today's howtos
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How to Install Firefox Nightly Browser on Fedora 36 Linux
Mozilla developers contribute code to a central repository every day. This code is compiled nightly to create a pre-release version of Firefox for testing. The code matures and then merges into stabilization repositories (Beta and Dev Edition). The code is polished until it reaches a level of quality that allows for a new final version of Firefox to be shipped to hundreds of millions of people. Nightly builds are an essential part of the Firefox development process, as they allow us to test new code and ensure that it meets our high standards before it is released to the public.
Often, non-developer users should refrain from using the nightly version, given it can bring either system instabilities but, more often, features that may not be secured or open new security issues. For example, one would never do internet banking on a nightly browser. However, checking out the nightly version may be interesting for users that like upstream versions of the latest bleeding-edge software and are casual browsers.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install Firefox Nightly on Fedora 36 Linux using a COPR repository using the command line terminal.
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How to install and use the duf command on Linux
Want a more complete alternative to the du command? Well, in this post, we will show it to you because you will learn how to install and use the duf command on Linux.
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How to List Services in Linux Using Systemctl
Service is a Linux program that runs continuously in the background. Some of the common examples of Linux services are reverse proxy servers, network, cron, SSH, and the high-performance web server. Linux supports multiple tools and methods to list and manage services. Some services start at the boot time and some services can be started after your system boots up. You can control Linux services with systemctl commands.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to list services in Linux using systemctl.
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How to Install Neofetch in Ubuntu/Debian/Mint and ArchLinux
Neofetch is a cross-platform, simple shell script that scans for your system’s information and displays it in a terminal, together with an ASCII image or any desired image next to the output.
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How to List Installed Packages by Size on Ubuntu
In this tutorial, we learn through the steps to list installed packages by size on Ubuntu/Debian Linux systems. This can be important when doing space audits and trying to find packages using occupying large space on your system.
The Ubuntu / Debian dpkg-query and dpkg package manager provide some command line options which can be utilized for this task, with the help of some Linux regex tools like awk, sed, sort, tr etc.
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How to Install AppImage on Ubuntu (Easy Steps)
AppImage is a format for packaging applications that is self-contained. It is the universal software package format compatible with various Linux distributions.
In the traditional system of installing software packages, you need to download, extract and install on various directories of the system. But with the AppImage there is no extraction, no installation, no root permission, you just download the single package, make it executable and run it with a single click. It includes all the compressed image, dependencies, and libraries needed to run the software. Even to uninstall the application, you will just remove the AppImage file.
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How to Install Packages on Arch Linux
Arch Linux is one of the popular Desktop Operating systems. Its main pros revolve around large communities and thousands of packages that can be installed on Arch Linux, both from official repositories and from AUR.
AUR is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users. It was created with the intention to make it easy to share community packages in an organized manner. AUR contains package descriptions called PKGBUILDs which allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg.
For you to install a package on Arch Linux from AUR, you need a helper tool that automates the process of building and installing the package.
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Bash bc command in Linux - Usage + Examples
Have you wondered how to perform calculations in Linux and Unix systems? This mostly comes into use when you do programming.
In this tutorial, we learn about bc command in Linux with examples.
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How to Change Color Scheme in Vim
Vim is a text editor that can be used to edit all kinds of plain text, especially useful for writing and editing programs. It is also one of the customizable text editors heavily used in the Linux operating system.
The suitable color in the editor helps you to categorize, analyze and identify bugs in the code. You can change color schemes that come with the software package or install vim themes.
In this guide, we learn how to list and change color schemes in VIM.
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Commands to Get Hardware Info in Linux
Linux systems have several hardware components, and it is important to know the exact hardware specifications to know whether your Linux computer is compatible with certain applications. Linux supports multiple commands or tools to check hardware devices, such as CPU, memory, PCI card, USB devices, and network card. Some of these commands are lshw, lscpu, hwinfo and lspci.
In this tutorial, we cover some of the most significant Linux commands to check hardware device information on your computer.