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>can't remove orphaned packages >lol you didn't specify each and every single dependancies Debibabbies are literally like BSD cucks in denial
Pic related
Connor Reed
Guys I already tried Debian, it failed Tried arch, I myself failed Tried Debian again with rufus and I failed at this point because the base system will not install.
Pls help. I would install Gentoo but I would not survive at this moment of my endevour.
Parker Wilson
Excuse me, allow me to interject. 'apt-get remove/purge/autoremove meta-package-name' doesn't work because meta-packages mark all their dependencies as manually installed. And by dependencies, I mean all the packages which the meta-package installs with it. When you remove, purge, or autoremove the meta-package, literally solely the meta-package is removed, and non of the dependencies are.
So, for example, by doing 'apt-get remove/purge/autoremove gnome-core' you aren't really removing anything that the gnome-core meta-package installed, besides the meta-package gnome-core itself. You need a stupid snippet like this:
Allow me to interject for a moment, what you are referring to as a base system install failure, is, in fact, known as base system install failure/faggot denial service. Or as I have taken to calling it, get out of my Sup Forums newfag.
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Connor Morgan
>unetbootin >we told you it's shit
I thought rufus was only on windows now rufus doesn't list my flash drive...
Leo Thomas
>apt remove $(apt-cache depends gnome-core | cut -f 2 -d ':' | tr '\n' ' ') So each time I want a package ""actually"" removed, I have to issue that long ass command?
jeez, all these pajeets defending debian - quite hillarious
Henry Richardson
>deluge geany*
James Gomez
>So each time I want a package ""actually"" removed, I have to issue that long ass command? Only metapackags, which afaik are mostly only desktop environments.
>How to remove geany: ... geany isn't a metapackage, friend. Normal packages mark their dependencies as automatically installed, so they don't have the shit quirk of metapackages.
Isaiah Evans
No, only for meta-packages like gnome-core
Nathan Turner
Way to trigger the SJWs of Linux community
John Smith
Scrot isn't a dependancy to screenfetch Mpv is not a dependancy to smplayer Firefox/Chromium is not a dependancy to gnome
Nicholas Martin
I have apache2 set up with mod_wsgi and some python powered sites on a laptop server. Working fine, python sites loading and running... I reboot and then mod_wsgi starts throwing errors that it can't find any python modules. They're installed with pip but it won't find them. Install them with apt-get and it starts working.
Please guys. Yes I am I Indian but I got this Thinkpad from my father for my 18th birthday last week and he says he will return it if I cannot figure it out. He says he will get me a galaxy instead which would be okay because I have old Samsung S3 but please.
How do I fix Debian failure to install base system?? I am installing from USB with Rufus but I also have a CD just in case.
What is the failure??
Logan Jenkins
I have my debian on /dev/sdb2. I wanna shrink sdb1 and make sdb2 bigger. Should I move the partition to front or can I just increase the size forward?
Ryder Long
Shut it down
Grayson Hall
Gparted shohuld do everythong automatically.
Gavin Ward
If you are new, throw debian into trash and get ubuntu. Then start using fedora/opensuse/arch/funtoo
Bentley Sanders
Ok ignore that I have rufus working on another pc what settings should I use for it? is pic related ok?
Kevin Gutierrez
But Snowden uses Debian and my friend talked to him and I want to be successful.
James Collins
neat
oh god this will take forever
Christopher Davis
Snowden is using Tails.
Gabriel Diaz
I extracted a distro iso, so i can add things to it. I cant seem to find a way to extract the squashf image.I've tried using unsquasfs but it dosent seem to want to extract it
Ryder Evans
Does anyone have a Blue Snowball microphone and able to get it working in Linux? I've googled for a couple days and nothing. Running Manjaro btw.
Anthony Cruz
Are u one of those 1337 haxorzz?
Anthony Cook
Oh and it's not detected in pavucontrol or alsamixer
Carson Baker
Please avoid using the term “google” as a verb, meaning to search for something on the internet. “Google” is just the name of one particular search engine among others. We suggest to use the term “search the web” or (in some contexts) just “search”. Try to use a search engine that respects your privacy.
