Archives for February 2023

“pdftoppm” is a command-line utility that allows you to convert pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file into portable pixmap (PPM) image format. PPM is a simple image format that stores image data in ASCII or binary format. “pdftoppm” is part of the Poppler library, which is a PDF rendering library used by many […]

pdbedit” is a Linux command-line utility for editing the user database of a Samba server. Samba is a free software suite that provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients, allowing them to access files and printers on a Linux or Unix server as if they were on a Windows server. The Samba user database […]

pdbedit” is a Linux command-line utility for editing the user database of a Samba server. Samba is a free software suite that provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients, allowing them to access files and printers on a Linux or Unix server as if they were on a Windows server. The Samba user database […]

“paru” is a package manager tool for Arch Linux and its derivatives, such as Manjaro. It is designed to work with the Arch User Repository (AUR), which is a community-driven repository of user-contributed packages. “paru” acts as both an AUR helper and a pacman wrapper, meaning it can both install packages from the AUR and […]

“partx” is a Linux command line tool used for adding and deleting partition information from the Linux kernel’s representation of a block device (such as a hard drive). The tool reads partition table information from a block device and informs the kernel of the partitions that exist on the device, allowing the kernel to access […]

“partx” is a Linux command line tool used for adding and deleting partition information from the Linux kernel’s representation of a block device (such as a hard drive). The tool reads partition table information from a block device and informs the kernel of the partitions that exist on the device, allowing the kernel to access […]

The partprobe command is normally needed only in situations where the partition table has changed and the system needs to be informed of the changes. The most common example is when you use the fdisk command to change a partition on a device that currently has mounted filesystems. The fdisk command attempts to inform the […]

The GNU parted utility is also used to view the existing partition table, change the size of existing partitions, or add partitions from free space or additional hard drives. This utility is more advanced than the fdisk utility. It supports more disk label types and offers additional commands. parted syntax is: # parted [option] [device_name] […]

“pamac” is a package management utility for Arch Linux and its derivatives. It provides a command-line interface to the GUI package manager “pamac,” making it easier to manage packages and perform common tasks from the terminal. One of the key features of “pamac” is its ability to manage packages from the Arch User Repository (AUR), […]

“pactree” is a tool in Arch Linux that allows users to view the dependencies of packages installed on their system. The tool displays the dependencies of a package in the form of a tree, showing the parent package and all the packages that it depends on. This provides a visual representation of the relationships between […]