Questions tagged [debian]
Questions specific to the Debian official distribution (stable, testing, or unstable); if you are using a derivative of Debian (e.g. Mint, Ubuntu, Kali, etc), then use that distribution’s tag instead.
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Keep two entire Linux desktop systems in sync
I have a laptop PC that I use for everyday tasks. I mainly use my PC for software development (so lots of git repos + IDE + development tools), browsing... lots of different stuff actually. I'm using ...
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Permissions required to use machine transport with systemctl
I'm trying to set up some tasks and services on my machine across different users.
One task is to run regular backups using restic with a regular user restic. While I can skip file permission checks ...
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Downloading the Debian Wiki for offline use
I want to download the Debian Wiki for offline use / archiving.
Currently there seems to be no official way to download / mirror the content of the Debian Wiki.
This excerpt of the Debian Wiki ...
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USB Audio Sound's Crappy Until `pavucontrol` is Launched (Debian 13)
After upgrading from Debian 12 to 13, audio sounds really bad from my USB audio card, which is a Sound Blaster Play! 3.
The poor audio goes away immediately after launching pavucontrol, but this only ...
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Debian Bookworm and Trixie: no games available?
Last week I recognized, my Debian-Systems (bare metal and vm) does not start any game - like Gnome-Mahjongg or Gnome-Mines.
The .desktop-files are in /usr/share/applications, but there is no binary in ...
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Regular CPU overload on videocalls
I have this reoccurring problem in a variety of videocall platforms. When I'm in a call the CPU usage repeatedly goes up to 100% for around 1 or 2 minutes. During these episodes, the whole system is ...
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Mount program did not pass remote address: NFS client is debian 13, server MacOS
My mac is exporting an NFS file system, as best I can tell. showmount -e on the mac shows an export.
➜ infrastructure git:(bim-typo) showmount -e
Exports list on localhost:
/Users/bensonmargulies ...
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LoadCredential does not seem to work when running systemd in a container
I have been trying to run systemd in a container to test out an existing project before it gets deployed to hardware. systemd seems to work, but LoadCredential doesn't, even though it works on the ...
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Read-only mount a btrfs image and overwrite UID
The story is that a week ago my local disk faulted, and I dd'd the entire disk device to a full.img file and uploaded it to my OpenMediaVault server. Now I have replaced the disk and reinstalled the ...
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/boot on ZFS no longer works with Debian's GRUB after "zpool upgrade"?
Let'see what happen after creating a bpool and upgrading as command zpool status suggest
root@debian:/boot# grub-probe /boot
zfs
root@debian:/boot# zpool upgrade bpool
This system supports ZFS pool ...
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Getting an "unexpected operator" error when logging in on a new account
I am relatively new to Linux, but my background is as a network monkey, so I'm used to the CLI.
I just installed Debian onto a Libre Renegade and that went quite smoothly. So far I have had to alter ...
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Error while building app qman from source with meson
I'm not used to build apps from source and when I do, it's not free from hiccups.
While trying to build the app qman, I was met with this error code:
[1/11] Generating src/config.h with a custom ...
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Architecture `all` and reprepro
I am trying to set up a Debian repository. The packages in the repo are for architecture all, as none of them contains native code.
In reprepro/conf/distributions, if I set Architectures: all, ...
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keep apt from switching testing for the new stable
I think it has already happened to me twice that I setup apt sources to use testing (cause I wan't to remain there) and when the new debian stable version comes out, testing is switched for the new ...
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How to convert project buildscript into debian package?
Attempting to package i3lock-color project for debian.
The project includes a build.sh script that successfully compiles the project. How could we convert these instructions into something to build ....