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After using Fedora for about a year, at the suggestion of my IT employed stepson, I'm back to Debian. I've used Deb for years. Fedora was as stable...

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OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

Kernel Information :

uname -a: Linux debian1064 5.16.5-ibox3-pc-amd64 #5 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 28 12:30:41...

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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...

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I have a primitive shell script that displays some text and accepts user input. I would like to make this script available over...

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...

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 install Debian 11 to a fibrechannel SAN, I can see I am supposed to add a 'install disk-detect/multipath/enable=true' to the boot...

Hello Debian users,

I would like to buy some parts to make my own system running Linux Debian.
I have selected a server class motherboard with an...

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...

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I am still getting used to Debian after 15years of Ubuntu and one thing I am still missing is the ability to go out of the folder while...

Hello everyone, I'm very much a n00b. I have a question about a walkthrough.

In this example of code, do i remove the { } from around the...

Hi Debian people, I had little to no experience with linux prior to this; but I've spent a couple full days trying to get this to work with lots of...

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I installed Debian 11.3.0 amd64, the custom locations for the mount points didn't change, it's about /home, /boot etc.

I managed to create...

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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,...

I am in the process of upgrading to Bullseye.
When doing apt full-upgrade I see that apache2 is going to be installed. I do not want apache on my...

About plymouth :

probably has to do with the fact that for all my installations of Debian I use the...

need help with win 10 iso
I need to get back to windows 10
I downloaded the win 10 iso but what I use Kill??? debian I have tried so far gives ma a...

I have an issue that when I try to dpkg-scanpackages to the repo pool it is saying that 0 packages are scanned. I generated a Debian package with...

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I recently scored an old 32bit Dell Inspiron laptop and want to run Stellarium on it. The Debian 11 build was fiddly but I finally got...

Speeds are extremely slow. Whether using a web browser and while updating/installing packages. Speeds are sub 56kb/s. I verified the problem isn't...

I have been experiencing random freezing in Debian 11 Bullseye ever since I started using it about a year ago, it happens at random times and...

I like to clone/copy my own keyboard shortcuts from my desktop to another desktop when I install debian XFCE. Is there a file that I can copy over to...

Hey lads, I'll try to describe the process fully. I'm trying to install AnonSurf on my debian distro, it works well until it doesn't :lol:

Here are...

could use help how to get EVE Online working in wine Bullseye

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On my AMD x570 chipset based system the current kernel linux-image-5.10.0-10-amd64 broke SATA hotplug, if I revert to linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64...

Hi guys,
The script doesn't want to play on boot.
I tried this :
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/win95.service

Description=windows95start.sh...

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...

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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 need to get one simple program that connects with an external device through usb that only works on windows.
I don't like or want...

Hello, I'm trying to install Debian 11.3 and I get a firmware error during the initial install. I made sure I placed the non-free firmware files in...

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I am using a Dell Latitude 7404 and I installed Debian 11 for the first time a couple of months ago.
I have an issue with the keyboard...

Hello, good folks of the Debian forum!

I've got something like 7-8 month of Linux experience. What got me hooked, was when I learned to do a cli...

For my own organization and ease of backing up, I prefer adding a few directories like Projects and Podcasts to my Home directory (rather than...

Hello everyone, I am interested is it possible to add default menu in plank in Cinnamon DE?
or is has to be only Xfce to be able to add Whisker Menu...

Anyone else having syslog spammed with these kind of messages?

/var/log/kern.log:Mar 27 00:11:27 hostname kernel: clocksource: timekeeping...

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I am trying to install Debian 10.7 with non free firmware on my brand new HP Pavilion Gaming 16 laptop. For some reason, the installer tries to...

I am installing Debian 11.3 on my DELL Inspriron 5515 laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5500U with an on-die Ryzen GPU. The laptop also comes with an Atheros...

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I'm a new user in Debian's world. From the first day, I'm having an issue with freshclam app. Namely, I can't update its virus database using...

Preamble: I have researched online and read manual pages, specifically that of crypttab. I think I'm almost there but may still be missing something...

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being a big fan of...

Gaming is usually thought of as an activity from the GUI, but there are several nice CLI-based games that will run fine on just about any hardware....

I'm using Debian 11 on a spare desktop as a server, and after anywhere from 5 to 25 days it'll lock up and I'll have to force restart it by holding...

Hello everyone,
After installing Bullseye I started getting this warning in journal

NetworkManager : sup-iface : call-p2p-cancel: failed with P2P...

Good day, all. I have been around Linux off and on for many years but would still consider myself a newbie. I have been poking around and have not...

Hope you all are well, dear friends and leaders.

Earlier djvu could be opened and read with add-on with evince or okular program.

Suppose I have...

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I use firewall-cmd to manage the firewall on Bullseye. On some servers, I get sometimes (no specific time) these error messages in syslog:

May...