Category: Command Line

Starting SSHD – 2 methods sudo /usr/sbin/sshd sudo service sshd start

Install a package using dpkg in Debian linux dpkg -i package

Shows all PCI devices in your system using this command lspci -tv

I usually install these packages after I install Debian/KDE in a Laptop. apt-get install … kdebase k3b gcc vlc xine-ui…

Show version of the kernel cat /proc/version

This command lists all known encodings iconv -l

Install / upgrade a deb package from cdrom/dvd apt-cdrom install package_name

Change user and group ownership of a file chown user:group file

Show memory use $ cat /proc/meminfo

List all packages installed on the system yum list