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My external USB DVD player wont play movies in VLC player on Linux Mint 20. My laptop is an Acer Aspire. I ran some commands and pasted them below. Would appreciate any ideas. non@anon:~$ lsusb...

Published at LXer: Oracle announced the release and general availability of Oracle Linux 7.9, a new update of their enterprise Linux distribution brining many new features and improvements. Read...

Hello I am new to linux and was wondering how i would create files from a script. I created a shell script using nano. And i am trying to add different files inside the script.What would the command...

I wanted to import the mysql 'classicmodels' sample database into mysql using phpmyadmin on my localhost. I got the error: ---Quote--- Warning in ./libraries/plugin_interface.lib.php#551...

I have a file with many lines of the form: I'm looking for a way to create a script to increment each lon value by a common factor and each lan...

Published at LXer: In current post we intend to test Cocpit Web Console functionality on pre-release Fedora 33 Server based on the most recent Fedora nightly builds list . Start with deploying...

both of my recent Slackware installations fail to boot The one on my Asus-g73 laptop errors out with something about Ct'l-D and trying alternate superblocks (tried, no good) and the desktop with a...

Hello Guys, I installed the MinGW 64bit package from his site. http://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/MinGW-w64/ I then download the 32bit package and converted the package using the...

Hello Everyone, I have installed both the qt5 styleplugin and qt5ct on slackware-current64 multilib. The qt5ct does work and change the app in the configuration screen but not the actually qt5...

Problem description: Noticed high CPU, htop shows 4 of 8 my cpu cores are 100% loaded. Htop not showing corect %load. htop/top were not showing PIDs which were running on 4 100% loaded cores. Thanks...

Published at LXer: A while ago, I published my wildly popular1*article How not to make a cup of tea. Casting around for something to write here, it occurred to me that I might write about something...

I ran the following command with sudo: Code: --------- sudo find /proc/ -exec qfile -o '{}' + --------- I also ran this command as root too:

*Keep getting error message: no root filesystem defined. *It's a new usb, formatted, partitioned. "Install ubuntu" is on my desktop as I use ubuntu-live from a dvd, and I click on it to install...

a new icon has appeared telling me of some disk space like other icons for disk partitions, but /proc/partitions has nothing new. how can i find more info about these?

When I boot my slackware-14.2 the DE is FVWM but it seems much more rudimentary than the FVWM2 that is optional on login in Suse. Are these the same F's? If there's a superior fvwm to be installed in...

Published at LXer: Learn to add labels to nodes in Kubernetes, change the labels and remove those labels later. Read More... (https://linuxhandbook.com/kubectl-label-node/)

Hello, i am currently having an issue where if i load my GPU (AMD XFX RX590 Fatboy OC) with superposition. i am running 2 monitor both at 1440p and 144hz. i am planing on upgrading to a new GPU when...

Greets, The topic has interested me before but for obvious reasons the time has arrived to take action. In addition to my go-2's Leap and Tumbleweed I am now populating my drive with a distro for...

Checked for patches today, applied glibc-zoneinfo-2020b-noarch-1_slack14.0 and time is in a bad state. No tz indicated in time, system jumped to display UTC (0 offest) instead of CDT. All attempts...

Published at LXer: The Kubuntu Focus team announced the launch of Kubuntu Focus M2 as the second generation of their Kubuntu Focus Linux laptop with an updated design, newer components, and the...

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation (TDF) announced the release of LibreOffice 7.0.2 (Fresh). This is the second point release on the LibreOffice 7.0.0 series. And both the first and second...

Hi All, I have a strange problem, I purchased one of the Atheros wifi adapters, and it gave kernel panics regularly on Slackware. The adapter is: Alfa Network AWUS036NHA – USB WiFi Adapter, 150...

CLEAN INSTALL LINUX MINT 20 WHAT I WANT TO DO My own desktop computer OS is Mint 18.3 with 2GB RAM My sons desktop computer OS is Mint 17.3 with 4GB RAM I want to install Mint 20 LTS on both...

