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How do you install programs locally so that you don't need root?
Christopher Cruz
I just noticed there was a new /fglt/ thread, I'll copy paste my question from the dead one:
If my objective is programming, reading pdf/djvu/chm/epub/mobi, instant/online messaging (like Skype and IRC) and casually listening to music and monitoring my hardware what would be essential software to have?
Jeremiah Powell
totally root-free: install to your home dir chmod u+x $FILE
install as root, execute as normal user: install to somewhere (/opt/whatever is a good choice) chown :$YOUR_USER_GROUP $FILE chmod g+x $FILE
Oliver Richardson
Do you want GUI software or stuff for the terminal?
Landon Perez
to find out your own group: id (as normal user), look for gid=x
Jordan Thompson
For debuntu you can do apt-get download and then just unpack the .deb that just got downloaded with dpkg -x *.deb. You may need to prefix that dpkg call with fakeroot if it complains about not being able to set permisions. Also you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_DIR to the lib/ path of the unpacked things too. Oh then you need to worry about dependancies...
Honestly probably easier to make a chroot with fakeroot. Or just use something othogonal like NixOS packages. Or be root all the time :^)
Owen Wright
Is it possible to run an old version or a newer version of a package/program next to the default package? I guess I'd need it's requirements, but how to set this up? On Windows I'd just download 2 different versions and run then, but on loonix?
Carter Walker
What distro are you using (regardless the answer is probably no).
Aiden Kelly
Terminal or ncurses-based (I guess that's the terminology if it's not forgive me I'm still learning) but it can be GUI if it's the only alternative.
Jordan Richardson
Debian unstable.
Colton Jackson
>programming this needs a thread itself >ebooks calibre supports every little ebook format, but I personally prefer mupdf >messaging weechat for irc everything but skype, mumble is nice >music depends on your needs my personal suggestions: gui: deadbeef curses: mpd+ncmpcpp or moc >montoring conky is like rainmeter, but it's a better idea to use a panel like lemonbar, but for this you need scripting knowledge the essential for a quick task manager-like overview is htop
Elijah James
So OpenWrt is forking. lede-project.org/ There is more of their rational in the IRC meeting notes but it looks like their plan is to make the LEDE project a more general embedded linux solution and OpenWrt will become a networking focussed "flavour" of the LEDE project.
They talk a lot about stakeholder involvment on IRC but the openwrt founder was posting on HN saying this was the first he had heard of it and one of the lede devs was saying he was going te stop contributing to openwrt so I hope it works out.
Personnally I looked at openwrt/buildroot-ng everytime I had to develop a platform for a new board at dayjob but it always looked so opaque and ad-hoc. Having a focus on more general embedded development will hopefully mean more docs and streamlined remixing support. Hopefully they can give openembedded/yocto a run for their money because I hate that bloated shit.
Thoughts? Does this look like a disrespectful shortsided fork or a well intentioned effort to make buildroot-ng all that it can be?
Brody Hill
you can manually install the newer version to something like /opt (not using the package manager for the newer version)
or, you can build your own package with a different location in the filesystem (like /usr/bin/program-version) and install that package
in both cases, you can use update-alternatives to switch between versions
in both cases, you'll probably also want to adjust the location of config- and logfiles
Joshua Cooper
No. You can roll back with a bit of effort but the only way to run two versions would be to use a chroot or container.
Dominic Hernandez
>use a chroot or container Where can I read more about this?
Angel Gray
Oh yeah, or like said just unpack (dpkg -x) and hope the deps haven't changed too much. Maybe run as different user would be the easiest way to use seperate config files. You can get older versions from snapshot.debian.org.
Xavier Gray
Thank you all for help. Have some rare internet in return.
Nolan Murphy
Here is an example of manually making a chroot for debian wiki.debian.org/chroot A chroot basically means the kernel makes it look to any programs running in that chroot that the top directory is actually /, so that means that /lib will resolve to /srv/chroot/stable/lib or whatever so it just isolates stuff from you main system. On that debian page they use debootstrap to make a whole other debian install (sans kernel and grub) into a directory and then you can chroot into that. Of course you loose you mounts like /proc and /sys and /dev so you have to screw around with bind mounting them into the chroot. There are programs that help with managing chroots anyway, I used to use schroot when I played around with this stuff.
Brandon Kelly
Why some icons doesn't change to custom ones on panel? I'm using XFCE4.
Nathan Butler
Merci. I'll check this out.
