Noob to Linux, AntiX, Command & M0re

[Member badjuju80]

Hello nice people,
I’m gonna try to be as clear as possible, but coming from a noob like me it shouldn’t be a problem to be understood

I was robbed and my colleague gently passed me this old desktop computer with AntiX-17_386-full Heather Heyer, installed.
It’s my 1st time under linux. I have windows and mac experience, only one i had with cmd line was to grab my IP adress or something..
When he passed it to me, the admin password wasnt working so i had to reinstalled everything via Bootable USB, settled admin and now i can run package manager and all…
I understand / use only 0.5% of this OS but i want to learn more.

– As i understand i’m running an old version of AntiX, I f i wanted to upgrade to AntiX 19 how should i proceed?
– How do i create a USB live bootable? The only thing i used was Rufus and i dont think i can use it here..
– My Firefox is out dated (?) when i install the newer version, i have no sound, my bookmarks are lost /or all over the place
– I have a CD-ROM on this computer but it seems dead or / not responding

Also, i have started a class to learn Python, and i cant seems to install Visual Studio Code, Python 3.7 etc etc
My teacher told me to run Ubuntu 19.10, Fedora or else it will be easier for me….(is it?)
Well anyway i dont know how to create a bootable USB so there’s no point here.

Oh Yeah. I’m french, my english is ok but for IT? Not so sure.
So I’d love someone to point me to some directions, everytime i want to do something i just can’t, its a bit (really) frustrating…Old habits from windows like install a new program is completely useless for example

This are my specs:
System: Host: BadJuju Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 gcc: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2
Distro: antiX-17_386-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017
Machine: Device: desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq dc7900 Small Form Factor serial: N/A
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3031h serial: N/A
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 786G1 v01.16 date: 03/05/2009
CPU: Dual core Pentium E5300 (-MCP-) arch: Penryn rev.10 cache: 2048 KB
flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 10373
clock speeds: max: 2600 MHz 1: 1200 MHz 2: 1800 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1360×768@59.80hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Q45/Q43 x86/MMX/SSE2
version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.5-antix.1-486-smp
Network: Card: Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection
driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 1100 bus-ID: 00:19.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (9.3% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST3160318AS size: 160.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 144G used: 12G (9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 163 Uptime: 56 min Memory: 867.1/3497.4MB
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 6.3.0 Client: Shell wrapper inxi: 2.3.40

[Member VW]

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Welcome! The guide to updating Heather Heyer to Nineteen is here

If you changed Firefox you need to install apulse.

You use live-usb-maker to create a live USB

Dolphin’s help videos are here and he covers Nineteen in detail here

HTH

“These are the times that try men's souls" - Thomas Paine

[Member badjuju80]

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Thank you!
I didn’t installed new Firefox, im using the provided version from Browser. (what i described happened on the previous install i did before i reboot.)

> Concerning the Bootable USB, i misspelled, i don’t want to use a Live USB(meaning an OS running from the uSB right?)
I downloaded antiX-19_x64-full.iso and i want to create the ISO on a USB from antiX 17 not from Windows…I don’t want to go through command line to update cause this is the only comp at home, i wont be able to follow steps and update at the same time 😀 So i want to install Nineteen from the USB
(Also now i’m running a 32bits version of antiX, but my CPU is 64, so should i install Nineteen 64 or 32?)

> Will i be able to install Visual Studio Code on Nineteen?

(as i said: noob)

[Moderator caprea]

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Very likely it’s the easiest to make a new installation of antix19.
All you need is the downloaded iso from downloadside, don’t take the runit-version, take a full version,
and a usb-stick.
On your antix17 you can now create a live-usb.
control-centre > storage media > Live USB Maker

Then you automatically have a newer version of firefox, if you want the very latest go to
control-centre > system > package installer
look for browser

will be continued later..

[Member badjuju80]

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Thank you very much Caprea!
I’m now writing from the pretty beauty Nineteen!

> Found that Python 3.7 is already here as well, Gorgeous!

> Found the .deb file for Visual Studio Code and installed it with gdebi !

