Questions tagged [compatibility]
Use this tag to know if a software can run satisfactorily on a given environment setup or computer.
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Automatically check if my Nvidia GPU, CUDA drivers, cuDNN, Pytorch and TensorFlow are all compatible between each other?
I'd like to know if my Nvidia GPU, CUDA drivers, cuDNN, Pytorch and TensorFlow are all compatible between each other ahead of time instead of getting some less explicit error when running code such as:...
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bash - list of breaking change
I know bash tries very hard to keep new versions compatible with previous ones. However they sometime introduced (minor, but still) breaking changes: for exemple when we could no longer have : { foo }...
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How to format the hard drive so it is compatible across windows, macOS and linux itself on linux
I formatted my hard drive using the mkfs.exfat -n "HDD" /dev/sda1, but it is not recognized on macOS. If I do that on macOS, it is readable on Linux, but I want to be able to format on Linux ...
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dnf won't let me overwrite or change packages
I want to do something that is supposed to be simple in any package manager, install a package, in my case it is this specifically lib64MLIRVectorToSPIRV13. LC_ALL=C dnf install ...
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How can I build an older GCC version (8.5.0) on a newer Linux distribution (Devuan Excalibur/Debian Trixie)?
If I download and try to build GCC 8.x on a newer machine, e.g. Devuan Excalibur GNU/Linux (i.e. Debian Trixie without systemd) - this fails, with the error going something like this: libstdc++.so.6: ...
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tracking linux-firmware.git and backwards kernel compatibility
I've been tracking the upstream Linux firmware repo in /lib/firmware on a couple of machines, doing very periodic updates of that tree. I think I saw a firmware loading error booting an older kernel ...
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Are KeePassXC and KeePass Solaris-compatible?
I wanted to know whether KeePassXC and KeePass are compatible with Solaris (I am using Solaris 11.4.26.75.4 (sun4v / sparc architecture)). I would need to use only the KeePassXC/KeePass command line ...
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Should the use of /etc/mtab now be considered deprecated?
I'm curious about the file or symlink /etc/mtab. I believe this is a legacy mechanism. On every modern linux I've used this is a symbolic link to /proc/mounts and if mtab were to be a regular file on ...
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