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Bear with me, I am not good as saying things simply. Wanting to upgrade webkitgtk to version 2.26.1 on Slint64-14.2 I came across a message running ccmake that made me think I should upgrade...

Published at LXer: Since my transition to Linux I have acquired a culture of open source software, a culture that is expanding with every day I spend in Linux. Especially after having seen the...

hi, i had: free -mh total used free shared buff/cache available 83G 66G 11G 2.5G 5.2G 11G Swap:15G 265M 15G after swapoff -a;swapon -a...

Hello all, I'm trying to mount a folder on my Nas to my Rpi 3+ I created a folder /mnt/Backup I put the folowing line in /etc/fstab Code: ---------

I am a recent convert from Mac OS to Elementary OS Juno. I cannot find the answer anywhere to the problem I'm having with Audacity. When I record a vinyl record I'm only getting fuzzy bass tones. No...

Published at LXer: Here are the basics of how to install, set up, and troubleshoot the Dovecot mail server. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/install-configure-dovecot)

Hi all, At first excuse me for my English, i am Dutch. I have a problem configurating msmtp with php and apach2 in Debian 10. When I try to mail with php trough the commandshell, it works....

I am planning on using Diceware to generate pass phrases. I would like to use these to log into my linux account. However, I am concerned about the length. Is there a maximum length on a modern...

Please bear with me because I have two problems. The first has to do with a shared library error that keeps libreoffice from starting. This is the impetus for my real problem, which I'll get to in a...

I have a shell script to export shows from my DVR. Seems to work when from from the command line. I create a job in /etc/cron.d and it runs... but misses shows with apostrophe. Note: I run the job...

Published at LXer: As technology evolves and the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning becomes increasingly mainstream, consumers are more concerned than ever before about protecting...

So i am trying to enable NAT capabilities on my Gentoo based server i am working on. The problem is when i try to do anything with the nat table i get the following error Code: ---------...

I use mutt and alpine, with t-bird as a sort of 'full featured' alternative. But t-bird has never rung my bell, so I'm curious about Claws. Mostly in regards to security and performance with...

Published at LXer: Yesterday, Jack Dorsey made a bold statement: Twitter will cease all political advertising on the platform. “Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic...

Hello, I recently bought a WN772N v2 and I'm trying to use it on my os which is Debian Buster. On the TP-LINK website, they says that the provided driver won't work on kernel versions

Had an annoying issue regarding sound. Using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE (although this *SHOULD* work on pretty much any distro with KDE). There was a software-equalizer, LADSPA, that kept showing...

Hi, I'm having an odd issue with Slackware64 14.2 on my mid-2013 Macbook Air. When I change the screen brightness after waking up the computer from sleep below 90%, the screens backlight is instead...

I'm configuring a server and would welcome some feedback on what the easiest solution to my situation may be. The server is centos apache postfix dovecot amavisd-new dkim With the main hostname...

greetings, please help me, I am working on a shell script, I want to read each thousands in 40000. if I type 1000 or 2000, or 3000 ... 40000 it will accept it and Echo pay, thanks I await reply. I am...

Ran the upgrade from Fedora 30 -> 31 per the usual dnf process. Everything went well EXCEPT: after restarting and signing in my ethernet port on DHCP (Intel 218V gigabit) was configured only with...

Published at LXer: The Linux Mint project have published today their monthly newsletter to keep the community behind this very popular Ubuntu-based operating system up to date with the latest...

Published at LXer: This tutorial shows how to get system details on your Debian 10 system like Kernel name, Kernel release, Kernel version, hostname, hardware architecture, processor type, hardware...

Hi, I just installed Fedora Workstation 31 on Hyper-V. During the installtion root gets deactivated by Default. I selected Enterprise Login (domain join) at the user creation. Which worked...

Hey peeps. New to the forum, just decided to drop by and say hello to all you fellow linux geeks via this post.

Tried using the slackbuild script for the flashplayer-plugin that is provided in the /extra folder for Slackware version "slackware64-current", but the script just hangs. Nothing appears to get...

