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That graphic makes it seem that gpg is only useful for emails, but it's much more powerful tbqh.
Adam James
>he doesn't use appimage
Gabriel Campbell
kiss your sister
Brandon Ramirez
testing if connection error
Aaron Jackson
Wanted to compile some LaTeX documents I wrote at home, on my work PC. However, the LaTeX distro that comes with Ubuntu seems to be missing some packages I need (for example, the ngerman babel package). It's been ages since I set up texlive on my personal computer so I'm fuzzy on the details. I checked out the 2017 release from the subversion repo linked on latex-project.org but there's no executable config script and makefiles and shit, just some lua scripts. So do I also have to install fucking lua now and then run those or what?
Leo Murphy
Folk wisdom has it that "connection error" is a cloudflare filter against SQL injection. Filters some pretty arbitrary shit if you ask me.
Cooper Fisher
In my case it was the output of ls -l from the checked out svn repo. ... and I just got a Connection error just trying to put that in code tags. REEEEE
James Mitchell
Addendum: It's ls -l itself that it doesn't like. I literally had to put empty code tags between the - and the l so it would let me post that.
Daniel Clark
idk what the fuck is going on with these errors try postin the command "p s a u x" - results in connection error. literally how is this in any way malicious?
>I literally had to put empty code tags between the - and the l so it would let me post that. Nice hack. I usually use \u00c
Hudson Rogers
-l
Eli Gonzalez
-l on its own seems to work, just not if it's preceded by ls
Leo Nguyen
Wow, that's a bit overzealous. ls -a ls . -l
Isaac Ross
Installed debian. Any DE recommendations?
Jace Adams
XFCE
Lucas Martin
if i cant find a device driver for debian based systems and its stopping me connect to the internet what should i do? i wish there was a debian that shipped with all the drivers but only installed the needed ones
Jaxon Rodriguez
cinnamon. Although if you did net install set up your own DE, start with a WM, either i3 awesome or gnomeshell
as much as I like cinnamon, this shit is too buggy. That's sad considering it's an awesome DE when you look at the customization, features, etc. And it's not much bloated compared to gnome or kde.
Levi Green
buggy? i dont think ive ever had a bug with it on debian cinnamon edition. When i was switching around WMs and they crashed cinnamon always worked
Dylan Lewis
Debian got fucking old packages, maybe I had bugs that were introduced on more recent versions. I had an annoying bug that broke the DE after watching a video in full screen mode. Had to press alt+F2 and type -r to reset the DE, luckily it didn't closed my programs so it wasn't that annoying. More than that, some extensions / plugins didn't worked flawlessly. Nowadays I just use xfce that just do the job and have enough customization options for me.
Nolan Myers
never had that, but whatever is fine. im a bit annoyed by xfce because they keep on adding features to it that are uneeded. lxde or whatever its called remains true to itself it that it uses low system resources. plus it can use openbox themes iirc
Jonathan Ortiz
>le debian old packages meme >le bloated meme Sup Forums never change
Use what you want I don't really care, but that's a reality. In 2 years cinnamon evolved.
Christopher Peterson
youre a prime example of what hes talking about, even though he speaks like its 2007
Hunter Sullivan
I see, you never came out of your Arch sandbox and discovered other distros.
Adam Hall
Dumb frogposter.
Jonathan Nguyen
>jessie Debian isn't Jessie only. It has three different versions for different purposes. Sid for example is just as up to date. For people who want to stick to Jessie, there are backports.
tl;dr nice meme
Brandon Campbell
>posting anime >on Sup Forums - technology
Julian Howard
anime website
Caleb Wilson
fuck off maki poster, you have 17 boards dedicated to anime.
Jose Ramirez
Today I tried to test wayland on fedora. In etc/gdm/custom.conf I commented WaylandEnable=false, rebooted, realised that nothing was fixed, uncommented that line again and rebooted again. The boot stuck on logo. I killed X(?) And it turns out that system boots up components very slow, starting from NFS peers What happened and what to do?
Colton Phillips
how do cli people use the internet? like hwo do they even use programs and stuff?|
Julian Perez
There are text-only browsers, though with all the flash and animation cancer that's floating around nowadays it's hard to get by.
Aaron Wright
Best ((Stable)) Linux distribution for a total noob?
Going to install one on a Chinese spyware, malware, bitcoin mining laptop for my mom to use. She's coming from OSX but only needs her laptop for browsing the webs and watching videos.
I'll need an update manager that lets me update my applications without any sudo magic like Mint.
