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Hey guys, I posted a few days ago, I bought a server from a guy in toronto for a really good deal, so not an issue on the money I spent or the fact that it is used, didn't realize he kept his server set up in NAS, and used it as a local media vault for his house. So I am having some issues on a few things, one he is running it as a really stripped down command line only version of Debian, I need to know how to strip Debian out of the system and replace it with Ubuntu as I'm not familiar with the process and I need to remove the media vault all together as it is something quite odd too me I never really seen before. Much help would be amazing!!

Hello, is there any guide to how to encrypt system partition on debian without reinstalling the system? On my windows partition i done it with veracrypt. Only one guide I found so far date 2015: https://www.johannes-bauer.com/linux/luksipc/ And there missing the part about booting afterwards.

\If you are a user of Ubuntu there is a good chance at some point in time you have used Wine at some point in time. And at some point you have also questioned why things are the way they are and how to install wine. And when you install Wine through the terminal you do not get the latest version of Wine, in this case Wine 7.0. Well I am going to walk you through how to install Wine 7.0 through the terminal and I will also give you access to an install script repository and a video I made so that you can choose your own method of following along. So lets get into the installation process shall we. Step 1 Enabling the 32 bit architecture. This is something that needs to be done to prevent any conflicts with installing any software through wine. sudo dpkg -add-architecture i386 Step 2 Next you need to download the WineHQ key to be able to download from the WineHQ sources wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key Step 3 Now you need to move the key into the correct place sudo mv winehq.key /usr/share/keyrings/winehq-archive.key Step 4 Now you need to add the WineHQ repository to the sources list wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sources Step 5 Now you need to move the WineHQ sources to the sources list sudo mv winehq-jammy.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d Step 6 Now you need to update the system sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade Step 7 Now we install Wine version 7.0 sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable Now you have Wine version 7.0 installed. Which now means you can install any Windows software without too many problem. I can also vouch that Epic Games Store will also work through Lutris as well. Now go fourth and use Linux how you want it without the bloatware that comes with Windows. Code repository https://github.com/Nmatt1/Wine7.0 Video

Hey, so I'm looking to natively run Debian for ARM on the Jadoo 4 android TV Box. From some googling, it seems that if I want to do something like that, I need to find an OS image that's optimized for the specific device; but unfortunately I can't seem to find anything. What exactly can I do? Do I really need to find a specific OS image, or would something more general suffice? Some general info about the Jadoo 4: Processor: ARM Amlogic @ 1.61 GHz 1 Processor, 4 Core Motherboard: Stvm8b I have a feeling that the hardware itself might be a rebrand of a the Geniatech ATV225, but I'm not completely sure. Sidenote, I'm very new to installing a completely new OS, so if you have, like, a favourite tutorial for doing that, that would be cool too. Really appreciate any help, Thanks.

I am looking at getting a VPS, and I have the choice between a few different operating systems, but I would like to have Debian or Ubuntu. Which one do you recommend? Extra Info: I have very some experience wiht both, I have a Raspberry Pi at home with Pi OS, and a friend of mine has a Ubuntu VPS, on which he currently hosts my very small static website. I sometimes upload new files and then run the command to restart nginx, but that's all. I want to run some interactive websites, with a MongoDB database. Both of the options don't require extra money for the VPS, so that won't help making a choice. Can you help me out?

Hi guys, I was wondering why my Teamspeak Server CPU usage keeps spiking like this: This only started happening a couple of days ago: The lack of of logs on some days is because I shut the server down in that time. In the logs I was able to find: TS3ANetwork::Send failed error: 111 but I have not found yet, what that exactly means. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Thanks for reading!

