How to Install Oracle VirtualBox on Ubuntu and Linux Mint 20.04 LTS

VirtualBox is a popular “Cross-platform” Hosted or type 2 Hypervisors for x86-based systems developed and maintained by Oracle Corporation which enables users to easily install, run and deploy multiple Guest Operating Systems on a single host. In this guide, we’ll show you two simple ways to install VirtualBox on Debian-based Linux system (Ubuntu & Linux Mint). …

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How To Find The UUID of a Device or Filesystem in Linux

UUID stands for Universally Unique IDentifier is a unique tag assigned to each and every device partitions attached to the system. Have you ever seen entry in “/etc/fstab” file wherein 128-bits Hex numbers separated by hyphens that looks like UUID=”6085679d-f72c-425c-8b00-2d1eb0eb5efe”. Such entries are called universally unique identifiers (UUID). This to make hard drive management easier. …

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How to mount an ISO Image File on Linux

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) files or images are useful for a many things, commonly find them as software installation, making backups and storing data. Linux also has great ways to manage ISO files or images from Graphical Interface and Command Line Interface (CLI). ISO images files have a file extension of .ISO. The name ISO …

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How to Create an Apache-based YUM/DNF Repository on CentOS and RedHat Linux 8

Yellowdog Updater Modified (YUM) or Dandified YUM (DNF) are the software package managers to manage RPM-based Linux distributions. Using YUM or DNF tool, we can install , update, remove, search rpm packages without having to manually update or install each rpm packages. Following are the advantages to create local repositories.  RPM packages are available locally, …

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How to Install MongoDB Community Edition on Ubuntu Linux 20.04/18.04 LTS

MongoDB is an open-source, schema-free document-oriented & cross-platform, NoSQL database. It stores data in collections of JSON-like flexible documents and used to create powerful websites and applications. MongoDB is available on default Ubuntu repositories, however the version in Ubuntu repositories are not the latest one. We need to install MongoDB package repository on Ubuntu to install the …

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How to Install PostgreSQL and pgAdmin4 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

PostgreSQL aka Postgres is an open-source object-oriented relational database management system (RDBMS). This post guide you to install PostgreSQL database on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with pgAdmin4. pgAdmin4 is a web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL. Also we will explore the basic PostgreSQL administration including setting up a new user and database. . Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server …

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