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Transactional apt would be a great step towards an ever more stable Debian: in my experience, apt breakage happens rather easily: just interrupt...

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I have used autofs for the computer to recognise and mount USB thumb drives.

When I have clicked on the thumb drive icon in the file...

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I have a machine with Secure Boot enabled which I cannot disable. I cannot even enter this machine's BIOS menu .

This has severely impacted...

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My computer has both an Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU and an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU, and I had always been able to switch between the two on the...

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I am using Debian 12 Testing on an old laptop, specifically a Samsung Notebook 7 Spin from 2016 (model number 740U3L), with i3. Since several...

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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...

Debian and other Linux distributions reserve 5% of a filesystem for the root account; this is so unprivileged users can't completely fill up a...

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I think, due to the updates today, QEMU/KVM network is not starting

Result of sudo systemctl status libvirtd:
erro:Falha ao iniciar a...

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I have a sensor (I2C) connected to device that uses live debian system. For some reason when i run i2cdetect -y bus_number, no address shows...

I am start learning Deb from and FreeCodeCamp videos

What 'advanced/difficult' area I need to learn about Debian CLI version? I have installed...

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Firstly apologies if this is posted in the wrong area however there are a few strands to the thread. I am running Sid installed from...

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...

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I have w10 and an MS boot manager entry, pretty much useless.

Also an openSUSE boot manager entry, preferred.

Now having installed Debian boot...

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powertop is reporting quite the powerdraw due to interrupts compared to idle when I touch the touch pad (XPS 13 9315 with an Intel...

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I’m trying to set up HIP for Blender on Debian. Here’s my current setup:

GPU: RX 7900 XTX (RDNA2 series)

Blender Version: Latest...

debian 12
Running an update returned:
the volume boot has only 4mb disk space remaining
zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space...

I'm facing a situation that I have no idea how to solve.
Got my new MB and until now i cant get it to work properly. Sadly I only checked about the...

I have a system with hybrid AMD graphics (iGPU + dGPU), I need to get OpenCL to work and ROCm for some tensorflow related projects. What is the...

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since I updated to the backported 6.11.x kernel and updated to the backported intel wifi drivers (because wifi wouldn't work without...

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I am working on join domain using sssd on debian13, but I can not see any machine account(upn) save it to /etc/krb5.keytab file, Only...

Hi experts,
I am working on join domain using sssd on debian13, but I can not see any machine account(upn) save it to /etc/krb5.keytab file, Only...

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For a laptop HP Pavilion g4-1387la was installed Debian 12 Desktop

The ethernet and wifi connections are possible.

But when only...

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...

There are various Backports guides in random places but as the most common reason for Backports is to install a kernel more recent than the one in...

While we do our best in the Help sections and supplemental knowledge in our Docs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks section with amazing reads, we want to ask...

I tried running clam av just to check it out. It gave me 11 results. Is this anything to worry about? It's all firefox-esr related. It's on my home...

I am thinking about writing a short HowTo on this topic. If people are interested. I have searched these forums and found very little on this topic....

Howdy. I’ve been trying to setup Debian for the first time as a new Linux user. Revently I tried to update my nvidia driver through the wiki, but I...

Debian 12 Bookworm.

I have been following but I have run into a snag.

When I run apt-get source linux

W: Download is performed unsandboxed as...

I would like to use Debian on my new PC with RTX 4060 Ti, but struggling with installation of Nvidia drivers. No matter what I do, I either end in...

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...

I am following the manual guide for installation of clonezilla live , and in step 5 there is something unclear to me:

To make your USB flash drive...

Not fully sure if this is the right place to share some conclusions of a day of migration experiments, saving others some time. Happy to be...

What is the best way to install Ghidra a Software Reverse Engineering Framework on Debian? There is no official package of this software in the...

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I read somewhere that there is now a rolling version in Debian, 12.9?.

Could someone say if it is the same as Tumbleweed?.

I want to try...

Semi-newbie here. Been using Debian 12 for a while and tonight, I did my usual apt update && apt upgrade and noticed an error about 'Bad exit status...

Pretty dam amazed at the foul up at SpiderOak One. Yeah, so their focus has shifted to near earth orbit sats security and all that. I did file a bug...

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Setting up a system with NetworkManager, the best solution to control ports and protocols is via firewalld. Unfortunately, I am unable to...

I resize the active window by the following simplified script:
window_id=$(xdotool getactivewindow)
new_width=100
new_height=100
xdotool windowsize...

I intend to buy below for setting up Debian CLI server .

Intel i5-14500,
32GB DDR5 5600 MT/s (MHz) RAM,
Samsung 990 PRO NVMe SSD,
ASUS ROG Strix...

Hello Debian Community!

I saw that this community started a Discord community. I would propose that Debian look into on the Internet Computer...

Do you have any devices to which you've wanted to install Debian, but could not for reasons technical or otherwise?

Hi there. I've been using Linux for a while and was given a laptop with Winders 11 to try. Windows is just to complicated for me. I I'm trying to get...

That's something Valve designer, Lawrence Yang, told us during our hands-on time with the Deck when we asked about the switch from Debian to Arch....

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While preparing an upgrade, I read the relevant chapter in the Debian Wiki. Here's what it says:
Obtain a text shell.

On desktop machines,...

I want to create indexed and searchable offline SATA disk archives of all my data accumulated over 20-30 years of work. I have neither the time nor...

See the attached image description and then note the behaviour when executing the command. They don't match.
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I want to temporarily set my GID...