I have two groups: let's say "grprw" and "grpro". I'd like people in the "grprw" group to have read-write access to my share, I'd like people int the "grpro" group to have read-only access to the...

No, I haven't put this thread into Linux-General by mistake. I'm thinking specifically about all those YouTube videos that purport to tell you how to do things in Linux. I'm getting rather tired of...

I have a HP 15g dr0006tx laptop. I have recently dual booted Kali Linux with windows. But in Kali Linux wifi is not working. Can anyone help? (I am new to Linux enviornment)

Hi I've been attempting to install centos 7.7.1908 using pxeboot and a kickstart file, but am having problems installing packages. The installation goes through fine when my packages list looks...

I'm trying to ssh to my guest machine running Slackware 14.2. I'm able to do it using the local ip but how do I do it with a domain? My host os is Debian 10 uname -a of Slackware Code:...

Hello all, with the help of users in here, yesterday I managed to fix my issue with glftpd mount and it's running very fine now....

So, I got a ThinkPad x250, yay! According to this (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X250-Ultrabook-Review.136646.0.html), it comes in many different variants (more than the three shown...

Published at LXer: Vim has its own terminology for copying, cutting, and pasting. Copy is called yank (y), cut is called delete (d), and paste is called put (p). Read More......

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Published at LXer: Awk is one of the oldest tools in the Unix and Linux user[he]#039[/he]s toolbox. Created in the 1970s by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the A, W, and K of the...

Hi all, I have a new installation of Linux Mint 19.2 on a Dell Inspiron 13 5368. It has a 120GB SSD for storage so I partitioned the disk as usual with 32GB for root, 2GB for swap and the rest for...

Is there a high-level overview of Linux code for programmers online (any common distro with a leaning toward a Ubuntu-based one)? I'd like to do some reading from my browser (under MS Windows). For...

Need your help again. I am using this snippet to make symlinks for a lot of files Code: --------- for file in $(ls /. |grep jpg); do ln -s

Published at LXer: Having problems with services failing to start because other services are taking too long? Here's one person's solution. Read More......

I used to have a public and private rsa key in my ~/.ssh directory which I needed to connect to one particular ssh server for work. Eventually, I no longer needed to connect to that cluster, so I did...

I have a machine with Win 10 and Slackware-current. I am logged on to Slackware at the moment and want to write a file to a partition that is set up with ntfs-3g. I swear I wrote something to this...

Hey Bob"aka Eric" you get that to run on Ktown yet. All my builds segfault hard to get a good trace back. 1.8.1 builds https://github.com/KDE/kdiff3

Published at LXer: Ansible has long been seen as more than configuration management—it[he]#039[/he]s an orchestrator more than anything, a conductor of the orchestra rather than*playing a...

Published at LXer: It was fun to work at a large web property in the late 1990s and early 2000s. My experience takes me back to American Greetings Interactive, where on Valentine[he]#039[/he]s Day,...

Recently upgraded my system from a Dell Optima to a MSI X570. Was using My TV as a monitor, Linux Mint 19.1 worked perfectly. With the new rig I have no sound and it displays the monitor as a laptop...

Published at LXer: Fedora 31 Workstation comes with a Firefox backend moved from X11 to Wayland by default. That’s just another step in the outgoing effort of moving to Wayland. This affects Gnome...

Hi, I have been trying to use Gnome Boxes rather than a Windows based VM. Everything I read indicates that Gnome Boxes is super easy to use etc, yet I can't get it to work on two laptops, both...

Have download the MIBs from the Solidfire management GUI. Been able to run a snmpwalk from the nagios server without issues (ie. the 2 end-points are communicating) However, I can't retrieve...

Published at LXer: Vivaldi Technologies have released today the Vivaldi 2.9 web browser for desktop platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows, a release that adds various...

I asked the same question in relevant IRC channels but couldn't fix it. In gnome it worked but when I change to XFCE then this problem occurs.