Questions tagged [linux-mint]
Linux Mint is a Debian-based open-source Linux distribution.
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E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
Linux Mint 21
I try to install postgresql 9.6 like this:
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.6
But get error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... ...
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OpenSSL: error:0A00018E:SSL routines::ca md too weak
Linux Mint 21
Success install openvpn.
OpenVPN 2.5.5 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Mar 22 2022
openssl version -a
OpenSSL 1.1.1q 5 Jul ...
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Linux Mint 21 cannot install some 32bit packages
This is the result of running sudo apt install wine32 on a Linux Mint 21 install, after installing the nvidia515 driver from the settings and enabling 32 bit support (sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386)...
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Can't save password for ssh
Linux Mint 20.3
Midnight Commander hotlist file content:
GROUP "Server"
ENTRY "/sh://[email protected]/opt/server" URL "/sh://root:[email protected]/opt/server"
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How to set up triple monitors to work as a single screen on Linux Mint/Ubuntu
I would like to configure triple monitors to act as a single screen in Linux Mint, similar to what Nvidia Surround does on Windows. I'm new to GNU/Linux systems and still finding my way, but I've ...
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i3 rendering strings incorrectly when used with Font Awesome 5 due to ligatures
The following screenshot shows how my desktop is rendered when i3 is configured with font pango:Noto Sans 9. At the top, notice that the window name is correctly rendered as 2022-08-05-setup-laptop-...
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Script to automatically set up my workspaces configuration upon login (Linux Mint 20.1)
I am using Linux Mint 20.1 at the moment. My main work involves writing bash scripts for system monitoring. I am still new in this so I am learning on the job as we go.
Typically, upon logging in to ...
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KDE Plasma Show Desktop Icon
I'm new to linux, I used to use windows 10, and I'm using linux mint with kde plasma desktop.
I want to display Computer and trash icons on desktop like windows, How to do that?
Thanks is advance.
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Linux mint GParted partitioning during installation can't see mount point option
I am trying to install Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 on Acer's laptop. I made a bootable USB stick with the ISO downloaded from the official website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOHjqllzTy0&t=1s
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Wifi Network keeps asking for password not connecting, Linux Mint 20.3
WSIWYG, I am unable to connect to wi-fi and when I attempt to the password prompt appears 2-3 times before the connection fails. I am using a Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB3.0 802.11ac 1200M Adapter ...
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Steam won't start on Linux Mint 20.3
On Linux Mint 20.3 Steam won't launch but there is no error.
After uninstalled, purged and reinstalled Steam it launches correctly but only until next reboot. Reinstall after every boot is not a fine ...
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Is selection with mouse in the Terminal made by the GUI or Bash?
I was wondering recently about Terminal in Cinnamon (Linux Mint): Is selection with mouse (without Alt key and with) made by Terminal GUI app, or is it provided by Bash inside the terminal?
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How to clean reinstall Windows 10 without erasing Linux?
My windows 10 PC has been acting up lately, it doesn't accept any updates no matter what so I want to give it a clean reinstall because not even recovery upgrade and that stuff worked, I wanna ...
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Trying to Disable Secure Boot
I am trying to disable Secure Boot in my Linux Mint OS. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5.
The problem is I can use the arrow keys on all BIOS menus, except Security and Boot. When I navigate to the ...
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playback speed faster than normal speed on linux mint's default video player
How do I watch videos with a playback speed faster than normal speed on Linux mint's default video player? I don't see an option to do so. For example x2 speed. Is that possible or do I have to ...
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Partitioning linux mint: gparted does not allow creation of primary partition?
I am trying to resize an existing Linux Mint main partition by shrinking it down to 100 GiB so I can dual boot another OS.
I tried booting into a live session of GPARTED from a usb and while I can ...
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Python hangs when printing some Unicode c1 control characters, not in a consistent manner
For testing purposes, I created a file with bytes 0xc2 0x90, representing Unicode code point 0x90 in UTF-8 encoding.
