Tagged Questions
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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systemd apt pinned to -1 and installed in upgrade from Debian 8 to Debian 9
While in the process of migrating some servers from my testing network, a few of them installed systemd; I was a bit surprised as I am using sysV, and have systemd pinned to -1.
What happened?
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Debian : unable to install packages with apt-get
I am using Debian Jessie.
When I try to install gedit I have the following issue :
XXX@XXX:~$ sudo apt-get install gedit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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Hashcat or amd drivers stops working after short while on headless Debian server
At first I want to say that I have thoroughly searched for a solution to my problems both with search engines and here on this platform but to no avail.
I have a headless Debian server (Headless in ...
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iPsec Setup Struggiling
I am trying to connect to my works network over iPsec (or any other form of VPN) the router I am trying to connect to is a draytek 2860n.
On windows I would just use the draytek smart VPN client (...
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Can't boot Debian from USB
I'm having a few problems installing Debian 8.
I created a bootable USB using dd if=iso-file.iso of=/dev/sdb, then I changed the BIOS settings to boot from the USB stick, but when I reboot, nothing ...
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Block incoming access to xmlrpc.php (VPS)
I've just recently had an attack on a xmlrpc.php file on a WordPress blog. The attack was on managed hosting and I believe the hosting company has dealt with it by limiting incoming access to the file....
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How to replace XFCE window manager with awesome
How can I replace XFCE4 window manager with awesome?
I tried to place the following content to the ~/.xinitrc file:
#!/bin/sh
exec awesome
I also tried to do this stuff:
xfconf-query -c xfce4-...
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How to install the latest R when this Java problem in Debian?
My proposal
su
apt-get purge r-base r-base-dev
exit
wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.3.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf R-3.3.1.tar.gz
su
apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev # otherwise, ...
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Show spinner in LXDE
Recently I've installed Debian with LXDE on a very old computer (from my grandma). It takes ~ 5-15 seconds to start Firefox, but when I double-click a program, there's no loading indicator, which is ...
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SOLVED! insync messed apt and I can't do apt-get update/upgrade
I had issues with 1.2.x version of insync, so I googled for its website and I downloaded the deb file of the newest version for my 64 bit debian. dpkg couldn't install it, even setting the --force-all ...
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How to install the '!!' command?
I was trying to use !! on my new install of debian and I get the following error:
$ sudo !!
sudo: !!: command not found
I do I gain use of !!?
Also what can I call !! so that I can actually google ...
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Debian and external software [on hold]
How is the Debian renowned super stability affected if I want to use an external software - say MATLAB, Quartus etc.? Beside the fact it's not tested by the Debian team, it may have its own ...
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Trying to add user to group that exists in /etc/group not working
I'm trying to add a list of users to different groups on a debian VM. I am using the following sequence of commands in my bash script:
getent group $uid || groupadd $uid #add ...
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Why can't I install libc6-dev-amd64 using the official online repositories?
I'm trying to install libc6-dev-amd64 on my x64 Debian 8 machine.
This is my sources.list file:
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/...
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How to get gcc-4.7 to /usr/bin/gcc-4.7 as second gcc in Debian Jessie?
I would like to keep my gcc 4.9 but let Matlab use gcc 4.7 because Stable Debian does not support 4.7, as observed in the thread Debian Jessie: Why gcc-4.7 conflicts with gcc-4.8?
I do the following ...
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Service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start
I have created a service on Debian 8.6 and as I'm trying to start it using the service command, I receive an error.
I have tried systemctl daemon-reload, but still getting the same result.
$ sudo ...
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How to get xinput to identify an inputer device by name with excess whitespace?
I have a secondary monitor that is a touch screen. I can successfully map the input to the correct screen using xinput map-to-output 12 DP-4.
However, the ID number for the input device is not ...
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Init.d script not working on startup: Failed to start SYSV
The Keystone CMS system fails to run on startup. The problem is likely in this init.d startup script. I set the permissions, but something is still not right.
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo ...
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How to upgrade openssh? [on hold]
i want upgrade openssh, as i have error:
error: Unsafe AuthorizedKeysCommand: bad ownership or modes for file /usr/bin/get_ldap_ssh_key.sh
In sshd_config:
AuthorizedKeysCommand /usr/bin/...
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HDDs won't spin down with hdparm command
I am using Debian Jessie on a HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 with two Western Digital Red 3TB. No RAID or anything else.
I wanted the HDDs to automatically spin down after two hours.
Triggering it ...
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Nagios memory free plug-in misbehaving after upgrade to Debian Stretch
We use Nagios here for monitoring our servers.
On the test servers I upgraded to Debian 9/Stretch, the memory monitoring box/object in our Nagios monitoring platform says CRITICAL and next to it, ...
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Service Start Issue Systemd
I have configured a dradis.service file in /lib/systemd/system, it is called dradis.service. And it is its content:
[Unit]
Description=Dradis web application
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
[...
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Video card driver problem in Debian (AMD Radeon R5 M330)
I am new to Linux. I am using Debian 8. I tried to play some games, but it seems that they are using my integrated Intel video card instead of discrete AMD Radeon: Star Conflict doesn't even show the ...
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Besides 'apt check' what apt command checks for the soundness of packages configuration?
I asked this question earlier What apt command is used to check for the soundness of the installation, or misconfiguration? and although the answer was correct apt check, it did not fix my problem ...
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Open a TOR-Window over SSH
I use Debian on my vServer.
I use MobaXterm to connect to my vServer. MobaXterm has installed X11 so everything should work.
Now I installed tor on the vServer this way:
wget https://www.torproject....
