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Trying to install a .deb package, but says some packages need to be updated, how do I accomplish this? Also for future reference, is there a way to run this package installer while including a command to just automatically update or download any dependencies?
Parker Jones
your distro is too old
Michael Miller
Is Arch Anywhere the recommended auto installer for arch still, or has something replaced it?
Connor Jones
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Joseph Brown
I've installed arch many times by hand user.
I appreciate your feedback though
Mason Miller
It seems like the best. It's just a curses frontend for a collection of simple install scripts, and the finished install will be exactly the same as normal Arch if you don't choose a desktop. Also, it seems to (for me at least) rank mirrors properly. I always mess up mirrors doing it manually. There's nothing wrong with an installer. I have installed Arch manually twice, but if you need to do it quickly/repeatedly there's no reason not to use an installer.
Samuel Torres
Has anyone here tried Alpine Linux before?
Chase Moore
how to get webm previews in the gtk file picker?
Evan Rodriguez
>vbam-gtk Why wouldn't you just use retroarch and add the vbam core?
Owen Davis
Please convince me to install GNU/Linux as my primary OS.
I use Kubuntu 16.04 at work and it's fine, I'm good with bash, and I don't have strong preferences in terms of DE since 99% of times I'm in terminal/IDE/browser.
It's just that at home I use hackintosh and macOS is a very nice system stuffed with elegant, easy to use software that suits the laid-back way of using my home machine. It just works and all.
But at the same time, sometimes I work from home and I'm irritated by the little differences in workflow, compatibility, hotkeys, file paths and the like. It would be so much simpler to use Linux at home as well, but I'm not sure if it'll be totally hassle-free.
Thoughts? What are your work and home environments? How do you deal with having different OSes on the computers you own/use?
Luke Jenkins
why doesn't this work? echo "This is a test." | wall
shouldn't it send a message to all terminals?
Levi Peterson
It does. Your problem is that you think of a terminal emulator as actual terminal. Go to a TTY (CTRL+ALT+F1-7) and you'll see the sent messages.
Grayson Lee
Can we all agree that cat and echo is the best way to edit text?
Lucas Bennett
sed
Owen Butler
how do I make it work on terminal emulators?
Joshua Perry
Should I update my kernel to 410
Cameron Butler
Is there a webm for gentoo?
Jack Walker
You can write to other terminal emulators by redirecting to their file. Run $ tty to find the current one. For this example it's /dev/pts/4, now do this: echo faggot > /dev/pts/4
Jaxson Roberts
What's a good distro for live-booting off a USB?
I was considering Tails because I'd also get to be anonymous as fuck but I really don't need tor for everyday browsing, and I feel like it would be easier to configure encryption and minimum swappiness on a random distro to secure it than trying to re-configure Tails to not use tor everywhere and de-secure it.
Am I wrong? Any other recommendations?
Jace Murphy
subtile chuckle
Easton Ramirez
Most linux installers will even do the encryption for you. Why do you even want to use a live usb?
William Adams
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring 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.
Caleb Butler
To carry my entire system on my keychain
It's not gonna be my primary system, in fact it's more of a fun project (but I'd still like it to be practical otherwise there's literally no point).
Samuel Anderson
Pendrive linux and porteus
Adrian White
>carry my entire system on my keychain and then you go outside, booze a lot and your entire system accidently into some random toilet
Jordan Walker
Afaik tails doesn't do anything special apart from using tor. Any live linux distro will do the job without leaving any traces on your pc.
Asher Reed
GNU/Linux*
Easton Allen
>implying you would not masturbate to Xorg compilation
Jackson Jackson
Why is systemd such a worthless piece of fucking shit? What's the point of automating something as a systemd service it loses its shit when theres a hardware failure or error or if something's missing? Why do I habe to wait 90 seconds before getting control of my fucking computer? You cant ctrl c or ctrl x. I tried changing the timers in the config files, nothing. How is this acceptable? Everytime my wifi changes an address (if I use a different port or sometimes for no reason) netctl freaks out and makes me wait 90 seconds until I can reenable the service. Fuck systemd, this unusable piece of garbage makes me want to switch to Void or Gentoo. Why doesn't Windows 10 lose its shit when you move hardware around? Systemd made Linux worse than fucking Windows 10.
