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Debian is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution first announced 1993. It is well known for its package management system APT and large number of packages. Many other distributions are influenced or originate from it, like Ubuntu or Knoppix.
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Difficulty with EncFS on Debian
I created 2 test folders:
mkdir /home/oshiro/Desktop/encrypted
mkdir /home/oshiro/Desktop/decrypted
oshiro@debian:~/Desktop$ ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 oshiro oshiro 4096 Feb 15 20:34 decrypted
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How to overwrite a non-debian package?
Background
I am trying to install Google Drive, so I am installing Grive. I previously tried to install syncdrive, which is no longer supported. Now, I am having some conflicts between the two ...
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Debian wheezy - display- fresh copy (installed twice)
I'm totally new to Linux. I installed a fresh copy of Debian wheezy and everything installed fine. After first boot my screen is not set to proper resolution. I tried all the tech tips in Google which ...
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Why is Debian hangs after DHCP?
This is my /etc/networking/interfaces file:
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth0 inet6 auto
And here is a picture of where it is hanging:
Source: ...
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How to properly disable Gnome 3 shell in Debian?
I just did a Debian install on an old laptop, and I don't need Gnome shell on it. I did it with apt-get remove gnome-shell, and it worked after I restarted.
However, later I did apt-get autoremove, ...
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Is there a shutdown/restart command for x11VNC? - Linux (Debian)
I am running Linux (Debian). I recently installed the x11VNC server on my computer.
I found the command to start the server is:
x11vnc -display :0
I have been searching but did not find any ...
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WD Advanced Format confusion
One of my Hitachi DeskStar 7K160 hard disks died today and the other one is not safe (has bad sectors) so I've ordered a new 1 TB WD Blue WD10EZEX. Apparently nowadays new hard disks come with this ...
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Unable to see Fedora 20, when triple booting it with Debian 7, and openSuSe 13.1
I just don't understand why I cannot see my Fedora 20 having it planned to triple boot it with Debian 7 and openSuSe 13.1.
Initially I partitioned my system to:
/dev/sda1 for openSuSe 13.1
/dev/sda2 ...
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Debian Wheezy update-grub: command not found
I'm trying to change my grub boot order, so I've changed /etc/default/grub, but I don't seem to have the update-grub command. I'm not sure if I'm using grub or grub2 because everything just says ...
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Slow DNS resolve from curl/lynx etc
I have a strange issue with DNS resolving: Root of the problem is that I get curl errors: "Error executing HTTP request: name lookup timed out". Tried to ping some sites, all resolved fine (and fast). ...
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Target filesystem doesn't have requested /lib/systemd/systemd
I have been using systemd for about a month without any problems on my Debian Jessie. I installed it according to the Debian wiki. But all of a sudden today I got this error:
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Dual Monitor with integrated and discrete GPU on Debian
I've got an Asrock Extreme 3 motherboard and a Nvidia 660ti GPU.
I was trying to configure dual monitor on debian 7 connecting one monitor to the mb and the other to the GPU. This configuration works ...
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unable to remount filesystem back to read-only after package upgrade
On my Debian system, I have my / on separate partition and mounted read-only. Only /home/, /var/ and /tmp/ are writable. I have also created a Pre-Invoke and Post-Invoke apt hook, so that apt can ...
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Is there a place where we can have an exhaustive list of debian's package?
Do you know if there is a place where we can have an exhaustive list of debian's package ?
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Why is the Provides field in the local Debian package ignored (DepCompareOp)?
I'm running Debian sid and want to use TeX Live from CTAN. So I didn't install the Debian texlive-packages, but created a virtual local package with equivs. You can find the control file below:
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