On Wed Oct 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM EDT, Shy Rouge Gaming wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new linux debian user that's learning to navigate the > operating system. A common issue has popped up when I attempted to download > certain services: "user namespaces must be enabled" is a message that pops > up constantly when I attempt to run certain services. I had researched this > topic to see how I could enable it, but none of them really worked. since > it always said that "no such file directory exists" when doing so. I've > went to chat discussions and servers and I'm at the end of my rope. I > just want to enable this feature and be done with it.
You want to run this in the terminal `sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1` In case that doesn't work, please send the outputs of `uname -a` then that to enable it persistently. `echo 'kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/00-local-userns.conf` Let us know of these works.
