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Hi there. I have an old enough buildroot tree with a relatively new kernel. All packages inside are old enough. For example, bluez5-utils is 0f 5.21 (this is dictated by my toolchain). I have...

Hello, I am John Tankersley and I am inquiring for help concerning upgrading from Ubuntu 19.0 to 20.0 version. I am having parsing errors when I attempt this. /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades...

I am a newbee but i have been trying out ubuntu since the 1990's but never got the grasp of it . Now that i have had some experience I am looking forward to installing it as a pvr option as well as a...

I am using openSUSE Leap VERSION="15.1" By default yast2 version 4.1.75-lp151.2.16.1 is installed. Calling "yast2" starts without GUI. This is a new problem. Unfortunately, I cannot remember...

I hope this is the right stop to write this. You may delete it. This worked on Parrot and Kali 2019, could not make it work on Kali 2020. If you have to use sudo, I did this sudo -i bash, that...

I am trying to do something that seems like it should be simple. By default I want to 'set noexpandtab'. When I create .vim/vimrc and add that single line it seems to turn off all defaults so I get...

Published at LXer: More than three years in the making, the Inkscape 1.0 release of the best free and open-source vector graphics editor software is finally here and it’s a massive update. Read...

How do I play (free) Spotify on my Bohdi 5 laptop? It's only works wih a "Premium- account or???

I used sudo do-release-upgrade -d to update xubuntu 19.10 to 20.04. The installation was completed. After this a terminal command lsb_release -a showed that my system was ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately...

Published at LXer: Two bits of Vulkan related news to share today. Recently the Vulkan specification was bumped again with new extension and today a new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver went up. Read...

Hello, folks. Default emacs gnus behavior when forwarding a message is quiet strange. Forwarded message contains a lot on unnecessary headers. I'd like to keep only essential headers. From emacs...

Published at LXer: On this episode of This Week in Linux, we’ve got news from Fedora, PopOS, Red Hat, openSUSE, and a follow up for the Ubuntu 20.04 release. There are 7 Ubuntu Flavours and all of...

Hi there, I've been using USB flash boot for long time, I simply install to hard drive the normal way, and then put it in the USB enclosure and it will boot normally, just now I installed the...

I am trying to compare between two folders mapped to my Windows 10 machine and write the difference to a third external drive connected to the laptop. Below are the details: - I am having a large...

Published at LXer: In Linux, groups are used to organize and administer user accounts. The primary purpose of groups is to define a set of privileges such as reading, writing, or executing...

Published at LXer: In a table with thousands of scientific names like "Stropharia rugosoannulata var. rugosoannulata Farl. ex Murrill, 1922", are all the Latin bits correctly spelled? This post...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released the KDE Plasma 5.18.5 bugfix update to make the latest Plasma 5.18 LTS desktop environment series more stable and reliable. Read More......

Hello All, I have created a virtual lab environment to practice Linux. This includes 1. Local LAN (192.168.1.0/24, Zone: cntnix.lan) 2. KVM LAN (192.168.122.0/24, Zone: kvmlab.lan) I have...

Hi all, What is the best strategy to compare the mainline Linux kernel and soc modified Linux kernel? I would like to get the list of changes done by the SOC and analysis of the changes. ...

Mint 18.1, PA sound server 8.0. An old, old complaint with lots of different fixes (even patched releases) that still don't seem to work for lots of folks. System vol & "output module" volume...

Published at LXer: Video games are a big business. That's great for the industry's longevity—not to mention for all the people working in programming and graphics. But it can take a lot of work,...

Published at LXer: I've made installation on bare metal and have to notice that after system reboot during major system load obtained several times "Tainted warning" from 5.3 kernel and...

Published at LXer: at is a command-line utility that allows you to schedule commands to be executed at a particular time. Jobs created with at are executed only once. Read More......

Hi there, I am running LMDE 2 and want to setup wifi hotspot so that it will auto start on boot, now I have to manually create the hotspot everytime, although the setting is saved but it won't...