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Plymouth on Debian 8 with nVidia proprietary drivers
How to enable Plymouth on Debian 8 that uses proprietary nVidia drivers?
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DHCP Server on Debian 8 [duplicate]
So I started creating a new environment at work but I'm a little stuck at this point. My situation is as following:
I have a VMWare Esxi server.
On this server I want 3 virtual machines (Firewall, ...
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NFS file share problem Debian [duplicate]
sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
I have my /etc/expots file here;
/mnt/extHD 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
I have restarted all the services and set ufw to allow nfs, ...
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how to get list of sites/domains linked to in wireshark
I have been trying to figure out how many sites does firefox connect wth and for that have been using wireshark. What I have done is made a new profile and whenever I run firefox in the browser it is ...
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How To rsync Entire Disk To Create Complete VPS Back Up
I'm working on creating a snapshot of my entire vps, including all settings and directories - everything.
I would like to download the backup from my remote vps machine to my local computer. I found ...
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Where can I extract or copy man executable
As our web hosting technician recovered our Linux/Debian squeeze system, I've lost man exetubable. The symptom is:
# ls -l /usr/bin/man
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 11 2011 /usr/bin/man -> ../...
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Nginx Webdav no connection inside lan
i have set up a dav share on Nginx 1.9.10 on Debian Jessie. Here is the dav config from Nginx (will be accessed over https)
location /data {
alias /mnt/airport;
client_body_temp_path /mnt/airport/tmp;...
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What apt command is used to check for the soundness of the installation, or misconfiguration?
Usually an apt-get -f install shows stuff that needs fixing and another other apt-get install xxxx displays any present misconfigurations.
Is there a particular apt command that displays the state of ...
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X display-manager login fails, console login + startx works
I have one machine (my main desktop, as it happens) where I've been unable to login from the display manager for months. As soon as I enter my password, it looks like it's about to start my session ...
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Looking for match between my laptop and linux kernel
I have a "LENOVO Ideapad 300-14IBR 80M2".
The basic debian install failed on me. (many problems : wifi, suspend, gpu, various crashes...)
I randomly used jessie-backport and non-free, compiling and ...
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Where is “an appropriate place” for jar files on Debian, e.g. for a MariaDB JDBC connector?
I'm trying to install a JDBC Connector for MariaDB in the form of a JAR archive.
The instructions say to put the jar file in "an appropriate place".
Where should I put the jar file on Debian?
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Why can file-roller extract rar files in Debian 8?
I have only enabled main component of Debian repository (Debian 8, Jessie) yet file-roller (Archive Manager) can extract a RAR compressed file.
I have the following programs installed:
file-roller, ...
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H264 Mpeg-4 missing in fedora 24
I saw an answer here but when I tried it with dnf it says packages does not exist. I'm having the sample problem when I try to run videos in my built-in fedora 24 video player (I'm new to linux btw)
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How To dd or cp Entire Disk On Debian Remote Machine To Local Machine?
I have read this post - How to dd a remote disk using SSH on local machine and save to a local disk
However, the following code doesn't work:
"dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -1 -" | dd of=image.gz
As I do ...
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dhclient logs flooded with useless information
I am using dhclient on Debian (isc-dhcp-client, isc-dhcp-common).
The logs that dhclient is logging are flooded with copyright information and other useless stuff ("please consult README", "please ...
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Debian stable pinning
Is the following configuration correct for keeping debian stable version even after update/dist-upgrade? I made this for having backports enabled so that install some packages as "wine" that I need ...
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Mapping a unique network or webdav drive for each user in linux
I am trying to setup a linux machine to map a users network drive on campus when they login.
We have a network drive that can be accessed by //domain/mydrive/
It asks for login info and then will ...
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How to prevent Matlab filebrowser to do any changes in filesystem?
I get significant amount of artifacts in Matlab 2016a and 2016b, which are damaging my filesystem, etc random cursor movements moving my Documents folder to Pictures. I do not want that such actions ...
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Display lockup on idle in debian
I have Debian installed on a Fujitsu Amilo Xi 2528, which I use as a temporary server to SSH into. However after the OS loads, and is left idle for a few minutes, the output 'freezes' and all ...
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Building and installing packages from unstable
Note: to make this question more concrete I will use the installation of the rustc package as an example. Nonetheless, the question is intended to apply to packages in general.
I am on a system using ...
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Minimal no-hassle debian install with functioning X11 (login, etc.)
When I install Debian without X, I get a relatively small system with a console login, the ability to install whatever else I want, and not much overhead at all. It installs its own system tools, ...
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Debian live install ''How to launch the installer on the terminal without aborting the live session?''
On debian jessie Live CD it is possible to run the installer by choosing Install debian jessie or by running sudo debian-installer-launcher from the terminal , but the installer will be launched on ...
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How to give rwe permissions to root, admin, and user1; in a directory where all files and folders are owned by user1(rwe)
Thanks all.
I have a directory called /home/user1. In this directory, is a counter-strike game server that requires the permissions of the folder and all the files in it to be user1 rwe (read, write,...
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BCM43142 Firmware (doesnt appear wlan on Wicd)[SOLVED]
I have Debian on a USB..The version of the BCM43142 is 7.35.333.0.. when i run de command:
iwconfig
wlan0 no wireless extensions.
i download the package offline form the package web... i ...
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gnome settings lost after installing xournal and Glib2
I have Debian (jessie)
$uname -a
Linux nn 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u1 (2016-09-03) x86_64
GNU/Linux
$lsb_release -irc
Distributor ID: Debian
Release: 8.6
Codename: jessie
I ...
