You need to use pkgrm command which will remove a previously installed or partially installed package from the system. A check is made to determine if any other packages depend on the one being removed. If a dependency exists, the action taken is defined in the admin file. The default state for the command is [...]
FreeBSD comes with different utilities, which can be use to gathered the information as per your needs. uname command is use to print system information. dmesg command is use to print kernel ring buffer information. sysctl command is use to configure kernel parameters at runtime as well as to read hardware information. Following list summaries, [...]
When you install any version of the Windows operating system, a part of the installation procedure prompts you to enter the user’s name and the name of the user’s company. This registration information is stored in the registry and can be changed by carefully editing the data with the Registry Editor. However, not everyone is [...]
RPM and DEB packages are both containers for other files. An RPM is some sort of cpio archive. On the other hand, a DEB file is a pure ar archive. So, it should be possible to unpack their contents using standard archiving tools, regardless of your distribution’s package format. Under normal conditions, you should use [...]
How to find what packages (software’s) installed? 1)Run the command pkginfo to find the information: # pkginfo | more 2) Note that packages provided by SUN always have prefix SUNWpkgname 3 To find more about SSH Software’s: # pkginfo | grep “SSH” 4) To print all available information about package (long format aka package description): [...]
The prtconf command prints the system configuration information. The output includes the total amount of memory, and the configuration of system peripherals formatted as a device tree. 1) Use prtconf command: # prtconf | more OR # prtconf –D | more OR # prtconf | grep “Memory” Memory size: 512 Megabytes 2) Use modinfo command: [...]
It is very easy to update Debian Linux over Internet so that you can get updated packages in stable distribution. This short article explains you how to keep up to date your Debian server/workstation along with small tips. Step # 1 Configure Debian to get updates You need to configure the package resource list, which [...]
The ‘uname’ command is use to determine certain system information in all the Linux/Unix flavours like CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD etc. With specific ‘uname’ options, you can display all the details of the current working kernel on the server. To display the working kernel name, version, date and time, system architecture type, use: # [...]
To check the system’s information and manufacturers of MotherBoard, Processor, RAM and other hardware from the command line in a Linux machine, install the package “dmidecode”. You can search and install the dmidecode package using yum. Check your Linux server architecture i.e. 32bit OR 64bit: # uname -p Search for the dmidecode package # yum [...]
The ss command is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat command. It can display more TCP and state information than other tools. It is a new, incredibly useful and faster (as compare to netstat) tool for tracking TCP connections and sockets. SS can provide information about: All TCP sockets. [...]
