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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.
Connor Reyes
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?
Colton Bell
Wine is installed(per pic) but it is not finding its self, when i run any switch from the 'wine' program.
Charles Peterson
>How are you installing qbitorrent?
From the arch repo, I just upgraded it and now it won't work for sum reason
But I have it all installed
It was literally working until a day ago
Lucas Davis
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
Noah Sanders
I used 3.3.3.2
Angel Sanders
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.
Xavier Murphy
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
Cameron Butler
ok it works now I guess
I'll wait to upgrade system then so it doesn't do the samething
Gavin Baker
What are some git pages worth looking at to customise emacs? especially start page, and a compiler.
Grayson Nelson
Just put qbitorrent and libtorrent-raserbar in the IgnorePKG in your /etc/pacman.conf
Justin Garcia
Thanks bro.
So much to learn how to do in arch :s
Jace Green
Is putting /var on an ssd still a death wish?
Christopher Rodriguez
>It seems the qbittorrent maintainers pushed it out before the 5.7 update was pushed.
They didn't.
Daniel Peterson
Just checked, they did.
Adam Morales
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.
Alexander Rodriguez
* Friendly GNU/Linux Thread FTFY
Elijah Howard
eclipse
Nathaniel Ward
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?
John Reyes
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.
William Diaz
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?
David Davis
was going to get one, but almost no one uses that shit.
Kayden Scott
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....
Jace Young
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
Luke Myers
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.
Noah Roberts
Purge flash
Thomas Turner
if i want to make a terminal game, what language should i go with?
What I don't understand is why it was working properly until like 2 days ago without setting a preferred device explicitly.
Christopher Smith
I bet you did just remove flash, not purge it. Or you didn't restart the applications with issues.
Jaxon Ortiz
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?
Jace Carter
HWO THE FUCK DO I REPLACE XFWM WITH DWM IN XFCE ON DEBAIN JESSIE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Kevin Nelson
>using a plugin with 5 million vunerables get rid of this crap, the web is html5 anyway
John Moore
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.
>replace Replace? Do you want to run dwm or actually replace it?
Brandon Smith
Any language that can write to stdout.
Robert Perez
C
Grayson Foster
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.
Isaac Walker
LISP
Mason Wilson
>the Linux operating system
Carter Wilson
It's summer. What do you expect.
Kevin Jones
gettin' hot in here, how to make my fan blow stronger? is there a tool for this?
John Torres
who is that qt pi
Joshua Turner
/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.
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.
Bentley Phillips
>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
Daniel Taylor
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
Logan Gutierrez
fancontrol
Eli Gomez
will look into it, ty
Brandon Powell
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?
Leo Martinez
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.
Andrew Mitchell
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?
Samuel Williams
Nice idea ! Let's go for mount when this thread hits bump limit.
Jacob Ross
This thread was created before this post. This was the last reply. So let's make the new thread 2 hours after bump limit is reached. Deal?
Noah Price
New thread after bump limit, eg. 310 posts. What's so difficult about that?
Colton Rivera
This thread was created when the old one reached 329 replies tho.
Andrew Mitchell
trolls want to force their Just Linux thing that's the joke
Luke Thompson
So we use a development board that one of the teachers designed in class (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: pjradcliffe.wordpress.com/open-usb-io/
Jacob Cooper
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 Sup Forumsentooman 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
Jeremiah Baker
>a Sup Forumsentooman 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.
Dylan Wilson
Monitoring two simultaneous threads is a pain in the neck. What's the hurry?
Ian Stewart
You own fault if you're monitoring a dead thread.
Jose Ward
It's not dead if it's still getting replies, but ok.
Jaxson Flores
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?
Michael Bennett
>implying you're sitting on a chair and not chair/legs
Oh cool thanks I didn't realize i3 had a lock package. I'll play around with this.
Aaron Brooks
which tools of the base-devel group are not immediatly useful?
Anthony Thompson
none
Zachary Gonzalez
i was also recommended to use powertop to elongate battery life
my questions are all based off memories of things i've gleaned from Sup Forums 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
Jacob Campbell
so, during the install, Arch uses all 29 packages?
Henry Lopez
Don't install the base-devel group if you're being autistic about it. It's not required for arch to run.
Brandon King
If you know the answer already, why asking?
Isaiah Lewis
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.
Adam Edwards
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.
Brandon Stewart
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Robert Myers
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
Ryder Sanchez
Fuck off
Austin Butler
Calm down. Breath
Brody Davis
>dumb frogposter
Check your GRUB for boot options.
Jack Taylor
you can probably still recover a lot of data with puppy linux
Ayden Jenkins
Or any live cd distro.
Joseph Campbell
*cough* You can use any live cd for data recovery user, like GParted Live. But he should still be able to access the win filesystem.
Jacob Perry
>friendly
Ayden Lopez
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.
Tyler Garcia
>He fell for the Linux meme
LOL
Ryan Kelly
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.
Robert Hall
>>>/9GAG/
Jordan Nguyen
Thank you sweet user. 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?
Justin Nguyen
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?
Elijah Rivera
I'm lazy and like having a wide software selection in one place. How big are Debian repos compared to Ubuntu?
Ian Cook
I don't know how you got yourself in that situation but this is how you install telegram on arch:
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
Asher Brown
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?
