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When I try to sudo from a user (non-root) to run an updateroot it does not work. If I su to root it works. Using Debian 11 kernel 5.10.0-20-686-pae...

I have a friend who is an older man that has never gotten himself online. I'm trying to get him set up with a desktop.

I have an older HP TouchSmart...

I have been struggling with an issue for 2 months. After Debian resumes from sleeping, I immediately get a password prompt and the desktop appears as...

why at debian xscreensaver needed much more dependincies than at arch?
debian apt say that cant find needed list of dependincies
but i can find this...

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I am just about to spend my own money for the first time on a computer that I will put Debian on from the start. I have installed it quite...

Hello, i have recently upgraded a bullseye installation to bookworm. It mostly went well, but under debian 12 the same system is using about twice...

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I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but i could nowhere find anything about this problem.
On my notebook I am using...

As the title suggests, a lot of cmake projects were failing. Upon inspection I found that running PGK_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/x86-64-linux-gnu cmake .....

Seems hddtemp is referenced, but does not exist?

On the assumption it's been replaced and somebody knows by what, could they show me their workings?...

I've used LXDE/Openbox in some form since about 2007, I haven't always been aware of what I was dealing with. At some point I discovered I could...

sound was previously working under bullseye but not since i upgraded to bookworm

perhaps this has to do with pipewire vs pulseaudio ?

here's what...

As per docs to solve screen tearing issue
I followed these steps

Add this line to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf:
options nvidia-drm...

I've been using Debian for a few months now and noticed that there are some software, including some FOSS software, that are unavailable in Debian...

Hi, I recently bought a laptop and installed Debian 11.
Although everything is running smoothly, I can't help but notice these errors during...

I have a strange isssue with an old laptop.

Every second boot the ethernet device is not recognized/found.

Output of lspci when et0 is recognized:...

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I can't speak English :)) and I use translator.

I have asus X450LD ,NVIDIA GeForce 820M, debian sid.

I installed...

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I recently had a problem with my Linux Mint installation, and decided to migrate to Debian 11 using a stable distribution, with nonfree...

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The network card refuses to run faster than 100 Mbit even though it's designed to run at 1 Gigabit. Is there any way of making the Intel...

Anyone seen this error when running apt update?
Error: Repository ' experimental InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to...

It looks like I need a new 4g USB dongle, it is the only dongle I can find in the local market, will it work?

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I am using a new Lenovo X1 Carbon Extreme Gen 3. I am attaching a video of horrible screen tearing I just started experiencing after...

I started my Linux journey in the late 1990's Debian Hamm and ran it for several years moving through the updates to Etch. Life, carrier, kids all...

This happens almost every time I watch a video and go to a different window, with the video still playing: the screen goes completely blank. It takes...

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I got a new laptop with a fresh debian installation. When idle the screens should turn off after the screensaver was shown for a few minutes. It...

Hello everyone, this is the first time i need to ask a question at a forum since i switched to debian a lots of years ago, i have being googling a...

i have just turned on my laptop this morning and, when i reach the login page, i enter my user name and pin, the screen goes black and then it goes...

xorg (X11?) displays a slow transformation into a white screen with no mouse.

i have a TI-nspire cx and Debian 11 the cli works fine just not a...

i have a 1Gbps/1Gbps fibre package were the isp provided a router for the package. at the time i thought it was them tying to sell me the product,...

Occasionally my system hangs and when it does, after rebooting I see my /var/log/syslog has expanded to the point where it uses up the entire free...

It's here with a different name.

Couldn't have labeled it better myself.

Experimental is now 'rc-buggy'.

I know all of you will have to update...

I have installed the program Vara for running Winlink on the raspberry pi 4 but when I try to open the vara program I get the following error....

Debian 12 now comes with a very nice emerald grub boot theme, and I can use lightdm to add a similar emerald login theme for the login screen....

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For the open source inference engine project (multi-threaded, in C++, and GPLv3+, to which I am contributing) we want to use the old -p...

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 running Bookworm. Kernel 6.1.0-6

I bought a lightning-HDMI adapter, HDMI cable, and and HDMI-USBc to plug into...

Each week here on the forum we highlight some threads which share Instruction, How-To, have lots of Information, or something that may be humorous....

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I am trying to get the output from a command issued over SSH to a remote machine all on one line.

This is what I am using (from my own...

Posted separately so as not to interfere with an ongoing topic that caught my attention and raises a question with me .
this thread :

DEBIAN...

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I am new to Debian (but have used Ubuntu). I had an old mid 2010 21.5 iMac at home on which I have installed Debian 11 via iso on the...

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I've installed debian 11 with Gnome 3.38.5 on my vmware machine
I'm trying to change the language from the default english to italian but if I...

I have a problem with linuxCNC accessing a USB joypad device.

I am unsure if the problem lies within linuxcnc or Debian - although experience...

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6.0 Kernel (amd64 from Bullseye backports) has entered into EOL state (by kernel.org), so no longer supported. Is it worth to give a try and...

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I am using HP Prodesk 400 G4 SFF computer and a LG LED TV as a monitor. I am dual booting the system with Windows 10 and Debian 11. On Windows...

Hi, i’m trying to install the infscape appliance in a new VPS Debian 10/buster instance, using the installation instruction as follow:

wget && bash...

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I was performing routine port check:

Netid State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port Process
udp UNCONN 0 0...

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I built a TI image running on TI AM3352 MCU, my dts file includes am33xx.dtsi which defines all enhanced pwm:

epwmss0: epwmss@48300000 {
......

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I've run into an issue with Xfce on Debian 11 and 12 (Testing). When installed without root (sudo), the power manager options for shutdown...