Debian User Forums

What the heck? I've installed many a distro but never saw this error. I have an old all in one and installed a new 1 tb SSD and had to re-install...

I am new to Debian, but I run a derivative, Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon on a MintBox Mini 2 Pro 64-bit computer from the Linux Mint store a few years...

Hello dear debian community,

i know there is an old topic with, probably, matches with my problem but this topic was marked as closed so i start a...

Hello :)

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...

I have installed gedit-source-code-browser.
I have enabled it in settings of plugins.
I have restarted gedit.
I have opened my python script with my...

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...

Hi Everybody :D

I am running debian 12 on a Lenovo Yoga C930-13IKB laptop, however after installing the microphone and speakers did not work. I...

Hello,

I'm using Debian Testing (Trixie) with Mate desktop environment. I also have installed Firefox from Debian unstable.
When I set Mate Power...

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 these past two days, every Debian install I have (ten) as it tried to upgrade to 6.1.0-26 has given me this warning
Warning: Falling back to...

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

Has anyone connected these bluetooth earbud, if so how?

This is the code :

#include
#include
#include
#include
#include

int main(void)
{

FILE * fr, * fw;
char filename ;
unsigned long int size =...

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...

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 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...

Hello,

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

Setting up udev...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 install...

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...

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),...

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...