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I followed this tutorial :

But when:
sudo systemctl start hostapd

I get:
Job for hostapd.service failed because the control process...

I am new to linux and I am not used to using the terminal either but I am trying to learn by running Debian
in a VM however I am trying to activate...

i have a HP 14-FQ1074 (BJ's) i successfully installed Debian from 'debian-live-11.3.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso' via USB.
*note secure boot is disabled...

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I have installed clamav and it seems that clamtk follows but when i run clamtk from the start menu nothing happens and when I check my installed...

Does anybody know of the **RIGHT** way to ping a package maintainer without annoying them? I noticed a package that is pretty old in the latest...

Hi. I recently upgraded to bullseye and everything went well, but my USB ports have stopped working. This includes storage drives as well as my USB...

So I am experimenting some new things,
Recently I came across this GPU passthrough concept
I tried to pass through single NVIDIA RTX-3060 from host...

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to connect my Tablet/Phone with the Internet over USB via Laptop/Desktop PC i use sometimes Gnirehtet;

now to use it Android ADB is needed,...

If you are interested in finding a better looking (new) cli tool to perform most apt terminal functions Nala is worth a look. I have installed and...

I am running Debian fully updated on an old macbook laptop. It's using the nouveau drivers for the Nvidia 9400m. Both Firefox and Chromium freeze...

I am using debian 11 kde plasma. There are many shortcuts available. These are stored in several files
~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc...

I am trying to install the latest version of Debian. I used the netinstall CD which I downloaded from Debian's website. Checksum looked good. Burned...

Last week I switched from Kubuntu to Debian, which was generally pretty straight-forward. But there is a locale problem I don't understand.

On my...

If you wanna Install Eve Online or another game this is sort of a tutorial.

:arrow: Step 1: Install Wine ( (I used devel and show devel branch...

I want all processes that use pulseaudio to simply have their volume set to 100%.

When I open a new instance of mpv or a new tab in firefox that...

Ok so i never have any issues when I am using Debian install usually. I switch kernels, compile new ones and initramfs has this VERY annoying problem...

So I started using a VPN that has a Wireguard configuration file and launch it with the wg-quick command.
I've noticed that my logs are getting...

As the title suggests, I need to rotate the touch input on a DSI display.

I am successful in rotating the input with

xinput set-prop 'seeed-tp'...

I would like to enable numlock right after the kernel boots. Because I encrypted the disk during the installation and I need to ensure numlock is on...

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after complete installation of OMV6 based on debian 11 (with no desktop manager) on my new PC (AMD RYZEN 5 + GPU , 16 Go RAM, etc...), I...

@Discord and @Trello are among Russia's preferred malicious attack vehicles. If you use these, take appropriate security actions to protect yourself/...

Hi everyone.
I'm new in this forum but not to Debian. I've been using Debian derivatives for years (Ubuntu, Bunsenlabs, etc...) Looking for a...

I have a new XP-Pen Deco Fun S drawing tablet. I connected it to my pc (debian 11 KDE) and installed the driver software...

I want to install Debian on my Gigabyte B550 AM4 AMD Ryzen 5 5600X. It's a windows 11 device and windows 11 is installed on a Western Digital WD Blue...

As a n00b, I like man pages that offer all of the technical aspect, but also provide a sh*t ton examples.
Solaris used to do that perfectly, and I...

I recently updated firefox to the latest version (firefox-esr) and now it doesn't have any window decorations.

Window manager is Fluxbox. No other...

Hello, i have a laptop with NVIDIA GT 620M. I want install NVIDIA drivers on Debian based Linux Mint(LDME 5, Debian 11 Bullseye). I'm using Debian's...

I need to run an old version of a package. The old version requires libssl.so.1.0.2. I'm running debian 11 (bullseye) which uses libssl.so.1.1....

Good morning, I have been trying to get Debian 11 installed on my old HP ProLiant server that has been sitting idle in my basement and I have hitting...

Since there are no unofficial non-free hybrid live isos (in the form of weekly builts) for sid, where can I find tutorials that talk about making...

A desktop PC is running Debian 11. Recently the sleep/Standby key on the USB keyboard was accidentally touched.
This put the PC into sleep/standby...

I have i3wm and KDE Plasma for my Debian. I normally use i3wm for things that suck up more RAM and CPU (e.g. multimedia production.)

My i3wm...

I have a Lenovo T14 Gen2 running Debian Bullseye with kernel 5.10.0-11-amd64. I can use the device all day, run CPU intensive workloads and...

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I just found out that my Debian forum account is still active.
Haven't used it in 6 years give or take a few months.

If an admin reads this,...

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fbreader creates a pdf file from an epub file. pdftotext creates a plain text file from a pdf file. So the ultimate objective to...

I am running Debian at home on a secure network and spending too much time dealing with permissions - which tells me I'm doing something wrong. Once...

Hi. I am a newbie to Debian. Having issues with 2 things related to installing WPS Office. I know I can use libreoffice and openoffice, but there are...

Hi,
I am following to start with Debian
I am running Debian in linux which is being running with VirtualMachine

In the section of 4.5 of the link...

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I think about two years ago I started noticing periodic stalls when backing up large files (>1GB) on a computer running a zfs raid on LUKS....

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I did reinsrtall my Debian, It is a live Debian from Debian with Cinnamon. I did install live as proposed in an ext4 partition. Some days before...

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I've been dealing with a persistent issue for over a year. I tried posting this on the VirtualBox forum, but it doesn't appear to have much...

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What's the best and easy way to copy/move my old slow 320 GB SATA HDD's updated Debian bullseye v11.3 to an old fast 115 GB SSD (going to...

Hello I am having problems installing Debian on a new machine, after installing after the reboot I get the error booting from SATA: Star Drives SATA...

Does Debian has any pre-installed firewall or there is any that you propose for Debian 11?

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I would like to transcode video files on a headless server using intel QuickSync hardware acceleration in ffmpeg, but I cannot get it...

In most cases USB-Printers are attached to physical Print Server or Pi's with CUPS to work as it.
PrintServer or Pi's should not be used since i do...