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Hello please help me fix this

>>55234433

welp

root@deb1:/# aplay -l
aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
root@deb1:/# lpsci
bash: lpsci: command not found
root@deb1:/# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 190f (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 1902 (rev 06)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 1911
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device a12f (rev 31)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device a131 (rev 31)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device a160 (rev 31)
00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device a161 (rev 31)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device a13a (rev 31)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device a102 (rev 31)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a114 (rev f1)
00:1e.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device a127 (rev 31)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device a148 (rev 31)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Device a121 (rev 31)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device a170 (rev 31)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device a123 (rev 31)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)

>>55234421
A full system upgrade won't work if the package isn't installed in the first place. Find out what package libQt5core is from (I'm guessing it's something that has Qt5 in the name) and install that.

>>55234421
qt5-base is the package you want, 5.7 isnt in the extra repo,unless you want to use testing.
How are you installing qbitorrent?
Custom build?

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Wine is installed(per pic) but it is not finding its self, when i run any switch from the 'wine' program.

>>55234521
>How are you installing qbitorrent?

From the arch repo, I just upgraded it and now it won't work for sum reason

>>55234515
But I have it all installed

It was literally working until a day ago

>>55234544
I'm using qbittorrent-git, just built it before this post, working fine.
It seems the qbittorrent maintainers pushed it out before the 5.7 update was pushed.


Go to /var/cache/pacman/pkg
and look for the last version you used before you upgraded

>>55234599
I used 3.3.3.2

>>55234641
The git is 3.4.0A, which im guessing isnt bumped up to qt5.7
All you need to do is downgrade it from the path i mentioned above.

>>55234661
ok did it m8

>tfw

 qbittorrent: error while loading shared libraries: libtorrent-rasterbar.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

>>55234678
ok it works now I guess

I'll wait to upgrade system then so it doesn't do the samething

What are some git pages worth looking at to customise emacs? especially start page, and a compiler.

>>55234695
Just put qbitorrent and libtorrent-raserbar in the IgnorePKG in your /etc/pacman.conf

>>55234707
Thanks bro.

So much to learn how to do in arch :s

Is putting /var on an ssd still a death wish?

>>55234599

>It seems the qbittorrent maintainers pushed it out before the 5.7 update was pushed.

They didn't.

>>55234599
>>55234768

Just checked, they did.

Used to suck the microcock and used VB for my IDE.

Made the switch last week and have to say I'm really wondering why I haven't hopped over to linux earlier!

Anyway, what's the suggested IDE or compiler/debugger to use for linux? Unless there's a vim plugin for all of that.

>>55234325
* Friendly GNU/Linux Thread
FTFY

>>55234829
eclipse

i realize i still havae my yubikey U2F lying about without purpose. can I integrate it in gnome keyring or kwallet?

anybody use this thing?

I've added a Mozilla's fucking gpg key a billion times,but every time it fucking fails.
Its in my keyring, i have verified it, i have signed it.

Flash in Firefox has no sound. Other than that it works fine systemwide as well as in Chromium. flashplugin is installed.

Can anyone point me to a missing package or so that might be causing this?

>>55234936
was going to get one, but almost no one uses that shit.

>>55235111
quite some websites use it now, but it makes so much sense to use it for local stuff as well, such as keyring/kwallet and ssh, yet nobody in the linux world seems interested....

Sudo and su report there is no such file.
I am looking at them in /usr/bin.They have UID set
That the fucking fuck

can anyone recommend the o'reilly sed & awk book? I wanna get more profecient with those tools, right now I only use sed for simple string replacements/manipulation and awk for simple {print $1...} stuff.

>>55235012
Purge flash

if i want to make a terminal game, what language should i go with?

>>55235492
Didn't work, but found the issue on the wiki and changing the default sound device worked.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/browser_plugins#Flash_Player:_no_sound

What I don't understand is why it was working properly until like 2 days ago without setting a preferred device explicitly.

>>55235686
I bet you did just remove flash, not purge it. Or you didn't restart the applications with issues.

>>55235727
I restarted the applications and when it didn't work even rebooted to make sure.
As for the purging, I did -Rns, what was I supposed to do?

HWO THE FUCK DO I REPLACE XFWM WITH DWM IN XFCE ON DEBAIN JESSIE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>55235012
>using a plugin with 5 million vunerables
get rid of this crap, the web is html5 anyway

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>>55234325
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>55235254
Here you go: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/index.html
Best introdutions into both, sed and awk, I've read so far.

>>55235787
>replace
Replace?
Do you want to run dwm or actually replace it?

>>55235526

Any language that can write to stdout.

>>55235526
C

>>55235787
Go to the xfce settings, remove the xfwm session and add a dwm one. i don't know how well they work together. Just dwm is also quite nice, especially for a suckless program.

>>55235934
LISP

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>>55234325
>the Linux operating system

>>55236195
It's summer. What do you expect.

gettin' hot in here, how to make my fan blow stronger? is there a tool for this?

>>55234325
who is that qt pi

/var/www and every file there is owned by user git.
The directory also has setfacl so new files will be owned by git and belong to group wwwdata.
So files in /var/www have git:wwwdata 660
User git has no password and users who need to modify the www files will ssh into git, there is key file authentication.

Is it safe/secure?

>>55236246
maybe

>>55236240
http://bijo-linux.com/

I vote using 'mount' for the next thread. I'm saying it now because we're almost 50 posts in, so we should create another thread asap.

>>55236226
>It's summer
when this general started it was first named /flt/ and not /fglt/ as i was for a while. Anyway I don't think we should care too much about the name

>>55236290
Is there a legit reason to call it "Linux" when you already know it better? Everyone likes free software, so why censor the GNU part? It's just trolling, nothing more, nothing less, hence:
>summer

>>55236235
fancontrol

>>55236336
will look into it, ty

partially new to linux. i've installed debian on an asus t100. slightly painful process but it works fine now and i've been using it for a few months.

got another laptop that i want to use to try a new distro on. going to pick either fedora or antergos.

anyone got any reasons why i should pick one over the other?

>>55236394
It's always a good idea to prefer a GNU/Linux distribution that isn't a fork of a fork. If you want to use either Fedora or Antergos, I'd suggest to try Fedora or plain Arch.

>>55236418
i was under the assumption that antergos was very similar to vanilla arch and used the same repos as it. if the antergos repo was causing issues, wouldn't i be able to remove it and be left with plain arch?

what kind of complications could arise from using a distribution that's a fork of a fork anyway?

>>55236263
Nice idea ! Let's go for mount when this thread hits bump limit.

