Questions tagged [source]
Everything that includes the source code of Unix programs for example compiling, installing or how to retrieve the code for studying.
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crontab cannot find environment variable even after sourcing .bashrc
crontab -e
00 00 * * * /home/username/run.sh >> /home/username/log 2>&1
Inside run.sh:
source /home/username/.bashrc
java
When crontab job is triggered, I got this error in the log:
/...
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Where can I find the source code of ftpd?
How can I inspect ftpd(the regular Linux FTP server's) source code on my machine?
I'm using Debian 9. Unfortunately I can't figure out which exactly implementation has the package ftpd which I ...
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How to install OpenSSH on stripped down Linux OS without a package manager
I have a satellite box that uses a stripped down version of linux OS. It runs enigma2 SVN-2860 based on GIT-5580 used for watching satellite and terrestrial digital tv. It's a PKT Hyperion enigma2 ...
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How to install “wps-community / wps_i18n” from Github?
I'm new in Linux and trying to install WPS-Office from Github. I've already tried to install it from Snap and from Flatpak but neither works satisfactorily. One, there's correct punctuation (éâã etc) ...
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Where can I find the currently stable RHEL sshd_config?
Is there any official GitHub page, that shows the current sshd_config file, used by RHEL?
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Source code of arch command for macOS Catalina Version 10.15.3 (19D76)
I need to get the source code of the "arch" command located in /usr/bin/arch for
macOS Catalina( see the output of sw_vers command below).
macOS Catalina
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10....
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tmux can't find TTY when run within read loop
I am trying to run tmux, from a sourced script (i.e., my .bashrc), within a while read loop. However, in doing this, tmux is unable to find the TTY and gives the following error:
open terminal failed:...
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some troubles on installing deja-dup from source code
(Learning how to install programs on linux...)
deja-dup source code can be downloaded on its GitHub repo. There is a makefile con the package. Once into the folder I run:
santi@eoan:~/deja-dup$ make
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OpenBSD: Where to seek for the source of programs not installed through ports?
in OpenBSD I use pkg_info -E $(which [cmd]) to be supplied with the name of the package/port to the executable/command [cmd]. Having this information I can further look for the source code to the ...
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Where can I find the Copyright information of .rpm file?
I can see the licence information about rpm file by executing below:
rpm -qip {rpmfilename}.rpm
but there is no information about copyright holder.
Is there any easy way to know who has the ...
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Where is the source code of exim4-4.89-2+deb9u4?
I would like to know where to find the source code of exim4, with specific version and revision, 4.89-2+deb9u4.
I have executed apt-get source but got an error message:
apt-get source exim4=4.89-2+...
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`source` command: .csh and .sh file not found even though `ls` clearly lists it?
As you can see, for some reason the source command says the file wasn't found even though it's clearly in the directory. I show the first bit of the output of cat as well: it shows the first line as ...
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Convert source/ text files
[openvms] so i know how to use command convert source files to sym or text files. But how do i convert text or sym to source file? Is it simply “convert *.text to convert to source file?
I use the ...
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Source files when opening an external terminal through Bash
For a start up script I want to open multiple several terminal windows on an Ubuntu system and execute some commands in each.
Some of those commands require files to be loaded. Normally I do that with
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How to fetch the source for gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi?
I am on a Ubuntu 18.04 and deb-src lines in sources.list are in place for all the package repos I am using.
I installed gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi and got gcc-7-arm-linux-gnueabi and gcc-7-arm-linux-...
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On Linux, source different .zshrc files for different apps
Based on three questions:
Use different profiles with ZSH (in different terminal apps), but deisgned only for macOS
Different tmux configs for different sessions?, but I want to use different .zshrc ...
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How to cache a file using source [duplicate]
Is there a bash command like source except it will only source a file once for a given shell?
for example:
source_cached foo.sh # runs as normal
source_cached foo.sh # would not load foo.sh a ...
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How to build from parent directory in current directory with make(“make” command)?
I have the source code of a package what I want to build, I need build from the parent dir, and output the builded contents in the current dir, for example with the directory structure:
parent_dir
--...
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How do I count all the lines of code in all headers and source files in a folder? *.cpp *.h [duplicate]
Say I have a project folder containing a number of header and source files for c++;
How would I count the total number of lines of all of these?
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How to find the changes done to a particular kernel module through all releases
I need to access source code of all past versions of read_write.c under /fs/ from 3.10 to 5.3.
So far I had to go through https://elixir.bootlin.com/ repeatedly and look at every single version that ...
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The evasive gmodule-2.0 package
There are packages in Fedora production repos, which require gmodule-2.0 package if compiled from source but I could not find any traces of this evasive package anywhere.
dnf is of no help as unlike ...
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How to free up space after kernel compile fail - where are the extraneous stuff
I need custom patch my linux kernel so it can access the MacBook Pro (2018/2019) SSD for Ubuntu installation. Luckily, someone made a patch that seems to work. I have a second computer with a 1TB ...
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Mesa needs xrandr dependency
When I run ./config it says that the program needs xrandr. But I already have it installed. Is this a environment variable issue? I'm not too sure what to do from here.
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How do I find the dependency requirements for a source package?
If I'm compiling a package from source how do I find the required dependency?
I notice when compiling Python 3 on Centos7 the only way I could find the required libraries and such was to run the ...
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What is the entry point of a so (shared object?)'s source code?
Specifically I'm trying to port libcroco's functionality to a cross-platform BASIC dialect and need to know where to start looking at the code.
In short, what is the equivalent of Window's DLLMAIN?