Joseph Nguyen
Probably because you didn't install icons for these programs. If this is about numix icons, install numix-circle icons in addition to numix icons
Jackson Parker
I'm trying to use HexChat on Ubuntu 16.04, but it's very strange. Doesn't HexChat have the hability to connect to more than 1 server, or join more than 1 channel? I can't!
Gavin Hughes
But the new icon is showing on applications menu.
Connor Rivera
Could you show us the folder you put the icons in, which icon theme and the icon/appearance settings?
Adrian Fisher
Awesome! Thank you.
Easton Lee
XChat (which HexChat was forked from) can do all of that, so I don't see a reason why it shouldn't.
For Servers: Network list -> connect, repeat For Channels: Server -> join a channel, repeat
Easton Sullivan
What? I connect and join using commands!
Benjamin Fisher
I'll use mpv and deluge as examples. Icon theme is ultraflaticons.
Deluge icon is fine, it shows on applications menu and when I alt+tab but mpv only shows the correct icon on applications menu, when I alt+tab it shows the default one.
Owen Richardson
open a new tab
Dominic Gonzalez
what's the linux equivalent of cubic explorer? I tried double commander and didn't like it.
One of the recent Firefox revisions fucked with the file picker and they got rid of the Recent Files bookmark/places thing and I'm so mad. Is it possible to put it back? Right clicking provides no useful options.
Elijah Carter
What's the easiest way to password protect a folder / file?
Robert Cooper
retardproof guide to setting up a mail server on debian/ubuntu? Got as far as installing roundcube, but I can't create accounts or log in.
Do I need ldap, or something?
Carter Davis
I already have other stuff set up so iredmail won't work right.
Isaiah Gray
Who has -currently- better drivers: AMD or Nvidia?
Or is that not an issue anymore?
Charles Torres
I have a fedora install that I want to install a wifi driver on. It has no internet connection though, so I can't get build dependencies.
What's the easiest way to download everything I might need to build the driver?
Levi Thomas
Where can I download the low latency kernel for buntu 16.04?
Henry Gutierrez
how to use sed to rename a file name which a lot of %20 in it with _ instead is sed the right tool
Ayden Bell
You could use sed, but rename is a more appropriate tool rename %20 _ filename
Ethan Robinson
Umm... compress and encrypt it with 7zip? Do you want a normal folder that you can view and access but no-one else can? Do you care about root viewing it too? because if not just chmod go-rwx ~/myprivatefolder/
Juan Cooper
nvidia. From complaints on here some amd cards don't seem to be supported by their drivers.
Joseph Wilson
Free: AMD Proprietary: Nvidia
Although it really depends on the GPU used. There is also the new AMDGPU driver, but I haven't tried it myself, so I can't really comment on it.
Angel Ortiz
chroot, but you're looking for something simpler probably
Anyone know where I can read up on which paths are commonly used in desktop environments and their functions?
I would have assumed to be part of the freedesktop standard, but can only find XDG prefixes.
What I mean by that for example is, where it is standardized (more or less) that /usr/share/icons contains icons, that I can overwrite/add my own in ~/.icons instead of in ~/.share/apps/icons etc.
I'm just a bit confused.
Jacob Reyes
that works but only for the first %20 in the file name
Landon Richardson
how do I bluetooth on linux?
Jayden Lewis
read the man page. there are lots of modifiers. like g for global subs.
rename 's/%20/_/g' yourfile
Nathan Kelly
Just made space for a babby's first GNU/Linux partition. >a-are you proud of me, Sup Forums? First reply decides distro. inb4 install gentoo
Camden Brooks
funtoo I'm not even kidding.
Elijah Evans
rename: not enough arguments sorry user need more halp. man pade is ridiculosly small. i think it a pearl rename but im not sure
Sebastian Perry
I'm starting to wish I'd done that instead of just installing it on a different hard drive. Probably would've run faster on my ssd.
Logan Ross
look into systemd-nspawn
Kevin Murphy
Hm... This does not appears to be sufficiently h4ck3r l33t.
Connor Green
You probably finally got the GTK3 version. Mine still has the recent files and for bookmarks, just add your folder manually amongst the "normal" locations.
Ethan Brooks
I want to use parallel to convert multiple audio files at once. What would I have to change in this little function for it to work? I assume I have to get rid of the for loop first.
convert() { if [ ! -f *.flac ]; then echo "No FLAC files in directory" exit fi
Ok. I will try my best and probably shit up the thread with stupid questions. Yeah it's better this way. Was a pain in the ass because Windows claimed the entire drive for itself and put system files all over the place so I couldn't shrink its 250 GB partition by more than 15 GB. Had to do a fresh install.