I can cat this file without an issue, but trying to print the string written from ...
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How to set hotkeys on function keys
I have a multi-boot laptop (Clevo NS50MU) with Linux Mint and Windows, with a keyboard that uses function keys for volume and brightness control but only when Fn is pressed. I want to control volume/...
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Viewing USB in BIOS
I have trouble with viewing USB in BIOS. I wanna install Windows 10 on my laptop and of course to do it i need to run from USB, but BIOS doesn't see it! Another laptop Asus can see USB and even USB ...
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why do i have the same applications in /bin and /usr/bin on linux mint
from what I understand, /bin contains binaries that are might be needed when the computer is first being booted, and /usr/bin contains general system wide binaries. however it seems that seems that ...
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Can't install Linux Mint after Windows 11
After performing a clean install of Windows 11 on my PC, I have tried to install Linux Mint (Cinnamon 20.3) in order to have dual boot Windows/Linux. I burned the Linux iso image onto a USB and tried ...
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LUKS partition disappeared after Windows installation
I had a NVMe drive that had one partition with a LUKS encrpyted Linux Mint 19 and another partition with Windows 10. Both were able to boot (I had grub were I could select Linux or Windows to boot).
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How to fix errors which occured while extracting docker image layer?
I have configured docker to store all files on other filesystem.
This is docker configuration file (/etc/docker/daemon.json):
{
"data-root": "/media/mint/MountDir/docker",
&...
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Cursor and keyboard input periodically lags/stutters for exactly 3 hours after boot
When I boot up my computer the keyboard input and cursor will lag and jitter once every half second for exactly 3 hours. What this means is the cursor will pause for a few miliseconds while being ...
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Laptop only boots Windows, doesn't find any bootable device
I've got a really old laptop with no OS installed from a friend to set it up.
To get as much performance as possible out of it, I wanted to install Linux, specifically Mint Cinnamon. After the ...
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450gb of root space full in 3hrs, unable to login
I have installed Linux mint 20.3 on a desktop pc along side windows one month ago. Mint has 450gb of root space. When I logged in in the morning, it had 74gb of free space. During this session it got ...
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How to turn USB-connected device on and off in linux?
I am using Kensington Expert Mouse, a trackball, which usually works. However, sometimes, after system goes to sleep, it stops reacting to the movement of the ball.
Under Windows, i can go to the ...
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What is this unkillable process and how can I deal with it?
My (Linux Mint MATE) computer has been running slowly for awhile, but I couldn't figure out why: it seems the slowness was coming from my CPU being overtaxed, but the System Monitor didn't show any ...
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Single button reboot on Linux
I am running Linux mint 19, mate version on an augmented reality sandbox. The computer runs a Kinect camera, and a projector, and displays a topographic incline of the sand surface in a box below the ...
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How to automatically set autoscroll on bluetooth mouse in Linux
I'm running Linux Mint 20.3 and I created a .xsessionrc file to set autoscroll settings on all connected mice. However, I am using a Logitech M590 bluetooth mouse which connects too late to be ...
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Editing auto-fill using Brave Browser - Linux Mint
I am using Brave Web Browser and Linux Mint.
When I come to an e-mail address field while on a web site, the autofill offers me more than one email address to choose from. Only one is correct, the ...
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Visual Studio Code unable to read file
So this just happened out of nowhere, I'm currently working on Linux Mint OS where I have my remote project open from File Manager and I open the directory with code, put VS code suddenly can't open ...
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Linux Mint filesystem full despite home directory being virtually empty. SDA6 file/folder 98% full?
I have Mint installed on an 80GB partition. When I boot up, Mint tells me that "filesystem" is almost full. I typed "df -h" into the the terminal and this is the output:
Filesystem ...
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Linux Mint panel management
Is there a primer on Linux Mint panel management? Problems: The panel does not resize dynamically (like in Windows) - If I add too many apps the panel just overflows off the end and some apps are not ...
