To enable a new RPM (yum) repository add a new .repo file for it under /etc/yum.repos.d. For example, to add a repository to install google’s Chrome browser add a file (e.g. google.repo) in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory and copy the following into it: [google-chrome] name=google-chrome – 64-bit baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub You may also append the […]
Month: March 2012
How to convert uuid to dev
In most modern Linuxes, if you look in /etc/fstab you will see something like: UUID=27fb9d06-8122-4a53-9930-97bd9fa57221 /usr ext4 defaults 1 1 This is not very helpful if you’re trying to figure out where your /usr directory is mounted… So how can you convert the UUID of a drive partition to the good old familiar /dev device […]