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Hello, I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 as a VM on a MacOS host. I require the Century Schoolbook L font (and likely others in the future). I checked that this font is present under the form of a .pfb...

Published at LXer: Flatpak maintainer Alexander Larsson announced today the general availability of Flatpak 1.8 as the newest stable branch of this popular Linux application sandboxing and...

Published at LXer: A Virtual Host is an Apache configuration directive that allows you to run more than one website on a single server. With Virtual Hosts, you can specify the site document root...

just wanted to say a quick word of thanks to Kiezel for suggesting that mintupdate (aka Update Manager and the other utilities that come with it like Additional Drivers and Kernel Manager) would be a...

I am going to build a desktop using an intel i3, 8th generation cpu. Are there linux compatible motherboards that definitely support USB boot disk installation of Ubuntu 20.04?

Published at LXer: As the global pandemic continues, the number of open source COVID-19 software and hardware projects – developed by diverse open source communities – continues to grow. Read...

As a user or pan for newsgroups for many years on Slackware, this one took me by suprise today. Code: --------- Wed Jun 24 22:48:51 2020 - Posting of “Re: too much network traffic after...

I think we have a problem with the startup script for MariaDB. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mysqld_safe/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mysqlserver/ If I start with the rc.mysqld script I can no longer...

Hi guys, I have been using Linux for a few years, RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu and these days more Kali & Parrot. So I'm back on the forums when I get stuck with something that I cannot solve on...

Published at LXer: Even the most advanced clouds can still use a little shell command goodness. Read More......

Difference between downloading linux distro from localized server and magnet link? How trust worthy are both?

I am trying to run blender on my newly installed Xubuntu 20.04. The specific error I'm getting is: "Error! Unsupported graphics card or driver. A graphics card and driver with support for OpenGL 3.3...

Published at LXer: In our previous post we discussed about how Rust can be a great language for embedded programming. In this article, we'll explain an easy way to setup to cross build Rust code...

Hi there... I'm trying to install PlayOnLinux but having some issues. I open the BODHI SOFTWARE CENTER and go to games and then go to PlayOnLinux and hit install and everything seems to work. ...

Published at LXer: For the first time, an ARM-powered supercomputer took first place in the TOP500 supercomputer competition. Read More......

The title should include a problem with Grub The problem is that it takes 75 seconds to boot on a fast (3.9GHz) desktop with 16Gb RAM. When booting, fsck checks the disk and blocks the keyboard...

Published at LXer: Don’t like the launcher on the left side of the screen in Ubuntu? Learn how to easily disable the dock in Ubuntu 20.04. Read More... (https://itsfoss.com/disable-ubuntu-dock/)

Published at LXer: If you have a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS (previously known as Raspbian) operating system, you know it's an awesome little computer with a great operating system for...

Hi, I'm trying to install CRUX's pkgutils as my package manager for my LFS project, version 9.1, sysvinit. Using the original Pkgfile for pkgutils-5.40.7 as a template, I copied and pasted the...

Published at LXer: This tutorial explains, how to install docker on Ubuntu.DockerDocker is a platform that combines applications and its dependencies in the form of packages called a container. We...

Today I was just amazed about how little power my laptop actually uses while I am working on it. I run Ubuntu 20.04 with KDE on my Chuwi Aerobook. I installed the extended power management. It turns...

Published at LXer: $ sudo dnf install -y ghc $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.6.5 main = putStrLn ("Hello, World!") $ runhaskell main.hs Hello, World! $...

Published at LXer: When working in commandline, we often run some commands multiple times. In this guide, we will see how to avoid duplicate entries in Bash history in Linux. Read More......

Centos, c++ Please accomodate typos as I cannot copy from my computer to here and am quite subject to little errors. This write statement typifies the writes to a file: Code: ---------...

Published at LXer: For this week’s blog, I decided to survey terminal emulators on the Raspberry Pi 4. A terminal emulator is computer software which emulates a dumb video terminal within some...

