Ubuntu Commands

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Misc. Ubuntu commands.

Remove Pre-installed

If you don’t know what they are …

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apt purge cloud-* snapd whoopsie* unattended-upgrades ubuntu-advantage-tools

If not using LVM, LXC/LXD

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apt purge lvm2 lxd lxcfs

If completely rely on journald.

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apt purge rsyslog libestr0 libfastjson4

Get Version

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lsb_release -r

Change Timezone

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dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

systemd-resolver

Ubuntu/Systemd use systemd-resolver for dns lookup and /etc/resolve.conf no longer show the actual upstream dns. Use following to check and change.

Show DNS Settings

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resolvectl

Change DNS

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resolvectl dns <interface> <dns1> <dns2> ...
resolvectl dns enp0s2 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 1.1.1.1

Change Search Domain

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resolvectl domain <interface> <domain>
resolvectl domain enp0s2 johnsiu.com

Disable CPU mitigations

Do this at your own risk.

/etc/default/grub

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="noibrs noibpb nopti nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1 l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier mds=off mitigations=off"

Update GRUB

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update-grub
grub-install <boot disk>
grub-install /dev/sda

Update Initramfs

This is needed if module used during boot is changed.

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update-initramfs -u

Ubuntu Release Upgrade

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apt install update-manager-core
do-release-upgrade -d

Netplan

Apply netplan changes. Will not apply if there is syntax error in configuration files:

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netplan apply

Try, will apply and auto revert:

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netplan try

Purge Uninstalled Packages

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apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}')

APT Cache

On apt cache server:

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apt install apt-cacher-ng

On other server:

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echo 'Acquire::http::Proxy "http://<cache-server>:3142";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00proxy

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Update: 2020-08-12

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