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Hi everyone. I can't upgrade Libc6 library to version 2.29. I need this version to be able to install TexMaker on my laptop (Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa Cinnamon). I have donwloaded the...

I have recently upgraded from Mint 19.2 to Mint 19.3 on my upstairs PC. Loved it! It is a dual boot Mint/Windows 10 setup. On my downstairs PC, I decided to switch from Ubuntu 18.04 to Mint 19.1...

Published at LXer: Getting audio, video technical and tag information using MediaInfo on Linux. Read More... (https://www.ostechnix.com/display-media-files-information-on-linux-using-mediainfo/)

Just installed Ubuntu 16 server with /29 as primary and /24 as secondary at the Cisco switches. I use a simple bind.sh script to bind the /24. Code: --------- for i in $(seq 2 254); do...

Hello, and seasons greetings. I'm a semi 'retired' IT tech of almost 30 years, started using linux distros for testing in 2004, and more actively in 2010. I have multiple computers around the house,...

On two machines we have a reoccurring problem where the root filesystem gets 100% full because of /var/log/messages filling up with millions of messages as shown below. We have many other machines...

Is there any ns2 code available to select Group head based using in wsn?

Is there a way to rsync with: https://slackware.nl/alien-kde/source/latest/ without 'lftp -c 'open ...; mirror' to get the changes in the source tree?

I have setup authentication with a script with pam. auth required pam_script.so dir=/etc/pam-script.d Works fine But when I try auth required pam_script.so dir=/net/nfsfileserver/pam-script.d...

Merry Christmas to all! I want to start learning how to present information using a web browser. Yes, I'm a total beginner. Do you know how I can start? Let's start off with something simple....

Hello everyone, Thank you for having me here. I have been a user of vmware for a very long time. Now I am trying to switch to KVM, using RHELs virtual machine manager GUI to create the VMs. I...

I would like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and all the best for the coming year. We have a great community here and I feel honoured to be part of it.

Hello to everyone, I'm currently running a testing version of Debian on my computer, adopting xfce as Desktop environment. As you can see on the attached image, if more of one instance of the same...

As in, every other browser plops the cursor right into the Smartpage or Duckduckgo input box. But not Opera. Normally as I understand it, this is something coded into the web page, so why...

Published at LXer: Apple has set a high standard in their Time Machine backup software. Here are some of the best Time Machine alternatives for Linux that can back up your HDD Read More......

Published at LXer: Vim or Vi is the popular text editor among the Linux System Administrators and Software Developers. Vim comes preinstalled on major Linux distributions and macOS. The Vim text...

The Dant server show the connection and accept the, but there is no response on client side! Code: --------- Dec 24 12:06:35 (1577185595.571284) danted[28682]: info: sigterm(): exiting on...

I have a kind of idea how the polkit system works. Users ask to perform an internally named action, a libpolkit function inside the program notifies polkitd, polkitd checks in the policy files in...

I just bought a new game Sniper shooting game and try to install it but it shows me steam.dll error. I just tried installing it on my PC having Windows 10 but the game didn't work. Can anyone help me...

Hi, I don't know where to begin. First I was unable to mount pendrive: both thunar and kde complained about polkit. Something terrible happend to KDE - slowly to respond - artifacts on screen when...

Hello, I have a laptop with intel graphics, and after some tweaking, compton (or picom) is not working anymore, where it did before. OS: void linux glxinfo output Code: --------- name of...

Published at LXer: With Crowbar Collective enabling a Beta containing the full Black Mesa experience recently, it came with a major performance problem on Linux which now seems to be solved! ...

I have a Debian Stretch based router that uses routing tables and fwmarks/ip-rules to direct inet traffic. Up until yesterday the only allowed access to the wan port were the Isp router/dhcp and Vpn...

Published at LXer: This tutorial allows the Linux administrator to automatically record the terminal activity of all users for future reference. Read More......

