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>dunno what that means you will in due time. Its pretty straight-forward, just stop fapping to gay barnyard porn for a bit and really think about what it means what is: >a file >bash >the terminal >an alias >etc
Liam Nelson
how do i access the USB from terminal? I'm gonna try and be my own pacman by downloading files into a usb and physically transporting them to the computer so i can get my goddamn NetMan to work.
Luis Long
>$ lsblk shows storage devices ># mount /dev/sdXY /place/to/mount replace XY with device letter and number >move files ># umount /dev/sdXY
Sebastian Foster
My computers internet is broke as shit, any help is appreciated.
Jack Sullivan
I want to make a script to execute some command line tasks I do
How do I format it to run like filename parameter And how do I receive that perimeter?
Landon Walker
to get all arguments use $@ to get a single arg use $1, $2, etc, depending on the number arg you want.
Kayden Turner
can you install specific versions of software with pacman? or is it just always up to date and i need to do it manually?
This is my file, but not sure how to run it. Also there must be a way to make a package from outside the pwd right?
Eli Gomez
>This is my file, but not sure how to run it chmod +x ./
or you could add it to your path or symlink it in. so either copy it to /usr/bin/ or run ln -s /usr/bin/ /path/to/ then you can run it in any dir by typing the name like any other command
>Also there must be a way to make a package from outside the pwd right? what do you mean? If you're talking about git, you can tell it where to clone the files to.
Adrian Green
I can't seem to install grub boot as master boot. Why is this?
When i installed the debian i overwrote an already existent windows OS without uninstalling proper, is it still there and if so how to wipe it away?
Landon Butler
You need to be more specific with your problems and tell us about any error messages if you actually want help. Did you fuck with the grub conf before you tried to install it?
>hen i installed the debian i overwrote an already existent windows OS without uninstalling proper, is it still there and if so how to wipe it away? no its not still there if you installed debian properly
Christopher Bennett
Dont do this nonsense Create a folder in $HOME called ".bin" open your bashrc and put "$HOME/.bin" in your $PATH. Put the script it $HOME/.bin.
Ryan Rivera
There is nothing wrong with putting the script in /opt and symlinking it Also, i figured if he was asking about how to execute scripts he wouldnt be all that confident with modifying PATH
Easton Phillips
Basically I want to change it to this: git clone aur.archlinux.org/$1.git makepkg -si $1 echo Please delete package folder $1
So I don't need to cd to use makepkg.
Got the script to work by the way, thanks for that
John Jones
>/opt This is for packages you want to install that are not part of your repo.Not a collection of one off scripts.
>symlink This will be more difficult to maintain having some random links everywhere and moving files around fucking them up
>confident with modifying PATH This isnt the 60's, adding a folder to $PATH is easy as fuck and you can gather how to do it after you look at your current path.
.bin is clearly the clean and correct answer in thsi situation
Gavin Brooks
many distros already ship with $HOME/bin in path anyway
Noah Garcia
>Did you fuck with the grub conf before you tried to install it? nope
>no its not still there if you installed debian properly define properly?
Liam Ramirez
I had a quick squizz at the man page for makepkg and i think you need to be in the dir to run it git clone aur.archlinux.org/$1.git /opt/$1 cd /opt/$1 makepkg -si cd - #this puts you back to where you were before your last cd rm -rf /opt/$1 echo "Deleted package folder for $1"
no problem
>.bin is clearly the clean and correct answer in thsi situation yeah probably true
Thomas Campbell
How does this fat asshole see his screen in broad daylight?
Colton Sanders
>>Did you fuck with the grub conf before you tried to install it? >nope Well thats good. Did you encrypt your install? Did you install grub with from cli or just let the installer do its work? have you live booted, chrooted into your install, and run update-grub? What error messages did you get?
>>no its not still there if you installed debian properly >define properly? Did you follow a guide or the wiki? Did you get any errors when you installed?
with his eyes
Joshua King
Don't know why I didn't check the -h, looks like -p lets you set the path! Anyways, all good now thanks again
Daniel Smith
Pic related is my bane Also I switched to koror a to make life easier
Oh, i must of missed that! Its actually pretty unclear in the manpage, not easily searchable. No problem
>click continue >live boot a distro >chroot into your debian install >run update-grub >get actually usefull error messages >fix said error messages >??????? >profit
Brandon Sullivan
>Did you encrypt your install? nope >or just let the installer do its work? that, i just let the installer do all the work
>have you live booted, chrooted into your install, and run update-grub? what is a chrooted and what an update-grub. Korora has live boot but is not debian, rather fedora. I have a live boot debian, if this install doesn't work i will live-boot the debian and do stuff from command terminal
>Did you follow a guide or the wiki? neither, let it do it on its own
>Did you get any errors when you installed? Same one pmuch
>wap-da-doe >biddy-ba-doe-bo >skibbally-boo-bop >profit will do, i'm new though so please be patient.
