Ran into another error while trying to compile nginx from source ./configure: error: the HTTP image filter module requires the GD library. You can either do not enable the module or install the libraries. This has a quick fix as…
Ran into this error when I was trying to compile nginx from source: ./configure: error: the HTTP XSLT module requires the libxml2/libxslt libraries. You can either do not enable the module or install the libraries. Luckily there’s a quick fix…
The elusive latest version of OpenSSL, we finally meet. As everyone knows, CentOS does not always ship with the latest version of softwares. The core repo focuses more on stability rather than freshness. We recently needed to update OpenSSL on…
Python PIP is a package installed similar to Yum on CentOS. It is the recommend / preferred way of installing Python packages on machines. To get started make sure you have the epel-release repo installed, make sure by running the…
Homebrew is a package manager similar to Yum on CentOS and Apt-get on Ubuntu. You may at times need packages that are available on other Linux distributions that are not, out of the box, available on your Mac. To install Homebrew is pretty…
htop is an interactive processor viewer for Unix based systems. With the release of version 2.0 it went cross-platform. This tool is great to get a detailed view of which service is taxing the CPU as well as get memory…
We recently needed the latest build of ImageMagick on one of our servers for PSD preview generation on OwnCloud. ImageMagick version 6, which ships with the base repo of CentOS 7 is broken and doesn’t generate PSD previews. Downloading rpm’s…
Node, built on the Chrome JavaScript runtime, enables you to build scalable and fast network applications. To install it is pretty straight forward, start off by installing the Development Tools group from CentOS: yum groupinstall “Development Tools” Now add the Node…
CentOS is really slow to update versions of software’s it maintains so we’ll have to add an external repo to install PHP 5.6 on our server. Make sure you backup everything on your server. Start off by removing any previous…
Installing the latest stable version of Mariadb, v. 10.1, is pretty straight forward. Start off by heading over to the repo configurator and getting the links for your version of Ubuntu: LINK For us the commands were as follows, enter them…