/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>>58130728
>* Resources:
>$ man <insert command here>
>$ info <insert command here>
>$ help <insert command here>
Should also include
man -k <insert something here>
and
apropros <insert something here>
if you cant find what you're looking for

got a '09 ctd mac mini running el capitan currently, thinking of installing debian on it.
Is it worth it or should I just stick with OSX?

PLEASE! HELP!

I spent 2 hrs trying to figure this out! !!

My DE and terminal is somehow gone but file manager and everything else works.

>>58130769
>My DE and terminal is somehow gone
what de and what terminal?
how are you using a file manager without a DE already running?

I don't know any language but bash well so I'm using bash.
I have a script that will find all the FLAC files I have in a directory, encode them to Vorbis, and move the Vorbis file into a directory hierarchy based on the tags in the FLAC file.
Problem I have (other than the date value being screwy if it exists) is that some FLAC files have id3 tags, and this throws oggenc into error. I have the fix for that, but I don't know how to implement it into my code.
How do I make bash recognize that a command exited in error, and if and only if it happens, call another function that will be my fix?

if [[ ! return_status = 0 ]]; then
fixityoufaggot
fi

seems obvious, but how do you get that value for the return status?
Also how come I have a bunch of FLAC files that can be played and play wonderfully but flac itself says they're corrupted?

What does Stallman actually use his laptop for anyway

>>58130798
$? is the bash return status

>>58130798
You can ask for the exit status with $?, but just use:

command1 || command2

command2 will only run when command1 fails

>>58130785
Ok ill start from last thread.

1. I tried updating Arch but screen went black on laptop and I turned it off like a retard
2. Chroot'ed to fix fix kernel being corrupted or something
3. Now I boot and I have the login page thing(idk what it's called) fine, I log in and see background, can right click to open file manager etc BUT TERMINAL *CANNOT* OPEN, and can't see my de panel

Hope this makes sense. I'm very confused and stuck. Please help.

>>58130811
He's blogging alot: https://stallman.org/rss/rss.xml

>>58130831
just use a normal distro. like red hat based or debian based. Theres literally 0 reason to fuck around with that stuff and wast your time

>>58130811
replying to emails mostly

>>58130855
It's the first time it's ever happened and it's because I'm an idiot

I just need help fixing it please guys

>>58130811
Fighting for freedom.

>>58130866
If I was you I'd just backup and reinstall. It's not like it takes that long anyway.

>>58130882
It can't be that big of a fix.

It boots fine it's just something really weird going on.

>>58130767
I recently upgraded the hardware in an 06 mini and installed FreeBSD. Werks gud.

>>58130890
Try reinstalling your whole DE.

>>58130914
Says files already exist

Wasn't sure if I should delete them

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>>58130811

>>58130923
clear pacman's cache or whatever it uses to tell what files you do or do not have.
Or just install a distro whose package manager doesn't cut corners so teenagers can circlejerk about muh fast.

Which flavor of Ubuntu respects my privacy and doesn't have Amazon spyware on it? Or st least how do I remove all of it

>>58131099
"spyware" in this sense is a fearmongering buzzword. If you don't want your search results sent to Amazon, just turn it off with the switch.

>>58131128
It is spyware though, otherwise the webrowser would just have Amazon as a default bookmark link or homepage not integrated into the OS itself.

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>>58131099
ubuntu mate
fucking do it NOW

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>>58130831
>tfw no one will ever help me

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what kind of asshole uses a computer while on a boat? why does that commie fuck even bother ro go outside?

>>58131204
because you're trying to fix a piece of shit broken arch system and you cant even provide the bear minumum of details required to help you. I already told you just install a distro that works. Stop trying to hack together a bunch of retarded shit

>>58131222
But I gave you the details
what else do you need

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>>58130963

>>58131155
It's not integrated into the OS itself you fard. It's a function of a feature of a desktop environment and it has an off switch.

>>58130728
Is that a real photo? Why is he on his fucking laptop when he should be enjoying the nature around him?

>>58131252
dude really arch is not for you if you think that what you said is enough detail. Just use ubuntu or windows you wont lose any hacker cred. You have no idea what you're doing

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>>58131215
Remember that he uses a Thinkpad

>>58131285
So how else am I suppose to learn?

Sorry bud not a pro hecker like you, first time I had this problem so I'm not so sure about hoe to diagnose and fix

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>>58131322
>So how else am I suppose to learn?
Install centos or fedora or even ubuntu maybe and read a book like this. That way you can learn to do real stuff linux is actually useful for. Not spend hours ricing out your desktop like a faggot.

>>58131266
Just look at him. Do you think he is even capable of that?

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>>58131215
>w-why do you go outside reee

>>58131436
good meme
>>>/r/gaming

>>58130923
>Says files already exist
Is it refusing to install them because they exist in the filesystem?
How exactly did you "install" it?
It is refusing because there are already files existing that the install would install, which according to pacman, is not in the database, which is why its refusing.