Logan White
>I will try my best and probably shit up the thread with stupid questions. Just follow the install guide, it's all documented there. If you don't want to spend time doing it though anything should be fine, it's all the same shit essentially, just repackaged.
Asher Rivera
What options should I be adding to my fstab if I have a SSD? Should I be adding those options to the swap partition?
Anybody else had this problem lately? guake was fine not showing tray icon like I told it to. Then a few days ago it updated and has been showing tray icon in spite of being told not to. So noob question: what is wrong and how to fix it?
Ryder Hill
Why 320 CBR? Use V0 instead
Leo Wood
>Windows claimed the entire drive for itself and put system files all over the place so I couldn't shrink its 250 GB partition by more than 15 GB use ntfsresize in linux, it can move "system" files
Leo Stewart
does the echo stop?
Dylan Roberts
What are some good small projects to improve your sysadmin skills? So far I can only think of maybe building an active/passive drbd cluster with a db running on it.
Sebastian Reyes
it does around 22m
Jack Kelly
I am about to install Xubuntu. Any advices?
James Williams
Make sure you use lots of lube
Ryder Jenkins
nevermind it comes back...
Oliver Hernandez
Why?
Asher Foster
hi noob here and just installed gnome gdm on arch and getting login loop. login comes up i login starts to work then login screen comes up again.
I was told to look at logs but not sure where that log is or the name of the log. i see a few in my home directory?
*pic eventually related
Aiden Baker
You can use rename --urlesc which changes all %20s to spaces
Evan Walker
also i ran the command journalctl -e -u gdm
and all get are lines of ~ at the end it states
May 04 23:41:42 arch-vb systemd[1]: Stopped GNOME Display Manager.
Carson Davis
maybe arch is too much for little old you, if you don't even know where the logs are, or how to find them
Isaac Harris
just install fedora
John Gomez
arch logs are located /var/log/
James Miller
So I decided to make my old PC usable again for torrenting or something at I could kill my time. >CPU is Athlon 1500+ >x86 kernels from popular distros don't want to cooperate with it How long would it take to compile gentoo on it?
Carter Bell
so I set up Gigolo through SSH but I don't seem to have write access to the PC I'm connecting to. How do I fix that?
Logan Smith
Are there any drawbacks to hibernating and cutting the power instead of shutting down and cutting the power?
Mason Adams
Hibernation is hit or miss in Linux. Just power it off.
Levi Hernandez
Compiling gentoo probably wouldn't help your case.
But not long. Just do genkernel all and it will be done in a few hours. Install a lightweight wm like openbox + tint2 for speed. For torrenting you might like something like rtorrent or deluge.
>-- Build files have been written to: /home/pi/dlib-18.18/tools/python/build >Build using cmake . . . >[ 1%] Building CXX object dlib_build/CmakeFiles/dlib.dir/base64/base64_kernel_l.o >error: cmake build failed!
Anyone have an idea why my Raspberry pi won't let me install dlib?
Gavin Smith
so it either works or doesn't work? that sucks.
would be nice if I could easily keep my second workspace's state.
Isaac Sullivan
hi friendly looked around the logs, even used terminal root to acccess locked ones, but im lost. so which log do i look at and what am i looking for?
i did try lxdm when gdm wouldnt work, but went back to gem
Tyler Perry
Yeah, from my own experience hibernation worked in 4.3 but stopped working in 4.4. I haven't tested 4.5 yet but you get the idea.
Hunter Ross
I started my collection in 320kbps, before I realized that v0 is just "as good". Having half of it in 320kbps and another in v0 feels weird. Gotta keep it consistent.
Alexander Young
I've been hibernating every night for the last few years (since i got a new mobo didn't suspend right), reboot every month or so for new kernel. Up until a year ago I had fs corruption every few months (couple of unlinked inodes on ext4) but other than that it's been perfect, ymmv
David Jones
hullo, im very new to all this so excuse any ignorance
ive been using kubuntu on my school laptop just because i didnt want win10 and picked a very user friendly distro
however, i noticed KDE may be too much for this poor little AMD E1 cpu/gpu combo thingy.. i was wondering if Xfce or Cinnamon would be better? and how would i go about installing either of those/getting rid of KDE..
thank you! also i am in IRC if its easier to help me that way
Anthony Taylor
You should be keeping your collection in FLAC and converting to put on your other devices when you need to
William Miller
nevermind I was trying to write in root instead of home
