Month: March 2008

Show Hardware Info

Show hardware system components – (SMBIOS / DMI) dmidecode -q

Creating a SVN Tag

Creating a tag in SVN means that you copy the entire trunk to another folder in the ‘tags’ folder… svn…

Check for Badblocks on the HDD

Check bad blocks in disk hda1 badblocks -v /dev/hda1

Install CPAN in Fedora

If you are getting a ‘Can’t locate CPAN.pm in @INC’ error while opening cpan, you have not installed Bundle::Cpan. You…

yum localinstall

This will install an RPM, and try to resolve all the dependencies for you using your repositories. yum localinstall package_name.rpm

Fix for Missing Fonts in Debian’s XMMS

If you have a debian system and the XMMS in that has a bug that hides the fonts in dailog,…

Unrar a RAR File in Linux

First install the ‘unrar’ package – then run this command… unrar x file.rar

Uninstall Using Yum

Use this command to remove a rpm package. yum remove package_name

Encrypt/Decrypt using GPG

Encrypt/Decrypt a file with GNU Privacy Guard – GPG. #Encrypt gpg -c file #Decrypt gpg file.gpg

Find number of lines in a file

Find the number of lines in a file using this command… cat -n file OR wc -l file