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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How to run Circos in Debian 8.5?
I completed all installations of necessary modules for the package but I get now
root@masi:/home/masi/circos-0.69# bin/circos -modules | grep missing
root@masi:/home/masi/circos-0.69# bin/circos
...
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Why failing to get CRAN key for R backports?
I do and get
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/10260634/54964
root@masi:/home/masi/Documents# gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 06F90DE5381BA480
gpg: directory `/root/.gnupg' created
gpg: new ...
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Intel hd graphics 4000 overheating under Debian Jessie
I have just installed Debian Jessie xfce 4.10 on a laptop with Intel hd graphics 4000 and it overheats even while watching videos, causing sudden shutdown of the system. While running Windows ...
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Remote OpenGL doesnt work after nvidia card installation
I installed a GFX card on my debian server.
Then i installed the Nvidia drivers. After that I installed the Cuda toolkit (drivers as well as samples etc).
I am able to locally use GPU.
For example ...
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xzcmp does not work for some files. (Internal pipe error 141?)
I am using xzcmp to compare several XZ files. But I have a strange problem: For some files (*), xzcmp doesn't work and returns exit code 2, without error message.
zxcmp version1.sql.xz version2.sql....
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1answer
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How to instal Perl modules GD and GD::Polyline in Debian?
I am trying to start Circos in Debian but I get two missing modules
root@masi:/home/masi/circos-0.69# bin/circos -modules | grep missing
missing GD
missing GD::Polyline
Trying ...
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1answer
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md raid5: “no valid superblock”, but mdadm --examine says everything is fine
And so, it happened: the software RAID5 on my Linux box failed somehow and now refuses to assemble.
An overview of the setup:
headless server running Debian Jessie 8.6 (current stable)
custom built ...
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Wacom Intuos 3 graphic tablet detected, but not working using Debian Jessie
I am using Debian 8 (jessie) on a laptop, the KDE desktop environment and the proprietary nvidia drivers (304xx legacy).
When I plug in my Wacom Intuos 3 tablet, it will be correctly detected and in ...
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1answer
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Debian/Jessie: Easiest way to connect to VPN (Ipsec)
what is the most recent, easiest way to connect to a Ipsec VPN from a Debian/Jessie host?
I read about openvpn, opwenswan and what not but I expected to find a pretty easy kind of standard way to ...
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2answers
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What is the proper way to use an alternative binary
I am on Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon 64-bit.
I have these binaries of 7z and their versions on my system:
/usr/bin/7z
7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
and
/usr/local/...
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Why does linux kernel hang during boot after I replace the old kernel (3.2.0) with new one (3.4.1)? [on hold]
I am trying to replace the linux kernel (3.2.0) with a new one on Debian7.11 so I download the source code (3.4.1) from https://www.kernel.org/ then compile and install it using the old configuration ...
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How to Back up conffiles in the same directory without it being read.
I have seen two extensions being used which doesn't lead to configuration files in /etc/ being read.
The first is -
*.conf.backup
and the second is
*.conf.old
Are there any other extensions ...
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0answers
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aticonfig: No supported adapters detected after following AMD/ATI installation steps
I just installed Debian 8.2 Jessie with the MATE desktop environment.
My GPU is an AMD Radeon RX 460.
I followed Debian official steps for installing the right drivers by running apt-get install ...
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1answer
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How to find out half-configured/broken packages in Debian?
Is there a way to find half-configured packages in Debian ? This is coming from Debian strech - update broken - seems buggy dpkg. .
I try to see if packages are broken by two ways -
a. $ aptb
┌─[...
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2answers
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Can't install Google Chrome on amd64 Wheezy
uname -a
Linux owner 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.82-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I recently installed the amd64 version of Debian Wheezy on my amd64 machine.
Since it's 64 bit, I tried to install Google ...
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Reading Local Emails via Outlook [on hold]
In my Debian virtual machine I as "root" send an email to a user called "arman". I found a way to read this email on my Windows browser by the help of Squirrelmail and Apache2 packages that I ...
