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GNOME desktop graphical environment on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

Install gnome on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

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RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 comes by default, as it has been for many years already with a GNOME desktop environment. From this reason, in a broader sense when we talk about GNOME desktop installation we normally talk about RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 workstation.

In this tutorial we will be installing GNOME desktop as part of the workstation package group.

In this Install gnome on Redhat 8 tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install Gnome Desktop on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8.
  • How to change runlevel to boot to graphical interface in RHEL 8 / CentOS 8.

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Dropbox on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Workstation.

How to install Dropbox on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

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

How to install Apache on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux

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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

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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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Wireshark application on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8.

How to install wireshark on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux

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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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Install KVM on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

How to Install KVM on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

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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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Successful Nextcloud installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

How to install Nextcloud on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 server

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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

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

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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

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How to add a user to a group on Rhel8

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How to install php on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux

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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
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Available php modules on RHEL 8

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How to configure a static IP address on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux

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There are many cases in which we may want to set a static IP for a network interface. In RHEL 8 / CentOS 8, the network connections are managed by the NetworkManager daemon, so in this tutorial we see how we can perform such task by editing an interface file directly, by using a command line utility, nmcli, or via a text user interface, nmtui.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to set a static IP address by directly editing an interface file
  • How to set a static IP address using the nmcli utility
  • How to set a static IP address using nmtui

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The edited network interface file

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Install P7Zip on RHEL 8

How to Install P7Zip on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

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P7Zip is required to extract certain archive files, especially the .7z kind. It isn’t available in the RHEL 8 repositories, so you’re going to need to get it elsewhere. For that, there are two options, the EPEL
and building it from source. Both work well.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to Install P7Zip From the EPEL
  • How to Download the P7Zip Source
  • How to Install the Build Tools
  • How to Build and Install P7Zip
  • Basic examples on how to extract and compress 7z files

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