I apologize for being new to Linux, but I'm tying to install a USB device driver for an aftermarket Arduino UNO Board.  This board requires what is called a CH340 serial driver.

I downloaded the driver in a zip file from here:
USB CH341/CH340 LINUX  URL to zip file - http://www.5v.ru/zip/ch341ser_linux.zip

I downloaded this zip file and unzipped it.  It produces three files. 

1. A very short "Readme" file. 
2. A Makefile
3. and a ch34x.c file.

Here's the content of the Readme file:

// ChangeLog
// 1.0 - 1.1  modified to solve transmition between ch341 and ch341

Instructions

Note: 1.Please run followed executable programs as root privilege
      2.Current Driver support versions of linux kernel range from 2.6.25 to 3.9.10
      3.Current Driver support 32bits and 64bits linux systems

Usage:
(load or unload linux driver of CH34x)
//compile
#make
//load ch34x chips driver
#make load
//unload ch34x chips driver
#make unload

The following is the content of the Makefile file:

ifeq ($(KERNELRELEASE), )
KERNELDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
PWD :=$(shell pwd)
default:
$(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR)  M=$(PWD) 
clean:
rm -rf .tmp_versions Module.symvers *.mod.c *.o *.ko .*.cmd Module.markers modules.order
load:
modprobe usbserial
insmod ch34x.ko
unload:
rmmod ch34x
else
obj-m := ch34x.o
endif


The ch34x.c file contains a large source code of C programming language.  I can also open that in a text editor and read it, but it's quite large so I won't copy and paste it here.

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In any case, I don't know what to do with these files?  If I click on the Makefile it just opens in the text editor.

QUESTION: How do I go about actually installing this driver?

I imagine I need to use the terminal and type in commands, but I've never installed anything like this before so I don't know how to do this.

Also if it's possible to just use the command line to do something like $ sudo apt-get install CH340 driver that would be great, but I don't know how to do that either.  This is why I downloaded the zip file in the first place.

Thanks for any help.

Hello,
I downloaded turboprint_2.45-1_amd64.deb trial, hoping it will enable me to use my Canon Pixma MP600. I right clicked on the downloaded file and selected "open with Gdebi package installer", I got a message about broken dependencies:

linux-image-extra-4.4.0-97-generic -- Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-113-generic -- Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-generic -- Generic Linux kernel image

I followed the instruction to run "sudo apt-get install -f" from terminal. It did not work.

I went to the Synaptic Package Manager and using help found broken dependencies and "applied" to fix them, this is the detail from the error box:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.4.0-113-generic_4.4.0-113.136_amd64.deb: cannot copy extracted data for './boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-113-generic' to '/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-113-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.4.0-97-generic_4.4.0-97.120_amd64.deb: cannot copy extracted data for './boot/System.map-4.4.0-97-generic' to '/boot/System.map-4.4.0-97-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)

I should probably tell you, I tried many different things to try to fix it myself, from online searching and a couple of different Linux forum archives, but nothing works and I hope I have not totally messed up my system. If you tell me I just need to reload a fresh copy of Linux Lite, I guess I can, just not looking forward to tweeking Firefox and Thunderbird again.

At one point it said there was "no more room" but I figure I just did something wrong, because this is a new computer & I am a novice Linux user. I found another command to find how my hard drive is being used, this was the result:

:~$ df -H
Filesystem                  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                        6.3G    0  6.3G  0% /dev
tmpfs                      1.3G  42M  1.3G  4% /run
/dev/mapper/linux--vg-root  972G  28G  895G  3% /
tmpfs                      6.3G  308k  6.3G  1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                      5.3M  4.1k  5.3M  1% /run/lock
tmpfs                      6.3G    0  6.3G  0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1                  495M  493M    0 100% /boot
cgmfs                      103k    0  103k  0% /run/cgmanager/fs
tmpfs                      1.3G  46k  1.3G  1% /run/user/1000

I searched this forum and found this thread "Re: Broken packages linux kernel".  I found the person had tried many of the commands I did, in the end it looks like the instructions said "Here is what we will do next. We will use dpgk instead. This is a little drastic and can be dangerous at times". Do I dare try these steps myself?

Help please.

I've been interested in Linux Lite for years and finally used it to build a dedicated system as my primary desktop. It's booting off an encrypted SSD, so LVM is already enabled. I'm using LL release 2.6 64-bit and would prefer to stick with this release unless upgrading is absolutely necessary. Hardware is an HP xw8400 PC.

I just added a pair of 2TB SATA HDDs to use as a RAID 1 data store. Set them up as RAID 1 mirrored drives called "storage" in the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and running GParted shows the individual drives as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, along with the RAID device as /dev/mapper/isw_beeaagchga_storage.

Here's where I'm stuck - how to turn the RAID 1 device into an encrypted volume? I've seen wildly varying instructions on various blogs and web sites and have tried a couple of different methods with no success. GParted doesn't seem to offer an obvious method.