Just do a fresh install, you hosed something

>>58132711
np

>>58130798
you can just do "[ $? ]"
0 is interpreted as false by default, as is non-zero interpreted as true, so you don't need to explicitly say "not equal to 0"

So, on debian, I know I cant just change 'unstable' to 'testing' in sources and expect it to work, BUT
what if I didnt update at all for a little bit, untill all my packages are behind their current versions on testing, and THEN do that?
Would it work? How long would I have to wait?

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What's the best linux book for a newbie to learn more.

Should be enlightening, rewarding and entertaining.

>>58134075

Why do you want to get into kernel hacking? Such books aren't "entertaining". They're technical and concise.

>>58130811
all things EMACS

So I need a persistent linux on my USB. How do I go about this? Like I know I can create a persistent bootable Ubuntu on my USB but I can also literally install Ubuntu on the USB and I'll pretty much achieve the same thing but with better security (since I can make a user) and it's literally having an Ubuntu install in your pocket and I can change it however I want. Which one should I go for? Any performance difference?

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 that's connected to my home network along with my Windows 10 desktop computer. The Win10 computer has loads of movies in shared folders, and I've installed VLC (don't hate cuz I don't give a fuck).

What does the URL look like when I want to open a network resource? Let's say that in Windows the URL would look like this:
\\mycomp\folder1\folder2\file.mkv
What does a corresponding link look like when trying to open the same file on my Raspberry Pi in VLC?

why did none of you inform me emerging plasma would take so long.

>>58133007
Yeah that would work, 1-2 months to be safe, but then the huge update may break the system

>>58134268
raspi is just another computer running debian. Debian is just another gahnoo+loonix distro running Samba/smbfs.

And entering "how to mount sm" in google already autocompletes to "how to mount smb shared on raspberry pi"


So, why did you buy a dev board if you aren't even willing to try?

>>58134338
I am trying. Right now. By asking you. I haven't touched Linux before, so I don't know how to formulate the question yet, anything I could come up with gave me nothing. Thanks, now I have some keywords to work with.

Hello, everyone.

I'm looking for some insights to this certain problem. I have an ATI Radeon HD 4200 for GPU. I've used F23 with open source graphics and never had any problem. I've played games in Steam and watched Netflix/Youtube with no problems. But now that I reinstalled my system for F25(didn't want to upgrade again), Steam has random freezes, either in the client itself, either during a gameplay. Sometimes I can play for hours without a freeze, sometimes right when I start the game.
The mesa drivers have been updated at least three times already, I've had 2 Steam client updates, and none of those fixed it.
I tried:
- Going back to the oldest kernel available in GRUB;
- Reinstalling everything 5 times;
I can't install proprietary drivers for my GPU because the installation requires kernel > 3.6 or something, and my Fedora is on kernel 4.8.
I really like Fedora, it's probably the best distro I've used, but this is driving me nuts.
What about Debian? Wil I be able to at least use proprietary graphics?

Also, whenever I initialize my system, I get a Failed to Start Load Kernel Modules, but I've looked it up and it's VirtualBox related stuff, and I don't use it.

>>58134821
>requires kernel > 3.6
>my Fedora is on kernel 4.8

i don't see how that is a problem

>>58134951
>using a kernel
LOL

>>58134960
and in you go >>>/trash/

>>58134951
Sorry, I'm a retard. kernel < 3.6

so there's nothing different kubuntu and ubuntu right?
just the DE?

>>58134990
correct

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>>58134972
>>58134821

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Hello everyone.
I'm looking for freedom.

>>58131293
dog bless chinkpads

>>58135298
www.gnu.org

>>58135298
Install Trisquel

>>58134075
kys

why are you not running debian MATE?

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I've had it with GTK+/Gnome

Typing in the file chooser now searches the current folder recursively.

Hundreds of complains from users.

Marked WONTFIX

Ubuntu seems to have effectively forked GTK now, reverting the change

The best course of action seems to be switching to Qt based software. Hopefully someone ports Firefox to Qt as well.

>>58135454
Chromium is webkit

DE enviroment by its defintion also include apps like libre office etc. Is there a way you can manually select apps which you want installed?

>>58135479
Chromium uses GTK as well

>>58135490
It depends on the distribution but most allow you to install the desktop without office, GIMP, etc

>>58135501
GTK2, which is under deep freeze. However it respects KDE's file chooser dialog

>>58135479
>Chromium is shit
FTFY

Guys, I really need your help. I'm in the process of installing Void Linux (manually) and I've reached the last step: setting up grub. I've had problems with this piece of shit in the past and it's no different now. The command I'm supposed to use is

# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=void_grub --boot-directory=/boot --recheck --debug

It always outputs "executing modprobe -q efivars" followed by "EFI variables are not supported on this system". If I manually run "modprobe efivars" it says it cannot find the module in /lib/modules/4.5.2_1 (uname -r is that). That's because the installed kernel is 4.8.15_1 (also the modules in /lib/modules belong to that version) but the running kernel used by the liveCD is 4.5.2_1. I've tried "modprobe --set-version=4.8.15_1 efivars", then the error doesn't occur right away but does so again when running the grub-install command. What do?

