r/debian

Hi everyone,

I recently put together a small open-source tool called Proton-Autogen and thought it might be interesting to share here.

The idea is pretty simple: running Windows .exe files with Proton on Linux should feel as easy as double-clicking a native app, without having to go through Steam every time.

Right now, the usual workflow is often something like:

add the exe to Steam → pick a compatibility tool → configure a prefix → launch it through Steam

Proton-Autogen tries to automate most of that.

It automatically detects installed Proton versions (including GE-Proton when available), falls back to Wine if needed, and can be integrated directly into file managers so you can just right-click an .exe and launch it.

It also optionally supports GameMode and MangoHud, and handles basic per-app configuration behind the scenes.

Project:

https://github.com/N3oRay/proton-autogen

I’d really appreciate feedback from people using Debian or other Linux distros—especially on Proton compatibility, desktop integration, and any edge cases I might have missed.

Hi!

I am currently trying to install wine in debian trixie in order to get lutris working correctly, but everytime i run

sudo apt install wine

I get the error (sorry, its in spanish):

Error: Fallo al obtener http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/libcom-err2_1.47.2-3%2bb10_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 199.232.158.132 80]

Error: Fallo al obtener http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3t64-gnutls_8.14.1-2%2bdeb13u2_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 199.232.158.132 80]

Error: Fallo al obtener http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl4t64_8.14.1-2%2bdeb13u2_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 199.232.158.132 80]

Error: Fallo al obtener http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libe/libexif/libexif12_0.6.25-1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 199.232.158.132 80]

My sources.list file contains

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main non-free-firmware

deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main non-free-firmware

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main non-free-firmware

deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates main non-free-firmware

deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates main non-free-firmware

So, If you know how can I fix this, please help me

Thanks!

PSTD: I know it's better to get a newer version of wine, I tried setting up the debian trixie repository for wine but I was getting the same error, so I removed it and tried to install it from debian repos

Would like to get some thoughts on this. I am trying to install an SSD into my motherboard. It shows up just fine in the BIOS. However, in my OS (Openmediavault 8, Debian 13) it does not show up as an option. I also tried booting into Rescuezilla (Ubuntu 24) and it also does not show up either.

I've checked my BIOS settings and there does not seem to be anything that looks off. The OS drive is currently a Samsung SSD which functions just fine. I also tested to make sure it wasn't the M2 slot that's defective. The SSD also works fine in an external USB enclosure.

Any thoughts? The hardware I'm running is:

SSD: 128GB Union Memory 128GB PCIe gen3 NVME SSD (p/n: SSS0L25188)

Motherboard: BKHD-1264-NAS25030388 (N150 chipset)

I have been on Debian for about 3 weeks now. I chose to go with the NetInst amd ZERO interfaces, just the standard apps and thats it. I wanted a NO BLOAT installation.

I ended up using labwc bundled with sfwbar, swaybg, thunar, firefox and foot as a base. I spent 1 whole week trying to use wine and other blends of it from proton to crossover without any success on installing Microsoft Office 2010, 2016 and 2021. I resorted to usw my old copy of Office 2007. I never got passed the 50% mark of 2010 and never made it further than entering the key on 2016 to be blocked because my key does not match the runnable iso I found which only accepts Pro Plus keys while I have a home and buisiness key all thanks to Click 2 Run. I actually just need PowerPoint because of some important autisric presentations I made using proprietary Microsoft PowerPoint whatevers. But since it works now, might as well use word and excel too under wine.

I am finally getting back control of my PC which I am very happy of. I can decide what stays and what does not amd sfwbar's author has made huge progress on his app. LBCrion on github has added super features and resolved many bugs. I now have a taskbar looking more like a dock without adding hordes of RAM usage.

I went from a 4Gb base Windows RAM usage to 800Mb on Debian with the basics I wrote above. I finally get to use my system resources for other apps and games.

I've already made a very specific config file for keyd which is available on github to finally use the built-in ALT+Keypad ascii codes on Linux.

I just wanted to introduce myself to this new world I am now part of.

I downloaded debian just today and everything is going fine but when the speaker is idle it gives these bubble popping like beeps every second and it starting to piss me off. Everything is wired and all of my stuff is correctly plugged in. I use debian 13 trixie.

