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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Preventing access blocking while external HDD spins up?
I have an old laptop where I installed Debian along with a samba server which I am using to share read-write access to 4 external hard drives, which I use to stream my media from.
All works fine, ...
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Configure touchscreen on Debian?
I have got Samsung Q1 Ultra with Debian Squeeze on it. Everything works okay, except touchscreen.
The arrow almost does not respond to touching -- it only moves once in a while to a random place ...
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How do I mount a Windows folder with cifs on Raspian
I'd like to access the music library from my desktop with my Raspberry Pi, and I'd like to do this via Samba/cifs.
I did the following:
Set the folder Q:\musik as a shared folder on my Windows ...
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Window content freezes
I recently started using Kanotix, a Debian based distro that loads itself into RAM on boot, and i'm loving it. But this is the second time I have this problem, and I was wondering what caused it and ...
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Disable screen blackout in KDE while watching iPlayer
How can I turn off the screen blackout in Linux when playing a film in BBC iPlayer? I usually use it in Chrome, but if there is a way to do it in Firefox (Iceweasel) than it is good enough as well.
I ...
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Realize a multiseat system with a polarized 3D-monitor
Besides playing 3D-material, modern 3D-TV-sets (using polarization technology) offer the possibility of dual-play.
While 3d-playback works with different polarization for the left and the right eye, ...
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Problems with printer page format in cups
I'm setting up print server for custom thermal printer on Raspberry Pi running Linux Debian and I have a strange problem. If I print a test page it prints OK, same with web page from Firefox, but when ...
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Configuring Xorg.conf for i915 intel driver
I have a MotionComputing M1400 pen tablet. It runs Debian Squeeze, and today I noticed it was using software rendering for OpenGL, so I decided to try to use the intel driver. My chipset is the Intel ...
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Udev triggers are not firing on insert of CF card into USB card reader (anymore)
I've got a udev rule that triggers a shell script that copies photos off my CF card when I insert the card into my USB card reader. This worked fine for a while. But after a recent upgrade it has ...
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Slow system after running a KDE GUI application from a Debian Squeeze chroot
I have a PC with Ubuntu 11.04 and a Debian Squeeze chroot installed in it.
As soon as I start any KDE application from within chroot (and installed there), e.g. Kompare for viewing git diff output, ...
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Accessing multiple wifi networks simultaneously from debian wheezy
I have got 2 wireless adapters on my machine (one built-in and the other a purchased USB wireless adapter)
is there a way I can utilize different WiFi networks simultaneously?
I have in mind ...
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Debian based Raspberry – samba invisible unless I restart
I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian along with other computers on the same network. I installed, configured and started samba to share files from my home folder of the Raspberry Pi to my other ...
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Debian Live 3.x with encrypted root filesystem
I'd like to build a Debian Live system based on sid with an encrypted root filesystem. It's quite easy to install a Debian system with a rootfs encrypted with dm-crypt/LUKS, so I suppose it's also ...
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Virtualbox NAT + Host-Only Adapter
My host is Ubuntu 12.04 and guest is a Debian squeeze (LAMP server). I want to allow the host to connect the guest. and allow the guest to connect the internet. The guest should not be enabled from ...
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How can I mount a dm_crypt device during boot, it fails all the time
EDIT: Problem solved, i updated from Debian 6.0.6 to 7.0.0, everything works now!
I have a complex problem at booting. Basically, I have a debian apache box, as a music server in my home network. The ...
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How to install Debian on a loopback device?
I'd like to install Debian on a loopback device (/dev/loop0).
I can easily access the command prompt by booting off the DVD and asking for a shell, and I'm assuming it should also be easy to mount ...
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How to unprotect Excel sheets in Linux (Debian/Squeeze)
I have a fairly complex (by my standards) process that extracts Excel files (.xls) from certain inbound emails and saves them in a directory on my Debian/Squeeze machine.
My next step would have been ...
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No communication services enabled following startup
I recently installed Parsix (Debian) on my system, and I've been struggling to figure out how to autostart my services. Of the list of services that don't run and should run are:
ssh
apache
mysql
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How to set ssh access for user on debian?
I set groups:
usermod -G ssh username
and then I've checked account info:
id username
the result is:
uid=1000(username) gid=1001(username) groups=100(username)
Anyway if I try to login using ...
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debian X Xconf resolution xrandr badmatch
Recently I minimal installed debian squeeze(amd64), when I configs my resolution, unexpected errors came out, I did a lot of searching, but couldn't find a way to figure it out.
to install the ...
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extundelete does not finish its work
I need to restore a file on sda7 so I remounted ro und startet extundelete
manuel@P5KC:~/recovery/RECOVERED_FILES$ sudo extundelete --restore-all /dev/sda7
WARNING: Extended attributes are not ...
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Debian boots on one Mac but not another
I'm trying to boot Debian from a USB Hard Drive (using rEFIt as a boot loader), and am successful on two newer-model MacBook Pros and a Hackintosh (no surprise there), but I'm not successful on ...
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PCI passthrough with Xen
I am trying to run Windows XP in a Xen DomU virtual machine with a PCIe device, for which there are no Linux drivers, being passed through from a Debian Squeeze Dom0. My hardware supports ...
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Debian Squeeze: connect to A2DP (bluetooth) through command line
I would like to turn my Lacie NAS into a A2DP bluetooth source, in order to stream audio to a bluetooth audio sink. The NAS runs Debian Squeeze in a chroot environment, and is connected to a Bluetooth ...
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Missing Firmware for Wired NIC on Debian
I'm trying to install debian 64bit from a debian live image using YUMI on my usb drive. I'm installing it on an Inspiron 6400, and there is missing firmware. I can't connect to the internet ...