Needs to run well on a Intel Celeron.
Levi Brooks
>bitcoin mining laptop kys youreself
Jason Taylor
I mean buying a chinese laptop will come with spyware and malware and botnet and bitcoin miners preinstalled. I'm going to install GNU/Linux over it so I won't get hacked.
Landon Young
>coming from osx as if it really makes a difference. Give your mommy debian with cinnamon and install the osx theme for gbp
Samuel Sanchez
cracked*
Luke Perry
I am trying to write a Live USB of the latest KDE Manjaro on winblows. Win32DiskImager just corrupts my pendrives. I have tried Rufus with the settings listed in the Manjaro Wiki, it just says error:unknown filesystem when I try to boot it. Universal USB installer says it can't find a config file and that Manjaro isn't supported even though I selected it in the drop-down menu. I've tried multiple flash drives, verified that the ISO isn't corrupt, I don't know what else could be wrong. I have an UEFI motherboard if that helps in any way. Please help
Jaxon Roberts
use something thats not manjaro, try it
Dylan Perry
I'm trying to write Ubuntu right now, will report back with how it goes.
Owen Rodriguez
Are there any detailed books about iptables because all the guides online only cover the basics.
Ryder Martinez
How can I make gnome-terminal window take the name of the entered command?
Jacob Thomas
a better terminal is a great start!
Parker Sanders
Ubuntu and Fedora doesn't work either, and I have tested those succesfully in the past. My drives may be dying.
Jacob Williams
Sup Sup Forums. I have a question for you guys. So I have a laptop with dual boot windows 10 and elementary OS. My elementary version is still freya though, and I am updating to Loki. I already have a bootable usb with Loki. Now my question is: can I just write it over my existing linux partition and old swap? I don't care about losing all my Linux data. I just wanna know if something like this fucks up GRUB or something. Will this work? Will grub update itself somehow? Sorry, am a Linux noob, but I'm trying my best...
Ryder Roberts
Whats the music bee equivalent for linux-kernal operating systems? gnome-music was dodgy with reading my music folder and lollypop is bloated as hell
Grayson Campbell
I'm always greeted by a large error message. A wall of text concluding with
KERNEL PANIC KERNEL OFFSET
What can I do? D; I'm somewhat of a newbie at Linux.
It's like clock-work - on every second startup, and I have to hard-reboot my computer every time.
I'm using kubuntu.
Easton Gomez
How do I keep my settings and configuration files when upgrading fixed release distros? Won't upgrading them by installing new version format the root?
Daniel Stewart
docker seems neat but is there any actual reason to install it for hobbyists
Hunter Martin
Your personal settings are stored in your home directory. This is one reason why it is often recommended to keep /home on a separate partition - that way you can format / without affecting /home.
If you put everything in one partition, your choices are basically making a backup and formatting, or (making a backup anyway because it's good practice and) reinstalling without formatting. Your installer will usually allow that, but you'll have to manually delete the old system's files to avoid conflicts. This approach isn't what I'd recommend a newbie, but some people prefer it.
System-wide configuration lives under /etc. It is rare to mount /etc separately, but it is easy to manually back up the whole directory or the files you've made important changes to. But I think you were talking about your personal settings.
So, in short, just back up. Remember that permissions and ownership are important, so don't just copy files over to an exfat/fat/ntfs volume. Make a tar archive instead. And consider putting /home on a separate partition next time.
Eli Thomas
not him but i dont keep anything in my home partition, so only preferences i think. i have all my other stuff on other hard drives, how would i move home to one of them? i think my themes and icons are in /etc/, is there no way to not lose them (beside installing afterwards) as well as programmes? funny how windows can update from xp through 10 just fine but gnu/linux you need to start anew
Joseph Stewart
printf '\033]0;%b\007' "$PWD"
hello red dit
GNU/Linux*
John Sanders
the current cmd is stored in the echo $BASH_COMMAND variable, if it matters
Asher Torres
Hi /r/eddit, hows it going
Sebastian Peterson
$ echo $BASH_COMMAND echo $BASH_COMMAND
Well, what did I expect.
Sebastian Thomas
>how would i move home to one of them? 1. Make sure the target volume is formatted in a god-fearing filesystem. Don't try to mount /home on a permission-less filesystem. 2. Edit /etc/fstab and tell it to mount that volume at /home. Familiarise yourself with fstab. I recommend using UUID rather than device path, especially in a system that has several internal storage devices. 3. Copy the contents of your your existing /home directory over to the target volume. 4. Reboot. I mean, you could do it on the fly, but just reboot.