This is my first post to this forum. Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Hey all,

Have used GNU/Linux for many years. I am coming from Manjaro with the KDE Plasma desktop, which I have used for over a year (not much of a distro hopper any more).

I was reluctant to change, as Manjaro was running great for me, however recent kernel updates has made me reevaluate things. Running on older hardware with recent kernels has caused some issues for me. The biggest is the noticeable performance hit after the Meltdown patches. Everything seemed more sluggish, with slow window animations in Plasma.

Fast-forward to now; I just installed Lite 3.8 64 bit, and am so far quite happy. The only thing I really needed to to out of the box was install Compton, which got rid of the screen tearing issue with XFCE. I had to switch from F.lux to Redshift-GTK, as F.lux was not working correctly for me in Lite. There isn't much of a visual adjustment, as I was already using the Arc Dark theme in Plasma. I was using Obsidian icons, however the Faenza icons look great!  Everything is running quite smooth and snappy now!

Hello,

this is my first try at making a Linux distro, I done it from the command line up.
I made it to try and learn some things about how Linux works, which I did learn some things.
I have not edited the desktop such as wallpaper, or added any software like a web browser, I will do some of those things another time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9UEMPS9DOA

I made it on Linux Lite, using VirtualBox.
Lots of first things for me that I done/tried out with this.
I made the 25GB VirtualBox machine then partitioned it, and formatted the partitions, enabled swap.
Then added the Arch Linux base for the distro.
Configured it for location, and keyboard, persisting on reboot, made a root, and a user account with less permissions.
Connecting to internet from command prompt pinging a website site for tests, I'd not tried these stuff before.
Then disconnecting the Arch Linux iso, and working purely from the base and booting from the my first try distro afterwards.
Afterwards installing the X windows server, from Xorg.
Then installing a desktop environment , MATE.
Then installing the display manager LXDM,  testing and setting to start on boot.
Then installing a font set.

I made some screenshots at random times whilst doing it, in case either the computer or my head fried lol, so that I could look at them afterwards and maybe spot an error etc.
I made 2 errors, 1 was adding an s in a command where it didn't need it, after about 5 tries I realized this.
Another error was a command I used and the place I got it from had made an error and added an - before a word where it didn't need one, this took me about 1 hour to solve lol.

Afterwards I made a small SimpleScreenRecorder video for YouTube, which I hope is interesting/fun, it is shown below some the screenshots during making the distro.

In total time it took me 4 hours just under to make the distro, it kinda shows, as it is not very pretty looking and lacks any of added apps yet.
I would like to try some more builds with different desktop environments but I only found the command for adding MATE at the time and I wanted to do it this afternoon, so I need to do some more searching once Ive finished with this one.

Hi, I'm new to Linux Lite and loving it so far!

I have some questions about how to use Workspaces.

Is there any way to make the multiple Workspaces act like unique desktops?

In other words, I've changed the wallpaper on each Workspace.  That's nice, but not very useful.

What would really be useful is if each Workspace had its own app launchers.

The way it is right now every workspace has the same app launchers and I haven't been able to find a way to change that.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi I followed the instructions to install Citrix on my Linux.  I think I did everything correctly (but probably not).
When I then search of Citrix nothing comes up in the search area.
As I am used to Microsoft and Apple I am almost certainly doing something wrong.
I am also trying to install Skype with the same result  :-[

Hi, I'm not sure where this post belongs, but since it has to do with installing software using WINE I thought I'd post it here.

I've been running SharpDevelop on Windows computers. Recently I've converted over to Linux Lite OS which runs much faster on my notebook computers.

I've been able to install several Windows programs on the Linux system using WINE. What I have install thus far were Electronic Schematic and PCB board layout programs. Those Windows programs installed on Linux and run just like they did in Windows. So WINE is impressive. Now I can use all my old drawings and parts libraries on my Linux Notebooks.

I was hoping to do the same thing with SharpDevelop studio. I have programs I wrote in C# and I would like to be able to continue developing them on Linux using the same IDE studio.

I'm having problems getting it to run after installation.

What I've done:
1. Installed .NET 4.0 (using WINE)
2. Installed Visual C++ 2008 SPI (using WINE)
3. Installed SharpDevelop from a Sourceforge download.

As an additional note. I actually tried to Install SharpDevelop first but WINE required that I install the other two packages first. So WINE at least recognized that these packages are required. After installing the .NET 4.0 Framework and the Visual C++ 2008 SPI, WINE then completed the installation of SharpDevelop and left a desktop icon to launch it.

