Questions tagged [compatibility]
Use this tag to know if a software can run satisfactorily on a given environment setup or computer.
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Is there an equivalent of caniuse for commands on posix systems?
I'm thinking about using a callout to the jq in a utility script I'm writing, rather than parsing JSON manually.
In order to make the script as portable as possible, I want to know which flavors of ...
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dnf won't let me overwrite or change packages
I want to do something that is supposed to be simple in any package manager, install a package, in my case it is this specifically lib64MLIRVectorToSPIRV13.
LC_ALL=C dnf install ...
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How to gracefully handle differences in command options between different versions?
Inspired by What is the difference between “base64 -b0” in macOS versions prior to macOS 13 (Ventura) and “base64 -i” in macOS 13 (Ventura)?
Are there common ways to avoid the script breaking on a ...
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How can I build an older GCC version (8.5.0) on a newer Linux distribution (Devuan Excalibur/Debian Trixie)?
If I download and try to build GCC 8.x on a newer machine, e.g. Devuan Excalibur GNU/Linux (i.e. Debian Trixie without systemd) - this fails, with the error going something like this:
libstdc++.so.6: ...
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Are FreeBSD binaries compatible with macOS?
Since FreeBSD and macOS (OS X) are very similar to each other, can programs written for FreeBSD run on macOS? And if a program can't, then would it be possible to make it work?
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tracking linux-firmware.git and backwards kernel compatibility
I've been tracking the upstream Linux firmware repo in /lib/firmware on a couple of machines, doing very periodic updates of that tree.
I think I saw a firmware loading error booting an older kernel ...
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How to install printer drivers on Arch Linux when there is no official Arch package provided?
I am trying to print to Epson WorkForce WF-2650 All-In-One Inkjet PRinter from my Arch Linux desktop. Both the desktop and the printer are in network range 192.168.0.1/24.
Initialize Printer Service
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Are KeePassXC and KeePass Solaris-compatible?
I wanted to know whether KeePassXC and KeePass are compatible with Solaris (I am using Solaris 11.4.26.75.4 (sun4v / sparc architecture)). I would need to use only the KeePassXC/KeePass command line ...
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I'm trying to make a wifi adapter with a old chipset
I want to know if a Ralink RT3070L chip has packet injection, monitor mode, and is compatible with Linux.
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Should the use of /etc/mtab now be considered deprecated?
I'm curious about the file or symlink /etc/mtab. I believe this is a legacy mechanism. On every modern linux I've used this is a symbolic link to /proc/mounts and if mtab were to be a regular file on ...
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OpenZFS and Linux Kernel versions compatibility question
Each new release of openZFS has a range of supported linux kernel versions (for example openZFS v2.1.9 supports kernels versions between 3.10 and 6.1)
But when I run zfs version I get:
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Most portable decompression file format, and command
Looking for a file format that is guaranteed to have a decompression command preinstalled on all POSIX Unix/Linux installations. The .Z file can be decompressed by uncompress. But am not sure if ...
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Is it possible to run an SSD in a windows enviroment/compatibility using Bottles in Linux?
I'm new to Linux and as you can tell, I'm migrating from Windows with lots of Windows software. Eventually, I learned about Wine and Bottles which made me wonder if, instead of re-installing every ...
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Will a nVidia GTX 1050 card work with Linux?
I have a laptop with GTX 1050 card and planning to buy in the near future PC with some external nvidia card as well. I want to install linux on both of them, but I never used linux with nvidia before ...
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Samba translates "::" in directory names to strange string
Samba automatically translates directory names containing :: to some weird string, and there is no direct mapping to a Unix name.
Example: ddrs04ia::ip76xddrshared_hiphdk_lay::...
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