Published at LXer: Way back in 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article that proclaimed "data scientist" to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Interest in data science has exploded...

Published at LXer: In this article, I will show you how you can adjust the brightness of your screen with the pre-installed xrandr utility on CentOS 8. Read More......

Question about FlightGear (Fgfs). When I start, it says loading scenery but never finishes. Where do I search for help with this game? Host: rich-OptiPlex-990 Kernel: 5.3.0-51-generic x86_64 bits: 64...

Published at LXer: MySQL is the most popular open-source relational database management system. It is fast, easy to use, and an integral part of the popular LAMP and LEMP stacks. Read More......

Greetings! I'm trying to setup OpenVPN on a freshly built Fedora 32 server. I'm using the installation tutorial located here...

Published at LXer: If you need to set up a simple DNS service in Linux, try Unbound. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/forwarding-dns-2)

Greetings! I'm trying to setup OpenVPN on a freshly built Fedora 32 server. I'm using the installation tutorial located here...

I'm very stupid so I need to ask others on a public forum to prevent me from thinking hard and actually doing work! Pweasy pwease help with my questions for I am very dumb

hey guys, i'd like to get very easy to understand sources of information about what basicly is Virtualization and the things i sohould know about it as a novice to the linux world please youtube...

Published at LXer: This tutorial shows how to set up file synchronization between two Debian 10 servers with Unison. Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync, the big difference is...

Hello! I just finished the LFS book and was able to boot up the system successfully, however I can no longer boot up my host OS which I need to fix my broken GRUB config file. Is there any way I...

hey everybody, i have this pecolior problem, i have a old laptop i revived couple of days ago, i installed mx linux on it, before mx i had a few different distros on it and i had the same problem...

Published at LXer: The best free and open source vector editor Inkscape just became better with the release of version 1.0. Check out the new features and installation instruction. Read More......

hey guys, so i'm trying to install internet explorer on my newly installed mx linux and so far i havn't been able to, the reason i care about IE is because there is this website which will not open...

Hello, I experience weird issue with Spectacle app using KDE on Fedora 32. After fresh install, I can use default key bindings to take screenshots of active window or an area such as meta+printsc,...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will see how to set up a cluster of Apache Tomcat servers. We will be using 3 Ubuntu 18.04 EC2 Instances or VMs, here I have used EC2 instances. We will also...

Hi, I have Slackware 14.2. I want build from source code firefox 76.0. Original version in Slackware is 68.7.0esr. this is the first attempt about build Firefox. I started by reading this...

i have installed a postfix server where it has internet connectivity thru http_proxy. i know having a direct internet connection will work.. but in my case the server is using prxoy to reach internet,...

Trying to install from a tarball, got right to the end of the instructions and got stumped. (Huge newbie with tarballs, but this app - goggles music manager v.1.2.1 - doesn't appear to be available...

Published at LXer: Star Labs, a small Linux vendor from the UK has teamed up with Manjaro Linux to offer Manjaro as an option on their custom Linux laptops. Read More......

Hello, I'm having difficulty understanding sudo and environmental variables. I'm currently setting up vagrant on a host so I can play with adding and removing linux VMs and try and learn Linux...

Hi everyone, I am trying to create a mana calculator for an RPG. The user enters the mana cost of a spell and it gets deducted from the user's total mana. The program is working, except it only...

Hello, I have an RHEL 8.2 system with Firefox 68.7.0 and a major multimedia format that can't be played on it is MP3. I confirmed this by going to the HTML5 Audio Formats Test page...

Published at LXer: Cockpit is a free, open source, server administration tool that allows you to easily monitor and administer Linux servers via a web browser. Read More......

Something a little funny here. Loop mounting has ceased to function Code: --------- bash-5.0$ ifconfig lo lo: flags=73 mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 ...

Hello and thanks in advance for your patience and assistance. After spending an embarrassing amount of time getting my RealTek usb device to seemingly work on my Tumbleweed/KDE Plasma setup, I am...