today's howtos
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Check Disk Space Usage In Linux Using Ncdu - OSTechNix
This guide explains what is Ncdu, how to install Ncdu in various Linux distributions and how to use Ncdu to check disk space usage in Linux and Unix operating systems with examples.
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How to Install and Use GNOME Nightly Apps
These GNOME apps are the development version of the native GNOME applications. They are usually unstable since its being developed and features are added continuously.
That means these apps you get to test and report any issues to the developers. Also, you get to experience the new features before it arrives in stable releases.
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How To Install Darktable on Linux Mint 21 - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Darktable on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable, and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. In addition to basic RAW conversion, Darktable is equipped with various tools for basic and advanced image editing.
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 a Darktable on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).
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How to Setup SaltStack Master and Minion on Rocky Linux
Salt or Saltstack is an open-source IT automation framework that allows administrators to execute commands remotely to multiple machines directly. Salt is mainly written in Python and designed with Master and Minion architecture. SaltStack master is the central controller of Salt configuration management, and Minions are servers managed by SaltStack Master, or you named minions as target servers.
SaltStack master is running on Linux OS by default, but minions can be any operating system. Saltstack is revolutionary configuration management for automation deployment, remote task execution, and infrastructure as code. SaltStack also can be used to provision multiple infrastructure servers, this includes physical and virtual servers, and also the cloud.
By following this guide, you will install SaltStack Master and Minion on Rocky Linux servers. Also, you will learn how to use Salt for running Arbitrary commands from SaltStack Master against Salt Minions. And at the end, you will also learn how to create a Salt state for installing the basic LEMP Stack (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM).
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Linux Gunzip Command Explained with Examples
We have already discussed the gzip command in Linux. For starters, the tool is used to compress or expand files. To uncompress, the command offers a command line option -d. However, there's an entirely different tool that you can use for uncompressing or expanding archives created by gzip. The tool in question is gunzip. In this article, we will discuss the gunzip command using some easy to understand examples.