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>>58135597
I...
I don't disagree

>>58131346
Or ZorinOS
Or PCLinuxOS
Or Mageia
Or Korora

There are so many distros to choose from. I love that.

>>58135511
so if i start manually installing a DE on debian, it will ask me whether or not i want to install a certain software?

>>58135720
The xfce4 package at least does not pull LibreOffice

Only task-xfce-desktop does
All the task-*-desktop meta packages aim to provide a complete office desktop

I want to bind the little back key on my thinkpad to be home.
Why is this so hard on Linux? There aren't any gui packages, and all the command line hacks don't work. Changing a registry option will fix it on windows in seconds, and xbindkeys and xdotool look like arse compared to what AutoHotKey can do. I want to make alt+j send a left arrow key, but that sounds impossible.
I like Linux, guys, I really do. Can someone just help me make my keyboard work like it does in Windows?

I'm trying to give chromium a try instead of firefox but I'm stuck. I use vimperator in firefox and I am finding it difficult to find an alternative for chromium. I know there is cvim and vimium.
Cvim looks very promising but it seems that quickmarks don't work with numbers which is pretty shit as the ones I use most are bound to numbers.
vimium doesn't seem to have quickmarks. I read something suggesting that global marks can be used in the same way but I can't get them to work in the same way.

Am I missing something? Any other viable options? Or how can I get quickmark numbers working in cvim?

Fell for the wayland meme. It's pretty good desu.

>>58130728
I'm reading about setting up OpenVPN on GNU/Linux. So do I actually have to setup an OpenVPN server just to connect to a VPN? I'm confused because I just want to connect and everywhere keeps talking about setting up both a client and server

>>58135671
jesus christ! i never want to see this image again! vsmdh men aren't designed to be this cute! uh, regards to the dad too.

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>>58131254

>>58136118
Is the compositing good nuff?

>>58134268
Use moba xterm and you can just access it from your desktop

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Best xfce distro?

how to install cmus themes ? :(

>>58136679
gentoo

>>58136699
cmus is half top, half kek

either get moc or set up mpd with ncmpcpp

>>58136739
>mpd with ncmpcpp
it tells me "connections denied" when i try to open it
can't figure out why, thats why im using cmus

>>58136799
That's also why you will never have fun with GNU/Linus. Try to fix things instead of installing other software.

Your problem may be that mpd by default runs as root service, stop it and make it a user service.

i just installed arch and somehow some commands i put into the terminal don't work what do? i'm using fish as my shell if it matters,,,

>>58137002
try if it works with gnome-terminal for example

>>58136279
Seems like it so far.

>>58136699
press 7, scroll past the keybindings, change the colours

>>58137033
that's my terminal, i'm trying

make && nofity-send 'Finished!'

but i get an error

when i switch to bash it works, what happened?

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>>58137050
ahhhhhh okay
ty

>>58137052
>what happened?
you used fish in not 2006

What to use, PulseAudio or ALSA?
I want to delete one of them so they wouldn't confuse me.

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>>58137258
You use pulse on top of alsa.

>>58137258
pulse and alsa arent two different programs
you use pulse to fix the downsides of alsa

>>58137258
use pulse; so you can delete alsa and blame all your problems on pulse

>>58137258
>hey /g/, i heard systemd is bad, how to remove????
>i'm on arch if it matters

what is the best distro for gaming?

>>58137664
gentoo

>>58137664
imagination

I have been using Solus for the last while and was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how build CDE from source. It seems remarkably convoluted.

>>58130831
Tried creating a new user?

>>58137758
ask Kevin.

>>58137258
pulseaudio runs on top of alsa you dummy

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I have Lenovo Y700 and it has a subwoofer (.png related for bullies that will make fun of me):

It doesn't work on any distro, and the Dolby Audio driver makes sound on Windows 100x better.

Is it possible to set up a virtual machine purely for Movies/Music/Youtube etc.?

>>58138062
Of course, I mean without the Linux sound issues and a working subwoofer.

>>58137258
ur a little dumb dumb, rn't u

>>58137296
kek

If you're not using one of these distros
> Arch
> Void
> Gentoo
> Exherbo
> Slackware
> CRUX
> stali
> LFS
you need to leave /g/ and preferably end yourself.

>>58138781
Donald Knuth uses Ubuntu and
Linus Torvalds uses Fedora

>>58138911
They are above the law.

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I am ready to take the dive and get started on installing Gentoo.

My question is: How do I format a flash drive, in a GNU/Linux environment, to boot as a UEFI disk?

My laptop is set to boot from UEFI entries only, although that can be changed if necessary. I'm downloading the Stage 3 Tarball as we speak, and I don't know if dd'ing the image onto the drive is all that is necessary to get the ball rolling.

Are there steps to performing this task, or is it simply smarter to allow BIOS entries and then just install Gentoo that way?

