In this article, we will see how to install veracrypt on Ubuntu 20.04. VeraCrypt is a free and open source disk encryption software for Windows, Linux and MacOS. It is not just another disk encryption software but is a lot more efficient and better than its peers with tons of built-in features. One of the ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to install Gdebi on Ubuntu 22.04. Many times you might have observed that when you try to install any debian(.deb) packages on your Ubuntu/Debian based systems through dpkg utility, it fails with dpkg: dependency problems error. It is simply because dpkg utility itself cannot handle the dependencies. You ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to solve add-apt-repository: command not found error. add-apt-repository is a free and open source utility to add PPA repository on Ubuntu/Debian based systems. Sometimes it is possible that when you try to add a PPA repo to download and install a package from it, you might end up ... Read more

In this article, we will see 20 dig command examples in Linux. dig, also known as domain internet groper is a free and open source tool for querying the domain name system(DNS). It is very commonly used for performing DNS lookups to retrieve various DNS records such as A (address), MX (mail exchange), NS (name ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to install whois utility on Ubuntu 20.04 based systems. If you are looking for the registration details of the domain, including the owner's name (or organization's name), contact information, registration and expiration dates, and more then there is no better tool than whois utility. All of need to ... Read more

In this article, we will see 13 Linux commands/shell scripts to check if you are connected to internet. Many times when you are unsure about the availability of internet connection in your linux system, you might want to run a quick test to check and confirm. You can do this by using few tools and ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to install nmap on Ubuntu 22.04. Nmap, also known as network mapper is a free and very powerful open source network discovery and security auditing tool used for performing various types of tasks including discovering devices on a network, identifying host, services, ports, operating systems and much more. ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to install fping on Ubuntu 22.04. fping is a free and open source utility used for sending ICMP echo requests to all the hosts in the network. It works very similar to ping utility but comparatively it is very efficient and faster with multiple hosts. fping send ICMP ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to install arping on Ubuntu 22.04. arping is a free and open source utility that broadcasts arp packets to all the systems in the network to detect ethernet and IP address of the target. It also displays the time elapsed between arp request and arp reply. In case, ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to install dependent packages on Ubuntu/Debian using gdebi. Many times, you might have observed that for some of the applications it is not possible to download and install them from default Ubuntu repo, you will most probably have to download the debian package for that from its official ... Read more