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PeaZip – Crossplatform File Archiver Manager in openSUSE

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:08:03 +0000

PeaZip is a free flexible opensource File and Archive Manager for Linux and Windows. PeaZip can create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP archives and can extract upto 87 types of archive including all the mainstream popular archive formats.

Other features include,

Run as installed or standalone portable (no installation required) application
Support strong Encryption standards, Secure deletion feature, verify file checksum and hash
Support Two factor authentication (password and keyfile) for increased security.
Powerful multiple search filters to archive’s content
Create and extract multiple archives at once
Create self-extracting archives
Export job definition as command line, Save archive’s layouts, Bookmark archives and folders
Scan and open with custom applications compressed and uncompressed files
Robust file copy, split/join files (file span),
System benchmark, generate random passwords and keyfiles
Support for ACE archives are provided by plugin

Install PeaZip in openSUSE

Click this 1-click installer hosted by packman to install PeaZip on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories, download and install PeaZip and the dependencies. Click next on the PeaZip installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install PeaZip and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

This should install PeaZip under “Applications – Utilities – Archiving”.

To edit default settings, click Tools – Settings.

Edit options for the current archive, by clicking the options button.

Click here to visit the project home.

Conky – Lightweight system monitor in openSUSE

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:56:24 +0000

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD. Conky has more than 250 built in objects, including support for a plethora of OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU usage, mem usage, disk usage, “top” like process stats, and network monitoring, built in support for IMAP and POP3 and many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious).

Conky can display this info either as text, or using simple progress bars and graph widgets, with different fonts and colours.

Install Conky openSUSE

To install Conky in openSUSE, click this 1-click installer from Packman supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3/10.2. The 1-click install at Packman is built with support for Audacious and nVidia GPUs.

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories, download and install Conky and the dependencies. Click next on the Conky installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install Conky and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

This should install Conky under “Applications – System – Monitor” as System Monitor. Click on System monitor to launch and you can see conky displaying system stats on your desktop. The executable is installed as /usr/bin/conky.

While the defaults displays a very limited number of stats, Conky is very customisable to display more from the built-in 250 objects and ofcourse change the display colour of individual object text and outputs all from the config file

/etc/conky/conky.conf

This is where you can add more dispplay objects or change the default parameters including colour. Edit the file using your favorite editor like VI and items at the top define the default system and display paramters. For instance “default_color” defines the default color for any text (set to variable $color). The second part of the config starting with the line “TEXT” is where you define what to display.

For instance,

The line

${scroll 16 $nodename – $sysname $kernel on $machine | }

displays the first line of the output where you see the Hostname, Kernel information scrolling.
Here,
$nodename displays the Hostname (runs the command hostname)
$sysname displays System name, Linux for example
$kernel displays the system kernel
$machine displays the system architecture (x86_64 on my pc)

Now, you might be a little confused about where these variables come from. Well, click here to view the list of variables and its corresponding function. This is where it is getting interesting to find the number of available information that you can have displayed all the time.

Lets add a new line for CPU Temperature

${color grey}CPU Temp:$color $acpitemp C

Here,
“${color grey} CPU Temp:” Changes the default value of $color from “White” to “Grey” to display the description text
$color indicates the text color for temperature output
“$acpitemp C” is the variable to display CPU Temperature

Lets add a new line to Display IP Address

${color yellow}IP Address:${color yellow} ${addr eth0}

“${color yellow}IP Address:” Changes the default value of $color from “White” to “Grey” to display the description text
“${color yellow} ${addr eth0}” Displays the IP Address of eth0 (if you have more than one interface, add one line for each of them) in yellow

Now, we are changing the colour. Make Conky re-read the config file:

opensuse11:/etc/conky # ps -ef | grep conky
saihari 4650 3684 1 07:12 ? 00:00:25 /usr/bin/conky

opensuse11:/etc/conky # kill -HUP 4650

There you go, all the changes are on display.

Conky is simple efficient and useful. Click here to vist the project home.

BleachBit to cleanup unwanted files on your openSUSE

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:54:19 +0000

BleachBit is a simple cool utility to delete unnecessary files on the systemt to free disk space. This includes application and browser cache, temporary fiiles and cookies. Among the many supported application files are Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, firefox, Adobe flash, java, KDE, openoffice,Opera, XChat, rpmbuild etc. While, DIsk space may not be an issue these days on most of the systems, it is always cool clear those items not required anymore on the system.

