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Sometimes Python packages fail to use your system's CA certificates (what your browser uses). For HTTPie, this is actually tracked in https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1581 One solution is to p...
I have long been in the process of converting my manual steps to create a new backup disks into an automated script. The only part I have left is the initial "creation" of the disk, meaning whateve...
Early in boot, after triggering uevents but before the encrypt hook (decrypting drives) my system takes a very long time, over a minute. Actually, I bet it takes 90 seconds which is the typical def...
Yes, bind mounts or possibly rbind mounts is most likely what you want here. You need a rbind mount if you want the contents of file systems mounted below the specified mount point to be accessibl...
Install Qt Assistant (either 5 or 6 works): apt install qt5-assistant This might be already installed, the package in the question does depend on it but for some reason qt5-doc does not, i...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
I have a RPi in the car that I need to act as a mobile AP. I need it to provide a consistent, unchanging ESSID (in AP mode) using the onboard wlan0 for all devices that stay in my car. Dashcams, t...
Actually, there's another process is running in another terminal. Seems like that is installing something or update or upgrading your system. That's why dpkg -i returned that database is locked ...
Don't try to move to 64 bit if your system isn't using 64 bit kernel. The solution is pretty is for Debian-based linux. sudo dpkg --add-architecture amd64 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -f ins...
Wait a minute I think you missed something, yesterday when I read your message in Discord I thought you were unable to install RVM which were producing that error. But this question clears my confu...
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 ...
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"...
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...
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? $EscapeControlC...
Possibly -f "$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 -...