Christian Morales
I can't resize my / logical partition with OS on it (arch linux, ext4) Should I do it with some kind of a live cd?
Brody Gray
Daily reminder that Linux is nonfree software, which includes a high amount of binary-only code. It does not only violate the users freedom, but also decreases security.
Eli Robinson
>Debian/apt shitfest Should I actually get fedora or RHEL dev edition?
Chase Price
You should learn to ignore advices from 12 year old kids on the internet and install a quality distro such as Debian. There's a reason why so many people create forks of it.
Lucas Cook
why do people call XFCE xfeces?
Seems very fast, minimal and looks really nice with the usual arc+numix theme.
Really doubting my DE choice sometimes, when I see people shitting on it all the time, but I haven't found another one so far, that convinced me as much.
Also does a compositor like compton introduce any kind of frame delay, while it's active?
Dominic Gonzalez
>There's a reason why so many people create forks of it. They are forking ubuntu, not debian. Also I actually think they have a fair point
Brody Nguyen
>They are forking ubuntu, not debian. While it isn't true (most distros fork Debian), you also forget that Ubuntu is also a fork of Debian.
Alexander Howard
who else is forking ubuntu? only know about mint and trisquel
Jordan Perez
What do I need to fix pic related? Here is my .Xresources (without the color definitions): xterm*VT100.geometry: 85x25 xterm*faceName: Terminus:style=Regular:size=10 xterm*dynamicColors: true xterm*utf8: 2 xterm*eightBitInput: true xterm*saveLines: 512 xterm*scrollKey: true xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false xterm*scrollBar: false xterm*rightScrollBar: true xterm*jumpScroll: true xterm*multiScroll: true xterm*toolBar: false
Josiah Campbell
Around 50 more distros
Alexander Flores
such as?
Tyler King
>many people create forks of it. Why? Isn't debian a ""quality distro""?
man firefox
Owen Lopez
try
XTerm*utf8: 1 XTerm*locale: 1
Samuel Cox
>firefox is a fork of ubuntu wat
Carter Cook
>wat you are dumb
Isaac Richardson
Tried it, doesn't work. I have the same problem in my tty's.
Chase Cook
He could be a smart 15 year old.
Logan Brooks
quick question, I'm currently setting up LXDE on arch.
have to write exec startlxde in ~/.xinitrc was wondering how to save it and get back
Nathan Young
But he failed to be so, like you
Juan Fisher
Install a proper login manager
Brayden Fisher
Please keep this general satiated with only high quality posts, kid.
Jeremiah Flores
Maybe it's your locale. Try running: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 xterm Just to see what xterm does.
Wyatt Brown
sorry im not into kde/gnome
Asher Baker
You don't get to call people that are older than you "kid". Epic meme btw, saved. Now go back to
Brody Allen
responding shitposting with shitposting
Alexander Hughes
I will call anybody less muscularly developed a kid
Joshua Parker
you need unicode locale post output of $ locale -a $ locale
Carter Wilson
Glad I am not a musclehead
Zachary Morris
It says Warning: couldn't find charset data for locale en_US.UTF=8; using ISO 8859-1.
Now i want to make a peristant USB instead, anyone got a guide for how to do it from Windows?
Lincoln Martinez
I want to use Cinnamon on my laptop, so should I install Ubuntu then install Cinnamon or just install Mint? I'm currently using Ubuntu+Cinnamon on my desktop and I'm unsure if Mint has anything to offer
Benjamin Bennett
Mint if you don't support jews
Jaxon Wilson
It's decided. Mint will be installed.
Jack Baker
Bye and have a nice day user
Josiah Rodriguez
locale is fine is xterm compiled with unicode support?
Noah Cox
So, I have a Y700 and decided to convert full time.
I chose Ubuntu-MATE, but for some reason I feel like the battery drains somewhat faster.
I also haven't been able to get the subwoofer to work and could only google unsuccessful stories.
Can someone shed some light?
Samuel Martin
install gentoo
Alexander Clark
It's probably not. Is it possible to use unicode in a tty?
Gabriel Sanchez
Should I just use urxvt?
