Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Google Chrome stable version out
Google, today released a new stable release of it’s popular web browser Google Chrome packed with all the beta goodies we have come to love. To add to the excitement, this will also be the first stable release of the browser for the Linux and Mac platforms. What’s in it you ask? 1. HTML 5, [...]
Ubuntu mirrors up and improved!
With the recent internet issues, byte craft’s local Ubuntu mirror was not being up2date due to overlapping cron jobs. They have since moved to ubumirror running on apache/ngix and all seems good. Releases are on a 3 hour sync and archives 4 hours sync. Grab your CD images HERE.Enjoy the speed. via @angch from Byte [...]
How to install Adobe AIR on Fedora 12
1. Pull up a console and su to root. [danesh@jackal ~]$ su – 2. Grab the latest vesion of Adobe AIR from Adobe’s download page. [root@jackal ~]# wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin 3. Make the .bin file executable by using the chmod command. [root@jackal ~]# chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin 4. Execute the .bin file. [root@jackal ~]# ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Follow the [...]
Install Google Chrome on Fedora 12
1. create the repo file. “vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo” and add the following lines into the file. [google] name=Google – i386 baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub [google-chrome] name=google-chrome baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 2. Do a “yum list google-chrome-*” to check if the google-chrome is available for install. [root@dexter ~]# yum list google-chrome-* ………. ……. google-chrome-beta.i386 5.0.342.9-43360 google google-chrome-unstable.i386 5.0.375.9-44625 [...]
Sort files by size
Here’s how to sort files by size in Linux. Standard; ls -lhS Reverse; ls -lhSr Options used; -l –> print long listing -h –> print human readable sizes -S –> sort by file size -r –> reverse order Output; [root@kmon01 log]# ls -lhS total 70M -rw-r–r– 1 root root 36M Mar 31 11:28 messages -rw-r–r– [...]
