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Hey Sup Forums, I just did a fresh minimal netinstall of Debian without a DE, and something is fucked up. I don't have any basic commands like sudo, ifconfig, etc. and I can't connect to wifi. I've used Debian just fine on my laptop before, but I wanted to do a minimal install and just use i3. Does anyone know how to fix this so I can actually use my laptop?
Jaxon Jackson
Debian does not come with ifconfig or sudo lol, why would you think that? Use ip and su.
Justin Phillips
How do I connect to wifi then?
Chase Evans
Is USB 3.1 (Gen 2 w/ Thunderbolt) the same thing as Thunderbolt III?
Hunter Turner
not really a linux question is it
Hunter Nguyen
If you don't have wpa supplicant (run wpa_passphrase to check) you'll need to install it through a deb or source package by copying it from another PC, or you could apt-get install wpasupplicant from an ethernet connection.
You can see your adapter name and addresses with ip link and ip addr respectively
Then you'd run wpa_passphrase "yourssid" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Then run wpa_supplicant, see the example, basically copy that swapping in your config file and whichever of the two driver options work, then when it makes a connection, hit ctrl-z, then type bg to fork it to the background and run "dhclient -i(myinterface)" to obtain an IP address and other info automatically assuming you're using standard DHCP.
Leo Turner
Forgot to mention, type your network password after you run wpa_passphrase, it will give you blank nothingness and you enter it, it'll save it to your config file and generate a key from it.
Blake Baker
Just installed Lubuntu a few days ago to get better performance on Minecraft out of my old laptop.
What is a good browser that is very responsive and has ad blocking?
Firefox is complete fat shit. Chromium is alright, but whenever I come out of Minecraft, it's so fucking slow and not responsive for like 5 minutes.
I tried QuipZilla and it was supa dupa fast, but it doesn't play videos on my fav porn sites or WorldStar. I click play and it just opens up a download prompt.
Levi Stewart
To that user that recommended me to install nvidia-drivers through apt, it went fine. Sid even updated the driver to 361.* as I was doing it, so I went ahead and changed the desktop to Sid as well.
I love Berserk, but Zodd isn't GNU related, that is unless you want him as the GNU mascot.
Gavin Diaz
What is it that you're finding bad about firefox? I don't use it on Windows much personally but it's perfect on Linux in my experience.
Elijah Jackson
Kernel™ 4.7 on repos when™?
Christopher Rodriguez
i've always used firefox+ublockorigin+privacy badger
idle at 300m of ram, on a single core cpu.
if your shit is slow it might be time to get a new laptop.
Charles Reyes
It's too slow. Like I lick a link in my IRC client and Firefox wouldn't open. I'd click the link like 10 times and then 2 minutes later Firefox opens with all 10 links. I click the link once with Chromium as default browser, and it opens immediately. But Chromium gets all sluggish like Firefox when I'm in a game. I tried QupZilla and it worked perfectly while in game, but I can't play any porn videos on it.
Alexander Flores
>I'd click the link like 10 times and then 2 minutes later Firefox opens with all 10 links. Sounds like your hard drive is choking on read speeds to be honest. This should never happen regardless of the program.
Samuel Hill
Thanks for the reply.
I tried doing the wpa_supplicant command, but I get "sure permission denied" even though I added my user to the group root and edited /etc/pam.d/sure to include the wheel group. How do I fix this? Sorry for the dumb questions, I want to get pro with Debian
John Allen
> even though I added my user to the group root and edited /etc/pam.d/sure to include the wheel group
The latter is done for for sudo, which is pointless in your case. Reverse your changes, giving your user root privileges is a massive security risk.
Type "su" and enter the root password. It will open a shell instance as root user. Then press control-D or type exit to drop back to the previous instance once you're finished with what you need to do. Personally I don't use sudo at all, but I only run linux as a headless server.
Andrew Sanders
>I lick a link Found your problem >Stop licking your computer
Juan Adams
Are we allowed to use tripcodes in here or is there going to be a flamewar?
