Posts by Guoan Xiao (Admin)

Install Oracle Java 8 on Debian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Via PPA

In a previous tutorial, I showed you how to install Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS…

Install Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu based Linux distributions, including  Ubuntu…

how to install mariadb database server on ubuntu

How to Install MariaDB 10.5 on Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04

This tutorial will be showing you how to install MariaDB 10.5 on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 server. MariaDB is…

Install MariaDB 10.1 on Debian 8

How to Install MariaDB 10.1 on Debian 8

MariaDB 10.1 is the latest stable release and some interesting new features it implemented are as follows: built-in galera cluster…

Install Spotify Stable on Ubuntu

How to Install Spotify on Debian, Ubuntu, Elementary OS

This tutorial will show you how to install Spotify music player client on Debian, Ubuntu, and Elementary OS. Install Spotify…

Ubuntu startup applications

How to Show Hidden Ubuntu Startup Applications

Today, I’m going to explain how to show the hidden Ubuntu startup applications. First, enter startup in the Dash and…

UEFI

Explaining UEFI Firmware for Linux Users

Today let’s take a loot at the firmware of our computer. Specifically, we will focus on BIOS and UEFI. UEFI…

zypper

Introduction to Zypper Package manager For OpenSUSE and SLE

Zypper is the command line package manager on openSUSE and SLE. It’s also a repository manager, having the capability of…

variety wallpaper

Install Variety Wallpaper Changer on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Archlinux

In a previous post, I showed you how to install and configure Variety Wallpaper on OpenSUSE Leap. You may want…

zypper

Make OpenSUSE Beautiful: Install Variety Wallpaper Changer

The Gnome edition of OpenSUSE Leap is not very eye-catching. Let’s start making it beautiful. Today we are going to…

Backup Linux Server

How to Use BitTorrent Sync to Backup Linux Server

This tutorial explains how to install and use BitTorrent Sync to automatically backup Linux server. BitTorrent Sync allows you to…

How to Install Nginx Mainline Version on CentOS7

The official Nginx release has two versions: stable version and mainline version. The mainline version contains the newest and greatest…

RepoForge Repository

How to Enable RepoForge Repository on CentOS 7

RPMForge is now RepoForge. And in this tutorial, I will show you how to install and enable RepoForge on CentOS…

fcitx input method

Install Chinese Fcitx Input method on OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 Gnome

Fcitx is one of the two main Chinese input method framework on Linux. Compared to Ibus, it takes less steps…

Boot ISO Files From GRUB2 Boot Loader

How to Boot ISO Files From GRUB2 Boot Loader

This tutorial will be showing you how to boot ISO files stored on your hard drive with the GRUB2 boot…

duplicate sources.list entry

Duplicate sources.list entry Warning after apt-get update

Today I got a duplicate sources.list entry warning when update local package index using apt-get update. As you can see…

Chromium and Google Chrome

Configure Proxy for Chromium and Google Chrome From Command Line on Linux

In this tutorial, I will show you how to configure proxy settings of Chromium and Google Chrome browser from the…

Install Google Chrome on openSUSE

How To Install Google Chrome On OpenSUSE Leap

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Google Chrome on OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 and 42.2. We will…

Bracket Text Editor

Install Bracket Text Editor On Ubuntu Using PPA

Brackets, led by a team from Adobe,  is an open source text editor for web developers to edit HTML, CSS…

Cordbird

How to Install CoreBird Twitter Client on Ubuntu the Easy Way

Corebird is an open source Twitter client for Linux. It provides a way more faster experience of using Twitter than…