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Published at LXer: Using a combination of the youtube-dl script and FFMPEG, you can easily rip audio from YouTube videos and instantly convert it to MP3, OGG, or any other audio format that you...

Hi. I'm a new user, exploring potential use of M4Linux on an older computer. Installation went alright, but I'm stuck with Wifi setup.I have an usb adapter which is recognized by the os, but I...

this may be more kubuntu than ubuntu but i'm not sure. i'm using a second keyboard with tools like evdev, evtest, xev, and xte to assign macros to its various keys. ran into a snag, though, with the...

Hello, I want to create a custom CentOS 7 installation wizard. I know it is possible because Oracle created Oracle Linux based on CentOS with the same modified installation wizard. I know how to...

Hi, I will be doing Code: --------- curl -X GET --header 'Accept: application/json' --header 'https://dev.my-company.com/api/data' --------- and I will be also doing 'POST' calsl to the...

Hello, I have researched how to find missing filenames from a list recursively and I am close but not there completely. I have files on one server that I need to verify exist on another...

Published at LXer: Sysadmins, those of us who run and manage Linux computers most closely, have direct access to tools that help us work more efficiently. To help you use these tools to their...

Published at LXer: I use Vim a lot. I'm a site reliability engineer (SRE), and Vim is the one thing I know I can access on every machine in our fleet. I also like Emacs, with its wide variety of...

Booting my system up this morning (Mint 18.3) the disk seemed to be busier than normal and my GKrell monitor showed a lot of activity. Running "top" showed something called "collector" was hogging...

Published at LXer: For this week’s blog, I’m putting the Raspberry Pi 4 through its paces as a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. I look at the pre-installed solutions including...

Hello, I am not that expert in Linux, and I want to deploy the below: I have a dotnetcore application to be installed on CentOS 7. I have managed to install and run the application on...

Published at LXer: Jenkins is an open-source automation server that offers an easy way to set up a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. Read More......

Published at LXer: When you manage a Linux instance, you’ll find that your job is made much easier by the many tools designed specifically to deal with something specific within the system. For...

Published at LXer: Following not long after game manager Lutris got an Epic MegaGrant, it was just announced today that the FOSS painting program Krita just got an Epic MegaGrant too. Read...

Published at LXer: fdns is a DNS-over-HTTPS proxy server targeted at small networks and Linux desktops. To speed up the name resolution fdns caches the responses, and uses a configurable adblocker...

In the past i often installed linux (for example ubuntu 18.04) to a 32gb memory stick, and booted it "almost" everywhere starting from usb. I have even cloned with clonezilla this stick to my 3 pcs...

Published at LXer: Learn where DevOps stands in the automation process, and how to build automation longevity into your DevOps strategy. Read More......

How to write script to disable "tty" in Ubuntu 18.04 ?

Published at LXer: Quite a few applications received updates recently. I didn't have time to post articles about all of them, so this article covers (in short summary) the new releases of Moonlight...

Published at LXer: Among the emerging efforts in the distributed computing space is the open source Ray project, which is a framework for building and running distributed apps. Read More......

Published at LXer: The old-style PC is on its way out. It[he]#039[/he]s being replaced by desktop-as-a-service, cloud-based PCs. Read More......

Hi, I have two 2TB hard drives. I want to make each have an XFS file system. I would like to have each one have a log area for the other. Maybe this isn't such a good idea? I have tried to make...

Published at LXer: Do you create gaming videos or livestream? Open Joystick Display seems like an incredibly useful free, open source and cross-platform tool to display your inputs on-screen. ...

Hey there, I am trying to install Slackware-64-current on an sd card plugged to m laptop's card reader but have been having some issues with drivers not being loaded/available for the card reader...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will explain how to add and use a downloaded font on your Debian 10 Buster system. Read More......

Thought someone here might be able to advise me if what I'd like to do is even feasible. Would like to take a Clonezilla image of a Rhel 7.6 Server system built on a 140GB and put that image on a...

Published at LXer: Odoo is a free, open-source and most popular ERP software that offers a wide range of business applications including, customer relationship management (CRM), sales pipeline,...

I have a task to create a docker container (a recipe) based on SUSE 11 SP 4 in it. The host OS must be SUSE 12 SP 5. I realize these are really old distributions. So, I want to set up a VM and...

Published at LXer: The Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" operating system is now available to download for all supported flavors and architectures ahead of the official announcement this week. Read...

So I have some Windows based commands/scripts that make setting up some environments easier for me, but I would like for them to be converted to Linux bash so I can do the same on my Linux boxes as...

Linux help, I am trying to upload a video from my sony handycam, avchd progressive. I am using opensuse Leap 15.1. Other cameras would be automatically be recognized but not this one. I plugged the...

Published at LXer: Lightweight Linux VMs for all. So long as Ubuntu is your thing. Canonical is preparing some festive fun for developers with a major release of its lightweight VM manager,...

Published at LXer: Viewnior is an image viewer application, created to be simple, fast and elegant. Its minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. In this tutorial, we...

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I downloaded the kernel provided by one of our vendors. Surprisingly, it has build error because pcm.h included in linux/sound/core/pcm_misc.c is missing. How/where do I verify the kernel.org...

I hate when an Internet search for an answer brings me to a post I made asking the same question :( I bashed this topic around almost 2 years back without a real resolution. My trusty old laser...

Published at LXer: A code translator is a piece of code that is created by the developer of the programming language. We know that we will be writing code in some programming language and that code...

Hi, My first post. When I create a timer to use a SIGEV_THREAD and a notify function, the program crashes when timer_settime() is called. A remote gdb debug on my board shows that when...

My bash function is suppose to ask for an argument when it is not supplied and indicate surplus argument when the argument supplied is more than three (3). But presently,when i supply it with 3...

Published at LXer: Purism, the security- and privacy-focused hardware and software manufacturer known for its Linux-based products like the Librem laptops and Librem 5 smartphone, announced today...

When I suspend the system via the menu it immediately comes back to life. I have traced the problem to the use of a wireless mouse. If I use a wired mouse instead, it suspends normally. However, with...

Published at LXer: UK-based video games publisher Feral Interactive announced today that they plan to release the Linux and macOS port of the Life is Strange 2 video game on December 19th, 2019. ...

my question is: 1) i wrote an if,elif,else statement which ran successfully and gave me the desired output,but when i placed that same statement in a bash function,it did not run successfully. i...

I'm finding on all 3 of my laptops (all different hardware and ages) that after I boot and load my WM or desktop, NetworkManager connects to my wifi as expected then drops the connection. At that...

Published at LXer: The ROX desktop is no longer being actively developed, but its legacy resounds today, and even when it was active, it was a unique take on what a Linux desktop could be. While...

A certain Mensa member called Sonja Falck is calling for high IQ to become a protected characteristic in the UK like race, disability or sexual orientation. She says that words like geek and nerd are...

Published at LXer: It's happened, the D9VK and DXVK projects have officially merged. This means DXVK is now the all-encompassing project to translate D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan for Wine. Read...

Over the Xmas period I will have a little more time on my hands. This is a good opportunity to reconfigure my meaty desktop system which is turning into something of a tower block. It has three...

Published at LXer: A simple BASH script to install essential applications on Ubuntu operating systems. Read More... (https://www.ostechnix.com/ubuntu-post-installation-script/)

After solving that prob with the pinbord, now I ve to log in with username and password when the notebook is starting. How can I stop this and bypass the log in? I tried it with the controlcenter...