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>>58138781
Superior to all other distros ! Superior to all other distros ! Superior to all other distros ! Superior to all other distros ! Superior to all other distros ! Superior to all other distros ! Superior to all other distros !Superior to all other distros !Superior to all other distros !

>>58138958
dd if=image.is of=/dev/sdX
why is that so hard?

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Does linux have this settting or can I make the distro do this on it?

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>>58138977
>>58138781
>>58139002
FUCKING NIIIIIIGGER !

>>58138977
I wasn't sure if my drive would show up as a UEFI entry if I dd'ed the image.
I know I had a problem like that with a different image a couple of months ago.

Thank you for your kind response.

>>58138781
>>58138941
Stallman uses gNewSense, a Debian derivative
James Gosling uses Ubuntu and OS X

>>58138911
and that's why they don't browse /g/

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i have an old razer deathadder mouse and every time i restart my computer, i must type two commands in terminal to give it a normal sensitivity. can someone explain to me what exactly i need to do, so that on startup those commands will execute automatically?

i searched everywhere on the internet and even asked in /g/ a couple of times but all i got were half-assed answers that didn't help at all.

>>58139103
Is /g/ the wrong place for productive computer scientists?

>>58139165
if they don't use >>58138781, then no.

>>58139138
have you tried adding the commands to your .xinitrc?

>>58139188
Why? What is the reasoning behind it?
I don't know anyone productive who uses Arch or Gentoo

>>58139223
maybe you should lurk more before posting

So today I did an update and there was a xorg update. Now I can't play any videos at all, after some seconds mpv freezes and I have to manually kill it.

It seems to be this bug:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52157

I'm using Debian testing with XFCE and even with composite disable it still freeze out.

Any ideas?

>>58139212
where is .xinitrc and how do i edit it?

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>>58139317
...

>>58139317
you make it

put it in your user directory

>>58139571
>>58139317
or just make a script with the commands you need to run in it and have it autorun somehow

>>58139382
fuck you man :(
this is what i mean when i get half-assed answers:
>>58139625
>>58139571

i made it, put it in my user directory, wrote the lines i need, still didn't work.
is there some program that is supposed to read xinit?

>>58139910
You dont need to be spoonfed exactly what to do, you can figure out how to make a script autostart with a search engine
I found it on the first page of a search for 'autostart script ubuntu'
you can also easily find out what xinitrc is and see whether or not it seems like unity actually uses it in the same way.
the internet is not a genie that answers your questions and tells you how to fix your problems, it just has the information you need to do so on it.

>>58140071
>>58139317
.xinitrc would not apply to (non-minimal CD) Ubuntu. Whta you want is .profile or .xprofile (check first with a search engine)

>>58140135
why not just
https://askubuntu.com/questions/48321/how-do-i-start-applications-automatically-on-login
thats what I was thinking he should do

>>58140168
That works too.

>>58140168
Unless this wouldnt work with a script, in which case unity must be shittier even than I had thought.
.profile or .xprofile would probably work though.

Gonna try asking this here:
What's a good theme for Ubuntu that has a dark shade of Magenta? Or at least something like it that's easy on the eyes

>>58140135
>>58140071
>>58139317
~/.xsessionrc gets always executed, no matter if you use a predefined session or plain startx
Use it to extend PATH and the like

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>>58139279
>Any ideas?
Use the proprietary drivers.

>>58140474
>denying others' freedom

>>58140168
thank you this worked
>>58140071
at least i found how to tune my sensitivity without wasting your precious time. the internet might not be a genie but it has helpful people like >>58140168

>>58140498
Whatever, dumbass.

>>58140521
all three of those links are me lmao

>>58140595
lel. then be the good guy that i saw in you

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>>58138781

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>graphical boot

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If i encrypt a file using:

gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo aes256 files.tar.gz

Is it enough security from tech-savy people? Can they decrypt it or exploit it without a passphrase? I want to store some sensitive information on a txt.

>>58137664
so far manjaro worked best for me

>>58140785
More than enough.

Arch Linux is the only non cucked distribution.

>>58140785
Child pornography is wrong and you should stop watching it.

>>58140829
that would be Manjaro

>>58140829
the OpenRC version yes

>>58140840
Loli isn't CP, retard.

does youtube-dl still give the channel a view?

trying to hook it up to my youtube RSS feed by downloading, playing back and deleting every video I want to watch while not giving the creator a penny

>>58136679
the arch anywhere xfce is riced tf out and pretty badass to be honest

>>58140840
Nice meme, i think you have problems yourself if you think this much about CP.

>>58140825
Also I forgot to add, I'm going to upload that file on a gDrive or some other Cloud (backup), i just want to store bitcoin private keys securely. So i wonder if this enough security if the file gets leaked on the internet.

>>58136679
Manjaro

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>>58140930
Did you try not giving a shit?

>>58140845
>>58140950
>Memejaro

>>58140956
>t. asshurt youtuber

>>58140961
it's literally Arch without being a pain in the ass

>>58140935
>Also I forgot to add, I'm going to upload that file on a gDrive or some other Cloud (backup), i just want to store bitcoin private keys securely. So i wonder if this enough security if the file gets leaked on the internet.

