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I started my first install of the Helium release and I'm running into some problems. The first problem is that I'm trying to find the IP address of the PC on which the installation is being made. In the past, I have always used 'ifconfig'. When I look in /sbin, ifconfig is not there.
Has it been deprecated? If so, what is the recommended method to find the intranet IP address of the PC?
Last edited by jjanderson5 (2018-05-02 03:53:57)
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To find your machine's IP:
ip addr
This will display status of all interfaces on your system. The old ifconfig tools (in net-tools package) are considered deprecated in favor of the iproute2 package which has the ip command for managing the network interfaces. If you prefer using the old ifconfig just install the net-tools package which is available in stretch:
~$ sudo apt install net-tools
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To find your machine's IP:
ip addr
or in short
ip a
Last edited by lowrider (2018-05-02 02:26:46)
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DeepDayze wrote:To find your machine's IP:
ip addr
or in short
ip a
Ahh thanks for that little gem.
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@DeepDayze
Well, that is about the best answer I have ever received in the forums. Informative, concise and right on the mark. Thank you, much for the explanation.
Jim A.
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This is covered in the upstream Debian stretch release notes:
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