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Good afternoon everyone. I just want to thank all of you for letting me join. I am a noob when it comes to linux and control prompt so please bare with me. I am currently trying to install...

After believing that I had installed Flatpak successfully on Ubuntu 20.04, when I tried to install a package on it, I eventually received an error message telling me that I needed the latest version...

God afternoon everyone. I just want to thank all of you for letting me join. I am a noob when it comes to linux and control prompt so please bare with me. I am currently trying to install...

This is an old printer but drivers are still in most distros (CUPS). It works for printing but the scanner is not found by scanning frontends. Distro is not Mageia but ALT Linux, (rpm based and...

Published at LXer: This quick guide with a script helps to clean up old snap versions and free some disk space in your Ubuntu systems. Read More......

Can move task bar icons (icons for apps that are running) to another panel in mint cinnamon 19. I have 2 panels in 20.1. Applets appear in the panel when the desktop comes up. Taskbar icons appear...

I've created some function definitions thusly: dfn.sh Code: --------- set -a fcn1 () { echo #1 }

How can i enable wobble effect in deepin 20.01?

Published at LXer: The Debian Project announced today the general availability of Debian GNU/Linux 10.9 as the ninth ISO release for the stable Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster” operating system series....

Hello all, Hope you're all well and safe. Could someone please shed some light on this issue? I'm working on installing arch. I have installed reflector and got the fastest mirrors.

hi, I integrated centos with AD -user authentication by kerberos. I like to lockout AD users after a number of password failure when i try login in centos.I mean i try to login in centos with AD...

Published at LXer: Python has become the most preferred language for Natural Language Processing (NLP) because of its great library ecosystem, platform independence, and ease of use. In this post...

Published at LXer: In C++, reading and writing to files can be done by using I/O streams in conjunction with the stream operators >> and

Published at LXer: In March 2020, I joined the rest of the world in quarantine at home for two weeks. Then, two weeks turned into more. And more. It wasn't too hard on me at first. I had been...

Hi I've been setting up a headless home server (debian 10), mainly to share files within my LAN and back up to cloud. EDIT: I don't access my home server remotely/externally, only via ssh LAN. ...

I'm working on fixing this problem where my WLAN0 interface starts in master mode after the OS boots up. Couldn't find a solution anywhere. I know how to change it out of master mode that's not...

Published at LXer: The Manjaro Linux team announced today the release of Manjaro Linux 21.0 as the latest and greatest release of this user-friendly Arch Linux-based distribution. Read More......

Published at LXer: XAMPP stands for cross-platform(X), Apache(A) server, MariaDB(M), PHP(P) and Perl(P). It is built by Apache Friends and basically serves as a local host or a local server. ...

This is first time i noticed this Warning while upgrading my debian-buster using apt please help i have no clue Code: --------- update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-16-amd64...

Published at LXer: OPcache is an Apache module for the PHP interpreter. It is used to increase performance by storing precompiled scripts in shared memory space.Generally, it is used to speed up...

Hi there again, i had wrote a custom SlackBuild for compile pcsxr-git against Slackware32 14.2 (32 Bits obviusly) after for convert with compat32 under Slackware64 14.2. Right now my SlackBuild...

I got a WD EasyStore 1TB external hard drive to back up my Xubuntu Home folder. It worked great the first time, but since then it has created a tremendous amount of "trash" files and as soon as I...

I am trying update system and got this from slackpkg upgrade-all ---Quote--- Checking local integrity... DONE You have a broken /var/log/packages/ - with two versions of the same package. The...

Hi, I am nervous and up the proverbial creek without a paddle. If this is the wrong place for this please put it in the right forum. If any of you can VPN and fix this for me, message me and we can...

Published at LXer: There are a lot of well-known open source applications used in web design, but there are also many great tools that are not as popular. I thought I[he]#039[/he]d challenge myself...