If I enter: Code: --------- dhclient -r -v eth0 && rm /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.* ; dhclient -v eth0 --------- The lease isn't released and it adds another interface as well with a new IP. -H...

My mate at work (20 yr old) )(I'm 70!!) cannot be convinced about Linux, just loves his W10 because it was free - and he's an IT Apprentice along with a being a big Steams user, and watching sports,...

Can you approximate roughly the location of the Stack, Text (Program code) the Heap an Global vars by way of gdb ? I'm new to gdb.

Hello, Need2know1 here. This is my first stab at using Linux. I was a longtime Windows user prior to this installation of Mint 1.9. Thank you all for your help in advance, I respect the forum and the...

Hi all! So I finally got a linux machine working (I had to switch machines) Now I'm trying to setup urxvt & also i3. I found this blog to guide me:...

Published at LXer: MediaWiki is many IT professionals' first exposure to wikis. By virtue of being the platform behind Wikipedia, MediaWiki's familiarity makes it a compelling open source...

Hi, Has anyone had an issue where minicom is set to communicate with a usb device, command is sent. In order to see the response we need to close minicom and reopen it. The response is there. ...

I gave Clear Linux a try but ran into something that doesn't work for me. I like having a solid black desktop and black background in my shell windows. However, the UI, as installed, has no visible...

Has anyone else had a problem with the perl-5.32 update from yesterday? I'm getting an error - Event.C: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake key 0xcd00080, needed...

Hi- my postgres listens on 127.0.0.1:5432 but mpd is like this in netstat: tcp6 :::6600 :::* LISTEN - lsof -i TCP:6600 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME...

hi, i have zabbix server to monitor the hosts and the hosts.All are in the same subnet. Is better to use vlan in order to separete the monitor traffic from data traffic in subnet? Vlan can be seen...

fresh new install i need to change my screen resolution to a 1024x768 im tryna use the arandr but does not show me https://ibb.co/SrK0T5H ps i know that my monitor can use 1024x768 how can...

It was tiny, basically just a flat piece of plastic with keys, but they were a reasonable size for fingering so this was imho a well designed piece of kit. It was obviously intended for use with Apple...

Ubuntu changed the desktop environment from unity to gnome. I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 and finally want gnome to give a try. However, out of the box gnome is not fully functional. The...

I am using peppermint linux OS and am having difficulty locating where my bluetooth is downloading items. Bluetooth appears to be Blueman based. I have tried searching using the file manager search...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today Plasma 5.19.2 as the second point release in the latest KDE Plasma 5.19 desktop environment series. Read More......

Desde hasce tiempo no puedo entrar en Debian 10, aunque ya lo había hecho antes. Pero compré un nuevo disco SSD Samsung de 500GB, pero no puedo entrar. He leído que apagando la funente de...

When i open "places" i can see there is a favorite folder and I want to add files to that folder, it is the location with a star icon. thanks

Published at LXer: Cloud of Things’ compact, Arm/Linux based “DeviceTone IoT Gateway” is equipped with MikroBus, LAN, GPIO, WiFi, LTE, NB-IoT, BLE Long Range, and DECT ULE. Both the gateway and an...

Hello all, I have a problem with SNMP and nagios, i try to check a IBM x3850 X5 server with the following command, Code: --------- /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp -m...

Hi, today I restarted my computer and found that the gnome surface is not starting properly. I have a black screen with trash and home directory icon, which work and skype is opening but the 'start'...

Published at LXer: Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time. It is a sandbox video game where players explore infinite worlds and build different structures from simple houses to...

I am trying to delete the directories inside another directory with the following command but for me on Debian 10 its not working: Code: --------- ls -ltr $APPVER | awk -vvar=echo $APPVER/...

Published at LXer: For the first time, an ARM-powered supercomputer took first place in the TOP500 supercomputer competition. Read More......

Published at LXer: A POSIX equivalence class is a group of characters that can be treated as the same character in your computer's locale. But what does "same" actually mean? Read More......