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Kimai – Time Trakcer installation deployment using Docker

28 November 2020 by Admin

About

Kimai is a free open source timetracker. It tracks the time you spend with various pre-set projects and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. The automated docker Kimai time tracker image “linuxconfig/kimai” can be used to instantly deploy the Kimai time tracker on your docker hosts.

Configuration

The Kimai runs on Debian GNU/Linux system featuring Apache web server, MariaDB ( MySQL ), database and PHP5. After creating a docker container based on “linuxconfig/kimai” docker image, a port 80 will be exposed which can be access on the docker host for an immediate Kimai web configuration/installation as well as later access.

Configured MySQL users:passwords:

root:”empty password”
admin:”pass”

Configured MySQL databases:

kimai

Exposed ports:

Deployment

The below command can be used to download and create a new docker container called kimai and link your docker host system’s port 80 with container’s exposed port 80.

# docker run -d --name=kimai -p 80:80 linuxconfig/kimai

Add cdrom block device to Debian apt sources list

20 October 2020 by Lubos Rendek

Here is a quick tip to add an official Debian CD disk to your /etc/apt/sources.list file to reduce package download requirement. Make sure that your CD is inserted to your CD-ROM drive and enter command:

# apt-cdrom add

Apache Solr Linux install

17 October 2020 by Korbin Brown

Apache Solr is open source search software. It’s capable of being implemented as an enterprise-level search engine thanks to its high scalability, advanced indexing, fast queries, and ability to integrate with a large variety of applications. It’s capable of tackling big data and also has high availability with its load balancing and failover configurations.

The platform is written in Java and can be installed on Linux systems. In this guide, we’ll show the step by step instructions for installing Apache Solr on some of the most popular Linux distros, including Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and Red Hat.

In this tutorial you will learn:

How to install Apache Solr on Debian based systems
How to install Apache Solr on Red Hat based systems
Initial configuration of Apache Solr

Apache Solr installed on Linux

sudo: apt-add-repository: command not found?

8 October 2020 by Korbin Brown

The sudo: apt-add-repository: command not found error is one you might encounter when trying to add a third party PPA repository on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or any other Linux distribution based on Debian.

PPA repositories are used for installing third party software not available in a system’s official repositories. In this guide, we’ll show you how to remedy this error so you can add these repositories and install the desired software.

In this tutorial you will learn:

How to fix apt-add-repository: command not found error

apt-add-repository: command not found error when trying to add a PPA respository

SugarCRM CE installation on Debian 7 Wheezy Linux

7 August 2020 by Admin

In this config we will install SugarCRM CE the community edition of customer relationship management software by SugarCRM, Inc on Debian 7 “wheezy” Linux.

Download

The community edition of sugarCRM is licensed under AGPLv3. Current version of sugarCRM CE is 6.5.18. Head over to SugarCRM CE home page and download the latest full installation package or use the link and command below to download sugarCRM CE to your home directory:

# wget http://goo.gl/lzyQw2
Saving to: `SugarCE-6.5.18.zip'

100%[===========>] 21,267,418   722K/s   in 34s     

2014-10-20 06:09:54 (615 KB/s) - `SugarCE-6.5.18.zip' saved [21267418/21267418]

How to Watch Sling TV in Kodi

6 June 2020 by Nick Congleton

Kodi’s support for DRM in version 18 and beyond opened the doors to streaming services like Sling TV. It’s simple enough to get it running within Kodi and start watching live TV legally.

In this tutorial you will learn:

How to Install the Inputstream Packages
How to Install the Inputstream Helper Add-on
How to Install Sling TV in Kodi
How to Sign in and Use Sling

WarZone2100 Installation on Debian Wheezy

3 June 2020 by Admin

If you run Debian Wheezy 7 Linux as your main operating system and you wish to try open source real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game WarZone 2100 then here is a short guide on how to install this game on your debian system.

First, download latest tar ball from official WarZone2100 git repository. Start by installing git and then download WarZone2100’s latest source code:

# apt-get install git
$ git clone https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100.git

Debian Linux Download

2 June 2020 by Korbin Brown

Debian is one of the oldest Linux distributions that still survives today. If you’re looking for a tried and true Linux distro to download, Debian is about as good as it gets. For other most popular Linux distributions please visit our dedicated linux download page. Debian believes in a completely free operating system.

Other popular Linux distributions, like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and many others are based off of Debian. It comes with GNOME desktop environment and a huge repository of software that can be installed with apt package manager.

Debian is a solid choice for both desktops and servers, which has given way to its sustained popularity over the last three decades. Debian’s long reign as one of the most popular distributions has yielded a lot of documentation available on the official website. It’s easy to get started with Debian.

Install Intel wireless firmware on Debian 7 wheezy

29 May 2020 by Admin

If you have not installed wireless firmware to support your wireless network card during Debian wheezy installation you can do so later by enabling debian’s non-free repository. Here is how you do it. First open your /etc/apt/sources.list file and change line ( your repository mirror may be different ):

from:

deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main

to:

deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main non-free

Once done update packages list with a command:

# apt-get update

How to Install Netflix in Kodi on Ubuntu and Debian

26 July 2019 by Nick Congleton

With the arrival of Kodi 18 Leia also came the ability to access DRM restricted content from servies like Netflix. As of now, the Netflix add-on isn’t in the official Kodi repositories, but it’s easy enough to install and set up on Debian and Ubuntu, and that includes installations on the Raspberry Pi.

In this tutorial you will learn:

How to Install Kodi 18
How to Install the Netflix Dependencies
How to Enable The Netflix Repository
How to Install the Netflix Add-on

How to Install Nextcloud Client on Debian 10 Buster

19 July 2019 by Nick Congleton

If you already have a Nextcloud server in place, you’re going to need to set up your client devices to connect to it. Setting up the Nextcloud client on Debian is very simple, and so is setting up your folders to sync.

In this tutorial you will learn:

How to Install the Nextcloud Client
How to Connect to the Server
How to Set up a Folder to Sync

Easy way to create a Debian package and local package repository

19 July 2019 by Lubos Rendek

This article describes a simple way to create a home made debian package and include it into a local package repository. Although we could use an existing Debian/Ubuntu package, we will start from scratch by creating and packaging our own trivial application. Once our package is ready, we will include it into our local package repository. This article illustrates a very simplistic approach, however it may serve as a template in many different scenarios.

In this tutorial you will learn:

How to create a trivial debian package
How to create a local debian repository
How to add the repository to the list of software sources