Install BleachBit

To install BleachBit in openSUSE, click this 1-click installer from Packman supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories, download and install BleachBit and the dependencies. Click next on the BleachBit installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install BleachBit and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

This should install BleachBit under Applications – System – File System as “Unnecessary File Cleaner“. You can see here there are two menu items, one to run as a normal user (your user user account) and one as an Administrator to delete files which cannot be deleted by a normal user (requires Admin password though).

You can select the application for which you want to perform a clean up and then choose to preview the files before deleting files. As you can see there aren’t much of preferences or even menu items.

Simple and cool utility but effecient enough to do what it says on the tin. Click here to visit the project homepage.

xclip – Copy contents from command line to X clipboard in openSUSE

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:41:35 +0000

xclip is a command line interface to the X11 selections (X11 clipboard). It can also be used for copying files, as an alternative to sftp/scp, thus avoiding password prompts when X11 forwarding has already been setup. xclip reads from Standard Input or from one or more files and copy it to the X11 clipboard making it available to the X applications. xclip can also print the content of the current X clipboard onto the standard output or to a file.

Install xclip in openSUSE

To install xclip in openSUSE, click this 1-click installer from Packman supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories, download and install xclip and the dependencies. Click next on the xclip installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install xclip and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

This should install xclip under

/usr/bin/xclip

and adds a man page as well.

To browse a quick list of options available for xclip

sai@saihari:~ > xclip -h

Usage: xclip [OPTION] [FILE]…
Access an X server selection for reading or writing.

-i, -in          read text into X selection from standard input or files
(default)
-o, -out         prints the selection to standard out (generally for
piping to a file or program)
-l, -loops       number of selection requests to wait for before exiting
-d, -display     X display to connect to (eg localhost:0″)
-h, -help        usage information
-selection   selection to access (“primary”, “secondary”, “clipboard” or “buffer-cut”)
-noutf8      don’t treat text as utf-8, use old unicode
-version     version information
-silent      errors only, run in background (default)
-quiet       run in foreground, show what’s happening
-verbose     running commentary

Report bugs to

A simple example to demonstrate how xclip works, we here copy the output of the command “uname -a” directly onto the X clipboard by piping its output to the xclip utility.

sai@saihari:/usr/share/man> uname -a | xclip

Now, open an X application like openoffice and paste the contents by right-click and paste or simply clicking the middle button. This is equivalent to using the -i option (default).

To read a file and make it available to X clipboard:

sai@saihari:/usr/share/man>xclip /etc/hosts

This copies the contents of the file /etc/hosts onto the x clipboard.

To copy the current contents on the X clipboard onto the standard out or even to a file

sai@saihari:/usr/share/man> xclip -o

This displays the current X clipboard content onto the terminal (standard out)

To copy the X clipboard contents to a file

sai@saihari:/usr/share/man> xclip -o ~/clipfile.txt

This copies the X clipboard contents onto a file called clipfile.txt under my home directory.

Click here to visit the project homepage

TuxCards – hierarchical notebook for your notes making in openSUSE

admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:38:08 +0000

Tuxcards is a free opensource notebook for Linux inspired by CueCards for Windows. TuxCards is a hierarchical notebook ideally for those who got used to their post-its, pieces of paper with useful information and ideas or even use digital form of these and then loose plot of what they are making note of…

Features include

Notes can be composed using richtext elements.
No limits on the tree-depth, on the quantity of the items and on the size of the notes.
Automatically load your last datas at startup, including the tree in the leftpane
Drag & Drop of entries between completely different TuxCards applications
Entry History.
Create notes with an expiration date.
Encryption using MD5 and BlowFish with Auto encryption support
Customizable icons: All icons used within the gui may be exchanged.
Cactus-Support, expandable with own flower images.
Command line options (tuxcards -h)
Support of cygwin version as well of a statically linked binary

Install Tuxcards in openSUSE

To install Tuxcards in your openSUSE, click on the appropriate 1-click installers listed below based on your openSUSE version.

openSUSE 11.1

openSUSE 11.0

openSUSE 10.3

This should download the YMP file and launch YaST to start the installation. Click Next on the Additional Repositories window and Next on Software to be installed window and finally Next on the installation proposal window. Click Finish when the software install successfully completes.

This should install TuxCards under /usr/bin/.

saihari@linux-pa5r:~/Documents> which tuxcards
/usr/bin/tuxcards

Launch Tuxcards, by simply typing TuxCards from a Terminal window as follows:

saihari@linux-pa5r:~/Documents> tuxcards &
[1] 8460

You can see the leftpane with the tree structure of your data tree organized hierarchically, the rightpane with the actual note you’ve made. You can create a new tree or add a new tree to an existin tree from the graphical toolbar or simply using a right-click.

