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Published at LXer: Puppet is a free and open-source administration automation engine for Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Puppet server...

Hi guys. Not sure is it because of Windows and Mac OS habits or the quite some time off Linux (or being mature and global concerns regarding security and privacy in general), but with the new Linux...

Published at LXer: Saidar is a simple, curses-based tool used to view system statistics and resource usage in real-time in Linux and Unix operating systems. It is part of libstatgrab library that...

i am running windows 10 and wanted to install debian 10 so that i do a adual boot. i was advised to first have a feel of debian by using virtual software ie oracle virtual box. I have hit a snag with...

Published at LXer: Learn how ncat is an essential power tool for debugging and other network activities in Linux. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ncat-port-redirects)

If I create a USB stick with three Linux distros on it, when I plug it in to another computer and boot from it, will there be the three options to boot from at start up? Or just, it boots from one,...

Published at LXer: Today, IBM celebrates not one but three important milestones in their 20-year-long relationship with Linux and the Open Source community, 20th anniversary of Linux on Z, 5th...

Mint 18.1, a few apps started showing different cursor - pointer, link selection, busy / window loading (some spinning do-dad). Most still use the theme I installed a few yrs ago...

I'm installing BLFS 8.4 Everytime I build LLVM, Ninja fails with 'internal compiler error: Segmentation fault' at different points. But, there is something common in every error i.e. "...

I've mostly used KDE for the past decade I've been trying out gnome & can mostly adapt There isn't much documentation, much of what there is, is old & not as helpful as one would hope. lots...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will describe how to install Mono on CentOS 8 and how to write and compile your first C# program on Linux. Read More......

I've seen a few posts about some or all apps *suddenly* are larger than the screen. Had different or no fixes. This is Mint 19.3 xfce on a laptop. Probably Intel graphics drivers. It had been...

Published at LXer: '51 billion' active JVMs can't be wrong. Oracle on Tuesday marked the arrival of Java 15, known as Oracle JDK 15 among those concerned about formalities and trademarks, in the...

Published at LXer: The command described in this post answers this question: Are there records in your data table with non-blank entries in field 1 that have multiple corresponding entries in field...

I've been trying to enable gpg in mutt. I can sign and encrypt messages, but I'm unable to decrypt them (at least not inside mutt, more on that later). Just now, I sent myself an email in mutt. ...

Using Linux Mint with XFCE4 I'd like to automatically mount an optical disc to a specific folder. I've set automount options in the Disks application to be "User Session Defaults" and when I put a...

I'm no longer able to restart or shutdown from the logout menu, and the buttons are disabled.

Published at LXer: The Tor Project announced today the general availability of Tor 0.4.4.5 as newest stable release of their free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communications. ...

Hello, I have some problem installing my HP LaserJet CP1025nw color in Archlinux. The steps I follow was: 1. Install CUPS, following the Arch Wiki. Here also enable and start the service. 2....

Published at LXer: KeePassXC is a useful open-source cross-platform password manager that doesn’t compromise on features even if it’s not a cloud-based tool. Read More......

Hello. I've dabbled in Linux for many years, but always just enough to usually get myself in trouble, as I provide admin support for a messaging application that we run on RedHat Linux. I'm happy to...

Hi, The version of Mozilla Firefox currently available in -14.2 is 68.12.0 ESR, which is the last version for 68.x ESR branch. That branch is now EOL, security fixes will now be merged to 78.x ESR...

I have been building my own kernels for a few months now so I am a bit out of the "sarpi loop". Do the latest sarpi kernel configs enable apparmor now? With a 'make bcm2711_defconfig', on 5.4.65...

Published at LXer: If you have been using GNU/Linux for any amount of time chances are pretty good that you have heard of git. You may be wondering, what exactly is git and how do I use it? Git is...

My saga continues. i have an Intel NUC, BXNUC10I7FNK1, connected through a KVM switch to an LG 24" 4k monitor. The other computer on the switch is a first-gen ASUS chromebox, reflashed to run Linux....

