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Published at LXer: If you’re already running Fedora on your Pi, you’re already most of the way to a wifi hotspot. A Raspberry Pi has a wifi interface that’s usually set up to join an existing wifi...

I have just completed building my LFS OS. I am following LFS book 9.1 (latest stable). Everything works fine until I enter this command : ping google.com It takes a while then I get this -> ping:...

I run ifconfig eth0 or ifconfig-a eth0. both give me device not found. I have a dual network card, and have swapped cables. What am I missing? Thanks. First post linux newbie Got it now,...

Published at LXer: Mattermost is an open-source and self-hosted messaging application used for chat, file sharing, search, and integrations. It is an alternative to Slack chat that brings all your...

Just built LMDE 4 - how do you access the single click settings for desktop icons? LMDE uses Cinnamon. Not sure I'm going to stick with it, probably going back to Mint 20 xfce!

I've been thinking about getting I2P but they offer two options on their website (https://geti2p.net/en/download#source), the direct source or a java installer. I'd go ahead and just build from source...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today the KDE Applications 20.08 open-source office suite as the August 2020 apps update, but, in fact, a massive release that brings countless...

Published at LXer: Learn about the autofs utility and how it can help you to automatically remote local and remote filesystems in Linux. Read More......

Hello, I have a problem with Corsair Wireless Headphones. This problem only appears in Slackware 14.2 (my current OS) from my recent installs so i assume it is right to post here. When the...

I am running: od /dev/sda on a uninitialized drive. This outputs all non-zero characters on the drive. I would like to pipe it to dd or any other command that can do this and overwrite each...

Published at LXer: When I started learning Unix, I was introduced to the echo command pretty early in the process. Likewise, my initial Python lesson involved the print function. Picking up C++ and...

Hello, I am trying to install wine-nine-standalone from SBo, however I get an error: Code: --------- Trying pkg-config binary i586-slackware-linux-gnu-pkg-config for machine MachineChoice.HOST...

Per Bruce Schneier (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/08/drovorub_malwar.html), here's the press release...

Published at LXer: Vivaldi Technologies released today the latest Vivaldi 3.2 web browser for Android and Chromebooks, a release that brings enhancements to the built-in privacy options and adds...

Published at LXer: Pipenv*is a tool that helps Python developers maintain isolated virtual environments with specifacally defined set of dependencies to achieve reproducible development and...

Hello all! Newbie, know almost nothing about Linux, but want to escape the Apple sandbox. I have a Macbook Pro, and just beginning to shop for a replacement laptop with Linux and looking hard at the...

Published at LXer: BackupPC is a free, open-source and web-based backup software suite that can be used for backing up Linux, Windows and macOS PCs and laptops. In this tutorial, we will show you...

Just updated current and my favorite desktop program crashes: bash-5.0$ gkrellm gkrellm segmentation fault: (create_monitor) Aborted bash-5.0$ Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet...

Published at LXer: Flectra is a free and open-source CRM and ERP software that provides a lot of flexibility and customization that lets you meet the unique needs of your business. Flectra is...

A friend of mine has Linux Mint 17 Qiana. He's just bought an HP Deskjet 3762. I have helped him set it up, the Control Panel recognises the printer, but when we actually try to print, either...

problem accessing external hdd whenever i suspend my laptop. manjaro xfce os i am using manjaro xfce. got 2 usb external hdd, one of them is 1TB in size. i used fsearch (app) to search for...

i need tor browser to get an info from some usa website which denied my access because i am in germany. when i tried to run tor after long time of not using.. it just .... "freezes" there doing...

i used to use manjaro linux forum, because i started to learn to use manjaro linux. often got a lot of issue that i totally can't understand.. that forum is quite user friendly too. but few days...

Published at LXer: Virsh, short for Virtual Shell, is a command line user interface for managing virtual guest machines. Virsh allows you to create, list, edit, start, restart, stop, suspend,...

Hi. I want to rename my many photos to easily find all photos of a certain grandparent (not real names used in title). So any photos that only have 'nana', I want to find and rename manually to...