The look and feel can be modified from the Options Menu and and extra options like inserting current date and time or performing a word count on the data can be performed from the Extras menu.

You can choose to export the notes to an HTML file as well. This is a very useful option.

Overall, a very simple and easy to use design focussed on usability. Click here to visit the project homepage.

Spindown – Utility to spindown your Disk when not in use in openSUSE

admin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:47:50 +0000

Spindown, as the name suggests is a free opensource command line utility to spin down your disks when no data is read or written of it. This should help save the precious energy and give the disks a longer life. It works by checking the number of blocks read from and written to the disks. When no blocks are read or written to the disk then it is considered idle. When a disk stays idle long enough spindown uses sg_start SCSI scripts to spin the disk down. It also works with usb disks and hotswappable disks because it doesn’t watch the device name (hda, sdb, …), but uses device id.

Install Spindown in openSUSE

To install Spindown, click this 1-click installer from Packman supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install Spindown and the dependencies. Click next on the Spindown installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install Spindown and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

This should install the Spindown daemon under /etc/init.d/

Before we can start using Spindown utility, we need to quickly setup the config file /etc/spindown.conf

There are two sections where the paramters can be defined. One is [General] which holds the global configurations and the other [Disk]. The [Disk] section can be for as many choosen disk from the ones installed on your system like [disk 0] [disk 1]. Anything defined under disks overide the global configurations under General. The config file is commented very well to guide you through and the default configs under [General] are good enough. In a simple configuration on my PC, I add my only disk to the config.

To find the device ID,

linux-pa5r:/etc # ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 14 20:03 ata-WDC_WD2500BEVS-75UST0_WD-WXE608PV7921 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 ata-WDC_WD2500BEVS-75UST0_WD-WXE608PV7921-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 ata-WDC_WD2500BEVS-75UST0_WD-WXE608PV7921-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 ata-WDC_WD2500BEVS-75UST0_WD-WXE608PV7921-part3 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 ata-WDC_WD2500BEVS-75UST0_WD-WXE608PV7921-part5 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 ata-WDC_WD2500BEVS-75UST0_WD-WXE608PV7921-part6 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 ata-WDC_WD2500BEVS-75UST0_WD-WXE608PV7921-part7 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 14 20:03 edd-int13_dev80 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 edd-int13_dev80-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 edd-int13_dev80-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 edd-int13_dev80-part3 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 edd-int13_dev80-part5 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 edd-int13_dev80-part6 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 edd-int13_dev80-part7 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 14 20:03 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500BEVS-_WD-WXE608PV7921 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500BEVS-_WD-WXE608PV7921-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500BEVS-_WD-WXE608PV7921-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500BEVS-_WD-WXE608PV7921-part3 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500BEVS-_WD-WXE608PV7921-part5 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500BEVS-_WD-WXE608PV7921-part6 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 14 20:03 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500BEVS-_WD-WXE608PV7921-part7 -> ../../sda7

Here my disk is “ata-WDC_WD2500BEVS-75UST0_WD-WXE608PV7921“. I enter the Disk config in the /etc/spindown.conf as follows accepting the default global config under [General]:

[Disk 0]
id =ata-WDC_WD2500BEVS-75UST0_WD-WXE608PV7921
spindown = 1

Here, I define the Disk ID and set Spindown = 1 to enable the spinning down of the disk when idle. That completes the config.

Start the Spindown daemon as follows:

linux-pa5r:/etc # /etc/init.d/spindown start
Starting spindownd daemon… spindownddone.

To check the status, use the command with “status” arguement.

linux-pa5r:/etc # /etc/init.d/spindown status
name watched active idle-time spindown-time
sda 1 1 0 3600

This to me is a simple and elegant tool which serves the useful purpose of saving some energy and extending the disk life. Click here to visit the project homepage hosted at Google Code for more information and more advanced documentation.

Leafpad – Simple Easy to use text editor in openSUSE

admin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:04:54 +0000

Leafpad is a GTK+ based simple easy to use free opensource Text Editor for Linux. Leafpad requires few libraries, and starts up quickly. The user interface is similar to “notepad” with minimal menu items, and it aims to be lighter than GEdit and KWrite and to be as useful as them.

Leafpad features include,

Codeset option and Auto codeset detection
Unlimited Undo/Redo
Auto/Multi-line Indent
Display line numbers
Drag and Drop support
Printing

Install Leafpad

To install Leafpad, click this 1-click installer from Packman supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install Leafpad and the dependencies. Click next on the Leafpad installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install Leafpad and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

As expected, this should install Leafpad under “Applications - Utilities – Editor“. Click Leafpad to launch the editor. As you can see it launches quickly, no clutter of menu items and is as simple as using notepad in Windows.

