Tag: Fedora Linux

Monitor progress of coreutils commad like mv, cp etc

Monitor progress of coreutils commad like mv, cp etc

You can use command called “progress”. Other option is “pv” but that is little complicated so here is simpler option.

Progress – A Tiny Tool to Monitor Progress for (cp, mv, dd, tar, etc.) Commands in Linux

To install, you can do the following:

dnf install progress

Fedora – change from one edition to some other

You will need to install convert-to-edition, description

Name        : convert-to-edition
Arch        : noarch
Epoch       : 0
Version     : 25
Release     : 1
Size        : 9.7 k
Repo        : fedora
Summary     : Script for converting between Fedora Editions
URL         : https://pagure.io/fedora-release
License     : MIT
Description : Provides a script to convert the running system between Fedora Editions

So, all you need to do to convert from one edition to another is :

convert-to-edition -e <edition>

flatpak – get latest libreoffice

flatpak is tool similar to 0install. You can find more details here.

# Get the gnome-sdk gpg keys
wget https://sdk.gnome.org/keys/gnome-sdk.gpg
# Add the keys to trusted keys
flatpak remote-add --user --gpg-import=gnome-sdk.gpg gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/repo/

# Install pre-requisite gnome
flatpak install --user gnome org.gnome.Platform 3.20

# Download the flatpak file and install it. Or you can follow the next step.
wget 'http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/flatpak/latest/LibreOffice.flatpak'
flatpak install --user --bundle LibreOffice.flatpak

# Install flatpak without downloading
flatpak install --user gnome org.gnome.Platform.Locale 3.20

# Run you brand new shiny latest libreoffice
flatpak run org.libreoffice.LibreOffice

# At a later date, when you want to update libreoffice.
flatpak update --user org.libreoffice.LibreOffice