Debian GNU/Linux is a widespread Linux distribution focusing on stability, security, and the free software philosophy.
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Time tracking similar to Paymo Plus on Debian
PaymoPlus is free (closed source but no fees)
PaymoPlus sits in my System Tray all day, and records every window/tab I open
I would like to know if a similar app exists for Debian. Paymo for ...
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Rocket raid 2320 drivers for Debian Wheezy
I want to use this board on my server when I upgrade it to Debian Wheezy (and I would like for it to continue to work on Debian Jessie when that is released).
So far the "open source" drivers at High ...
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Having a hard time with live-debian on USB
I already tried everything.... I download the file from this link: http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/current/i386/usb-hdd/debian-live-6.0.6-i386-kde-desktop.img
and then I dd the image to my USB ...
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The Chrome Web Store doesn't support Chromium on Debian “Squeeze” or other very old Chrome versions. What's the workaround?
I'm running Debian Linux "Squeeze" 6.0.6. Squeeze is stable but changes very slowly. It includes Chromium (similar to Google Chrome) 6.0. The Chrome Web Store doesn't show the "Add to Chrome" button ...
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vsftpd on debian
After installing vsftpd on debian wheezy based on tutorials I have been switching off anonymous enabled, but before telneting port 21 response OK, checking again on anonymous off the availability of ...
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How do I backup symbolic links?
I created a ton of symbolic links using ln -s ../folder/subfolder mylinkname.
How can I back this folder of "links" up so I could restore it at a later date? A compressed file or something similar ...
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Auto connect to any open WiFi with Debian
I have a WiFi module that is registered with a WiFi network. There are a few other WiFi networks in the area. The computer, however, does not know which WiFi network it can connect to.
So the ...
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WMware virtual machine cannot connect to internet
I have to use virtual machine located at https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs155/hw_and_proj/pp1/boxes-2.3.tar.bz2. It is a Debian without any GUI. I run it with default configuration. I am able to make ssh ...
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Debian video-streaming server
I'm interested in setting up a server to which I can send a video stream and then it will re-broadcast it to save my bandwidth (Don't worry, got unlimited on the server).
I haven't been able to find ...
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iptables port based routing
I've been Googling this for days with no success. I connect to a VPN from my server from time to time and I'm trying to configure my Debian server to only use port 80 and 443 through the VPN and all ...
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How to install get-iplayer from source file?
I want to install the latest version of get-iplayer in Debian, and I've got its source file, a tarball file, from here. However, I don't know what to do with it.
Usually when I come across a tarball, ...
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Debian download package and dependencies for different architecture
I have a clean i386 install of Debian on my laptop which I need to install ndiswrapper to get the internet on it working.
I have a amd64 Debian install on my other laptop with working internet.
How ...
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Kernel panic every 30 minutes
I have a server running Debian 6 Squeeze amd64.
It panics every 0.5-1 hours. When it panics, some red text is printed on the screen. An image showing this: http://goo.gl/nbRcT
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How do I mount a cryptoloop drive in Debian?
I've got an encrypted drive, which I mount under Ubuntu (12.04) like:
# modprobe cryptoloop
# losetup -e AES128 /dev/loop0 /dev/sda5
# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
But with a recent Debian install (6.0.6 ...
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Debian wheezy hangs when installing on old laptop
I have a very old laptop i'm trying to install Debian wheezy on.
When running the expert install, after selecting a video mode, it hangs.
Here's a picture I tried to take of the screen after it has ...
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Why is my Linux box dropping network connection?
I have a Debian server in the form of a Raspberry Pi running Raspian. It has a USB Wi-Fi connection. Sometimes it would not respond when I SSH to it, and would require a reboot. I found something in ...
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Windows Vista trashes MBR on dual-boot machine. Can it be stopped? What are the recommendations for recovery?
There are some web pages on this website that address the same topics as mentioned below,
but the specifics are different.
I dual-installed Windows Vista and Debian Squeeze on my laptop a few times ...
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How do I bridge connections in Debian?
In windows I can select Local Area Connection and Wireless Network Connection, right click and select Bridge Connections
How can I achieve the same effect in Linux? (Debian to be exact)
Pretty much ...
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How to open files (music, videos) from FTP directly from Explorer ( Windows Vista)
I have two computers. On the first I have Debian and on the second I have Windows Vista.
I've set up vsftpd in Debian and connected to it from Vista. I'm browsing the FTP directory from Windows ...
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Reboot the system from an initrd without causing a kernel panic
i want to start a linux kernel over pxe boot, load a very small initram, do some jobs there and reboot the machine.
so my init script looks like this:
#!/bin/sh -e
# used for initramfs
export PATH
. ...
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Run Linux server from virtual box seamlessly
My LAMPP server runs on a debian linux OS which is hosted on Oracle Virtual Box. To start the lampp server on mwindows XP PC, I have to:
Open Virtual Box
Start Debian Linux
Open Linux Terminal
Run ...
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Strange error with ldconfig
I get such an error when I run ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't link /usr/lib//work/igloo/riff/loader_communication/build/liblcm.so.1 to liblcm.so.1
any suggestions ?
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Ignore packages that are not currently installed when using “apt-get remove”
I have a scenario where I'd like to remove a set of packages that may or may not be installed, and I'd like apt-get to remove those that are and silently ignore those that aren't. Something like:
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Encoding Problems with dropbox on fat32 used on Windows and Debian
I am using an encrypted (Truecrypt) data-Partition (fat32), on which my Dropbox folder is located. This Partition is mounted on Windows 8 as well as Crunchbang (Debian wheezy) and Ubuntu 12.10. When ...