LOVE THIS NEW VERSION

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[Member badjuju80]

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For some reason, my external hardrive doesnt show up on anymore since i updated to 19…
Is it related to the 64bit version i use now, instead of 32 for antiX17?

Is there any command i need to execute to mount it?

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Try deleting /etc/fstab file and then running in a terminal sudo make-fstab

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member badjuju80]

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Hmmm so i looked for the fstab file within the terminal, it is there, but i cant remove it
Permission not granted
Is there a way to delete it outside of the terminal?*

edit: i cant delete it either, same error message. *this file is protected & permission not granted

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[Moderator caprea]

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You can also rename it with

 sudo mv /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak

Then
sudo make-fstab

[Member PPC]

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Hi! I’m a few days late into this post, so you probably should already have all the solutions to the questions in your Original Post, even so, just because this may be handy for other newbies (it stumped me a bit when I was a bit fresher using antiX):

In case you want to use “Firefox” and not “Firefox ESR” that comes out of the box with antiX full, you can, for example download the latest version from the mozilla website, or install it using the Control Centre. It runs fine but without audio. Like VW said audio in Firefox requires apulse. In antiX full I belive apulse comes installed out of the box. To have audio output you have to start it (from the terminal or a shortcut)

apulse firefox
(in case you installed Firefox from a deb file or from the Control Centre) or something like

apulse /full/path/to/firefox

…in case you just unziped the firefox files from the Mozilla website.

If you dig around the forum, there’s a post about automating running firefox with apulse. Or, if you use the deafault Icewm desktop, you could just add a icon that runs “apulse firefox” to the toolbar (just ask around if you need help with that)

The latest antiX, 19, is great, but I also had many problems mounting other partitions and internal drives, when I updated to that version… I didn’t want to mess with fstab so I just ran “gksudo mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt” (“sdb5” is the partition antiX refused to mount).
Because I use SpaceFm as my default file manager, I added a new menu entry called “Mount MX partition” to SpaceFM, that runs that exact command. (To do this open SpaceFM- Tools … and create the new menu there, it’s not hard… I currently have a couple more commands, one being “mount Google Drive”, the other mounts my android phone. SpaceFm is very flexible that way…

P.

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[Member badjuju80]

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Well well…
1/ I actually renamed it to fstab.bak and created another fstab.
Now i have fstab.bak and fstab in /etc
And i cant remove any of them. It still tells me file is write-protected (both file are now write-protected)

I plugged a usb stick and it shows up…but if i plug my external hd it open a window => /media/mycomputername/EFI
This is empty as well

[Moderator caprea]

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So, does
sudo rm /etc/fstab.bak

not work for you ?

It looks like the external hard drive is being mounted. No idea why the mountpoint is empty.
How is the hard disk formatted?

[Member DGang]

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Hey that sort of helped today actually. I used:
apulse firefox
and it worked!
However, if I close and restart firefox the sound is back off.
Is there a way to make sound work in firefox automatically?

[Member PPC]

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DGang wrote:

Is there a way to make sound work in firefox automatically?

Yes.
Menu > Terminal

sudo geany /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

Find the line:
Exec=firefox %u

and replace it with:
Exec= apulse firefox %u

Save the file and exit.
Now every time you start firefox from the menu/toolbar icon/ desktop icon it will always run with apulse and have sound. If you launch it from the terminal, you still have to use the command you previoulsy used…

P.

[Member sybok]

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Hi, regarding the out-of-date browsers, this was discussed elsewhere, see e.g.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/why-firefoxesr-68-instead-of-firefox78/
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/split-firefox-getting-newer-versions/

Long story short:
1) Be aware of the difference: Firefox ESR (supported but not the latest/highest FF version) vs. latest FF.
@PPC already hinted at this.
2) If FF (ESR-channel or “standard”) in the repository lags behind the latest released: Download FF as a ZIP file from Mozilla’s web page, unpack and manually start FF from file-manager or terminal/command-line.
This downloaded binary allows for automatic updates and hence it is easy to keep up to date (I prefer to disable automatic installing of updates but keep the check for updates).

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