Articles Posted in the Mint Category

  • Flush: A GTK Based Bittorrent Client For Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    Flush: A GTK Based Bittorrent Client For Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    by admin on Apr 16, 2012 | No Comments

    Flush is a simple and easy to use no-nonsense bittorrent client. Here’s how to install and use this Flush in Linux Mint / Ubuntu: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo apt-get install flush 2. After the installation is complete, click on ‘Applications>Internet>Flush’ to start the application. 3. Click tray icon for [...]

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  • Listing DNS servers IP addresses from Linux command line

    Quickly Find Out DNS Server IP Addresses From Linux Mint / Ubuntu Command Line

    by admin on Apr 10, 2012 | No Comments

    It is useful to know what DNS server IP addresses are being used by the system for troubleshooting as well as for reference. Here is how to quickly get this information using the Linux Mint/Ubuntu terminal : Open Terminal and type : cat /etc/resolv.conf This will display the IP addresses of DNS servers that are [...]

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  • FatRat: A Feature Rich DownLoad Manager For Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    FatRat: A Feature Rich DownLoad Manager For Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    by admin on Apr 02, 2012 | 3 Comments

    FatRat is a feature rich download manager for Linux Mint / Ubuntu. Few of it’s numerous features are limiting of bandwidth for individual downloads, scheduling downloads and bit-torrent protocol too. Here’s how to install this cool download manager in Linux Mint / Ubuntu: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo apt-get install [...]

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  • How To Quickly Transfer Files From One Linux System To Another Using netcat

    How To Quickly Transfer Files From One Linux System To Another Using netcat

    by admin on Mar 28, 2012 | No Comments

    Here’s how to quickly transfer files from one Linux system to another using netcat: 1. Issue the following command in terminal on the source Linux system – cat <file name> | nc -l <port number> For example, to transfer a file ‘About.txt’ using port 5000, we need to issue the following command in terminal on [...]

    Posted in Fedora, Linux, Mint, Ubuntu

  • Showing current working directory

    How To Quickly Switch Back To Previous Directory When Using Linux Terminal

    by admin on Mar 27, 2012 | No Comments

    One of the earlier posts described how to quickly switch to home directory when using Linux Terminal. What if one needs to go back to the previous directory when using the Terminal? Here is a simple way to do that : Open Terminal and type : cd – The below example shows the initial directory [...]

    Posted in Fedora, Linux, Mint

  • How To Install TeamViewer 7 In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    How To Install TeamViewer 7 In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    by admin on Mar 26, 2012 | No Comments

    Here’s how to install TeamViewer 7 in Linux Mint / Ubuntu: 1. Go to teamviewer.com/en/download/index.aspx and click on ‘Linux’ and select the package appropriate to your distribution. 2. Select ‘Open with GDebi Package Installer (default)’ and click ‘OK’. 3. Wait while the package file is downloaded. Click on ‘Install Package’ when prompted. 4. Click ‘Close’ [...]

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