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Hi, I am a beginner in using linux. I am using tails with a usb drive. Setups are by default. I just have activate Persistence on every data. I have downloaded and installed youtube-dl with...

Published at LXer: In the very early days of DOS, the standard editor was a no-frills*line editor*called Edlin. Tim Paterson wrote the original Edlin for the first version of DOS, then called...

Published at LXer: As a Linux user, you’re probably already familiar with longtime staples like gzip, bzip2, and xz. There’s a newcomer in the compression arena. Zstandard (often abbreviated to...

I have a 20mbit wisp out here at my home. We have almost flawless streaming regularly. 2-3 people plus myself running online games daily and often at the same times. However while these things work...

I have had a lot of problems with nvidia graphics drivers on my Mageia installation recently, so took out my M.2 drive with my install on it and tried booting from a SATA drive with a fresh install...

Hi, I've installed Mint Cinnamon 20.1 Ulyssa onto my old PC, and it sems to work OK so far. But, I don't seem to be able to conect to the shared WiFi router where I live. I'm in the Unitek Kingdom...

How to install Tor Browser on 4Mlinux 36?

Hi, im newbie, LUKS Encrypted Ext4 Host = Linux machine x64 86 mintOS with 2 users (both me) user1 = sudo and user2 = standard permissions. and i have a T7 Samsung external SSD which i use as my...

Published at LXer: Redmine is a free and open-source project management application written in Ruby. In this post, we will show you how to install Redmine on Ubuntu 20.04 server. Read More......

If i want to iptables v1.8.7 ban external IP on INPUT to my Linux for 24 hours from now, how to do it? I have found https://serverfault.com/questions/273324/how-to-make-iptables-rules-expire and...

After upgrading to mozilla-firefox-89.0.1-aarch64-1, it no longer launches and instead spits out a "Segmentation fault". Is anyone else getting this? It is happening on all of my slarm64 machines...

Published at LXer: Big wave surf legend and surfboard maker, Gary Linden talks the ocean, the internet and where humanity goes from here.The post Gary Linden, legendary surfer & Firefox fan...

I have successfully installed TrueType fonts umpteen times using ttf-mscorefonts-installer via the command line, or via Software Manager in Linux Mint. I have tried both methods with Linux Mint...

System: Slackware64-current (up to date) Kernel 5.12.10 This only happens on my desktop machine, which uses a bluetooth dongle. Both my laptop, and Raspberry Pi-400 (Slarm64-current) behave as...

Published at LXer: Python is a free, open-source, and high-level programming language used for scripting and automation. It is very popular, object-oriented, and used by many top tech companies...

Environment: OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 (that upgrade to 15.3 is just around the corner). Apache 2.4.4 newly compiled. No error/warnings (remarkably clean session log). I have three Apache 2.4.4 virtual...

I noticed after a recent update that Falkon fails to launch, with this error: Code: --------- falkon: error while loading shared libraries: libx265.so.192: cannot open shared object file: No such...

Published at LXer: Thanks to increased demand for internet-connected cars, autos are driving the manufacturing edge with robotics-driven automation during assembly. Read More......

Hello I had both monitors working, stopped using the PC for a while and have now started it back up again, The second monitor won't display once the OS starts It does output to both monitors for...

I know how to specify a "From:" address on the command line with mutt: Code: --------- EMAIL="thisuser@mydom.com" mutt .... --------- But, I also have a .muttrc file in the sending user's home...

Hi. Installed last Bodhi 6.0 (AppPack) and see just a blue square with En letters, it was a country flag in 5.0 How to fix it?

Published at LXer: Gather a variety of system and non-system information with a single Linux command: inxi Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/learn-more-inxi)

Just curious - is it normal after doing an apt-get update then upgrade to repeatedly receive messages telling me to install Ubuntu base on my Ubuntu 20.04 desktop computer? Reading about what...

Published at LXer: For anyone running the Ubuntu 20.10, you have until July 22 to update to a newer version. Canonical, the company behind the distro, has announced that after that date, version...

I have a laptop that is running Ubuntu. The laptop supports UEFI boot as its default. I created a bootable USB stick (using dd) with another operating system (Kali). The USB stick will boot when it...

