Dec

6

How to Check MD5SUM of Downloads – Reader Questions

December 6, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in Q & A - Ubuntu

Steve emailed asking:
“…because all the DVDs I was burning were useless. Thanks for helping with that, only thing, how do I check the md5sum stuff? Should there be a separate file showing what it is? Where do I find what it’s supposed to be? Thanks for…”
This is a common occurrence, we download a CD or [...]

Jun

16

Getting Ubuntu – Reader Questions

June 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in Q & A - Ubuntu

“Steve” asks:
“I would like to download linux to cd but don’t want it on the host computer how do I do that?”
I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking, do you mean you don’t want it installed on the host computer or you don’t want the .iso file on the host computer?
1) Several years ago, I [...]

Mar

16

Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux

March 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 11 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Linux Projects - Hands On

For those of you who follow my other blog, you’ll know that my last Windows PC had a major failure again. You can read some of the specifics in the “When Disaster Strikes – Again” post. At that point I decided to install Ubuntu (effectively removing Windows based PC’s from the network).
In some ways I [...]

Jul

17

Installing an Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 LAMP and FFMpeg Server With a GUI – Installation of OpenSSH.

July 17, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in How to..., Linux Projects - Hands On

In the last installment, I covered what was done to install LAMP on the server. But remember that we did not install SSH. Why is SSH important? It allows us to remotely connect to the server using tools such as PuTTY, so that we can execute commands, install software, etc.
The command is simple:
sudo [...]

Jun

25

Installing an Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 LAMP and FFMpeg Server With a GUI – LAMP installation with cgi-bin

June 25, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in How to..., Linux Projects - Hands On

The last post I covered the hardware installation for this project. For this section, we’re going to use Ubuntu Linux (8.04 LTS Server Edition 64-bit) to install the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. If you don’t have that software available, you can get it using the following venues:
1. Download the iso image [...]

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