Click here to visit the project homepage.

pngcrush – PNG optimizer utility in openSUSE

admin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:52:45 +0000

pngcrush is an optimizer tool for PNG (Portable Network graphic) files. pngcrush is an excellent batch-mode compression utility for PNG images. Depending on the application that created the original PNGs, it can improve the file size anywhere from a few percent to 40% or more (completely losslessly). It reduces the size of the PNG IDAT datastream by trying various compression levels of PNG filter methods. It also can be used to remove unwanted ancillary chunks, or to add certain chunks including gAMA, tRNS, iCCP, and textual chunks and it can fix incorrect gamma info written by Photoshop 5.0 as well as the erroneous iCCP chunk written by Photoshop 5.5.

pngcrush is a command line tool and can run on Linux, UNIX and Windows

Install pngcrush

To install pngcrush, click this 1-click installer from Packman supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3/10.2

NOTE: Click here for a how to on enabling 1-click install in openSUSE 10.2

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install pngcrush and the dependencies. Click next on the pngcrush installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install pngcrush and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

This installs pngcrush under /usr/bin

opensuse11:~ # which pngcrush
/usr/bin/pngcrush

In its simplest form, you run png crush with a source file and a destination file as follows:

opensuse11:~ # pngcrush bluediving1.png out.png

| pngcrush 1.6.13
|    Copyright (C) 1998-2002,2006-2008 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
|    Copyright (C) 2005      Greg Roelofs
| This is a free, open-source program. Permission is irrevocably
| granted to everyone to use this version of pngcrush without
| payment of any fee.
| Executable name is pngcrush
| It was built with libpng version 1.2.34, and is
| running with libpng version 1.2.34 – December 18, 2008

|    Copyright (C) 1998-2004,2006-2008 Glenn Randers-Pehrson,
|    Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Andreas Dilger,
|    Copyright (C) 1995, Guy Eric Schalnat, Group 42 Inc.,
| and zlib version 1.2.3.3, Copyright (C) 1998-2002 (or later),
|    Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
| It was compiled with gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291].

Recompressing bluediving1.png
Total length of data found in IDAT chunks    =    36377
unknown chunk handling done.
IDAT length with method   1 (fm 0 zl 4 zs 0) =    35211
IDAT length with method   2 (fm 1 zl 4 zs 0) =    38033
IDAT length with method   3 (fm 5 zl 4 zs 1) =    37423
IDAT length with method   4 (fm 0 zl 9 zs 1) =    34954
IDAT length with method   7 (fm 0 zl 9 zs 0) =    33410
Best pngcrush method = 7 (fm 0 zl 9 zs 0) for out.png
(8.16% IDAT reduction)
(8.26% filesize reduction)

CPU time used = 0.160 seconds (decoding 0.040,
encoding 0.120, other 0.000 seconds)

If you want to perform a batch compression then simply specify the files (can use wildcards) and specify extensions (-e) for output files and may be a output directory with -d option. For instance, here I’m optimizing all my PNG files from the current folder to a folder called pics as follows:

opensuse11:~ # pngcrush -d pics -e out.png *.png

In the above command, “-d pics” specifies that the output is directed to the pics directory and “-eout.png” appends out.png to all the output files.

For more advanced options and help, simply run “pngcrush” without any arguements

opensuse11:~ # pngcrush
…
..
.

