When working on some projects, sometimes you need the stability of your environment. Updating a package can cause the entire project to fail. Sometimes, we accidentally upgrade those packages which and this creates a serious issue on the server. This [...]
5 Tools to Enable Remote Desktop Access on RHEL/CentOS 7
In this tutorial, I will show you tools that enable you to access remote Desktop on machines running CentOS/RHEL. All these apps work in client-server mode. So you need to run a server-side app on your remote machine and after [...]
How to Install Specific Version of Package on CentOS & RHEL 7
Sometimes, you may need to have a certain version of a package installed on your system to conform to a certain requirement. In this article, we are going to see how we can install specific versions of packages using yum package [...]
How to Install Specific Version of Package using apt-get
Install a specific version of a package can be useful to avoid the bugs when you know which version of a package is concerned and make sure to disable a specific package from updating by holding the packages so it [...]
Chomper - Command Line Tool to Block Websites on Linux
Chomper is an open-source tool used to create a list of websites to be blacklisted or whitelisted during a user's browsing session. Chomper is terminal-driven tool written in Python. This means it is fully operated from the terminal. The motive behind [...]
Exodus - A Tool to Safely Copy Linux Binaries
Do you ever need that one of your system has some binaries installed on it and you want to transfer same binaries on another machine? Yes, Right? We are going to discuss such tool which can help you to achieve [...]
How to Install and Use Powertop on Ubuntu 16.04
Powertop is a tool that was developed by Intel to enable various power-saving modes in kernel, userspace, and hardware. Powertop helps you monitor processes and get each process CPU utilization and wake it from its Idle-States. This allows you to [...]
How to Install Srain IRC Client on Debian/Arch Linux
Srain is an IRC client written in GTK+ 3. It has an intuitive and easy to use interface. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. The chat process in IRC [...]
How to Use DNF History to List Manually Installed Packages
Once in a while, as a Linux user, you may want to conduct an audit of the status of various installed packages on your Linux machine. The main purpose is to keep track of the packages installed and those that [...]
How to Connect WiFi from Terminal on Ubuntu 16.04
WiFi is nowadays the most popular way of getting an internet connection, be it at the office, home, restaurants e.t.c. This tutorial is intended to help those who would like to connect WiFi from the terminal on Ubuntu 16.04. It [...]
How to Install and Use Privoxy on Ubuntu 16.04
This guide on how to Install and configure privoxy on Ubuntu 16.04 / Debian 9 is intended to help you install, configure and use Privoxy on your Desktop or as a server in your LAN where all other users can [...]
How to Configure sources.list on Debian 9
This is a brief on how to configure sources.list file on Debian 9, codenamed stretch. Debian is one of the, most popular Linux distributions and much of its strength comes from the core of Debian package management - apt. Everything [...]
Cryptomator - Encrypt your Cloud Data Files on Linux
Figuring out a good path to security for your cloud data can be quite a challenge. Normally, the cloud is a very safe place for data, despite Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) from those who might want to access their [...]
How to Upgrade Docker on Fedora/CentOS
Docker is an open source platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker v17.12 is the latest stable release as of writing this article. It provides the ability to package and run an application in a totally isolated environment called [...]