Nolan Wilson
Only cool kids use tripcodes >inb4 a bunch of jealous faggot jews get upset because they can't figure out how to tripcode
Jaxson Lewis
I've been running Debian for a few months and I'm thinking about installing Gentoo. I don't really know much, but I'm eager to learn. Does anyone have any recommended guides/advice? Or should I not even bother installing Gentoo? My GNU/Linux-fu is pretty weak.
Ryan Garcia
do you just want to fit in with the cool kids?
probably been using linux for so long, since i just want something that werkz on muh machine
Hudson Perez
Compiling from source (usually) takes longer and is more error prone. I'd say no if your fu is weak.
Julian Barnes
Probably not. I personally use gentoo because I'm an aspiring sysadmin and to be knowledgeable in server security, hardening and attack vectors. It's a good distro because you know everything that is going on, and it does its best to give you absolute control.
Wyatt Cooper
>Knows everything that's going on >Used a graphical installer >kek
David Cox
>>Used a graphical installer huh
I installed gentoo through a live environment to setup a basic Linux system and to obtain all of the gentoo files through an internet connection and chroot to setup the environment for booting.
Liam Young
whoops I thought we were talking about debian
Thomas King
>I personally use gentoo because
lol
Dominic Martinez
>I've been running Debian
Whatever I've been shitposting all day and no1 has caught me till now
Jeremiah Cook
So how valid is this argument?
Gavin Miller
>much configurability. very hacker. wow
Jaxon Flores
Absolutely takes longer. More error prone if your fu is weak, less if you know what you're doing. I did mess up my architecture flags and deps a couple of times myself. He's right. And I was telling you you shouldn't install gentoo, not you should.
Zachary Cook
I'm not I'm and
Adrian Kelly
ok
Joshua Russell
I kind of wish I'd chosen Gentoo over Arch. I love wasting time and learning.
Christopher Roberts
I used Iceweasel for a long time, but it's no longer being supported so I'm trying out Iridium. It seems ok as long as you disable the google part. I don't know how it behaves with video playback across sites, because I haven't actually tried it yet. Shit is taking forever to install.
Logan Flores
Why iceweasel? Easy Burpsuite config?
Logan Howard
because I didn't want to use firefox and it seemed like the best fork at the time. At least for casual browing. It was also more compatible with add-ons than the other forks.
Lucas Morris
Switched from Windows to Xubuntu yesterday, so far everything seems fine, only thing that bothers me is my download speed, used to be 1,5 MB/s on Windows, now on Linux it's 400-500 KB/s. Any idea what the problem might be?
Thomas Clark
Let me guess, you're comparing the speed for torrents?
Easton Price
No, regular downloads with a browser
Mason Nelson
I'm installing >Arch on my X1 Carbon (2nd gen) and systemd is fucking up. Efivars says that my laptop isn't using UEFI, but I know the X1 Carbon does. Pls help me configure it so it uses EFI and I can have systemd
Jace Gutierrez
Greetings, I couldn't find a stupid questions thread, so pardon me if my ignorance wastes your time. I am attempting to install Debian, however it is not liking my graphics card. I will skip past the tale of the past few hours of headaches it has given me as I attempted one approach of installing the drivers, however I have recently found the .run file Nvidia has on their website.
I have been following this piece of documentation: us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/367.35/README/installdriver.html and it seems to be that I need to disable the X server before executing the .run file. On stackexchange, they say I can do this by exiting graphic mode with alt+ctrl+F1, however this just turns the screen black and doesn't provide me with a terminal (as they say it should... unless I am misunderstanding). How should I go about installing these drivers? My monitor won't even recognize my resolution settings at the OS's current configuration, forcing me to do all of this from an old projector.
Also, any information regarding blacklisting the "nouveau" kernel after the driver installation would be nice (as I think I messed this up, along with the xorg.conf earlier, causing me to not be able to boot into the OS and prompting me to start the installation over).
No idea what it does, but now my download speed is back to normal
Ayden Wood
Ubuntu forums. Where random people post random things which random people execute and hope for the best.
Elijah Turner
Which ones Sup Forums?
