Category: Tutorials

How to Install Kanboard on Debian 9

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Kanboard on a Debian 9 Server.

Kanboard is a Project Management Software utilizing the Kanban methodology. Kanboard helps teams visualize their workflow by showing projects and tasks in an easy-to-understand format. This helps teams collaborate more efficiently and complete their projects on time and with as little conflict as possible. We can also use Kanboard to manage multiple projects simultaneously. We can easily move the project or task status by simply dragging and dropping the task into its respective column, each of which represents a stage in the project’s completion. Kanboard supports plugins as well as full integration with external services.

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How to Install and Configure TaskBoard on CentOS 7

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A need for “a simple, visual way to keep track of what needs to get done” is the main reason why the open-source TaskBoard has been developed. With a minimalistic design approach by the developer and contributors, TaskBoard aims to replicate the basics of commonly used Kanban apps like Trello and LeanKit all within a very small and light footprint.

Some of TaskBoard’s main key features are the following:

  • Email notifications
  • Unlimited and customizable boards with items
  • Full history logging
  • Robust privilege system
  • Supports file attachments

TaskBoard is licensed under the MIT License and can be self-hosted on a Linux-based server. For this tutorial, we recommend using a public-facing server with a freshly installed CentOS 7 Linux distribution, along with a registered domain name.

If you follow this guide on how to install and configure TaskBoard on CentOS 7 correctly, the install process won’t take more than 10-15 minutes. Let’s get started!

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How to Install Cockpit on CentOS 7

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In this article, we will show you how to install Cockpit CMS on a CentOS 7 VPS and help install Apache & PHP on it as well.

Cockpit is a free, open source and self-hosted content management system (CMS) application written in PHP. It is a simple content platform used by web developers to create and manage any structured content. Cockpit stores the data in an SQLite database, so you don’t need to install or configure a database server such as MySQL / MariaDB. All of this combined makes for a pleasant CMS experience that allows you to share your ideas and content with the world without needing almost any technical knowledge whatsoever.

Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install Gitea on Ubuntu 18.04

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In this article, we will show you how to install and configure Gitea service on Ubuntu 18.04. One of the best alternatives for GitHub is Gitea. Git with a cup of tea, also known as Gitea, is an open-source application that is a fork of Gogs and is functionally very similar to GitHub, Bitbucket, and Gitlab.

Gitea is written in the Go language and can be run anywhere that Go can be compiled, such as Linux, macOS, Windows, ARM and PowerPC architectures. Gitea has many features such as problems and time tracking, branch repository, file locking, and tagging, merging and more. By following the instructions below, you will install Nginx, MariaDB, Git, create a system user, install Gitea and configure Nginx as a reverse proxy. Lets begin.

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How to Add a User to Sudo Group on Debian 9

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In this article, we will show you how to add a user to the sudo group in Debian 9.

Every time you install a fresh new operating system, a user named root is being created automatically. This user is extremely powerful and even dangerous because it has a complete access to the server. Typically, the root user is only used for administrative tasks, as there are no restrictions present like they are for any other user.

Note that Linux does not have an “undo” command. In order to reduce the risk of irreversible damage to the system, we can create a user who will not have privileges to execute commands that can affect the server. However, having administrative access may still be appropriate for everyday tasks – sometimes we need the power to execute some command as an administrative user. This benefit can be utilized using the sudo command. However, to use the sudo command, the user is required to be present in the sudo group. Let’s get started with the tutorial. This should work in Debian 10 as well as other future versions of Debian, as these commands usually only have small variations over time.

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How to Install Apache Kafka on CentOS 7

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache Kafka on CentOS 7.

Apache Kafka is an open source messaging system and distributed streaming platform. It’s designed to be scalable, responsive, and provide an excellent experience when dealing with real-time data feeds. It’s great at providing real time analytics and processing of data – and thanks to its rich API support, developers can easily implement Apache Kafka and mold it to their exact needs.

Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install Jupyter on CentOS 7

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In this tutorial, we will go over the steps necessary to install Jupyter Notebook on a CentOS server.

Jupyter Notebook is a popular and widely used open-source web-based software that allows users to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.

Jupyter Notebook can be used for data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulations, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more. It has support for over 40 programming languages, including Python, Scala, R, and Julia. Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install SOPlanning on Ubuntu 18.04

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install SOPlanning on an Ubuntu 18.04 server along with installing the Apache web server.

SOPlanning is a simple and open-source online planning tool designed to efficiently organize projects and tasks. It allows you to easily manage and plan your working tasks and assignments for each person of your team. This tool is very useful for any projects, small businesses, production plants, booking systems, vacation management systems, and so on. Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Set Up and Use Yum Repositories on CentOS 7

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This tutorial explains how to set up and use Yum repositories on a CentOS 7 VPS.

The official CentOS 7 repository has a huge list of packages and it covers almost all bases in terms of software for servers, but sometimes we need some additional packages which are not available in the official repositories. In that case, we can simply add new repositories to further expand the catalogue of packages available to us. Let’s begin with the tutorial.

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How to Install GCC on Debian 9

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In this guide, we will walk you through the steps of installing GCC on a server running Debian 9 using two different methods: using the APT package manager (Advanced Package Tool), and installation from source.

GCC, also known as the GNU Compiler Collection, is developed by Richard Stallman and was released by the Free Software Foundation. GCC is a very useful and widely-used collection of programming compilers, such as C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Objective-C++, Java, Go, and Ada. GCC is an official compiler of the GNU operating system, but it is also a standard compiler on many Unix operating systems such as Linux. Let’s get started with the installation.

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