Jeff Wilson, Author at RoseHosting

How to Install RPM Packages On Ubuntu

December 13, 2022March 1, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

We will show you how to install RPM packages on Ubuntu. Debian-based systems such as Ubuntu and RedHat-based systems such as CentOS are mostly similar in their design. However, there are a few differences here and there. For example, RedHat-based systems use .rpm files for representing software packages, while Debian-based systems use .deb files. These file types differ from one another in their design, and cannot be installed outside of their respective type of operating systems (e.g. installing a .deb file on CentOS, or installing a .rpm file on Ubuntu). However, there are ways to port these packages to other types of systems. Installing RPM packages on Ubuntu VPS is a fairly easy task if you carefully follow the guide below. Let’s get started!

Pip Uninstall | Uninstall a pip package

December 19, 2022February 27, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

We will show you how to uninstall a pip package that you installed with pip install. pip is a package management tool that can be used to install and manage software packages written in Python, which can be found in the Python Package Index (PyPI). pip is a recursive acronym that can stand for either “Pip Installs Packages” or “Pip Installs Python”. Alternatively, pip stands for “preferred installer program”. Let’s see how you can use pip to remove packages.

Linux crontab

June 3, 2022February 22, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll show you, how to use Linux crontab. In a few simple steps we will explain, how to automate your system tasks using crontab in Linux. The cron software utility is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems. Cron is driven by a crontab (cron table) file, a configuration file that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule. The crontab files are stored where the lists of jobs and other instructions to the cron daemon are kept. Users can have their own individual crontab files and often there is a system-wide crontab file (usually in /etc or a subdirectory of /etc) that only system administrators can edit.

You can use cron to automatically run scripts within a specified period of time, create a backup of your databases or other important files, monitor the services running on your server and many other things. Let’s start

Find Large Files in Linux

April 5, 2023February 20, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

Today we will show you how you can find large files in Linux. One of the most common things you will do as a Linux system administrator is finding useless large files that consume disk space and removing them to free up space for applications that actually need it. Let’s dive in and find out how we can find large files in Linux.

How To Install Redmine on CentOS 7

July 4, 2024February 15, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Redmine on CentOS 7. Redmine is a free and open source issue tracking and web-based project management application . Redmine is built on Ruby on Rails framework and it is cross-platform and cross-database. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for CentOS 7 VPS. Let’s get started with installing Redmine on your CentOS 7 server.

How to Install Maven on Ubuntu 16.04

June 3, 2022February 13, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache Maven 3 on Ubuntu 16.04. Apache Maven is a free and open-source, software project management and comprehension tool written in Java. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage an entire project’s build.

With Maven, you can easily store documents, generate reports and documentation from a central piece of information. Installing Maven on Ubuntu 16.04 is a fairly easy task if you follow the steps below carefully and should not take more than 10 minutes.

How to Create a sudo user on CentOS 7

December 8, 2022February 8, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll guide you, how to create a sudo user on CentOS 7. Sudo is a Linux command line program that allows you to execute commands as superuser or another system user. The configuration file offers detailed access permissions, including enabling commands only from the invoking terminal; requiring a password per user or group; requiring re-entry of a password every time or never requiring a password at all for a particular command line. It can also be configured to permit passing arguments or multiple commands. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate, how to add a user to Sudoers in CentOS. Adding a sudo user to sudoers in CentOS 7 is a fairly easy task if you follow this 5 steps below.

How To Install Apache CouchDB on CentOS 7

June 3, 2022February 6, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

Today we will show you, how to install Apache CouchDB on CentOS 7. CouchDB is an open-source database, and was first released in 2005 and later became an Apache Software Foundation project in 2008. It has a document-oriented NoSQL database architecture and is implemented in the concurrency-oriented language Erlang; it uses JSON to store data, JavaScript as its query language using MapReduce, and HTTP for an API. The data can be accessed via web browser. Looks simple, right? Installing Apache CouchDB on CentOS 7 is pretty simply, in fact, you can install CouchDB in just a few minutes using the package manager on your Linux server. Let’s get started!