Old: Welcome to /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread.
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.
*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***
Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.
If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following: 0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine. 1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything. 2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS. 3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
Resources: Your friendly neighborhood search engine.
$ man %command% $ info %command% $ help %command% $ %command% -h $ %command% --help
Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something%
"$*" really works, thank you user! I couldn't solve it for over an hour. Do you know how this kind of parameters are called? I really would like to learn more about it.
Oliver Morales
>debian is hard to install meme what? it has a regular graphical installer just like ubuntu even the non graphical installer is easy. it just looks ugly
Xavier Thompson
I think the issue stems from the fact that the live medium normally doesn't ship with proprietary drivers, and it doesn't seem to recognize--at least in my experience--drivers located on other mediums. You can easily manage by just installing the drivers after the fact, but, annoyingly, if you don't configure wireless during the install (which you can't if you don't have the drivers), Debian won't install wpasupplicant.
Bentley Phillips
the network drivers, right? all you do is have to search for them on the internet, download and drag into the firmware folder you can do it before the install
Jacob Sanders
Granted, you could avoid all of this by just doing a stage3 install of Debian, which is what I do exclusively whenever I want to install Debian, now. It lets me do significantly more sophisticated setups, anyways. Also, for the record, I think the Debian installer, both the x and ncurses one, for as shitty as they are, are really pretty. I especially love Devuans' installer. Makes me think of Charlie Rose for some reason. Debian really is the NPR of GNU/Linux, I don't know why.
Angel White
That's what I literally just said. Did you even read my post?
Leo Wilson
If windows was not a botnet will you use it?
Samuel Nelson
First for revolution.
Ethan Perry
>You can easily manage by just installing the drivers after the fact and i said you can do it before too
Owen Perez
fuck off shill
William Morris
If Windows was still proprietary, no. If otherwise, I probably still wouldn't use it, because it's a fucking abomination. Kind of the same thing with hackintoshes. I have a t420, and I'm fully aware that I can install MacOS, but, when push comes to shove, Apples hardware actually kind of sucks. I mean, don't get me wrong, sometimes it's really nice, as with Airports. But very seldomly.
David Robinson
I meant software
Lincoln Gomez
No, once you tasted GNU/Linux you woun't go back. It's simply the superior OS.
Christian Stewart
Hey guys, I'm trying to set up a local repo for debian since I might not have any access to the internet in the near future. I tried to get all packages for stretch with debmirror and got a few gpg errors but everything seems to be good, I think at least. And here goes my question to you, can I get this to work with just an external hdd (aka I put all the packages on the hdd and plug it in into another pc and magic happens) or is this more complicated? Everything I can find on the web is about making an apache server and hosting those but I would like to avoid that, I don't know shit about networking. I'm trying to get it to work for a few days now but can't figure it out
>The new kernel package will be used by default in any Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image brought up from the Azure portal after the 21st of September. lmao
>look guys, only canonical has this better kernel! >look guys, only microsoft can advance linux!
[rubbing hands intensifities]
Blake Hill
based
Aaron Lopez
/faglet/
Jason Brown
:^)
Logan Parker
Is it possible to show non-English letters in command line interface?
Andrew Ward
Yes 100%.
Mason Rodriguez
Yes, use a font that supports then. For GUI terminal emulators, changing the font should be trivial. For tty, change the "consolefont". For example, in debian systems you can use dpkg-reconfigure console-setup or in Gentoo you can do it in /etc/conf.d/consolefont
Josiah Harris
Thanks a lot, it worked.
Jayden Williams
You can also play around with setfont manually. Available consolefonts are located here: /usr/share/consolefonts, so you can set tham like this: setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Uni3-Terminus12x6.psf.gz Or short: setfont Uni3-Terminus12x6
Zachary Gomez
does anyone know how to convert a regular bitmap font to a console font?
xo. tc/setting-up-full-disk-encryption-on-debian-jessie.html following this guys instructions and there's no cryptab folder in etc how do i finish the steps from there?