>>55236576

This thread was created before this post.
>>55234332

This was the last reply.
>>55235978

So let's make the new thread 2 hours after bump limit is reached. Deal?

>>55236835
New thread after bump limit, eg. 310 posts.
What's so difficult about that?

>>55236909
This thread was created when the old one reached 329 replies tho.

>>55236909
trolls want to force their Just Linux thing
that's the joke

So we use a development board that one of the teachers designed in class (https://pjradcliffe.wordpress.com/open-usb-io/) and I can't get it working in arch. Emailed him and I'm pretty sure that he wants me to buy his linux-live cd so that I can just copy the udev rules from there. Is there any generic things I can do to get it working? It runs by a exacutable and even running it as root gives me:

https://pjradcliffe.wordpress.com/open-usb-io/

i am a linux noob who just bought a brand new laptop that came installed with windows 10. i don't like windows 10, and after doing some research on linux and after tinkering with a few different distros in VMs on my desktop, and now i am interested in running debian on my laptop. i have a few questions before i install debian though.

how hard is it to enable SElinux on debian?
what are the pros/cons of running SElinux on debian?
is it hard to optimize a debian install for an ssd?
how hard is it to make debian run on a brand new laptop with an i7 6600u and an intel hd 520?
how much battery life am i forfeiting by not using windows and proprietary power management software from the manufacturer? a /g/entooman in the past told me i will never achieve the same battery life on linux that i would have otherwise on windows, and i am simply curious exactly how much battery time i am giving up

>>55237025
>a /g/entooman in the past told me i will never achieve the same battery life on linux that i would have otherwise on windows, and i am simply curious exactly how much battery time i am giving up
You got trolled. It's about how you use the system that affects the battery life. When you run Debian with Openbox you have even more battery left than on Windows. If you care about battery, install a lightweight DE or just a WM.

>>55236909
Monitoring two simultaneous threads is a pain in the neck. What's the hurry?

>>55237131
You own fault if you're monitoring a dead thread.

>>55237296
It's not dead if it's still getting replies, but ok.

What is the best way of implementing a lock screen with i3. I don't use a greeter or anything and would prefer not to. Any other ways of doing this?

>>55236195
>implying you're sitting on a chair and not chair/legs

>>55237408
With a script, I use this one
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/3358vu/i3lock_unixpornworthy_lock_screen/

>>55237448
Oh cool thanks I didn't realize i3 had a lock package. I'll play around with this.

which tools of the base-devel group are not immediatly useful?

>>55237646
none

>>55237122
i was also recommended to use powertop to elongate battery life

my questions are all based off memories of things i've gleaned from /g/ while half paying attention and never really doing research, and i understand i'm being lazy

but i am still curious about the protocol for using SSD with debian, although i am operating off the assumption i need to do some tinkering to elongate the lifetime of the SSD

and i still don't know what the potential issues i could face while using a laptop with an i7 processor although i imagine they're diminished over time as updated packages come out, but still i get confused with i google my processor + linux and get a month old forum post filled with a dozen tweaks done in terminal and in system files, and i don't really know if that information is accurate or still applies

it's all really frustrating since these seem like basic questions but in order to get the right answers i need to dedicate a lot of time scouring google

>>55237857
so, during the install, Arch uses all 29 packages?

>>55237901
Don't install the base-devel group if you're being autistic about it. It's not required for arch to run.

>>55237901
If you know the answer already, why asking?

Why is there a fucking 1 pixel black border around Firefox URL bar and search bar.

Why can I watch HD YouTube videos on the official most up to date version of Firefox, yet any other version doesn't let me.

What. The. Fuck.

>>55237912
Not totally autistic, I was just looking for the ones superfluous and not needed for the immediate moment (installation). Just getting them when I need them.

>>55237922
>>>/g/sqt

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LISTEN YOU NIGGERS
I INSTALLED APRICITY (ARCH) ALONGSIDE WINDOWS AND I FUGGIN STRUGGLED INSTALLING TELEGRAM FOR TWO HOURS!!

NOW I CANT BOOT INTO WINDOWS ANYMORE AND I DIDNT BACKUP BECAUSE IM A REEEEEEETARD REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>55237958
Fuck off

>>55238014
Calm down. Breath

>>55238014
>dumb frogposter

Check your GRUB for boot options.

>>55238014
you can probably still recover a lot of data with puppy linux

>>55238089
Or any live cd distro.

>>55238089
*cough*
You can use any live cd for data recovery anon, like GParted Live. But he should still be able to access the win filesystem.

>>55237958
>>55238034
>>55238047
>friendly

>>55238014
Try to always have a LiveUSB around so you can always boot your computer and fetch any data from the drives.

Let us know if there's anything we can help you with, my amphibian friend.

>>55238014
>He fell for the Linux meme

LOL

I have been running solely Fedora for about 4 years. The mediocre repositories are my only issue, but I'd really like a larger software library. WINE only seems to work for smaller programs. My question is, do Ubuntu-oriented programs typically run on Debian? I know vice-versa would work, since Ubuntu is a Debian fork. I just want more software without running Ubuntu.

>>55238204
>>>/9GAG/

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>>55238155
Thank you sweet anon.
I tried using the disk manager in apricity/arch to mount the biggest partition on which I think my files are but I couldn't access any non-default files... Does windows encrypt files in any way or something?

>>55238222
They might work, but you might run into dependency problems and compatability since the packages are built differently. It's not recommended and should never be done. If you want more programs that aren't on any repos, why not compile it?

>>55238278
I'm lazy and like having a wide software selection in one place. How big are Debian repos compared to Ubuntu?

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>>55238014
I don't know how you got yourself in that situation but this is how you install telegram on arch:

>>55238305
Afaik, debian has bigger repos than ubuntu.

>>55238254
if you get an error probably could be the windows's fast boot thing, from w8 and onwards they practically changed the shut down button for an hibernate button.
Try mounting it read only:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/145902/unable-to-mount-windows-ntfs-filesystem-due-to-hibernation

I'm trying to get my DS3 to work with Arch but I'm not getting anything. I plug it in through USB, it blinks and then looks like its connected witht he led on P1 but it doesn't actually work with anything. Dolphin and Steam dont recognize shit. I tried cat /dev/input but theres nothing there resembling a joystick. I have xf86-input-joystick aswell and I tried QtSixA but it doesn't seem to do anything and I don't have a bluetooth dongle to try that either. This is dmesg when I connect the controller so I know it gets recognized.

Is there a module I need to load or something? Everywhere I read it's supposed to be PnP on Arch.

