Ubuntu 20.10 Desktop (Groovy Gorilla) was released on October 22, 2020. Here is what Canonical says about Groovy Gorilla: “Ubuntu 20.10 establishes another milestone in Canonical’s long-term commitment to delivering a carrier-grade private cloud. The 33rd release of the most popular Linux distribution in the data centre space, Groovy Gorilla, brings various improvements that enable […]
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Ubtuntu 20.04 is the newest version of the popular Ubuntu OS and we are going to install the Desktop Version today. The Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop can be downloaded from HERE. Once the ISO has been downloaded make the boot media and boot off of it. Install Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop: The First Screen that will appear
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This post gives a walkthrough of How too install OwnCloud on Ubuntu 20.04 Server which elaborates on Owncloud’s own documentation on their website. ownCloud is a file server that enables secure storage, collaboration and sharing. It is convenient to store files in the cloud, so they are available on any device and can be shared with
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Here is how to install LAMP on freshly installed Ubuntu 20.04 Server. A guide to installing Ubuntu 20.04 Server can be found HERE. The original post that was followed can be found HERE. Install LAMP on Ubuntu 20.04: The first step is to Install Apache2 and update the firewall to allow access to Apache2. Before
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This is a quick guide on how to update Ubuntu 20.04 in one command from the command line so that it will work on server and desktop versions. The update process is really simple and is basically one command. Update Ubuntu 20.04 in one command: Here is how to update Ubuntu 20.04 in one command:
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Here is my step by Step how too of Installing Ubuntu 20.04.1 Server. The process will be the same if you are installing Ubuntu 20.04 Server on a physical machine of in a VM (as below). Boot the machine from the boot.iso which will boot to the following page: Select the language you want to
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This guide is how I installed Bookstack Wiki on my AWS Free instance Ubuntu 20.04 server: Bookstack has a handy Ubuntu 20.04 Installation script that can be run on a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 to automatically install Bookstack and the prerequisite software needed for it to run (Apache, MySQL 8.0 & PHP-7.4). The script
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I have just set up ssh tunneling for a client to a remote port on a remote server behind a firewall. Set up ssh tunnel: This can be done really simply on ubuntu by running the following command: In this example I am forwarding port 3333 to port 1521 the vm 10.0.0.2 by sshing to
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Filezilla is a great free ftp client and it can be easily installed on Ubuntu with one apt command. More information about Filezilla can be found on the Filezilla Website. Installing Filezilla on Ubuntu 20.04: Filezilla is installed by running the following command from the terminal: Filezilla will then be installed and ready to use.
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I had an occasion when I was trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 onto a laptop but found that I was without a usb pen drive, external usb drive or a recordable DVD media and had no way to easily get any so I tried installing Ubuntu without installation media and this is the technique that
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OPENVPN is an open source virtual private network (VPN) Server. It has Workstation clients to allow Windows, Linux and Mac OSX clients to securely connect to the Server. More information can be found on the OPENVPN Website. Clients can be downloaded from the download page of the OpenVPN website. The OpenVPN client can be easily
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I had to enable ssh on a newly installed Ubuntu 20.04 VM that I installed today so I thought that it would be useful to add to the blog. I got the information from (https://linuxconfig.org/enable-ssh-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-linux). Installing ssh server on Ubuntu 20.04: ssh was installed using apt: Type your password and press enter: SSH will then
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BookStack is a great little wiki that uses bookcases and books to organize documentation. This is how it was installed on a Raspberry Pi4 running Ubuntu Server 20.04. The official documentation for BookStack can be found HERE Go to the /tmp directory: Download the script: Make the script executable: Install Bookstack on Ubuntu 20.04: Run
To permanently change an Ubuntu 20.04 Server’s name edit the /etc/hostname file: sudo vim /etc/hostname This will show the current server (host) name: Rename Ubuntu 20.04 Server: Change the name to whatever you want to call the server: Save the changes (esc :wq in vim). You will see that the host still has its old
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To install vim text editor on Ubuntu 20.04 run the following command: Install vim on Ubuntu 20.04: sudo apt-get install vim A really good vim cheatsheet can be found HERE. For more Ubuntu articles as how too’s click on our Ubuntu Category.
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On my Ubuntu 16.04 machine, I had an annoying problem with my Remmina RDP client in that I was not able to paste inside the RDP session from the local host. After a little searching I was able to find the solution on the HERE The solution that worked for me was to install the
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I had to install osTicket on a clients Ubuntu server this moring. The install was really simple and I was up an running within 10 minutes. I used THIS site for instalation instructions. Install osTicket on Ubuntu 14.04 64 VPS 07 AUGUST 2015 Posted to: Instructions, Videos, Ubuntu by HostingInstructions Support Your clients by Web or Email with osTicket. If your
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I a server hardware fail today and had to swap the hard drive into another server. When I booted up the server it did not have an ip address as eth0 wasnt found. This was a simple fix all I did was delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules I then rebooted the server and it greated a new file with
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The Oracle JDK is the official JDK; however, it is no longer provided by Oracle as a default installation for Ubuntu. You can still install it using apt-get. To install any version, first execute the following commands: sudo apt-get install python-software-propertiessudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/javasudo apt-get update Oracle JDK 7 sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
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Adding a second hard drive/additional storage Note: This is for an OS drive “sda” and a Data drive “sdb” ls /dev/sd* Because sdb has no partitions there should be no sdb1 or sdb2 (paritions) fdisk /dev/sdb n p Enter Enter w mkfs.ext4 -L /images /dev/sdb1 nano /etc/fstab Add the following line at the botton of
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