How To Find Fastest Ubuntu Software Repository Mirror using Apt Smart

  • Post last modified:May 30, 2023
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During the Ubuntu installation, if your system is not connected to Internet, the installer will select the the Ubuntu Main repository for software update and installation. Otherwise (if connected) it automatically select a nearest mirror depending on your location and…

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Convert Image & Animations to Sizel ANSI Unicode Characters with Chafa

  • Post last modified:March 9, 2021
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Chafa is a free and open source command-line image to text converter software for Linux and MacOS. It is released under LGPL-3.0 License. Using chafa you can convert any images and including animated GIFs. It also support Unicode symbols for the better output. It also supports full width character like Japanese and Korean, color modes like Truecolor, 256-color, 16-color and simple FG/BG, RGB and DIN99d color spaces, alpha transparency support, SIMD optimized and multithreaded.

You can load Glyphs from any font file supported by Freetype like TTF, OTF, PCF, etc. It currently supports modern and classic terminals and terminal emulators. For the chafa installation please follow the below steps.

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Create ASCII Text Banners in Terminal with FIGlet and TOIlet

  • Post last modified:January 7, 2021
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FIGlet is a small command-line tool. Using this you can generate ASCII text banners and large letters from the terminal text. TOIlet is also a command-line tool and using this you can generate colorful large characters from your terminal text. In this article you will see how to install and use FIGlet and TOIlet on Ubuntu.

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Find IP Address of a Domain in Terminal

  • Post last modified:January 17, 2021
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In your Linux system you can find the IP address of a domain in your terminal application without any help of third party web service. You can also check multiple domains at once. This article explains how to get the IP address of a domain in command line method using the terminal application. We are using Ubuntu to test all these commands. All these command-line tools are per-installed in your Ubuntu system. Open your terminal application (ctrl+alt+t) and run all below commands one by one to check the results.

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Hyper Beautiful and Extensible Terminal – Install Hyper on Ubuntu

  • Post last modified:October 7, 2020
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Hyper is a free and open source simple but beautiful terminal application for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is based on Html, Css, TypeScript (Electron) and released under MIT license. It comes with plugin support to extend its features. Some other features are Emoji support and themes support. It also comes with and uses WebGL Renderer to speedup the rendering process. In this article we will see how to install hyper terminal app on Ubuntu linux.

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How to Search Available Packages from Terminal command-line Tool

  • Post last modified:August 13, 2020
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In this article you will see how to search the available packages from your Ubuntu repositories and how to get details of the available versions, dependencies and all other information in Ubuntu. Try all these commands and find the difference. And if anything missing, then write down in the comment box.

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