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Hi, I've installed muparser-2.2.5-x86_64-1alien But when I looked into /usr/lib64 the library seems to be in version 2.2.4 Is it normal or not ? Code: ---------

Hello, Testing out Slackware 14.2. From a laptop loaded with Slackware 14.1, I find that I am unable to SCP to a Slackware 14.2 laptop. I receive a "Permission denied" message from the...

Published at LXer: I'm a habitual Emacs user. I didn't choose Emacs as much as it chose me. Back when I was first learning about Unix, I stumbled upon a little-known feature in a strange...

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I recently updated to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and all went well but with one small niggle. I'm using the Gnome 3.36.3 DT and have several DT icons to launch a folder, several files, along with Moneydance....

Published at LXer: Bash one-liners can reduce workload, automate something quickly and put the power of ultimate system control in your hands. Over time, you will likely learn to write more complex...

Roger here. I'm a retired software engineer who still loves coding and building useful tools.

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Published at LXer: Ubuntu Unity maintainer Rudra Saraswat officially released today the Ubuntu Unity 20.10 distribution for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers. Read More......

Published at LXer: Two sed and 5 AWK methods for doing this re-formatting job are explained here, including a surprisingly simple trick that requires GNU AWK 4.2 or later. Read More......

Published at LXer: What is Nmap, and why do I want to use it? Finding rogue devices on your network is a good start. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/finding-rogue-devices)

I noticed that we're using a very old version of kbd, dated back to 2012 https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/source/a/kbd/sources/ Latest version is 2.3.0 from July 10,...

Display manager in XFCE 4.12 falls back to a mirror state: I am running Slackware current with kernel 5.4.80. Regardless of kernel what happens is this: I have three screens setup in Display...

Published at LXer: The Linux Foundation's first certification for entry-level system classes is ready to help you get started on your modern-day IT job hunt. Read More......

I tried using the search on Linux Questions for this and didn't find anything along with googling Linux Questions and my search terms and couldn't find anything. How do I confirm that mbr.bin is...

Hello, I need a way to run a command (bash command) on thousend servers (different distributions) through SSH. Such servers have different root's passwords or different users (like ubuntu)and...

Published at LXer: Kubernetes control plane nodes and worker nodes, their features, and how they interact. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/kubernetes-components)

After upgrading soma on Slackware current, the soma command line tool is only listing three radio stations. I tried removing the soma directory in /etc and reinstalling, but this did not work. Did...

Published at LXer: Eventually, this was supposed to happen anyway. An experienced reverse engineering professional launched a Patreon project to bring Linux to the Apple M1 macs ARM devices. ...

Hello, I get the following error messages when starting the operating system. 11:04:01 kernel: acpi MSFT0101:00: platform device creation failed: -16 11:04:01 kernel: platform MSFT0101:00:...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 5.20.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 5.20 desktop environment series with another batch of bug fixes and...

hey everyone, hope everyone is fine.

Desktop showing the contents of home folder on desktop in ubuntu

Published at LXer: Various enhancements but merging still a big no-noThe OpenZFS project, formerly called ZFS on Linux, has released version 2.0.0 with major new features. The previous release was...

I am a newbie at this. I need to daily automatically send a file to either 1) a website or 2) by email of data collected that day on a remote RPi located 300 miles away from my home. Do not know how...

I have been using Archer T4U (https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/TP-LINK_Archer_T4U_v2) for quite a while and it worked fine with my Leap 15.1 (to be upgraded to 15.2 in few weeks). This is the rtl8812au...

Hi On my linuxmint server I have a number of text files that I'd like to display on a screen. These logfiles are read from a weather station, so with headlines like temperature, pressure,...

Published at LXer: You may have heard about Emacs and Vim and Nano, the quintessential Linux text editors, but Linux has an abundance of open source text editors, and it's my goal to spend December...

Published at LXer: In 2020, our ways of living and working were turned completely upside down in a matter of days. As COVID-19 began to spread across the globe, we brought our companies home, and...

I'm using Porteus (but this shouldn't matter, I guess) and I'm wondering if during initrd process (init script, to be more precise) is possible to detect the current boot device (e.g. sda1). ...

Published at LXer: Linux computers used to be safe from most forms of malware - but this is unfortunately no longer the case, as cyber criminals have come to recognize Linux as a valuable target. ...

I just found the problem last night that there is a problem with having CUPS or Linux Mint 20's system-config-printer 1.5.12 program connect a Window 7's printer, a Brother HL-2140, from the same...

Published at LXer: A new BlackArch Linux ISO snapshot is now available for download for those who want to install an Arch Linux-based operating system for ethical hacking and penetration testing. ...

I want to copy a movie of mine onto a blank DVD. In the past, I would use MakeMKV and Bombono. Worked great. But Bombono is gone. Now I've tried DVDStyler (it did indeed eventually burn the movie but...

Running Linux Mint on a Toshiba Satellite, Release Linux Mint 19.2 Tina 64-bit Kernel Linux 4.15.0-96-generic x86_64 MATE 1.22.0 I apologize for starting a new thread, but have been unable to...

Published at LXer: Samba is a free and open-source implementation of the Windows SMB (CIVFS) protocol that allows us to share files, folders, and printers between Linux and Windows Operating System...

Published at LXer: It appears that straight forward install Debian Testing via official ISO image at least in meantime hangs . Looks like "sddm" hangs attempting to pop up logging screen prompt ....

For a program I'm looking to develop I need to be able to allow the user to add/remove/reorganize widgets. I checked both fltk and qt and, while they do have drag and drop functionality available,...

Published at LXer: In this brief guide, we will see how to launch Fish shell in private mode in Linux to avoid storing commands in history file. Read More......

Published at LXer: The first major update of the widely deployed PHP web programming language in years brings new features that could help expand its adoption and usage. Read More......

Hi pals When running Code: --------- sudo firewall-cmd --list-ports --------- , it doesn't show up any ports even though there are several ports open, for example SSH.

Access denied when I try to install Zencart. I am hosting my site on my Fedora 33 machine with httpd with the files in var/www/html and I have put Zencart in the folder store. The first file...

Published at LXer: The KDE Plasma and Ubuntu-based distribution Nitrux 1.3.5 released with its latest version. Here we take a look at what's new, download links, features and more. Read More......

can the kernel guarantee unique time value between CPU cores at the nanosecond resolution? or do i need to append the processor number as a fake picosecond resolution?

Published at LXer: The OpenZFS project reached 2.0 milestone today, a major release that renames the open-source ZFS implementation for Linux and BSD platforms and introduces numerous new features...

i'm looking for a way to remotely (from the same user or from root, in both cases on the same system) cause firefox to cleanly quit just as if had done a quit from its menu or had closed the last tab....

I tried to install Google remotedesktop and for some reason couldn't get it to work with chromium. I uninstalled it, but, when I rebooted, a new desktop manager was running. Instead of the taskbar on...

Hi! I'm using slackware-current. I've just mirrored Dropline GNOME packages for version 3.38 locally and created a slackpkg+ repository from it using the `gen_repos_files.sh` tools. Everything...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will see the steps to create a snapshot of the existing RDS MySql Instance. Then we will see the steps to restore the snapshot which creates a new RDS...

One of my boxes runs Mint, where I discovered the program "Warpinator" for file transfer. Seems to work well, and fast, too. However, it *does not* work if the boxes are connected to a VPN - not...