Mozilla Firefox is a default Internet browser on Ubuntu 18.04 so this article only shortly mentions installation and focuses also on uninstall and update processes.
Operating System and Software Versions
Operating System: - Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux
Requirements
Privileged access to your Ubuntu System as root or via sudo command is required.
The objective is to install Gnome Shell Extensions from ZIP file using command line on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux. The installation of Gnome Shell Extensions from ZIP file using command line can be considered as an alternative to a standard way of Gnome Shell Extensions installation.
Operating System and Software Versions
Operating System: - Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
Software: - GNOME Shell 3.26.2 or higher
Requirements
Apart of the install GNOME Shell there are no special requirements
A working install of Ubuntu 18.04 with root privileges
Difficulty
Easy
Conventions
# - requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
$ - requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
Introduction
When it comes to self hosted cloud storage Nextcloud is definitely the best option. It's fully open source, and allows you full control over your server. You can, of course, create your own user accounts and manage access too. There are a couple of options when it comes to setting up Nextcloud on Ubuntu. You can use Docker or you can follow the traditional install method. Either one will work. The Docker method will probably work better if you don't want to configure and manage the entire server yourself.
The objective of this article is to serve as a quick reference guide on how to allow incoming traffic on any TCP or UDP port using Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux with UFW firewall.
Operating System and Software Versions
Operating System: - Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux
Requirements
Privileged access to your Ubuntu System as root or via sudo command is required.
Whether or not you like it, WordPress is a huge deal. It powers a gigantic portion of the Internet, and it remains one of the easiest ways to get a website online. Installing WordPress is dead simple, once you have a LAMP or LEMP server running on Ubuntu. This guide piggy-backs on the existing PHP server guides to get you running WordPress in as little time as possible.
Install Matomo analytics on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
Distributions
Ubuntu 18.04
Requirements
A working install of Ubuntu 18.04 with root privileges
Difficulty
Easy
Conventions
# - requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
$ - requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
Introduction
Analytics are important for nearly every website, but if you're a fan of free and open source software, the idea of letting Google monitor all of your site's traffic might not sound too good. There is, however, another option. You can install and host your own analytics with Matomor(formerly Piwik). Matomo is an open source PHP application that you can run yourself, putting you in control of your analytics platform. Plus, Matomo actually respects your users and doesn't try to break tracking protection.