To migrate your Plex server to a new Ubuntu server, you can follow these steps: 1. Set up the new Ubuntu server: Install Ubuntu on the new server and ensure that it is up to date with the latest updates and packages. 2. Install Plex Media Server: On the new …
Read More »Boot Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS from USB SSD on Raspberry Pi 4
This is a guide for configuring Raspberry Pi4 to boot Ubuntu from external USB SSD drive instead of SD card. SSD drives are much faster than SD cards, more reliable and now lower cost than SD cards for larger memory sizes.Instructions for Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS are provided. Note that …
Read More »Quick Snap Cheat Sheet for Ubuntu
Snaps are app packages for desktop, cloud and IoT that are easy to install, secure, cross‐platform and dependency‐free. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, the app store for Linux with an audience of millions. This post is a quick snap cheat sheet for Ubuntu that contains the …
Read More »Use any Linux applications through a proxy (apt-get, wget etc)
It's pretty normal in many Organizations to use get servers to connect to Internet via a Proxy. In most cases it's for updating apt-get or yum via proxy. However, quite often you might need to download packages directly using wget or curl and setting up apt-get or apt via proxy, wget via proxy, curl via proxy is a pain. What if you could simply setup a Proxy and just use any applications to use that using a simply command? I faced this many times and hence writing this guide. Note that if you're only allowing apt-get via proxy then stick with configuring /etc/apt.conf or /etc/apt/conf.d/00proxy or something similar but if you need to allow different applications via a proxy then this method is best and simplest.
Read More »How to configure automatic updates in Ubuntu Server
This guide explains how to configure automatic updates in Ubuntu Server 20.04. This tutorial is based on the following official Ubuntu Documentation article: Ubuntu Server Guide » Package Management » Automatic Updates. If you just want to do it, scroll down to the end and copy paste the two configuration …
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