Jaxson Powell
.mp3 is free now right? Is there any reason why you freetards or rms are still recommending .ogg instead? Explain
Brandon King
okay i actually got past that it was a file everything works fine now
Bentley Roberts
Going to create gui-frontend for some existing library and/or cli tool that lacks proper gui just 4 fun. Will be using gtk3 because I want to (inb4 trash: fuck off). Any ideas on what it should be? What (not extremely complicated) gui application you want to see available for slash leenux?
Julian Hall
I installed windows fonts and now everything looks like shit
Luis Bennett
GUI Fontconfig editor. Change font options, alias, prefer, blacklist and perform other font things.
Jonathan James
DejaVu is all you need.
Ian Turner
superior quality
Joshua Martin
Thread's a bit quiet, so I'll ask something I've been thinking about for a while but never get round to actually doing.
How do I set up/manage a USB drive from a command prompt on Debian netinstall/server? I want to set it up to have filesystem level encryption (fscrypt) but also to just copy and paste files to/from it.
The 1st hurdle is to actually get it to mount, because normally this is handled by the DE. What's the 'done thing'?
Ayden Watson
what stops you from using the "mount" command?
Jaxon Brown
just put them in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts if you need them for wine
Hunter Lopez
Nothing, but I just want to know the correct way. It seems like for this particular use-case i.e. managing and running USB drives on a GUI-less system, there are multiple possible ways to skin a cat.
Chase Gomez
Guys, i want to install debian (probbably using chroot? ) on my android phone. i want to choose mt own shit what to install, i dont nees DE, other crap, etc. Its been a while i used android, what are the most popular tools to achieve this?
Aaron Johnson
google linux on the play store, any of the first results will work
Justin Watson
Every other cloud vendor does the same shit. AWS, Google, all of them. This is literally just ricing a few variables and installing the Azure drivers (which are available in the mainline kernel) by default.
William Rivera
does anyone know why this is happening? can't see volumes on the gui
Adam Brooks
There are no real correct and incorrect way in this. don't overthink it.
Just... mount it. You can also add it to fstab, but remember to set "noauto" in the options so your boot process won't stall for ages or wont stop with an error is the drive is not present at boot time.
You can also set the "user" flag in fstab, allowing normal users to mount the drive, but if it was a fs with unix permissions they will have trouble with those.
Christian Bailey
Oh okay. What I meant was there are multiple programs that mount (mount, pmount, maybe others), so to even start with, there are choices that I don't understand and don't know what's best for something like this.
Nolan Gomez
your gtk theme is shit. Try a different one
Jaxon Wood
your theme is using the same colors for two different things, accidentally pavucontrol uses these two for background and the lines. Try another theme?
pmount might come in the picture if you need to mount a device as user. For others, like mount. handlers, the plain mount command will handle those.
Jaxson Bailey
I'm using Xubuntu 16.04. Can you recommend me a good and reliable software for checking system resources (temperatures, cpu, ram, usage ...)? I'm using Psensor right now, but I'd love a program/software that displays graphs or detailed info and that I can put on a different panel on the desktop.
Jackson Martinez
htop
Xavier Sanchez
What are USE flags?
Daniel Young
Options used by Portage (Gentoos build system) to determine which options to enable/disable in a certain software.
For example if you want to have mpv with just alsa support, you compile it with USE flags alsa -oss -pulseaudio.
Kevin Butler
>compile it Not the best term I used, "emerge it" is more accurate.
Christopher Nelson
Wait, so is it possible to use Gentoo without pulseaudio?? That would be awesome
Gabriel Hall
Yes. If you are a madman you can go full OSS too.
Cameron Cruz
I'm fine with ALSA
Christopher Nelson
for some reason I can't install htop via terminal. Should I get it from Synaptic?
Jonathan Flores
Read the error message, dumbass. It can't DNS resolve the repository you've got configured.
Dude, you have a DNS resolver problem or your mirror is offline. Opening an other package manager won't help.
Jace Nelson
Do I need a flash drive to install Linux?
Daniel Davis
Unless you've got a DVD burner or a PXE infrastructure, yeah.
Mason Ramirez
No, you can install it from CD, netboot or loading the installer from GRUB.