[  382.944994] usb 4-1: new full-speed USB device number 6 using uhci_hcd
[  383.598854] input: Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/0003:054C:0268.000E/input/input24
[  383.599743] sony 0003:054C:0268.000E: input,hiddev0,hidraw10: USB HID v1.11 Joystick [Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-1/input0

I used last -x to see all users and reboot/shutdown times on my laptop, but it frequently shows that reboot starts up 4-5 hours before I physically turn on my laptop and log in. Shutdown runs from when I turn off my computer to when reboot starts, and reboot starts way before I actually turn on the computer, is there a reason for that?

>>55238465
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gamepad#Joystick_Input_Systems

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>>55238499
That article hasn't helped me at all and I read the whole thing. It doesn't show up in either place even after loading joydev.

>>55238536
It says it works out of the box, if it doesn't, I don't know what to tell you.

>>55238580
Yea thats why I'm here. I have no clue what to do and I know for a fact this is a genuine DS3 that works on Windows without issue.

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>>55238589
Ok so it works when I use xboxdrv? What the fuck

>>55238638
Yeah, googling around says it does. If it works, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

What's a really lightweight pdf reader I can download via CLI on Arch?

>>55239043
mupdf

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>tfw running dist-upgrade and making a Frankendebian

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>>55239392
>tfw installed antergos and removed its repo

why did that ez install arch project get canned anyway, it was fucking great

>>55239392
Why would you violate your Debian in such a way?

>>55239049
what category can i find it under in the main menu? I can start it via cli, so it managed to install properly, but I cant find it

>>55239473
To get more current packages. Doesn't make because it failed anyway.. So i just went back to Jessie

>>55239480
>more current packages
Then why not just use Sid?

apache or nginx for rutorrent? It will be only over local network

>>55239474
scratch that, I can just double click on pdfs now

What I'm about to ask might seem like a really really dumb question, but I'm gonna go on ahead and ask.

I'm using i3 on Debian Sid. I just installed urxvt and started configuring it, but I can't figure out how to make it have the terminus font. I already installed the xfonts-terminus package, and when I do

fc-list : | sort

, the terminus fonts I get are:

http://pastebin.com/iRXA3Ax4

So, when I edit my .Xresources file, how should I format my

URxvt.font:

entry and which of all those should I use?

Thank you kindly.

>>55239500
Becuase the Sid installer always crashed.

>>55239627
...a-anon, you're not supposed to use the Sid installer, that's only for testing the installer.

The way you install Sid is by installing Stable, and then upgrading it to Sid by editing the sources.list file to say "sid" instead of "jessie", and then sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade

Read the wiki before you try using something :/

>>55239642
I read the wiki, and it recommends either using the installer or doing a net install and then upgrading. Why don't YOU read the wiki.

It's kind of funny. This general is nothing but people posting all their little problems and bugs that they're having with Linux.

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My external HDD has bad sectors. It was NTFS. I formatted, now it is FAT. How to mark the bad sectors?

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I'm working on a Raspberry Pi project that writes data on the microSD card where the OS is located at. I want to make the card last longer by avoiding its writing limitation. I heard someone manage to compress a linux OS into an image and just load it into memory without writing on the "disk".

How do?

>>55239687
That's what the general is largely for, anon

>>55239803
Sad. If there were a Windows general no one would be having problems :)

>>55239817
I guess so!

>>55239767
The OS avoids writing to the bad sectors the moment it finds them and if you run checkdisk it'll attempt to recover the data lost on them.
Unless you're looking for a way to actually get the data ABOUT the bad sectors, you can find detailed information here:
http://superuser.com/questions/655082/how-to-isolate-bad-sectors-on-a-hard-disk-in-windows-7

>>55239841
You admitted that Windows is less buggy than Linux! Sad!

>>55239859
Very

>>55237025
you should get familiar with using linux without selinux before jumping onto selinux
one step at a time and all that
>is it hard to optimize a debian install for an ssd?
no, there's several filesystems for linux optimized for SSD use, such as btrfs, f2fs, ext4, xfs, etc
in most cases SSD's are auto-detected, and optimized behaviour is enabled automatically
>how hard is it to make debian run on a brand new laptop with an i7 6600u and an intel hd 520?
probably not, but the best way to find out is to run it and check everything works yourself (it'll probably take longer to research each component)
>how much battery life am i forfeiting
unless you're really unlucky with what hardware you have, battery life shouldn't be any worse, the defaults might not be well-suited for a laptop, depending on distro, but they're easy enough to change (for example, changing cpu frequency governor to ondemand/conservative, using laptop mode tools, using lightweight software, etc)

>>55239862
I win, you lose :D

I think I'll add this little encounter to my diary of won internet arguments.

>>55239872
You do that, way to go man!

>>55239599
xfontsel -print

>>55239599
For true type fonts:
URxvt.font: xft:Terminus:pixelsize=12
For bitmap fonts:
URxvt.font: x:-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1

>>55239942
Using the first doesn't seem to do anything, and using the second doesn't let me open urxvt after applying it unless I remove the config line

>>55239906
Terminus doesn't seem to appear listed here, despite me having installed it, what gives?

When I tried to upgrade to Debian Testing, I recieved this message:

Failed to fetch cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 8 _testing_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20160609-11:53]/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs

What should I do?

>>55240000
fc-cache -fv
xrdb ~/.Xresources

>>55240002
what do you think you should do?

>>55240002
Your aptitude is looking for the CD/USB stick you used to install it.
Go to sources.list and comment out with a # that line, or delete it

It should only have the deb and deb-src's for testing, updates, and security

I'm trying to rsync some files to my server, but they don't seem to copy over.

$ rsync -avhP -e ssh [email protected]:/home/hp/ *.jpg
Unexpected local arg: test.jpg
If arg is a remote file/dir, prefix it with a colon (:).
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1357) [Receiver=3.1.2]

>>55240000
xset fp rehash could also fix it, if you installed the font in a different directory, tell it xset before with this cmd:
xset +fp <directory>

>>55240020
This updated the font cache saying it found new fonts, but >>55239906 still won't list Terminus and using these >>55239942 still doesn't work

>>55240046
I installed the font packaged by Debian, so everything should be in the default directory, in this case X11/misc/

>>55240064
Update: Using

 URxvt.font: xft:Terminus 

without a pixelsize declaration does seem to work. What gives?

>>55240107
Update 2: declaring size with

URxvt.font: xft:Terminus:size=16

Also works!

>>55240107
You can also use "size" instead of "pixelsize", reminder that the values are different. 12 pixe ~= 9 points

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Arch VM hangs here every time I try to boot.

wat do /g/?

>>55240146
Arch is for advanced users. Start over with a beginner distro.

