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In this article, we show you how to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04 and other common versions of Linux. Prerequisites First of all, upgrade the current packages on your system. Login to your Ubuntu desktop system using sudo privileged user. Then run the following command to update the download package information from all configured sources. The above command will also, be available to upgrade all the packages installed on your system....

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Zabbix server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system. Pre-Requsities We assume you have a running Ubuntu 20.04 system with sudo privileged account access. Follow the below steps to install Zabbix server on your Ubuntu system. Step 1 – Setup LAMP Zabbix required PHP programming language to run, MySQL as database server and a Web server like Apache or Nginx. We use Apache web server for this tutorial....

Prerequisites Running Fedora system with shell access A domain/sub domain pointed to server IP address via public DNS server. For this tutorial, we use webhost.tecadmin.net. Step 1 – Install Apache First of all, Install the Apache webserver on your Fedora system. The default package repositories contain Apache packages. You can directly install them using the following command: How to Install LAMP on Fedora Step 2 – Create VirtualHost in Apache For this tutorial, I have created an index....

What is inode number in Linux In Linux, whenever a new file is created, it is given a file name and an inode number. This number works as the unique identifier for that file. As a user, you will use the file name to access the file but Linux will first map that filename with an Inode number in a database to access the file. In basic words, an Inode number is just like an index number of a book....

Before we begin, it is important to note that in Ubuntu, only users with administrative privileges (also known as “root” users) can add and delete other users. If you do not have administrative privileges, you will need to ask an administrator to perform these tasks for you. Adding Users in Ubuntu The adduser command in Linux is used to create a new user in the system. It is typically used with the following syntax:...

While changing the password, I got the error: ERROR 1819 (HY000): Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements Follow below tutorial to change password policy level for MySQL. Alternatively, you can also use this tutorial to remove the password policy plugin. Change MySQL Password Policy To change the default password policy level, we can change the settings at runtime using the command line or in the config file (my....

What is Uptime? The uptime is the amount of time a system is continuously running since the last start/restart. Check System Uptime in Linux You can use the uptime command to find the system uptime. Uptime command is available under procps package. This command also provides the current system time, number of logged in users and current CPU load. as per the above output, the system is running from 174 days, 5 hours and 12 minutes....

Disable Directory Listing in Apache To disable the directory listing for a specific directory, add the following settings in Apache Virtual Host or create a .htaccess file in that directory with below content. The Options -Indexes disabled the listing of files on the website if an index file is missing. In Apache Virtual Host: In .htaccess file: While using the .htaccess, make sure that Apache server is enabled to use ....

A few days back my production application goes down. After searching for half an hour, I found the application was down due to the disk full on my server. So I searched all files greater than 1 GB and then all files greater than 100 MB. There were a few log files that were large in size, which caused the disk full. In this tutorial, you will learn how to search file by their size using find command....

You can deploy Drupal on any web server that supports the PHP programming language. In this tutorial, we will provide you with steps to install Drupal with Apache on Fedora Linux systems. Prerequisites This tutorial assumes that: You have a running Fedora system with sudo privileged account access Already completed the LAMP Stack on Fedora system. Step 1 – Installing Drupal on Fedora You can download the latest Drupal version from the Drupal website....

This tutorial will help you to install ffmpeg on Debian 10 Linux system. Install FFmpeg on Debian 10 At the day of writing this article, the FFmpeg 4.1.6 is available under the default apt repositories. You can use the apt command line utility to install ffmpeg on your Debian 10 Linux system. Next check the installed version of ffmpeg on your Debian system. Output: Working with FFmpeg The ffmpeg command line interface provides a large number of options to work with it....

Step 1 – Install Dovecot on Ubuntu Dovecot packages are available under default Ubuntu repositories. You can install Dovecot on Ubuntu by running a single command. Open a terminal and execute below command: Step 2 – Configure Dovecot Dovecot is a service used for providing POP/POP3s and IMAP/IMAPs protocols. POP/IMAP protocols are used for fetching emails from email accounts. Edit dovecot configuration file and search for below lines and update as below....

Prerequisites A running Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop system with sudo privileged account access. Step 1 – Installing GIMP Login to your Ubuntu desktop system and add an external apt repository in your system to install Gimp on Ubuntu 20.04 system. First of all, execute the following command to configure Gimp PPA to your system. Then, execute the below commands to install Gimp on your Ubuntu system. Step 2 – Access GIMP Application Type “gimp” on the system terminal or use the Gimp launcher icon to start the application....

Prerequisites First of all, you need to set up a LAMP environment to install Moodle on your Fedora system. We assume that you already have PHP, MySQL and Apache installed on your system. If you don’t have, use the following article to install it. Install Apache, PHP, & MySQL on Fedora Step 1 – Getting Moodle Application After installing the composer on your Fedora system. Let’s create CakePHP application named “MyApp” using composer command as below....

This tutorial will help you to install MySQL 8 on CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 systems. Prerequisites You must have shell access with sudo privileged account on CentOS 8 system. Step 1 – Install MySQL The MySQL 8 packages are available under the AppStrem repository under CentOS 8. Install the required packages using the following command. This will also install multiple dependent packages. After completing the installation, enable the MySQL service to auto-start on the system start....

The official Nvidia drivers can help you get the most out of your GPU by enhancing its performance. In this article, we will learn to install the official Nvidia drivers on Fedora However, before we start with the installation process, we need to do system configuration. The first configuration we need to do is stop the GUI from running and the second step is to disable the default nouveau drivers....

This article helps you to install VirtualBox on Debian 9 (Stretch) Linux machine. Step 1 – Prerequsities Login to your Debian server with root or sudo privileged user and update current packages of your system to the latest version. Step 2 – Add VirtualBox PPA Now, you need to add Oracle VirtualBox PPA to Ubuntu system. You can do this by running the below command on your system. This command will create a file and make entry to /etc/apt/sources....

This article will help you to install Python 3.8 from the source on your CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 Linux systems. Prerequisites First of all, log in to your CentOS 8 system with a root or sudo privileged account. Then use the following command to install the required development libraries for Python before installing it. Downloading Python 3.8 You can download Python using the following command from its official site....

This guide will help you for the installation of Redis server and binding with PHP using Redis PHP extensions on a cPanel server. Step 1 – Prerequisites In order to use this tutorial, you must have root shell access of your WHM/cPanel server. Login to your server shell access using root account. Redis packages are not available under default yum repositories. You need to enable EPEL yum repository on your server first....

1. Search files created/modified before 30 days Use this command to search all files created or modified before 30 days in /var/backup directory. Find provides the option -mtime to define number of days. You can also search file created before 30 minutes using -mmin optiopn. 2. Search files with specific extension You can also search file for a specific extension. For example to search all files with extension “.log” under /var/log directory....