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Replace wget 1.20.3 provided by Linux Mint 20.3 with the version 1.21.2 compiled by myself
For unknown reasons, the wget version provided by Linux Mint 20.3 gave me a segmentation fault error.
That's why I replaced it with the last version:
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar....
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Is it possible to move an VM virtual box running Linux Mint that is encrypted to a physical laptop with a HD bigger than the image?
my computer is on Windows 10 running VM virtual box 6.1. I had installed Linux Mint on one of the VM but I had it encrypted during installation. Is it possible to copy this to VM and install it on a ...
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Neo Keyboard-Layout Layer4: Fix Space instead of 0 when pressing AltGr
On Linux Mint 20 the neo keyboard layout has multiple layers.
Pressing AltGr will act as Mod4 and swtich the layout to layer 4.
In this layer, pressing the spacebar would normally result in a press of ...
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Why is pppoe connection working on Linux laptop but not on Windows 10 PC?
Tried every possible solution I found on the web, including restarting the modem (I have only that).
Been resetting network on Windows PC, uninstalling, reinstalling the adapter, installing it from ...
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Disable line correction in LibraOffice Draw's FreeForm line
I am using LibreOffice Draw's FreeForm line in order to achieve pencil-like drawing abilities in LibreOffice draw. I tried it and the main problem with it is that it doesn't draw exactly what I draw ...
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How to write and save changes to “/etc/fstab” after effectively breaking the “/etc/fstab” on my system. Can only boot to basic terminal
To make a long story short, and to focus the question, I basically need to get root access to my own laptop running Linux Mint to be able to save my changes to the /etc/fstab file.
More details:
I'm ...
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Can I fix 'Sleep verb "Suspend" not supported' without disabling secure boot?
I'm running Linux Mint 20.2 XFCE on an external USB4 drive alongside my Windows 10 internal NVMe SSD.
I went through an automated script written for my hardware to enable hibernate on my laptop before ...
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Bash how to printf UTF-8 [duplicate]
Here is a small script to reproduce the default:
printf "|%-32s|\n" "Here, winter and there, summer"
printf "|%-32s|\n" "Ici, l'hiver et la, l'ete"
printf "...
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How can I get Windows to detect an NTFS partition on a Linux boot device?
I'm running Linux Mint 20.2 on a removable USB4 storage device alongside a Windows 10 NVMe drive, so not explicitly a 'dual boot' but close enough (and fast enough) for my use case. The storage device ...
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Can I make Windows recognize an NTFS partition on the same device as Linux partitions?
I'm running Linux Mint 20.2 on a removable USB4 storage device alongside a Windows 10 NVMe drive, so not explicitly a 'dual boot' but close enough (and fast enough) for my use case. The storage device ...
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Have Notepad++ support X11 and GTK clipboards?
As I understand it, the two clipboards I am using in Linux Mint are the X11 and GTK clipboards.
Copy to X11 clipboard is automatically done every time I highlight something. Paste from X11 clipboard ...
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Save and switch to different display positioning configurations - Linux Mint Cinnamon
My system is Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon. I have a configuration of 3 displays.
My usual configuration with all 3 active is a little weird since the displays must be a little misaligned for the ...
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Space issue in Linux Mint 19.1
I couldn't enter into my Linux Mint system using the correct password. After deleting /var/cache/, I could enter into my system.
I can't save and download any files now.
Maybe I am going to face this ...
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Did the driver try to secretly access my laptop?
My laptop (linux mint 20/ Ulyana) was in my car for about an hour around 7pm, but when I opened it, it was shutdown.
I know for a fact I didn't shut it down, it has 99 percent battery and the weather ...
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Downgrade PHP Version
I am running PHP 8 in Linux Mint 19.1. Now I need to run PHP 7. How can I do that ?
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I cannot run or install my Linux mint OS in HP laptop
I wanted to dual boot with windows 10. I have already install linux mint with usb-flash but I got stuck in the Grub and whenever I click linux mint os the black screen just appear forever without ...