The cipher and software are the best available.
Just choose a good password.

I think most bitcoin wallets can encrypt the private key for you.

>>58140988
and the packages are held back longer.
Antergos is literally arch.
why not just use arch anywhere, though?
No, thats a real question. My computer is running antergos right now and I'm thinking of reinstaling with some iso like arch anywhere just because
I probably wont, but im curious

>>58141063
I don't understand this meme. Arch isn't hard to install. It takes like 25 minutes tops. It's following a simple guide. Are people really that lazy?

>>58141063
>why not just use arch anywhere, though?
why use arch anywhere. though?

>>58140930
>does youtube-dl still give the channel a view?
Yes. A view is counted by the IP if you not logged in or by the user is you are logged in.

Youtube only pays if you visualize ads and youtube-dl ignore them.

So it does give a view but doesn't give shekels.

>>58141632
ehh
that'll do

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How to get into bitcoin? Every single trading platform requires nonfree.pizza javascript to make transaction. I wont trust my money to hipster sites with 6mb of obfuscated code behind fucking landing so i can't even buy some BTC in order to start.
Can I trust online wallets like Electrum, or should I download entire transactions chain over 65 GB's in size to be safe? Is any fellow /g/entooman here uses cryptocurrency? Pls tell me wat do because here's so much of information and i'm kinda confused thank you.

>>58130750
And |most for colored man pages, man most to find out more, and alias man='PAGER=most man' so you don't have to do it anymore and--

>>58141779
Dont use an online broker
manage it locally. You can send/receive using a local program

so I'm thinking of making the switch from W10 to Linux because fuck Microsoft, but I still need W10 for muh vidya
I've heard it's possible to make a VM that goes straight to the hardware so you can run shit with minimal loss of performance, is there a guide for this somewhere? I know jack shit about QEMU
also would it be possible to make an image of my current W10 machine and then redeploy it as a VM in Linux or would I be stuck with a full reconfig? Fortunately I'm not dumb enough to install all muh gaymes on the OS drive, I've kept it under 200GB
I know how to do this in a microsoft environment or on to bare metal, but I'm not sure if it's possible in this scenario since I need W10 to re-activate using the key in my motherboard
Thanks for putting up with my noobishness

>>58142195
Chances are your CPU doesn't even support it. Don't bother.

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>>58139002
Of course it does

>>58142195
>is there a guide for this somewhere?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
If you are not doing performance intensive tasks why not just use virtualbox? It has seamless mode

>>58142246
What's the exact feature it needs?

>>58142295
>If you are not doing performance intensive tasks why not just use virtualbox? It has seamless mode
I sort of am though
I want to be able to play stuff like The Witcher 3 on high settings
Thanks for the link, but does this only apply to Arch? I was planning on using OpenSUSE or Debian

Lads need some help what do about

idconfig: File /usr/lib/libxfce4panel-1.0.so is empty, not checked.
 

Errors? It does that for a bunch of files.

>>58142338
OpenSUSE may not be newbie friendly
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/virtualization/book.virt_color_en.pdf
>Debian
lol okay
https://wiki.debian.org/VGAPassthrough

Protip: Arch has the most complete, well maintained and universal wiki.

Mind that it is a 400 level task so you need patience for this

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hello i am trying to install debian and it is stuck partitioning ext4 file system on 33% for well over 4 hours now

this doesn't feel normal, but forums say otherwise

is there any way to make it finish faster?

it is thinkpad x200

Why no official flgt irc channel? Even mechanical keyboard faggots have one.

>>58142338
>What's the exact feature it needs?
iommu

>>58142411
Not normal, restart installation. Don't fall for wiping your hard drive securly meme. It takes time. Just do quick format instead

>>58142441
Is it 2003 again?

>>58142426
THose always get taken over by reddit.

>>58142351
When I try pacman -Qo on it says no package owns it.

>>58142382
>lol okay
is there something wrong with Debian?
also I'm guessing you'd recommend Arch for this and I'm open to using it, but I've heard it's even less newbie friendly than OpenSUSE

>>58142441
>iommu
I was under the impression that AMD-V covered this, I have an FX-8350 and I was thinking of upgrading to Zen depending on how good it turns out to be
Still not sure how I'd fix the activation issue there though

>>58142516
>even less newbie friendly than OpenSUSE

however will you cope?!!??!

>>58142516
I recommend *buntu

>>58142351
>>58142510
Pls respond

Can't seem to figure out libvte-2.91.so

>>58142529
by using something that makes sense to somebody who wants as seamless a transition as possible

>>58142537
alright, I'll look into it
thanks for the help
Kubuntu seems nice

>>58139102
rms is using trisquel now

>>58142575
opensuse is incredibly newbie friendly

it has a gui for everything

what is the best distro for women???

