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The creator of a package included in Debian (zpaq) has (sadly) abandoned it.

It is, in very large lines, an archiver (similar to 7z and rar to...

For the fun of the adventure I’m exploring iPXE OS Installation functionality across various Linux distributions and documenting my discoveries with...

Yesterday, i performed a kernel upgrade to version 5.16
on my Debian 11 desktop

Having made a following update (sudo apt update)
i got the this...

Total Memory: 27G
Used: 21G
Free: 2.0G
buff/cach 4.5G
available: 5.8G

Debian GNU/Linux 9.13

Why is the used so high?
It isn't slab, cache or...

Unfortunately I've installed the Desktop version, but later on In found out that I don't need the GUI at all, additionally I see many errors related...

First of all sorry for the beginner question, but nevertheless I try to give my best :-)

I have a fresh install of Debian 1.4 on my pretty old Mac...

I hate color emojis almost as much as i hate emojis. I thought I was through with such nonsense in elementary school. Nevertheless I need to be able...

Some may be familiar with my nightmare experience trying to get my HP Deskjet Laserjet Professional p1102w installed and the nightmare of conflicting...

Hello forums,

I've been searching quite hard for a solution to take a bit of a different approach to loading the initramfs for legacy systems. The...

Hi,
I foolishly deleted the desktop panel and cannot see how to restore it.
Advice please?

I have a CUPS print server setup on a Raspberry Pi that works with all my devices except my Debian 11 XFCE install. Well it worked until recently and...

Hello,
I have a Dell e5470 with Intel 8265 BT chipset. Kernel is 5.7 and it should support this chipset. I use KDE and its GUI to connect BT...

Used this wiki and as I have a static ip address trying to get xen working. Every time I boot it goes to the cursor and tty5 (ctrl+alt+f5) will only...

Hello, good, it is that I want to forward many hotmail emails to a single recipient. All the best. Thanks.

Good day, all. We have a test environment that I manage and I am trying to get a DNS forwarder running.
Most of the systems that we use are in a...

So I am attempting an install of Debian Bullseye using the file provided on debian.org, debian-11.4.0-i386-DVD-1.iso . However, no matter how I burn...

On Debian Bullseye I try to install nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-dkms on a system on which nvidia-kernel-dkms (V470) is already installed.

This leads to...

Hello Friends,

I have installed Debian Bullseye 11.4 KDE 64 bits version OS on my home desktop last week. As of now, it is working very well....

So I am newish to linux- Not a day one user or def not a pro. I am hoping for some help. I have moved my home server from my pi4 to a ryzen build...

Had (and still have) computers running on Ubuntu and Mint. In the distant past I had a laptop given to me that had Debian 7 installed with programs...

Hello, does anyone here know what memory management technique used in Debian? Is it the same with the general Linux? I have tried to find in several...

I'm sharing a post of mine form another forum, figured I should come to the source instead.

The issue that I'm running into right now is that I...

Hello everybody. I'd appreciate any help you could give. :)

If I go to Settings > Sound > Test and test the speakers sometimes they work and...

Some have seen my failed attempts to get my HP Laserjet Professional p1102w working. God knows what kind of residual crap is left from the failed...

I suspect a lot of my problems trying to install my HP Laserjet Professional p1102w were conflicts between the hplip from the repos and the latest...

Hi,

During shutdown Debian Stretch display on console detail about stopping, very useful.

Example : PrtScr capture_26.png

On Debian Bullseye, I...

I've added fsck to the Linux line of /etc/default/grub , like so

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= quiet fsck.mode=force

Does this leave a trace...

Hello everyone,
I've recently set up a 250TB storage system for a file server. I've done some speed testing a few weeks back and everything looked...

I updated from Stretch to Bullseye and have pretty much seemed to have fixed everything, except for a slow boot time. Systemd-analyze blame seems to...

I'm using the . and , keys in smplayer to step back or forwards one frame at a time to write frame accurate English subtitles.ass as translations...

hi there
could you help me crack the meaning of what my terminal says, please?

sehrguey@debian:~$ sudo apt install sudo
password for sehrguey:...

Dear All,
I would like to simply backup my gmail and be able to free some space because I am close to hitting the space limit of the free version.
In...

Hello,

I am using Debian Sid and recently updated to kernal 5.18.0-3-amd64 which I cannot boot into, the previous version 5.18.0-2 works fine...

Hi all! :)

I was thinking on using apt-build for some of my most used packages, but I'm actually confused about selecting the right architecture in...

I have Peppermint OS which is based on Debian bullseye and I want to skip the GRUB menu. According to How to remove or hide the GRUB boot menu? from...

Hi there,
after so many years I wanted to try Debian again and downloaded the latest testing ISO. Since I am pretty comfortable to install Arch and...

Hi,
is there any hope that the xfce4-panel-profiles package will be offered in the official debian repositories? What would be the requirement for...

What to do when login locks you out ?

Initialy had left a post here about a whole other subject.

Dude suggested sudo dmesg cli to see system.
Was...

Hey,

I'm currently using xgamma :

xgamma -gamma 0.8

xgamma -quiet -rgamma 0.50 -ggamma 0.50 -bgamma 0.50

- to change the gamma of my screen....

I have Peppermint OS which is based on Debian Bullseye and I ddon't like that I can't see my password in the terminal. The DE in Peppermint OS is...

cpp-12 has been introduced in testing, and is a really huge/major update:

cpp-11 Installed-Size: 26 MB
cpp-12 Installed-Size: 199 MB

I did not...

Okay so I run docker. Working fantastic, I have multiple contains I run. I recently made the very stupid decision to install emby server outside of...

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All selectioning expert mode :

I tried win32-loader.exe 0.10.4 stable release : The downloaded Released file cannot be trusted! Aborting .

I...

Hello guys, I am new to debian but not new to linux. I am trying to make os-prober detect my windows partition. I tried mounting the windows efi...

Hi all,
I am managing an Debian 9 host (I could not upgrade it in this moment).
I have to install some additional software package, but I get HTTP...