Hello there, A week ago I made a mistake and ran some malicious software, which used an token logger to hack into my discord account. After finding out, whipping everything from discord from my SSD, I thought, I could finally switch to Linux for good. So I put in another SSD and installed debian on it (I already use debian at work so why not). The week was full of troubleshooting, having "fun" with Nvidia driver issues, Steam problems and so on. At one point, grub had a little hickup and then I think it happened. Now when I start my PC, I post very quickly to the BIOS Splash screen, then I stay like that for around 8 minutes, after that it goes into the BIOS when you pressed DEL during those 8 minutes or it goes to grub and boots the selected OS. At that point I was so fed up that I switched my boot order and made my windows SSD the primary boot device, but I still have an 8 minute boot to the OS and Windows itself takes another 2 Minutes to boot. When I'm in the OS itself everything is responsive, no suspicious activity, no load on my CPU/GPU, nothing. Then I decided to flash a new BIOS on my motherboard, but that didn't help either. I have now reached a point where I'm quite desperate and no longer have any idea what to do. PC Specs: Windows 10 Home 22H2 64 bit | Debian 12 bookworm Alpha ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming (BIOS version 4408, latest) AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (stock) 4x16GB (64GB) G.Skill TridentZ DDR4-3200 (DOCP profile 1 (3200 MHz)) ASUS TUF NVidia RTX 3090 OC edition (stock) Seasonic TX-1000 (1000 Watt PSU) 2TB XPG GAMMIX S5 NVMe (Windows Boot SSD) 1TB Crucial P3 NVMe (Grub/Debian Boot SSD)

I switched to zorin os 15.2 on my second laptop and the experience has been amazing.. I just wanna recommend it to people leaving windows or macos as it is one the most beautiful and it is just as easy to use . Try it for yourself guys

An odd topic that I am unsure if something people would be interested in here. It's techy. It allows you to interface servo motors with your computer. It makes machines come alive with potentially hundreds of IO to interface with the real world. It up-cycles old computers too. I am posting here because it seems like something Linus Tech Tips would be interested in in some sort of brief discussion, but not something to seriously look at. If someone wanted to make a VR chair, a full servo 3D printer, a robot arm, or something similar, this would be a great tool to use. LinuxCNC* (http://linuxcnc.org/) is a DIY CNC program for CAD/CAM. People have used this program and equipment to rebuild CNC machines weighing tens of thousands of pounds to making their own custom 3D printer. It's capability is large and is (relatively) easy to use compared to other industrial cards and programs. I would hail it as one of the best open-source programs to come out of the community behind Blender and Inkscape. I will also say I am not an expert in the full details about LinuxCNC, but I have used it to rebuild a Hardinge Superslant CNC lathe. A true expert would be someone named AndyPugh on the LinuxCNC Forum. https://forum.linuxcnc.org/ The program runs on Linux, and has a ready-to-install CD running Debian. It can run on any old PC and if the computer has a parallel port it can be used to control a plotter, laser cutter, or XY gantry. If anyone has used GRBL on an Arduino, this is a massive step up. However, where LinuxCNC really shines is its interface with Mesa. Mesa cards are ~$300USD and connect via a PCI or PCIe port to allow rapid communication to perform closed loop controls on servo drives. You can custom program in Ladder, C, and other methods if required. Mesa cards are made by PCW, and he is also a big member of the LinuxCNC forum. My latest LinuxCNC project was a Hardinge Superlant 3 Axis. It is a production CNC lathe that I purchased for $3k, however I have seen similar CNC machines go for $1 as companies want you to pay for the rigging to get rid of it (rigging cost me $900) and the number of people capable of taking an old machine like this are rare. I learned a lot about how data and communication is performed, as well as how motion control is done in the production of this machine. I am also looking at swapping out our other machine, a Deckel FP50CC/T, with LinuxCNC as well. The control case. A nightmare, I know. And yes, the computer is held in with a shoelace. My CNC used a Mesa 7i77 and a 7i64 to have enough IO to control the machine, and even then, I have 0 spare. I should have gotten more. They were from here: http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69_73&product_id=214 http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=120&search=7i77 http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=110&search=7i64 *used to be known as EMC and may be referred to as such