Hello everybody,

I have this line to save the output of 'translate-shell' to a file

[code] echo -e "\n" | den prancing | tee -a eng-words.md [/code]

where 'den' is an alias

[code] type den den is aliased to `trans $1 en:bg' [/code]

And in the file I get

[code] Definitions of prancing [ English -> български ] [/code]

How to make those asci codes to not appear at all in the output file?

Thank you in advance!

I am running debian 13 on Thinkpad X1 Yoga and i am having trouble with bluetooth. Has anyone found any work around on this?

RESOLVED

So its my first time making a Debian Dual-boot (debian and windows) and everything seemed to go well even connected while on the graphical install but i tried booting and now im stuck in a black terminal. Everytime my Tp-Link is down and i cant connect to get a real desktop enviroment (im trying to install GNOME) and some commands dont work, its a minimal base install (even tho i didnt pick that) i even had a mirror but im stuck. Someone please help me with this.

Forgive me as I'm a newbie to Linux.

I am running OpenMediaVault 8 (Debian 13) and I am trying to migrate it from the existing 256GB SSD OS drive to a smaller 128GB SSD.

I only have one M2 to USB dock, so I used DiskGenius (on my Windows machine) to "backup disk to image file" from the 256GB SSD. Then I used the "restore image file to disk" to the new 128GB SSD. Everything seemed to work properly and it automatically resized the partition, except on boot it gives me the error (for each HDD I have installed):

error: disk 'hd4,gpt2' not found

AI is saying I need to repair the bootloader by booting into a recovery environment? I'm not that comfortable with command line stuff, so wondering if someone could explain if this is the case and point me in the right direction.

Alternatively (ideally), is there a better way to clone the drive in a manner where it's immediately bootable without having to do any further config?

Thanks!

Greetings, I'm going highly crazy.

I installed Debian 13.5 today in isolated network from debian-13.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

Imagine my surprise when I tried to install smartmontools:

root@debian:/mnt# apt-cdrom add
Using CD-ROM mount point /mnt/
Identifying... [15b13e564dc5e930930a60cf8f75fec5-2]
Scanning disc for index files...
Found 3 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 0 signatures
This disc is called:
'Debian GNU/Linux 13.5.0 _Trixie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20260516-10:09'
Reading Package Indexes... Done
Writing new source list
Source list entries for this disc are:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 13.5.0 _Trixie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20260516-10:09]/ trixie contrib main non-free-firmware
Repeat this process for the rest of the CDs in your set.

when this happened:

root@debian:/mnt# apt update
Ign:1 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 13.5.0 _Trixie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20260516-10:09] trixie InRelease
Err:2 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 13.5.0 _Trixie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20260516-10:09] trixie Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Error: The repository 'cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 13.5.0 _Trixie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20260516-10:09] trixie Release' does not have a Release file.
Notice: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
Notice: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

I even tried manually editing file to use file:///, but that's just results into

Ign:1 file:/mnt trixie InRelease
Get:2 file:/mnt trixie Release [20.9 kB]
Get:2 file:/mnt trixie Release [20.9 kB]
Ign:3 file:/mnt trixie Release.gpg
Error: The repository 'file:/mnt trixie Release' is not signed.
Notice: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
Notice: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

I mean, I do understand new apt syntax and that it requires now to have gpg specified manually, but apt-cdrom add kinda ignores it!

If you are a Debian musician and encountered odd behavior when trying to use the JACK backend in Reaper or Ardour, you're not alone!

Debian 13's Pipewire configuration does not properly make Pipewire's JACK emulation discoverable by any DAW that has yet to directly support Pipewire.

I am unsure as to what exactly is wrong with Debian's configuration, but I do know how to work around it at least. To fix:

1. Make sure you install the Pipewire-jack package from the defualt debian repos with you preferred package manager/store app. While on every other distro having that package installed is usually enough, on Debian, you have to do an additional step
2. The emulated JACK server now needs to be activated upon every opening of the DAW. You can do this manually by adding the command 'pw-jack' before the executable command in the terminal (for example, 'pw-jack reaper' would open Reaper with JACK backend now active).
3. To avoid having to do that command manually every time, you'll need to add the pw-jack argument to the start of the command to execute the app. If you have a desktop environment that lets you modify that from right-clicking the DAW in your app launcher, then you just need to add pw-jack to the start of the Command section, and you're good to go! If your DE doesn't let you do that, then you'll need to edit the DAW's .Desktop file, adding pw-jack to the start of the exec= section.

