Detailed tutorials and guides
Introduction In this guide I will be showing you how you can install the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10. An update to this will be released in Windows 10 version 2004 in late May 2020. You can find out more about this here. Important thing to note is that WSL 1 (covered in … Read more
Introduction In this guide I will be going through the process of setting up an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine for building custom Android ROMs. This will be done by setting up our machine, getting the Android Open Source Project’s (AOSP) code from Google and actually building it. This guide will be aimed at building a … Read more
Introduction In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can setup OpenSSH to allow you to securely login via SSH Keys. This is very useful as it adds an extra level of authentication and also works as a great protection against people trying to guess your passwords! Prerequisites In order to follow this … Read more
Introduction In this guide, I will be showing you how you can install get WhatPulse setup on Ubuntu and Debian. This will start by getting all of the required software installed, installing WhatPulse and setting up all of the correct permissions. Prerequisites In order to follow this tutorial, you will need the following A supported … Read more
You can change the hostname on ubuntu via the terminal using the following command sudo hostname [newhostname] You may need to open up a new terminal window for you to see this change. To make this persistent, you can edit the following two files by replacing the previous hostname to the new one. sudo nano … Read more
For this to work, you will need to have access to an account with sudo privileges already. This has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 but will most likely work on all Debian based distributions. If you are creating a new account then you can use the following command sudo adduser [username] This will then create … Read more
In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can transfer files between servers. Below, you should be able to see this been done. Download to this server If you are currently connected to a server and would like to download a file to it from another server, you will need to run a … Read more
Introduction In this guide I will be showing you how you can run the commands on Ubuntu 15.04 to update the packages along with the distribution on the system. It is always a good idea to make sure that a server is up to date. Updating Package List To update the list of packages on … Read more
Introduction This tutorial will cover the steps required to setup your own LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP 7) on Ubuntu 16.04 Prerequisites In order to follow this tutorial, you will need the following Ubuntu 16.04 Sudo Permissions Update Package list Before installing any new packages, it is always good idea to update your … Read more
Introduction This tutorial will cover the steps required to setup your Ubuntu or Debian machine with a static IP Address via the terminal. Prerequisites In order to follow this tutorial, you will need the following Ubuntu or any other Debian based machine Sudo Permissions Changing your IP When using a server a server a lot … Read more