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1. Check the health of your hard-drive
$ sudo apt install smartmontools
$ sudo smartctl -t short -a /dev/sda
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda

Look for...

I have no use to i386 programs anymore. I tried to remove all i386 packages but can't remove all.

root@ic2:~# apt-get remove --purge `dpkg...

Hello, I am kind of new to linux and I am using debian 12 as my server OS. When I try to sudo apt update I get this message:

rens@ServerRens:~$...

> AwesomeWM (with no other DE installed)

Say, I try to open a URL link from software like Zathura PDF viewer or Discord:

While Firefox is already...

Did a fresh install of Debian 12. After install it will not boot into Debian unless I disable Secure Boot in the bios. Using a Lenovo Yoga 13 Gen 2....

I have noticed that on the Debian 12 the apt command plans to remove packages which I have manually installed using dpkg and which i want to preserve...

Hello,

during Debian 11 (with IIRC latest 5.x kernel) to Debian 12 apt update/upgrade/dist-upgrade, I have noticed:

Setting up udev...

Aptitude has stopped working on one of my debian boxes:

frank@chunky:/var/log$ aptitude search foo
terminate called after throwing an instance of...

To start at the end of my thinking; is there mechanism for excluding recommends according to machine type?

Yes, super general question! I just...

I am trying to resurrect a leftover Macbook Air (Early 2014) (macbookair6,1) by using it as a workstation.

As of now I only have the minimal Debian...

I have added an additional disk to my system and would like to format it so that I can use it to store my documents, music, etc... on it. I ran...

Hello

I have a problem here with Debian 12. I am trying to use command sudo apt-get install oidentd But I got some long Error , I need a Solution...

I have had no issue with printing to my HP OfficeJet 4650 but the scanner portion has not worked under Debian. So I looked up what I needed to do to...

Hi all.
I faced with 2 problems while using my Debian 12.

1) I installed Debian 12 with KDE to laptop and it works fine except one thing. Sometimes,...

I am tired of weird behavior in KDE so I want to write about it before switching to mate,gnome or cinnamon. I recently installed a new computer, and...

I've currently got systemd 256.6-1installed and it was my understanding that the data in /tmp was cleaned according to the conf...

hello,

Since my wifi doesn't work with kernel 1.0.26, I booted my laptop with kernel 1.0.25. I thought that maybe dkms-1.0.26 couldn't build the...

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I've recently had Sway WM stop working on my Lenovo ThinkPad T490 with Debian 12 Bookworm.
I suspect the issue was my having done an apt...

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I found multiple, as in hundreds, of unwanted fonts, locales help files etc being install extremely tedious.

Finally someone has addressed this to...

Hello all and welcome to myself and my first post!

I have two AMD workstations with nvidia graphics cards. Whenever i do a apt upgrade, and it...

Greetings,

I am fairly new to Linux. I just installed Debian Bookworm 12.7 on a Dell Inspiron 3793 (64-bit PC) laptop (which previously had Ubuntu...

Hi guys, I am experiencing random system freezes, the forks are based on debian 12, in both fork forums they tried to help me, but it seems to be...

I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Cinnamon 10/24.
SbK_Debian_Cinnamon_1024-A.jpg
The SpinsbyKilz.com watermark is not in the...

hi i am running debian bookworm with kde-full installed... installed a new network card 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless...

Hi,

I have a Debian 12 server connected to my router via LAN.

After booting, I can ping external IPv6 addresses, a few minutes later I cannot. It...

Hello, I'm currently executing

ip l add veth type dummy
ip l dev veth address d4:d4:d4:d4:d4:d4

every time I start the machine.

How can I...

Dear forum,

I have installed virtualbox 7.1.2 on a apple silicon M1 macbook pro with macos 14.6.1. I would like to install debian 12.7.0-arm64.

I...

I recently upgraded to firefox 128.3.0 esr. I have found that the url completion function that appends .com etc to the end of a url typed in the url...

I wondering if anybody has used ghb handbrake in testing and found any subtitle faults?
I ask because handbrake in bookworm is broken, and I don't...

Howdy all,

I have Debian 11 on my laptop, I want to add my spare Netgear NB111v2 usb wifi dongle to the laptop and share the public wifi connection...

Greetings,

Laptop running Debian 11

$ cat /etc/debian_version
11.7

/etc/apt/sources.list

deb bullseye main contrib non-free
deb...

> Laptop: LG Gram 14 - Intel Alder Lake i7-1260P - uses integrated graphics
> Beforehand I had Debian 12.6, now it's 12.7

Yesterday I've reinstalled...

I made a new thread about it because I have somewhat isolated the bug.

I have a weird issue where the keyboard is lagging and repeating characters...

I have an elitedesk 800 G3 TWR. It has 4 dimm slots, and can handle a maximum of 64 gb ram.

I have 2x PSD416GB2133K (Patriot 16 Gb DDR4 2133 MHz),...

Hello everyone,

I'm using vsFTPd and lovin it. the defaults are /etc/init.d/vsftpd (init script) and then /etc/vsftpd.conf (config file)

The...

Just backs out to the display manager after a few seconds. X11 KDE works without issues.

journalctl -xb shows:

Any suggestions?

Hello everyone,

I could be called a relatively new Linux user, but fortunately I found Debian soon and have been really happy with the experience...

Hi I'm Justin Aquino from Comfac-IT.
So intend to contribute % of our services related to Open Source project we used as a solution to the Open...

ryzen@L32:~$ uname -a
Linux L32 6.11.2-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.11.2-1 (2024-10-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux

This upgrade seems to be a...

I want to use a self-encrypted boot drive and install mandos to retrieve the key from another machine on the LAN to automatically unlock the drive at...

I want to get wine installed and am having a heck of a time.

I'm trying to go at this as an actual download then install like you would with windows...

Hi
I would like
a. to reinstall all
b. from Iso,
c. env. incl. the boot sector, but
d.preserve my home (user names / passwords).
Is that possible?...

To keep it brief, I am NOT asking for help but rather for speculations for the occurence that I will describe below , so as to prevent this from...

hey folks,

I'm attempting to set up a new headless deb12 minimal installation with software raid1 and keep receiving the above error during the...

Hello everyone! So I have installed Debian Bookworm on my device but it is very slow. Whenever I close my laptop and reopen to log in, there are...

Hi.

I am curently in process of configuring OMV on a HP gen8 microserver. As the server has ilo 4 advanced license and option to monitor the state...

Hi! My system is Debian Stable, installed from Xfce Live. My question is about deb-src in /etc/apt/sources.list. I decided to try backports-kernel,...