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trying to install arch on a vm, using syslinux for the bootloader when I boot it just gives me Booting... and doesn't ever do anything else
Isaiah Ramirez
/fgt/ — Friendly GNU Thread when
Austin Bell
that's the syslinux.cfg file btw
Luis Butler
Linux a gay G A Y A Y
Evan Long
Use GRUB like any other normal person. Use systemd-boot if you have an UEFI motherboard.
Jackson Sullivan
For a beginner programmer, is there a difference in using GCC 6 or 7 and Python 3.5 or 3.6? I really want to get my feet wet in Linux and programming and I'm looking for an appropriate distro to do so. Debian was the easiest to set up to my liking but it offers older packages. I tried Fedora 26 too, but something about it didn't seem right..
Michael Reed
nah, not a meaningful difference in those things
Nathan Flores
So I installed Nix onto Ubuntu. Then I used the command: nix-shell -p freecad What is going on? Is it installing freeCAD in nixos? so if I run FreeCAD it would run through ubuntu in nixos, or would it just install normally in Ubuntu and Nix is just fixing whatever broken packages there might be.
Michael Morgan
REEEEEEEE
Christopher Lee
Open up Synaptic Package Manager, Edit - Fix Broken Packages.
Presuming that goes off without a hitch, it's now time to fix the dependencies. Reopen terminal, and sudo apt-get install -f
Let me know how it goes.
Ian Gonzalez
Is a 10GB partition enough for Ubuntu if I don't want to make it my main OS (that's still Windows 10) but rather install it so I can boot into it every once in a while and see what it's like to use it for a change? LibreOffice, Firefox (yeah, I know) and other basic stuff is pre-installed anyway. I wouldn't need to install anything, except maybe MonoDevelop and codecs for audio/video files.
FYI, I have an 128GB SSD drive in my laptop. I could make it maybe 15GB but not more.
Also, I like the look and feel of Gnome better than Unity. Do you install software on Ubuntu Gnome in the same way is in Unity?
Luis Sullivan
Minimum requirements are 5GB. That said, you could also just use a flash drive, and boot from that, without having to partition anything. That way, if you wind up liking it, you don't have to go and reconfigure everything again.
Levi Nelson
Ive seen people suggest encrypting Linux partitions if youre dual booting with Windows. Yay or nay? Would you want to encrypt only root partition or every partition? Does it negatively affect performance?
Landon Moore
>encrypt only root No. Encrypt your actually sensitive data like ~/finances and ~/lolis
Adam Allen
Personally, I wouldn't dualboot. I use Linux as my main OS, but have an iPhone that doesn't use iCloud. Windows is used in an old tower for encrypted backups to iTunes, and that's about it.
If I WAS to do it, I'd probably only encrypt the Home Folder down.
Connor Sanders
I wouldn't do more than this. It's a real pain in the ass to boot encrypt with a dual boot, anyways.
Caleb Walker
How does it encrypt the home directory when you select that? What does it use for encryption?
>check random page on ubuntu documentation >it mentions ubuntu 9.04
That's just ridiculous. The amount of useless and old help articles for Ubuntu alone is pathetic. It also appears to have a bunch of pages for the same topic and it's just a huge mash of useless, old and deprecated advice. Let's not even get started on the forum posts which regurgitate those exact pages.
Thomas Gutierrez
Hmm?
Michael Lopez
Is that Synaptic Package Manager? I haven't used Ubuntu since 2006.
Daniel Hernandez
Did you hold back packages? Who knows what you did to break it. That's what happens when you just blindly copy paste things expecting it to fix your problem. Obvious PEBCAK. Just reinstall and don't do stupid things this time around.
>doesn't know the basics of installing packages >proceeds to install nixos just because some retarded meme spouter recommended it
Dylan Baker
Is it possible to access various system settings via GUI if you only have WM like i3 installed?
Wyatt Sanders
You suffer from a lot of misconceptions. Yes, it is possible. A window manager doesn't affect the software you're running at all.
Logan Thompson
If I have /home on a different partition and I want to install a different distro, all I have to do is not touch the home partition, right? No fuckery necessary?
Jackson Long
I just dont want to install a DE and only want to use i3 but am a newfag. How can i configure settings that are usually available in "system settings" on Ubuntu based systems without terminal?
Dylan Martin
I haven't tried, but I don't see why it would.
Worst case scenario, do a backup, and give it a try, and you'll have to reinstall from scratch.
Brody Miller
Yes, but it's stupid to keep the full files. Different software versions can modify same config files, possibly introducing problems. Keeping around files, like inside .cache or .local can also have some unclean effects.
Backup your configs cleanly and copy them over.
Joshua Anderson
If the software you install comes with a graphical settings editor, you use that. If not, you can't. Neither on your "no DE i3" or on any "DE".
Hint: when you install i3 with other utility software you are running a desktop environment. Even running "just a WM" is a desktop environment, because as soon as you have X running you're subscribing to the desktop metaphor of computing.
Logan Hernandez
For that, you install just the settings part of a DE. I'm using xfsettingsd with i3 in this exact scenario. LXDE stuff is also popular for this purpose.
