In this tutorial, We will discuss how to install and verify php7 gd library on Ubuntu 16.04. PHP is used mainly in server-side application software along with various add-ons. PHP is a fundamentally Internet-aware system with built in libraries. GD [...]
How to Install Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) Stack on Fedora 26
Fedora 26 has been released on 11th July 2017 after alpha and beta release. If you have already installed Fedora 26 and preparing to install LAMP stack then this article will guide you to install LAMP stack on Fedora 26. [...]
mmwatch - Alternative Linux Watch Command which Print Rates
You should be conversant with the watch command, which allows you to repeat commands at certain intervals and monitor the changes. The mmwatch tool is an opensource command line tool from Cloudflare which lets you monitor a particular command and [...]
How to Install Spotify on Fedora 26
Spotify is a free music streaming service which offers additional premium content at a minimal subscription fee. It's a widely successful music service several million users and millions of songs at your fingertips. With Spotify, you can listen to your [...]
How to List Packages Having Updates Available in Linux
In this article, I will show you how to list the number of package updates available for install from the command line on Linux systems. I have used following tools apt, apt-get, aptitude, yum, apt-check script and apticron to list updates. Using [...]
How to Enable / Disable Unattended Upgrades in Ubuntu 16.04
To protect your data in any ubuntu based system, it is imperative to update packages and apply security patches regularly. It is much better if the system itself applies the security updates. The unattended upgrades in Ubuntu 16 allow system [...]
Heimdall - A Tool to Manage Vulnerable Packages on Linux & Unix Systems
Heimdall is a tool to manage all the vulnerabilities that are found in the Linux distributions installed in your servers or desktops. The centralized heimdall server collects all the vulnerabilities data from client machines through heimdall agent. This agent that [...]
How to Show Progress Bar for Linux Selective Commands
Many Linux commands like dd, cp, rsync, and mv are progressive, but have no progress bars showing as they run. There is not built in way to check the progress of ongoing operations. In this article, we’ll look at certain [...]
SpaceView - A Tool to Indicate Disk Space Usage on Ubuntu
If you need to keep an eye on the use of your PC's disks, here's how to install the SpaceView indicator to see disk space on Linux. SpaceView indicator is an Ubuntu gauge that displays the use of the file [...]
How to Install PHP 7 Imagick Extension on Ubuntu 16.04
The php imagick extension enables servers to create, edit, convert and/or manipulate images via PHP using the ImageMagick software. It can read and write images in most of the image formats including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PNG, Postscript, SVG, [...]
How to Install and Configure VNC Server on Debian 9 Stretch
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a technology for remote desktop sharing. VNC enables the visual desktop display of one computer to be remotely viewed and controlled over a network connection. It is similar to MSTSC on windows. It uses the [...]
Maim - A Screen Capture Tool for Debian 9 Desktop
Maim is a free and open source tool that can be used to take screenshots of your desktop. Maim allows for a lot of unique and interesting functionalities. It is very useful tool comparing to scrot and other tools. Maim [...]
Nautilus Addon - ReSize JPG and PNG Image Files on Ubuntu 16.04
There are various tools available to reduce the size of jpg and png images like GIMP or a photo manager such as Shotwell or using the command in the terminal to perform batch processing of several image files. The another [...]
Terminus - A Super Modern Terminal App for Linux
The terminal is the Linux tool which is mostly used and it sometimes appears as our default environment. We can need to tune it by modifying its appearance. So you can need to make it more attractive for you. On [...]