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OSX: gpg command error, dyld: Library not loaded:
After I migrating my MacBook, I found out I miss the command gpg.
And it threw this error when I wanted to install rvm
⋊> ~ gpg 15:...
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Linux compatibility layer for Mac OS X
I have a closed-source piece of Linux software written in a combination of Java and C. The application installs on my Mac (it uses InstallAnywhere), however, it isn't intended to run on a Mac.
The ...
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Force Google Chrome (Or Chromium) to Manually Save VSphere HTML5 Password?
System Info: Running Chromium on various Linux workstations and often Google Chrome or Chromium on one of my work MacBook Pros. I'm only a Firefox user when Google isn't watching (that's a joke, they'...
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On Linux Samba share accessed from macOS, macOS has weird file permissions
The things I changed in my smb.conf on my linux machine are:
unix extensions = no
map archive = no
map system = no
map hidden = no
[myshare]
path = /home/bob/myshare
browseable = yes
read only = no
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VNC from MacOS screen sharing to linux Ubuntu
I’m trying to screen share from a MacBook to a VM running Ubuntu on Parallels on a MacBook Pro on the same network. I can ssh to it fine, but using the same account and IP address in MacOS screen ...
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Getting the full path to a file with "readlink -f" does NOT work on OSX?
On Linux (redhat/ubuntu/you name it), I can do this:
$readlink -f myfile.txt
/tmp/local/path/to/myfile.txt
On OSX (yosemite):
$ readlink -f eclipse-projects.xml
readlink: illegal option -- f
Can ...
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How to set umask for a samba mount?
On linux (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid) I want to mount a samba share to a remote Mac (OSX) such that files created on the share have full read/write permissiona across user/group/other (like umask 0)
# umask ...
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Matching bracket selection on gnome-terminal, like Mac OSX terminal
I have recently fallen for a (non obvious) feature of the Mac OSX terminal:
Given a display of some kind of deeply nested text with lots of matching brackets, parenthesis, or quotes (ie. JSON), the ...
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Computer-to-Computer network between OS X and Linux
I want to make a connection point to point via wifi between Mac and Linux.
What I did was:
I have created Computer-To-Computer network in OS X
I have set manually an ip address for Mac, 10.0.0.1/255....
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Apple shortcuts in Ubuntu
I switch between a Mac and Ubuntu often. On my Ubuntu box, I use an Apple Aluminum keyboard.
I'm interested in Apple's "command" key: ⌘.
(I'm not concerned about the hardware control keys.)
cmd+...
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Input/output error in OS X but not Linux on NTFS external hard drive
My external hard drive contains a directory. On my Mac I can't see this folder, neither in Finder nor with ls -la. But I know that it exists, since there is no problem with it on Linux. Because I'm ...
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File dates copied with "cp -p" are set to "now"
I'm using my Mac to try to copy the content of a smartphone's SD card to a larger card. Because I don't want all the pictures to get new creation dates I used the --preserve option like this:
cp -pr /...
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Docker Mac OS X disk utilization growing constantly
I’m running the latest version of Docker (1.8.2) on Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite) with the latest docker-machine (0.4.1). I have just two vanilla CentOS 6 containers running on a stock docker-machine ...
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Mounting HFS+ (hfsplus) RAID 1 under Linux 3.13
I'm using a Linux Mint liveCD to rescue data off a Hackintosh which had its boot drive fail. I also have an HFS+ RAID 1 (created with Disk Utility in OS X) on separate drives in the system. ...
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Sharing FUSE filesystem with Samba; Mac OS X cannot access it properly
I created a simple FUSE filesystem -- read-only, and the only thing it really does to files (a bunch of audio files) is changing their names. The filesystem is hosted on a Linux server, where it works ...
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Gnome 3 copy/paste with a Mac keyboard
I want to use a Mac keyboard in Linux with Gnome 3. What I essentially want is to have Cmd/Ctrl keys behave like in Mac: do all copy/cut/paste, window switch and etc. using Cmd key but in Terminal ...
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How to use different ip address between virtual machine and your laptop?
How to use different ip address between virtual machine and laptop. For laptop, my os is mac. And within my laptop, i run a virtual machine (vbox). The os within vbox is ubuntu 11. Thank you.
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Disabling OSX menu bar in VirtualBox fullscreen
I am trying to run Linux Mint/ubuntu using VirtualBox on OSX. My problem is that the OSX menubar keeps appearing when mouse gets on top of screen in fullscreen mode. I would like to stop this effect. ...
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How do I keep mac terminal keybindings when connected via ssh to a linux server?
My Setup
computer: Macbook pro
OS: OS X Snow Leopard
Software: Terminal.app, GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)
The Server's Setup
Hardware: Not sure
OS: ...
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How can I modify/open files without changing last modified/opened date on Mac OS (or Linux)?
My dad passed away last year, so I have boxes of dozens of old hard drives (all HFS+) with my all his files and pictures on them. I want to copy everything into one drive/RAID (also HFS+, possibly ...
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How to source from stdout for both Linux and macOS?
On Linux I can do:
source <(cat .env | grep ANDROID_GRADLE_TASK)
But on macOS, this doesn't do anything (no error, and no source)
What can I use for macOS?
Is there a command that works both on ...
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Use MacBook as VPN server or outbound proxy
I'm not sure whether the question's title describes what I'm trying to achieve...
Anyway, it is coronavirus outbreak, and I'm grounded at home. My employer has very strict security/hardware polices ...
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How to find all previously-installed Ruby artifacts (files, etc) so I can remove _all_ of them from my OS?
Other than the pre-bundled-with-my-default-OS install (eg: /usr/bin/ruby on macOS 10.14), I want to completely wipe my OS clean of Ruby before I reinstall Ruby to a "known state." Specifically, I want ...
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How to play CS 1.6 on MacOS Catalina
How do you play CS 1.6 on MacOS Catalina?
I'm thinking about installing a Dual Boot Linux in order to play CS 1.6 on my Macbook Pro. However, I don't have the required 25 GB HDD space for Ubuntu.
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Screenshotting Linux VM in Mac
I am running VMware fusion on my Macbook Pro to run a Kali Linux VM. The OS for my Macbook is Mojave.
Whenever I am in my VM and try to take a screenshot of a window , usually being my terminal (...
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How can I run macos High Sierra in Linux using Qemu?
How can I run macos High Sierra in Linux using Qemu?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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MacOS - How to change syslogd's log level for a specific process/program?
I am new to MacOS and I would like to get a better of view of what's going on with a system process when my computer is starting up. I can see in the log that a process is changing settings, but the ...
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Multiboot USB with UEFI/BIOS support for Windows, Ubuntu and MacOS
I'd like to do the following, on a single USB stick:
Have installations for Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and MacOS
Be able to install Windows and Linux in both BIOS and UEFI modes (BIOS in case the system ...
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Fat 32 partition recognized by Linux not by OS X why?
I used Gparted to create 3 partitions on an unencrypted external 2 GB hard drive:
A FAT32 system (0x0c).
A Ext4 system with Linux installed on (I did this after creating the partitions).
A HFS system ...
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Change the way that Dolphin (KDE) mounts a (HFS+) filesystem
Once I click a pendrive formatted with HFS+ filesystem in Dolphin, it mounts it read-only. dmesg says:
hfsplus: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your ...
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