Dropbox on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Workstation.

How to install Dropbox on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

Dropbox is a service offering file hosting for their users. Some of Dropbox’s features include: cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud and client software.The following step-by-step guide will provide you with the instructions on how to install and integrate Dropbox on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8using the flatpak command.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to enable Flathub repository.
  • How to install Dropbox on RHEL 8 using the flatpak command.
  • How to launch and integrate Dropbox.

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Wireshark application on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8.

How to install wireshark on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux

Wireshark is an extremely powerful and useful tool for any network administrator to have. This article will cover the installation part of Wireshark on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8.

In case you need more basic information or usage examples on how to engage with Wireshark visit our Basics of network protocol analyzer Wireshark On Linux guide.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install Wireshark as GUI application on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8.
  • How to install Wireshark as command line tool on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8.

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Installation of Apache Web Server on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 using dnf command

How to install Apache on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux

The Apache HTTP Server or simply Apache, is free and open-source cross-platform web server software developed and maintained by Apache Software Foundation. Apache is a easy to learn and configure web server providing an ability to host websites mainly via HTTP or HTTPS protocols. Under RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 system Apache webserver is know under name httpd.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install Apache webserver
  • How to enable and start Apache webserver
  • How to open firewall HTTP port 80
  • How to create basic same website

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Latest Firefox Quantum Internet browser on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 workstation

How to install latest Firefox browser on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Workstation

The Firefox comes pre-installed on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8. In this tutorial you will learn how to install a latest Firefox browser directly from Mozilla repository.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install latest Firefox on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 workstation
  • How to backup existing Firefox installation and exclude form updating
  • How to start Firefox browser

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Chef Architecture

How to install Chef Server, Workstation and Chef Client on Ubuntu 18.04

Chef is a Ruby based configuration management tool used to define infrastructure as code. This enables users to automate the management of many nodes and maintain consistency across those nodes. Recipes declare the desired state for managed nodes and are created on a user’s workstation using the Chef Workstation package. Your recipes are distributed across nodes via a Chef server. A Chef client, installed on each node, is in charge of applying the recipe to its corresponding node. This guide will show you how to install and configure a Chef Server and Chef Workstation. We will also bootstrap a node to manage with Chef.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • Install and Configure the Chef Server
  • Create Chef User and Organization
  • Install and Configure the Chef Workstation
  • Configure Knife and Bootstrapping a Client Node

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Successful Nextcloud installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

How to install Nextcloud on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 server

In this article we will be performing an installation of Nextcloud. Nextcloud is a suite of client-server software to provide easy file sharing. The operating system to be used will be RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 server with MariaDB, PHP and Apache web-server.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install Nextcloud prerequisites
  • How to download and upzip Nextcloud source package
  • How to setup MariaDB database
  • How to setup Nextcloud

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Successful OwnCloud installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

How to install OwnCloud on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 server

In this article we will be performing an installation of OwnCloud directly from the official OwnCloud package. OwnCloud is a suite of client-server software to provide easy file sharing. The operating system to be used will be RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 server with MySQL, PHP and Apache web-server.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install Owncloud prerequisites
  • How to download and upzip OwnCloud source package
  • How to setup MariaDB database
  • How to setup OwnCloud

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add-user-to-group-rhel8

How to add a user to a group on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

In the context of a discretionary access control (DAC) mechanism, the access to system resources, files and directories, is based on the identity of the users and on the groups they are member of. This type of access control is called “discretionary” because a user can perform its own policy decisions (limited by its own permissions, of course). In this tutorial we will see how to add a user to a group and what is the difference between a primary and a secondary group on a RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux system.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • What is the difference between a primary and a secondary group
  • How to add a user to a group by using the usermod command
  • How to add a user to a group directly with vigr

add-user-to-group-rhel8

How to add a user to a group on Rhel8

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Install KVM on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

How to Install KVM on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

KVM is a powerful hypervisor that’s tightly integrated into Linux systems. It requires minimal resources, and it’s free to use. As an added bonus, Red Hat is one of the primary developers behind KVM, so you can expect it to work well on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to Set Up a Network Bridge
  • How to Install KVM
  • How to Start KVM
  • How to Create a VM
  • How to Configure VNC

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UFW on Debian 10

How to Use UFW on Debian 10 Buster Linux

UFW is very simple to use and configure. It’s available right in the Debian repositories, and it integrates well into a Debian system. The simplified controls and ability to easily start and stop your firewall make in an excellent option for desktops and small servers.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to Install UFW
  • How to Set the Defaults on UFW
  • How to Allow Ports
  • How to Allow Interfaces
  • How to Allow Protocol
  • How to Allow IP Addresses
  • How to Enable UFW

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php-modules-rhel8

How to install php on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux

In the RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux systems, the way software is organized has changed: critical packages are now contained in the BaseOs repository, while the AppStream one contains multiple versions of some of the most common used applications and programming languages which are organized in modules, and updated independently of the distribution release cycle. This strategy has been adopted in order to avoid the problem of being stuck with a certain, too outdated or too recent release of a certain software.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install PHP on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
  • What are software modules in RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
  • How to install and switch between different versions of the PHP module
php-modules-rhel8

Available php modules on RHEL 8

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phpmyadmin-login-page

How to install phpMyAdmin on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

PhpMyAdmin is a php web application which let us manage a MariaDB/MySQL database from an intuitive graphical interface. The application is not provided in the RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 official repositories, and is usually installed from third party sources like EPEL. Epel-8 is, however, not yet available, so in this tutorial we will see how to fetch the upstream phpMyAdmin code and install it on our system “manually”.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to download and install phpMyAdmin from source
  • How to verify the downloaded archive
  • How to access the phpMyAdmin configuration wizard

phpmyadmin-login-page

The phpMyAdmin login page

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