Hi everyone. First time posting here. I’m having an issue with an old APU board that I want to use as a media server or a plex server just for the sake of bringing new life to it. I’m using Openmediavault as OS, a Debian 7 based distro and it’s not recognizing the Ethernet on the board. I’ve tried many other distros just to be sure it was not an issue with the one I’m using and nothing either. I’m in Cuba and my internet access it’s 0 on that computer and even when I can get my hands on local mirrors of the repos I can’t get my hand on the proper drivers. The board it’s the ASROCK AD525PV3. can anyone help my getting the right drivers, please? thanks in advance.

vokoscreen-2020-04-06_17-59-18.mkvi am new to linux it's been only 3 months since i switched from windows to linux i am using parrot os KDE i installed nvidia drivers using these commands i can't open nvidia settings apt-get install nvidia-driver apt-get install nvidia-smi (reboot) apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit and i can't change the login screen theme or login screen wallpaer . whenever i try it refuses and change back to Default

Im new with debian/linux so I installed debian but I dont like it and I saw that you can in someway change the desktop to cinnamon, I tried doing what this page says https://mike632t.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/installing-cinnamon-jessie/ but some commands didnt work idk why, I typed them exactly the same. Anybody knows another way?

Hello, I'm using Debian 8.7 on an Acer laptop with an Intel i5-4200U CPU, with the integrated Intel HD 4400 graphics and a discrete AMD HD 8670M card. I think it's worth noting that I am using the open source X.Org X server driver, not the FGLRX one, which makes my system unusable. I've been trying to force Steam games to use the discrete GPU instead of the Intel one. I've managed to do it using DRI_PRIME=1 when starting steam. When running glxinfo | grep render the OpenGL renderer string is "Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile", while running DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep render shows the OpenGL renderer string is "Gallium 0.4 on AMD HAINAN", which is the way it should be. Also, both cases report "direct rendering" as "yes". Additionally, once I start Steam, under "System information", the correct GPU is shown depending whether I've started Steam with DRI_PRIME=1 or not. Also, when actually playing the game (Civilization V), if Steam isn't started using DRI_PRIME=1, psensor (a program for monitoring system temperatures) shows the temperature of the AMD GPU not changing, while when started using DRI_PRIME=1, the temperature rises, as expected. All of this suggests that I've successfully forced steam and the games launched by it to use the discrete AMD GPU instead of the integrated Intel one. However, when actually monitoring the in-game FPS (same save game/scene and video settings), using the AMD GPU yields about 45 FPS and rarely reaches 50, while the Intel GPU runs at around 50 and goes as high as 60. Any ideas on what's going on?

Hi, Do you think it is possible to create a bash script, which will automate giving ip's to all connected machines? Thank you

Hi, Instead of using br0 to bridge two ethernet ports, is there something else to use? The reason for this as I want to use iptables on a specific ethernet port, but when using br0 it cancels out eth0 & eth1. Thank you

Hi I want to stop device a from pinging device b, but with the ufw rules being on device b. (as shown in the pic) What would be the ufw config for this one? Thank you

Hello all! I am planning on running a web server, but have encountered a few issues and want to learn a little more about my options before I continue. Many years ago when I first started I was just running it to learn HTML and CSS under XAMPP. That's a little unprofessional and I now have the tools to make a better web server. For the past few years I have been using IIS through Windows Server. It's easy to use and has a lot of features, and was also already there inside the compressed server I was using that was also other things. However I came across a problem with IIS that I don't quite like. It's significantly slower than Apache. I haven't found a way to fix this, and it only slows down worse when installing Wordpress, which is what I love to work with. After getting a new server computer recently, I am still limited on hardware (1 tower server, 1 1u server). It has 2 Xeon E5620's in it and 24GB 1333Mhz RAM in it. I figured that since I am limited on hardware we could just virtualize things through ESXI. So we have a DHCP/DNS/AD currently setup on a Windows Server VM (mainly used for single sign-ons through email servers and other things) and it is currently functioning as our DHCP server for our network. Additionally, we have Debian setup to be the web core. I've never really worked with Linux before, so it took a little learning; but after a few hours of work and setup I got an FTP server to work so I could manage files on it without having to back to the machine and Apache running smoothly. I setup Wordpress (through apt, not manually) and PHP. It loads MUCH faster than IIS does. Since I can't find much on resolving this issue, I was coming to LMG forums to see if anyone else has dealt with the same problem, and to also learn more about Linux, IIS, and Apache. I would also like to learn about which version is the best version of Linux to use for a web server if possible. Would it be a better idea to keep everything how it is with IIS and keep using it, but setup Apache as a proxy since it will cache the site and then send it over faster to users? also note: I have a third leftover server computer with a bad DIMM slot in it. It has 5GB of RAM and a Xeon X5550 that I will be installing Sophos/pfSense on eventually to work as a UTM.

