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November 4, 2009

Terminal commands to keep handy on an unresponsive Ubuntu.

This is an ever growing list of terminal commands to keep handy

  1. sudo apt-get install --fix-broken
  2. sudo dpkg --configure -a
  3. htop
  4. dpkg --get-selections > installed-software (Back up list of installed Software)
  5. dpkg --set-selections < installed-software (Restore previously installed software)
  6. apt-get -u dselect-upgrade (Execute #5)
  7. lshw > lshw.txt (See your system's hardware info)

Posted by Alejandro. Filed under Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

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