usage: pngcrush [options] infile.png outfile.png
pngcrush -e ext [other options] files.png …
pngcrush -d dir [other options] files.png …
options:
-already already_crushed_size [e.g., 8192]
-bit_depth depth (bit_depth to use in output file)
-brute (use brute-force: try 126 different methods [11-136])
-c color_type of output file [0, 2, 4, or 6]
-d directory_name (where output files will go)
-double_gamma (used for fixing gamma in PhotoShop 5.0/5.02 files)
-e extension (used for creating output filename)
-f user_filter [0-5]
-fix (fix otherwise fatal conditions such as bad CRCs)
-force (write a new output file even if larger than input)
-g gamma (float or fixed*100000, e.g., 0.45455 or 45455)
-huffman (use only zlib strategy 2, Huffman-only)
-iccp length “Profile Name” iccp_file
-itxt b[efore_IDAT]|a[fter_IDAT] “keyword”
-keep chunk_name
-l zlib_compression_level [0-9]
-loco (“loco crush” truecolor PNGs)
-m method [0 through 200]
-max maximum_IDAT_size [default 8192]
-mng (write a new MNG, do not crush embedded PNGs)
-nofilecheck (do not check for infile.png == outfile.png)
-n (no save; does not do compression or write output PNG)
-plte_len n (truncate PLTE)
-q (quiet)
-reduce (do lossless color-type or bit-depth reduction)
-rem chunkname (or “alla” or “allb”)
-replace_gamma gamma (float or fixed*100000) even if gAMA is present.
-res dpi
-rle (use only zlib strategy 3, RLE-only)
-save (keep all copy-unsafe chunks)
-srgb [0, 1, 2, or 3]
-ster [0 or 1]
-text b[efore_IDAT]|a[fter_IDAT] “keyword” “text”
-time_stamp
-trns_array n trns[0] trns[1] .. trns[n-1]
-trns index red green blue gray
-v (display more detailed information)
-version (display the pngcrush version)
-w compression_window_size [32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1, 512]
-z zlib_strategy [0, 1, 2, or 3]
-zmem zlib_compression_mem_level [1-9, default 9]
-zitxt b[efore_IDAT]|a[fter_IDAT] “keyword”
-ztxt b[efore_IDAT]|a[fter_IDAT] “keyword” “text”
-h (help and legal notices)
-p (pause)

Click here to visit the project homepage.

rpmorphan – Find & delete orphaned packages in openSUSE

admin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:18:39 +0000

rpmorphan is a free opensource utility to find orphaned packages on your openSUSE installation. rpmorphan determines which packages on the system has no other package(s) depending on their installation, and lists these packages. rpmorphan intends to be a clon to the deborphan utility for Debian Linux. rpmorphan has a simple GUI interface to list the orphaned packages and to show the details of the packages and to delete them if you choose to. rpmorphan can also run from commandline as a normal user.

Command line utilities include

/usr/bin/rpmorphan – Find orphaned RPM packages
/usr/bin/rpmusage – Displays RPM packages last usage
/usr/bin/rpmdep – Displays full dependency of an installed package
/usr/bin/rpmduplicates – Duplicate installations with different versions

Install rpmorphan

To install Sockso, click this 1-click installer from Packman supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3/10.2

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install rpmorphan and the dependencies. Click next on the rpmorphan installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install rpmorphan and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

NOTE: Click here for a how to on enabling 1-click install in openSUSE 10.2

This should install rpmorphan under “Applications – Utilities – More Programs”. The command line utilities are installed under

/usr/bin/rpmorphan
/usr/bin/rpmusage
/usr/bin/rpmdep

When you launch rpmorphan, you will see a list of orphaned packages which you can select and choose to look into its info or delete the package from the system.

The command line utility rpmduplicates looks or programs installed with several versions.

saihari@opensuse11:/usr/bin> rpmduplicates
no duplicate found !

For more information and details on the project, click here to visit the project homepage.

PC Man File Manager for Linux in openSUSE

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:51:22 +0000

PC Man File Manager is a simple elegant fast light weight and a very user-friendly File manager for Linux with tabbed browsing and support for file drag n drop between the tabs.

Features include

Extremly fast & lightweight

Tabbed browsing support

Built-in volume management (mount/umount/eject through HAL)

Built-in file searching utility (GUI frontend for the UNIX find + grep command)

Drag & Drop support with drag and drop between tabs

Load large directories in reasonable time

File association support (Default application)

Thumbnail for image files

Bookmarks support

Handles non-UTF-8 encoded filenames correctly

Provides icon view, compact view, and detailed list view

Standard compliant (Follows FreeDesktop.org)

Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2)

Install PC Man File Manager (pcmanfm)

pcmanfm required gamin to be installed as a pre-requisite. Install gamin as follows:

opensuse11:~ # yast2 -i gamin

Once the installation completes we can proceed to install pcmanfm.

To install PC Man File Manager, click this supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3/10.2 from packman. This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install pcmanfm and the required dependencies. Click next on the pcmanfm installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install pcmanfm and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

NOTE: Click here for a how to on enabling 1-click install in openSUSE 10.2

This should install PC Man File Manager (pcmanfm) under Applications – System – File Manager as File Manager (PC Man File Manager). click File Manager to launch it for the first time.

To set default preferences including setting the terminal program (here I choose kconsole), click Edit – Preference.

View options can be changed between Thumbnail, list or Detailed list.

Click the + icon or File – New tab menu item to open another tab as you would in a browser like Firefox if you want to use mutiple tabs under pcmanfm.

Click here to visit the project homepage.

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