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How do you install apps that you downloaded?

I downloaded LibreOffice that is a deb into a folder in my second hard drive.
Here the link;

I tried...

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...

I use Bitwarden for my passwords. I've been considering moving to KeepassXC becuse I could use a key file and really lock down the database. But I've...

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...

hey question,

i'm on linux mint and when i go into the etc/apt folder and i look at the sources.list text folder i see

#deb cdrom: / jammy contrib...

I've been having this problem since I upgraded to Bookworm. It also happens when resuming from screen lock. But it happens irregularly and randomly,...

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

Hello

Today I just did an update as usual, and the backports kernel got upgraded from 6.11.10 to 6.12.9.
Now Debian won't boot and will show the...

I installed Debian 12.8 KDE a few days ago on my Gigbayte 97 series MB, FX8350 8-core 4.1 GHz, 30 GB RAM, RTx2070 system with 1 TB platter drive,...

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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 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....

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?)...

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...

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...

At the moment I am preparing for the oncoming change to trixie from bookworm with 2 installations on my bookworm desktop.

- A trixie in a VBox
and...

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...

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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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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...

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...

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,...

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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First-time Debianner, long-time Linuxer (ish - I've been on and off for half my life). Running Debian 12 with KDE on some very old...

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...

I have a machine without any VGA card with it, so I cannot install anything on it that relies on monitor feedback.
I want to create a Debian USB...

Hi all, First post here,
I'm throwing a bottle in the sea :P I was wondering if any of you may know about a solution.

In short, I want to turn my...

I have my home theater PC connected to the TV via HDMI through an audio receiver. Everything works fine at 4K (3840x2160) at 120Hz (119.88Hz) except...

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...

Got this from debian-devel-announce:

Hi,

Trying to follow our release cadence, we are going to start freezing
trixie in March. As usual, it is...

Hallo,

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...

Hello,
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...

Im asking for opinions on Ubiquity Access Points here because there are a lot of very smart people here. :)

I have a UAP that no longer will provide...

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...

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...

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?

Hi,

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

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

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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 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...

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...

Hey,

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...