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Should I format with MBR or GPT for a external enclosure hard drive with a newer Windows 10 system with GPT and UEFI, to then install and boot Mint and Mate linux? The newer computer is a store parts...

Having some issues on -current, with ssr (simplescreenrecorder) and Discord with the microphone input. A long time back, probably a year or so, i followed some advice to create a virtual...

Published at LXer: Learn how to install Docker and pull images from Docker Hub Read More... (https://www.usessionbuddy.com/post/how-to-install-docker-and-pull-images-from-docker-hub/)

Hello All , Having just needed to create a aliased interface on my new install of slackware64-current-install-Linux-5.4.69-dvd , Which I Burned 20201004 The rc.inet1.conf does not allow creation...

Published at LXer: An SSH session is like a portal into another machine. If you’re used to working with Windows, you’ll know how easy it is to transfer files from one location to another. Just...

Hello, Can anyone tell me how to install Curry KiCS2 (http://curry-lang.org) on Debian 10.6?

At the moment I have been playing around with some VMs and networking recently (just for the learning experiance), at the moment I have an interface on the host called "veth0" connected to the VM,...

Published at LXer: A lot happened this week in the Linux world as a whole. Microsoft Edge browser is released for Linux, Ubuntu 20.10 released with associated flavours and a bunch of application...

I presently enjoy having ZFS on Linux as my file server filesystem on a few servers. I backup using a great product called backuppc. Everything works okay, no problems so far. However I read that some...

I'm going from good - to bad - to hopeless now I have a nice script working with getopts, I knocked it up from various ddg searches, fine I thought, now I understand how it works. Or so I...

Hello, Can anyone guide me load color profile icm in KDE?

Ok, so problem is as described in subject: grub doesn’t seem to know about win10 installation. It’s a brand new hard drive and I decided to just do fresh installs of bot Ubuntu and win10. Due to...

[I would of posted some images of the progress i've made so-far. I'm sure they would of been benificial here. But apparently I'm unable to post Images/HTML code] So I figured i'd jump in at the...

Published at LXer: The fourth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending October 25th to keep you guys up to date with the most important things that have happened...

What do you look at to tell if a sound card will be able to capture sound with arecord? ... without putting the card in the box and physically testing? Yes, we can make sinks with pulseaudio to do...

Greetings to all. Like some of you, a lot of what I know about linux is self-taught and an introductory course. My goal is to get to linux administrator and then on to script writing. I am pleased...

Hi all! This is the cron job I am using right now for a daily program: # ... # m h dom mon dow command 1 0 * * 1-7 cd /home/pi/prg && python3 /home/pi/prg/spread.py > outfile 2>&1 I...

I applied the update today and all is well. The third party apps that I use: Libreoffice, VLC (Eric's versions) are unaffected, and Chrome is okay. Read Eric's blog post if you run KDE5. ...

This script is in /etc/profile.d, because if I put everything in rc.local, the variables will no longer exist after logging in, I understand that. Code: --------- #!/bin/sh export...

I had seen a few years ago that there existed for linux, a tape driver that created the devices ("/dev/mt0" for example) but they were in fact network based tape drive interfaces. So what would...

I've come across some older applications that I need to work on and maintain and noticed there are both *mysql* and a *mysql++* folders in */user/include* and I cant seem to replicate that on my...

Published at LXer: The ABS or Arch Build System is a package building system native to the Arch Linux distribution: with it, we can easily build packages which can be installed with pacman, the...

I've been trying to find a way to do this, but I googling it is difficult because people want simple string replacements. I'm looking to move parts of a filename around... Let me explain. I have files...

Okay, just when you think you understand the syntax, something happens that make you question everything. Well a bit over dramatic, I've found a very simple bit of bash script that needs to end each...

Published at LXer: Openbox is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager. Learn how you can install Openbox and configure it on your Linux PC. Read More......

