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I want to install htop on Oracle Linux 8.7. How hard could it be? TL;DR; - it’s not hard, but it took me a little while to get htop installed. I’m not new to (most) Linux distros, but this is the first time I’m using Oracle Linux. So, let’s start by showing some basic information. [root@catbus ~]# cat /etc/os-release | grep -i pretty PRETTY_NAME="Oracle Linux Server 8.7" [root@catbus ~]# rpm -qi htop package htop is not installed [root@catbus ~]# dnf search htop Last metadata expiration check: 0:23:03 ago on Mon 06 Feb 2023 11:32:58 AM GMT....

The awscli package is available from the EPEL repository, which is not enabled by default on RockyLinux. Enable the EPEL repo by installing epel-release pacakge. $ sudo dnf install epel-release Once the EPEL repo is successfully enabled, we can install awscli package. $ sudo dnf install awscli Enable and verify that the awscli is installed on the system. $ aws --version aws-cli/1.18.156 Python/3.6.8 Linux/4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.x86_64 botocore/1.18.15 As a bonus, here is how to configure the AWS credential....

While checking the root partition on my desktop today, I noticed that its usage is at 89% with just 6GiB free. For this reason, I wanted to find out what’s consuming most spaces and whether I can clean it up a bit. # df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/fedora_watamem-root 56G 47G 6.3G 89% / The first two commands that come to my mind are du and ncdu....

Though it’s not very common in my daily work, I occasionally need to add additional remote Git repositories mainly for pushing. In fact, I did this about 4 to 5 times already, and thought that it’d be the last time. Today, I need do this again, and I forgot! Currently, I have the following remote repository set for ‘origin’: ❯ git remote -v origin git@git.homeserver.local:kenno/ansible.git (fetch) origin git@git.homeserver.local:kenno/ansible.git (push) I wanted to add https://kenno@gitea....

Rhythmbox stores its music database as an XML file located in ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml. The easiest way to reset this database is to close the Rhythmbox program, and completely remove the rhythmdb.xml file. ➜ pkill rhythmbox ➜ rm ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml ➜ rhythmbox & Reference: How does one clear the Rhythmbox music library database?