>>55240146
chances are it's booted

you just have;
- no DM enabled
- graphical target set
- quiet boot enabled
so it boots to a black screen

>>55240133
>>55240127

Update 3:
Weird. Now the pixelsize argument works, all on its own. What the hell?

>>55240166
This is valuable advice, you should do what he says.

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>>55240187
Does this look normal to you guys? The font on the terminal I mean
Everything in order?

What do you think about Deepin?

>>55240166
go fuck yourself

>>55240183
How would I go about fixing that? it doesn't allow me to type anything after I select to boot into arch. You're probably right, because I was trying to set up the DM, thought I had it enabled properly

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>>55240187
Here is my config for Xreources for reference.

>>55240250
press ctrl+alt+f2

it's currently on a TTY it expected X to start on, so no shell is being started

>>55240241
Disable bold. Bold is always ugly.

>>55240268
Thanks, that worked! So if I can successfully get the DM enabled, that should be fixed, right?

>>55240255
why is your syntax different to mine?

Does it make any difference if I use

URxvt.font:

etc etc vs your

urxvt*font:

?

>>55240250
This is a friendly thread. How you take your hate and ask elsewhere? Edgy kids these days.

>>55240295
sometimes works different, test what goes in yours

Debian:

This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package sysvinit-utils:amd64 due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.

>>55240280
How would I go about doing that? I already commented out the Bold bits and it's still showing Bold in the terminal

Here's my Xresources

URxvt.title:rxvt-unicode

Xcursor.theme: DMZ-White

URxvt.font:        xft:Terminus:pixelsize=16
!URxvt.boldFont:        xft:Terminus:pixelsize=16:bold
!URxvt.italicFont:        xft:Terminus:pixelsize=16:italic
!URxvt.boldItalicFont:    xft:Terminus:pixelsize=16:bold:italic
URxvt.letterSpace:    -1

*background: #232C31
*foreground: #C5C8C6
! black
*color0: #2D3C46
*color8: #425059
! red
*color1: #A54242
*color9: #CC6666
! green
*color2: #8C9440
*color10: #B5BD68
! yellow
*color3: #DE935F
*color11: #F0C674
! blue
*color4: #5F819D
*color12: #81A2BE
! magenta
*color5: #85678F
*color13: #B294BB
! cyan
*color6: #5E8D87
*color14: #8ABEB7
! white
*color7: #6C7A80
*color15: #C5C8C6

URxvt.internalBorder:      0
URxvt.externalBorder:      0

URxvt.scrollBar:           false

URxvt*fading:              30

URxvt.perl-ext-common:     matcher,resize-font,foo

URxvt.keysym.F11:          perl:fullscreen:switch

URxvt.resize-font.smaller: C-Down
URxvt.resize-font.bigger:  C-Up

URxvt.url-launcher:        /usr/bin/firefox
URxvt.keysym.M-Delete:     perl:matcher:list
URxvt.colorUL: #7780a1

>>55240286
sure, assuming X is also setup
another cause is X not starting for whatever reason, in that case first ensure you have a suitable video driver installed (i recommend also installing the vesa video driver, as a fallback, as it provides basic output with most cards)
you can start the DM manually without rebooting by running "systemctl start <dm name>"

>>55240255
don't use wildcards if you don't use them anyway, use dots like: URxvt.font, otherwise: expect failure

>>55240340
>URxvt.letterSpace: -1
why do you fuck up you font? you don't need this hack for most fonts

>>55240347
works different on mine

>>55240342
Ok it's probably X then, I know I have Xorg installed but must not have it configured properly. I already DLd the xf86-video-intel, mesa-libgl, and lib32-mesa-libgl packages so the drivers should be ok

>>55240360
Sorry, it was leftover from when I was trying another font. Thanks for pointing it out, it looks much better without it

>>55240379
btw I said it's probably x because systemctl is-enabled showed the DM is enabled

>>55240379
your VM doesn't use an intel gpu, silly
install xf86-video-vesa
if it's vmware, a better driver is xf86-video-vmware

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I'm looking for a lightweight desktop environment for Ubuntu server, I'm using it for research, not enterprise.

Currently I'm using lxde-core with lightdm and xterm, does the job but at just over 1GB of space usage and 100MB RAM I was wondering if it's possible to go smaller?

I've heard of openbox but the last time I tried it I couldn't get it to work.

In return, a pic from my /g/ folder

>>55240395
to be clear, you can install multiple drivers, X will pick the most suitable one automatically by default

Hey /fglt/, how to get an Unix Beard?

>>55240404
twm

>>55240404
Yeah, just use something like openbox or fluxbox. Why couldn't you get it to work, you should be able to just put the command in .xinitrc or select it if you're using a DM login screen.

>>55240404
you can use openbox by itself
just install openbox and xorg-xinit
then place;

exec openbox-session

into ~/.xinitrc

then you can start an X session with openbox by running "startx" after logging into a TTY (no DM, though openbox will also show up in a DM if you prefer to use one)

Not the guy that was asking previously, but:

What is the point of a DM?

Is it better to just not have one, or does it serve more than an eyecandy purpose?

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>>55240453
>twm
What else would I need from a scratch installation?
>>55240457
>>55240458
So from scratch, all I need to install is openbox, xorg-xinit,(and thunar and xterm for myself) then nano into xinitrc and put in that command?

>>55240515
Helps normies feel more at home.

>>55240395
Heh just realized that when I checked my video card model.

You know, I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS on my desktop for a few months now, and I've learned more about linux and the command line in the past hour and a half setting up this VM than I did in all that time

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Anyone else get into a honeymoon period with their distro after ditching Windows, only to realize a few days later how good you had it before?

I thought I was a fairly decent and patient troubleshooter, but Lubuntu 16.04 is kicking my ass. You gotta do all the work in this relationship. Can't pop in a DVD to take a break from all the researching, no it doesn't even know what to do with it and you gotta download the right drivers and software and test it out first.

I was having fun for the first couple days, but at this point I'm so exhausted with the babysitting and bugginess. Nothing works until you work your ass off trying to fix it.

Is this the same with the other distros? Should I have gone an older version of my current distro first? Would Ubuntu/Unity have been more newb-friendly?

>>55240515
A DE gives you most standard stuff like a Terminal, Text Editor, System Settings Manager, Login Manager, etc. which is helpful for newfriends. After some time you find your favorite programs and don't need/want DEs anymore.

>>55240530
you don't need to put anything else into xinitrc unless you want those things to start each time
even then i'd recommend putting those things into openbox's autostart file instead (~/.config/openbox/autostart)

>>55240530
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/x11/twm

Don't answer to the bait.

>>55240583
Display Manager (DM), not DE

>>55240597
Oh ~ ignore the post then.

