Category : Linux Tutorials

Ideally, you would be able to install everything you want from your in-built package manager. Or failing that, build your package from source. Sometimes however, you have no option but to try and use a package from another Linux distro. In this tutorial, I show you how to use “alien” to migrate packages from one Linux flavor to another.

If you have a bunch of related processes that you want to manage together, you can put them together into a process group and manipulate them all at once. In this example, I show you how to use the “setsid” command to accomplish this.

If you’re running a browser like Firefox on your Linux machine, you’ll need to install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and make the plugin available for use. Here’s a complete step by step tutorial on how to go about it, with screenshots.

Sometimes, you need to split and join large files for storage or transfer. While archive utilities like zip and rar allow us to do this with archive files, they don’t do as good a job as the more basic “split” and “cat” utilities, that were specifically built for this purpose. In this tutorial, I show you a general purpose method of joining and splitting large files that will work in any situation.

While you can manage your DigitalOcean spaces from the GUI, you can’t create batch commands, schedules, and other automated tasks. For that, we need CLI access and here’s a complete tutorial – right from generating the access keys, to making sure you have the right version of the s3cmd command line tool and configuring it!

Even though CentOS already has git available by default, it’s a much older version from several years ago. To install a newer version, follow this tutorial with screenshots. We also remove the existing older version to prevent conflicts.