Published at LXer: Kubernetes, the container orchestration program of choice for most companies is many things, but one thing it's not is "easy." It's famous for being complex and a real...

Hi, in my system : free -gh total used free shared buff/cache available 566G 463G 102G 39M 448M 100G 15G 15G 403M I...

I installed phpmyadmin on my localhost to use the GUI instead of the command line. When I start it, I get the, ignorable, errors shown in this screenshot. Actually, I get this error when I click...

Hi everyone, New Linux user here. Keyboard of my laptop is malfunctioning and wreaks havoc until its disabled. I use "xinput float" command for it. I want to disable it as soon as I log...

The most recent threads I see are from 2018... I joined the forum in 2020, but can not find any of my threads here Why? Cheers Alex

Hi, Recently I have faced this error I used Code: --------- scp -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user.log root@myserver:/home/root ---------

ok. I posted about my Mint 64 bit Cinnamon Sonya 18.2 getting glitchy. The best response I got was to reinstall. This machine came preloaded so I made a usb stick with Mint 20 Ulyana on it. The only...

install slackware64-current, meet WARNNING: NO ROOT PASSWORD DETECTED. Press "Yes" to set a root password. but i got a error: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error passwd: password...

So, I like that there's a KDE version and that is arch based, everything is just as I'd like except for the repository, it's not the same one as the official arch repository. Does that mean it has...

Not sure if programming forum is best but I am trying a simple script on Fedora for a random number generator. I know it is not truly random and am ok with a cheesy hack. I searched and found...

Hello, I am trying to stream audio from my workstation to a rasp pi using pulseaudio. I believe I have most of it figured out but need module-zeroconf-discover for the client side which will allow pa...

Hello! I have an interesting request. This is a Windows 10 Laptop. And it has their WSL functions running. I have Docker available, who can successfully bring up an image of Slackware 14.2 for 64...

Ubuntu 18.04, VirtualBox 5.2.42, Windows 7 (64 bit) in vb has a virtual disk image file at /home/ron/VirtualBox/VM_MSW/HD.vdi How the heck can I get a data file created in virtual Windows in the...

How to put the bash subshell sed output into the main/root shell environment variable ? it'll fail, Code: --------- v=`echo NO |tee >(sed 's/^/&YES/' )` --------- How's the true to solve...

I did a full upgrade for my Slackware 14.2 operating system (64-bit), after which one of the options that I was presented with was to restart LILO (recommended), so I selected 'Y', at which time it...

Turns out that if one runs fvwm just once, one's system will go to hell. Not the fun party-with-famous-dead-people hell, but the hell where things do not work and reality is breached and the evil...

Trying to differentiate between CentOS7 and CentOS8 and the CentOS8 condition is being skipped and I'm not sure why. Code: --------- release=$(cat /etc/redhat-release | awk '{print $1,$2}')...

Hi, Recently I have faced this error I used Code: --------- scp -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user.log root@myserver:/home/root ---------

Hi, Recently I have faced this error I used Code: --------- scp -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user.log root@myserver:/home/root ---------

I want to stream internet audio over Bluetooth from CLI of Raspberry Pi to soundbar. For this purpose I use such command: Code: --------- mpg123 -b 1024 -a...

TL;DR I can't figure out how to force the EDID binary from firmware (Since my monitor apparently chose to forget its identity). I found out that one easy way to that is to extract the EDID from the...

Hello everyone, Following the recent polkit update (0.117) it seems that netpkg cannot be started because polkit does not start due to lib's lack (libmozjs.68.so.0) . Would anyone have the same...

For the last 2 years or so, I have been distro hopping endlessly, hence the name jumpingpenguin, quite deservingly. :hattip: And ofc, greetings to you people from all around the world. Take care...

In 5.6.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 20.0.3 Lysia the megasync was running but after last update of manjaro packages it is not starting and get this error: Code: --------- ~ >>> megasync ...

I am not a big fan of Microsoft on general principle, but I have installed Skype and now MS Teams on my Linux Mint laptop. And both times it was absolutely painless. No problems installing, no...