Hi! I've browsed this site for many years and it has been very helpful on many occasions. I finally decided to become an actual member :)

I'm working with an RPi 4 running Buster and having a custom HAT. The HAT has two on-board MCP2518FD chips on SPI 0.0 and 0.1. Up till recently I've been using a custom build of kernel v4.19.73 with a...

Published at LXer: You know it's going to happen so you need to be prepared. How do you do it? Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/maintenance-during-crisis)

Hi there! I have a fairly simple question, tho I HV tried to search the internet&uni colleagues for for answers, I HV not gotten a straight one yet. I guess I am just fairly confused about file...

I have Intel WiFi 6 AX210 The latest Oracle 8 rev 4 install with the latest 5.4.17-2102 kernel. the machine does not have wifi at all, it does show up in lspci but cannot be enabled. Where do I...

Published at LXer: For while now CentOS has been widely used by small businesses and developers in server environments given that it provides the stability and reliability that RHEL offers at...

Published at LXer: In 5 reasons to run Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi homelab, I explain why you might want to use Kubernetes at home. Those reasons are relatively arbitrary, and they mostly focus...

Hello Folks, Although I'm aware of that Canon is providing a closed source binary driver for this printer I want to set it up on a raspberry pi which is ARM architecture not X64 so that won't work....

I wiped out a Linux Mint 19 install; and replaced it with Linux Mint 20.1 However there is no xiphos to be found in synaptic; and when I try to do dpkg --set-selections

Published at LXer: This brief guide explains five different ways to comment out multiple lines at once in Vim editor in Linux and Unix operating systems. Read More......

I am using lxle 18.04 i386 on old laptop 2009ish Situation: new install running fine seamonkey plus internet access okay I had a reason to set the IP address to a fixed low number I carried out CL...

Published at LXer: What does a native overlayfs mean to you and your container workloads? Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-rootless-overlay)

Published at LXer: Today, I will show you how you can check the TLS/SSL certificate expiration date of an SSL certificate of a website using OpenSSL on Ubuntu 20.04. Read More......

It's not that often that a guy who once advertised himself (tongue firmly in cheek) as "the much renowned Electronic Genius" comes asking hardware help. I need your help. The following is happening...

Good afternoon. For a long time already, dhclient gives me two warnings upon running Code: --------- rosalind@dna:~$ sudo dhclient -d --------- Every run succeeds, though; therefore I have...

Published at LXer: Sharing files between computers and servers is an essential networking task. Thankfully, NFS (Network File System) is available for Linux systems and makes the job extremely...

Consider a web server with multiple virtual hosts (address based). http://www.example.com/location/ is a fully formed URL and works. http://www.example.com/location is missing the trailing /, so the...

Published at LXer: Centrifugo is an open-source real-time messaging server with support for WebSocket and SockJS. In this guide, we will show you how to install Centrifugo on Ubuntu 20.04 server. ...

I have been building generic kernels on 64-current for a while now and all runs just fine when I build my initrd.gz using "mkinitrd -c -R -k $kerno -m ext4"(no quotes) in a short script where I prompt...

Hi, Is there a commandline program to detect user inactivity & ideally also suspend the machine?. I need this to run in login greeter screen, before a user logged in. Thanks

Published at LXer: If you are concerned about privacy and want one of the most well-protected browsers available, then you should try the Tor browser. It is free and open source software that...

I run dwm on gentoo linux, and as you know it doesn't provide a compositor by default, so i have screen tearing. I installed picom compositor with opengl use flag, but i get the following errors: ...

Hi, i upgraded the bios with a "recent" firmware (TC0048P.BIO) found on a forum and the pb is still present in dmesg: Code: --------- DMAR: [Firmware Bug]: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at...

Published at LXer: Videomass is a cross-platform GUI designed for FFmpeg enthusiasts who need to manage custom profiles to automate conversion/transcoding processes. The software lets you create,...

I have 3 drives in PC, m.2 nvme 500GB, 2.5" SSD 1TB AND 2.5" HDD 2TB. I want to set up build environment to build on the m.2 as well as using it for boot drive. The 1TB SSD is where I want to have...