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Debian package to install closed-source
I'm writing an application that relies on a closed-source (but free-as-in-beer available) library. I'm currently making a Debian repository to host it, and need a way to depend on that library, so I ...
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Debian: unable to setup SELinux
I'm trying to setup SELinux on Debian 6 according to (the instructions reported on the Debian wiki).
I've run this commands:
apt-get install selinux-basics selinux-policy-default
selinux-activate
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Linux boots sometimes into kernel instead of Openbox
I have a Solid-Run Cubox and installed Debian Netboot on it.
Now I want to configure it as webserver/kiosk PC to run a self made webapp.
I installed xorg, openbox, apache/php libs and wrote my own ...
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Console won't power off on PowerPC with Debian
I installed Debian 6.0 on a Power Mac G5. First it would boot to a blank screen but I fixed that by blacklisting nouveau as described here.
Now the monitor will never turn off. It's a server so I'll ...
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sensors-detect does not detect
I am trying to run sensors-detect in Debian6 64 bits and I get:
Sorry, no sensors were detected. Either your system has no sensors, or
they are not supported, or they are connected to an I2C or ...
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IPSec VPN Debian Squeeze Server for Mac OS X
I'm trying to get an IPSec VPN set up on my Debian home server, so that I can access my home network and browse without having my internet filtered by my college network, and so that I can perform ...
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Sound not working in Debian except in google chrome and test utilities
Yesterday, I had Archlinux on my Dell Latitude E6520 and the sound was working perfectly fine (I even had the loud beep I couldn't get rid of).
Today, I installed Debian and alsa. The first surprise ...
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SOCKS proxy configuration on KDE 4.4.5 / Debian 6.0.5
I've been trying to use a SOCKS Proxy which I have been using with success from an Ubuntu 11.4 box with GNOME on my Debian box with KDE.The socks server is bound to the local port 1080 through the ...
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How to install Java Runtime Environment 7 update 5 for x64 arquitecture on Debian OS?
The History:
Hey guys I want to install JRE7u5 and not OpenJRE7u5 because, while doing a research on the web I discovery that Minecraft runs better on JRE, than with
OpenJRE.
The Failure:
But the ...
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Configuring default resolution and color depth for RealVNC's vncserver-x11-serviced?
When searching the web for information about how to configure the default resolution and color depth for RealVNC sessions, I always come across stuff that talks about passing commandline parameters to ...
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A problem with mknod when logged in as root
I am trying to load a char device driver written by myself. To achieve this I use a modified bash script published on this site: http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-3-sect-2. Here is my version of the ...
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Mounting a multi-partition (GPT/HFS+) USB 2.0 harddrive on Debian
I have a 3TB USB 2.0 hard-drive which has two HFS+ (Mac) partitions using GUID partition table for the partition records. It was partitioned with Mac OS Disk Utility. How can I mount these partitions ...
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Debian monitor unknown and dual monitor setup
I'm running Debian on my laptop (Thinkpad T420 if it matters), and what I am trying to do is setup the native resolution. I want it to be 1366x768 but it's stuck at 1024x768 because when I go to ...
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How do I set up the SELinux sandbox in Debian?
I've installed SELinux in Debian sid in order to use the sandbox that locks down apps to a restricted enviroment, but I can't get it to work. If I try to use the sandbox command in permissive mode ...
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Creating Windows self-extracting executables that can auto-run a script
Does a tool exist (preferably packaged in Debian) to create Windows self-extracting executables that can auto-run a script in the archive once the extracting is done?
I've been toying with NSIS but I ...
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Fonts of some applications get confused
I am running Debian Testing with LXDE.
After some time of work, some applications begin to show confused fonts, as shown in the following screenshot (the pdf specific area is good):
This happens ...
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Any way for Unix to ignore lpoptions and let Java do it's job?
I'm using the javax.print API to print a Jasper Report on Debian Linux. For some reason the saved lpoptions (CUPS settings) always override settings chosen on the Java Print dialog. At this point the ...
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Upgrade to Debian testing shows only white noise
I've installed Debian on my desktop, but now all I can see is white noise on my screen.
started with a squeeze netinstall
updated my /etc/apt/sources.list from:
# deb http://ftp.belnet.be/debian/ ...
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Debian Wheezy netinstall can't configure DHCP
I am reinstalling my Debian system with the Wheezy netinstall image on a USB drive.
I have a wireless router that also comes with ethernet ports, so I could either connect to my LAN via wifi OR ...
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Kernel 3.0.0-1 and NVIDIA driver boot problems
I can't boot kernel 3.0.0-1 on Asus G53S running Debian, it freezes when booting with:
NVRM loading NVIDIA Unix x86_64 kernel module 275.28
then it times out with:
udevd[350]: timeout: killing ...
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restore duplicity backup from amazon s3 in debian
I have applied the script provided here to backup my stuff in debian etch and it works, I tried to reverse the SOURCE and DEST, but I can't do the restoration. What happened?
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Debian 6: media keys in gnome-settings-daemon don't work
I am running a minimal Debian 6 x86_64 setup with pulseaudio, alsa and gnome-settings-daemon. Whenever I press a media key, gnome-settings-daemon spits the following out to stderr:
** ...
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partitions problem with Debian Squeeze and Windows 7 (Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary)
I have just installed Debian Squeeze in a hard disk where also Windows 7 is installed.
Now, if I run cfdisk, I get the following message:
"FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends in the ...
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Keyboard triggering mouse events on Debian on Macbook
I installed Debian 6 on my Macbook in a dualboot configuration. Everything is working fine, except for the keyboard.
As I'm typing, I see the mouse arrow moving a bit and strange things happen, such ...
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Install man pages in directory with update-alternatives
Using update-alternatives(8) on a Debian system it is possible to add man pages as slaves under some master alternative.
For example, the following command installs an alternative man page tclsh.1 ...