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0answers
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Debian 8.2 need reboot to have network
I have Debian 8.2 installed on a headless PC - no screen, no mouse, no keyboard, which I use as a backup server. So the only way to access it is through the (wired) network.
When I power-up the PC I ...
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2answers
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“You have mail” welcome message with no mail
When I login to one of my stations I get this output saying I have mail. But then running the mail commands Says I don't have any email.
What can I do to repair this problem?
Debian GNU/Linux comes ...
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4answers
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How to install debian package manager into an embedded system?
I'm working a vendor-supplied Linux on embedded target and certain functions like make , apt-get etc. are missing. is it possible to install a package manager onto my embedded target board itself? is ...
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1answer
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Securely wiping RAM with sdmem at shutdown [duplicate]
I've already looked at "How to have Linux wipe/randomize/sanitize RAM at shutdown?", but that's not what I'm looking for exactly.
I'd like to have it so when I shut down my machine, it executes the "...
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dconf and terminal not showing the same information
I am trying to install a very simple color Scheme into my terminal. This color scheme is coming from terminal.sexy.
Problem is, I can't list the profile in my terminal preferences, but it gets ...
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1answer
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Debian strech - update broken - seems buggy dpkg.
I saw Debian Jessie - dpkg / apt intall, update and uninstall broken and unlike that one python is well and good herein.
[$] ls -l /usr/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 3 20:09 /usr/bin/...
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How to create keyboard shortcut for matlab with xfce
I've tried by using the keyboard applications and shortcuts submenu by adding a command "matlab" and associating my desired key combination. This is based on the fact that if I run $ matlab from ...
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1answer
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recover data from partition unable to mount
One partition of corrupt hard drive can't be mounted
What does it mean, if one partition of a hard drive with error can't be mounted while all others are mounted? (Especially the first, boot ...
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1answer
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Installing a specific kernel version on debian linux
I want to install kernel 4.5 on a Debian Jessie machine (I want to be as close as possible to a specific machine I have in production).
Currently the version on the backports repo is 4.7, and I can't ...
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0answers
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Debian Guest NAT in KVM cannot access apt-get
Hello colleagues I have Debian 8 Jessie latest update as host on my laptop, from host I am connecting through VPN tunnel to the proxy and then to internet.
Connection to the internet from host is ...
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0answers
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check if user ID is reserved or not
I have Linux server (Debian 8.6) that has both local users and LDAP users, I want to create users with specific ID (via script), but I want to make sure it (ID) isn't reserved by local or LDAP user, ...
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Verify a .deb package file on Arch? [duplicate]
Using the information of the question Installing a .deb package on Arch - Is it possible? I have gone as far as creating me the dpkg via the AUR.
Also I have downloaded the deb file I am interested ...
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Debian fails to prompt for encrypted disk password on boot
I am using Debian Scratch with encrypted root partition. The last kernel version where it worked was 4.6.0. For kernels 4.7.0 and 4.8.0 it prints on the boot repeatedly and forever following messages:
...
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Can't set chown from bash script [on hold]
I have a bash script like this one:
#!/bin/sh
chown root:www-data /etc/cron.d/file
chown root:www-data /etc/cron.d/anotherfile
But chown command isn't working. I know it's because of file ...
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How stop an infinite loop called by the letter `b` on remote server? [on hold]
A remote server create an infinite loop with the words enaset-enaset-enaset ... at the time I use the letter b and just not stop.
Ctrl-c stop it but, hitting one more time b will reload the process ...
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How to run shrinkpdf.sh in Debian 8.5?
I am trying to reduce my Rplots' sizes so I am trying the sh script.
Settings
# http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/shrinkpdf/
masi@masi:~/Documents$ ls -la shrinkpdf.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 masi masi ...
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Folder permissions: owner sets automatically [duplicate]
After I chown -R root:www-data /path/ every single new file created in /path becomes www-data:www-data (user becomes www-data as well as It should stay root). How to make that new files would be root:...