>>55240515
it's pretty much just for the eye candy

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What are some VM-friendly distros/DE's? Xfce doesn't support resizing resolution, so fuck Xfce. I'm trying Linux Mint 17.3 but I think it's a little too bloated.

>>55240395
Worked! This is honestly the most accomplished I've felt in a while

>>55240571
you're just still more familiar with windows than you are with linux
each time you run into something you knew how to do in windows but don't yet know how to on linux, you will feel like windows is easier, but eventually you'll run out of things you don't know how to do in linux

I warn you not to take the bait.

Wow so this is an extremely annoying bug. In Debian testing (xfce) whenever I suspend the system and then log back in my mouse cursor just disappears.

Are you fucking joking me?

>>55240696
Don't use xfce when development is stalled and shit like that happens all the time
or
Upgrade to sid

Okay anons, I am a complete newb at linux. Which linux os would be best for my this thinkpad:
Lenovo ThinkPad T510
· Processor: Intel Core i5 M540 @ 2.53GHz
· Memory: 4GB DDR3 RAM
· Graphics: NVIDIA GT218 NVS 3100M
· Screen Resolution: 1600 x 900
· Optical: CD/DVD RW
· Storage: 500GB HDD
Mint, Ubuntu, or Debian?

>>55240723
Literally any. There's no "best" for your machine, because it's new enough to be able to handle any distro with any Desktop Environment

What you mean to ask is: "what's the best beginner distro"

Some autists here hate on Mint a lot but personally it was my first and found it to be quite easy to use. It's derived from Ubuntu.

Ubuntu and Ubuntu spin-offs (like Ubuntu GNOME, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu) are also good options. Out of those, I prefer Ubuntu GNOME to the messy regular Ubuntu with its default Unity DE, but thats a matter of taste.

What I use nowadays is Debian with GNOME and I love it. It might not be the smoothest distro to learn for a newbie but it's good if you don't mind reading up on things and not having your hand held quite as much.

>>55240763
Debian does sound interesting, and the UI looks cleaner. I know this will sound spoonfeedingish, but can you link me some good debian manual plz?

Trying to install Java in Ubuntu. I'm using this guide:

http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-JDK-on-Ubuntu-Linux

In step 7 it say that there should be two directories, one for JDK and one for JRE; however, I followed the same steps and I only have one directory, JDK.

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and the Java I downloaded is the JDK 8.92 for Linux x64. What's going on?

>>55240793
You have fallen for a common misconception.

The UI as you call it is the Desktop Environment. Any distro can have any Desktop Environment you choose (or none).

So at plain sight, Ubuntu GNOME and Debian with GNOME will be indistinguishable. The differences between the distros are beneath the hood.

So you shouldn't pick a distro based on what "looks" better, because any distro can look like any other distro. Think of the UI as a coat of paint.

If you want a Debian manual, go to the Debian wiki and/or lookup the Debian Admin Manual on google

>>55240166
>>>55240183
>>55240191
>>55240342
>>55240395
Posting this from my newly configured Arch VM! Thanks /g/!

>>55240838
np

>>55240838
Now rise!

Ricing GNU/Linux is not made by only choosing themes and colors, but what software goes in your computer. "Display Managers" are the login screens, "Window Managers" are the part drawing the borders, colors, etc, and "File Managers" are what handles how you browse your machine. More info:

>Window Manager Reviews. To decide the main look and feel.
https://ghostbin.com/paste/tfnhk/raw

>GNU/Linux Software Big List. For options on many more stuff.
https://ghostbin.com/paste/zf6af/raw

>How to Customize your Bash Prompt
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-customize-your-bash-prompt-on-a-linux-vps
http://dotshare.it/
http://terminal.sexy/

>Where to get some themes and icons
https://www.box-look.org
https://www.gnome-look.org

Arc, a GTK Theme: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/arc-gtk-theme
Mac OS X (MacBuntu) Transformation pack for Ubuntu: http://www.noobslab.com/search/label/macbuntu
How to have a Win 95 theme on Lubuntu: https://ghostbin.com/paste/atb7t
Macintosh System 6 XFCE4 Theme: https://github.com/ubuntufag/System6-theme

IRIX icons: http://darkdoomer.deviantart.com/art/da-motherfuckin-irix-icon-set-179568520
Win95 icons: https://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Classic95?content=157298
Paper Icon Set: http://snwh.org/paper/icons/

>Starting x without DM or Login Manager
https://ghostbin.com/paste/nsdkf

>>55240820
You seem that you know your shit, and I appreciate the help. I will ask you the noobiest question in your life. What exactly is the reason that some people call, lets say, ubuntu, a more "dumbed down" version than debian? Is the terminal different? Is it that customizing debian is harder? I am legit interested. Thanks for the help btw.

>>55240884

Because hating popular stuff makes you cool. The more users some distro has, the more broken, dumbed down, jewish, netbot-ish, commie proprietary-software-loving it is.

>>55240952
I agree to everything except
>makes you cool

Distros which aim for market share make it market friendly and since normies are the market, and they think normies don't care about security or freedom, they give them eye candy and proprietary crap. See Mint, Ubuntu, etc.

>>55240952
Sadly this is commonly true. But I beg to differ on one point, Ubuntu is more easy for new people because it has one of the easiest installer and a GUI package manager.

>>55240884
Memes.

That's the short answer anyway.

The long answer is: Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro. This means Debian is farther upstream, closer to development, so any distro based on it gets updates *after* it, and often patch them to fit their own distros. Ubuntu goes out of its way to make itself appear friendly to new linux users, trying to make the transition as painless as possible. And it's successful at this. You can use Ubuntu for your daily tasks without ever touching the command line (terminal). Ubuntu is owned by a company called Canonical, and many question or have doubts about their philosophy. They're often seen with hostile eyes by the rest of the Linux community because they try to do their own thing instead of contribute and chip in with ongoing community projects (see: Developing Mir instead of helping out with Wayland, etc). But at the end of the day, if you want to be a pragmatic user and just forget the social/philosophical side of it all, Ubuntu is a great "just werks" distro.

Debian is not concerned with appearing "friendly" to new comers, but that does not mean it's difficult to use. Debian has good documentation, a great philosophy, and a great community. It is also not owned by any corporation, it's a volunteer-driven project that has stood the test of time since the 90's. It's a rock solid distro (Stable), with amazing rolling versions as well (Testing and Sid)

What are some nice and light file managers? I've only looked at pcmanfm

>>55241005
Debian has synaptic.

>>55241188
Use the terminal.

Any of you running i3?

I just got it and I need some ideas for setups, meaning your config, your workflows, etc.

