It's possible to delete a user account from an Ubuntu system via either command line or GUI. The command line method will work on any system, but the GUI method will vary slightly, depending on the desktop environment you're using. In this guide, we'll be showing the process for command line, GNOME, and KDE. This should cover most installations, since GNOME is the default GUI for Ubuntu and KDE the default for Kubuntu. Let's get started.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to remove a user via command line on Ubuntu
How to remove a user on GNOME GUI (default Ubuntu desktop)
How to remove a user on KDE GUI (default Kubuntu desktop)
In this guide, we'll be going over the step by step instructions to remove Apache web server from Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu offers us two options for uninstalling the software, either "remove" or "purge." Read on to learn the difference and find out how to perform either function.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to remove, purge, or reinstall Apache web server from Ubuntu
Files with a .rar extension are compressed archives, much like a .tar.gz or .zip file. It's one of many file compression formats that rose to popularity over the years, but requires its own utility to use.
You may have an individual .rar archive such as file.rar, but RAR archives are also known for being split into multiple files, such as file.rar, file.r00, file.r01, etc. In these cases, it's necessary to open the file.rar file, which will then automatically combine the rest of the files into a single archive and extract its contents.
In this guide, we'll see how to extract files from a RAR archive on Ubuntu Linux. This will work whether you have an individual .rar file or an archive that's been split into a sequence of files.
If you ever work with Debian Linux or one of the many Linux distributions that were derived from it, such as Ubuntu, you've probably seen or used the APT package manager. APT is how packages are installed, updated, and removed on such systems.
When using the command line, the apt update and apt upgrade commands can be used to update package repos and upgrade packages, respectively. In this guide, we'll be looking at the difference between the two commands and how they can both be used to upgrade installed packages on a Debian based system.
DID YOU KNOW? You may also see apt-get update and apt-get upgrade commands used. We've written a full article explaining the difference between apt and apt-get, but suffice it to say that these commands perform basically the same functions as the corresponding apt commands.
In this tutorial you will learn:
What distros use apt update and apt upgrade?
What is the difference between apt update and apt upgrade?
The objective is to install the NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla Linux and switch from a opensource Nouveau driver to the proprietary Nvidia driver.
To install Nvidia driver on other Linux distributions, follow our Nvidia Linux Driver guide.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to perform an automatic Nvidia driver installation using standard Ubuntu Repository
How to perform an Nvidia driver installation using PPA repository
How to install the official Nvidia.com driver
How to uninstall/switch back from Nvidia to Nouveau opensource driver
If you ever need to record your screen on Ubuntu Linux, there are a lot of tools you can use to accomplish the task. Not all Linux screen recording software is created equal, and you may find that one tool suits your scenario better than others.
In this guide, we're counting down our top 5 favorite screen recorders for Ubuntu. We'll also cover their highlighted features and show you how to install and get started using each one via apt package manager on command line.
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
Netplan is an utility developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. It provides a network configuration abstraction over the currently supported two “backend” system, (or “renderer” in Netplan terminology): networkd and NetworkManager. Using Netplan, both physical and virtual network interfaces are configured via yaml files which are translated to configurations compatible with the selected backend.
On Ubuntu 20.04 Netplan replaces the traditional method of configuring network interfaces using the /etc/network/interfaces file; it aims to make things easier and more centralized (the old way of configuring interfaces can still be used: check our article about How to switch back networking to /etc/network/interfaces on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux). In this article we will learn the basic principles behind the utility, and, just as an example, how we can use it to configure a static IPv4 address for a network interface.
In this tutorial you will learn:
The basic structure of yaml configuration files used by Netplan
How to create a simple rule to assign a static IP to a network interface
How to apply configurations using generate, try and apply subcommands
After installing PHP or an entire LAMP server on Ubuntu Linux, there are a few ways you can check to see what version you're running at any time. This can help you stay up to date and develop web applications that adhere to newer coding standards and conventions, since PHP is still being developed.
In this guide, we'll show you multiple ways to check the version of PHP on Ubuntu. Feel free to pick whichever method is most convenient for your situation.
If there's software on your Ubuntu Linux system that you wish to remove, there are a few ways to go about uninstalling the associated packages.
In this guide, we'll take you through the step by step instructions for uninstalling a package on Ubuntu from both GUI and command line. We'll also show you options for deleting or keeping the configuration files that are associated with a package. Use whichever method below that you find most convenient for your situation.
In this Ubuntu 20.10 Download guide you will learn where to download and how to download Ubuntu 20.10 ISO image for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kylin desktops and Ubuntu 20.10 Server.
Redis is open source software used as a database and cache that sits in memory, allowing for exceptional performance. When you're ready to give this lightning fast program a try, the developers recommend installing Redis on a Linux system, and what better candidate than Ubuntu Linux?
In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the step by step instructions of installing Redis (both server and client) on Ubuntu. Then, we'll verify that it's connectable and configure the UFW firewall to allow incoming connections.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to install Redis Server and Client on Ubuntu Linux
How to perform a connection test and configure UFW to allow Redis
Downloading Ubuntu ISO images with a torrent client is one of the most efficient ways to obtain the installation media. Torrenting allows you download the file from multiple sources simultaneously, which means you'll wind up with a very speedy download because the entirety of your network's download bandwidth can remain saturated. It's a very reliable method for downloading large files.
It also takes some strain off of official Ubuntu mirrors, so you're actually helping them out a little by getting an ISO image from the torrent swarm. If you want to continue helping after the download completes, you can choose to leave the Ubuntu torrent in your torrent client and let it "seed" (torrenting jargon for upload) to other prospective downloaders.
Ubuntu is one of the most well known Linux distributions available. You've probably seen Canonical's ubiquitous logo and the familiar look of Ubuntu Desktop running GNOME. What you may not have realized is that Ubuntu also has a very popular server edition of their operating system.
Many distributions choose to concentrate on a single computing environment - either desktop PCs or servers. But Ubuntu's massive popularity and strong footing in the Linux community have allowed it to produce a very viable server edition and still maintain their desktop release.