Hudson Rodriguez
I've not used Linux in a few years, due to most work requiring applications I use being buggy when used with WINE or PoL. What distro is best if I am using Photoshop CS6?
John Wright
Yes it is. wtf i have to reinstall ubuntu now!
Liam Hughes
I've never encountered a situation where clicking "Fix Broken Packages" didn't work, and I fuck shit up often.
What I would do at that point is remove the broken packages, and then reinstall them.
Hunter Bennett
apt --fix-broken install
Nicholas Reyes
Ooh. So i can just install part of the DE that configure system settings? Which ones considered the best? So DE is basically a compilation of different programs put together and configured to flow nicely between each other?
Kayden Price
Half my terminals had blinking cursors. Was grinding my gears in the worst way. Apparently vim 8.0.0918-v8.0.0973 in urxvt leaves your terminal cursor blinking after exit, blinking, blinking, blinking. printf '\033[?12l' or upgrade to fix
Isaac Harris
:( didn't work.
Levi Diaz
Then close terminal. Open up Synaptic Package Manager, Click on the "Broken" filter on the left side of the screen.
Right click each broken package, and click "Mark for Complete Removal." (you may want to write down which packages you are removing). Then click Edit, and click on "Apply Marked Changes."
Then reinstall all packages that you removed.
Jeremiah Gomez
1) You are a dumb shit for using ubuntu 2) You are a dumb shit for not reading the error messages your package manager spits out 3) You are the dumbest shit for executing random unhelpful commands that some retard user keeps sperging at you what does apt-cache policy python-pivy say?
Mason Robinson
>Click on the "Broken" filter on the left side of the screen. There are zero broken packages. If I mark freeCAD for installation only then it appears in broken packages but I can't remove it because it is not installed.
holy shit I fucking did it. successful void linux install. god I love computers this shit is so satisfying. fuck scrot have a phone pic
Ethan Ross
void linux has a tui setup - what was so hard?
Joshua Price
I know you can have i3 open certain programs in a floating window by default, but is there any way to specify it from the command line as a one time thing? I'm running a script from w3m to wget Sup Forums threads without having to copy the link and move to a new window, but it seems my options are limited to either having the scripts run on top of w3m (annoying when the connection gets randomly slow), or opening a new terminal running the script there, which steals my focus in an annoying way and screws with the layout temporarily.
Jack Barnes
Hi,
I defined and saved an environment variable in my /etc/profile file. Due my limited understanding the command >echo $VARIABLE< should work immediatelly after opening a new terminal window. But the command only works after I typed "sourced" the file >source .../profile
Ryder Gray
Dunno what to tell you. I can tell you that freecad isn't broken.
Zachary Martin
So try install python-pivy that might make it give you a more meaningful error message than just "is not going to be installed".
Julian Garcia
>/etc/profile That's the system-wide file. I'm assuming here, but you probably want ~/.profile.
Gabriel Nelson
>/etc/profile >should work immediatelly after opening a new terminal window Wrong. That is only read for login shells. And learn to delimit code you fuckwit. Angle brackets have an actual meaning in shell code.
Thomas Myers
> fixed some mistakes.
Hi,
I defined and saved an environment variable in my /etc/profile file. I thought the command should work immediatelly after opening a new terminal window. But the command only works after I "sourced" the file by typing . What am I missing and how can I fix it? Thank you sooo much, trying to fix it since hours.
> This was the first file I edited but it didn't work at all.
Nathaniel Martinez
Yeah I will. I am new here and new to Linux, but you guys convinced me to give it a try.
Do you have any advice for my question maybe?
Juan Hughes
I just checked it out. Freecad is in alpha, from what I can tell. Might just be that your specific system can't run it for any number of reasons. My wife can't run brave on her elitebook for this reason.
Jaxon Harris
...
Ethan Martin
If you're just setting a variable, do it in your shell's configuration file. ~/.bashrc or ~/.shrc or whatever-the-fuck.
Just out of curiosity, are you on the latest stable ubuntu release and latest stable kernel?
At this point, I'm literally spitballing.
Jeremiah Reyes
I am not setting just any variable. I am trying to set the $GOPATH variable of golang.
David Baker
>sid is better why would it be better
DEFAULT s PROMPT 1 # Set to 1 to always display the boot prompt TIMEOUT 50
LABEL z MENU LABEL Linux Zen LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-zen APPEND root=/dev/sda1 rw radeon.dpm=1 modprobe.blacklist=pcspkr init=/usr/bin/runit-init INITRD ../initramfs-linux-zen.img
LABEL s MENU LABEL Linux LTS Systemd LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-lts APPEND root=/dev/sda1 rw radeon.dpm=1 quiet modprobe.blacklist=pcspkr init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd INITRD ../initramfs-linux-lts.img
it should be but depends on what you plan to install later on, that where your programs go later on so you'll have about 4 for your shit. 15 would be better because ubuntu used about 6 iirc, you may be able to make apt-get install put them somewhere else but why trouble
yes ubuntu wiki is a pain to browse and out of date if the page even exists, they rely on ask ubuntu and the forum afai see
thank pricks for arch wiki - the only easily accessible and up to date actual wiki
something like arch with current stable upstream versions, debian testing, openpepe or fedora idk
Joseph Reyes
>xenialoverlay The fuck? Are you on ubuntu phone? I don't know enough about ubuntu to know what's up with that shit but you can try opening up sudo aptitude and seeing if that has any resolution options that result in freecad being installed.
