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- Nick Congleton
- Debian
Introduction
NVIDIA graphics cards have long been the favorite for Linux gamers.Their proprietary drivers have been very well supported for the last few years, and they continue to be.
The open source Nouveau drivers have been far less reliable, mostly due to NVIDIA's refusal to work with the open source community.
Either way, though, the drivers are available to install on Debian Stretch.
Open Source
For the most part, when you install Debian Stretch, the Nouveau drivers will also be installed.However, one exception here is the firmware blobs needed for the drivers to reach their full potential.
Before you continue, you should make sure that your graphics card is supported by Nouveau.
Since the Nouveau driver has to be reverse engineered, it tends to lag behind graphics card releases.
You can check your card's support at
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/. - Details
- Lubos Rendek
- Debian
Objective
Popcorn Time streams movies and TV shows from torrents directly into your screen. The objective is to install Popcorn Time movie streamer on Debian 9 Stretch Linux.Requirements
For a system wide Popcorn Time privileged access to your Debian Stretch Linux system as root or viasudo command is required. Difficulty
EASYConventions
- # - requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of
sudocommand - $ - requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
Instructions
Download Popcorn Time binaries
Frist, we need to download and extract Popcorn Time binaries into/opt/popcorn-time directory: $ sudo mkdir /opt/popcorn-time FOR 32-BIT SYSTEM EXECUTE: $ sudo wget -qO- https://get.popcorntime.sh/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-32.tar.xz | sudo tar Jx -C /opt/popcorn-time FOR 64-BIT SYSTEM EXECUTE: $ sudo wget -qO- https://get.popcorntime.sh/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64.tar.xz | sudo tar Jx -C /opt/popcorn-time
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- Lubos Rendek
- Debian
Objective
The objective is to install Dropbox client on the Debian 9 Stretch Linux.Requirements
Privileged access to your Debian 9 Stretch Linux is required.Difficulty
EASYConventions
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- Nick Congleton
- Debian
Introduction
Django is the top Python web development framework and for good reason. It's powerful, flexible, and doesn't get in the way of developers. It also scales incredibly well, powering sites like Instagram.Installing a Django development environment is very simple on Linux, and Debian makes it even simpler. There are two basic ways to go about it; the virtualenv way and the Debian way. The virtualenv way keeps django and all of the other Python packages installed with it contained, allowing for multiple installations with different packages and package versions. The Debian way uses
apt to install and manage Django. The Virtualenv Way
The virtualenv route is the best way to go if you need multiple independent Django installs or you want to work with different versions of Python than the ones Debian uses by default.Installing the Packages
To stat off, you need to make sure that Python is installed and install the virtualenv package to compartmentalize your Python projects.# apt install python python3 virtualenv
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- Nick Congleton
- Debian
Introduction
Discord is the favorite chat client among gamers. A few months back, an experimental "canary" release was launched for Linux. More recently, though, the availability of a stable client was announced.Because of the popularity of Ubuntu and Debian systems, the client is available in a
.deb package, making installing it on Debian Stretch super simple. Get The Package
In order to get the package, you can either get the package from Discord's website or usewget. To use the wget option, cd into the directory where you want to save the package, and use wget to pull it down.