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The Washington Post reported that Facebook, among others, has funded a dark-money political advocacy group dubbed "American Edge" to fend off attempts to regulate its behavior and, by extension, the...

Hello, I'm running Pop Os 20.04 and I was changing different fonts on my system but one of the sans serif fonts is stuck on a certain font. This is how my fonts are displaying currently,...

Someone opened an issue reporting "multiple definition" errors when building on arch (https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/rmw/issues/280). I was able to reproduce the problem after updating an...

I am trying to install workstation version 7.7 I downloaded both the Server version and the workstation version iso file and burned to a DVD. The Server version was recognized and I managed to...

Code: --------- lilo --------- returns: ---Quote--- /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.

Hi Im running mint 1.9 distro and dose anyone know if there is a basic voice recorder all ready installed into the OS, that would save to basic formats like mp3? Or if not any ideas on a...

Hi there I do an advanced search on this site for a user name from hear https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/search.php?do=process But when I press the search button I get an error massage ...

Published at LXer: Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Linux and cloud company SUSE found in a survey that tech leaders were planning on dumping the old for new in their technology stacks. ...

Where can I view the DNS activities on a client machine (Ubuntu or Centos)? Thanks, TT

Seen a couple articles describing this, tried one and failed. Anyone successful?

I want to extract information from files that render a lot of non-alphanumeric characters in hex, for example '%3D' for '=', '%2B' for '+'. Is there a name for this practice? Is ...

Hi Env. Hw pc hp 650 with UEFI bios Sw Windows 8 Planning to dula both Debian 9.12 & Windows 8 I read debian installation instruction about dual boot on uefi machines....sincerely i still do not...

Published at LXer: During a recent online event the current Microsoft President, Brad Smith, opened up a little bit about open source and their previous failures with it. Read More......

I got a directional wifi adapter at a little beach cottage in order to make a better connection to the router in the main house. Even though the handshake works well, I am not getting the router to...

In the process of trying to fix bluetooth in my Ubuntu 18.04 system I messed something in the sound subsytem so I don't longer see S/PDIF in the sound settings (Output). I see the "Analog Output" for...

Hello, I'm doing this online course and I'm trying to set the ansible user so that it does not need to use sudo, per the instructor's direction. ( I know this isn't good security best practices) ...

Slack64, 14.2, package sqlite-3.13.0-x86_64-1.txz has usr/lib64/libsqlite3.la But Slack64-current, package sqlite-3.31.1-x86_64-1.txz doesn't have this file. It's not in any other package either. ...

Just installed Debian 10 yesterday using ubootin and the Debian 10 .iso-1 file. I don't have a DVD or other optical drive on my laptop, so I installed it using the "USB Installation Method" from this...

Code: --------- $ flowblade FLOWBLADE MOVIE EDITOR 1.16 --------------------------- Launch script dir: /usr/bin Running from installation... modules path:...

Published at LXer: Since Linux is a multi-user operating system, it may consists of more than one user. This brief guide explains how to list all users in Linux. Read More......

In console shell it is easy: su new_user then enter password. But when edit file from user home in some text editor (not in vim in console), I cannot save file. I have to switch user also somehow...

Does anybody know how to run Tor browser from flash drive. Thanks OS: Mint 18.3 sylvia XFCE 64Bit Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.15.0-99-generic

Hello I am trying to compile Apache 2.4.43 with APR-1.7. There is no apr-config in my apr directory. Is that what it is looking for? Where would I find it, if this is the case? Thank You ...

I need some help configuring duplicity. I want to exclude /home/$USER but include /home/$USER/Documents /home/$USER/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User PHP:...

Hello everyone, it's still me with a problem with my kernel! This morning I did the last upgrade, including the upgrade from 5.4.40 to 5.4.41 kernel. The last 2 upgrades were carried out without...

Published at LXer: Webmin is an open-source web control panel for administering Linux servers. It allows you to manage the system users, groups, disk quotas as well as install and configure web,...

I need to set an environment variable for an application launched as a .desktop (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html) icon. I'm not seeing any...

I know I can use getopts to provide options and values to a script Code: --------- makereport -u jsmith -p notebooks -d 10-20-2011 -f pdf --------- and in the script you do this: Code:...

Terminology in Bodhi linux 5.x main repo has been updated to version 1.7.0. There are a number of improvements: Code: --------- Work has mostly been on tabs and splits and how to interact with...

Published at LXer: Audacity 2.4 has arrived for any of your audio and music production and editing needs from this powerful, free, open-source and cross-platform audio editor software. Read...

I just updated my Fedora OS (from release 30 to 32, if it matters) and suddenly I can't burn DVDs any more. Is there a flag I can't find that somehow got cleared (or set), did I forget to ask for a...

With a python script found on GitHub (mep.py, revision 2019, which should build cube files for electrostatic potential from ORCA computations), code ---Quote--- ...

I had a brown-out last night, and one of my nas devices now insists on re-initializing the drives. I turned it off, removed the drives and plugged one of them into a centos 8 box. Searching several...

Published at LXer: HP has released the HPLIP 3.20.5 version of its imaging and printing driver for Linux-based operating systems, which brings support for several new devices and distributions. ...

Hello, I've just installed Slackware Current on my new Pcspecialist Fusion Series laptop. Perhaps not the most mainstream model to try to get Linux working on, but I've seen reports of other people...

Published at LXer: With so many games being released, announced and teased it's often hard to keep on top of things so we're here to help. Going over a good few pages and hundreds of articles,...

I was trying to add my local user into www-data group but it was getting some issue so i have removed my local user from local group and add it to www-data group. But now after restart system...

So I installed i3 and I get an error in Enigmail which asks me to check pinentry and I get the error as shown in the title. I was using XFCE before this and my root account still uses the same DE and...

Published at LXer: Install Node.js and NPM on Ubuntu 20.04. Node.js is a JavaScript platform for programming that allows users to build network applications quickly. Read More......

It's good to be here. I am new to Linux, so I hope I can learn something from this forum

hi, lets say that an aplication uses an intermediate certificate.this intermediate certificate is generated from ca root certificate. the intermediated certificate must be in the same server with ca...

Published at LXer: This tutorial describes how to set up WireGuard on a CentOS 8 machine that will act as a VPN server. We’ll also show you how to configure WireGuard as a client. The client’s...

In GNUplot, it is possible to set the delimiter for the input data to any single character by setting the datafile separator. I am wondering if it is possible to have it deal with a variable span of...

Published at LXer: Flask is a popular Python web framework. It is classified as a microframework because it does not require particular tools or libraries. In this tutorial, we will explain how to...

Pkgtools were probably on the old official Slackware CD I tried in the 1990s, and I used and programmed for Slackware more & more since (though had a short desktop break until recent drivers, still...

I am attempting to back up my audio cds (time to throw them out) to the cloud. I have a two cd-roms. I am using cdrdao to read the audio from, and vlc to listen to the cd audio on the other drive. ...

So I am just getting started with python, as well as using linux. I just downloaded python3 on Ubuntu 20.04 and I'm planning to use VS Code as my text editor. I installed the VS Code python plugin...

Published at LXer: Nowadays, it is no surprise that a lot of universities, academies, colleges, conservatories, etc. have already implemented open source software in their learning process.Open...

Published at LXer: If you want to help grow awareness around securing open source software, take the State of Open Source Survey.* Why it is important, you ask?*Every year numerous security...

Hello All, Using Leap 15.1 Zypper warns the user when some processes must be restarted or the system rebooted. Is it a way to get such warnings when updates are made via the plasma packagekit...