One of our machines threw this error when we tried to install the latest Intel display driver from their website. This happens when your computer manufacturer changes a setting in the bundled driver indicating that drivers only obtained from the…
We’ll be looking into how to install Node.js on Ubuntu versions 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04. We’ll install Node.js with NVM (Node Version Manager). This lets us install any version of Node.js and then switch between them with one command.…
Today we’ll be looking at how to install the GeoIP module on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04 for NGINX. You may come across an error like the following while trying to compile/install Nginx from source: ./configure: error: the…
Ran into this rather peculiar error recently while installing Varnish Cache on CentOS 7. Resolving Dependencies –> Running transaction check —> Package varnish-devel.x86_64 0:5.2.1-1.el6 will be installed –> Processing Dependency: varnish = 5.2.1-1.el6 for package: varnish-devel-5.2. 1-1.el6.x86_64 –> Running transaction…
This tutorial will cover how to mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 7. We’ll use the open-source version of the NTFS for Linux driver by Tuxera, NTFS-3G. The Prerequisites To mount an NTFS drive, start off by adding the remi-release…
We’ll look at installing and configuring ZFS on CentOS 7.6 today. Why ZFS? “It is an enterprise-ready open source file system and volume manager with unprecedented flexibility and an uncompromising commitment to data integrity. ZFS is a truly next-generation file…
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) let’s you do a lot of interesting stuff inside Windows, biggest of which is installing Linux applications. We’ll look into installing MariaDB on Ubuntu running inside WSL. Before we start, make sure you have WSL…
Running a headless (terminal only) server is great and all but sometimes a GUI helps. We’ll be installing GNOME 3.28 on CentOS 7.4. This comes really handy when you want to remotely administer a server and keep the bloat to an…
Logging RSYNC output to file can be cumbersome but useful at times. Cumbersome because if you’re transferring a large number of files then the log file becomes intelligible but useful in cases where you need to track successful vs. unsuccessful transfers.…
Ubuntu isn’t bundled with exFAT read/write support out of the box, scouring the internet revealed we needed to install two packages. exfat-fuse exfat-utils This threw a very ugly error Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Package…