Color disk usage on Fedora

2012-01-21 1 min read Fedora
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: [][2]cdu screenshot Related articles Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora. Continue reading

List all installed rpm packages and it’s size

2010-12-09 1 min read Fedora Linux
If you are looking for a command to see the disk usage by each of the rpm‘s then you can use this command: 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;rpm -q --queryformat "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" </div> </td> </tr> And if you use this command very regularly then you can create an alias like 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;alias rpm_size='rpm -q --queryformat "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" ' </div> </td> </tr> and use it like 1 Continue reading

http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof – very good collection of utilities for .deb based distro’s

2010-10-08 1 min read Linux Uncategorized
Head over to http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof and you will find a nice utility created by the makeuseof guys. This will allow you to select the applications that you want to install and once you have made the selection you can download the unattended installer. Well, to be frank with you I really do not see the need for this unless you don’t know how to add repositories or install simple stuff. Most of this (no, actually all of this except dropbox in my Fedora setup with the repositories that I have set). Continue reading