Robert Perez
You can install both. PulseAudio will prevail anyway... and it has comfy tools like pavucontrol
Logan Cooper
>No idea what it does Then dont run it
Adrian Wood
so alsa-plugins, alsa-utils and pulseaudio?
Brandon Collins
It would be also smart to enable alsa-lib too.
Luke Mitchell
alsa- plugins utils lib pulseaudio
This?
Owen Foster
dear /fglt/, i'm having some serious trouble installing Mint (to dual-boot with windows 8.1).
After fixing my initial problem of not being able to boot by editing the GRUB options for the USB i originally booted from, i managed to install Mint to a separate, empty partition on a hard drive where some stuff (but not W8) is stored on. Now when i try to boot from the Hard Drive, almost immediately Windows repair starts. Someone suggested to me that i change boot setting from UEFI to Legacy priority/only Legacy, but that did not change anything.
In any of these steps i could've made a mistake since i am not experienced and sometimes pretty dumb.
What would you suggest for me to do next? Where could i have made a mistake?
Samuel Bailey
Next time don't use a root password in the installer so you have sudo preconfigured. You could have installed nm in the expert installer too. Or used ethernet.
Hudson Campbell
>windows repair starts >new user I would recommend you to fix your mbr through windows live but since you are new just backup from a live mint usb and redo the windows and mint install, that takes more time but is easier and will let you fix prior mistakes.
Blake Sullivan
Which ones now Sup Forums? unlisted packages are gstreamer-vaapi and xine-lib
here I just got Arch installed and working. How do I add a user to the sudoers file? Also, does anyone have any essential software recommendations?
Luke Collins
there is going to be a flamewar, if you mean everybody hating you and calling you a faggot by flamewar. because we can figure out how to install gentoo but not read 4chans FAQ
From a TXT file I saved off some instructions I found online detailing the entire procedure of installing the proprietary nvidia drivers on a debian system:
>1. Download correct drivers for your GFX-card and place the in your own directory (/home/[USERNAME]) for easier access later.
>2. Open the black list module as admin with a terminal:
>gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
>3. Add these lines to your blacklist.conf
blacklist vga16fb blacklist nouveau blacklist rivafb blacklist nvidiafb blacklist rivatv
>4. Uninstall all previous nVidia drivers and stuff
>sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*
>5. Now reboot or press CTRL+ALT+F1 (Console mode will appear, login with username and password)
>6. If you pressed the key-combo, you need to stop the desktop manager
>sudo service gdm stop (If GDM is your desktop manager)
>7. If you placed the drivers in your own directory (/home/[USERNAME]), you are ready to go.
>sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-**.**.**.run 8. Follow all instructions and when asked if the install should do an auto-config of the X-settings, select 'Yes'.
I just downloaded i3 on my fresh Arch install. It's really crazy, I have x-org utils, xinit, and server all installed but my i3 is graphically buggy. The cursor is a hash symbol, the bar is all black except for the info, and dmenu doesn't appear. How can I fix this so it looks normal like it did on my Fedora installation?
Gavin Young
By going back to fedora.
Leo Taylor
Can you guys redpill me on Arch? Is the distro actually a meme or is it legit?
Jayden Sullivan
it didn't work, i still have the same issue how do i fix my mbr?
Cameron Peterson
If your unsure what a command does use man, its a manual for commands
example:
man sudo man modprobe man echo
You get the idea.
Nathan Peterson
I suggest you kill yourself, since you appear to be a gullible, "everything-i-do-has-to-be-g-approved" idiot who can't think for himself.
Oliver Jackson
i fucked up somewhere with either ubuntu 16.04 or the parts i got, built a pc to play games and do college work on
put ubuntu 16.04 on it, updated and restarted then ubuntu loaded with some visual errors then went to a blank screen(did not get to desktop)
then put windows 10 on it and no problems except i like ubuntu to connect to the campus servers
specs motherboard: msi z97 pc mate cpu: intel i5-4690k gpu: msi 750 ti psu: 750W ram: 16gb
i remade the flash drive for ubuntu 3 times and every time i loaded it, same thing happened on restart. did i fuck up somewhere or something?