>>58142571
Pls lads

>>58142501
Dr KDE Shill, where is this quick format option?

all I see is:

Guided - use entire disk (what i had used several times but it always get stuck)
Guided - use entire disk and setup LVM
Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM
Manual

>>58142607
osx

>>58142609
poor lad, your problem is kinda vague. Can you rephrase?

>>58142610
Try picking Guided - use entire disk and setup LVM
It's not supposed to be any different. However are you sure you are not encrypting or securely wiping your disk?

>>58142607
Ubuntu
Linux Mint

>>58142632
It keeps giving me this error and I can't find which package owns this library file.

How can I determine what it pertains to?

>>58130728
Is Arch linux popular with anybody outside of desktop threads?

>>58140474
>>58140498
I actually thought about it, but I haven't had the most pleasure experiences with Debian and proprietary drivers.

Anyhow, if someone has this problem, in the Arch and Debian forums are saying that the solution for now is to downgrade the xorg server.

What I did was this:

Uninstall all xorg related stuff.
Edit sources.list and replace the repositores with the stable ones.
Install all necessary xorg packages.

You'll have to re-edit your source.list and add the original repositories again. But you obviously can't update the xorg server until it gets fix.

>>58142651
Chances are your libxfce4panel has been upgraded and so is not used any more

>>58142632
now it is stuck at 33% with message "Creating ext2 file system for /boot in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda)...

I am really not sure Dr KDE Shill, it is very strange that it gets stuck at 33% so quickly too

>>58142684
This is why I hate GUI installers. I suggest that you try installing Arch. If mkfs command fails you know where it went wrong

>>58142673
Kek fixed it

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>>58142710
So..
What happened there?

Is pacman as intuitive to use as other package managers?
such as DNF, apt, zypper et al.

>>58142702
I am sure it is no so hopeless, but sadly I am not very good with computers

pressing alt F4 to see console, I do see last two lines are:

Dec 23 22:45:41 partman: mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
Dec 23 22:45:41 partman: Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda1

but i do not know how to proceed

>>58142761
>but sadly I am not very good with computers
You shouldn't be installing Debian then. Try Ubuntu first.

>>58142761
Your partition scheme is msdos. Which is okay. I found a similar situation in debian forums and it looks like a bug to me
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/46060/debian-stucks-at-formatting-33

Is it possible to temporarily use a live console? If it is all you have to do is manually create a partition scheme and partition the hard drive

>>58142812
but I thought Debian is also for beginners?

>>58142824
well ok I guess I will have to manually partition the hard drive, although it said that the HD might just be damaged

i figure if Debian is like this, so must the Ubuntu if they are similar right?

>>58142888
>so must the Ubuntu if they are similar right?
Might not be, it's a different installer

>>58142749
It uses letterrs instead of phrases.

pacman -S - install
pacman -Syy- sync with repo
pacman -Syu - sync and then upgrade whole system
Pacman -Rns remove package and delete configuration and dependencies
Pacman -R - remove package, but leave configuration and dependencies.

>>58142948
Don't forget
#pacman -Syu gimp
Updates AND installs the latest gimp

>>58142888
What Debian are you installing?

>>58142985
debian-live-8.6.0-amd64-lxde-desktop

i am still stuck at 33%, just trying to read up on possible solutions right now

>>58143029
Did you try to format the partition manually from the terminal before launching the installer?

>>58143061
no, i don't know how to do that

partitioning is harder than I thought

>>58139317
its in the ~

>>58143086
>http://www.howtogeek.com/106873/how-to-use-fdisk-to-manage-partitions-on-linux/
Read that or install gparted from the terminal and use it to format the partiton and see what it does.

For some reason my wget script doesn't work anymore. Could anyone post an alterative?

I've been using

wget -nv -e robots=off -rHDi.4cdn.org -nc -nd -ERs.jpg,html <thread>

>>58142948
so no then?
is it written by spaniards or something?

>>58143431
>

i.4cdn.org 

I think they changed it

I need some help installing bitmap fonts on Xubuntu 16.10.

https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts

When I put "xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/bitmap" into the terminal, I get the following output:

xset:  bad font path element (#3), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax

What am I doing wrong? It's the right directory.

How do I switch from Marco to Compton in MATE without losing window decorations? I'm stuck with Marco because when I try to switch over, my titlebars disappear.

>>58143586
install xfce

>>58143431
>>58143493
Figured it out, it's "is.4chan.org" now, if anyone cares.

how can I carry the updated list of packages after an apt-get update so I can use it on a fresh install? I`d copy the packages too

>>58142901
>>58143252

ok i think I see problem now, this is apparently confirmed bug:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/02/msg00281.html

"To resolve this I booted from the USB stick again; this time choosing
to write zeroes all over /dev/sdc2 before formatting it. This time the
installation finished without problems."

i did not want to believe that nuking everything with sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda was answer since that seemed to be rm -rf / tier but it just werks now if anybody was curious

man, linux is really wild ride as they say

>>58144088
Debian can be, but since you are installing Stable from now on you shouldn't have any problems.

Expect things like >>58142657 and this >>58139279 when running testing or unstable.

