Archives for January 2023

gdebi is a command-line tool for installing .deb files on Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. It is designed as a simple and user-friendly alternative to the dpkg tool, which is the default package installer on these systems. The main advantage of gdebi over dpkg is its ability to automatically resolve and install dependencies. When you […]

gdebi is a command-line tool for installing .deb files on Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. It is designed as a simple and user-friendly alternative to the dpkg tool, which is the default package installer on these systems. The main advantage of gdebi over dpkg is its ability to automatically resolve and install dependencies. When you […]

gcov is a tool for measuring code coverage in C and C++ programs. It is based on the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) and works by instrumenting the binary code generated by GCC, in order to collect data on how many times each line of code is executed at runtime. This data is then used to […]

gcov is a tool for measuring code coverage in C and C++ programs. It is based on the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) and works by instrumenting the binary code generated by GCC, in order to collect data on how many times each line of code is executed at runtime. This data is then used to […]

GBP stands for “Git Build Package” and is a set of tools for managing Debian package builds using Git. It allows developers to maintain the Debian package source code and build scripts in a Git repository, making it easy to manage revisions, collaborate with others, and automate the build process. The main components of GBP […]

GBP stands for “Git Build Package” and is a set of tools for managing Debian package builds using Git. It allows developers to maintain the Debian package source code and build scripts in a Git repository, making it easy to manage revisions, collaborate with others, and automate the build process. The main components of GBP […]

fwupdmgr is a command-line tool for updating device firmware, including UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), using fwupd. fwupd is a firmware update daemon for Linux-based systems, which can handle updates for a wide range of devices, including laptops, desktops, servers, and embedded systems. fwupdmgr is designed to make it easy for users to update the […]

fwupdmgr is a command-line tool for updating device firmware, including UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), using fwupd. fwupd is a firmware update daemon for Linux-based systems, which can handle updates for a wide range of devices, including laptops, desktops, servers, and embedded systems. fwupdmgr is designed to make it easy for users to update the […]

The fuser command is useful to determine which files are using system resources. One of the more common uses of this command is to determine which user is active in a filesystem, which prevents the system administrator from unmounting the filesystem: [root@localhost ~]# umount /boot umount: /boot: target is busy. (In some cases useful info […]

fstrim is a command-line utility that is used to discard (or “trim”) unused blocks on a mounted file system. It is commonly used to reclaim space on solid-state drives (SSDs) and other types of flash-based storage devices. When a file is deleted on a file system, the space it occupied is not immediately reclaimed. Instead, […]