Hi Folks, This is syntax problem not been able to ddg it so here goes: Code: --------- X=$0 # save $0 in a local variable Y=${0##*/} # remove dir part Z=${Y%.*} # remove extension - if...

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Published at LXer: The lazy sysadmin[he]#039[/he]s solution has been to grab container images for production without checking them for security holes. Synk and Docker are making sure those images...

I'm trying to make my non smart tv a smart tv by using my old android phone with usb cable. I am able to record the screen and play it in the tv with a lag of some minutes. But i cannot watch it...

Published at LXer: Yesterday, Canonical announced the release of the new non-LTS Ubuntu 20.10 “Groovy Gorilla” with Linux kernel 5.8, GNOME 3.38, optimized desktop image for Raspberry Pi 4, and...

How to install TL-WN823N(RTL8192).I am install rtl8192eu on github, but is do not work.

In an attempt to setup a personal webmail server on my current Debian Buster machine I have installed postfix and dovecot and tested as well as I am able from withing my network and all is well. I can...

I have a lenovo legion y540 with ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my ssd and windows on the hdd. I'm not able to change the brightness while in ubuntu. I've tried downloading the "Brightness Controller" but using...

Published at LXer: Over the past few years, Microsoft has developed many software products for Linux operating systems. These software are distributed via standard software repositories created by...

First let me explain that I have very little expertise with bash scripting. I only use it for very simple applications. My script is used to generate a grep command. I use the echo command as an...

Bonjour everybody, I'v tried to install Zenwalk on a 2nd device ( sdb), so, here is how I did. The laptop is a HP Pavilion dv7 with 2 hard drive ( Sda and Sdb) Zenwalk is on Sdb, while Slack...

Published at LXer: There[he]#039[/he]s a famous sticker featured on many laptop lids; it goes something like this: "the [he]#039[/he]cloud[he]#039[/he] is just somebody else[he]#039[/he]s...

I found this script online and modified it. It appears to do what I want but I figured I would check before using. I'm trying to use sha512sum to check for duplicate files in a directory and to...

Hello all, I have been using Slackware 14.2 on my laptop for some three years or so and things have always run rather smoothly for the most part. Two days ago, though, Firefox and PulseAudio have...

Published at LXer: Days after the release of Ubuntu 20.10 “Groovy Gorilla,” along with its seven official flavors, System76 has announced a new Pop!_OS 20.10 Linux distro based on the upstream...

Published at LXer: Due to version LIBVIRT&&QEMU you are forced to deploy Ubuntu 20.10 on Btrfs file system . In particular case, Virtual Environment is a fair enough. Read More......

Hello - I'm brand new - by way of introduction... A million years ago, before I retired, I programmed on Unix machines, and was dragged kicking & screaming from DOS to Windows and now, after 20...

hi to all Linux Mint experts! I'm not new to Linux at all, but new to Linux Mint, and new to grub. I've started installing Linux Mint for friends and family on accounts of it being...

I recently updated my kernel to 4.4.240 and after restarting the computer all went fine: I logged into my account, started i3 but when I tried to run the Terminal (set to Termite), not happened. ...

how to turn off all audio? at times, even when no audio is playing, the pulseaudio process uses a lot of CPU. right now it is running at 103.7% and there is no audio playing (nor any intended or...

Published at LXer: I managed to install and did hands-on with the upcoming Xfce 4.16 pre-release (pre1)using the development build. It's super exciting with new features and updates. Have a look. ...

Published at LXer: Help test the kernel 5.9 on Fedora! There is a whole week to do some testing of the next kernel for Fedora. Read More......

I admit there is so much to discover in Linux be it the system itself, its learning curve, rich FOSS pool and - most importantly - the way it makes me quit my old Windows habits... :) Yet after a...

I am new to Nmap and wonder if you can help me with a query. I have been given an pcap file to analyse - its a Linux capture - Can I use Nmap on the suspected ip address please?

So, whats happening is LQ having network connection issues or hardware issues? Been seeing this a bit lately and randomly today, I hope everything is ok... Attachment 34389...