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What should I do before dual-booting Windows 7 and Debian on EFI?
I'm about to purchase an Asus motherboard with EFI firmware and wanted to prepare myself for installing Windows and Debian once the hardware arrives. I was hoping that someone who has gone down this ...
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CentOS 6 “Default” Installation Options
Can someone tell me the difference between a Desktop Install, a Basic Server install, and a Minimal Install? During installation, it doesn't give a description and I can't find documentation on it ...
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Is it possible to install the linux kernel alone?
I'm just curious if it's possible to install the linux kernel alone, or if you need to use one of the flavours. If it were possible, how would you do it? I don't need a detailed tutorial. I just want ...
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Problem installing RHEL on HP Itanium Server
When I am trying to install RHEL (6.3, 5.8, 4.8) on an HP Integrity Server rx2660 Itanium with 4GB RAM, I keep getting to the same point which is
Loading file efi\boot\initrd.img...done
After ...
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How to find whether a software (which may `not` be in the PATH) is pre-installed or not?
anisha@linux-dopx:~> which qmake
which: no qmake in ...
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How to install exactly the same packages on another computer in openSUSE?
Another computer can be as well virtual machine. I cannot make disk clone because of hardware differences and settings.
I have computer A, installed and running, I also have computer B. I will ...
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What I can I do to make the transition to some new computer hardware safe and smooth?
I normally use machine A, and I make backups of A onto a fileserver B.
Sooner or later, I will lose machine A for one reason or another.
Its hard drive wears out, or it gets hit by lightening, or some ...
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Installation date of Ubuntu
How can I determine when Ubuntu was installed in my computer? There was a different question posted here, but none of them is helpful.
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httpd-devel requires outdated version of glibc-common on CentOS 6.3
httpd-devel requires an outdated version of glibc-common on CentOS 6.3 x86_64 and Apache/2.2.15. It wants 2.12-1.80.el6 and I have 2.12-1.80.el6_3.3.x86_64 installed (via CentOS @update repo)
Here is ...
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switching from user to root and revers (freebsd)
i want to make some modificaciones with root and then with my user, in fact i want to install sudo and he give me the error in the first step:
cd /usr/ports/security/sudo
make install clean
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How can I install ncdu on Red Hat?
The answers provided to this question doesn't help.
I'ved tried
yum install ncdu
But I'm getting
No package ncdu available
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2answers
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Are packages cryptographically signed in Fedora 14?
I am installing Fedora 14 and I am wondering if
the Fedora packages are cryptographically signed
package signatures are checked by the installer by default
package signatures are checked by yum when ...
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/lib/modules/2.6.37.6/build missing in linux puppy? what should I do?
I am new to linux as of yesterday. I'm using linux puppy to try to get the most out of a 10 year old, slow laptop. I installed it fine, no problems there, but as soon as I try to use my usb dongle's ...
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1answer
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Installing GCC 4.5 on Fedora 16
The default GCC package available in the Fedora 16 repositories is gcc-4.6. I need to install gcc-4.5 on my system.
I downloaded the packages from the kijo repository, but when I try to install them ...
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1answer
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Debian unstable chroot security issues
This page describes how you can use the debootstrap utility to install a base Debian unstable/sid system on an existing Linux machine. The new install is accessible using chroot.
When doing this, ...
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2answers
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Can I install Mint to another hard drive without booting from it?
Is there an easy way, given an ISO image for Linux Mint, to install it to an empty hard drive from within my existing Ubuntu installation? I don't have any CDs or appropriate USB devices at hand, so ...
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Single CD install of a RHEL-like distribution?
Can someone suggest a RHEL-like distribution that can install from a single CD? I am looking for a distribution where services are started from /etc/init.d, environment variables are set from scripts ...
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libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: cairo_has_show_text_glyphs error
I am using Debian Squeeze and I wanted to install Gimp 2.8. I installed a lot of packages dependencies for Gimp but I could not successfully complete the install of the Gimp package
When installing ...
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Invalid configuration `x86_64': machine `x86_64' not recognized
Compiling this: http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Indexed-PDF-Creator-Download-1071.html
anisha@linux-dopx:~/tarBalls/ipdf-1.0.0> ./configure --build=x86_64
checking for a BSD-compatible ...
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How can I install hulahop
I cloned hulahop via git and I'd like to use it and try to run this example.
I have a problem to find out how to build and install it. I also tried to install it with apt-get but I don't have this ...
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2answers
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Fixing debian installer
I have a VPS with Debian GNU/Linux on it. I'm trying to install a PHP file manager so that people could access it and download stuff into a directory.
I don't have anything in my /bin about PHP so ...
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1answer
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Installing yum on CentOS 5
I have a CentOS vm that I'm currently working on. I tried to update yum and it broke, so I removed it. So I need to re-install it on my vm, can anybody tell me how to install yum on CentOS5?
