Find the largest directories »
To find the largest directories in Linux you can use the command du -S |sort -n If you want to narrow it down to the largest ten, pipe the output to head du -S |sort -n -r |head -n10
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Uninstalling Software »
Here I will explain the ways to uninstall software you installed via source code, Debian and Red Hat packages. To remove software you'll need to run the commands below as the root user, if your not sure how to do that read my "Changing to the Administrator" section. * Source code (tar.gz / tar.bz2) * Debian Packages (debs) * Red Hat
Installing Software »
There are a number of ways to install software within Linux using the command line, you can compile the source code yourself, or use a precompiled binary. Here I plan on explaining how to install software using the main methods, these are: * Source code (tar.gz / tar.bz2) * Debian Packages (debs) * Red Hat Packages (rpms) However these are
PAN and SSL »
Pan, a GTK news reader does not support SSL connects itself, which means if you want to connect to a news server using SSL you will have to setup a SSL tunnel. To do this you will need to install stunnel, I'm going to assume you have already installed stunnel and wish to know how to set it up. As the configuration files for stunnel are located