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I've been using VLC to watch DVDs for years. The version I'm using now is 3.0.12 which is the latest available from the Debian repository. I'm using Devuan--no systemd. I have a 1920 X 1200...

Published at LXer: Projects like building a satellite, developing a robot, or launching a new product are all expensive, involve different providers, and contain hard dependencies that must be...

Hello, I made success sarg on redhat 8.3. when i finshed to install i had "command no found" when write command "sarg or sarg -x". i changed $PATH by...

Hi, I had some bad luck with OVHCloud server last week. But now I have a new one. Almost everything is back on place, expect irssi. I have screen and irssi installed, but there is something...

This error appears on the servers, . I would like to know reason and to determine the origin to see if we can correct at the source . I don't see any document about it , can this be "normal" tail...

Hello, I have a brand new Brother MCF-J6945DW inkjet printer. I followed the instruction I found in the Slackware howtos (https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:brother_printer_installation);...

I have installed PHP 8.0.3 from source, while installing php i did not provide argument --with-openssl, now i need to enable it, i searched few pages, but did not find any efficient solution, is...

Hi all, there is my script, #!/bin/bash #!/bin/sh . /home/dd/.sshConPrfl WORK_DIR="directory; export WORK_DIR

Published at LXer: Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service that translates text and websites from one language into another. What if you are looking to move away from...

And how can I prevent it ? I'm using a laptop with a NVME SSD for the system and an additional HDD for some data. The HDD is mounted, but rarely accessed, so it sleeps most time. When I use...

System info ---------------- Local machine: $ cat /etc/centos-release CentOS release 6.8 (Final) $uname -a Linux 2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 10 17:27:01 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64...

Endeavoros , plasma I was using ctrl + alt +esc to close a program that freeze (program gui missing, but tray icon remained), not knowing when i selected the freezed program tray icon, it actually...

Published at LXer: Tracking disk usage information is a day-to-day task of any system administrator. Linux has some built-in utilities that help you find the disk space of your system. In this...

Hi, tried on two separate machines, one vanilla, other multilib. It happened with 4.16 upgrade. I guess it's Xfce-related only. 1- After having opened some applications, maybe closing too,...

Hello, I have Jumper EZ Pro, Intel Celeron N3450, 6GB RAM, 60GB SSD, which runs quite slow on my windows 10. I would like to replace OS with a Linux distro and I would appreciate your answers about...

I thought that it would be straightforward to open an SVGZ file in Inkscape, edit a layer and simply save it as a changed SVGZ file. It's much more complicated than this, but if there is a simple...

Published at LXer: A quick look at two common terms kicked around in modern drive storage and what you need to know. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/nvme-vs-m2)

I daily update the arch linux, after last update of php to php 8.0.3-1, php is no more working cannot connect to mysql database, i want to use other server language to retrieve data from mysql ...

Published at LXer: This article shows you how to take a screenshot of your Lock screen and login screen. Read More... (https://vitux.com/debian_screenshot/)

I think I am confused with ifneq clause in Makefile (make: 4.3/ kernel: 5.6.0-1-rt-amd64, debian bullseye/sid). I want to check if svn command exists or not so I draft the following in Makefile ...

Published at LXer: A Bloom filter efficiently tests if an element is a member of a set. It was first proposed by Burton Howard Bloom all the way back in 1970. Although a little unknown, they have...

Published at LXer: Find command is a pretty useful command for easily locating files & folders in Linux. What makes it a powerful command is that we can use a number of search criteria/options to...

Hi dear helpers and thank you, I switched from Windows to Ubuntu 20.04 a couple months ago and am very happy about it, but Ubuntu's package managers have me confused. There is Apt and Dpkg and...

Published at LXer: I've mentioned fzf a few times in the articles on Linux Uprising, but I've never actually written about it. fzf has been part of my workflow for a long time, and is an amazing...

I have created a story but I want to sub random words kinda like madlibs but without user inputs. I have the words listed in different txt files ie noun.txt or verb.txt but I do not know how to call...