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How to source inline text
When you are creating tutorials online for people to use in a single terminal sometimes it's nice to source inline code...however none of these worked as I would expect. I would expect foo to be "bar" ...
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RPM making error from
When I am building drbd-utils-9.5.0 rpms from source offline and I am getting error "No such file or directory" as follows.
So how can I build rpms offline resolving the issue ?
[root@db1 drbd-...
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Building sstp-client on Kali Linux from Source: dpkg errors
I am following the commands below--modified from the answer here--in hopes of building a .deb package of sstp-client for my Kali Linux build. I eventually want a username/password-authenticated SSTP ...
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Manjaro 18 (Arch) Installing Packages Outside Repository
So I recently switched to Manjaro. I am having an issue with installing MegaSync from mega.nz. When I download their package for Arch it gives me a .tar.xz file. I'm not familiar with .xz but it's an ...
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Compiling a program from a source in GuixSD
I installed GuixSD and was looking for a way to install mega.nz syncing program.
Perheaps the only way is to do it from a source.
I found some info of it on Github:
https://github.com/meganz/...
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Privoxy Installation of source code will not work
I am trying to install Privoxy from source code (3.0.28 (stable)), but it dose not work. I followed the INSTALL instruction, but the program won´t install.
GNUmakefile:835: recipe for target 'install'...
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Where is mosquitto source directory located?
I want to compile mosquitto-auth-plugin, which requires configuration of config.mk file, where one of the required parameter is to Specify the path to the Mosquitto sources MOSQUITTO_SRC =.Could you ...
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Do the common programs (for example: “ls”, “cat”) in Linux and BSD come from the same source code? [duplicate]
Both Linux and BSD have common programs like ls and cat and echo and kill.
Do they come from the same source code, or do both and Linux and BSD own their own unique source code for these programs?
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Where can I find gtkmm4 sources?
I need to install gtkmm4 where do I find its sources. I am using archlinux.
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What microarchitecture are packages on apt/yum typically built/tuned for?
I'm just learning a bit about lower-level languages and I've noticed that gcc you can specify -march and -mtune parameters to optimise the software for particular CPU families.
But I've also found ...
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Where can I find the source code specifically for the minimal debian installer cd?
I want to distribute a debian virtual machine as a OVA file, in order to comply with the GPL I want to provide the source code for debian alongside the debian virtual machine.
Instead of downloading ...
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How can I source a base 64 encoded file in bash?
Is there a way to source a base64 encoded file in bash instead of doing this?
cat $DIR/data/saves/$savegame | base64 --decode > $DIR/data/saves/$savegame.decoded
. $DIR/data/saves/$savegame....
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Centos: no such package(s) for specific nginx version
I tried to build a customized nginx with specific nginx version with module in https://github.com/anomalizer/ngx_aws_auth
I setup the nginx repo
# nginx.repo
[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://...
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Sourced .bashrc detection
At the user level is there a way for me to craft a sort of 'tripwire' in my .bashrc file to detect if another user has sourced my .bashrc?
What I would like to do is have some sort of log created ...
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How to trace a specific historic file in the Linux kernel tree: Git question
I'm currently manually building a Linux image with some specific drivers for a Xilinx Zynqmp device. Aside from the main Linux tree, there are 2 other mirrored Linux repositories, one from Xilinx and ...
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Possible to “build world” in FreeBSD without root? [duplicate]
The FreeBSD jail manpage has instructions on building a jail distribution tree:
D=/here/is/the/jail
cd /usr/src
mkdir -p $D
make world DESTDIR=$D
make distribution DESTDIR=$D
Is it possible to ...
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confused about lfs sources installation
I started to homemode Linux build using LFS book. I came to Part II. - Chapter 5 about "Constracting a Temporary System". I downloaded all needed sources to /mnt/lfs/sources. When i want to start ...
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source bash string instead of file
I want to source a bash function from a string instead of a file at the command line, so instead of this:
source file.sh
I want to do something like:
source `cat <<EOF
some_func(){
echo ...
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How to ingore rpmfusion source repos when downloading source package
I have few rpm repos in my Fedora installation and I've want to download source package and got error that synchronization of rpmfusion-free-updates-source and rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-source failed. ...
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Locating source code of the PureOS installer
I have been playing with PureOS installation options (the ultimate goal is to install it dual boot with MacOS on a MacBook Air, but this is out of the scope of this question).
What I would like to ...
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Using source command in script but defining the input file in the command line of a terminal
I have a script at the moment that reads in variables and then operates on them like the following;
#!bin/bash
a=10
b=15
c=20
d=a*b+c
echo $d
However I would like to split this up into an input ...
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Configure mount to recognize self compiled fuse exfat
after removing the default exfat-fuse package version 1.2.5 from my Debian Stretch system and replacing it with version 1.3.0, compiled from source, running mount using type exfat results to an ...
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Sourcing a script containing `echo ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}` still shows the pathname of the sourced script
I have a bash script, which outputs the pathname of the script itself
$ cat f4.sh
#! /bin/bash
echo "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
I imagine that if I source the script in another script and run the other ...
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How is source code reviewed/audited, prior to inclusion in linux mainline?
An answer to this question would provide insight and references about how the linux kernel source code is reviewed prior to be released?
Particular interesting aspect of this question to me are:
Who ...
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Locating source files for arch linux executables
Is there a simple way to retrieve the source files that built a given /usr/bin/* command (meaning also those placed there via AUR)? Is there a command I can issue through maybe a pacman wrapper that ...
