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nvm its still fucked up even after updating the base to 16.10
Nathaniel Gomez
*eats something from your foot*
Adrian Perry
Try sudo mv /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.ucf-old /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.ucf Maybe there's supposed to be a file without the -old suffix but it was deleted.
Noah Allen
>Fresh install of the latest stable version of Antergos >Boot first time >This >None of the three options do anything >Googling the issue only gets me people asking on forums with no replies or "PM sent ;)" responses
NEAT
Eli Flores
Pic didnt post for some reason
Joshua Fisher
>"PM sent ;)" responses Those people, along with the ones just replying with "this has been answered already in thread x" but that thread doesn't have an answer that helps you, should be put to sleep like fucking dogs they are.
Anyways, just load the default theme, does that work?
Adam Hall
Is there a distro that focuses on free software but with newer packages than Debian and not as cutting edge as Fedora or Parabola?
Ian Bailey
I rm while in root, it may have been the java and flash updates no onw wants anyway, for some reason even when I chose not to install the 3rd party shit in the install, thats happened both times. Is that what caused it possibly?
Daniel Morris
Any way I can make my build more power efficient. I got a computer that'll be on 24/7 and wanna cut down on its power usage. headless gpu-less linux box that I have root ssh access too
Hunter Jones
it doesn't have userscript support atm. There is a pull request but the maintainer doesn't want to accept it until he has finished a couple of other major codebase-wide changes which have been ongoing for a year or so now. You can grab the greasemonkey branch into your local install though. And then maybe adapt the ffxox addon to a proper greasemonkey script.
Adam Rogers
Possibly. Who the fuck even uses Flash these days? Ubuntu needs to get their shit together.
Hudson Bennett
Look for any running services that you don't need running, stop them running. Change cpu governer. Look at perepherals you are not using, try put them in powersave mode. I think powertop could help with this but I haven't tried it in a few years.
David Turner
I'd be happy to accept it if it actually was finished, but the author abandoned it. If someone picks it up, updates it, and makes it work with QtWebEngine, I'd be happy to merge it. I just won't be the one to do this work, as I have other priorities.
Adrian Fisher
No shit, I can understand Java, but no reason to have that vulnerable ass shit system wide.
Logan Ramirez
Default theme loads a blank black screen
Tried ctrl alt f2, keep getting login incorrect even though Im typing everything exactly as I did during install on the live usb
Logan Cruz
Yes, any distribution with newer software where you install a Linux libre kernel and don't install proprietary software.
Sebastian Gutierrez
>antergos
Nice useless, bug causing abstraction layer you got there, pretentious idiot. Enjoy your bugs, oh wait, you already are.
Aaron Adams
Is there a way to set up dual boot with windows without installing windows first?
I just found out you can get Windows 10 for free but I've already had Linux installed and configured for a while now and I don't want to give it up.
Liam Watson
> the author abandoned it Errr, no they didn't. The are actively developing the project. Are you referring to qtwebkit which is a completely different thing and wasn't being developed until recently. As a result, qutebrowser isn't supporting the old branch anymore.
Brayden Howard
Yeah, just install it second... If it is installed to the same harddrive at linux but on a seperate partition you will need to boot into a live disk so you can chroot into your linux install and re-install grub, which should pick up the linux install and add that to the grub menu. If windows is on a different drive just point the bios to the linux drive.
Bentley Hill
>Install Antergos >This Problem on fresh install
>Install Fedora >Will not boot after installing Nvidia CUDA
>Install Debian >Can't do shit because the ONE AND ONLY user account on this computer is not a sudoer for some goddamn reason >Can't add to list of sudoers because its not already on the list
Is there a distro out there that isn't bullshit?
Lincoln Mitchell
is it possible to make a build server?
something that pulls from a git and runs "cmake && make" and dumps a log somewhere on build errors?
Jacob Reed
Mint
Jaxon Kelly
>Can't do shit because the ONE AND ONLY user account on this computer is not a sudoer for some goddamn reason For security reasons you fucko Just run "usermod -aG user sudo" as root and reboot. Or open /etc/sudoers and go to the line that says root ALL=(ALL:ALL), copy it and paste below and just replace "root" with your username, save and you will get root access.
