NetworkManager is a software application that manages network connections and network settings in Ubuntu Linux. An instance of NetworkManager runs for each network connection managed, which includes Wi-Fi and Ethernet connections, mobile broadband (GSM/3G), and others; NetworkManager will attempt to always maintain at least one active network connection available. If you are a system administrator…
How to Install the Latest Python Version on Debian 11
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum in 1991. Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS. Python can be used to develop desktop GUI applications and CGI scripts for the web. Also, it’s used for server-side scripting for Apache HTTP Server sites. Python is most popular for…
How to Install Apache Maven on AlmaLinux 8 and Rocky Linux 8
Maven is the name of an automated build engine used primarily for Java projects. It is a free, open-source tool that greatly eases building and managing of other libraries or applications that are to be bundled as part of the project. Maven takes care of details such as downloading dependencies, parsing information about those dependencies…
How to Install Apache Cassandra NoSQL Database on Rocky Linux 8
Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database management system. It is designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers and to survive the loss of any server. Cassandra’s architectural model is quite different from relational database systems. Cassandra stores non-relational data in row key-value pairs in a distributed set of nodes so that…
How to Install Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP (LEMP Stack) on AlmaLinux 8 and Rocky Linux 8
LEMP is a popular web hosting stack used by developers and web hosting companies to test and host web applications. It comprises 3 components: the Nginx ( pronounced as Engine-X) webserver, MariaDB, and PHP which is a server-side scripting language. In this walkthrough, you will learn how to install the LEMP stack on AlmaLinux and…
How to Install MariaDB on Rocky Linux 8
MariaDB is an open-source RDBMS that is mostly used for web development. It uses MySQL as its primary storage engine, but it is also lightweight, secure, and features in-memory ACID transactions. MariaDB was originally created by Michael Howard, a former engineer from Oracle Corporation and the Vice President of Engineering at Sun Microsystems. While it…
Traceroute command in Linux with practical examples
Traceroute is a network diagnostic tool that is used to display the route that network packages take from sender t receiver as well as the time it takes for the network packages to travel from one network node to the other. This command is used to test the IP route of the destination server or…
How to make Google Chrome the default Browser in Ubuntu
Chrome is the most used web-browser across the world. Everyone, in no matter what walk of life, has at least heard of it, if not used it in any capacity. It provides a plethora of features, supporting a plethora of extensions, and developer options that make it a must have web browser for everyone. Though…
How to Install and Use Podman on Rocky Linux 8
Podman is a free and open-source daemonless container engine that was developed by RedHat. It exists to help developers manage and deploy their applications in a Linux environment. Similar to the Kubernetes platform, Podman works with pods. Podman seeks to be the alternative to the Docker engine which is also a containerization platform. Podman improves…
How to Unpack Files in Linux Terminal
Linux is a popular operating system that includes various utilities for handling files, including zipping and unzipping files. Some other zip operations are zipcloak, zipdetails, zipsplit and zipinfo, but in this article, we will discuss how to extract data from files (unzip operation). In this article, I have used Ubuntu 22.04, a widely used and…