today's howtos
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How To Install PowerShell on Rocky Linux 9 - idroot [Ed: Better port to something like Bash, to avoid Microsoft controlling you by proxy]
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Microsoft PowerShell on Rocky Linux. 9.
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How to Uninstall a Yum Package
As a sysadmin, one obvious task is handling the packages, from installing to uninstalling them. When you want to install, update, remove, list, and track the different installed packages on the system, you must use a package manager for that particular distro.
Yum is the package manager tool for handling the packages in Red Hat Enterprise in Linux. There are different ways of uninstalling a package using the Yum package management tool. Take a look!
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2 Different Ways to Install Discord on Ubuntu 22.04
Discord is a widely used application for instant messaging, video, and voice calling, allowing users to communicate with people worldwide. During the early days, this software was designed for gamers. But nowadays, people use this application to create discussion groups and forums and share their thoughts on different aspects.
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When Petitboot barfs, everything's vomit
Colourful, no? But it's true. I've not been able to write up my Fedora 37 experience, nor upgrade Firefox (nor do further work on the JIT) because the Petitboot boot menu couldn't stop touching the main NVMe drive and making its older (Linux 5.5) XFS kernel module hang. If Petitboot can't start, your expensive POWER9 system is a brick.
In its most literal sense this article is largely a precautionary tale, because unless you're a long-term Fedora user like me with a continuously updated older installation, it's very unlikely you have an XFS volume in your OpenPOWER box. But if the antique kernel in Petitboot ever starts barfing on your own filesystems or a device you install, you'll be in this state too, so here's how I got the Talos II working again.
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Animated ASCII fireworks in your Terminal for New Years
Last week, I unleashed “Lunduke’s Holiday BASH Animations” with two ASCII animations for your terminal: a Christmas tree and a Hanukkah Menorah.
Well. New Years Eve is coming up.
So I’ve added a new animation to the BASH script to help ring in the new year: Fireworks.