Did I fuck something up in the installation process?
Joshua Johnson
>run several distros in VMs >performance is shit >install VB Guest Additions >hyper speed engaged
Literally no reason now to use Linux as main OS if VM runs flawlessly.
Charles Jenkins
Okay let me clarify, the machine will not let me log in as root because the only user account I can log into after booting is not on the list of sudoers.
Su does not work
Sudo su does not work
Sudo -i does not work
Luke Lopez
Are you telling me "su -" command doesn't exist?
Aiden Sullivan
>won't let me >as root Dude, you fucked up something in the process of installing the knowledge of what root is for sure.
Liam Jones
chroot and set new password, fix all your other shit while you're at it.
Caleb Hughes
>the machine will not let me log in as root because the only user account I can log into after booting is not on the list of sudoers. You are confusing me. Can you login as root at login? It shouldn't tell you anything about the sudoers because sudo isn't installed by default.
Charles Evans
Aren't you supposed to specify root password during installation?...
William Ramirez
Yeah, and you are also prompted to create a username and password of one other user (which doesn't have sudo). Probably the guy fucked something up during that setup.
Nathaniel Jones
The only account it lets me log into after booting is the user account I made when I installed it an hour or so ago.
When I open the terminal and type sudo -i, it asks for a password, when I type the password (that users password is exactly the same as the root password), it tells me that my username is not on the list of sudoers.
Same for sudo su
Same for any action I do with sudo
Su tells me authentication failed
Nolan Baker
Read those links above about how to get a bash shell from grub you idiot. Logging in isn't required, let alone sudo.
Cooper Richardson
>it tells me that my username is not on the list of sudoers You should login as root and edit /etc/sudoers like this. Of course change "user" to your username
>Su tells me authentication failed That means you entered the wrong password. Are you sure you set the exact same password on root and user?
Julian Nelson
Have you tried to see what happens with Arch or any other distribution?
Noah Reed
Password was exactly the same
I went ahead and reinstalled debian and just left the root password field blank this time. Sudo works now. Just gonna make sure the username is a sudoer and then set a new root password.
Jeremiah Perry
Fedora and Debian did not have this issue, but I dont yet know enough about GNU/Linux to know if that's a stupid thing to say or not.
Arch without some kind of graphical installer may as well be Chinese to me.
Jace Wood
Install Parabola
Zachary Johnson
Holy shit the Mageia install takes forever. It's been a fucking hour.
Grayson Price
Getting a bash shell from grub DOESN"T FUCKNG REQUIRE A PASSWORD What is the point in coming here and asking for help if you are not going to read the replies you get? Seriously, what is going through you head?
Gavin Martin
well I have an updated branch which took all of fifteen minutes to port and add some more features to. Haven't pushed the webengine stuff yet because I haven't got 5.8 (which apparently has native greasemonkey support) and before 5.8 it is rather diffuculte to get run-at document-start to work properly.
Easton Perez
Gonna be honest with you. No idea what the fuck a bash shell is.
The thing I did was easier so fuck it.
Gabriel Lee
Windows is the best system in your situation.
Caleb Cox
Well then, open a pull request ;)
Benjamin Thompson
>There is a pull request but the maintainer doesn't want to accept it until he has finished a couple of other major codebase-wide changes which have been ongoing for a year or so now.
Jackson Turner
Still not true. See
Aiden Reyes
>the maintainer doesn't want to accept it until he has finished a couple of other major codebase-wide changes which have been ongoing for a year or so now I hope you are not impying that opening yet another pull request will make this magically not true.
Gavin Carter
I am said maintainer. It never was true in the first place.
Nolan Wood
O-Okay. I'l open a new one once qtwebngine 5.8 hits testing because 5.7/6 have annoying prevalant edgecases.
Christopher Reyes
What's a free cli irc client?
Kayden Flores
irssi
Hunter Morris
Is it botnet-free and free as in freedom?
