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What is the purpose of running `apt-get upgrade` then `full-upgrade` when upgrading to a new Debian release?
The Debian Upgrade guide from the Debian Wiki, in two different places, says to run these commands:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get full-upgrade
What is the purpose of running both? Doesn't ...
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How to set which tty to run GUI in?
I have set up a runit service to autologin in /dev/tty16 and the shell profile executes dbus-run-session Hyprland, however, I noticed that Hyprland, or GUIs start on the 'active' or the currently ...
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How to copy and paste from macOS host into VMWare virtual machine running ArchLinux and Hyprland?
I'm running ArchLinux in a virtual machine in VMWare. I've open-vm-tools installed but I'm unable to copy from macOS host and paste into Hyprland. How can I achieve this?
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Ubuntu 24.04 Random Freezes / Black Screen
[Help] Ubuntu 24.04 Random Freezes / Black Screen (ASUS N552VX - Dual Boot)
Hey folks, I'm struggling with an issue on my laptop and hoping someone can help.
Specs:
Laptop: ASUS N552VX
CPU: Intel i7-...
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In zsh 5.9-4+b6 on Debian, are INC_APPEND_HISTORY_TIME and SHARE_HISTORY really mutually exclusive?
In my .zshrc, I had
setopt HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS INC_APPEND_HISTORY_TIME AUTO_CD
so that issuing setopt yielded
autocd
histignorealldups
incappendhistorytime
interactive
monitor
shinstdin
zle
However,...
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SquashFS corruption mechanisms
My embedded Linux system, which uses a SquashFS as its root filesystem, has unexpectedly stopped booting. The system is designed with an OverlayFS mounted on a temporary RAM disk to provide read-write ...
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How do I adapt the /etc/issue file depending on how the terminal is attached: serial line vs. network?
I've got a machine running OpenSuSE Leap 15.5, which can be remote-controlled both by usign a local serial line (RS232), and via network (SSH). Now I've got an /etc/issue file auto-generated by /usr/...
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Using a literal asterisk (*) in a filename within command substitution in bash
how do you supply a literal asterisk * when specifying a filename to a command substitution in bash?
Consider the following directory:
host:/tmp/backtick-test# ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel ...
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VLC Not Adhering to Theme Correctly (KDE Plasma/Kvantum)
This theme (Gently) used to make the highlighted areas of VLC in the image below transparent, now it doesn't. Other applications are working fine (Kate, Dolphin, plasmoids, menus). I've been playing ...
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Linux mount namespaces - umount event propagates unexpectedly
I was reading about mount namespaces and encountered something that seemed odd to me. I'm using Ubuntu22.04
I have a USB device connected to my machine:
ubuntu@ubuntu-2204:/media/ubuntu$ cat /proc/...
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mount Android Studio's system.img
I want to customize boot process of Android in emulator.
system.img runs normally in Android Studio Emulator. This file in
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86_64-26_r16....
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Ubuntu 25.04 not using DHCP DNS server
A strange issue with split DNS that's been annoying me for ages, DHCP dns points to my adguard (primary) and my home router (secondary). Both have DNS rewrites for my local home domain servers to the ...
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Is the following way of encrypting hard drive using file encryption safe?
Assuming that I want to encrypt/decrypt a hard drive corresponding to /dev/sdX, the following is the procedure I have for doing so:
Encryption:
Write the hard drive's data into a file (e.g. ./tmp), ...
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What does VAR=() mean in a script?
In the file /usr/bin/gcore (which is a bash script on my system), there are the following lines:
# When the -a option is present, this may hold additional commands
# to ensure gdb dumps all mappings (...
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How can I grep the output of ffprobe? [duplicate]
I'd like to only see those lines containing "Stream #" from an ffprobe output. But whatever I do, it continues to show the whole output. Neither "|" nor ">" pipes work....