However, when I try to launch it I get the following error msg from Linux:

SHAR~5MM.EXE - Configuration Parser Error
Error Parsing C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\framework\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config
Parser returned error 0x80004001

After clicking OK to that error msg box SharpDevelop also gives me the following more detailed error message:

Quote:SharpDevelop Version : 4.3.1.9430-406354be
.NET Version : 4.0.30319.1
OS Version : Microsoft Windows NT 5.2.3790 Service Pack 2
Current culture : English (United States) (en-US)
Running under WOW6432, processor architecture: x86-64
Working Set Memory : 0kb
GC Heap Memory : 1494kb

Unhandled exception terminated SharpDevelop
Exception thrown:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800706D3): Unknown authentication service. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706D3)
at System.Windows.Media.MediaSystem.ConnectTransport()
at System.Windows.Media.MediaSystem.Startup(MediaContext mc)
at System.Windows.Media.MediaContext..ctor(Dispatcher dispatcher)
at System.Windows.Media.MediaContext.From(Dispatcher dispatcher)
at System.Windows.Media.Visual.VerifyAPIReadWrite()
at System.Windows.Media.Visual.set_VisualOpacity(Double value)
at System.Windows.UIElement.ensureInvisible(Boolean collapsed)
at System.Windows.UIElement.switchVisibilityIfNeeded(Visibility visibility)
at System.Windows.UIElement.OnVisibilityChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.DependencyObject.OnPropertyChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.OnPropertyChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.DependencyObject.NotifyPropertyChange(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs args)
at System.Windows.DependencyObject.UpdateEffectiveValue(EntryIndex entryIndex, DependencyProperty dp, PropertyMetadata metadata, EffectiveValueEntry oldEntry, EffectiveValueEntry& newEntry, Boolean coerceWithDeferredReference, Boolean coerceWithCurrentValue, OperationType operationType)
at System.Windows.DependencyObject.SetValueCommon(DependencyProperty dp, Object value, PropertyMetadata metadata, Boolean coerceWithDeferredReference, Boolean coerceWithCurrentValue, OperationType operationType, Boolean isInternal)
at System.Windows.DependencyObject.SetValue(DependencyProperty dp, Object value)
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Gui.SdStatusBar..ctor()
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Gui.WpfWorkbench..ctor()
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Commands.WorkbenchStartup.InitializeWorkbench()
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Sda.CallHelper.RunWorkbenchInternal(Object settings)
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Sda.CallHelper.RunWorkbench(WorkbenchSettings settings)
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Sda.SharpDevelopHost.RunWorkbench(WorkbenchSettings settings)
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.SharpDevelopMain.RunApplication()
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.SharpDevelopMain.Run()
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.SharpDevelopMain.Main(String[] args)

---- Recent log messages:
Failed to append recent log messages.
System.InvalidOperationException: Sequence contains no elements
at System.Linq.Enumerable.Single[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Sda.LogMessageRecorder.AppendRecentLogMessages(StringBuilder sb, ILog log)
at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Sda.ExceptionBox.getClipboardString()

---- Post-error application state information:
Installed 3rd party AddIns:

The quick new Firefox jumps over the big lazy memory dog!


Heya!

Throwing the ball here since I don't want to hijack the LL4.0 suggestions thread.
I didn't have time with Linux with the crapload of Windows ramson viruses "victims" lately, but I notice that, at least on Windows, Firefox Quantum (version 57+) takes a lot of RAM. FireFox ESR 52.6 (latest) takes around 170MB RAM and Firefox 58.0.2 (latest) is at a whopping 305MB for the same 6 pages/tabs.


Yes its faster though and from Firefox's own website Quantum still uses 30% less RAM than Google Chrome (but I have not tested it myself).


I think that for Linux Lite Version 4.0, maybe the main browser could be in the ballot?
Of course, keeping it in the "known" browsers available for Windows/Linux. Benchmark/comparison of FireFox/Google Chrome yes, but maybe Chromium/Opera too?



According to Statcounter (see link below), Chrome is at 65.98%, Firefox 11.87% and Opera 2.35%. Apart from M$ and Apple, ALL others share the remaining 2.54% :-O
http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market...201703-bar


I'm not taking sides, but since I like Linux, I usually go for the underdogs myself.


Get ready....  FIGHT!

Hi.

I have some files that is very critical for me (bank accounts, passwords, etc) that I cannot effort to loose, or that get in hands of a thief if the laptop gets stolen.

So I decided to create a second user profile on the same laptop, where the home folder is encrypted and the password is a really lenghty one. So that all the most critical files is now stored in that secure users home folder.

The problem I hit now is when I tries to make backup using rsync. The backup destination is on a Veracrypt volum (supposed to). But I have run into a brick wall now.
- The user don't have permission to use Veracrypt to mount.
- If I use the other user profile (admin) to mount veracrypt, it  turnes out that the user doesn't have access to the mounted volume (mounted to a folder) - even if the user have permissions to the parent folder. Tried to set permission for the mounted folder so anyone can access+write, but to no help. The result is that rsync just returns an error because lack of permission.
- The file system into the Veracrypt volume is FAT so it shouldn't hold file permission.
- Tried to use su command to shift from admin user to new user, but the permission issue stay the same.

Temporary workaround:
Just copy all files into a partition that has no restrictions - and from there make a rsync backup using admin account. But this serves a security issue because I have les control what happens if files gets deleted and if possible to restore (for unauthorized).

So the question is - is it possible to add the new user to a group so that it can have access to mount and dismount?