Austin Perry
>why would it be better Use your imagination. Does testing even have bash 4.4 yet?
Oliver Rodriguez
Which partition scheme and bootloader mode should I prefer for universal usb flash with ganoo/loonix? I need it to be able to boot properly on older machines but also to boot in uefi mode if machine supports it. Is it something like mbr partition table with dual grub?
Asher Hughes
Why didn't you faggots just tell me I had to restart the OS.
reeeeee
Daniel Ross
Why in the fuck wouldn't that have been the first thing you did?
Jacob Mitchell
Fedora or Debian to set up a TWM system (like i3 or whatever)? I tried Debian already but I was wondering if the Fedora grass is greener.
Lincoln Smith
i looked through packages debian.org some weeks ago and testing and sid had the same versions for the most part (if not all) so ye i dont see any point in using sid on ma desktop instead of testing
Carson Richardson
Fucking milenials
Luis Nelson
Dude, I was born in 86. Technically millennial. Don't stick me with that shit. I started with Windows 3.1.
This is some GenZ shit.
Gabriel Howard
What's the recommended lockscreen?
Austin Rodriguez
Oh nvm. I was thinking of experimental. For instance qt5.9 vs 5.7
Josiah Murphy
Then act your age and ditch this shitty entitled attitude. You have the official documentation on your system and it was linked to you.
Kevin Nelson
Not who you were responding to. Millennials know how to handle this kind of shit. This has to be GenZ.
Hunter Lopez
slock
Nathaniel Carter
oh really? Because I was so close to installing windows.
Yes I downloaded the 16.04.3 LTS iso from their website this morning
Ok I used aptitude to purge all the "obsolete" packages except for firefox nightly.
Thank you all for your help.
Anthony Taylor
>Yes I downloaded the 16.04.3 LTS iso from their website this morning What about the kernel? I'm on 4.12.9 and it works.
Jacob Barnes
Kernel: 4.10.0-32
Sebastian Morgan
>package manager complains about minor difference in QT library versions >Uhhh, maybe try upgrading your kernel?
Lucas Martinez
>52.1 lmao.. just install firefox
Christian Wood
Yes, although some DEs are more rigid and ask you to install a fuckpile of dependencies if you want any part of it
try asking your package manager to install konsole or any kde software and see what happens
Jonathan Gray
The fact that you think a simple GNU/Linux install is at all difficult is really, really sad.
Luis Kelly
I'm just getting started with Ubuntu. So far I've just been trying to familiarize myself with keybindings and terminal navigation and use.
Up to this point I've only installed ranger (along with a few of the suggested packages) and i3. What media players would you guys recommend? On Windows, I used foobar, honeyview and MPC.
Also I'm not ignoring the installgentoo and archlinux wiki's. I'm using both but I'd appreciate an opinion from you guys as well.
Justin Jackson
mpv for video, compile it yourself for extra points (because the ubuntu package is, as always, incredibly out of date)
there are tons and tons of music players though, and it's very much personal preference I went through qmmp, clementine, rhythmbox and they all had some quirk or other that didn't fit me using deadbeef now and no complaints so far
Evan Collins
I've noticed mpv is really popular. That'll definitely be the first one I try.
Never heard of deadbeef but I'll look into that one too, thanks.
One last question, though: I've a windows partition on this PC as well. What's the best way to access it from ubuntu/linux in general? Is it better to just mount the two? Should I use a server/network share? What's easiest?
Luis Jenkins
Best distro for a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200?
Colton Morris
do some distros offer different/higher wine support than other? what should i pick if i have a lot of programs that are not compateble with linux and i need to run them through wine? new to linux
Joshua Ramirez
What is a better base/netinst distro, Debian or Fedora, and why?
Matthew Ross
Don't answer this question. I'm a retard.
Dylan Morris
Are you using VirtualBox? If so, go to the Arch wiki page for VirtualBox to see how to fix the VirtualBox-specific issue with booting.
Henry Harris
Why do you even have multiple partitions?
Colton Harris
If you only encrypt home, you can end up with revealing cache and log information saved unencrypted elsewhere.
Jaxon Hughes
Is there a utility similar to CCleaner for Linux that would look through the ~/.cache folder and figure out what can be deleted?
Luke Long
I like Dolphin's folder image previews.
Liam Green
It needs antialiasing, though.
Lincoln Thompson
Is linux mint good for nongeek user using computer only for watching videos, surfing on internet and doing something on libre office?
I plan to install these distro on my family member's computer who uses computer only for that and doesent have any OS on CD or DVD
Jace Morales
bleachbit
Adam Wright
What other fm's do this? Not installing 300mb and 128 deps just for image previews
