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Installation • VirtualBox install ok, but never prompted for users

The installation went well. As mentioned, I was never prompted for users/passwords (including root). Now it starts and prompts for the password of "vboxuser". I've tried booting into runlevel 1 so I...

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Installation • Your installation media couldn't be mounted

Trying to install 12.4 on Dell Precision M6700 laptop with CD/DVR R/W using bootable USB created from debian-12.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso via rufus-4.4.exeCreation of bootable USB apparently proceeded...

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Beginners Questions • [Software] auto ip changer

I installed this program (auto ip changer) on my debian 12 and now i am regretting it and i want to uninstall it. I used the sudo apt remove Auto_Tor_IP_changer however i receive the error message...

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Graphical Environments & Desktops • Grub Menu is always hidden

During a reboot, my grub menu is always hidden (the default is not-hidden), unless I power the machine off for at least a few seconds and restart the machine. Then the grub menu will be shown.My...

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Beginners Questions • What's tool that's recommended to switching between gpu(s)

Hi, I am new here.I want to ask small question.What's tool that's recommended for switching between Intel and NVIDIA GPU in MATE using Lightdm? (I have NVIDIA-Closed GPU Installed) i have searched...

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Installation • Debian 12 installation without any DE

I used the netinstall iso of Debian 12 (32-bit) and on the menu "select and install software" I did not select any desktop environment and only selected standard system utilities. Everything installed...

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Installation • NVIDIA driver install guide

I approved this post but it's way too long and contains irrelevant and some incorrect information. For starters, xorg.conf file is not normally needed except in certain rare cases.The wiki explains it...

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Hardware • Help! No HDMI audio on mini-PC.

I have no sound on a fresh debian 12 install on a mini-pc. The PC is connected via HDMI to a TV. I've tried testing with pipewire, with alsa-only, with pipewire-pulse. I also tried testing plugging in...

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General Questions • [Software] Install otter-browser

When I try the recommended method to install it fails with...Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding itgpg: keybox '/tmp/user/0/tmpjxdw84xh/pubring.gpg' createdgpg:...

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Beginners Questions • [Software] Different version of php

I've trying to solve the problem of installing different version of php. The problem is the the standard repo only installs version 7.4...I would like to have older version and even possible newer...

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General Questions • [Software] DKMS automatic signing doesn't work

Hello, everytime i wanna use virtualbox, I have to manually sign the modules with my key, im using secure boot and everytime i reboot i must do this process: https://pastebin.com/bSw2i3XMSame happens...

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General Questions • [Software] Are there any plans for openjdk-8 in Debian 12

We are running netbeans 20 and the C/C++ plugin will not install unless we have the openjdk-8 installed. So we are left with ubuntu since it has a package for 8, I would prefer to run Deb 12. Is this...

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Hardware • Bluetooth doesn't work at all

After 4 consecutive hours of trying to make something work, i've failed, screw debian, i'm going back to ubuntuStatistics: Posted by liamdiazok — 2024-01-28 04:43 — Replies 1 — Views 45

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General Questions • Does rBash Apply to SystemD Services?

I have no immediate security concerns or anything, I'm just curious and thinking out loud. One of the services I host on my personal/home server is a Minecraft Java Edition server. I have it publicly...

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Installation • ASPM Could not configure common clock.

I did a clean install of Debian 12 (32-bit) without any DE. I've noticed that after grub menu, if it displays " pci (some numbers) ASPM Could not configure common clock", the system boots into cli...

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Beginners Questions • [O/S] grub saved default not working

I want to set grub to remember last selected entry so in next reboot it select last one automatically. I set these but not working!/etc/default/grubCode: GRUB_DEFAULT=savedGRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=trueand...

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Off-Topic • What's on your Ventoy device

For me:ArchClonezillaDebian 12.4GPartedLMDE-6OpenBSD 7.4Parrot Security 6System Rescue 11VoidWindows 10 (32/64)Windows 11Statistics: Posted by cds60601 — 2024-01-28 19:13 — Replies 3 — Views 104

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General Debian • [Discussion] Why Debian still uses sudo instead of doas?

doas has nearly the same (or it's already of same) functionality, is smaller and much easier to configure than sudo. It's also said that doas is more secure, mostly due to it's much smaller...

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General Questions • [Software] apt-get dist-upgrade broke my system

I'm running the newest version of Debian and I was trying to install VLC but it required packages I didn't have, so I was told to run the command "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" to install these...

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Beginners Questions • [O/S] Why, God, why can I not upgrade my OS?

Hello,We have an older computer that had Debian 9 installed on it when we bought it. I have managed to get it upgraded as far as Debian 9.13, cinnamon version 3.2.7, kernel 4.9.0-19-amd64, but I can...

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