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It's be a week since I installed Deepin 20.1 and its been ok. Just today I found out that there is an update 20.2 and used the inbuilt update method from system settings. While installing update the...

I'm not sure what I did wrong. I had Endeavour Linux installed on one partition and then installed Deepin on another. When I boot up, I get the Deepin grub menu, but when I choose the Endeavour item,...

Published at LXer: SSH keys are commonly used without a passphrase. This is especially true when automating tasks because no human is expected to be available to type in the passphrase....

Published at LXer: The Deepin Linux developers announced today the general availability of Deepin 20.2 as the second major ISO update to their latest Deepin 20 operating system series. Read...

Published at LXer: The pass command empowers you to take full control of your password management tasks on Linux. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/management-password-store)

Published at LXer: Google Chrome is the most popular web browser. It provides an easy to use and clean interface, solid connectivity across devices and a huge library of extensions. However, it’s...

Today I used 'slackpkg download kernel*' and 'installpkg' to upgrade my kernel from 4.4.14 to 4.4.261. I want to keep the old kernel around for a few days while I test 4.4.261 with my elderly (12+...

After today's -current upgrade the prompt has gone missing from my mate terminal. No error messages when starting mate-terminal from another terminal window (xfce terminal). Rebuilt mate-terminal...

Just wanted to say hello to everyone out there. I am fairly new to Linux but already loving it. Looking to increase my knowledge from people who won't tear me apart because I don't have a lot of...

It's difficult to find a chess program that allows playing between two humans on the same machine. Does Linux have one?

Published at LXer: Haruna Video Player version 0.6.0 has been released today. The new version adds support for YouTube playlists, integration with MPRISv2 applets, and more. Read More......

Apologies if I got any terminology wrong. I run Slackware64-current and have multilib deployed. I have a program that I'm attempting to build that uses meson/ninja. I found the SBo meson template...

Published at LXer: The Linux Mint devs announced today the conclusion to the issue with users not updating their systems or running older version of Linux Mint through the implementation of a new...

Published at LXer: Five ways you can better prepare yourself for hands-on, technical certification exams. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/5-tips-certification-exams)

Published at LXer: AlmaLinux stable version has been officially released. Go ahead and deploy AlmaLinux 8.3 on your production servers. Read More......

Published at LXer: The GIMP 2.10.24 update is now available for one of the most popular open-source and cross-platform image editor on the GNU/Linux platform. Read More......

I have a very bad neighbor! I have to use these captured files in an ongoing court issue with him shooting my animals with a pellet rifle. I would like to convert the files names from say...

I am looking at several systems which are connected via WiFi to a SOHO, off-the-shelf proprietary router apparently running an OpenWRT ripoff. In short, there's not much which can be changed with...

Yeah, it's the testing distro. I guess I am a glutton for punishment. Recently, all of my Plasma Windows have HUGE icons. It is ruining my "Debian Experience". And it is *just* Plasma windows, and...

Published at LXer: Varnish Cache is a powerful reverse HTTP proxy used to speed up web applications that is available as Open-Source software. In this post, we will show you how to install Varnish...

Published at LXer: Rare diseases kill millions, but because they don[he]#039[/he]t make the headlines that coronavirus does, they[he]#039[/he]re often ignored. Now, the Linux Foundation and the...

Hiya guys, just for interest I have installed Slackware current on a vm with full disk encryption with lvm on luks. Code: --------- sda1: ef02 Bios 5MB sda2: ef00 EFI ...

Can someone give me an iptables example of what it should look like? Thanks

Published at LXer: The March 2021 issue of my Xfce’s apps update roundup continues with new releases of Thunar, Xfdashboard, Gigolo, and several panel plugins. Read More......

Hi, I'm pretty new to Linux and the raspberry so bare that in mind. I have my raspberry pi4 and I'm trying to connect it to my van radio system to output the audio through the vans speakers. ...

