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I haven’t posted in a while…

October 9, 2023

I know I haven’t really posted in a while; the past 2 years have been extremely busy. With both work and two new kids joining my family, maintaining and sharing my knowledge here has been…well a bit difficult. With the holidays coming up, I plan to add some more content to this blog to share some new things I’ve found, as well as changes to some previous methods.

Stay tuned…

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Install Postman on Ubuntu from Binary

June 10, 2020

Eric Anderson

This one is pretty straight-forward. Simply just download and untar and then create a desktop link, and /usr/bin link.

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wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 -O postman.tar.gz

sudo tar -xzf postman.tar.gz -C /opt

rm postman.tar.gz

sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman

cat > ~/.local/share/applications/postman.desktop <<EOL

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Name=Postman

Exec=postman

Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Categories=Development;

EOL

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Converting WSL 1 Operating Systems to WSL 2 on Windows

July 13, 2019

Eric Anderson

You will need Windows 10 build 18917 or higher to be able to use WSL 2. Please note, you will need to have the Powershell Administrator window up. If you are converting WSL 1 to WSL 2 I’d assume you have Linux Subsystem for Windows installed. If not, the following command will install it for you.

1	Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

Once you do that you will need to run

1	Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform

Now you should be able to run, substitute <Distro> with your specific distribution. You can get a list by using the command: wsl --list --verbose .

1	wsl --set-version <Distro> 2

For setting all future distributions to use WSL 2, you will need to use the following command:

1	wsl --set-default-version 2

Now the last step is to verify your changes worked:

1	wsl --list --verbose

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Been a while…

August 21, 2018

Eric Anderson

Sorry everyone, I’ve been gone for a while. I’ve been super busy at this company Avi Networks. I’ve been here for 2 years, and it’s been growing fast. However, I’m back in the DevOps/SRE realm of things, which will allow me to once again share some of my insights on the world of automation, containers, scripting, and other cool workarounds to get things working the way you want.

I’m probably going to make a few changes in the next few weeks to this blog to get it running again, and move the commenting system over to something that I won’t have to manage and prevent spam. I’ve manually had to approve a lot of comments, and that doesn’t scale, obviously. lol

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