Published at LXer: Developing applications is not as easy as many might think. It requires coding skills and the use of productivity tools that make the development process fast and efficient. One...

Here are some of my notes/fixes noticed during the Slackware 5.0 Alpha 2021.03.16 install. Everything seemed to work as expected, although I skipped installing KDE & game packages. Just your usual...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 5.21.3 as the third maintenance update to its latest KDE Plasma 5.21 desktop environment series to fix more bugs and improve existing...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 installed via ISO (the DVD version) on a thumb drive, on rather elderly IBM x3650 M4 previously running RHEL 6.9. The system is registered with Red Hat. This is the...

Published at LXer: Using this, you'll be able to install macOS in a QEMU virtual machine (via Docker), and run the macOS Catalina or Big Sur desktop, or boot to the OSX shell. Read More......

Using Nitrogen as my backdrop manager?

Hello I'm Ron Christian. Apparently I've been a member since 2013 but never introduced myself. I've been a Linux admin since the late eighties, starting out on 4.2 BSD on Vaxen. I'm here because...

Hello everyone, Since backup, the brightness in KDE Plasma cannot be changed anymore on my laptop. *What i have tried, was:* - Keyboard brightness shortcut with fn - using KDE's GUI to scroll...

Published at LXer: The problem is that each entry in a certain field should have only one corresponding entry in a second field. Instead, the second field has the wrong entry or no entry at all....

Hello, I installed and configure an Apache Web Server as a Reverse Proxy on CentOS 8. I created a Virtual Host file (reverse_proxy.conf) under the "/etc/httpd/conf.d" directory with below content: ...

I want to run Mathematica more stable than apple or win10 (ps. not hard to do, they both have tons of bugs, Qt is what the app wants). Redhat I like but I think they ship "bogus src rpm" that...

Published at LXer: WebAssembly is a bytecode format that virtually every browser can compile to its host system's machine code. Alongside JavaScript and WebGL, WebAssembly fulfills the demand for...

hi I’m trying to launch a program and it gives me this error: No protocol specified qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in ""...

I have about 1000 files with YYYYMMDD_HHMM_nameoffile.extension What is the best way to tell touch to take the values from the start of the filename, touch the file appropriately, and then trim 14...

Multi-program transport streams (ie: MPEG2-TS with multiple services): I've been trying to see if it is possible to select a program when using playbin pipeline, but I'm hitting a wall. Surely...

I'm thinking SF but they have no way to pay for "large uploads" and say "ask us first", and I might do a, say, 3GB or 11GB with flash upload. I can't find a way to pay. I see they are now owned by...

Hello to everyone. My companie was about to throw off 2 Dell Inspiron Duo. They're currently running a W7. I want to install Ubuntu on them. The fact is that I cannot activate a legacy boot...

Published at LXer: After a long wait of more than three months, Linux hardware vendor System76 is finally ready to take orders for their AMD-only “Pangolin” Linux laptop. Read More......

I have a JMicro JMS567A and JMB393B based drive enclosure (Syba 5 bay (https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1000)). It supposedly supports UASP in Linux. However, I can't...

This error appears on many servers, . I would like to determine the origin to see if we can correct at the source . Can this be "normal". /var/log/sssd # tail sssd_nss.log (Tue Mar...

Does anyone successfully compiled the latest release of qemu on -current? Thanks :)

Published at LXer: RTOS is an open source operating system for embedded devices developed by RT-Thread. It provides a standardized, friendly foundation for developers to program a variety of...

Hello Slackware ARM -current updates are now out. It's a world rebuild and upgrade. Given some of the reports for x86 about the amount of time taken to upgrade, you may find it faster to...

I would like to know that i can run my lotus files- now on latest windows version; without any delays or problems on ubuntu (latest version) ? I seem to see many problems with using "wine" to think...

So i am installing a software, i navigated to its directory and typed "sudo sh install.sh" to install it , then it worked and asked me to choose one of the variants: [1] install for linux [0]...