The Android development tools, ADB(Android Debug Tool) and Fastboot, allow you unprecedented access to your Android device. These tools are essential for developers, and they make it possible to root and flash custom ROMs. Since Google uses Debian, installing them is very simple.
VeraCrypt is the successor to TrueCrypt. It offers many of the same features and is fully backward compatible. VeraCrypt is fully cross platform and offers a convenient installer that you can use to get started on Debian 10.
There are plenty of reasons why you'd want to share files across computers on your network, and Debian makes a perfect file server, whether you're running it from a workstation, dedicated server, or even a Raspberry Pi. Since NFS functionality comes from the kernel, everything is fairly simple to set up and well integrated.
If you plan on gaming on Debian, you're going to want Lutris. It's taken the cumbersome process of installing and playing games with Wine and automated everything to a point that makes everything nearly as easy as on Windows. Lutris is available from the developers through a Debian repository, so all you need to do is add it to your system to get started.
Wine's Staging branch is miles ahead of standard Wine in terms of both performance and features. You can install the latest Staging releases on Debian just as easily as the default version and get the latest updates as soon as they're released.
Steam has made constant improvements since it came to Linux, and that's not slowing down. With the introduction of Steam Play and Proton, Steam's version of Wine, you can now play your favorite Windows games directly through your Linux Steam client. Even better, you don't need to install any outside repositories to do it.
Starting with Debian 10 buster the way how the su command is used has been changed. By default execution of the su command no longer provides you with expected user environmental variables.
In the case of a simple switch to administrative user root by executing su with no arguments the expected root's PATH variable is no set properly.
Symptoms
Here is an example:
$ su
Password:
# reboot
bash: reboot: command not found
# adduser
bash: adduser: command not found
bash: reboot: command not found - Debian GNU/Linux missing path to /sbin/ directory
Solution
The trick on how to fix this inconvenience is to explicitly tell the su to set environment variable as if the user logs in directly. This is can be done by the use of - switch.
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NOTE Excerpt from the man su manual page. -, -l, --login will provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly.
To set a correct path for the root user user make sure to execute the su command with - or -l or --login swith. Example:
$ su -
OR
$ su -l
Note the different PATH settings for both attempts to gain a root access using su command.
Spotify is a multi-platform application and digital music streaming service. The objective of this article is to install Spotify on Debian 10 Buster Linux.
The deb-multimedia repository is an excellent way to get the latest multimedia software on any Debian release. As an added bonus, it comes with a lot more programs that aren't available in the default repositories. In case you were wondering about stability, the repo is owned and maintained by a Debian developer, so everything is stable and compatible.
Even though the AMD drivers are open source, they still depend on closed binary firmware. Therefore, AMD drivers won't work by default on a Debian system. Installing them is fairly simple, though, and so is installing key software like Vulkan.
In this article you will learn how to install Nvidia driver on Debian 10 Buster from the standard Debian repository. In case that from some reason the installation of the Nvidia driver from the standard Debian repository failed or you simply with to have more up to date Nvidia driver installed this tutorial will also explain on how to install the official Nvidia driver driver directly downloaded from the Nvidia.com website.
To install Nvidia driver on other Linux distributions, follow our Nvidia Linux Driver guide.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to detect your nvidia card model number
How to install Nvidia driver from a standard Debian repository
How to install Nvidia driver from the official Nvidia package
How to disable nouveau driver
How to install Nvidia driver complication prerequisites
The unmanaged network issue occurs when on previously GUI less Debian system the GUI and the Network Manager is installed. The reason is that Network Manager has been denied access to network management.
As you will see below, the unmanaged network issue can easily be fixed by editing the main NetworkManager's configuration file /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to grant access to NetworkManager to manage the systems networking
Debian Sid often scares away new users. It's called "Unstable" after all, and it's named after the mean kid in Toy Story that broke all his toys. It's got to be horrible, right? Well, that's not the case, most of the time. Sid is no more unstable than the likes of Arch Linux, and with a little planning and common sense, you can run Sid on your desktop with relative safety.
