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I'm running Debian Unstable and yesterday I saw a message popup when I was updating the system that I need to migrate the apt sources one liners to...

I can't get Samba to list my Cups printers on a fresh bookworm.
I have done this repeatedly many years ago, but see that stuff may have changed....

Today when I did the most recent update to the 6.1.0-30-amd64 kernel I noticed that installing all possible localisation and language files for...

hey if this page is named off-topic then can you convert 64 bit microsoft edge to a not released 32bit microsoft edge like give me a link for a...

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I have installed different version of Debian on my Mac Mini with Intel CPU and each of them have issues identifying the correct amount of RAM...

I have a problem analogous to the one described here .

I had php7.4 running well. I installed php8.3 (using the sury repo), I tried to install all...

I'm not going into politics, but is there an easy way to block (most of) the IP ranges of an entire country - system wide on a headless server?

Yes, I'm aware that third party repos and PPAs will result in broken upgrades -- disabling those (or removing all the software installed from them?)...

Which distro for daily-use main computer? Says,

Debian 12 (many selectable desktops, which one is good?)
Ubuntu LTS 24.04
other deb based Linuxs...

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I wrote a small tutorial on creating and adapting a local debian offline mirror for systems without an internet connection, I adapted the script...

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I use Debian trixie and I have the HP envy photo 7155 and I can't install the printer. I don't see that model in the list and I'M not able to...

I'm temporarily running parallel /home structures for Debian KDE 12.8 and Kubuntu 22.04 (I considered installing Debian to use the same /home, but...

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I cannot google any answer for my problem, that would help - when I download a bigger files (1 - 3 gb), ssd fills up permanently. First time...

I installed and configured mail server on Debian 12 with Postfix (virtual users in mysql).
Everything is ok, until I needed an alias like...

Recently reinstalled Debian due to some issues. Previous install had Cinnamon default, which I later changed to XFCE via command line install. Then I...

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I cannot get my USB to become bootable. I have tried downloading the ISO file twice. I have disabled secure boot in BIOS. I have tried the USB...

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Currently I'm running Debian 12 with xfce on my old laptop. I'm pretty sure it has bluetooth adapter on board. I've tried to pair my headset...

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A few weeks ago I had to do a complete reinstall of Debian Bookworm from a Debian Bookworm 12.5 Live ISO/DVD. Since then the laptop has not been...

Hi. I can't update today. If use apt update && apt full-upgrade in terminal i have:
(ENG: Notice: Missing Signed-By field in sources.list(5) entry...

Hi everyone, thank you for your work. For my job, I am using a series of devices mounting Debian 9 stretch. I hear about the rsync's vulnerability ,...

I installed Debian 12.8 today with KDE on my desktop machine (Gigabyte 97 series MB, AMD fx8350, 32 GB RAM, nVidia RTx2070, multiple storage...

I've just installed Debian 12.8 with KDE DTE from the standard netinstall USB key (to a new SSD, dual boot with Kubuntu 22.04.5). Once completed and...

Inspired by a chat I had with another Developer and most recently Trihexagonal's post:

What I could do with a Tandy TRS-80 I saw for sale at...

I'm keep getting a crash on exiting libre office, but it's random.

It says to use the package maintainer's email. I need to know it. I can create a...

I tried several monitors and hardware to come to conclusion of the Eye strain is not the monitor, but rather modern hardware. For example, I recently...

Is there any tool or command or simpler/faster way of doing something that you wish you'd known about when starting out on Debian? Or when starting...

Hi, just new install of Debian 12

During installation I setup wifi and now I want to have network managed by NM. So I am trying o follow wiki...

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I used Ubuntu a few years ago and remember that for installing almost any software, my go to was to just put
sudo apt-get install *software*...

When I do
df -h
It should shows the drives as /dev/mapper/disk1 /dev/mapper/disk2 etc but it is showing them as /dev/dm-1 /dev/dm-2

It only started...

This has me scratching my head. I have two SSD drives installed in my desktop, both have Bookworm installed. The Kingston drive was upgraded from...

Fresh chroot installation. List of packages installed from apt command directly with no flags for avoiding some dependencies.

asunder
bc...

I want to clean my disk before Debian installation. Something like this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

Can i do it with debian netinstall partman...

Hi, I had recently switched to debian and installed debian 12 with kde plasma, I had not installed with the installer but rather the...

Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.10.0-32-amd64...

Upgrading from 6.11.10-amd64 to 6.12.3 and now 6.12.5 is throwing the following error in SDDM and refusing to start a graphical interface. Virtual...

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A friend lost all his data after performing what he says was a regular system update, prompted by the update mechanism. He is currently...

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Being lot more used of ZFS (I have some little difficulties weth mdadm and Linux software raid so far). After having done quite some extended...

Hello all. First, a quick introduction:

I'm not new here, just a new name. Have frequented this place for many years before, but an issue arose that...

I am following the manual guide for installation of clonezilla live , and in step 5 there is something unclear to me:

To make your USB flash drive...

Hi, I hope that you are healthy.
I am using a desktop not a laptop.
I was just looking at my bios settings and I found an option to turn on my...

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I have upgraded to Debian 12.9 with kernel 6.1.0-29-amd64, but I am experiencing a problem. Every time I try to restart or power off the...

We want to get a test server to run Deb 11/10 preferably 11.
Has anyone install Debian 11/10 on a HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 1U

I noticed Jessie...

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I have a machine with Secure Boot enabled which I cannot disable. I cannot even enter this machine's BIOS menu .

This has severely impacted...

After upgrading to 6.12.x I had been experiencing the lockup during boot bug on nvidia cards ( I decided to go back to 6.11.7 and wait it out,...

Debian's Community on discord is back after it was nuked.
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I'd like to create a setup where the boot is from a read-only USB drive.
It should boot into a minimal environment that has a dropbear SSH server, it...

Hi, I have just had an oddity in my debian system where I couldn't upgrade to the latest packages, it was an upgrade of some 68 packages. Debian on...

Since a recent reboot (and quite some preceding uptime) into Linux 6.12.6 and later 6.12.9, my Trixie installation does not show nor use any HDMI...