Archive for April, 2022

So this used to work prior to 20.04
$ sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

add the following lines:
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=1

$ sudo sysctl -p

$ sudo reboot now

https://itsfoss.com/disable-ipv6-ubuntu-linux/

Updated for version 20.04

$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Replace the following two lines

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”ipv6.disable=1″
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”ipv6.disable=1″

$ sudo update-grub

$ sudo reboot now

How to disable IPv6 on ubuntu 20.04

To install inxi (a full featured system information script) just use apt-get.

# sudo apt-get install inxi

-F gives full output

# inxi -F

Which looks like this

Github repository at: smxi

Surprise it will even give some info on the Mac installed via Homebrew. It is mostly OS, CPU, and network…

So I don’t use snaps, but it seems that Ubuntu really wants me to. When I look at the performance monitor I can see that the snap store is using a nearly half a gig of memory. So it has to go…
The commands below should make it go away…


sudo apt-get purge snapd
rm -rf ~/snap
sudo rm -rf /snap
sudo rm -rf /var/snap
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/snapd