today's howtos
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Commands to Remove a package in Ubuntu - Linux Shout
Here in this tutorial, we will discuss the ways we can use to uninstall Debian packages from Ubuntu Linux using the DPKG or APT.
If you want to remove a program on Linux Ubuntu, there are two different approaches – one is using its graphical Software Center and the other with the help of a command terminal. However, we cannot uninstall all the packages via Software Center such as the Apache web server. Nevertheless, in this guide, we will show you how to use both methods.
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Command to List Installed Snap Packages - Linux Shout
Learn the simple command to list the SNAP packages installed on your Ubuntu, CentOS, Linux Mint, and other Linux distros.
Snap is a package format that was largely developed by Canonical and can be installed and used without conflict alongside DEB packages from “normal” package management. Snap is also available for many other Linux distributions.
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How to Recover Lost and Deleted Data in Linux
Consider this scenario, you are pursuing your daily computing objectives on your Linux distribution and later realize you accidentally deleted a file that is paramount to your computing objective.
Also, the file that you deleted cannot even be traced in the system Trash. Your first reaction will be to panic since it is never a comforting feeling to lose data while on a maze called the Linux operating system.
However, this article is here to comfort us from the grief of losing data while in a Linux OS environment.
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Cat EOF
Cat is one of the most common and useful command-line utilities in the Linux ecosystem. It allows you to read or concatenate the contents of a file in a simple and easy to navigate manner. When combined with other tools such as awk, sed, less and more, cat can be one of the most powerful tools in your Linux arsenal.
In this article, we will explore how we can use the cat command and the EOF feature to perform tasks such as writing multi-line strings to a file and more.
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Find Files Modified in Last N Minutes in Linux
Finding recently modified files is a helpful parameter when troubleshooting your code or server.
What log files were modified? What files changed when I ran this command? The versatile find command can help you get the answers.
The command below will find all the files that have been modified in the last five minutes in the current directory.
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How to Play Mp4 on Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04
If you are a beginner Ubuntu user or recently upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04, you may wonder how you can play mp4 files. By default, Ubuntu lacks the needed multimedia codecs to support mp4 files, especially if you want to play a locally stored video. It gets worse when you try opening your favorite platform like YouTube or Facebook or when you try to load the live videos and you get the annoying error that your browser can’t play the given video file.
We’ll discuss how to play mp4 files in Ubuntu 22.04 and check out how to fix it when you get errors when attempting to play videos on Firefox. So, stick around, and let’s get started.
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mps-youtube – A Terminal Based YouTube Player and Downloader
Ever felt like wanting to complete most of your Linux computing tasks from the command-line environment without having to navigate to and from the GUI (Graphical User Interface)? A Linux operating system is an endless maze of rich computing knowledge and experience.
Most of the Linux materials either have technical documentation or none. Sometimes we might find the appropriate documentation that meets the objective we want to accomplish under a Linux environment but end up taking too much time consuming and implementing the retrieved material data.
The YouTube platform provides an easier way of understanding a Linux computing concept since video files are easier and faster to consume than documentation files.
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4 Ways to View Disks and Partitions in Linux
In this guide, we will show how to list storage disks and partitions in Linux systems. We will cover both command-line tools and GUI utilities. By the end of this guide, you will learn how to view or report information about disks and partitions on your Linux server or desktop computer, or workstation.
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How to play Volcanoids on Linux
Volcanoids is a base-building open-world survival game developed and published by Volcanoid. It was released for Windows and Linux. Here’s how you can play Volcanoids on your Linux PC.