Lucas Peterson
uninstall Chomsky
it's a mind virus
Evan White
>Irssi is free software licensed under the GPLv2, available for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Apple, Cygwin, …
Dominic Morris
So currently i have computers on my lan set up to back up their shit onto my loonix server, but all it will take is one lightning strike or home invasion and i'm fucking done and dead. Is there some free online service which will allow me to store at least 50GB of data as a backup? I will store it there as about 5x10GB encrypted files. Security is not a problem since everything will be encrypted.
Connor Edwards
Hope you're all safe and comfortable on systemd 231-17.
i installed manjaro i3 edition it was running perfect but got insecure about memes and deleted it now i am still distro hopping debian was too big to download fedora was a slow buggy but its still better than a lot i didnt install display drivers for my hardware tho :^) but still manjaro was running perfect and now 17.0.2 is released i think i should download it again or
Robert Perry
Cna anyone please tell me how to disable antialiasing on fonts in Ubuntu Unity? I use i3 as my WM, but I doubt that matters. Do I just go into one of the Unity setting GUI thingies? I never used those.
Ian Green
What is the correct and safe way to install the newest version of GCC to be used concurrently, without fucking everything up or getting hacked?
Henry Jackson
update gcc
Ryan Nguyen
what distro are you using?
Oliver Sanchez
Ubuntu with GCC 6.2
Jace Reed
Poettering is the kid in the red shirt Linux community is the other kid. Infosec is the GI Joe Soldier. youtube.com/watch?v=L1BDM1oBRJ8
Angel Clark
In nemo is it possible to sticky these disks to the bar and add their mount point in front of it? I dont want them to mount by default, but i want it so they arent spinning until i decide to mount them too.
Mason Flores
Tried to install from source, downloaded the files.
> sha512sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
Changed mirrors, same shit..
Cameron Brooks
Solus Install Solus
Noah Mitchell
Does anyone have any experience with the Arch-openRC ISO? Is there any issues with it?
Or should I just install Archiso and then just install openRC after?
Lucas Wilson
shit distro.
Luke Perry
You'll need go set up partitions beforehand. After that you're good to go.
I recommend that you consider 7 or 8.1 instead due to privacy and stability issues.
Luis Gray
>tfw reordering my collections of movies and shit between my network computers >tfw all movies are in full hd bluray rips and it takes forever to move them around at 20MB/s speed i miss the days of everything is 700MB axxo rip ;_;
Angel Bennett
I'm trying to install the Electrum Litecoin wallet for OpenSuse but keep getting this error already have the normal Bitcoin wallet installed fine
any other Litecoin alternatives for opensuse, or other altcoin wallets in general?
Leo Rodriguez
Linux
Jacob Ortiz
GNU/Linux*
Michael Morgan
install windows
Carter Campbell
Found a mint condition HP Compaq 6715s at work and brought it home since the boss doesn't give a fuck about laptops that look like they're from the stone age. Pic related. I think this is definitely one of the best looking laptops right after some thinkpads imo. Threw in 4GB of ram inside, a wifi chip, surprisingly had a fitting HDD for it. Has all covers, all screws, this thing was just left here back in the day and nobody cared about it. I'm super into old technology and reviving some of it makes my day. The HDD I threw in had windows 10 on it, now before you stop reading, that's why I'm writing here. Should I attempt to install a lightweight linux distro on here? Shilldows10 seems to be working decently well, youtube playback works relatively fine, and I know on linux it can be either miles better, or just complete dogtrash. (Something to do with the flashplugin or whatever it may be, this is from past experiences.) I could just use this thing as a doorstop and throw in the hardware in a newer laptop, but since all I need it for is media streaming, should I bother?
Jack Thomas
You need python development libraries.
Not sure what the package would be called in OpenSuse but usually it would be something like "python-dev" or "python-devel"
William Myers
I wish I could at this point
Levi Clark
thanks this worked
Chase Torres
Linux is for servers, don't use it for doing desktop tier shit
Brayden Harris
I remember when I first learned how to use command prompt too
Nicholas Smith
If i close all incoming ports does it mean i'm unhackable?
