Free Debian Administrator’s Handbook Released

Free Debian Administrator’s Handbook Released
Two Debian developers Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas have announced the release of ‘The Debian Administrator’s Handbook’. The book is an English translation of their best selling French book ‘Cahier de l’admin Debian’. It took them 5 months of hard work to translate the book to English. The 495 page book teaches basics of Debian administration like Debian Installation,...

How To Install And Use PowerPoint Viewer In Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ‘Precise Pangolin’

How To Install And Use PowerPoint Viewer In Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ‘Precise Pangolin’
Although LibreOffice opens most of the files created by Microsoft Office, you may find yourself in situation where you need to open a presentation created in Microsoft Office but LibreOffice is unable to open it. Here’s how you can install and use PowerPoint viewer in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ‘Precise Pangolin’ to get around this problem: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal and...

Quickly Find Out DNS Server IP Addresses From Linux Mint / Ubuntu Command Line

Listing DNS servers IP addresses from Linux command line
It is useful to know what DNS server IP addresses are being used by the system for troubleshooting as well as for reference. Here is how to quickly get this information using the Linux Mint/Ubuntu terminal : Open Terminal and type : cat /etc/resolv.conf This will display the IP addresses of DNS servers that are being used. What the above command does is really just list the contents of a file named...

Mousepad : A Lightweight Text Editor For Fedora Linux

Mousepad text editor for Fedora Linux
Mousepad is a lightweight and minimal text editor available for Fedora Linux. Here is how to install it in Fedora : 1. Open Terminal and type : sudo yum install mousepad.i686 2. Let the installation complete. It will now show up in Applications > Accessories or simply search for it from “Activities”. Happy text editing.

How To Know How A Command Is Executed In Linux

How To Know How A Command Is Executed In Linux
Here’s how to know how a command is executed in Linux: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – strace -c <absolute path to the command> for example, to know how ‘man’ command is executed, issue the following command at the terminal – strace -c /usr/bin/man The output will show you the system calls during the execution of the command. If you want to view...

How To Quickly Update Linux Mint / Ubuntu With A Single Command

How To Quickly Update Linux Mint / Ubuntu With A Single Command
Here’s how to quickly update Linux Mint / Ubuntu with a single command: Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y Enter your user password when prompted and then sit back and relax while your Linux Mint / Ubuntu distribution gets updated.