Seems lately there are an excessive number of -1 votes on unanswered & answered questions, majority of which are unwarranted.
Just 'fixed' probably 10 found in the latest 50.
What's going on?
just a very basic question from a (relative) linux noob:
I have a system running on Debian 9, and I would like to get gcc 9 installed there. I found a way to do it, but it took quite some effort and time to figure out, so I was wondering if there is a better, more standard way.
What I tried was...
Is there a way to know whether there are ANY encrypted files or directories on a Ubuntu 14 machine running in VirtualBox?
The password for the account is lost, therefore I would reset it by booting in recovery mode and changing the password with 'passwd username'.
But since I wouldn't be able to ...
I have a laptop with a nonworking internal wifi adapter, and a sometimes not working external wifi adapter (the problem can be solved by restarting its Lubuntu). I can access another laptop which has a working internal wifi adapter.
When the external wifi adapter is not working with the first la...
I am on a Ubuntu 18.04 and deb-src lines in sources.list are in place for all the package repos I am using.
I installed gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi and got gcc-7-arm-linux-gnueabi and gcc-7-arm-linux-gnueabi-base this way.
Now when I tried (after apt update) to fetch the source for any of those packa...
I was just trying to install vanilla-gnome-desktop by means of
apt install vanilla-gnome-desktop
... in order to get a more vanilla GNOME experience than the default on Ubuntu Desktop 18.04.
It errored out the first time around and the problem doesn't appear to be fixable by a mere apt instal...
I'm trying to connect over ssh to an Ubuntu 18.04 VM running in VMWare on my local machine. Local machine has openssh server up and running.
Apple's default ssh fails connecting to VMs in VMWare as documented here. So, I installed ssh with homebrew and am attempting to use that instead.
On runn...