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I appreciate all the help and suggestions. I opened my PC with the intent of doing the ultimate backup verification per atanere and of course discovered that a) this box wants a SATA drive, b) my backup is on an IDE drive, and c) the IDE drive fitted with an IDE-to-SATA adapter won't fit in the...

Hello! Yesterday I used the "dd" command to copy my active hard drive (/dev/sda) to a usb-connected hard drive (/dev/sdb). My intent was to create a full-system backup of my PC in case I have a drive failure at some point. After the dd command finished (about an hour and a half later), both...

I very much appreciate your help -- and you helped me solve my problem.:) When installing the program, I ran the pip3 command described in the github install instructions while I was root. This was necessary to have access to root/.local/bin. It should have been obvious that "--user" was...

Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate the insight. Your diagnosis is right on I think. The program was originally installed in /root/.local/bin as you anticipated, which was impossible to get to without becoming root as you say, so I moved it and the components there to /usr/bin. The...

Hello! I have a program in my /usr/bin directory named qspectrumanalyzer. I can only execute this program if I switch to being root using the "su" command. I would like to be able to skip the change from being my normal user (curt). Using ls -la to see how the program permissions are...