Take a look at the official installation guide. The simplest way to install Ansible on Ubuntu is add the PPA repository and install via apt-get. If not already installed, you will need the software-properties-common package. […]
In a previous post, I talked about my experience using X2Go with XFCE4 and Lubuntu. Here is how it was achieved….. Contents1 On the Server1.1 Create a User Account1.2 Configure SSH1.3 Install Lightweight Desktop Environment1.3.1 […]
So I wanted to install a Java desktop application and have it publicly available on a server somewhere. Using a light weight desktop environment on one of my cloud servers made sense – provided that […]
Log into the Rackspace cloud control panel and click on on the DNS tab at the top of the screen. Then click on Create Domain, fill out the details, and click Create Domain again to […]
My parents are retired and have a house in France where they live for about three months of the year. Like most people in the UK, they watch a lot of TV and are big […]
Occassionally when using Arch Linux, you may come across a warning: dependency cycle detected message when trying to update your system using pacman. Here we simply need to update the nvidia-libgl package…… …and then proceed […]
Check to see if there are any trusted storage pools already configured. Check you can establish communication from web01 to web02. This will fail if the peer isn’t listen or if the firewall is blocking […]
You will need to download the following repository file to the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory before trying to install the glusterfs-server package. It will pull-in a load of dependencies… …Accept the GPG key imports you are alerted […]
NewRelic is a real-time monitoring tool that has a number of useful plugins. Here I am installing the server monitoring agent to keep track of my servers health. To install the server monitoring agent, first […]
The Rackspace cloud monitoring agent allows you to monitor CPU, memory, filesystem usage and system processes. It does this by collecting information about the system and pushing it out to Rackspace Cloud Monitoring web services, […]
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