How to Install Gitea on Ubuntu 18.04

In this article, we will show you how to install and configure Gitea service on Ubuntu 18.04. One of the best alternatives for GitHub is Gitea. Git with a cup of tea, also known as Gitea, is an open-source application that is a fork of Gogs and is functionally very similar to GitHub, Bitbucket, and Gitlab.

Gitea is written in the Go language and can be run anywhere that Go can be compiled, such as Linux, macOS, Windows, ARM and PowerPC architectures. Gitea has many features such as problems and time tracking, branch repository, file locking, and tagging, merging and more. By following the instructions below, you will install Nginx, MariaDB, Git, create a system user, install Gitea and configure Nginx as a reverse proxy. Lets begin.

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How to Add a User to Sudo Group on Debian 9

In this article, we will show you how to add a user to the sudo group in Debian 9.

Every time you install a fresh new operating system, a user named root is being created automatically. This user is extremely powerful and even dangerous because it has a complete access to the server. Typically, the root user is only used for administrative tasks, as there are no restrictions present like they are for any other user.

Note that Linux does not have an “undo” command. In order to reduce the risk of irreversible damage to the system, we can create a user who will not have privileges to execute commands that can affect the server. However, having administrative access may still be appropriate for everyday tasks – sometimes we need the power to execute some command as an administrative user. This benefit can be utilized using the sudo command. However, to use the sudo command, the user is required to be present in the sudo group. Let’s get started with the tutorial. This should work in Debian 10 as well as other future versions of Debian, as these commands usually only have small variations over time.

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How to Install Apache Kafka on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache Kafka on CentOS 7.

Apache Kafka is an open source messaging system and distributed streaming platform. It’s designed to be scalable, responsive, and provide an excellent experience when dealing with real-time data feeds. It’s great at providing real time analytics and processing of data – and thanks to its rich API support, developers can easily implement Apache Kafka and mold it to their exact needs.

Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install Jupyter on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will go over the steps necessary to install Jupyter Notebook on a CentOS server.

Jupyter Notebook is a popular and widely used open-source web-based software that allows users to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.

Jupyter Notebook can be used for data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulations, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more. It has support for over 40 programming languages, including Python, Scala, R, and Julia. Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install SOPlanning on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install SOPlanning on an Ubuntu 18.04 server along with installing the Apache web server.

SOPlanning is a simple and open-source online planning tool designed to efficiently organize projects and tasks. It allows you to easily manage and plan your working tasks and assignments for each person of your team. This tool is very useful for any projects, small businesses, production plants, booking systems, vacation management systems, and so on. Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Set Up and Use Yum Repositories on CentOS 7

This tutorial explains how to set up and use Yum repositories on a CentOS 7 VPS.

The official CentOS 7 repository has a huge list of packages and it covers almost all bases in terms of software for servers, but sometimes we need some additional packages which are not available in the official repositories. In that case, we can simply add new repositories to further expand the catalogue of packages available to us. Let’s begin with the tutorial.

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How to Install GCC on Debian 9

In this guide, we will walk you through the steps of installing GCC on a server running Debian 9 using two different methods: using the APT package manager (Advanced Package Tool), and installation from source.

GCC, also known as the GNU Compiler Collection, is developed by Richard Stallman and was released by the Free Software Foundation. GCC is a very useful and widely-used collection of programming compilers, such as C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Objective-C++, Java, Go, and Ada. GCC is an official compiler of the GNU operating system, but it is also a standard compiler on many Unix operating systems such as Linux. Let’s get started with the installation.

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What is the Wait Command in Linux? (With Examples)

In this tutorial, we will explain what the wait command is, as well as providing a few usage examples so that you can better understand how to use it on a Linux VPS.

wait is a versatile tool which you can use in Linux to determine when a given process or job is completed. It will return its termination status as a result, with which you can understand whether the process completed successfully or if it failed for some reason. While this command looks similar to the sleep command, they fulfill different purposes. Let’s get into it.

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How to Install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Apache Kafka on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

Apache Kafka is one of the most popular open-source stream processing software platforms available. Developed by the Apache Software Foundation, Apache Kafka is written in Scala and Java. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. It’s a scalable, fault-tolerant, publish-subscribe messaging system that allows you to build distributed applications. Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install Nagios Core on Ubuntu 16.04

This tutorial explains how to install Nagios Core on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. Nagios is an open source enterprise-class software that is used to monitor network infrastructures, servers and applications. With Nagios you can monitor Linux and Windows servers as well as web applications, Linux and Unix applications and Windows applications. The features include parallelized service checks, plugin system, notifications via email, pager or user defined service, web interface for viewing status, log files, problem history and notifications and much more.

This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well, such as the latest versions of Ubuntu, but it was tested and written for Ubuntu 16.04.

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