I have a problem with System Settings in linux mint. I pressed Panel and I got Panel Visibility and I pressed Auto Hide Panel. In my 32bit it worked all right with my cursor goes down and the panel...

Applets are the icons like "Menu" and ones you add to panel from menu by right clicking and choosing add to panel. What are the icons for apps that you have opened called?

Hi there, I recently installed pop os 20.10 (Nvidia edition). I wanted to use kvm and Passthrough my GPU. The specs I have are: - AMD Ryzen 3 2200G (integrated graphics) - Nvidia Quadro...

Hi everyone! One of the goals I'm undertaking in retirement is to explore Linux distros and tinker with rebuilding pc's. I 'inherited' a W10 Pro Dell system and have managed to clone the drive to a...

Published at LXer: This guide talks about the hidden danger behind double reporting of vulnerabilities and importance of live patching tools like KernelCare. Read More......

My question is: where can I get the latest version of the PHP extensions: mysqli.so and xml.so for PHP 7.4?? I am trying to set up this new laptop, and it is proving difficult! I downloaded the...

Hi I'm just doing some practices with Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) to learn more about networking and how does it really work. Consider the following practice: I create a dummy interface with the following...

Published at LXer: Ready, FIGHT! Them's Fightin' Herds from Mane6, Inc. and Humble Games has now been officially ported to Linux with the 2.0 patch release and the Shanty character DLC is out now...

Published at LXer: In part 3 of the series about network address translation (NAT), learn how to perform real-time monitoring of incoming and outgoing flows. Read More......

I need to Compress a File called filetext into a new file named filetextComp and make the filetextComp read-only for all users. please can someone advice what the commands are for this to happen.

What does this command do? command base64 /dev/urandom | head -n 700 > NewFile.txt

Hello all, I want to set custom keyboard shortcuts for control audio playback like next & previous title (the function keys of my Thinkpad X250 work fine for volume control, but there are no...

Published at LXer: In part 3 of the series about network address translation (NAT), learn how to perform real-time monitoring of incoming and outgoing flows. Read More......

Hi, Hope you're all well and safe. My question is: what distro would take full advantage of the installed hardware? I need a distro that takes full advantage of the hardware is installed on,...

Hi Everybody! Hope you are having a good weekend :) I had a rough one so far.. As an intro, I had Debian install running on LUKS encrypted LVM. This morning, I wanted to install OS on external...

slackpkg show-changelog demands running as root, what about adding an exception like for slackpkg search? Also, slackpkg could log errors and warnings during install/upgrade/remove/etc.

Published at LXer: It's finally happening! The official Raspberry Pi OS is now powered by the latest long-term supported kernel series, Linux 5.10 LTS, and a new release is now available for...

I'm using a USB drive for my live medium because I'm out of DVDs. But I'm going to buy more DVDs as soon as I get around to it, because I trust optical discs more. When I abandon an installation of my...

Published at LXer: One of the issues cropping up in the migration from Xorg to Wayland is the desire to capture part or all of your screen for recording and/or streaming to others. There's a new...

Hi Thought about building again with 2.4, but where is the command line build which gave many more options, e.g. to stop at the xorg installation? Anyone one else found this? All that exists is...

So until now I was using flatpaks to install steam and wine stuff on my slackware64-current, this in order to avoid installing and maintaining multilib. But today I found this cute little portable...

Given: a .csv file of stock market values for a particular stock, each line has fields for: Code: --------- year-month-day,open,high,low,close, adj close,volume --------- I can get the data...

Hi everyone, Installed chrony today (TinyCore 3.8_4, 2.6.33.3), it synchronizes to the "pool" servers but doesn't make use of my attached GPS receiver. The GPS receiver is "ttyACM0", the PPS output...

Hello, I need some small linux distro. It should be command line..about 100mb. When I boot from it I should be able to see network cards and listen to them using tcpdump. I need it for server...

Published at LXer: This brief guide explains how to create Golang virtual environments using Conda in Linux operating systems. Read More......