I have a computer that doesn't have a HDD, but i want to get it up and running. Can I install Debian directly to a USB stick as if it were a spinning disk? If so, how?

Hi, I currently have 4 pi's, with one acting as the main one and internet gateway. What I want to do is to deny access for the other 3 pi's to the internet and only get websites from the gateway pi. Is there a way to do this? Thank you

Debian 8 "mouse wheel" is working bad wheel up (work perfect) wheel down (go "up" if i move the mouse scrolling down) - - - - i need this fix for DEBIAN (not for ubuntu, lubuntu, or any other linux, Debian solution plis)

Hi, I was wondering if you could setup F@H on a remote machine and have all the points and stuff still contribute to the same 'account'. In my case, I only have command line access via SSH. I looked at the F@H pages, and whilst they did give all the commands needed and stuff, it did mention that it wasn't meant for 'command only' linux. Would you guys have any help on this? I think i've seen a few of you mentioning having F@H running on a VPS, so I would assume it is possible.

My router is getting really old (manufactured 2006) so I need a new one my servers are also really old so I thought I would build a new server I am building a server with dual ethernet and wifi so that I can have one ethernet port be WAN (connected to modem) and one be lan and then also have wireless lan Parts List: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/cTurtle98/saved/pYyRBm my only problem is that this computer will be tucked away in a cabinet with fans on the back for ventilation. the motherboard only comes with antenas that screw directly onto the motherboard. any recomendations on an external antena to use? i need about a 4 foot cable on the antena so it can sit on top of the cabinet while the computer is inside

Hi I've tried so many times to install Steam on my linux and it just won't launch. I've even made sure my graphics drivers are up to date as I have a Geforce GT 710. I keep getting the error: If anyone can help will be greatly appreciated, I'm trying to setup a Just Cause 3 Server