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2answers
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Cron work is not working
I'm using debian distribution. I have a cron job in /etc/cron.d/ directory, It's called testuoju.sh. It looks like:
34 * * * * bash /var/www/html/script/testuoju.sh
testuoju.sh file in /var/www/html/...
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1answer
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No internet connection debian
My internet connection doesn't work on Debian after a fresh install.
This is what I encountered after a couple of hours searching:
My ifconfig has an eth0 entry.
cat interfaces returns
source /etc/...
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One HDD will not automatically go to sleep by hdparm
I'm using hdparm to automatically turn off hard discs after 5 minutes. I use this config:
# cat /etc/hdparm.conf
quiet
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EADS-00L5B1_WD-WCAU46879161 {
spindown_time = ...
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1answer
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PDF viewer with cuts for big files
My file has 1Mx1M points and I cannot open it with Evince.
There must be something else for the task.
OS: Debian 8.5
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Can't change the default gateway with static IP
I have this server for a while, and was present on other questions.
A while ago, I've changed the network and the gateway IP was changed too.
Since then, there is no internet on this machine.
I need ...
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1answer
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How to fingerprint a Unix System [on hold]
I would like to fingerprint some Unix (most are Debian) systems. By fingerprinting I mean run a script that collect material identifiers, system version, etc in order to be able to:
accurately ...
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Debian 8.6 (jessie): Can't set locale to en_US.UTF8 [on hold]
SOLVED with this:
Then I added : ${LANG:=en_US.utf8}; export LANG to /etc/profile. And to /etc/csh/login.d/lang I added if (! $?LANG) setenv LANG en_US.utf8
Reboot.
I checked with: locale
LANG=
...
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Computer no longer boots into GRUB, it goes straight to Windows 10
I have Debian 8.2 and Windows 10 on my laptop's SSD.
After I shut down Debian 8.2 and turned back on my laptop, the computer went straight into Windows 10.
I checked my BIOS to find boot options, ...
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Revert initramfs to an earlier state after setting up Dropbear for early LUKS decryption
I've tried to set up Dropbear and Busybox on my virtualization host running Debian Jessie, so I could unlock the encrypted filesystems from the initramfs, before the actual boot. I've followed this ...
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1answer
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Debian install says “The CD_ROM does not seem to contain a valid 'Release' file” when installing from usb
I have a YUMI multiboot installer USB stick and I have installed Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora Games, Windows 7 and Windows 8 successfully from it. I also have three different anti-malware tools and ...
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1answer
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How to downgrade Debian package installed with -t testing?
I installed an upstream openssh using the default-release, apt install -t testing ... method. Now I wish to downgrade it.
There's a similar question but I believe my question is different because it ...
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1answer
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How to install R Vennerable in Debian?
There are many threads about the topic 2014 but their proposal does not work in R 3.3.1, apparently because the dependencies are not met but I could not install them neither
install.packages("...
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Docker installation debian openjdk-7-jre
I'been trying to install openjdk-7-jre in a docker image, But when i tried to install it i get the following error:
E: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-7/...
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Programmatically redirect audio output of specific program to file
I would like to redirect the audio output of a program to file, on the command line, like in
$ redirect-wrapper file.wav my-program
so that
I don't hear the output of the program, i.e. the output ...
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No space left on device
Hello I'm running openVZ on my debian machine with debian containers and now I can't run apache, because of no space left.
I checked df -h for finding which partions is full and here is an output:
...
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option to parallel build an app
These are the debian/rules from an app. called i-nex. It is a CPU-Z alternative for GNU/Linux and has a debian sub-directory having the following files -
┌─[shirish@debian] - [~/games/I-Nex] - [4454]
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1answer
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Does lintian also check for differences between policy levels in a given package?
Lintian description is as below (taken from $ aptitude show lintian on Debian testing ) -
Description: Debian package checker
Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy violations. ...