Published at LXer: GNOME team announced the first point bug-fix release (3.38.1) for this popular and stable Linux desktop environment. Read More......

what is the difference between running mysql using: */etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start* and *./mysql.server start* (of */usr/share/mysql*) first picks data directory */var/lib/mysql* second picks data...

Published at LXer: This year, I joined in on the Open Jam, a "game jam" in which programmers around the world dedicate a weekend to create open source games. The jam is essentially an excuse to...

I have the watermark picture as a PNG in a folder and the watermarked PDFs, is there any way to remove this big PNG picture right now embed in these PDFs using the terminal? - I made a research...

1. /home and / are configured in this file that located at this location below, /etc/fstab but where is the mount point (such as /run/media/user/) ? 2. in /run/media/ are located...

Published at LXer: With the nights drawing in, with the prospective of a lockdown Christmas, we need everything possible to cheer up the place. It seems that Christmas starts earlier and earlier...

I can't find a collection of method to change an usb stick to linux acceptable format. I have a 32Gb usbstick that i want to use as timeshift snapshot storage. but it says it is not linux format.. ...

I have an old laptop with both Lubuntu and Peppermint OS installed in a dual boot configuration. I decided to keep Peppermint, and uninstall Lubuntu. How do I do this? Thanks.

I found it in my gmail spam folder. Funnily enough, it purports to come from Google themselves, but the spam filter obviously knew better. It's addressed to my old googlemail address, which is no...

Published at LXer: Drupal is a free and open-source web content management framework that is written in PHP. It allows us to create a website for a specific idea or business and gives us great...

I'd like to be able to burn cds, dvds, and blu-ray media and I'd also like to be able to watch dvds and blu-ray media. 3d would be icing on the cake, but if there's something tricky with subtitles I'd...

Hello, Can anyone tell me how to make Nomachine create a new desktop session like VNC server?

Published at LXer: When not working on the Plasma desktop environment, the KDE Project is developing new features for Plasma Mobile, the mobile version of Plasma for Linux smartphones and tablets....

Published at LXer: In this article, we will show you 3 different ways to install the YakYak Google Hangouts client on Ubuntu 20.04. Read More... (https://vitux.com/ubuntu-google-hangouts-yakyak/)

I am making an experiment with Debian, very basic Debian. I got the netinstall ISO and installed it in VirtualBox without any connection to the Internet, to see how basic it is and if I can dig myself...

How can I type urdu in Libreoffice?

Published at LXer: After talking about Arrays in C#, this is the right time to talk about Structure data type in C#. There are a few limitations about Arrays, the array can only save a single type...

Hello, everyone. I am trying to bisect Firefox for an issue with broken Korean fonts: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1655661 When I run "mozregression"...

I'm doing updates on my Gecko ROLLING (I have STATIC on my other machine), and I keep seeing updates of 25 different kernel-firmware packages: (59/86) Installing:...

So when i run this command in the current directory it works fine But if i run the command outside the directory or in a bash script it says file not found. Anyone know whats going on? Code:...

Published at LXer: Besides the September update for Plasma Mobile, the KDE Project also announced today the general availability of the KDE Apps update for October 2020, versioned 20.08.2. Read...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure Nextcloud on a Fedora 32 based server. We will also be installing Nginx web server along with PHP 7.4 and MariaDB ...

I urgently need to bypass Windows 10 login screen on my dual boot laptop. So I made a Ubuntu Live CD and install chntpw as advised. The problem is that the password is still there after that. Any...

Published at LXer: Find out how much easier cgroup management is with systemd in this four-part series finale covering cgroups and resource management Read More......

I am currently runnin Manjaro, but I want to replace it with Arch. I have tried putting the iso on my flash drive and using yumi.this did not work. I also tried using a sudo command also did not work....

As in my title I installed lxqt and then added task-kde. When I login as KDE I have no Leave or Shutdown option on the menu. How do I add them

Published at LXer: Sysmon is a graphical Linux system monitor written in Python. It monitors the CPU, GPU, Memory, Network, and Disks in real time in Linux. Read More......