Was thinking Workspace 1 to be my browser, Workspace 2 to be my terminals, Workspace 3 and onward to be anything else, and Workspace 10 to be my music player

>>55241018
>>55240952

Goddamn, reading this makes me want to install Debian. I was gonna try Ubuntu first to test the waters then move to Debian, but this comment just made just straight up move to Debian. I will look up how to install Debian on a usb drive then install it on my thinkpad. Thanks familia

>>55241224
Keep in mind there might be a few more bumps along the road, but we're always here to help and you can always look stuff up on your own as well.

>>55240404

Nigga, you're already using Openbox since it's hte window manager LXDE uses.

>>55240632

Your distribution/desktop environment doesn't affect your ability to change the resolution whatsoever.

>>55241209

Your terminal emulator is useless on its own. You need a shell and the coreutils.
So, if you're going to post that elitist reply, at least get your elitism right, idiot.

>>55241466
>friendly thread

While I understand it's good practice to stick with either apt or aptitude and not using both - is it true that if this advice is not heeded, it is prone to breaking things? Or is that a myth?

I just can't understand how it would, since they're both front-ends to the same thing...

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>buff/cache
>38304
Has Linux buffered like, all my files or something?

Hi everyone. I want to install lxde on CentOS 7. The lxde website just says to run yum install lxde, but that doesn't work. No package found. I tried compiling it from source with configure, make and make install, I did not get errors, but it's still not showing up in the DE selector in my display manager. What do I do? I'm using a virtual machine and GNOME is way too heavy for it.

>>55240871
saved

>>55240952

Jesus Christ I made this blatant shitpost just to meme that guy and it turned out that you autistic edgelords actually agreed with it. This board is shit.

>>55236488
>i was under the assumption that antergos was very similar to vanilla arch
You are correct. It's nothing more than Arch with a simple theme. Cut Antergos from pacman.conf and you got Arch. They fixed their shit-assed installer and I have to say, it's a great way to experience Arch, though it really serves no purpose other than catering to laziness.

>>55241766
Yeah it's kinda like russian roulette using that installer.

>>55241599
Good operating systems use your RAM for stuff. It will decrease the cache (protip: it's pronounced cashay) when you need more memory for other things.

>>55241765
>joke's on them, I was only pretending to be retarded

>>55236933
It's not a troll, we're all sick of being corrected by autists everytime someone slips and calls it Linux. We all get it. Just stop with the stupid interjections and gentoo faggotry.

>>55241789
Cool, thanks for the info mate.

>>55240716
How is Sid an upgrade? It's even more unstable than testing

>>55241812
No shit sherlock.
Sid = unstable
Stretch = testing

And you have to understand 'unstable' by Debian standards still means pretty fucking stable

If the Linux kernel is the same across the board, what makes any distro more secure than another?

I was thinking of using Ubuntu because a couple years ago I used 14.04 as my daily OS for two months, so I have some familiarity with it already, but of course one of my reasons to switch is security/privacy.

Is Fedora better than Ubuntu/*buntu in this aspect, or does it not really matter? I read something about Ubuntu having apparmor, and Fedora having SELinux. Is this the equivalent of Window's user account control for these distros?

>>55241894

>If the Linux kernel is the same across the board

It's not, some distros (and their different flavors) could use a newer or older release of the same kernel. Different projects handle security patches differently too. Besides, security doesn't rely ENTIRELY on the kernel, it's very important, but so are the applications that come bundled with it at different levels.

>>55241789
>protip: it's pronounced cashay
why do you think so?

>>55241894
proprietary kernel modules = security holes
Fedora as example takes care about free software, but doesn't about modules/drivers while Ubuntu doesn't care about anything.

If you aim for security, get a free distro like Trisquel or Parabola where all binary blobs are removed (Linux-libre) and by default, no proprietary programs are shipped.

>>55241935
Thanks, I had no idea I was so wrong about that

For average use (banking, college log-ins), would you say that Ubuntu is safe?
I know from reading the web that there are even government organizations (such as educational and municipal departments) that run off of Ubuntu.

>>55242027
>ftw Arch comes with all modules enabled
:^)

>>55242038
Debian would probably be safer

>>55242038
A lot of governments and organizations run on Windows or Mac as well. Don't appeal to the number of users

>>55242104
a goverment that runs proprietary software should kill itself

>>55242089
>>ftw all newer Intel processors comes with builtin backdoor OS.
>:^)

>>55241894
What kind of security / privacy do you need ?
protecting your self from NSA ? malwares ?
Do you want to only use free stuff ? or do you accept runing non free softwares ?
do you care that the maintainers of a distribution make deals with amazon to provide in built ads and be friend with microsoft ?

There's different point of view toward privacy and security.

For most user, any distribution will gives them more freedom and security.

>>55242118
so you're saying there should be no government in this world ?

>>55242118
>>55242146

This should be a fun watch for you guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

>>55242009
A coworker told me that so it must be true. He wasn't a NEETfag like /g/ is after all.

>>55242146
If they do, they literally give up their control to companies. They can't fix bugs themself, they can't be sure if data isn't manipulated, they are literally cucked out of control. A goverment that runs Windows is a govermenent run by Microsoft.
(excuse being drastic)

>>55242097
>>55242104
So what would you guys recommend?

>>55242136
I am no super hardcore where I need to be running Tails and only browsing through Tor or anything like that, and yeah I'm aware of Canonical implementing amazon shitware into Unity.

If I used Ubuntu it would definitely be one of the derivatives. I don't have any needs outside of the average user, I'm just sick to death of Microsoft's increasingly shitty practices, and want to distance myself as much as is reasonably possible.

>>55242216
You quoted the distro I'd recommend

Also this is a good read
>>55241018

>>55242194
you're not drastic, your right. I live in France, and microsoft gave 20M € to France to help financing start ups. The day after that, the minister of the education proudly made a picture of her with one of the microsoft guy signing a paper to buy new licences of windows for all public school in France.

Same for the hospitals that went with windows.

In those two cases they never made invintation to tender ? to see if a company could provide a better offer than microsoft.

And more recently but not related to /g/ our government voted against the taxation of oil palm.

Our government is shit and people are stupid and focus on the wrong stuff.


protip : don't think it's different in your country.

>>55241894
How important is security to you? Why? Just curious.

>>55242184
i wonder if his reasoning has something to do with the french word "caché". If you leave the é out though an have an e instead, it'd sound more like cush (the u sounds like in cunt)

>>55242265
I just wrote >>55242216

>>55242180
this is nice

>>55241834
And you think unstable is more stable than testing, which is supposed to be more stable than Sid?

Stable -> Testing -> Unstable
That's how the rabbit runs.

