DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol For any administrator it is mandatory to have service like dhcp for seamless network operation, even though your network is of only few computers. Following is tested on Ubuntu 10.10 Install dhcp service apt-get install dhcp3-server Change configuration /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf file as per your requirement Or backup & change its [...]
Full Story »Install & Configure MediaWiki -CentOS/Ubuntu
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki. There are many wiki software available. you can pick most suitable one for you from. [...]
Full Story »Installing Bugzilla on Ubuntu
Read About Bugzilla Install Dependencies apt-get install mysql-server perl apache2 gcc libapache2-mod-perl2 Download latest stable version Extract bugzilla to /var/www tar zxvf bugzilla-3.6.3.tar.gz cd bugzilla-3.6.3/ mv * /var/www/ Install required modules cd /var/www/ /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl –all Check required/installed modules ./checksetup.pl –check-modules To create localconfig under web ./checksetup.pl Create database mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE [...]
Full Story »Installing LibreOffice on Ubuntu using Repository
Since in next versions of Ubuntu the default office suite will be Libreoffice. Here is the small how to which will help you to install Libreoffice on your Ubuntu. Remove openoffice (This is not necessary, as by the time of installation of libreoffice, openoffice gets removed) sudo apt-get purge openoffice* Add Repository for libreoffice sudo [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Ubuntu to latest version – using shell
Update This method works for Ubuntu 11.10 This method works for Ubuntu 11.04 All you need to do is to run few commands to upgrade your existing Ubuntu to latest version. Previously I have written few posts with every new release of Ubuntu. This time I was not willing to do the same. This procedure [...]
Full Story »Easiest way to Install / Upgrade Thunderbird on Ubuntu / Fedora
Mozilla provides Linux packages for Firefox / Thunderbird, but many of users prefer using packages available with distro. As a result you need to wait until your favorite disto release latest rpm / deb or find alternative repo to get latest packages. Rather hunting you may start using TAR packages available at mozilla. You can [...]
Full Story »PXE boot Ubuntu
Update: This works with latest version – ubuntu 11.10 Once you are done setting-up PXE Server, you might need few OS booting from network / pxe for rescue purpose. Ubuntu 10.04 can be configured to boot from network & can be used for system rescue. Following is the procedure to boot Ubuntu 10.04 using PXE. [...]
Full Story »Ubuntu Takes long to auth SSH Server
Many of you must have faced slow ssh auth in Ubuntu or any other linux client. To eliminate delay you may change following in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. from #GSSAPIAuthentication yes to #GSSAPIAuthentication no GSSAPI (Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface) is a function interface that provides security services for applications in a mechanism-independent way. [...]
Full Story »Root login on Ubuntu 10.04
Update This works with Ubuntu 11.04 This is same as Root login on Ubuntu 9.10. all you need to do is to assign root password. sudo passwd root Logoff & logon with other user, here use root credentials.
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