If you don't mess up with anything, stable should be pretty much "maintenance" free.

>>58142575
Dont use kubuntu
KDE Is a great desktop enviornment, but Kubuntus version of it is outdated and is terribly buggy, last I Used it.
KDE neon is ubuntu with not-broken KDE, I think.

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> http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/585665/des-jeux-linux-sous-le-sapin.htm
I translated the interesting part :

Croteam keeps working on the Vulkan version of their game The Talos Principle and the performances are getting better. A new version was released in november followed with a patch in december. Compared to the OpenGL version, players are reporting a growth in performance by 30% to 120% (so more than twice the performances!) according their hardware, and the fps drops are less frequent with Vulkan. With the identical hardware, the linux version with Vulkan is now faster than the Windows version using DX11, but also faster than the Windows Vulkan version !


Thought ? For a long time I thought linux performances were due to bad drivers (still the case for AMD I guess even if they are improving them a lot), but in the end it was just a question of API ?
What will happen when people start using Vulkan and game engines with a vulkan port (unity, unreal engine, cry engine..) ? When AMD and Nvidia will finally release drivers as good as their windows version ? When wayland will become mainstream ?
Linux is already beating windows in performances even if there are still stuff to optimize.


>tfw linux will never be a desktop OS
>tfw linux will become a gaming OS

>>58142732
>So..
>What happened there?

Just went intk my desktop and checked it and reinstalled packages

The last time I used a tiling window manager, I didn't have a great experience. I couldn't figure out how to make the system go to sleep when I closed the laptop, and text looked pretty bad compared to in Cinnamon. This was a couple years ago though.

how do I load missing firmware on a USB for wifi?

on a deb install, it says I'm missing

iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode

I downloaded and have firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all on the USB, and I've tried extracting it to get iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode and iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode individually. But even when those two are on the USB, the installer says it doesn't detect anything and I can't get connected.

Am I suppose to go on Live USB and unpack it or something?

>>58144617
There's a folder called firmware on the debian installer. You should put the files there.

>>58144253
>tfw linux is a kernel

why is wine so hard to setup ? ive been try8ing diferent versions of wine and trying playonlinux just to install warcraft 3 for the past 30 minutes. its a fucking pain in the ass.
what the fuck am i doing wrong?
do i have to run 32bit linux to work this out?

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>>58144611
Was this a question?

how do I open a video from terminal using mpv without the terminal "hanging"?
I want to close the terminal/use it for another stuff

>>58145207
Add a "& disown"

wine: '/home/tete/.wine' is a 64-bit installation, it cannot be used with a 32-bit wineserver.

what does this mean

>>58144617
>ucode
botnet

>>58145225
or he could use terminology and have the video play as the terminal background while he did other shit with the terminal

>>58145238
it means when you set up the wine profile you need to set it up for win64 instead of win32

>>58145251
how else am I supposed to connect to wifi senpai?

>>58145253
hold on
you sayin theres different profiles i have to choose?
i dind du nuffin
maaaaan i thought ubuntu was easy, what the heck

Mac >>>>>> Linux >> Windows

>>58145251
>idk what botnet means but it sounds hackery :D
epic reddit meme

>>58145330
not sure how it's done with just straight wine but with playonlinux when you go to install something it asks about what virtual drive you want to use, and you can use the default, or assign whatever name you want, then choose whether you're going to mimick 32 or 64 bit windows before installing the program

Why does mouse acceleration comes enabled by default in most, if not all of Linux Distros ?

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Hey guys, I have a graphics-related question.

I have been using Debian with i3 on my laptop for a while, and it has worked great. My laptop has an intel integrated gpu, and everything worked out of the box.

Today, I installed Debian (unstable) on my desktop machine, as well. I installed the xfce DE. My desktop has an nvidia GTX 760, and while everything displays properly, I'm noticing some tearing when watching videos. Here are my questions:

1) Should I use the open source (nouveau) drivers, or the closed source nvidia binary drivers? I am using the default nouveau driver right now, but would I notice a difference performance/tearing by switching to nvidia binary drivers? Is the change worth it?

2) What should I do to limit tearing? People have said to use the "compton" compositor to get rid of tearing, but wouldn't this have a bad effect on my performance? Should I use compton with nouveau or the nvidia binary drivers? Is there any special setting in the binary drivers to fix tearing?

I am open to any suggestions.

>>58145356
OSX has shit hardware support.

>>58145474
>"compton" compositor to get rid of tearing
fuck off, /pol/ troll

>>58145502
the fuck?

>>58145496
I write my own drivers but yeah the Apple OSX has shit hardware support

>>58145502
Yeah, I'm not sure if I was getting pissed on, but here's the one I was referred to: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compton

(I'm not using Arch, but the Arch wiki has already helped me a lot with graphics stuff).

I'd really appreciate any help here, I have been using Linux for a while, but never had to delve into any graphics issues before.

