Category: General

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Kernel 5.x on AlmaLinux 8

Kernel is central component of an operating system that manages operations of computer and hardware. It basically manages operations of memory and CPU time. It is core component of an operating system. Kernel acts as a bridge between applications and data processing performed at hardware level using inter-process communication and system calls.

Prerequisites

• Access to AlmaLinux command line terminal.
• Root privileges or Sudo

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Glances on RockyLinux

Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool that aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web-based interface.

Features

• CPU related information such as idle, iowait, usage, and more
• Memory-related information such as usage, free, SWAP, and more.
• Network usage information based on interfaces.
• Disk usage information.
• Lists processes resources used (sortable by resources).

Update the System.

yum update

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Drupal on Alma Linux 8

Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS) to maintain and publish an internet website. It’s an open-source content management system (CMS) with a large, supportive community. It’s used by millions of people and organizations around the globe to build and maintain their websites.

Update the system.

yum update -y 

Install the MariaDB Server

Install the MariaDB Server by running the following command,

dnf 

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Ghost on Alma Linux 8

Ghost is a free and open source blogging platform written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License, designed to simplify the process of online publishing for individual bloggers as well as online publications.

We will now begin with the installation, login as root user on the server.

Update the System.

yum update -y

Set your SELinux to permissive mode.

setenforce 0

sed 

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install MongoDB 5 on AlmaLinux 8

MongoDB is a NoSQL database that stores data as JSON-like documents. Documents store related information together and use the MongoDB query language (MQL) for access and it is also called GriddFS which performs load balancing and data replication features over multiple machines for storing files.

Installing MongoDB

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Netdata on Rocky Linux 8

Netdata is an Open Source real-time server monitoring tool. It collects real-time data like CPU usage, RAM usage, Load, SWAP usage, Bandwidth usage, Disk usage, etc.

Installing EPEL Repo

Install EPEL Repo by running following command.

dnf install epel-release -y

Output:

[root@server ~]# dnf install epel-release -y
Rocky Linux 8 - AppStream                       959 kB/s | 7.8 MB     00:08
Rocky Linux 8 - BaseOS                          

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Gitlab on Ubuntu 21.04

GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking, and continuous integration and deployment pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.

Update System.

apt update

apt upgrade -y

Install the Gitlab package dependencies.

apt-get install -y curl openssh-server ca-certificates

Add the GitLab Repository.

curl -sS https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Focalboard on Ubuntu 20.04

Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. It’s a project management tool that helps define, organize, track and manage work across teams, using a familiar kanban board view

Update the System.

apt update

apt upgrade

Install Focalboard

Download the focalboard packages and then move it into /opt/focalboard directory.

wget https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/releases/download/v0.9.2/focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv focalboard /opt

Install NGINX

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install and use Docker Compose on Ubuntu 21.04

Installing Docker on Ubuntu

Check for system updates and install it.

apt update

apt upgrade

Install basic dependencies.

apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common

Output:

root@vps:~# apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
ca-certificates is already the newest version (20210119build1).
ca-certificates set to manually installed.
curl is already 

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Python 3.9 on Ubuntu 21.04

Ubuntu has had Python installed by default since at least version 8.04 and since 18.04 LTS the python included in the base system is Python 3.

Use python command to run commands for any older Python 2.x version, to run a command using the newer version, use python3.

You can check the python version by executing the following command.

python3 --version

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