Tumbleweed file

The hostname is basically just the name that you give your PC. It helps you recognize the system you currently work on.

It enables you to address the system by its hostname on your local network, instead of its IP address. Furthermore, the hostname is the first part of the fully qualified domain name FDQN , optionally needed for publicly accessing your system on the Internet.

After a fresh install, the hostname of your openSUSE Tumbleweed system is typically set to the default localhost or something else randomly generated. You can of course change this to whatever you prefer. Just keep in mind that the hostname can only have valid characters from a to z and digits from 0 to 9. With the help of the YaST system configuration program, you can change the hostname of your system. Go ahead and start the YaST program.

Once opened, go to the System category and select Network Settings :. A new dialog appears. For example purposes, I used rollingtumbler as the hostname:. Click the OK button on the dialog to confirm the hostname change. Afterwards you should reboot your system to activate the new hostname.

You can verify the changed hostname by opening up the terminal again:. Just plain black text. No colors or bold text. Luckily we can easily customize the Bash prompt to make it more attractive. To change the looks of the Bash prompt, we can set the PS1 variable in file.

This file is located in your home directory. The PS1 variable is the so called primary prompt string. Refer to this page for a reference list of things you can add to the primary prompt string. More convenient is an online Bash prompt generator for formating your Bash prompt.

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A file will get downloaded, click on that and follow the installation wizard. It will ask you to do that two times. Once that is done the Alien will be installed on your system.