>>58145520
the kid is just trying to fit in with his /g/ big bros I suppose anon
use the proprietary drivers,nouveau a shit

>>58145520
see >>58145547

>>58145547
>use the proprietary drivers,nouveau a shit

Any particular reason for this? The nvidia binary drivers look really difficult to set up

>>58145580
it's basically a shitty effort to reverse engineer the cards on the hardware side and construct a driver from that, but it's like poking in a dark room vs having night vision goggles

>>58145586
ok, makes sense

i'll give the proprietary drivers a shot

>>58145642
good luck and fuck commies bro

>>58145653
yes, fuck them my mates

I need to access a linux formatted drive on windows 7

how do I do this

>>58145781
https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

>>58144651
thanks m8 worked like a charm

>>58145781
>linux formatted
What is this?

I have Fedora 25 installed on my Dell Latitude 7275 and for the most part everything has been working fine.
However, I cant seem the integrated webcams working. Anyone have any ideas?

Right now I'm currently using manjaro-arm for raspberry pi but whenever I try to create a new user(and after logging into the new user) it boots into regular ARCH and not manjaro(the theme at least), how do I fix this?

I'm using Arch Linux.

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Hey i tried making a bootable usb of a cracked windows iso and its not booting. its recognized by my pc but i dont know what i did wrong.

>>58146433
This is not the friendly windows thread.

>>58146433
>skype
>chrome
>vivaldi
>win10
holy shit man

>>58146393
sup, me too. im watching animations on my Arch Linux

dead thread

>>58147295
have you considered dying too?

>>58147301
rude

Tried out Linux for the first time yesterday.

I was doing some ricing and goofed up my install, couldn't find out what went wrong so I'm reinstalling right now without a DE.

Hope this doesn't break me.

>>58147520
Linux comes with a DE?

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>tfw you can run gtk3 programs in your browser

This is surprisingly smooth, but I don't understand what the target scenario is for this.

>>58147629
I tried learning vala but holy crap the amount of autism there is severe

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Anyone know of a good discord hack for Linux?

I had some linux discord that was ripped from the browser version, but ts now old and outdated.

Anyone wanna link an updated one?

>Trying to follow instructions on archwiki
>Doesn't work

What do?

Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist:
# cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup and uncomment mirrors for testing with rankmirrors.
Optionally run the following sed line to uncomment every mirror:
# sed -i 's/^#Server/Server/' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
Finally, rank the mirrors. Operand -n 6 means only output the 6 fastest mirrors:
# rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Run rankmirrors -h for a list of all the available options.

If I have the mirrorlist file it says it already exists, if I don't it doesn';t anyway

>>58148084
The webapp doesnt work?

>>58148156
https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

>>58148190
I literally followed what it said. copied it word for word.

>>58148231
doesn't work

>>58148241
>>58148231?

>>58148247
Why won't the rank mirrors thing work?

it makes no sense.

>>58148251
It does but it seems you fucked up somewhere

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>>58148259
How is this even possible.

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>>58148283
>How is this even possible.

>>58148295
how can it be.

First file exists, then permission denied?

>>58148283
mirrorlist is being used? Im not sure what your problems are but can you update?
>>58148295
epic

>>58148335
>mirrorlist is being used? Im not sure what your problems are but can you update?

Everything is fine, i haven't touched mirrorlist in months.

i just wanted to test it to see.

how the fuck is it being used. NOTHING IS USING IT!!! REEEEEE

>>58148476
>>>/r9k/

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Which one is better?
./configure or sh configure?

>>58148156

#!/bin/sh -ex

cd "$(dirname "$0")"

if [ -f mirrorlist ]
then
    cp mirrorlist "mirrorlist-$(date -u '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S').bak"
fi

reflector --save mirrorlist --sort rate --latest 21
pacman -Syu
if [ -f mirrorlist.pacnew ]
then
    rm mirrorlist.pacnew
fi

Put that file in /etc/pacman.d and run it.

>>58148602
Ok but why does what I did not work?

How does it even make sense..

>>58148619
I dunno.

>>58148626
here: >>58148283

>>58148602
>>58148156
what the fuck are those symbols?

>>58148283
>zsh: file exists
Using prezto?

$ setopt CLOBBER

and you'll be able to:

$ echo "some shit" > file_that_exists

>>58148660
what the actual fuck?

>>58148652
>what the fuck are those symbols?
Are you high anon?

There is no sound in vlc when running a .mkv with flac 6.1, but with 5.1 all ok. What to do?

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>>58148668

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>>58148706
either you have no other monospace font other than windings, or you've set your browser's default monospace font to windings

>>58148671
sudo emerge -a media-video/mpv
sudo pacman -S mpv
sudo apt install mpv

>>58148706
Ho your browser is high.

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>>58148725

>>58148760
... what?

>>58148786
My apologies, I was laughing to this smoking-weed-guy >>58148706

>>58148725
idk what happened, how do I change it back?
I'm using firefox

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help pls

>>58149123
configure /etc/fonts/local.conf

New thread >>58149530

New thread >>58149530

New thread >>58149530

New thread >>58149530