Jeremiah Russell
What's the purpose of JACK? I'm writing and audio application that sends audio data through PulseAudio plugin in Alsa and I don't hear any problems
Colton Phillips
Is it difficult to switch over to a new DE, whilst deleting your old one with all its related bloats? Running Arch.
Asher Clark
I've installed .deb files on Gentoo before, but it was a huge pain. Is there any way to automate it?
Blake Morgan
consider installing the proprietary nvidia driver
Jace Cook
go to reddit. trips completely destroy the purpose of this website
Andrew Moore
>purpose posting anime?
Gabriel Perez
Try Debian, as far as I know it supports .deb files out of the box.
Jack Rivera
Install Gentoo.
Thomas Hughes
My Windows 7 corrupted and I had no backups. I inserted a Debian 8.5 stable dvd I already had laying around, and when I selected graphical install I got a black screen with colored pixelated lines. Should I try making a testing install, or should I just go Xubuntu?
Also, out of curiosity - what is the actual point of Ubuntu derivatives? Why not just install debian with XFCE de?
Jaxson Hughes
>gpu: msi 750 ti >psu: 750W Why, oh why, would you use such a high power psu when you have a power-saving gpu?
Jack Robinson
nvidia? buntu is essentially debian nonfree with bloat/patches.
Kayden Cooper
That would still be Debian and not Ubuntu. There are some minor differences between the 2
Joseph James
Assuming you wanted to respond to , they also have their own repo, which is also just a mirrored and then edited debian repo.
Henry Rogers
Hey anons, this is what i get when i try to install something: warning: database file for 'DEB_Arch_Extra' does not exist error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)
what do i do?
When i run pacman -Syy i get :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.softver.org.mk : Resolving timed out after 10522 milliseconds core 118.7 KiB 107K/s 00:01 [######################] 100% extra 1765.6 KiB 346K/s 00:05 [######################] 100% community 3.5 MiB 247K/s 00:15 [######################] 100% multilib 158.9 KiB 486K/s 00:00 [######################] 100% error: failed retrieving file 'DEB_Arch_Extra.db' from mega.nz : Resolving timed out after 10520 milliseconds error: failed to update DEB_Arch_Extra (download library error)
Justin Mitchell
Still means there are minor differences. Biggest difference probably is the kernel
Jason Martinez
What's the best distro for web development on a laptop? I'm sick of Windows and want something similar to OSX. My main dev machine is a Desktop Hackintosh but I need something for my zenbook.
Jordan Martin
Anything that comes with a browser and a text editor?
Evan Flores
no nvidia, I'm running on a t430 with just the iGPU (HD 4000, i5-3320m) Of course I'm aware that Ubuntu is derived from Debian, I just wanted to know how major or minor the changes are
I'm not incapable of setting things up myself, I just don't see the point of not using the more time-efficient distro. Thing is, the more time efficient distro is bloated. I remember doing a Lubuntu install once to discover that the software center doesn't even work or have essentials like Libreoffice - still have to do terminal install. Which is fine of course, I don't mind that.
What I am confused about is installing graphics drivers, software compatible with my particular hardware and all that shit, I've always had trouble with that on Linux
Adam Gutierrez
You won't find a distro that exactly has what you want/need and only that and nothing more in its standard installation. You either have to go with less and install what's missing or more and live with it or purge it.
Dominic Jenkins
why did microsoft have to ruin windows?
Elijah Brooks
How do I make DVD video? I have a video file that I need to have it played by DVD player. Do I have to use DEVEDE? or it can be done with ffmpeg? Also since the DVD player have USB port what kind of format should I use to have it compatible with?
Christopher Ortiz
Having issues installing Python.
On Unix, Linux, BSD, OSX, and Cygwin:
./configure make make test sudo make install
This will install Python as python3.
So I do this and get:
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for --enable-universalsdk... no checking for --with-universal-archs... no checking MACHDEP... linux checking for --without-gcc... no checking for --with-icc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/home/chris/Downloads/Python-3.5.2': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details chris@chris-X551MA ~/Downloads/Py
