Ubuntu

The Advanced Package Tool (APT) is a command-line tool used to interact easily with the dpkg packaging system. APT is the ideal method used for managing software within Debian-based Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu. It manages dependencies effectively, maintains large configuration files, and properly handles upgrades and downgrades to ensure system stability. On its own, […]

The dpkg utility is a low-level system tool to extract, analyze, unpack, install, and remove packages with a .deb extension. The scripts read by dpkg inside each .deb file are important as they give information to the program regarding the packages’ installation, removal, and configuration. The dpkg utility resides at the base of the package […]

Developers can install Ruby across all the platforms using a tool called Rbenv; I personally use this. Rbenv will let you jump across Ruby versions easily and install and test out new Ruby distributions with the help of Rbenv’s plugin, ruby-build. rbenv works by intercepting Ruby commands using shim executables injected into your PATH. It […]

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces. You can uninstall or remove an installed aria2 package itself from Ubuntu through the terminal using the below command: $ sudo apt-get remove aria2 Uninstall aria2 including […]

Chromium is a FOSS browser that inspired Google Chrome. Chrome is not completely open source, but the main foundational parts are open source and are made available as Google Chromium, shown in figure below, which has most of the functionality of Chrome, but it is missing the Google branding, automatic updates, and is used as […]

The fail2ban tool monitors your log files and acts as soon as it discovers malicious behavior in the way you told it to. One common use case is blocking malicious IP addresses by establishing firewall rules on the fly using iptables. This is a tool that serves to protect a variety of services including SSH, […]

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a 128-bit number identifying an endpoint in a TCP/IP communication. This means that with IPv6 we can assign on the order of 1038 individual machines (devices). In contrast to IPv4, IPv6 uses a hexadecimal representation, eight groups of 16 bits each, separating the groups by a colon (:). Ubuntu […]

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a 128-bit number identifying an endpoint in a TCP/IP communication. This means that with IPv6 we can assign on the order of 1038 individual machines (devices). In contrast to IPv4, IPv6 uses a hexadecimal representation, eight groups of 16 bits each, separating the groups by a colon (:). Ubuntu […]

Device drivers literally drive everything you’re interested in–disks, monitors, keyboards, modems–everything outside the computer chip and memory. With the ubuntu-drivers command you can install the recommended driver for the device. First, detect the model of your device and the recommended driver. To do so execute the following command. Please note that your output and recommended […]

Introduction Today we present one of the topics that will help you get the usual stability of Ubuntu LTS, but with the amazing beauty of Deepin Desktop out of the box. Deepin (DDE) is a work environment with an intuitive interface. The UbuntuDDE project combines the power of Ubuntu with the beauty of Deepin. Ubuntu […]