Questions tagged [debian]
Debian GNU / Linux is the distribution upon which Ubuntu is based. Ubuntu uses the same packaging system as Debian. These questions should be about how Ubuntu and Debian work together from a workflow perspective.
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mount a ntfs windows xp partition [closed]
I have a very old PC with dual boot windows xp / debian 8.
The hdisk has three partitions, as the output from fdisk -l shows:
name. start. End. sectors. type
/dev/sda1. 63. ...
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Can I preinstall Debian on hardware that I sell? [closed]
Can I preinstall Debian on hardware that I sell?
In cases of Ubuntu, nomally we can't.
To do that, I need to buy pre-installed computer or remove all trademarks from source code of ubuntu. It is very ...
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Unable to connect NFS from Ubuntu to Debian
I can connect just fine from two other clients (CentOS 6.3, and Debian 9), but on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS the NFS client seem to have some problems.
The server is on Debian 12. It's just an simple internal ...
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Force Ubuntu to Download Debian Packages
My goal is to download on a Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) machine packages for an offline Debian 11 (Bullseye) server.
For this, I have first disabled all relevant ubuntu sources in /etc/apt/...
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Creating a Debian sid chroot on Ubuntu 22.04
From my Debian/stable system I can simply create a chroot for some playground like this:
% cd /tmp
% sudo debootstrap sid ./sid-chroot http://deb.debian.org/debian
[...]
I: Configuring libc-bin...
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Patching ubuntu debian package
I am attempting to patch up a debian package for my own personal use. Previously I was using a tutorial based on this (what looks to be an updated guide): https://ubuntu-packaging-guide.readthedocs.io/...
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debootstrap excluding systemd packages
I am debootstrap'ing an Ubuntu to exclude systemd and systemd-sysv packages using --exclude parameter however upon checking the packages are still occuring. Did I missed more parameters as I am ...
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I want to to disallow everything except ssh, e-mail, and http [closed]
If I use:
sudo ufw default deny incoming
sudo ufw default allow outgoing
sudo ufw allow ssh
sudo ufw allow http
...etc
sudo ufw enable
To block the world from entering my website execpt certain ...
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Unattended Upgrades for new Mozilla Firefox apt repository [duplicate]
Mozilla's new apt repository for Firefox is not used by Unattended Upgrades.
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Why does "dpkg --instdir=dir/ -i xxx.deb" also set the administrative directory to "dir", like the "--root=ddd" option does?
I was using Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. I have made a file called helloworld.deb, Its source file structure is as follows:
helloworld
├── DEBIAN
│ └── control
└── usr
└── games
└── mygame.sh
I ...
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Problems with Password/Keyring on Debain/Ubuntu Mate
So Ive been using basic LAMP stack VM's for a few years (which use Debian) for dev work, which have been great, but otherwine use Windoze.
I was given an old Intel NUC with a Celeron N3060 CPU (8GB ...
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Is it possible to add an apt repository before the installer check for dependencies availability? [duplicate]
Is it possible to add an apt repository before the installer check for dependencies availability?
I want to add append a deb software repository because the repository contains what's listed in my ...
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Bad shim signature
I tried to install Debian 12.4.0 on the second drive, Kubuntu 23.10 is already installed on the first drive. I checked I checked compatibility using the live version, the installations run fine. ...
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Non privileged user can not access secondary audio device configured in asound.conf
I have a user called sdr that is NOT an admin.
sdr@mia-recorder:~$ whoami
sdr
sdr@mia-recorder:~$ groups
sdr audio users
sdr@mia-recorder:~$
When I look at permissions the group audio has access to ...
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Transmission-daemon use a lot of cache memory [closed]
Can someone tell me why there is so much use of cache in my orange-pi when is running transmission-daemon, i'm not understanding really well if the problem is transmission-daemon or the cache used is ...
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