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Q&A How to open documentation in qch format in Debian based systems?

A web search turned up the Qt online documentation, which suggests using Qt Assistant to organize and read help files packaged as *.qch files. That looks to be packaged by Debian as assistant-qt6....

posted 12mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How can I fill out PDF forms?

I often need to fill out PDF forms, like government paperwork and stuff for banks. How can I do this on Linux? Best I could find was Foxit, but it has strange limitations in the Linux version, lik...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by bgstack15‭

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Q&A What's the "big picture" of how my operating system is put together?

This varies because, being modular, Linux will have different components according to what it's used for. I'll write mainly for a mainstream desktop distro. Systemd manages most of the stack these...

posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How can I check GPU usage? [duplicate]

Linux Mint comes with "System Monitor", a GNOME utility that - among other things - shows my CPU and RAM usage and network transfer rate. It seems intended as the system's alternative to the Task M...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  closed as duplicate 11mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Efficiently determining disk usage of a folder (without starting from scratch every time)

Gnome Disk Usage Analyzer is a GUI program with similar purpose as du and ncdu. I haven't used it in a long time, but I believe caches scan results. Subsequent scans should become faster, barring ...

posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Efficiently determining disk usage of a folder (without starting from scratch every time)

ncdu does that. from ncdu --help: -o FILE Export scanned directory to FILE -f FILE Import scanned directory from FILE You can start it with any direc...

posted 11mo ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A Run programs of normal OS from a live USB

I am experiencing hardware or software problems that I cannot explain, or find a solution for. As part of the troubleshooting process, I have now arrived at running an older version of the OS from ...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Terminal: Continuously check mail, but not too often

I have a command check_mail that checks my mail. I have it configured to run hourly because I don't want to hammer the server too much. But, sometimes I am really at the edge of my seat for a resp...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How do I customize the output format of `apt search`?

I'm fond of the one-line tabular-like output of aptitude search, but not all systems have aptitude installed. How do I customize the output of apt search (or apt-cache or whatever default tool is a...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by ajv‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by alx‭

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Q&A Fix broken EGL installation

According to a post on the Nvidia forums, my EGL installation is broken, as eglinfo should say the vendor is Nvidia; on my system it returns: EGL API version: 1.5 EGL vendor string: Mesa Project ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Q&A Ubuntu system has lost DNS access

This is not a full answer, but my hypothesis is: Your system is configured to resolve domains exclusively through a single server running locally. Thereby, that local server can centrally control ...

posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Retrieve changes that closed a Debian bug

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/p/poppler/poppler_22.12.0-2_changelog contains the changelog for this particular package. It should be obvious how to change to a different ve...

posted 2y ago by tripleee‭

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Q&A How do I use Proton without Steam?

This can be done with Wine Bottles. Install flatpak from your package manager. Install Bottles from Flatpak (may show up as Discover (Software Center)) May take a while, because it has many ...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A When should you install windows dlls for wine with winetricks?

Windows packages all of its API functions into DLLs, so when you have a program that relies on calls to X, Y and Z you must ensure that you have the correct set of DLLs that provide all of those. T...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How to append commands to startx from console

From what I understand, you can pass a command to the xinit program that will be executed instead of .xinitrc. So you might be able to use startx sh -c 'xrandr-invert-colors; exec "$HOME/.xinitrc"...

posted 2y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A How to automatically change to the first matching directory using fuzzy search and cd?

Possibly -f "$dir" not -q "$dir". According to man: -q, --query=STR Start the finder with the given query ... -f, --filter=STR Filter mode. Do not start interactive finder. When used with -...

posted 2y ago by jimbobmcgee‭  ·  edited 2y ago by jimbobmcgee‭

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Q&A How do I prevent remote syslog events from printing locally?

You said rsyslog specifically. Hopefully you are using a version new enough to use the advanced syntax (aka RainerScript). 1 Would something similar to the following work for you? $EscapeControlC...

posted 2y ago by bgstack15‭

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Q&A How to debug NetworkManager issue after suspend/resume in Ubuntu 22.04

Although you have left a post saying it is solved, I think it's not uncommon for this kind of problem to show up. I think it can happen due to misconfiguration of either NM or the network drivers/h...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Access host device which bridges a connected device through same eth interface

It seems that what the linked article says is usually correct, about the interfaces which are part of the bridge not being supposed to have IPs themselves. At least in the wanted subnet, I guess. ...

posted 4y ago by sktpin‭

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Q&A Ruby installation in Manjaro (Arch-Based Linux)

WARNING: You don't have /home/istiak/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/bin in your PATH, gem executables will not run. Successfully installed bundler-2.2.17 1 gem installed For the above error ru...

posted 4y ago by Anonymous‭

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Q&A Ruby installation in Manjaro (Arch-Based Linux)

Actually, in compiler I had marked the Run the script in context of the bundle (bundle exec). When I unmarked it, I noticed I could compile. So, the second problem is solved. I can run Ruby file no...

posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Grub rescue error

I was using Linux mint and Windows 10 together (in different partitions). Few months I was using it freely. Today I got a message in Windows 10 (new updates available or shutdown and update) then, ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Ruby installation in Manjaro (Arch-Based Linux)

I was reading the documentation. In Debian based Linux, I have to install build-essential, libssl-dev. But, what about Arch-Based Linux? I had tried sudo pacman -Syy build-essential libssl-dev ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by Anonymous‭

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Q&A Your Ruby version is 2.7.0, but your Gemfile specified 2.6.6.

Go to your Gemfile (Inside your project structure) and edit ruby '2.6.6' to ruby '2.7.0' and then you are good to go. Like:

posted 4y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&A printer installation in Linux

I had write some texts in LibreOffice Writer. Now, I want to print them to pages. For that reason, we use "printer". My printer's name is HP laserJet P1007. In Windows, I can simply download from h...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by deleted user

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