Display IP address in console login screen

2018-04-30 1 min read Learning
Here is one liner that will add the current IP address in the console login screen (if you are not running X as is case for servers): (ip -o -4 a| awk '$2 !="lo" {print "\nIP Address ::"$4}' |tr '\n' ',';echo)>>/etc/issue Just execute the above command as root. It will add the required code in “/etc/issue” to display the IP address. BTW, you can also use “\4” or “\6” instead of that command to get the IP but that will not work with some old versions of Linux. Continue reading

Fedora – change from one edition to some other

2017-03-27 1 min read Fedora
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 : Continue reading

flatpak – get latest libreoffice

2017-03-20 1 min read Fedora
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. Continue reading

systemd – start service when you enable it

2017-03-13 1 min read Fedora
More often than not for any service, I end up doing : systemctl enable <service> systemctl start <service> But there is shorcut to this. In systemctl command when you enable the service, you can use “–now” to start the service as follows: systemctl enable --now <service> quite a timesaver 🙂

Some nice fonts in Fedora for coding

2016-12-26 1 min read Uncategorized
Here is link to fedoramagazine article on this: 6 great monospaced fonts for code and terminal in Fedora And what the article does not mention is how to install these from terminal. You can use the following command to install them all sudo dnf install levien-inconsolata-fonts.noarch \ adobe-source-code-pro-fonts.noarch mozilla-fira-fonts-common.noarch \ mozilla-fira-sans-fonts.noarch google-droid-sans-fonts.noarch \ google-droid-sans-mono-fonts.noarch nethack-bitmap-fonts.noarch \ nethack-bitmap-fonts-core.noarch
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