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How to remove unused Kernels in Fedora/Centos/Redhat Linux
I have a Fedora 16 system . Through kernel updates now I have several Kernel options when I boot the machine. So thought of removing old kernels.I like to keep the boot process clean. there are few way to remove the kernels that are no longer current. the process is fairly simple, To remove it , run as root # rpm -e kernel-version in a terminal (Main Menu > System Tools > Terminal) where version is the full release number. ...
How to zip / unzip a folder in linux
My friend keep forgetting the command to zip & extract a folder in Linux , he use to ask me atleast once in a week. bcoz of him I am writing here , how to zip and unzip in linux. >> zip - package and compress (archive) files # zip silence silence.zip or more concisely # zip -r silence.zip silence >> unzip - list, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive To use unzip to extract all mem...
How to format a USB pendrive in Linux ?
Here some more recent RnD done on my end and it will help you to make out easily while you trying to do formating your usb in linux. Type the following command to find out USB pen partition name: [root@thiyag]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 51606140 6148584 44933428 13% / devtmpfs 953540 0 953540 0% /dev tmpfs ...
Install Google Chrome with YUM on Fedora 16/15, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6
This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 16, Fedora 15, Fedora 14, Fedora 13, Fedora 12, CentOS 6 and Red Hat 6 (RHEL 6). Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM repository. Enable Google YUM repository Add following to /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo file: 32-bit [google-chrome] name=google-chrome - 32-bit baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chro...
How to install VLC Media Player for Fedora 15 and Fedora 16
After installing Fedora 15,one of the first things to do is Installing a good media player i.e. VLC Media player.It is free open source media player written by VideoLan Project.VLC Media Player is cross platform too,which means it has versions for almost all OS.You may also say it as portable media player or encoder or streamer which supports many audio and video codecs and different file formats.It plays almost all video and audio files.VLC M...
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