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Debian Squeeze can't install php-pear
I use Debian 6.0.6
sudo apt-get install php-pear
results in:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
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Debian + Unknown host google.com using bridge network
I am trying to install Debian Linux based OS in my XP machine using VM Ware and I trying to setup bridge connection to access the network. But I am getting the error
"Unknown host google.com".
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Is there a way to make a http connection between Debian and Windows using a cross cable?
I have set up a lighttpd http server on my Raspberry Pi that uses Raspbian , a Debian distro and I am trying to view a web page on it through a cross cable link on a Windows 7 PC, but for some reason ...
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Creating bootable NTFS partition on Debian
I have 2 partitions on my hard drive:
first one is ext3 formatted with a Debian installation on it (bootable)
second one is NTFS formatted and was used from a previous Windows installation as ...
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Debian 3.1 (Sarge) init.d boot order
I am using a TS-7800 single board computer from Technologic Systems that ships with Debian 3.1 (Sarge). I have updated it to Squeeze, but due to various driver issues I have been forced to roll back ...
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installing MySQL 64 bit community edition on linux production server from an newbie
Currently i am having command sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev mysql-server
I don't know whether it's going to install 32 bit or 64 bit mysql.
Currently i am looking command for installing ...
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How To Investigate/Restore MySQL Permissions? MySQL ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
Debian.
mysqld is listening on 3306 supposedly
Telnet to 3306 works
Also tried binding it specifically yo ...
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First connection to debian server slow
I have a running debian web server with ispconfig. The problem is that whenever i make a first connection it takes about 1-2 seconds to connect, after this 1st connection everything runs smoothly, i ...
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Streaming A/V from Linux webcam
I am planning on setting up a simple Debian Wheezy machine and connecting a Logitech Webcam C200 to it. I want the server to stream the camera's A/V feed over the internet to a specific server I have ...
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Debian: set desktop resolution for non-monitor box
I have a debian box running Wheezy and booting into KDE4. The computer doesn't have any monitor attached but is set to start a vnc server for remote connection when main user auto-logins on startup. ...
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Run script after user login to kde
I'm using debian with kde4
I have a script that i need to be executed after a user loggins to kde.
The system is setup to auto-login a user and lock the session. I tried to add the script to kde's ...
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How to apt-update when apt is not accepting the repository?
I want to do apt-get update on my debian machine. However, I am getting this.
Get:4 http://deb.torproject.org squeeze Release [2,951 B]
Err http://deb.torproject.org squeeze Release (other ...
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How to power off a Debian Linux box via console
Brand new to Linux. I need to turn my box off and put it in my server room. The help here and everywhere seems not to work for me:
http://debianhelp.co.uk/shutdown.htm
I get:
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static name for a wireless interface on ubuntu/debian machine
I use ubuntu 12.04 on a beagleboard-XM. I use wireless dongle on the board for wireless interface
root@ubuntu:/# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-23-omap #36-Ubuntu Tue Apr 10 20:24:21 UTC 2012 armv7l ...
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Automatic installation of Debian within VirtualBox image
I have written a shell script, which creates a Virtual Box Image via VBoxManage (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html). I have also attached a Debian netinst iso image to it. When I now start ...
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Debian eth0 to wlan0 forwarding, with openvpn
I'm using "raspian" (Debian for the raspberry pi), and would like the raspberry-pi to serve internet access through eth0, using wlan0. The catch here is that while wlan0 is connected to my router, I'd ...
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how to boot without assemblying raid arrays (or assembling them correctly)
I had one debian 6 system with two harddisks on raid1 set up via mdadm. built on simple partitions (/dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3). at least on the old system, everything is tied up via UUIDs.
then i inserted ...
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Clean Debian package builded from source
I have build a debian package with:
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
now I would like to change the configuration in the .dsc file and build again. How can I clean the files created by the previous ...
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Why is this CRON failing to execute?
$ crontab -l
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# m h dom mon dow command
SHELL=/bin/bash
* * * * * (/usr/bin/curl -s -XPOST http://internal.ip -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d 'data')
$ ls -l /usr/bin/curl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ...
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Debian Sarge iso Images [closed]
I don't no whether we its right place to ask this question, But need help, Can one please pass me Debian Sarge (3.1) ISO Image.
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dpkg -S not showing all files in package
I've been using dpkg -S <package_name> to list the contents of a package. Sometimes I pipe to grep bin to quickly scan for executables.
I just ran into a case where this didn't work out for ...
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How to choose the user that has sound?
I wanted to know if there's any way in pulseaudio to decide, each time I switch virtual terminals, if the current user should get control of the sound or if another user should keep it.
We have two ...
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Can't access to miniDLNA
I wanted to install a dlna server on my asus eeepc, and tried minidlna. My eeepc runs Wheezy, so I just had to run apt-get install to install minidlna on it.
The first time I ran it, everything worked ...
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Does somebody know one good solution for a VPN on a VPS? [closed]
I am trying to configure a VPN based on l2tp/ipsec tunneling.
But there are so many different solutions (tutorials and manuals) and no one worked to me (connection could not be established).
Does ...
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multiple apache root processes
I noticed today that when making requests from our web server, things were rather slow.
I started looking into it and I've found a load of root owned apache processes.
I don't know for sure that this ...
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Server connection closed by remote host
I have a Debian Squeeze VPS. I have set it up with Apache 2.0 and such. Problem is, now I can't access it anymore through my home Internet connection. When I attempt to access the web server through ...