Noah Johnson
You're an idiot. Not because you don't understand the concept of USE flags. They're not magic things which change software on the fly. They're just a convenient way to specify which compile time options to enable or disable, but only IF THEY EXIST. You can compile software with or without those on any distribution.
You're an idiot because you think Pulseaudio is bad when you most likely don't even know what it is or why you don't like it (judging by the fact that you don't even know what compile time options are).
David Jenkins
I can see the problem now, but I find it pretty strange considering that I was able to install some packages just few minutes ago.
Isaac Garcia
What's with idiots not reading things? Why do they automatically want to be spoonfed and wait hundreds of times longer than to spend 5 seconds reading something and solving it themselves?
Austin Sullivan
You live in Italy. Some mafioso probably shot up a server room.
Camden Reed
oh well if that's the case I guess I'll just have to wait
Christopher Nelson
or try another mirror meanwhile. Just replace "it" with a nearby country like at, hu, de etc.
Benjamin Brown
pulseaudio is shit but congrats on being autistic about your opinions.
Benjamin Brown
Do you have any friends or family members that have tried getting into linux due to work/class/whatever the fuck and don't really like it much?
I noticed that a few people in my environment didn't even know it existed, now are getting into it and some of them hate linux distros like it's something they still find too difficult to work with. They have to work with a terminal and learn a few commands and it's like you're dragging them through hell.
Jose Roberts
Congratulations about being a fucking retard who has no idea what he's talking about but who still insists having strong opinions about it. I suggest you find another topic where you can be a retard. This one is already oversaturated.
Oliver Reyes
yeah that could work. I've just tried accessing it.archive.ubuntu.com and Firefox is telling me that it can't connect to the site, but i can connect to de.ubuntu.archive.com and us.ubuntu.archive.com. Zzzzz...
Nathan Moore
t. Lennart "notabug" Poettering
Daniel Williams
What's the difference?
Levi Wood
Stop recommending surveillence engines.
Carter Adams
top contains a rolling release, always-latest KDE bottom contains a long-term supported version of KDE.
$1 to $9 are positional parameters (and you can go on forever, technically by doing e.g. ${10}, ${11}, and so on). "$*" and "$@" expand to all positional parameters. There's also the command "shift" (see "man shift", which shifts where the first positional parameter by n. So "shift 3" would make $1 become $4 and so on. It'd also mean the original values for $1 to $3 would be lost, but that's occasionally a good thing.
Aiden Martinez
>ctrl+f >not /
Luis Bell
lol actually I know exactly what I'm talking about
Easton Turner
Sure, that's why you stated it and explained it.
Samuel Young
help shift*
Jonathan Walker
Is there anything I need to install to use a flash drive to install Linux, or is it enough to just put the iso in there?
Dylan Reed
GNU
Nolan Hughes
how can I make the fonts in xubuntu look like ubuntu? they were much cleaner
Liam Kelly
autism
Oliver Morales
cute
Nathaniel Ortiz
You're retarded. PCs can't boot from an iso file dropped on a filesystem. You have to write the contents of the iso directly to the drive.
Carter Davis
how?
David White
Shit, that's actually not a bad idea. Only issue is though it probably has to run as root.
I wonder if you could sort of isolate the root part to a tiny script that just copies the changes over to minimize the danger. So like it could just read all your current fontconfig data and you'd run it as your normal user to make temporary changes in the GUI, and then when you're ready to write the changes you'd supply the password
Henry Sullivan
Because it tries to be "le just werks" version of audio but instead is just an aborted abstraction layer that does fucking nothing except get in the way of anyone who actually wants to use the audio system.
Joshua Bell
If you're a winbabby, Rufus.
Juan Torres
It doesn't have to run as root. Fontconfig has per user options.
Works for me and other people. Possibly also for you, but you just need something to spread memes about to feel smart.
Colton Cooper
Not a bad idea! Thanks.
Austin Jackson
It can be enough to put the CONTENT of the ISO into the root of the flash drive. But it depends on your BIOS.
However, just use a tool like etcher.io or one of the many others. It'll eliminate on possible source of problems.
