Questions tagged [debian-based]

Debian-based operating systems (such as Ubuntu or gNewSense) derive the majority of their functionality from the main Debian code base and are thus likely to be largely compatible with it. For example, it's often possible for an Ubuntu .deb file to be installed on a Debian system with no changes.

Debian-based operating systems (such as Ubuntu or gNewSense) derive the majority of their functionality from the main Debian code base and are thus likely to be largely compatible with it. For example, it's often possible for an Ubuntu .deb file to be installed on a Debian system with no changes.

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Software adjustement of LCD monitor brightness in Raspberry Pi

Is there any way of changing the gamma/contrast/brightness of monitor in Raspberry? My Samsung 960BF doesn't have any hardware adjustment. I tried using xbacklight and got error "No outputs have backlight property". Gddccontrol also didn't work.…
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Samba modifies "last modification date" of files substracting 3 hours

I think this is really weird and despite having done some searching I wasn't able to find any info related to this problem. I'm setting up a backup server with a Raspberry Pi running raspbian who will communicate to a Windows 7 PC. What I did was…
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How to override the version of a .deb subpackage?

I need to make a .deb for our software, that includes a copy of Drupal. I've had to patch Drupal, so I can't use the stock Drupal from the distro. I want the outcome to be a file named drupal6-rs_6.16_all.deb, but because in my control file it's a…
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Bluetooth: PAN connection refused (111)

I tried to set up a PAN connection with both my windows 8.1 desktop computer and iPod 4g. Both attempts came up with this error: $ sudo pand –c xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx -n pand[5029]: Bluetooth PAN daemon version 4.99 pand[5029]: Connecting to…
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Web Server configuration

I'm learning for myself how to set up a web server using lamp. I want to be able to browse file from a browser such as chrome, midori or whatever. I'd like to have differents spaces for each user too. For now, I have my server on 192.168.x.x If I…
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Terminal decrease privileges

Currently I'm working on a perl script (for Debian based OS'es) that automatically installs some software packages. Therefore the script needs root privileges. As you all know this can be done by adding sudo before the command. For some…
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how to install plasma-nm in elementary OS

I want to install plasma-nm software in Elementary OS, which is not available in Software center. When I searched for .deb package, its asking for many dependencies. There are over a dozens of dependencies to install before install plasma-nm,…
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How the Google Chrome Linux version handles automatic version updation

Can some one tell me how the Chrome's Linux beta version carry out automatic version updation using debian package manager. I need to implement something similar to my application on linux and information provided here would be of lot of help. I am…
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create virtual environment for Enthought Training on Debian

I'm running a 64-bit flavor of Debian (LMDE) with GNOME, which includes a system python and various python-using applets and applications. I have a long-standing interest in scientific software, but only recently acquired some spare time and an…
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GAS read argument of program encounter "segmentation fault"

I'm starting to learn Assembly, and my choosen compiler is GNU AS. The only terrible thing with it is that there's little documentation about AS, it's syntax and it's user guide. I've coded a hello world program which read a text file (file path is…
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Apache authentification error

I've installed Apache 2.2 on my Debian-based distr (kernel 3.2.0-27) and apache2.2-common package with default configs. Trying to run simple script info.php I got the error found in /var/log/apache2/error.log: [Wed Jul 16 09:17:08 2014] [crit]…
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linuxmint lmde: How to find out Debian release?

I have a linuxmint lmde installation and I would like to install MariaDB, a data base system like MySQL. To do this MariaDB asks me which release I have. How can I found out which debian release my linuxmint lmde installation has?
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PHP: Environment variable not readable by getenv()

I am using .htaccess file for setting an environment variable SetEnv ENV "development" It can be read by $_SERVER['ENV'] but not by getenv('ENV'); For getenv() I have to use putenv('ENV=development'); Don't know why variable which is set in…
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Open Xen Manager and XenCenter server connection

So, I've got server set up and running the Xen hypervisor version 4.1 with Debian Wheezy (7.5.0) as the host OS, along with xcp-xapi and all services running correctly. Problems arise when I try to connect to the server through Open Xen Manager or…
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Changing the static IP of Beagle Bone Black USB0

My goal is to change the IP address of USB0. The Beagle Bone Black run Debian. I tryed to change /etc/network/interfaces such that default address is 192.168.7.3 instead of 192.168.7.2 as this: iface usb0 inet static address 192.168.7.3 …
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