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I am compiling some proprietary code and trying to build an image. Here I am getting an error of EnvironmentError: No tool named 'fastcpp': not a Zip file: File...

In Mint 19.3 XFCE, tried to install Shutter 0.94-1 (screen shot app) from Mint's repo. Appears there were a few packages not listed in its dependsRecommends in Synaptic. Debug - starting it in...

i downloaded convertall from internet. untar it . installed it using python3 install install.py the installation was done. but i can't find the convertall in xfce menu. however i can run it...

is there anyway to see all the thread or question started by myself ? i found it hard to navigate around this forum after i made a post few days ago. thx andrew

Hi Guys, I am facing this unique issue. I am using checkpoint Remote access VPN client and I do connect to my ssh server once I connected to VPN. Then I start GUI applications which failed to...

How do I change USB restrictions? Driving me crazy! Printer works fine, will not permit scanner.Help please?

I received a phone call today (we let it go to voice mail as we did not recognize the caller ID). The voicemail referred to a $99.00 purchase from Amazon and "advised" me that the charge would be...

There are 2 things that I want to backup: 1. Downloads folder 2. An entire ssd named "dataDrive" This is the guide that I followed and was working for quite some time: ...

Hello, I'm facing an issue where bodhi 5.1.0-64, live USB with persistent partition(created using latest Rufus) fails to load the GUI DESKTOP. Boot hangs on initramfs If I create live USB...

Howdy Slackers First of all, pdflatex works fine on full-install slackware64-current. But on a slackware based server with minimal packages on it, that is being used to parse the parameters...

I update my Slackware system using Code: --------- # slackpkg update # slackpkg install-new # slackpkg upgrade-all --------- Nearly every time I do this on my vanilla installation (not...

Hi. Yesterday i bought new pc desktop. I mounted old disk with installation slackware 14.2 stable of previous old pc. I managed to get the slacware to start, but after boot it does error (i believe...

I know all of the stuff is available, but the guides are full of distro-specific crud. I just wondered had anyone written up installing jitsi server on a slackware box?

I can't see why I shouldn't be able to load Linux on this little machine, google failed to find anything so I thought this would be the place to ask....

It may seem trivial - and it is, but I realized I could use bash alias profiles by simply loading different alias sources. In other words, I have /.bash_aliases & /.bash_aliases2 and they can be...

Hi, after regular dnf update of all software, including kernel (now the kernel version is 5.7.14), I faced huge display flickering. Almost all programs, such as, Chrome, Thunderbird, Dolphin ......

Nothing major but if you did the upgrade to Emacs 27.1 you may have to replace 'set-default-font' with 'set-frame-font' in your dotemacs

Hi, I installed Pop OS over Linux Mint by preserving the home partition. Then, I proceed to create the same user name as the one I have in Linux Mint. This works as expected. I was able to see my...

Hi! Anyone in here knows a nice conf file parser for bash? It's supposed to look like yum.conf, sections, names and it's values. It's a bash script that's gonna read it and use its values for...

I have a multi-boot laptop, which has antiX and SparkyLinux installed. Both were booting just fine, but the antiX installation could not get on the Internet. The SparkyLinux partition works fine and...

Slackware64 current (July 2020). Kernel 5.4.50 Hi: I have no swap space, either as a dedicated partition or as a file. If I issue 'swapon -s' the output, of course, is null. However, when turning...

It's been a while since I used /usr/sbin/pxeboot, but recently had an occasion to, but can't find it (CentOS 7.7). Searching yum for it returns nothing and doing an internet search to find what...

Hi I have had rkhunter running nightly for years on my 32 bit Slackware server with no problems. I recently upgraded the server and installed slackware64-current and now rkhunter always finds a...

I am trying to connect via Bluetooth, an no-name amplifier with Bluetooth input (bought from Ali) to Rasperry Pi-nano with USB BT dogle. This RPi model does not have a graphics card, therefore all...

First install of 450.57 seemed to be just fine. I boot into runlevel 4. It was back on July 31 that I had a problem. I opened a terminal to drop to runlevel 3, started the uninstall of the 450.57...

Hello, In a tkinter app I have a two-level menu with book categories, like Exact - Astronomy or Music - Classic. The second level is added to the first one with add_cascade. I want to use the...

My data is not in the $Home folder. It's on /media/linux-drive aka /dev/sdd1. Is there a way to make a separate backup for this using Timeshift. I explored the Timeshift backups but the ext4...

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Published at LXer: I have noticed that many developers do not use a .gitignore file, even though it[he]#039[/he]s a best practice to use one to designate files you don[he]#039[/he]t want Git to...

Published at LXer: Daniel De Matteis released today RetroArch 1.9, a new major version of the popular and open-source frontend for emulators, video games, game engines, and media players. Read...

Hello everyone! I'm a newbie here and with Linux. I explain my situation, I have a school projet in Linux to do. I'm trying to do a dhcp failover with DDNS. I have a Debian and Centos. When I...

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Hi guys, im trying to create a partition on my sd-card. After I use the parted commands, it says I might have to adjust /etc/fstab and when I open fstab it says: # ...

Published at LXer: When anything fails, fingers start to point. Here's one story of failed backups and inherited responsibility. Read More......

Published at LXer: In this article, we will create a limit range and see*how to set minimum and maximum values for the CPU resources used by Containers and Pods. We will see different...

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Hey everyone, first here is my original thread on the puppy main forum https://puppylinux.rockedge.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=391, to break it down, I am trying to get Linux working on an old Dell...

OS: SLES 15.1, which is a KVM guest machine Kernel: 4.12.14-197.51-default Issue: NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup I tried below but issue is still there. Code: --------- echo 20 >...

Published at LXer: This is a time of change for the internet and for Mozilla. From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy — one thing is clear: … ...

When I run... > ./imgtool getall coco_jvc_rsdos os9.dsk ./imgtool: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I know from...

Published at LXer: Pluggable Authentication Modules allow Linux to work with Google Authenticator and other OTP tools to add two-factor security to your system. Read More......

It worked perfectly back in 18.3, but after I updated, when running it in a terminal, it just prints out a bunch of program info and stops. The main GUI window never opens. Code: ---------...

I recently had issues with grub in that it wouldn't install. I solved that problem and can now boot linux, albeit I have to go into bios to select the linux drive or the windows drive (I am okay with...

Published at LXer: TCP Window scaling, timestamps and SACK. How to use system acknowledgements and window scaling with tcp to enhance networking performance and remain secure. Read More......

Published at LXer: 250 'true Mozillians' laid off, Taiwan office completely shuttered. Firefox maker Mozilla has axed 250 employees, or a quarter of its workforce, claiming the COVID-19...

I installed SDL2 from sbopkg. However, I can't seem to build against it. I updatedb and locate SDL.h and I see it in /usr/include. It's been awhile since I've set up a Linux programming...

Published at LXer: The latest Linux 5.8 kernel series received its first point release today and it now has green light for distribution on production environments. Released by Linus Torvalds last...

Encrypted LVM installation on Debian 10 (Buster) I've been reading lots of docs, but I've been unable to solve my current issue. I have plenty of space on my internal SSD, and I want to remove the...

I am porting a cockpit build from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 and have run into an error I cannot find a fix for. It involves auto configure and the JSON-GLIB library. My configure.ac file calls...

Hi all, this may sound a bit strange but I'm sure you guys will come up to the mark. I have a powerpc based laptop which has performed faultlessly for me for the past decade and has survived the...