For reaper users specifically, if you want to edit the sample rate when using the JACK backend, you'll have to do that manually as well in the .Desktop file, putting it right after the pw-jack command. This guide goes into detail of what the command needs to be.

I've been seeing multiple posts here over the past few months that are experiencing this issue, so hopefully this helps some people.

Hello everyone, i used to use this app to download whole playlists from youtube as mp3, the app stoped working it seems i dont have the lastest version but there is no update available. can someone help me with this ? thank you

https://preview.redd.it/u8h6v4ne28bh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=2515d6e6c9b85e7d32cef65ac37a5436a1cb5849

For a while now I am running Debian on my Notebook (HP Pavilion Laptop 14-ce0xxx) with an nvidia GPU not that it matters for the story. I am running it mainly to see if it can replace my Windows-PC.

Firstly since I am running Debian I realize that I am much more drawn towards my Notebook as to my Windows PC. Especially when it comes to gaming (mostly retro games or some light indie stuff). Recently I picked up my good old bassguitar again and catched up with my old teacher. Since he lives in another city he proposed online lessons.I agreed and we shortly talked how to run everything.

I bought the following cute little mixer to plugin my guitar to my PC:
https://www.behringer.com/en/products/0601-ADN

Well aware about Linux beeing weird about soundboards and mixer not beeing supported. I fully expected it not work with my Notebook and therefore just tried to set it up with my Windows PC.

I wanted to input my Bassguitar in parallel with the microphone of my webcam(logitech hd c525) so I could talk to my teacher while playing and use a drum machine on my Notebook. But I really didn't get it to work on Windows. After a while I thought lets just give it a try on Debian. And what do you know I plugged it in, it was immediately recognized by the Notebook and thanks to Helvum/Pipewire plugging the Camera Sound into Wire(Videocall) in parallel to the mixer was super easy. The sound from Wire(Videocall) gets send back to the mixer and from there into my headphones. The sound from the guitar is actually pretty good.

I know it sounds like just a little thing but I want to leave that here for anyone who might want to know if the mixer is compatible and also to express my gratitude for that person who took the time to make this device work on linux and also for the great software(pipewire/helvum, chromatic, DrumMachine).

https://preview.redd.it/m94g0p7qp2bh1.png?width=3181&format=png&auto=webp&s=04c11e6be08842af5623a8eb6544d9120688fbdd

The xserver-common and components like xserver-xephyr ,etc do not have a change log even though the update came out in 27-June-2026

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xorg-server

Why is the update avaiable but the change log as to what occured not available ?

I have a Debian 11 system. I need to upgrade ssh from 8.4p1 Debian-5+deb11u2 to u3, that package exists. I have different Bullseye system where the packages installed without issues. But here I get dependency failure:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 openssh-client : Depends: libfido2-1 (>= 1.8.0) but 1.6.0-2 is to be installed
 openssh-server : Depends: runit-helper (>= 2.14.0~) but 2.10.3 is to be installed

I have oldstable repo in sources:

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security oldstable-security main
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ oldstable-updates main

I am running out of ideas on why the u3 update won't install on this particular system...

Recently I decided to come back to using debian. Installed version 13.5 and so far not too bad but I've been having sound problems. It first started on steam where every single game that used proton no matter if I was connected to bluetooth headphones/speakers or if it was using my computer speakers the sound every once and then would start to crackle like crazy for around 1-2 seconds. Now that was a pretty easy fix by just adding this to launch properties `PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 %command%`. Recently I started using my bluetooth headphones again but the sound crackles a bit every like 5 to 10 seconds. I searched but didn't really find any fix. I've seen people saying to change the codec in pavucontrol. I only have 2 available which are SBC and SBC-XQ and both have the exact same problem of sound crackling. So that there is no confusion the sound crackling that I have right now is only on bluetooth and doesn't happen if not using wireless speakers/headphones. And the crackling that I have right now is different from the one I had on steam as said earlier. On steam it didn't matter wherever I was using or not using wireless devices and the crackling was rarer but much more intense, now it's more often but really weak and happens on everything not just steam. Thanks in advance.