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How to remove symbolic link in Mabox Linux (Manjaro)

Before we remove a symbolic link (also called symlink) in Mabox Linux, we have to ensure, that link really exists. In Linux you (normally) don't see file extension, so, first, check, what contains symlink:

I have (I hope, we will check it) I have a symlink "/usr/bin/node", because I write

$ node --version

and receive this output:

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Written by Administrator on Thursday April 9, 2020

How to create symbolic link in Mabox Linux (Manjaro) [with screenshots]

Sometimes happens, that you've installed software into .. some 'strange' directory, for example into you /home folder or /home/$USER/Download folder. And it means that you have to go into that folder and run a command. It's not comfortable. Linux has solution! You can use command-line utility ls to create a link between two files.

Rule is very simple:

$ ls -s <path_to_source_file> <path_to_link>

Let's look on real example in my system:

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Written by Administrator on Thursday April 9, 2020

How to create a link to a program to launch it in terminal in Solus OS Linux

Just imagine you have installed a program and want to launch it in terminal with just the name of the program.

For example, I have downloaded a PaleMoon browser and not it's stored in:

$ /home/edustorage/Downloads/palemoon/palemoon

To launch this program, I have to go to :

$ cd /home/edustorage/Downloads/palemoon

and run a command:

$ sudo ./palemoon

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Written by Administrator on Tuesday April 7, 2020

How to verify the checksum of a downloaded file in Solus OS Linux

Why do you need checksum?

Checksum serves to verify, that there was no corruption while downloading a file and that original file is the same as you have on your hard disk after downloading.

First of all you have to get correct checksum of the downloaded file from owner of the file or website, where you got that file. Normally you will see something like this:

SHA-256 checksum: c66aa2a0d49d5eced6f95dcb2f029907791e7b26c3381747318cce0007fbc198
md5: c3b3d4bc455ee51147e41c8f6b2d5c2a

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Written by Administrator on Tuesday April 7, 2020

How to get version of make program in Solus OS ?

If you want to know the version of make program in your Solus OS Linux or just to check, if make is installed, you can easily do it with running follow command in terminal :

$ make --version

In my case I got this output:

GNU Make 4.3
Built for x86_64-solus-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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Written by Administrator on Monday April 6, 2020