>>55242373
just use arch

Hey /fglt/, I'm posting here again in the hopes of getting an answer to my problem.

I have a couple of TrueCrypt encrypted volumes, that I would normally access to using the following command alone:

$ sudo cryptsetup --type=tcrypt --tcrypt-hidden open /path/to/container container-name

But after entering the passphrase for the hidden volume I get the following error:

Device /dev/loop0 is too small.

HOWEVER, I figured this only happens to my 4.3gb volume, I've tried it with a smaller volume (2,1gb ) and it still works perfectly. So I tried it again on the bigger volume but this time with the --debug option, after entering the passphrase I get the following output:

http://pastebin.com/qmWivtGi (had to paste it here, since it's too long for a 4chan comment)

So right now I'm lost, not knowing what to do, I've tried plenty of other commands but none have worked so far. Would seriously appreciate whatever help you can offer.

Thanks in advance.

>>55242304
No. But it does get fixes quicker, probably including your Xfce bug. In testing you can wait a long time before that gets through

I'm using lubuntu and trying to install Japanese input with ibus, but I can't find text entry settings. Any help?

After a few hours and a sore head, I've finally joined the club. Maybe Arch was a bit heavy for a first linux install but i'm interested in learning it. Anyways, feels good.

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>>55242622

forgot image

Should I use apt over apt-get? Today I upgraded my new Debian testing system and apt gave package collision error messages and aborted the process while apt-get simply upgraded without any error.

>>55242702
just use apt-get i dont see why you would ever use apt

>>55242622
I always find it weird that someone start using linux with arch.

>>55242622
>>55242648
Welcome

>>55242808

I think you're probably right, I spent a while trying to decide, Arch looked interesting so I just went with that. I suppose I can change if I hate it but I quite like it so far (might just be because i'm new)

>>55242598
never mind I figured it out

Running Debian testing on my old shitty laptop and going to upgrade from my shitty HDD to an 850 evo SSD.

Do i need to do any tweaks? activate trim? drivers/packages? anything?

>>55239480
>more current packages
which one do you need?

>>55243135
no, no, no and no

Is manjaro good for an old laptop? If not, what distros would you recommend that are light on resources but not with '90s feel?

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>mfw i just clicked on "Reset warnings" in VirtualBox

Is there a way to make a script run after init 3, that is compatible with both systemv and systemd?

So I just installed Arch Linux and Firefox...
Is there any way in Firefox to delay the loading of background tabs? It's extremely annoying when opening youtube links in background for watching them later and having to pause each manually...

>>55243697
disable autoplay media

>>55243777
Yes, media.autoplay.enabled in about:config fixed this. Thanks!
Is there a more general approach to this rather than just stopping media autoplay?

>>55243844
maybe not loading background tabs until you click on them? I'm pretty sure there is a config that enables/disables this

So I got this wget script here and I'd like to redirect the output to another folder. This is what I got atm and it does not work.

wget -q -O - $1 | sed "s/>/>\n/g" | grep "eThum" | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | sed -e "s/href=\"/http:/g;s/.$//" | wget -P $2 -q -i -

>>55243844
I'm on Windows and on Chrome, but if I mouse wheel click the tab it doesn't play until I click on it. Does that work for you?

>>55243697
This question would belong in the Friendly Navigator/Firefox thread.

>>55243901
This is a little convoluted. Why not just cd to the target folder, run wget, then cd back to the previous folder?

I don't even know where to start with this.
Sudo and su cannot be run,stating it does not exist(i can mlocate them, i can see them in a file manager).
If i change their permissions from 4777 to 333 i then get permission denied.
I cannot login to any getty using either root or my user account.
I have not updated anything.
I havent rebooted on the fear that i will not be able to login.
What did i do?

>>55243897
There is in Windows, can't find it in neither the regular preferences nor in about:config though.
>>55243901
That's exactly the behaviour I'd wish for (former Opera user which did exactly this, probably Chrome as well) but I can't find the setting in FF on Linux
>>55243980
Most likely true, hang on I'll try to locate such a thread...
>catalog
>search "firefox"
>>55236541
I'd rather not

>>55244055
Misclicked, wanted to reference >>55243964

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>>55243980
I-I-I-I did not know I could do that anon. Why did I not know I could cd in a bash script anon.

>>55244055
You may need to create it but

browser.tabs.loadInBackground

is the config option you're looking for.set it to false

>>55244074
It's fine, you're among friends.

Fun fact: It won't affect the terminal you ran your script from, so the user won't even notice.

>>55244076
If I set it to false (it's already present, set to true) all tabs I open with mouse wheel click open in the foreground.
Desired behaviour is mouse wheel click -> open background tab -> load when activated.

>>55244116
Yeah it works exactly like I want it to. Cheers mate.

>>55244012
333 is r--r--r--, no?
Maybe you should set x for su for at least one user?
Did you fuck up your $PATH to not include /bin/?

>>55244155
333 is -wx -wx -wx

>>55244155
rwx 421

>>55243278
It's good, depends on what you try to run on it though. Definitely better than WinXP though.

>>55244121
So when you open a new tab, it automatically goes to the new tab with focus, instead of going in to the background out of focus?

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>>55243125
Solution to this?

>>55244196
Yes, that's what this switch does apparently.

Getting "failed to find cpu0 device node" error while trying to install manjaro. Help?

>>55244155
>333
I did that in an effort to see if it does exist,which it does since its throwing permission denied. It is normally 4755. which then says it does not exist

I don't think anything in path is incorrect.
/etc/profile:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin"

.bashrc:

PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

>>55244260
Install a CPU on your computer.

>>55244266
I was thinking it could be CPU architecture? There are only i686 and x86_64 versions of Manjaro.

>>55244298
What is your architecture? Most CPUs are x86_64 compatible, unless you're working on a small single-purpose digital device?

>>55244262
PATH should contain /bin/ I guess...
Try /bin/su in bash, that might work

how can i get steam running on arch64? i set the STEAM_RUNTIME variable to 0 as suggested in the wiki and have installed the steam-libs package from the AUR but it still tells me i need libpulse.so.0

when i download THAT package and try to install it starts telling me there are conflicting packages (assuming these are the 64 bit packages? but i have no clue) and am too scared to replace them.

do i need to make 32-bit chroot? nothing on the arch wiki suggests that i should, but i'm a little out of my depth. any help would be appreciated -- my gaming machine is dead and i can't afford to fix it just yet

>>55244321
Working with this CPU http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron_M/Intel-Celeron%20M%20440%20LF80538NE0361ME%20%28BX80538440%29.html

>>55244397
Nevermind.
Still, try /bin/su, it might work. I'll just go sleep now.

