General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Xonax;50418297]Dumb question, is there an Anti Virus on linux? I wanna scan some stuff.[/QUOTE] If you're fine with proprietary software, Avast has an AV available.

I know some people whose work requires they have a functioning antivirus, and some of them use Linux. So they're kinda forced to install ClamAV to be compliant. [editline]30th May 2016[/editline] Someone also brought up a decent point [quote]Let me ask you a simple question: Have you ever forwarded anything with attachments to another user? If so, is that user a Windows user? If so, you could very well have given that attachment a chance at a successful infection. So why not add a virus scan to your Linux system to avoid such an issue?[/quote] In other words, they advocate using an AV for the sake of the people you may be interacting with. [url]https://www.linux.com/learn/myth-busting-linux-immune-viruses[/url]

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50422522]I know some people whose work requires they have a functioning antivirus, and some of them use Linux. So they're kinda forced to install ClamAV to be compliant. [editline]30th May 2016[/editline] Someone also brought up a decent point In other words, they advocate using an AV for the sake of the people you may be interacting with. [url]https://www.linux.com/learn/myth-busting-linux-immune-viruses[/url][/QUOTE] If you don't do your own mail server depending on who you use that may be unnecessary because things like gmail will just scan for you. But the work thing IS pretty relevant, schools too will often demand that as well. Otherwise I personally wouldn't bother, and just continue with safe practices to stay pretty safe rather than having a highly-privileged program consuming resources and being a potential attack vector.

Yeah, same.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/RFeRw3H.png[/img] Can't seem to get Software Center to refresh and show things on my new xubuntu install. Internet works properly though. Any ideas?

Software Center has always been a hilarious piece of shit. sudo apt-get install synaptic && sudo synaptic

They switched from Ubuntu to Gnome SC and it's still awful :v:

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;50445215]They switched from Ubuntu to Gnome SC and it's still awful :v:[/QUOTE] Might just be me, but I'm getting the impression it's gotten slightly worse.

At least Ubuntu SC would actually work as a package manager (badly), Gnome SC seems to be a "let's make a GTK+3 example app with no functionality and lots of library dependencies" program

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;50445491]At least Ubuntu SC would actually work as a package manager (badly), Gnome SC seems to be a "[I]let's make a GTK+3 example app with no functionality and lots of library dependencies" program[/I][/QUOTE] that describes pretty much every non-core GNOME package

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;50447488]that describes pretty much every non-core GNOME package[/QUOTE] Fucking right, they even got around to ruining gedit like this. Remember when gedit was good.

[QUOTE=Mister.E;50448394]Fucking right, they even got around to ruining gedit like this. Remember when gedit was good.[/QUOTE] just get pluma (gnome2 gedit)

[QUOTE=Van-man;50444344]Software Center has always been a hilarious piece of shit. sudo apt-get install synaptic && sudo synaptic[/QUOTE] Can I safely get rid of Software Center or should I just leave it be? Or at the very least, hide the icon.

[QUOTE=ichiman94;50448456]just get pluma (gnome2 gedit)[/QUOTE] Thanks for that, just installed gedit on the Pi3 yesterday and wondered what the fuck they did to the interface...

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50449204]Can I safely get rid of Software Center or should I just leave it be? Or at the very least, hide the icon.[/QUOTE] You should be able to find and uninstall it with Synaptic, but I can't remember the specific package name.

You know how pacman has pacman -Rs? Can I do that in apt-get? Also, what's the closest thing to Irfanview for Linux? Specifically for its batch conversion features.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50449324]You know how pacman has pacman -Rs? Can I do that in apt-get?[/QUOTE] I'm blindly guessing you mean [I]apt-get remove --purge *insert package name here*[/I] As always with powerful commands, you need to be root, or have root-like privileges through sudo.

[QUOTE=Van-man;50449346]I'm blindly guessing you mean [I]apt-get remove --purge *insert package name here*[/I] As always with powerful commands, you need to be root, or have root-like privileges through sudo.[/QUOTE] No, pacman -Rs will get rid of a package, and also all of the package's dependencies that are not used by any other installed packages. As far as I know apt-get remove --purge only deletes configuration files. (If foo has dependencies 1 and 2, and bar has dependency 1, pacman -Rs foo will delete foo and also 2.)

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50449324]You know how pacman has pacman -Rs? Can I do that in apt-get? Also, what's the closest thing to Irfanview for Linux? Specifically for its batch conversion features.[/QUOTE] Haven't tried it on my own, but I guess gthumb could be what you're looking for. Edit: There's apt-get autoremove, which basically does remove any package that isn't needed anymore. Well atleast for those, that got installed automatically. Edit2: There's also XnViewMP for linux, think this would be closer to IrfanView than gthumb.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50449363]No, pacman -Rs will get rid of a package, and also all of the package's dependencies that are not used by any other installed packages. As far as I know apt-get remove --purge only deletes configuration files. (If foo has dependencies 1 and 2, and bar has dependency 1, pacman -Rs foo will delete foo and also 2.)[/QUOTE] Unused dependencies? that's handled by [I]apt-get autoremove[/I] if my memory serves me right.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50449363]No, pacman -Rs will get rid of a package, and also all of the package's dependencies that are not used by any other installed packages. As far as I know apt-get remove --purge only deletes configuration files. (If foo has dependencies 1 and 2, and bar has dependency 1, pacman -Rs foo will delete foo and also 2.)[/QUOTE] apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove [I]package[/I]

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What video capture software works on Linux?

OBS, ffmpeg.. just, well, basically, all the standard multiplatform ones.

What's a good one for capturing off firewire, because Kdenlive doesn't seem to respond at all to it.

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;50454975]What's a good one for capturing off firewire, because Kdenlive doesn't seem to respond at all to it.[/QUOTE] How about you describe what you're actually trying to accomplish, in detail.

[QUOTE=lavacano;50454984]How about you describe what you're actually trying to accomplish, in detail.[/QUOTE]I'm trying to capture Video from a miniDV deck with Ubuntu.

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;50454998]I'm trying to capture Video from a miniDV deck with Ubuntu.[/QUOTE] And what kind of device does this miniDV deck show up as? Unplug it, plug it back in. Then run this and post results: [code]dmesg | tail[/code]

[QUOTE=lavacano;50455031]And what kind of device does this miniDV deck show up as? Unplug it, plug it back in. Then run this and post results: [code]dmesg | tail[/code][/QUOTE] It comes up with: [code][ 386.794358] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: IRM has link off, making local node (ffc0) root [ 386.794365] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc0, gap_count=5 [ 387.049750] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 387.302654] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: rediscovered device fw1 [ 397.977652] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: rediscovered device fw0 [ 397.977664] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 399.981532] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: giving up on node ffc0: reading config rom failed: timeout [ 400.673941] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 400.683060] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 401.182410] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: rediscovered device fw1 [/code]

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;50457767]It comes up with: [code] [ 399.981532] firewire_core 0000:02:00.0: giving up on node ffc0: reading config rom failed: timeout [/code][/QUOTE] well that doesn't look friendly is your cable OK? your ports?