIOS and it...

Published at LXer: In the previous post, Install PowerShell on Fedora Linux, we went through different ways to install PowerShell on Fedora Linux and explained the basics of PowerShell. This post...

Published at LXer: MariaDB, the Maria database software is an open-source relational database management system. This guide will show you how to install the latest MariaDB version on Rocky Linux. ...

Im stuck on this if...else...statement. Code: --------- rm1=$1 rm2=$2 rec1=$2 rec1=$3

I've tried a few live distros and/or installs---Mint, Manjoro---and there is no network connection. It seems this has something to do with the r8169 that is used. I've tried downloading the r8168 and...

Published at LXer: Also a range of homegrown apps. Still in beta, so plenty of rough edges, thoughReview One of the reasons Linux has never caught on as a desktop operating system, as Linux fans...

I got a CUPS remoter printer setup with encryption. I'm using Lets Encrypt to generate a cert, then I symlinked them to the /etc/cups/ssl/... location since using cat even as sudo said permission...

Published at LXer: Many Linux users really want to give Arch Linux a try, but the general notion that Arch is difficult to learn stops many of them. But Arch Linux is not difficult to install. In...

Dear friends I've bought the ALFA awus1900 recently, and I'm in desperate need of your help I have managed to install it it shows up, I can change the mode to monitor, lookup networks and devices...

Published at LXer: The Ubuntu team announced that Ubuntu 21.10 Beta "Impish Indri" is now available for download and test. We give you a quick look at the new features and download instructions. ...

I need help with wildcard substitution. Essentially I want to change yes to no with all lines starting with IPV6. I think I need help with grouping? egrep ^IPV6*.*=yes...

Dear all, I'm trying to install telnet in my red hat linux 7 with: Code: --------- yum install telnet --------- then I get this output with errno 256.

My Slackware 15 RC 1 is running fine on my notebook. Following the docs I blacklisted these in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist: kernel-generic kernel-generic-smp kernel-huge kernel-huge-smp...

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Are there lone word processing apps that offer password protection? encryption utilities that offer easy access to word processors?

I have a sudoers line to allow a group to view logs in a specific folder. %groupname ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tail /path/to/files/*.log when user executes the following: sudo tail -f...

Hi I just picked up a used Dell 7470 radeon graphics card for my older socket 775 system. There was a webpage that had all the extra firmware files to load but I can't seem to find it anymore. I don't...

tried to run the command, but then got this error: Code: --------- Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies......

hi all, I can run tigervnc (from extra) on the host (running current) and connect to virtual desktops just fine, but I want to connect to the real physical desktop (for local support on my lan, so I'm...

The virus systemd (its slackware elogind variant) as of some updates recently, is causing long delays in logging into console. ssh logins are instant however. This is headless system with no...

wget -c ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.txt cat ChangeLog.txt | grep 'Thanks to' > names.txt How to calculate score in one line and make 3D html page ? Example...

Hello, I am trying to make a copy of the operating system. I have tried with Clonezilla and others, I just don't understand the procedures in those graphical forms. Now I try it from the...

Hello! I have been trying to add peer guardian linux as application to Void. Installed Gentoo strata. ---Quote--- !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "pglinux" have been masked. !!! One of...

Published at LXer: In this guide, we will show you how you can change the login screen background image of Fedora Workstation (GNOME edition). Read More......

Published at LXer: It'll take time for desktop environment to make its way into Linux distros anywayThe GNOME Foundation has released GNOME 41 - six months after GNOME 40, which was the first to be...

I got a new NVME drive and did a Fresh Full Install of Sept 16 Current. It boots fine with nouveau but as soon as I blacklist it (whether in /etc/modprobe.d/ or in /lib/modprobe.d/) in order to...

Published at LXer: Jekyll is an open source static site generator. You can write your content in Markdown, use HTML/CSS for structure and presentation, and Jekyll compiles it all into static HTML....

Every time the processes are run, they are assigned different PID, hence a static PID won't work. I only want to kill one of the two.

I have a bunch of gnumeric spreadsheets that call for the courier font. These display as blocks with hex numbers in them. I have tried to add a Courier truetype font. Now, in gnome-font-viewer, it...

Published at LXer: Sometimes you need to generate multi-line documents with complex nested structures, like YAML or HTML, from inside Bash scripts. You can accomplish this by using some special...

Greetings. it's been a long time! I have recently been experimenting with installing Linux (various distros tested). Per an article i read on about recommended distros to run from USB, I tried MX. ...

So today was a day of reckoning. I finally grew sufficiently weary of being reminded by every shell prompt in Xfce Terminal or Konsole that I was running bash-5.1 to actually do something about it. So...

Published at LXer: Nextcloud is open-source software for creating public and private file storage. It allows you to create your self-hosted services like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Mega.nz. In this...

Authy Snap package installed fine on Debian 10 but I get this error when I try to run it from root: 2021/09/23 18:25:32.012606 cmd_run.go:1011: WARNING: cannot start document portal: read unix...

Hello there, I have an SD card that is mainly used in the phone. Unfortunately it has problems with it, I could not copy anything to it. Nevertheless, I was able to paste items from the card into...

Published at LXer: Mozilla Firefox was one of the applications that opened my eyes to open source. It wasn't by any means the tipping point, but it was part of a larger cumulative effect of several...

I am running a fairly new install of MX 19.4 Patito Feo, but the XFCE power manager has recently (like four days ago) started behaving strangely. - Attempting to suspend the computer brings up a...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will show you how to install Docker CE on your Rocky Linux system via the command line. In addition, these procedures are applicable for REHL and CentOS 8 as...

I'm on the Slackware64-15.0 Beta, and I updated wine from version 6.1 to version 6.12. Nearly the only thing I use it for is the Watchtower Library (32bit) Program, a searchable database. Updating...

Published at LXer: GNOME 41 is now out and while it doesn’t change as many things as GNOME 40 did, there is still a lot of stuff to talk about. If you like GNOME and use it, there is basically no...

Hi there, I am reading a database and output data em CSV format to a data migration job. I have to create 3 separate outputs each one in a different format. My first approach was creating 3...

Published at LXer: This could very well be the last release based on 16.04. Ubuntu Touch was Canonical's attempt at a mobile version of its OS, subsequently ditched by the Linux outfit and now...

Hello everyone, I'm new to Beaglebone Black, I'm following a course on-line but I'm struggling with rootfs. I've done the two partitions (SD card), in the BOOT partition I have ran the MLO without...

Published at LXer: Linux distros are usually more secure than their Windows and Mac counterparts. Linux Operating Systems being open-source leaves very less scope of unauthorized access to its...

It began yesterday: every time I launch the Leafpad text editor, instead of a blank page, it launches with this string on the first line: /usr/lib/sysstat/debian-sa1 I always launch Leafpad from...

Published at LXer: LibreOffice is my productivity application of choice. It's one of the most potent reasons for recommending Linux distributions to educators and students, whether PK-12 or higher...

From time to time I need to install/update a desktop/tower with no internet connection. I have a trusty laptop which has an OK WiFi link. I prefer Linux Mint usually. I also have a supply of...

Published at LXer: Think about some situations when you need to change strings in text files in your Linux hosts. Depending on the case, you will simply change the file directly in your favorite...

Good afternoon, I just installed Netdata on my CentOS Linux 7.9.2009 (Core) server with the command that appears on github (bash