>>55244405
I'm not an expert but I think this should be able to run the i686 version. Is that what you're attempting?

>>55244397
/bin and /sbin are symlinked to /usr/bin
As well as /lib and /lib32 are symlinked to /usr/lib. Distro changed this years ago, it's not something im doing out of the scope of what the distro is configured for.
Running the full path still presents the same errors

>>55244447
Yes. I'm gonna try USB full install now. Was using CD NET install, but I don't think it'll make any difference

>>55244404
>wiki;should do
You should follow it and not mindlessly type in commands.

Enable multilib on /etc/pacman.conf
Sounds like you need pulseaudio and lib32-libpulse

>chroot
No.

Can't find a whole lot of info about GPT partitions for Arch, what's worked for me on VMs in the past is

100m BIOS boot(just where I install GRUB)
swap partition with 1/2 RAM size
rest in ext4

So on my current system dual booting with Win10 the drive would look like this after running cfdisk:

P1-499M EFI
P2-128M Microsoft reserved
P3- 2xxG Microsoft basic data
P4-100M BIOS boot
P5-2xxG Linux filesystem (which I would then change to ext4)
P6-8G swap
P7-450M windows recovery environment
P8-10.4G windows recovery environment

That sound like a reasonable plan, or should I do something differently?

>>55244545
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#GUID_Partition_Table_.28GPT.29_specific_instructions

>>55244469
Problem was with Manjaro apparently. Installing Debian with no problems so far.

>>55244562
Haha oh man, I had that page open in a different window and somehow totally missed it. Good to know my plan should work, thanks!

>Just installed Ubuntu
>vi's insert shortcut is not i
>I keep getting stuck in edit modes I don't understand

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>55234325
>install ubuntu
>continue to use google services

Why is the botnet so convenient?

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>>55244545
Did it pretty much the same recently on my Win10 machine and it worked just fine. The only problem I had was that my USB stick refused to boot in UEFI mode until I messed around with the .efi files on it, but that's another issue.

>>55244931
>have 20 drives
>have 4 paritions
Jesus christ

>>55244931
Yeah I'm installing on a Dell XPS 13 right now and in order to boot from the USB and actually see the SSD partitions I had to turn off secure boot and Intel's proprietary RAID bullshit in the BIOS

I fucked myself over nicely, while installing Ubuntu, I unintentionally set it to boot from uefi rather than bios, and now I no longer have a bootloader to get into Windows from. Is there anyway to fix it or just reinstall windows? I have Ubuntu on a separate drive if it changes anything

>>55244949
Are you referring to sda? Windows setup pretty much auto-creates the first 3 partitions for boot/recovery/etc.

Has anybody had the issue of not being able to find "NIT.IN" when attempting to compile xcb to install i3-gaps?

So if I'm reading this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dual_boot_with_Windows#UEFI_systems
correctly, I should be mounting the EFI directory from Windows 10 to /boot and then installing GRUB to /boot/efi, right?

So
mount /dev/nvme0n1P1 /boot
install-grub /boot/efi

is that right or would I fuck up my windows install?

>>55244804
Can someone help me with this? I can't figure out how to change the shortcut back.

>>55244804
>>55245156
>vi
Just use Vim. It's much nicer.

How do i get rid of the 'l' in file permissions, no matter what i set it never goes away

>>55245216
Vi is Vim. GNU/Linux does not have an actual "Vi" because Vi proprietary.

>>55245279
>because Vi is proprietary

and now we see the issue

>>55245279
>Vi is Vim
No it's not. They're different programs.
>GNU/Linux does not have an actual "Vi" because Vi proprietary
vi is a standard POSIX tool. Sure, there are non free implementations of vi, but the GNU one isn't one of them.

Hey guys I'm scum when it comes to computer technology and know absolutely nothing when it come to computers will someone please help me get started I'm capable of learning just don't know where to start will y'all grant me the honor of helping this noob learn and become at least slightly educated on the subject Thank you

>>55245333
I stand corrected.

Still I want to know how to mofidy vi shortcuts. It seems like an useful skill. For all I know I fucked up the vi shortcut by accident.

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I recently bought a used E4310.
How bad of an idea would be to install gentoo on it?

>>55245368
what do you need help with? download any distro (it doesn't matter really) and get a book on linux and just start from there.

>>55245152
pls guys

>>55245404
>install gentoo
>bad idea

yeah ok there buddy

>>55245404
Why would it be a bad idea?

Can someone tell me who is the special snowflake who decided that GNU/Linux distros shouldn't be bundled with their kernel headers, when they're required to install any kernel module? There's low-level and then there's making things complicated for no reason.

Hmm how do I describe this Like idk what a distro is I'm like an infant using the computer and is genuinely like to learn how it all works like I'm talking from the ground up like basic training type shit I really want to learn if I get a book on Linux that'll help?

>>55245503
You're seriously pushing the fucking envelope.

>>55245152
>>55245480
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=METZCp_JCec
If in doubt, look at pajeet's guide. And with a bootable Windows image you can fix the bootloader in the case of a fuckup anyway.

>>55245503
a distro is a distribution. GNU/Linux comes in many flavours. just download ubuntu MATE and get a dummies guide book for linux.

>>55245503
Maybe you should start out by just reading some wiki articles and see where that takes you.

You can also install systemd/Linux on a VM on your current system and mess around with it.
Also http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

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>>55245632
>systemd/Linux

Sometimes randonly, sometimes when waking from sleep the cursor freezes. This happens on both my USB Logitech mouse and my Deathadder 3.5G. Distro is Debian Testing, DE is KDE.

>>55245632
thanks im downloading it now and going to see where it takes me i work IT but literally dont know shit but it is the army im tired of not understanding shit just trying to move forward ya know

>>55245592
#TYBASEDPAJEET

for real, though, this is perfect, but he's doing a lot of things differently that I don't feel like undoing and redoing so I'm going to boot back into Win10, delete all the Arch partitions I have set up and start over tomorrow. Thanks a bunch, man

>>55245714
do you not understand punctuation either because your posts are all one really weird run on sentence and there's not even any commas in them which makes it very confusing it reads like you're on meth and talking too fast how do you work in IT when you can't even type properly nah I'm just playin it's the army i know they don't care that much

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>>55245869

Is there anything better than virtualbox on windows thats free?

>>55244212
Steps I followed:
Install Japanese in language support
Install ibus and ibus anthy in package manager
Choose ibus as keyboard input method
Log out then log back in
Go to ibus preferences (in same menu as language support)
Click input method
Click add
Find and add Japanese - Anthy

Now you should be able to change to the Japanese IME by clicking the language icon on the panel.