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I have an old original Asus Eee PC 900 - seems a shame not to find a use for it Suggestions please!

i want to install netbeans on my mx linux, in order to do that i need to install java 8, i used: sudo apt install oracle-java8-set-default and got: E: Unable to locate package...

I have been a long time user of the Mate Desktop and somehow it has gotten hosed. I fired up both Cinnamon and Xfce and can't seem to find anything like a drawer for the task bar. I normally use...

hy i dont know howe to explain this but. on desktop when im typing or hit space or browse i see or apering like ded pixels like those when you broke screen, they desipire when i pass mouse ower or...

hey guys, i'm trying to install netbeans on my newly installed mx-linux, i found this link: https://www.tecmint.com/install-netbeans-ide-in-ubuntu-debian-linux-mint/ i didn't find any...

The original thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/problems-with-mice-and-kb-is-it-drivers-where-are-they-4175672590/ What's new: I've had the issue return, and went...

Ok, I've exhausted my google fu, and I've ordered a fortran 90 book, but in the meantime, here's a question for anyone with FORTRAN 77 to fortran 90+ skills: I'm working on some FORTRAN 77 code...

After upgrading freetype to latest 2.10.2 version, wine applications either don't start or start partially (my wine version is Eric's wine-5.6 package). Trying to run a wine app from terminal gave...

I dual-boot FreeBSD (64-bit) Unix (13-CURRENT) and Slackware64 GNU/Linux (14+ current) operating systems (OS) and would like to share a ZFS (file-system, fs) partition between them. I did years ago...

Hi everyone. I want to build a bzImage and its modules for and old pc which has slackware 14.2. I'd like to slim it as much as I can. My question is, may I build them using another slack 14.2 much...

Published at LXer: In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we see the success of*virtual conferences, continued impact of open source on COVID-19, Retropie adds support for...

I'm looking for scripting ideas for this challenge: ---Quote--- Go through the /var/lib/pkgtools/packages files; for each file, remove the entries beginning 'usr/lib/' and 'lib/' and save the...

Hi all, cause situation due to covid-19 I need to use my system to participate to webinars and meetings with zoom or other programs. recentry I started to have a problem with the audio of my...

some time in the past year, my sabayon linux grub2 install has stopped seeing unmounted distributions when i run grub2-mkconfig > whatever.cfg. i've got over 30 distributions on this machine, and i...

Teacher, linux user, cyclist, called a geek by my friends but I know my place wrt to the real experts!

Published at LXer: Solus Plasma is a successful "marriage ??" between two ambitious projects. The first partner is the KDE desktop, and the second partner is the Solus distribution. But like any...

I get a 403 Forbidden from this link: https://www.linuxquestions.org/reviews/ Thought you would like to know that!

Hi, i accidentally supprimed the link key of an usb BCM2070 BT device with hciconfig and i can't correct the pb (or create a new key with hcitool) :banghead: I want to pair my Xperia XZ with the BT...

Published at LXer: Material improvements in strategic framework for mobile, web and, tentatively, desktop apps. Google's first 2020 update of its cross-platform development toolkit has brought...

Hi, Thanks to valuable help from this forum. I now have 14.2 running happily on my laptop. I want to install the Tor browser which will be the primary application (possibly also some form of media...

Published at LXer: This tutorial shows how to install latest nvidia driver on Ubuntu 20.04. Learn how to check hardware details and install from GUI and command line. Read More......

What am i doing wrong? Want to make a sequence of .jpg images into a video using ffmpeg. Always get the error: [image2 @ 0x562a4b827a00] Could find no file with path 'wsct%04d.jpg' and index in...

I am new to the linux world and especially the hardware stuff. I know there are probably answers on this forum somewhere but it's hard to find. Basically I have centos 7 I think it says it's...

Published at LXer: Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture. The...

on a command, if the argument "--" means end of options and only parse for regular arguments, then what can "-" mean?

Hi guys I'm using KDE as Desktop Environment and I created a custom application launcher and it worked perfectly. The problem is that I want this launcher to be in the menu, I managed to get it on...

i want to determine how many times a script has been run since the last reboot. if two instances are started at nearly the same time, getting swapped numbers is OK because the goal is to have them be...

I would get more use out of 9front with a better browser. Netsurf might suffice. http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/2020/04/16/0/ ---Quote--- I have compiled a small TODO list for the port of...

Published at LXer: Companies create Open Source Program Offices (OSPO) to manage their relationship with the open source ecosystems they depend on. By understanding the company's open source...

Option 43 contains vendor specific information. I'm trying to extract information passed in from server on my client (either dhclient, udhcpc). I've heuristically experimented with various...

Hi all, I have a python script written to pull the last 200 logs from my suricata IDS alerts and email them to an email. The script works perfectly when run via CLI, but not as a cronjob set under...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will use a Linux command-line tool called speedtest-cli. It is written in Python and uses the website speedtest.net to check bandwidth by uploading and...

For some reason wifi devices tend to require nonfree drivers but other hardware does not. Wondering why? What sort of intrusive or malicious operations are possible by such a driver and what can be...

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Cura v3.2.0 (via AppImage) and FreeCAD v0.18.4. Up until today, everything has been running fine. Tonight, I went to edit a sketch in FreeCAD in a previously created...

My current setup is a 1tb Western Digital datacenter drive. This drive has LVM with a 500gb partition that is dedicated to my mythtv backend. I have a 250gb partition that is my current root...

Published at LXer: Looking to try Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? Here's our detailed review on the new release and why we think that it's one of the best LTS releases ever made. Read More......

When I try to play kmahjongg in ubuntu 20.04 I get a message that says install KMahjongg library where do I find it and how do I install it?

I have a software install CD for an OpenVMS system. I am trying to read the files on it on USB CDROM player attached to my Linux PC by USB. The reason for trying to read it on my Linux PC is the...

I just looked all over the Net and can't find anything as to when OpenSUSE is coming out of Beta. I'd like to review it for Distrohoppers' Digest, but would probably be better after it's been out for...

Hello linux Bodhi community, If someone can help me on this problem : I've just tryed to install bodhi OS for the first time on a sd card for a single board computer. I try to launch ...

Hello, I have an annoying problem. I am running Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (updated) and I have speakers connected to the motherboard at the back, to the line out port. However, to get sound out of the...

I have a PC running Fedora 26. I want to change the OS to Fedora 32. I have started the process - and found a slight discrepancy between the Install Guide and reality. The Install Guide says that in...

Hello Guys, I'm getting a crash when using icewm+exa with Dolphin-emu on slackware current multilib. Here is a backtrace. https://pastebin.com/e69c1HKR Any one else having this issue?

How to resize NTFS partition in slackware installer?

Linux newbie here. I’m trying to breathe life into some elderly laptops. Successfully installed Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia) on two Dell Latitude D430s, and one Compaq F700. Even got wireless to...

Hello, I will try to be as precise as possible, I cannot copy / paste anything from the pc. First, I want to clarify that the pc boot on EFI, so elilo is installed instead lilo. After selecting...

I need an example for blacklisting all third party repos and alien bob's stuff. I ask because I want to BL conraid's repo but what do I put? +conraid or +_conrad? Same for bob - is it +alien or...

Hi everybody, My question is not very much about Linux specifically but more about hardware, Although I do want to use this hardware to run Linux only, The thing is, I want to buy a new good...

I'm trying the zoom linux stuff, and it is is segfaulting. This is the relevant debug output: Code: --------- Zoom package arch is 64bit, runing OS arch is x86_64 error was 0 qt.svg: link...

Published at LXer: It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump. Read More......