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When I am low on space or I just want to clean house: Clean Packages 1. Update your sources.list sudo apt-get update 2. Clean any […]
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I often have to look this up. Release a DHCP lease in Ubuntu with the following command (for the GUI search for gnome-terminal): sudo dhclient -r […]
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