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Background: I first came to Linux in 2004. Ran it for several years as a user. In 2017 life happened and my system broke, I don’t remember why, but I...

Hi all. New to Debian after 20 year absence, having trouble getting wireless internet going. I have a TP-Link USB wireless adapter (realtek 8812au...

Now here is something to which I haven't paid too much attention until now: the fonts that are installed on my system. Font Manager tells me there...

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I'm trying to kind of translate a program from Ruby to C, using this GMP library and I'm struggling to understand a few things that are not...

I have a simple txt file that is just a plain list of all the Debian packages which I've installed manually, mainly to make it easier for me to...

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I'm looking to do a bios update for my Asus MOBO that I'm running debian 12 bookworm on. My Drive is encrypted, and when i go to flash the...

This box runs Debian 12 Bookworm , 64-bit as sole OS. In the past Steam (EU4) ran fine on Ubuntu. For some reasons, it swithched to Debian two years...

I have problem with xdg-user-dirs.

user-dirs.locale is correctly set to Slovak:
$ cat $HOME/.config/user-dirs.locale
sk_SK

but user-dirs.dirs...

Hello! I want to let you know some information. Today i opened Foliate e-book reading app and found that strangely no text is seen on the screen....

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I am running Debian 12, Linux luthien 6.1.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.55-1 (2023-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux. When I try to...

I am trying to get hardware video acceleration using nouveau driver with a GeForce GTX 1050 ti card. Mainly hardware acceleration in Chromium and...

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I'm wondering if there is a way to build my own repository and add it to the source list, so I can choose updated packages and through them...

I have a laptop with Debian 11.2 cinnamon on it and it attempts to make 21 updates of OS and software and I don't want it to do that at this point,...

I'm using the Mate version of Bookworm.

I've noticed something odd when I'm copying files to thumb drives. It happens no matter whether I use the...

for my sources.list comparison. I'll do a backup, use bookworm v12's sources.list, time sudo apt-get clean && time sudo apt-get update && time sudo...

The problem that eludes me:
The issue is this: consider a server with
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0...

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I hope someone could explain something for me

I have Debian 10 32bit installed on one of my PC's and I need to install MySQL so I...

I use Debian 11, I tried the app ''cheese'' that it is pre-installed but it doesn't see any devices.

The make is Lenovo v15 ada, amd 3020e

I just installed it and with default settings it performs much better than FF ESR in this ''Electronic Frontier Foundation'' tool:

Screenshot from...

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I'm wondering how I can track this down. This is on an x86_64 server which I do not normally interact with directly so I may not notice...

Installed Spiral Linux. Ethernet worked. Ran update and upgrade and now no connection.

ion@ion-e3800n:~$ ping 8.8.8.8
ping: connect: Network is...

Good morning,
Problem: exim4 is not running due to permission problems as reported by systemd.

Nov 29 08:56:30 olive exim4 : Starting MTA:
Nov 29...

Dear all,

the issue is the following:

Laptop in battery mode: suspension works fine, everything works fine

Laptop in AC mode: suspension looks...

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I'm trying to figure something out that relates to the Bash shell and my Bash script. So I have a script that uses ffprobe to process...

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I suspect there is a bug with the installer when attempting to install Debian onto a software RAID (RAID 1) configuration. I describe this as a...

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I have a need to connect to server using openfortivpn, in order to do so I had to limit tls and security level
seclevel-1 = 1...

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I'm new to Debian, though not to new with Linux as my main computer is running ARCH

I've just set up a Lenovo Tiny PC, mainly just for running...

so far i have installed nemo and its latest version.

what about the extensions?

how to set it to default in debian?

im using neptune os aka base...

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1. I tried to import the theme into the master slide but it didnt import.

2. I copied the slides from the new theme to the document; this...

I have 4 RPi 3 s that I've been using a few years. I'm confused about how far the similarities go between the CPU types. I'm using these install...

This is not a Debian question per se, more of an EXT4 one.

I have multiple systems, Windows 10 and Linux. For the latter, I use Debian and Linux...

This isn't a Debian specific issue, but when I set my refresh rate to 120 instead of 60 fonts look washed out. What can I do to use a higher refresh...

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I noticed that on my old laptop T430 the Xorg process consumes all available memory causing OS to use swap and killing the SSD. The minimum...

I am a complete noob in Linux and I have tried some distros dual-booting with Windows.
I am the single user of my machine, nobody will ever use it....

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I bought a Radeon RX6600 yesterday. After installing the drivers by running: sudo apt install firmware-amd-graphics everything seems to work fine...

Since I have an encrypted hard drive and the security on the drive comes up on boot, now my question is: Does the firewall software I have on...

Good thing I made a back up of this when I installed it and it works.

It's a i386 a Toshiba Magnia sg30

root@sg30:~# neofetch
_,met$$$$$gg....

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Is there a way to install Rstudio on Debian with R version 4.3.2?

I have install R 4.3.2, but Rstudio shows error
## R Session Startup...

I do not know, why my laptop cannot connect to WiFi.
I have used it sometimes and it worked fine, but currently it behaves strange for me:

It is...

My server is running normally, after I have to restart server then it appears error (error) error.jpg . How to fix it. i show error by command...

I used tasksel to install some desktops to check them out. I didn't care for any of the Gnomes.
I then used the following command to purge GNOME;...

Hi all,
I'm trying to find the debian package for the Gimp plugin called gimp-normalmap

Anyone knows how to get this plugin?

Bookworm. (Edit: xgettext has the same issue in my another box installed with bullseye too.)

I am not sure since when xgettext started to unable to...

I was given the URL but on my Debian 12 amd 64, XFCE SHA256:7e3d33bbf035567c744012e00f9bc377a49f16ce8aab2e0bbf7b71a632ea9336

It states reportbug can...

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I try to install MYSQL in Debian 12 nut i have a error when i install reposytory mysql.

What i do befor the error :

1 apt update && apt...

$ foo=bar
$ echo $foo
bar
$ foo=baz echo $foo
bar
$ foo=baz sh -c 'echo $foo'
baz
Hello!
Can anybody explain to me why foo= baz echo $foo results in...

My server is running normally, but after restarting, this error appears as shown in the image. Can anyone guide me to resolve the error.

Using Debian 12 Amd 64 with XFCE the network manager applet 1.30.0 displays the WIFI password on a terminal screen without asking for a password....

I recently installed Debian 12 on this HP G42, that comes with an AMD RS880, AMD Athlon II P340 and 2GB of ram.
I've noticed that, graphically,...