flatpak – get latest libreoffice

flatpak is tool similar to 0install. You can find more details here.

# Get the gnome-sdk gpg keys
wget https://sdk.gnome.org/keys/gnome-sdk.gpg
# Add the keys to trusted keys
flatpak remote-add --user --gpg-import=gnome-sdk.gpg gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/repo/

# Install pre-requisite gnome
flatpak install --user gnome org.gnome.Platform 3.20

# Download the flatpak file and install it. Or you can follow the next step.
wget 'http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/flatpak/latest/LibreOffice.flatpak'
flatpak install --user --bundle LibreOffice.flatpak

# Install flatpak without downloading
flatpak install --user gnome org.gnome.Platform.Locale 3.20

# Run you brand new shiny latest libreoffice
flatpak run org.libreoffice.LibreOffice

# At a later date, when you want to update libreoffice.
flatpak update --user org.libreoffice.LibreOffice

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systemd – start service when you enable it

More often than not for any service, I end up doing :

systemctl enable <service>
systemctl start <service>

But there is shorcut to this. In systemctl command when you enable the service, you can use “–now” to start the service as follows:

systemctl enable --now <service>

quite a timesaver 🙂

Linux Best Practices and Tips

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Kernel dropped packet analysis

Found a simple method to check for all the packets dropped by kernel.

First you need to install dropwatch with

dnf install dropwatch

and details of the package

Name        : dropwatch

Arch        : x86_64

Epoch       : 0

Version     : 1.4

Release     : 13.fc24

Size        : 27 k

Repo        : fedora

Summary     : Kernel dropped packet monitor

URL         : http://fedorahosted.org/dropwatch

License     : GPLv2+

Description : dropwatch is an utility to interface to the kernel to monitor for dropped

network packets.

bash ansi codes to html for html reports from shell script

How many times you have felt that there was some simple way to convert bash ansi escape sequences ( colors as well in terminal ) to html equivalent so that you can send the same as html report in email. Here is simple solution. One way is to use ccze if you are using this for logs – colorize your logs and for more generic solution.

dnf install python3-ansi2html.noarch

after this is installed, you can use something like this:

Get kernel function name from kernel address.

If you are using pmap or using strace and want to covert kernel address to function name then you can use the following technique.

First you need to install elfutils, if not installed.

dnf install elfutils

and after this you can use the following command

eu-addr2line -f -e /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) <addr>
#Example
eu-addr2line -f -e /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) 00007f36a8045000