Jackson Nguyen
Linux*
Jack Nelson
>Why do I habe to wait 90 seconds before getting control of my fucking computer? You cant ctrl c or ctrl x I agree, it can be annoying. You can change it in the configs though. DefaultTimeoutStartSec and DefaultTimeoutStopSec in /etc/systemd/system.conf
Liam Robinson
interesting
Noah Fisher
GNU/Linux*
Kevin Sanchez
Linux*
Liam Cooper
GNU/Linux*
Cameron Collins
What's the pendrive linux meme
The website isn't very clear. Is it just a tool to create bootable USBs? If so, what makes it different from literally anything else like unetbootin? If not, what the heck is it and why should I use it?
Jonathan Morris
Linux*
Aaron Rodriguez
is there any way to run android apps on linux?
Juan Thompson
GNU/Linux* Yes.
Jace Powell
GNU+Linux
Jose Perry
Linux*
Benjamin Watson
anyone ;_;
Noah Campbell
Just getting internet is a struggle on useless linux. It works, you restart and it's fucked.
I spend 30 min dicking with ifcfg files every time I boot and I'm losing it
Joshua Gonzalez
yes
Kevin Foster
Where can I download Useless Linux?
Charles Flores
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Useless Linux, is in fact, all distributions of Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Useless equals Linux. Useless Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather an umbrella term of a supposed to be functioning computer system made useless by the corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Anthony Cook
30 minutes >sudo ifconfig eth0 down >ifconfig eth0 up >service network restart
Is that hard? Shit if you notice that running the same sequence of commands one startup fixes the issue then fucking put it in a script and set a cronjob to have it run at startup.
Carson Perry
Not strictly G/L related but how do you guys organize your multi-disc albums, and why? Do you prefer one directory per album with disc # prefix in filename like:
or one subdirectory per disc within the album directory?
Michael King
sudo dhcpcd gets my internet going after a restart every time
Ethan Kelly
I have a program that runs fullscreen at a lower resolution and stretches to native. Is there anyway to get it to run blackbars instead? I'm on Arch Linux and can't find anything about scaling in nvidia-settings.
Leo Fisher
how usable is slackware and gentoo? i'm getting rid of debian now and i'm either going back to arch or trying out one of those i guess
anyone got any suggestions? my primary concern is that the repos are updated and large, and that there's good security and not random issues. for some reason debian has had a bunch of issues for me compared to arch
Isaac Howard
kek
Elijah Bailey
Im dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 10. Whenever I boot into Ubuntu, instead of the usual loading screen i'm getting just a purple screen without the logo and the little dots. It boots perfectly fine, but it kinda bothers me.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
Julian Harris
Hotspot/Repeater mode Many tutorials for such require an eth0 connection to internet then broadcasts the AP How do I go about receiving on wlan0 and broadcasting my ap on wlan1 They are both wn722n tp-link adapters which support AP Tutorials/Links/Help?
Carter Harris
stop dual booting and use a VM
and i'm only half-joking. you'll save yourself more headache in the future. computers work best when the low-level stuff is integrated with just one OS, or at least one OS family (e.g. other GNU/Linux distros)
Ryan Brown
Someday. I like how fast my laptop performs with Linux, but I'm still attached to muh games.
Matthew Myers
Virtualbox has GPU passthrough now.
Andrew Collins
...
Julian Clark
>computers work best when the low-level stuff is integrated with just one OS, or at least one OS family (e.g. other GNU/Linux distros)
Luke Ross
GNU/Linux*
Gavin Evans
I'm using android x86. quit assuming shit
Eli Sanders
Android/Linux*
Anthony Miller
hello, /flt/!
I have been trying for quite some time to install g++ 7 on my Debian machine. I was able to install it quite easily on my mac (as homebrew had a formula for it). However I cannot seem to find a way to install it on Linux.
which seems to be in the right direction... But I imagine installing it this way might lead to a few potential problems down the road when I wish to update these packages.
Is there a source I'm missing? Or is there maybe a place where I can download and compile everything I need to get it running?
Thank you for your help.
Helpful Data: My kernel is x86_64 Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64.
David Bell
/fglt/* GNU/Linux*
Chase Williams
I realized that as soon as I hit post. Sorry to disappoint.
Lucas Gonzalez
Isn't gnu just a Sup Forums a meme?
Jackson Allen
Yep, Stallman is just some random stockphoto guy.
Zachary Morris
No. There are GNU/Linux autists that don't go on Sup Forums. Richard Stallman, for example.
