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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Establish a connection with openvpn on Raspbian
I am trying to establish a VPN connection on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian. But I cannot make this work.
I am using Vpnbook and I downloaded the .ovpn file in order to use OpenVPN.
Here is the ...
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Issues installing CUDA 8.0 on Debian 8 possibly checksum issue
So I was following the answered instructions here, How to install CUDA Toolkit 7.x or 8 on Debian 8 (Jessie) or 9 (Stretch)? and I get the following error when I run the .run file:
gzip: stdin: ...
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Debian apt, use mirror on filesystem [duplicate]
Is it possible to make Apt use a local mirror on the filesystem? I have the (hopefully) complete mirror for Debian 6 on the filesystem.
The mirror consists of the following folders: mirror, skel, ...
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Migrate from Ubuntu to Debian and take the application data along
I am thinking of switching to Debian from Ubuntu, for various reasons, moving towards a more free software supporting system being one of them. (GNU.org mentions that we can choose to keep Debian ...
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No way to get flash working on chromium
I’m using the current debian testing.
I have tried these packages :
flashplugin-nonfree, which is currently bugged
browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash which doesn’t seem to do anything at all, as ...
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After an upgrade, Chromium doesn’t see any of my extensions anymore
I’m using Debian in its testing (9th) version.
I did a package upgrade two days ago, and since then Chromium doesn’t have any extensions installed. Flash isn’t working either (but it wasn’t working ...
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Raspbian/Debian - Install .deb offline
I need to install a .deb package on a raspberryPi that doesn't have connectivity. When I try to install such package using:
sudo dpkg -i <name>.deb
I get the error:
dpkg: dependency problems ...
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How to force driver on device?
I have notebook with "ELAN1000:00" (somethig like that) touchpad and problem is that wrong driver is assigned to it (evdev instead of synaptic). On newer versions of kernel this should work out of box ...
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How to compile Solaris executable under Debian?
I have a SSH account at my university's computer in which I can only compile with gcc 4.4.7, which doesn't compatible with my C++ 11 code (I don't have the rights to install/update software). In my ...
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Basic Question: Why does linux-image not match installed version?
I'm having trouble finding an answer on this from the Googles. I'm using Debian Stretch (which I shamelessly promote as being a great experience).
However, I noticed my kernel was upgrading with ...
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How to use nouveau on debian 9 without terminal
I am using debian 9 testing as my main system with gnome , using nouveau for nvidia card definition i have to use terminal to open any app with nvidia , i ask if i can do it like fedora 25 (launch ...
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How to install Linux on the Playstation 2
Looking to learn about game development? Are you a Linux enthusiast looking to test the claim that "Linux runs on everything"? Perhaps you are a software developer who is looking to release for ...
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How to install `gtk+2.0` on Debian Sid?
In order to compile a software (https://github.com/bnordli/rftg/wiki/Compiling-on-Linux) I first need to install the gtk+2.0 package. But I cannot find it with aptitude search.
Any idea?
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Missing tar file in changes file after Debian package build
I am back-porting the Debian package for openldap to jessie and have run into some problems with our local Debian repository. Using git-buildpackage, the Debian package goes fine, but when I get to ...
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Communicating with SRF02 Ranging sensor on Linu
I have an SRF02 Ultra sonic range finder, connected to my Debian 8 laptop via a USB-I2C communications module. My problem is that I cannot get any data back from the device. (I know the device works ...