Adrian Peterson
>what is a chrooted and what an update-grub. chroot is the command to tell the operating system "now we are going to use this partition as root" update-grub is the command the install is probably getting stuck on >Korora has live boot but is not debian, rather fedora. chroot should work across distrobutions, with a few exceptions that you shouldnt need to worry about
>will do, i'm new though so please be patient. Ill be here if you need any help or anything but serious question, if you are this new to linux why didnt you just go with ubuntu? or did you switch from ubunut? did you take the b8 from some Jow Forums faggot?
Jaxon Kelly
>why didnt you just go with ubuntu? Wanted to try someting harder because: 1. I'm a fast learner 2. I love a challenge 3. i need to learn linus over the summer to get a research position and getting leet is the quickest way to do that
Will try chroot, btw i got an error message but it was very long so i will just post the very first snippet of it: anaconda 26.21.12-1 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", line 1606, in install raise BootLoaderError("boot loader install failed") File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", line 1621, in write self.install() File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", line 2435, in writeBootLoader storage.bootloader.write() ETC...
I am going to install Void Linux in a bit, anything that I should keep in mind? I have a Fedora 28 ISO if shit hits the fan, so I should be good if it backfires. I will try to use encryption but I heard it wasn't working without a workaround, is it true?
>anything that I should keep in mind? that non systemd init systems are a waste of time
Christopher Ortiz
Not like I know wtf I'm doing or wtf I'm going
Hudson Peterson
>Wanted to try someting harder because: >3. i need to learn linus over the summer to get a research position and getting leet is the quickest way to do that You should go with ubuntu first. There is plenty to learn on ubuntu, but its much more friendly out of the box.
>lsblk >mount /dev/sdXY /mnt (whatever you were installing linux onto >follow this guide on chrooting wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Change_root#Using_arch-chroot dont use arch-chroot, thats only for arch linux. follow the part below it under the section "Using chroot" >apt install grub >update-grub >post results
Why did you choose void? What de/wm are you going for? If you want encryption, encrypt it prior to the install, open it, then just install into it.
Carson Ross
Has anyone installed dnscrypt-proxy 2 with KDE? I've followed their guide with success, but after rebooting the next day I can't even connect to my router. Everything is fine after reverting the changes.
Even locking resolv.conf doesn't seem to do the trick, because I noticed NetworkManager was deleting my changes.
Who took the photo if both her hands are on the keyboard?
>she needs to join our startup at least she gets some of the experiences of being an actual programmer
Evan Gomez
>with KDE your choice of de has no implication on whether dnscrypt-proxy works What is your distro? How did you install it? repos? any error messages during installation/configuring?
Lucas Cook
Most newbish distro that is most likely NOT a data mining / phoning home / telemetry filled POS?
Ie. Not ubuntu or mint.
Carson Ramirez
ubuntu is fine just disable reporting
Chase Diaz
>a data mining / phoning home / telemetry filled POS? >Ie. Not ubuntu or mint. proof?
The ubuntu-amazon thing is long gone now, they stopped doing that ages ago. manjaro is pretty nooby if you want to try something arch based.
William Edwards
Shrug. Mostly due to its BSD-style init and package manager. I have been checking out NetBSD on another disk and I want something like it on Linux. Furthermore, LibreSSL sounds interesting. I will probably go with Xfce, unless KDE is well packaged there. I've been trying it out and it is good, plus doesn't rely on GTK.
>You should go with ubuntu first. i'm really considering it at this point but i fear this problem will persist for the ubuntu install too so i'd rather just try to fix it now then worry about it then as well.
>tell me if you think its a similar issue? yes, not sure about the raid part though. Will try the wipe, hopefully nothing goes wrong. rm * right?
>lsblk works fine >mount /dev/sda2 no work :(
Leo Rodriguez
pretty fine, dunno what i'm doing though.
Mason Adams
I'm a video editor. I primarily use Premier Pro. I'm switching to Resolve, and a Linux based OS. Is there anything I have to worry about CODEC wise?
Henry Taylor
It runs on a toaster™. I understand that BSD isn't for everyone, specially when the closest user-oriented BSD was cucked and the license sucks for the diehard GNUmen. But it has a few advantages over Linux, like a cohesive base, decent man pages, ports system, etc. If anything, it is a fun, closer to UNIX, OS to mess with, even Carmack did it recently to focus on C coding.
