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Install the following repository and packages-
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install freerdp2-dev freerdp2-x11
Download file directly from here:
wget https://git.io/fxZq5 -O guac-install.sh
Make it executable:
Step 1. Install s3fs on an OCI compute instance running Ubuntu
SSH remotely into your Ubuntu server and run sudo apt update to update your system repository. Then type the command
sudo apt install s3fs awscli -y
to install S3fs on your system. To verify proper installation, run which s3fs and you should be able to see the path of the program.
Note: refer to our other tutorials on how to create and connect to cloud compute instance through Bastion host.
If you ever encounter similar issue like below-
Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled: libavformat58 libavfilter7 ffmpeg mc sntp libswresample3 lynx-common libzmq5 fail2ban mc-data redis lynx libpostproc55 ntp ntpdate libgsasl7 redis-tools cpanminus libavcodec58 libavutil56 libavdevice58 libswscale5 libsdl2-2.0-0 libmysofa1 redis-server libavresample4
And don’t like to be financially trapped into Ubuntu long term commercials, do this (Kidding, it’s actually good to keep the esm as it’s worth for expanded security)-run command to navigate to that directory:
If you ever encounter with such similar of an error (in my case it occurred on my Ubuntu 20 distro), you may apply the following process to get a fix.
The error:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: apt apt-transport-https apt-utils dpkg libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 ntpdate oracle-java8-installer oracle-java8-set-default thermald 10 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/4,389 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,192 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'linux-generic' is missing final newline E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Disclaimer: it worked for me, that doesn’t necessary means that would work same for you! However, you may give it a try.
Disclaimer:
This howto is tested on Ubuntu 16, 18, 20 and Debian 10, 11 edition.
Installing and configuring postfix
Step 1 » Assign static IP and hostname and add a host entry for the host name .
Assign hostname in /etc/hostname
mail.tweenpath.net
Add a host entry in /etc/hosts
192.168.1.10 mail.tweenpath.net
Step 2 » Update the repositories.
tweenpath@mail:~$ sudo apt-get update
Step 3 » Install postfix and dependencies . Press enter for all prompted questions during installation. we will do that in the next step.
tweenpath@mail:~$ sudo apt-get install postfix
Step 4 » After installation issue the below command to configure postfix.
tweenpath@mail:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix
Now you will be prompted for set of details . choose the following values and replace tweenpath.net with your domain name.
I had a long old ubuntu 14 into my network, had an inevitable action to upgrade it to 16. Apply the simple 2 commands to make the updaration happening-
sudo do-release-upgrade
Use the below command for Ubuntu 14 machines:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Zabbix is a free, open-source, and high-performance monitoring tool for servers, applications, and network devices. It uses agents to collect system metrics. It also monitors standard services such as SMTP or HTTP services and supports host monitoring via SNMP, TCP, and ICMP checks. It is designed for real-time monitoring of thousands of servers, VMs, and network devices. It uses MySQL/MariaDB database to store its data and also supports encrypted communication between the server and connected clients.
In this tutorial, we will explain how to install the Zabbix monitoring server on Ubuntu 20.04.
Prerequisites:
Once you are logged into your Ubuntu 18.04 instance, run the following command to update your base system with the latest available packages.
Zabbix agent is installed on the remote host (target) to monitor the hard drive, memory processor, etc. The agent collects data and sends back to Zabbix Server.
Zabbix agents can use passive or active checks to pass information. In passive check, Zabbix server (poller) requests an agent for certain information, and the agent sends back a value. In the active check, the agent process all data and pushes it to the Zabbix server. However, agent periodically connects the server to collect metric which needs to be monitored.
We will begin by installing Zabbix agent to the remote Ubuntu 20.04 host and later add a host to Zabbix server dashboard.
Step 1: Enable Zabbix repository on remote host
Begin by updating the package lists on the remote host.
sudo apt update
Then download the Zabbix repository Debian file from Zabbix download center as follows.
wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/5.0/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_5.0-1+focal_all.deb
Then enable it using the dpkg command as follows:
sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_5.0-1+focal_all.deb
Next, update the package index to ensure the repository is synced
Installing ZFS Filesystem on Ubuntu
We will be using the command line Terminal application for the installation of the ZFS filesystem. To launch the command line Terminal, use the Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut. Now to install the ZFS filesystem on Ubuntu, issue the following command in Terminal:
$ sudo apt install zfsutils-linux
When prompted for the password, provide the sudo password.
After running the above command, the system might ask for confirmation that if you want to continue the installation or not. Press y to continue; after that, the package will be installed on your system. To verify ZFS file system installation, issue the following command in Terminal:
$ which zfs
You will see the output similar to the following:
Creating the ZFS storage pool
After the installation is completed, we will now create a storage pool for our drives. Here are the steps to do so:
1. First, find out the names of the drives for the pool. Use the following command in Terminal to do so:
Prework
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Node.js
For this particular installation node 16 is needed to be installed. Lets install-
Add NodeSource PPA
This command will add PPA sources required to be able to install NodeJS 16 on your Ubuntu 20.04 installation:
curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash
Install NodeJS 16
Now that the PPA source has been added, we can install NodeJS 16 on our Ubuntu 20.04 installation. Run the following command:
sudo apt install nodejs -y
Tip: The -y flag means we’re not prompted to confirm our choices.