Dylan King
I am starting to use Linux.
I follow many little and slow imageboards and foruns, and I frequently forget to check many of them.
I was wondering if, maybe I could have one i3wm or konky thing that always tell me if there is a new reply in these websites. Of course, they wouldn't check every 10 seconds because I think it will feel heavy to hold, but, I was wondering if this could check it every 10 minutes or so.
Is there any pre-config that can be doing it? What should I study or check to try to make it myself? I feel lost without know where to start.
Sorry me English and if this is obvious, I am new in this cyber-mofucking-world.
Maybe that's a good project for you to learn the command line. You could use curl to get the content of a website and compare it - if different, play a sound.
Connor Young
Well, "curl" at least is a beggining.
Since I am not a native-english speaker, I kinda suck to search for stuff, and sometimes I want something but I don't know not even where to start to search to get what I want from Linux.
Thanks bro.
Aiden Sullivan
GNU/Linux*
curl-notify() { url="${1:?}" delay="${2:-10}" while :; do ct="$(curl -s "${url}" | md5sum)" if [ "${ct}" != "${lt}" ]; then lt="${ct}" notify-send -u critical "${url}" 'Something happened.' fi sleep "${delay}" done }
>I feel lost without know where to start. Well where are you at? Answer these so people can start to help you:
What distro are you using? Is i3 installed? Are you already using i3? Have you installed conky?
>i3 i3 is configured through 2 text files. One, for the bar and one for the window manager. The window manager config is located at /home/yourname/.config/i3/config The i3bar config is located at /etc/i3status.conf
>conky by default conky will look for a config located at /home/yourname/.conkyrc or you can point to it with the -c flag like: conky -c ~/Conky/conkymain You might want to use more than one instance, this way you can.
I think he wants to incorporate this into a conky instance. What do you think about that senpai?
Blake Sanders
Chromium
Nathan Edwards
Where am I?
Well, I just got Linux mint, and learn some terminal commands and other stuff. Put my computer in a design I wanted and just that, never use Windows after that cause my computer is now faster and easier to manage.
Actually I want it to put on Conky or i3wm, I just want a easy way to follow my feeds.
I am lost I know, but everyone have to start from somewhere.
I also went to some linux places but no one could help me (and actually I was kinda afraid to say I want it to go and check imageboards).
Adam Robinson
>service network restart lolwut
Logan Lopez
Who /debianstable/ here? I think I will switch to stable when stretch is released.
James Hughes
can i do this with a laptop with only igpu though? as a complete noob whos capable of following instructions
Liam Ramirez
IDK but this looks relevant leddit/r/linux_gaming/comments/3ez95g/does_vtd_gpu_passthrough_work_for_intel/
Brody Rodriguez
Okay SO I need microsoft word, preferably the latest version. I had a look at wine and it looks like the compatibility is shit.
I was thinking the simplest way to have it run is via a virtual machine. Apparently, I can make it run seamlessly through the dock of ubuntu. Is this correct?
I was also considering using the Microsoft Word web app but it seems limited in its functionality.
Jaxon Edwards
ed is the standard text editor.
Adrian Anderson
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring 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.
Alexander Howard
is relevant but doesnt really offer a workable solution
John Taylor
Sup Forums needs a ROBOT9001 filter.
Adam Brooks
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Brayden Taylor
Don't forget Fedora user I hear it's pretty usable out of the box and isn't as opinionated as *buntu
Is Revenge Installer a botnet? I want to switch to Arch but I'm not spending 12 hours reading guides and doing it manually like a sperg if I can just go through an easy installer.
I've been playing around with Linux on and off for years. One of the things that irks me is how i need to configure different repos and add dependencies for numerous packages. I feel like after a while my system is bogged with garbage and shit i no longer use or care about.
On windows, it's pretty straight forward to just uninstall something and run a registry cleaner once in a while, but Linux seems to get really messy and not clear what's required or necessary
Am i missing something?
Evan Hughes
How do i keep my system clean? Also, i feel like i have to Google how to install everything. Is this normal? How am i expected to know what to type in the terminal
John Garcia
Well it took me 3 hours to use arch anywhere, but apparently I was trying to use UEFI which just fucked everything. But when I went to install it properly, took an absolute fuckload of time to download, so I think I fucked up the mirror sorter on accident.
Still a pretty good way to instal arch if you're into that kinda thing.