>i'm really considering it at this point but i fear this problem will persist for the ubuntu install too so i'd rather just try to fix it now then worry about it then as well. Debian install can be a bit fucky. Ubuntu install is much cleaner.
>Will try the wipe, hopefully nothing goes wrong. rm * right? What are you trying to wipe? If you want to wipe everything, format it, do just rm everything.
>>mount /dev/sda2 you need to mount it somewhere, like this mount /dev/sda2 /mnt you also need to be root (sudo -i or sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt)
Luke Anderson
>your choice of de has no implication on whether dnscrypt-proxy works That was my first thought, but it seems like the guide was made and tested thinking in Ubuntu with Gnome (which again, it also shouldn't matter).
Everything goes smoothly during installation and works fine while using it, and I wouldn't mind if it doesn't work after reboot but it's weird I can't even connect to my router after installing it (and rebooting).
Ethan Hughes
I have to be honest, i have no idea what the error is. Ive never installed it manually because its in the arch repos. Maybe just use the one from the repo even it is outdated.
Austin Foster
>format it, do just rm everything. so rm everything or first go to root directory via: cd ../../.. and then: rm -r ?
Connor Mitchell
>>format it, do just rm everything. sorry, i meant dont rm everything I seriously recommend just booting ubuntu and installing that. it automatically partitions everything for you, and its like a 6 step process. super easy.
Owen Sanders
If you want to wipe everything, use gparted or something. Its a pretty good gui for formating disks
Daniel Barnes
Thanks anyway, I'm fucked for now.
Lucas Morris
no problem.
Jacob Adams
What distro is best for AUR without systemD? I found parabola, but I want to use some non-free components
Austin Gomez
When snapping/resizing a window in Windows 10 to fill say half the screen, Windows suggests other windows to fill the other half/empty space.
Any way to get KDE to do the same?
Josiah Perez
artix?
>tiling window manager
Brayden Phillips
I ask this every time I see the picture and no one gives me a clear answer. My theory is some kind of helmet with a camera on it.
I actually have GParted on my multiboot recovery thumbdrive... I guess delet everything using gparted and then create some partitions for the OS?
Might just try that if the GParting fails.
Luke Morgan
I like to think she's balancing her stupid phone on her nose while using the timer / 10sec delay picture function. I assume the anti-shake is why it came out so steady. [spoiler] the sad reality is that it was probably one of the other """"""programmers"""""[/spoiler]
Luis Reyes
Thanks, user. Artix looks like the solution for me
Cameron Baker
why dont you just let the OS installer do the partitioning?
Jace Wilson
No problem, user!
Joshua Perez
Back to /a/ with all the other weeaboos who try to talk like a nip.
Josiah Rogers
>Awesome WM I want to make my terminals transparent. How can I do this through preferably theme.lua or rc.lua?
Blake Fisher
ok
Ian Baker
Installed Dropbox, but when I press sign in nothing happens. Properties opens but it doesn't seem to let me sign in. What's up?
Jonathan Harris
compton. you need a composite manager
distro? installed from repos? run it from a terminal and post error messages.
[05:26 liveuser /]$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'.
Carson Adams
>distro Arch >installed from AUR >run it from a terminal and post error messages. When I click sign in and nothing happens, nothing happens in the terminal either. Do I need to reboot the computer?
That KDE has an absurd dependency tree that pulls in shit you don't want and it doesn't actually need?
Brody Flores
If you just download it, no. If you install it, maybe.
Hudson Ramirez
So weird. I redownloaded it and reinstalled it and still the same thing. I can log in in an internet browser, but with the AUR application it's nothing.
When I click the menu on the toolbar, there is greyed text at the top that alternates between >Starting... >Waiting to be linked with a Dropbox account It's "starting" before I do anything It's "waiting to be linked with a dropbox account" when I click sign in, but shortly after it's back to "starting"
I originally thought it's having troubles opening the window in my WM or something, but the preferences window can open. Not the help center though.
Justin Price
your disk is dying
Evan Jenkins
Look into IPoAC
Carter Turner
No you nigger, stop lying.
Austin Powell
I am about to update from ubuntu 16.10 to 18 How much blown will my mind be? It's 2018 so i bet it will be like some startrek level shit
Mason Campbell
Check out this thread senpai:
Colton Gray
I always run Lubuntu and I havent noticed a difference in the past 10 years. I also run it on 10 year old hardware
Noah Ward
/fagglet/
Gavin Foster
Not everyone is a beggar pajeet doomed to use the same pre cold war thinkpad forever
