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How to install ImageMagick in Solus

Imagemagick is a powerful tool to images processing and it's in Solus repository, so installation is very fast and easy:

$ sudo eopkg install imagemagick

If you have default fresh Solus installation, your system will download and install some additional libraries needed for running ImageMagick.

Output:

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Written by Administrator on Sunday April 26, 2020

How to convert .mp3 to .ogg in Solus

Solus OS has pre-installed ffmpeg application, which is a powerful tool not only for formatting video, but also for audio formatting too.

First, let's see, what we have:

$ ls
'Frederic Chopin - Nocturne In C Sharp Minor.mp3'

One .mp3 file. And our goal is to convert it to .ogg format.

In order to convert .mp3 file to .ogg, just run following command:

$ ffmpeg -i 'Frederic Chopin - Nocturne In C Sharp Minor.mp3' -c libvorbis Chopin-Nocture_in_C_sharp_minor.ogg

output:

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Written by Administrator on Sunday April 26, 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