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Install latest Ansible on Ubuntu

Posted on by Danesh

Steps to get the latest version of Ansible installed on Ubuntu or any Ubuntu variant. In my case Kubuntu 18.04.1. [email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get update [email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common [email protected]:~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible [email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get update [email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install ansible [email protected]:~$ ansible –version ansible 2.6.2 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path…

How to install Fedora Utils on Fedora 20

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Fedora Utils is the “Ubuntu Tweak” of Fedora. It simplifies many of the post install tasks. It’s basically a collection of scripts and customizable plugins wrapped around a nice GUI which  help you install fonts, codecs, flash, java, etc. It also cleans up your system, fixes some common issues, tweaks your desktop, etc. Here’s a…

How to install Google Chrome in Fedora 15

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1. Bring up a terminal 2. Run sudo yum localinstall https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm or sudo yum localinstall https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm for 64bit. Enjoy.

Follow the Dalai Lama on Twitter

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You can now follow “His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama Of Tibet” on twitter. The twitter account is managed by “OHHDL” ,The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. If you are like me then peace is the only thing you wish. To me, religion, color, race, status in society don’t mean anything. They are…

Download failed.: Operation timed out after 30 seconds

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Been getting this error “Download failed.: Operation timed out after 30 seconds” every time I try to update a plug-in in my WordPress 2.7. After some digging around I found that my web server’s download speed was pretty low. WP 2.7 by default has a 30 second timeout set for it’s download function which I…