The objective is to install Tomcat 9 on Debian 9 Stretch Linux.
Privileged access to your Debian system is required in order to perform Tomcat and Oracle Java installation.
MEDIUM
The objective is to desktop sharing application TeamViewer on Debian 9 Linux.
Privileged access to to your Debian system will be required to install TeamViewer and its prerequisites.
EASY
The objective is to install latest Chromium Web Browser on RHEL7 Linux.
Privileged access to your system will be required.
EASY
Monitor system temperatures and voltage on an AMD Ryzen system running Linux.
All distributions running kernel 4.11 or higher
A working Linux install with kernel 4.11 or greater and root privileges.
Medium
sudo commandAMD’s Ryzen CPUs have been out for several months now, but AMD still hasn’t released any specifications or code to get temperature monitoring support for CPU sensors in Linux.
Thankfully, there are fairly accurate sensors on Ryzen motherboards, and they are accessible through Linux. You can only take full advantage of them by using the latest kernel modules, and in some cases, lm_sensors itself.
Install Termux on an Android device and use it to establish passwordless SSH to a Linux computer.
This guide will work with any Linux computer.
A working Linux computer and an Android device.
Easy
sudo commandIt might seem kind of strange, but being able to access the command line of your computer remotely from your phone is very convenient, especially when paired with an excellent Android terminal emulator, like Termux.
Termux makes the process very easy. It emulates parts of a GNU/Linux, including a /home directory. Termux actually has a package manager, in the form of Apt, and it can install some basic packages.
Learn how to restrict users access on a Linux machine
EASY
Learn how to use the bash getopts builtin to parse a script options
MEDIUM
Overclock Radeon RX 400 series and newer graphics cards under Linux using the AMDGPU open source drivers.
This method will work on any Linux distribution running the AMDGPU drivers.
A working Linux install running kernel 4.10 or newer with root privileges and the AMDGPU drivers installed.
Easy
sudo commandThe open source AMDGPU drivers don’t have a fancy GUI interface that lets you overclock your card. Actually, they don’t come with any kind of control center at all. That’s alright, though, you can still overclock your card by modifying a couple of values in configuration files, a perfectly Linux solution if you think about it.
Set up Ubuntu 16.04 for Ethereum mining.
This guide was tested for Ubuntu 16.04, but many principles will hold true on other distributions.
A working Ubuntu 16.04 installation with root privileges. You also need a modern GPU with more than 4GB of RAM.
Easy
sudo commandIt’s hard not to have heard about Ethereum by now. It’s the hottest new cryptocurrency that’s still very much so on the rise. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum is still practical to mine, and tons of people are getting in on it. If you’ve been considering mining Ethereum, this guide will help you get started using open source tools and Ubuntu.
Play audio with VLC in Python.
This will work on any Linux distribution
A working Linux install with Python and VLC.
Easy
sudo commandThere are plenty of ways to play audio files with Python. It really depends on your application, but the easiest way, by far, is to use the bindings for VLC to control VLC with Python, and play your files.
With VLC, you don’t need to worry about codecs and file support. It also doesn’t require too many complicated methods, and/or objects. So, for simple audio playback, VLC is best.
The objective is to install Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux.
This guide will provide you with instructions on how to install Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04 from a standard Ubuntu repository, PPA repository and also how to install latest Ansible version by compiling the source code.
Privileged access to your Ubuntu System as root or via sudo command is required.
EASY – MEDIUM
There probably aren’t two Linux distributions more closely related than Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Actually, the two are so close to one another, there’s serious debate about whether or not they are the same distribution.
Linux Mint takes Ubuntu and adds some extra polish to it. Mint has a different default configuration, some additional packages, and its own desktop environments. Otherwise, it’s the same distribution as Ubuntu.