Hello, recently i bought a power bank to recharge my notebook. But whenever I plug it in the notebook it starts charging the power bank. I did some research and found that it could be tcpm module...

I can not get my Sublime install on MX Linux to get anywhere past the screen where it asks for a purchased license key, To save my life. I have installed using multiple methods, and the program always...

The subject is exactly what I thought when I went looking at a torrent I got earlier. Instead of the usual nest of directories with loads of spaces in the filename, I got one file:...

I'm having some trouble with this. I've seen different approaches while ducking (my own term for searching on duckduckgo :p ) This server has Ubuntu on it and I tried Dell's legacy approach here...

Published at LXer: This is a howto guide to use btrfs snapshots combined with the send/receive commands to setup an incremental backup routine on Fedora. Read More......

I have a program that opens and read a character from the keyboard. If the keyboard is connected to a KVM when the keyboard switches to the another PC. My program get an error no device. So I can...

Hi, I am trying to run a VM of slackware, but I don't have VT-x support on my computer. So I ran these commands to disable it: sudo VBoxManage modifyvm Slack --vtxpid off sudo VBoxManage...

I have a desktop, ten years old. I installed a USB 3.0 card, it works, but when booting up from a USB memory stick, it would not go and I had to plug it into my old built in USB 2.0 port. Then...

I tried installing KDE Neon and Mint 20 alongside Mint 19. The 120 GB SSD could not be divided into two equal partitions. The old retained 99 GB minimum. And both OS could not go beyond this stage. I...

It's worked for me in the past, what is this now? Dragging a video to k3b I get the message "non local files not supported". I don't understand.

Published at LXer: Wireshark is an open-source network protocol analyzer. In this article, we will explain how to install Wireshark on the Ubuntu system. The installation procedures have been...

I have a couple scripts that needs to run but doesn't work when added to cron job. I can run it manually as root but other than that its a no-go. The script that resides in root is suppose to launch...

running latest Fedora. I have a multiboot configuration. One of the disks that contains Ubuntu will not boot, missing its bootloader. I also have CentOS on the same box that boots just fine. I...

I am running Cinnamon on Fedora 32. Until recently I would get a notification that there were some updates to install and I could click on the dnfdragora icon and select 'update' and, lo and behold,...

Published at LXer: Plex is a powerful and feature-rich media streaming server that can be used to organize your video, music, and photo, and stream them to remote the remote devices from anywhere....

Copy pasting this from my arch forums post with small edits because nobody replied to me there :( I have this weird issue where the builtin speakers work fine until I plug something into the 3.5mm...

Published at LXer: As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source...

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE SO FAR: Code: --------- I.) source: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify pub 4096R/64E6EA7D 2009-10-03 Key fingerprint = 1046 0DAD 7616 5AD8 1FBC 0CE9 9880 21A9...

After much searching on forums without success, I seek the wisdom of this group. I have a weird problem that may just be permissions but I suspect it is deeper than that. I am not new to Linux...

Hello, I have installed the Arc theme from Slackbuilds to use with GTK applications such as Firefox and Hexchat. However, I'm noticing it no longer seems to want to render properly on Slackware64...

I have accidentally caused all the open application icons, that usually display on the task bar and allow me to easily switch to them, to be removed from the task bar! Things like Dolphin, Konsole,...

I have the oddest thing I have ever seen. I used to have a Intel gigabit NIC in this server and saw that it was trying to load the module over and over and over and over. Then I removed the NIC,...

Hi, I like to understand things. more /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status "/var/log/messages" 2020-9-13-3:50:1 more /etc/logrotate.conf weekly The next rotation will be on 20 Sep at...

Published at LXer: ArchEX developer Arne Exton informs 9to5Linux about the availability of a new version of his Arch Linux-based ArchEX Linux distribution, which now ships with a dual-desktop setup...

This is the second time I got problems with the xfce weather app on the xfce panel. I got xfce on one laptop with Debian and on one PC with Ubuntu. First time, a few month ago, both computers...