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Tora installation on Fedora 16 with rpm

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:47:04 +0000

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Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner:

rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm"

But if you like the hard way out, then you can always try this.

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rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros. (amit-agarwal.co.in)

Color disk usage on Fedora

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:43:40 +0000

For this tip, you would need to setup the rpm-shere repository. You can get the information here. Once you have done that you need to install the cdu package with the following command:

sudo yum install cdu

And then you can use “cdu” to view the disk usage in all beautiful colors with the command:

cdu

and the output looks like this:

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cdu screenshot

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rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:02:15 +0000

Lets first install the rpmorphan package:

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and here is the description of the package:

rpmorphan finds "orphaned"[1] packages on your system. It determines which packages have no other packages depending on their installation, and shows you a list of these packages. It intends to be clone of deborphan Debian tools for rpm packages.

It will try to help you to remove unused packages, for example:

Creating a chroot environment in Fedora with bash and other utils.

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:59:23 +0000

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I am testing some of my scripts to work on a very old system and there the versions of the most popular applications are very old, real old :(. So, some of things that I am very used to since last couple of years, do not seem to work as expected and I need to keep verifying a lot of things on the server, very inconvinient to keep testing the script on the server (need to connect on VPN) just to test some very simple things.

10 Useful Sar (Sysstat) Examples for UNIX / Linux Performance Monitoring

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:20:48 +0000

10 Useful Sar (Sysstat) Examples for UNIX / Linux Performance Monitoring

by Ramesh Natarajan on March 29, 2011

Using sar you can monitor performance of various Linux subsystems (CPU, Memory, I/O..) in real time.

Using sar, you can also collect all performance data on an on-going basis, store them, and do historical analysis to identify bottlenecks.

Sar is part of the sysstat package.

This article explains how to install and configure sysstat package (which contains sar utility) and explains how to monitor the following Linux performance statistics using sar.

List all installed rpm packages and it’s size

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:12:44 +0000

If you are looking for a command to see the disk usage by each of the rpm‘s then you can use this command:

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And if you use this command very regularly then you can create an alias like

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and use it like

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