I have two lots of programs i need to run in the background but when i close the terminal they close down. Can anyone help with this First one is as follows cd nomp nvm use 5.10 npm...

Hi: I have just installed Slackware 14.2 and, during the installation chose NetworkManager (NM). At home I use a wi-fi modem to connect to the Internet. When running Xfce I find the NM icon with a red...

Published at LXer: Big Blue and its claret-capped subsidiary accused of nicking UnixWare blueprints, lying, and conspiring. Xinuos, formed around SCO Group assets a decade ago under the name UnXis...

when I try to compile wifi driver "hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_271" for centos 7 I'm facing this problem [root@localhost hybrid-wl]# make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=`pwd`...

Hi ! I found a problem in Icewm with some parameters used in various themes. Some themes use the parameter: "" Now it crash icewm. Fixing "" in " " it solves. Now i don't know if this is a bug...

I thought after recently installing grub Dual Boot with Ubuntu on a system where I had already got windows 7, I had better make a backup of the entire drive(both OS's) using maybe "dd" command, pref....

peer to peer messaging is an interesting topic I did a little search on the topic and ended up with lots of options this seemed a bit confusing so I thought I'd come here for a little...

Hello. I have been having this ploblem with the ath9k_htc driver and have no idea what is causing it. I am using kernel 5.11.10 (self compiled). I had these issues with the standard generic kernel so...

I have just created a new VM using pxeboot/kickstart of CentOS 8 Stream. However every VM I create does this after updating. I have identified the problem (I think) and fixed it in future builds,...

"Hackers have breached the internal Git repository of the PHP programming language and have added a backdoor to the PHP source code in an attack that took place over the weekend, on Sunday, March 28....

is vm guest additions will not work in minimal linux? I have CentOS 8 minimal kernel 4.8.0-180 and have vm guest additions installed. But i still can't select text to copy and resize the windows...

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Has anyone had success building Blender (sbo slackbuild) with ffmpeg4 instead of ffmpeg3? It is the only slackbuild I use which so far is refusing to play ball. All the others (qt5, audacity,...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 5.18.7 as the seventh maintenance update to the LTS (Long-Term Support) of the KDE Plasma 5.18 desktop environment series. Read...

Published at LXer: New CloudLinux-sponsored distribution hits GA ahead of Rocky Linux. The AlmaLinux project, sponsored by CloudLinux, has issued its first stable release along with details of a...

Dear all, i have about 6000 file in hdfs, and i want to copy them from hdfs to my local directory. i have to put the names of the files in txt and script has to read this txt file and copy it to my...

Another frustrating issue that really shouldn't be. I've used balena-etcher several times with no issues and now all of a sudden it does not work AT ALL! What gives? I've tried downloading,...

Dear Friends , I am using Redhat-7 right now . I need a graphical view of my user list who was currently logged in /logged out . For Audit issue I need to view the user activities to my...

Published at LXer: If you're confused about what su and sudo commands do for you, this brief guide will help you sort them out. Read More......

Published at LXer: It’s been less than a year since we launched Mozilla VPN, our fast and easy-to-use Virtual Private Network service brought to you by a trusted name in online consumer security … ...

Published at LXer: The AlmaLinux OS team announced today the general availability of the first stable release of their drop-in replacement for CentOS Linux 8, forked from Red Hat Enterprise Linux....

Does deep knowledge of linux help you learn how to program? Does being able to work through a terminal using command lines help you learn how to program? I understand that these are different things,...

Published at LXer: CEO reckons this tech will be used in 300 billion chips. Arm has set out its stall for the first major new version of its instruction set architecture – Armv9 – in about a...

Does anybody have this package that was built with java support + dictionaries? I haven't found AB directory on cumulative mirror slackware.uk, thus can't find older package version. 7* branch works...

Hello there, I got a disk problem with my Crucial M4 512 GO SSD. Suddenly the disk wasn't detected by the bios so no boot etc... This situation seems to be common with the installed firmware...