Hey! I am new to python. And i am looking for a platform where i can learn more and more things. Currently i am a student of BCA, first semester. I am really curious to know the programing language...

hello, I encrypted a tar file with gnu/gpg and ran the file command to check the encryption type. I got this. Code: --------- file bin_12-24-2019.tar.asc

Published at LXer: Linux has now already been certified to meet the three different security certifications required by the United States Department of Defense. Read More......

Could you please explain how arbitration priority register works in Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) and what is the term winning CPU?

Published at LXer: Checkout Linux utilities awk and sed to manipulate text on the command line. This post discusses with examples how to use sed and awk to remove space in text or strings. Read...

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. My current laptop is a MacBook Pro but it is several years old and have started to look at other options. So, now I am looking at...

Published at LXer: UK-based video games publisher Feral Interactive announced today the availability of the Life is Strange 2 episodic graphic adventure video game for the Linux and macOS...

Published at LXer: What is in a Kubernetes namespace? As Shakespeare once wrote,*which we call a namespace, by any other name, would still be a virtual cluster. By virtual cluster, I mean...

Published at LXer: Plank is a Linux dock that allows starting pinned applications and manage open windows, for X11 environments (Wayland is not supported). This article presents an overview of...

I have Ubuntu 18.04 server with full disk encryption (luks). /boot is not encrypted. It works great. I need to enter a password to unlock the rest and continue booting. As it is a server, I want...

Published at LXer: It’s common knowledge that Christmas is a time for merriment, goodwill to everyone, and above all a time for lists. So there’s no better time to compile a list for the year. Once...

Hi there, i am trying to compile cmake 3.16.2 under Slackware64 14.2 Code: --------- $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --------------------------------------------- CMake 3.16.2, Copyright...

I've spent the past 3 days trying to resolve an issue with my touchpad and I decided it's time to reach out to the experts ;) I've got a new Precision 7520 laptop that's having some minor issues...

Published at LXer: The end of the year is a perfect time to look back on some of the Magazine’s most popular articles of 2019. One of the Fedora operating systems’s many strong points is its wide...

Firstly, I should point out this has absolutely nothing to do with my other thread about EFI+MBR partitions (this is on real hardware, the other thread was about VirtualBox). Secondly, apologies...

Published at LXer: As another great year wraps up at Opensource.com, my fascination with all things Bash has me looking back at the top 10 Bash articles we published in 2019. These articles include...

Ok i have finally taken my first real steps to finally move away from Windows as a 24/7 OS and for the past weeks i have experimented with the following linux distros : Zorin 15, Linux Mint, Deepin...

Published at LXer: In some cases, we need to change the username of the system or the user id (UID) of the system or both. In Linux there are lot configurations depends on user id like permissions....

I've just installed elementary OS with QEMU on Windows 10 with the following command : Code: --------- qemu-system-x86_64.exe -accel hax -drive file=cg-box.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw...

Published at LXer: The Linux Mint project, in collaboration with Compulab, have announced the general availability of MintBox 3, the 5th-generation of the Linux Mint-powered PC. Read More......

Recently I made a change that trashed my desktop. Otherwise the system (Mint 19.3) ran fine. I was unable to restore my desktop, so I only had the command line available. I wasn't able to resolve my...

Hello LQ, I have a java process running in a Linux environment that needs to connect to a SQL Anywhere database using the sajdbc4.jar. This jar file requires a Linux native library,...

Published at LXer: Delete unnecessary packages in Debian, Ubuntu to maintain a clean system with the essential packages of your choice. Read More......

Published at LXer: The most humble of window managers, TWM, is a little akin to those sample photographs you get when you buy a picture frame. It[he]#039[/he]s basic, almost a bare-minimum proof of...

Dear community, I'm in need for using R packages which are not supported in the last version 4.4.4 (the last one I installed). Which command lines could I use to migrate to a R previous version...

Published at LXer: Docker Compose is a tool that can be used to define and run multiple containers as a single service. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and use Docker Compose in...