Gabriel James
You can use terminal emulators for the linux framebuffer such as fbterm which supports unicode
Yes
Colton Perry
i got gparted running a job and it's gonna take 5 hours
after like 10 minutes the display turns off, which is fine. will the live image continue and not put itself to sleep or turn itself off?
Justin Kelly
>5 hours nigga what? >you will have to see if your system goes to sleep after X minutes. Your monitor is most likely turning off from no use, and unless you have it set to sleep
Thomas Roberts
Resizing a 500gb partition to 300gb, resizing a 120gb partition to 320gb, moving data on a 5.2k rpm hdd
Robert Wright
use mbr if you are using bios or have legacy boot selected in your uefi use gpt if you only have uefi enabled
Brody Nelson
How does one actually do a screenfetch in Manjaro?
Brandon Cruz
I have a flash drive formatted with ubunto using rufus. The grub in manjaro doesnt recognize it What should i do?
Jason Allen
>this post average manjaro user
Nolan Campbell
Hey guys, I'm kind of stumped and could really use a hand.
Icedove (Thunderbird) on my Debian Testing desktop doesn't seem to be working. It was working just fine a week ago or so, I'm not sure if some update introduced a bug or if it's something wrong on my config's end.
I'm using 3 Gmail accounts that are sync'd to Icedove, via IMAP. Everytime I try to load them, I get a notification saying Failed to connect to server [email-here]. When attempting to purge and start adding them one by one, I can't get the OAuth2 window to give me the Google sign-in, it's just blank, and I can't copy the URL. I suspect the problem has something to do with that?
When I use Icedove with the exact same settings on my laptop with Debian Sid, I have no issue, it works fine.
What would you guys advice? Disable OAuth2 and try normal passwords, or what?
Chase James
Hilarious, you couldn't make this shit up.
Daniel Thompson
Why the fuck won't Gentoo install
I spent an hour and a half meticulously following the guide on their wiki. Configured and compiled the kernel myself (and I know I didn't fuck it up because I've done it many times before on CRUX), configured locales, timezones, installed GRUB2, no errors. Reboot, get a kernel panic about "unable to mount root fs 0 0".
Fuck I'm mad. I'm at least glad I did this on a VM to see if it was a meme or not first.
Blake Lewis
Just confirmed, the problem is with OAuth2. Adding email accounts with OAuth2 enabled results in me getting a blank window when I'm supposed to confirm the sign in. Using normal passwords (and enabling "less secure apps" in Gmail's settings) does the trick.
Does anyone know what could be wrong with OAuth2? How can I test if it's something on my end or if it's a bug in Testing that I should report? Like I said, on my laptop running Sid it works fine.
Anyone here running Debian Testing that could check if OAuth2 also gives you issues with Gmail? I would hugely appreciate it
James Harris
Can anyone recommend a book that provides a good guide guide to the modern GNU/Linux OS? I'm looking for something I can read over a couple months and hopefully come out with a much better understanding of how the OS works.
Jaxson Mitchell
install gentoo
John Parker
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Thomas Wright
APT wants to remove libreoffice-gtk pulseaudio-module-udev pulseaudio-module-x11 how do I know if it's cool? I've searched for details on the packages but I don't know how to tell if they're actually obsolete or if APT will take away my virginity
Ian Cooper
Got a new laptop and I'm trying to install Ubuntu but every time I get to the end of the installation process it gives a fatal error saying that Grub can't be installed. I'm not really sure what to do but everything I have tried already hasn't cut it.
It's an Acer with W10 pre-installed.
Joseph Lopez
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Tyler Perry
Looks life you didn't compile your filesystem or the modules necessary for your drives.
Parker Reed
People are using Windows. People will install Mint. People love trash.
Isaiah Diaz
Thanks
Alexander Roberts
the real question is, why mint when there is good ol' noobuntu?
Bentley Ross
neve rmind I found about the apt changelog command
Nolan Lopez
It's a package recommendation.
Joseph Scott
RTFM
Michael White
I'm tired of Thunar being a buggy piece of trash, what's a good file manager to replace it with?
