On Linux systems, the installation of some packages depends on others packages or libraries in order to work properly. For example, if you want to install a package named "mypackage", you need to its depended libraries. Later if you uninstall "mypackage", [...]
How to Remind Unplug a Charging Laptop on Arch Linux
You are always worried about over-charging your laptop when too busy on projects that you can't keep checking battery percentage?. It is always recommended to keep battery power between 40% and 80% to prolong its lifespan. There is no sure solution available to help [...]
How to Exclude Specific Packages from Yum Update
In this article, we'll show you how to exclude specific packages from updating using Yum package manager. Periodically, you may want to update your CentOS or RHEL system but leave out certain packages especially if the updates are likely to [...]
Termshot - Take Image Screenshot of Command Line Output
In this article, I'll show you how to turn a command line output in Linux into an image using Termshot. Termshot is Linux tool which turns a cli command's output into a screenshot including colors and interactive text. This is of [...]
How to List Installed Packages on Fedora
Occasionally, you may want to check the packages installed on your system. In this article, I will demonstrate how list installed packages on Fedora. Yum package manager was used on Fedora 22 and its previous version, now (Fedora 27) we [...]
How to Setup ConkyMatic on Arch Linux
In this article, we're going to look at how to get ConkyMatic up and running Arch Linux. ConkyMatic is a Linux tool written in Bash to be used as an automatic color scheme changer for conky. It changes the color scheme [...]
How to Reset Linux Password to Expire after Number of Days
Best System administration practice requires a periodic change of passwords for any operating system, and Linux is no exception. This is for security reasons. However, most users do not take heed of this and continue to use the same passwords [...]
How to Install NVIDIA Drivers using Debian Repository
Nvidia Corporation is an American technology company which specializes at designing graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming, cryptocurrency and a system on a chip unit (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. For those in possession of PC [...]
How to Exclude Specific Package from apt-get Upgrade
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 is why it [...]
5 Tools to Enable Remote Desktop Access on RHEL/CentOS 7
This article I will show you, tools which enabled you to access remote Desktop on machines running Centos/RHEL. All these apps works in client-server mode. So you need to run server side app on your remote machine and after that, [...]
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
To handle Debian-based system packages, we use the apt-get command. This command requires administrative rights to work. It contains several options that make it possible to manipulate the packages through some operations like the installation, update or deletion, and many [...]
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 [...]