Using APT, you can install a specific version of a package using: apt-get install package=1.0 But you can’t do apt-get install package=1.* So, how can I find out which versions are avaliable for package on a specific repository, or in all repositories in my /etc/apt/sources.list? Answer Just as an addendum apt-cache madison <<package name>> will … Read more
I wanted to backup a path from a computer in my network to another computer in the same network over a 100 Mbit/s line. For this I did dd if=/local/path of=/remote/path/in/local/network/backup.img which gave me a very low network transfer speed of something about 50 to 100 kB/s, which would have taken forever. So I stopped it and … Read more
In CentOS how can I get a list of installed repositories? Answer yum repolist yum repolist enabled shows all enabled repositories. These two commands are identical. yum repolist disabled shows disabled repositories. yum repolist all shows everything. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Handsome Nerd , Answer Author : Michael Hampton
I am using the bash shell and would like to pipe the out of the command openssl rand -base64 1000 to the command dd such as dd if={output of openssl} of=”sample.txt bs=1G count=1. I think I can use variables but I am however unsure how best to do so. The reason I would like to … Read more
According to the rasbery pi documentation, You can load your OS to a flash card with either /dev/disk or /dev/rdisk. rdisk stands for raw disk. /dev/disk is a block level device, why would rdisk be 20 times faster? Using Mac OSX Note: In OS X each disk may have two path references in /dev: /dev/disk# … Read more
