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Hnng I had booted the fail pc for the QSI but hadn't noticed the LAN cable was out this time, rookie mistake.

the plastic tab/catch that helps keep the plug in the socket broke off on the ethernet cable I'm using.
Haha exactly that, yes.

Instead of Discovery, maybe run a apt update from ...

kmathern wrote: Tue Jun 24, 2025 12:36 pmI don't see how you can connect to anything.

Hnng I had booted the fail pc for the QSI but hadn't noticed the LAN cable was out this time, rookie mistake. Sorry! I plugged it back in, rebooted the pc and opened QSI again, this is the output:

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those repos are still up, but maybe they are slow. you can try switching to a different set of mirrors with mx-repo-manager. that won't help if there is something wrong with the connection, but should if its on the server end.

Thanks for the kind offer but I'm pretty sure it's not the server's ...

Ok here the QSI of the pc that fails to connect to repositories, copy/pasted for forum:

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Having now read the Guide for asking for help and forum rules, as I should have before starting to post, I can see how my first two posts must have been annoying ...

quick-system-info would be nice, but

https://mxlinux.org/blog/issue-with-mx-23-6_kde-iso/

Holy textfile that worked! FFmpeg works now, audacity imports the videos' audio. Problem solved, thank you! <3


@halfnoob Start your own topic please, this one is not yours.

Sorry, I had thought ...

I'm new on MX, used Ubuntu Studio before. I have two pcs (one AMD one intel, both duocore 2 Ghz with 4 GB RAM) both with freshly installed MX 23.6. Both of them have internet via LAN, can browse the web with Firefox and access email accounts with Thunderbird and FTP-accounts on servers with ...

Hi I'm new on MX 23.6.

I have trouble with libavcodec.so, let me demonstrate this with a picture:

libavmess2.jpg

...a result of trying to fix the original problem (still unfixed), and that is: ffmpeg does not work.

"$ ffmpeg" gives this output:

"fmpeg: error while loading shared libraries ...