A collection of guides written for the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
Steam is a popular video game service that gives you access to tons of new and old gaming titles on your computer. It can be installed on a variety of systems, including Linux. In this guide, we’ll go over the step by step instructions to install Steam on Ubuntu Linux. Install Steam on Ubuntu Step …
TeamViewer is desktop sharing software available for a wide variety of systems, including Linux. In this guide, you’ll see how to install and use TeamViewer on Ubuntu Linux. Install TeamViewer on Ubuntu Step 1. Start by opening a terminal and downloading the latest release of TeamViewer. You can do that by executing the following wget …
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that can be used to create websites or web-based applications. The process for hosting a website that has been built with Node.js differs quite a bit from a “normal” HTML website, or even those that use PHP or other languages. In this guide, we’ll go over the instructions to …
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NGINX is a popular choice for web servers, but if you’d like to remove the software, we’ve got you covered here. In this guide, we’ll show how to properly uninstall and remove NGINX from Ubuntu Linux. The best way to remove NGINX from Ubuntu is by using the built-in APT package manager. APT gives us …
In this guide, we’ll see how to install the Google Chrome browser on Ubuntu Linux in a few short steps. Chrome must be downloaded from Google’s website, since it’s not included in Ubuntu’s package repos, as a result of being proprietary software. Download & Install Chrome on Ubuntu 1. Start by opening a terminal and …
This guide will explain the step by step instructions to host a Killing Floor 2 server on Ubuntu Linux. Follow along below to get your server configured and be up and running quickly. To keep things simple, we will be using /kf2 as our installation directory, and we’re assuming that you are doing everything with …
Help! I’ve forgotten the root password! Even if you’ve forgotten the root password to your Ubuntu Linux system, it’s pretty easy to recover access to the root account by setting a new password. In this guide, we’ll show you how to set a new password for your root account in a few short steps. Reset …
VirtualBox Guest Additions will help you get the most out of your Ubuntu virtual machine. It gives you automatic resolution scaling, a shared clipboard between the host and VM, and drag and drop ability. The step by step instructions below will explain how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu Linux. 1. First, we’ll enable …
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This guide shows the step by step instructions to install WordPress on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache HTTP server, MySQL database, and an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. 1. Get started by installing all of the required packages on your Ubuntu 20.04 system. This will include Apache, PHP, MySQL, Let’s Encrypt certification bot, and all of …
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Ubuntu has automatic updates enabled by default. Ordinarily, this is a convenient feature that helps our system stay up to date with the latest features, and protected with the newest security patches. However, on test systems or in edge cases, it can just be plain annoying. In this article, we’ll show you how to disable …