Sup LTT! So I created a short video tutorial (9 minutes in runtime) covering the installation of Pi-hole in the Windows operating systems via Hyper-V & using Debian Linux. This provides network wide ad-blocking as well enhanced security via DNS redirection, completely for free. You gotta keep in mind this works across your entire network; so phones, tablets, gaming consoles, smart televisions, etc. all benefit from this. It also has a pretty sweet web based GUI that you can use for blacklisting domains, looking up queries, checking on your clients, etc. Can make network management much easier depending on what type of setup you might be using. I tried to be as straight forward as possible & also put study aids on the screen throughout the process so that you don't have to try to see the tiny text I'm typing in as it's happening. This is not a process you should fear & is extremely easy to do, it delights me to be able to show off the ease of install inside nine minutes. Though I looked up the community guidelines and they specifically say I can't post this video I've made without; "2 - The video is only to complement your complete, written post on the site. You cannot simply post a video." So I'll include a bit of a write up as well to appease the mod gods! (or just Luke, I'm doing this to appease Luke) Now my default forum of choice on the net has been ArsTechnica for the last 18 years, so yes, you're going to see this posted over there too. I'm trying to share the love. Anyways back on topic, basically what we're doing here is opening up a hyper-v environment so you can run a copy of linux on top of your windows operation system. Why? So we can install Pi-hole which blocks over 100,000 ad-serving domains through a DNS redirect on your network. This has the included benefits of improving your network performance (since ads are blocked before they are downloaded altogether) & reducing your data usage if you happen to be on a bandwidth cap. To start you'll need an operating system capable of Hyper-V. Wikipedia has a beautiful list of all the supported operating systems, so check if yours is on there. If so you can do this! If you can have it but don't have it installed, you'll need to go into your Control Panel, then to Add/Remove Programs. In modern windows versions this is called Programs and Features. From there, inside the new window that pops up, on the left side will be an option to "Turn Windows Features On or Off", this is where you need to go to install Hyper-V. Simply check the box next to it in the new window that pops up & follow the install prompts. Next on our journey you'll need the newest version of the Debian Linux distro. (make sure to download the appropriate version for the machine you're running on, for example, a modern computer will require the amd64 iso) Why do we need this? Because Pi-hole was originally meant to be booted on top a Raspberry-Pi and it's grown from there. Here we don't require a Raspberry-Pi, anything that requires money, or even physical objects beyond what we already own. So now that we have Hyper-V installed & a fresh copy of Debian we begin. As shown in the video, you'll need to create a virtual switch first. This is very simple, just click the switch manager on the right & create a new one. Make sure to select your adapter that is currently supplying your internet connection. With that done we can simply create a new virtual machine, you really do not need beef settings to make this happen. It can be done on 1GB of ram & a single processor though like anything, it will benefit the more you open it up. In the video I gave the virtual machine 4GB of ram & 10GB of hard drive space, THIS WAS PLENTY. Make sure to select the Debian iso to be inside your virtual dvd drive when the machine is turned on. It's just like any other operating system install just much easier & faster. Once this is done we need to install Curl so that we can then install Pi-hole, we also need to make sure the machine is now on a static IP so that the other devices on the network always know where their DNS server is. I've actually put this on the screen in the video but if you're interested in reading it, the basic command process to this is: su root apt-get install curl nano /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.10.95 (your pi-hole static ip) netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.10.1 (your gateway) reboot su root curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash pihole -a -p newpassword set router manual DNS settings primary = 192.168.10.95 (your pi-hole static ip) secondary = 8.8.8.8 (emergency google backup) apply & push router changes across network connect to 192.168.10.95/admin (use pi-hole ip) As discussed in the video you're going to want to comment out the last two lines of "/etc/network/interfaces" before writing in your new static address. You're also going to want to select a static address that is outside of your DHCP lease range so that it doesn't accidentally get leased to another device if your Hyper-V happens to go down. Next as seen in the instructions above, we need to go into your actual router & change your DNS settings to point to the new Pi-hole installation. This will be your Primary DNS for your Secondary DNS we're going to use Google's primary server. Why? This is for emergency backup! If your hyper-v goes offline, you forget about it, or say, the machine it's running on is shut off altogether then your network will default to google instead of just going offline. Unfortunately there won't be any ad-blocking going on at that point but that's far better then everybody on your network being upset that there's no internet access. After this all we have to do is connect to the Pi-hole web interface via any browser. Just point your address bar at the static IP your Pi-hole is running on, drop a /admin after it & login. You don't really need to do this, there's not many reasons to come over and manage the software. Mainly it's where you can investigate all the clients on your network, see problem areas, blacklist them, or even whitelist domains if you need to. You can see device temps here, charts, graphs, hella logs, you name it. It's a very simple but powerful interface that works extremely well. At the end of the video, after recording live, you can see it's running on only 700mb of memory. It really takes absolutely nothing to run Pi-hole an it has massive benefits for everything inside your network. That's why I wanted to share it with everybody! Anyways if you have any questions feel free to post though I am not associated with the project at all. I've posted this same video on their subreddit though if you happen to want to drop an upboat for me. (it would be appreciated!) I'm sure they would be much more qualified at answering in-depth technical questions then myself, though I will try my best to help out where I can. If still interested you can view the video tutorial on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgUZ9fccBCU Much love, 'Gobby PS: Here you go Luke, that'll keep things interesting.

I want to install Debian GNOME 32 bit version so I will have to downlaod i386 version. https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ But in this site there is i386 in both CD and DVD sub category. One file is around 600MB and the other is 3.7GB. And I am new to linux so don't know much about it. So which one should I download and whats the difference? If both is same then why there is huge difference in size of the iso image?