>i think my themes and icons are in /etc/, is there no way to not lose them The two ways I explained in my previous post. But don't. If those themes were installed through your package manager, don't copy them. It's a bad idea to manually create files that are part of packages that, as far as your package manager knows, aren't installed.
>funny how windows can update from xp through 10 just fine but gnu/linux you need to start anew Where did you hear that? No, don't tell me. Dank memes are jolly good fun, but you shouldn't believe all of them.
Hudson Harris
we're onto something big >echo $BASH_COMMAND | bash
Not sure if cheating: HISTTIMEFORMAT= history|tail -n1|cut -c8-
Dominic Lopez
sure. local development that is easy to push up to a remote host and not have to worry about peripheral changes.
Jaxson Foster
permissionless file system? i was thinking of moving it to a ext4 drive
Cooper Perez
Which hardware do you have?
Justin James
Does anyone know the difference between 'skype' and 'skypeforlinux' in the AUR?
Charles Smith
One is the new beta verison one is the the old client.
Bentley Hughes
skype is the old binary blob skypeforlinux is the new alpha client.Its basically a wrapper for the web site
Dylan Morris
I thought so. I'm using skypeforlinux at the moment and it handles quoting poorly among other stuff, is the old skype client better (as in more like the Windows version)?
Noah Morales
>when you send normal email, the people you talk to are being exposed as well No change for that with encrypted mails.
>It's in an online directory, where people can look it up and download it. People rather ask you to send them your key. And anyone can just upload keys to a server, so there are valid security concerns.
>To the real recipient, it jus opens up like a normal email. Easy! Only if they actually can use computers, which is a pretty small group of people.
And like already said, it's not just for emails. Sorry, but can't recommend this info-graphic
Ryan Thomas
This is getting weirder and weirder >rtorrent+tmux on an rpi 2B >uploading from a usb drive to some private trackers >check occasionally, see that it's down >log onto pi over ssh, check uptime, hasn't gone down >do nothing else on it, go back to check >they're uploading again this doesn't make sense I wish rtorrent logs weren't such a fucking bitch to set up >
Lucas Hernandez
transient network issues + udp malarky? I used rtorrent for a bit and switched to aria2, try it out if you're looking for options
Kevin Green
How can I start Debian in command line mode? I don't need the desktop environment most of the time because I'm using this machine as a server.
Connor Johnson
uninstall everything you don't need
Matthew Ortiz
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Tyler Ward
why not use net install? im pretty sure you need to edit the list of what launches on boot / user login. with net install you can install a wm and only launch it when need be
Ryan Rodriguez
So I've been running Arch for about 7 years now and I'm thinking about installing Debian on a spare laptop (Lenovo x201) that I have laying around. What's the difference between Testing and Unstable? Which would be better to use as a general purpose OS on a laptop?
Brandon Jenkins
>I've been running Arch for about 7 years now Wow.
Henry Brooks
man that itunes is ancient.
Logan Garcia
It's worked just fine on the 3 laptops and 2 desktops I've had it on, minus some GPU driver fuckery at times when using ATI or Nvidia GPUs.
Christian Rogers
testing has frozen packages that work on unstable, so it has less breakage but also bad security, I'd recommend sticking to unstable (sid)
Luke Sanders
9 year vet right here.
Colton Adams
Alright, what's the recommend method of installing Debian Sid via netinstall? Do I just download the image for stable and then change some repositories or something during install?
Bentley Carter
Packages work on unstable? -> Move to testing, do they really really work? -> Move to stable.
>Do I just download the image for stable and then change some repositories or something during install? Yep.
Christopher Baker
Just use arch and dont deal with debian fuckery
Evan Garcia
>Packages work on unstable? -> Move to testing, do they really really work? -> Move to stable. That's not how it works
Lucas Murphy
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Xavier Perry
I'm still considering doing just that so I don't have to learn all the idiosyncrasies of another Linux distro... Maybe I'll wait and put Debian on home server when I finally get around to setting one up.
Aaron James
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Colton Foster
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Ryder Cox
It looks like there's a fucked attempt at a daemon for it involved. I'll wait and see now that it's disabled.
Kevin Jackson
what is a good audio player to just play my mpd stream with
Hunter Morales
sonata
William Kelly
try writing your own .service file for it, they're pretty straight forward.
Brayden Hall
As somebody who uses Arch day to day for work for over a decade I love these fucking comics.
